Investigation on the life events and coping styles among university students

Objective To inquire into the psychological status and disposition of the university students through analyzing their life events and coping styles. Methods The questionnaires of ASLEC and SCR were adopted to investigate 232 students, and the inventory items included frequency and stress intensity of the life events and their coping styles. Results The life events which stressed the university students most fiercely were the pressure of study, social communication and health aspects. When they faced these negative life events, most of the students could cope with them in the styles as “working out a solution. In the coping styles, between male and female students, there existed no significant differences(P0.05) except that factor score of pipe dreams in the male students was higher than that in the females(P 0.05). Conclusion The life events are diversity and complicated among the university students of present age, and most of them can cope with the events correctly.