Stress Coping Strategies among Students Enrolled in BA Programs under The Faculty of Education at Universities in Jordan.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate stress coping strategies among

the educational colleges in Jordan in the light of student’s gender, student’s

academic average and study level. The study sample consisted of (484)

students who were selected by a stratified random manner according to

the variable of the academic year for students. The stress coping strategies

questionnaire was used to investigate the stress coping strategies which

consisted of (60) items distributed among (6) dimensions: request help from

others, avoiding and escaping, relaxation, problem solving and negative

habits. The results indicated that there were high and middle usage for the

stress coping strategies among the study sample in all the questionnaire

dimensions and there weren’t significant differences in stress coping

strategies due to student’s gender and academic average variables. There

were significant differences in stress coping strategies due to student’s study

level variables in favor of fourth year students. The study recommended that

there should be more concern given to the university student’s adjustment

through conducting, more research and the necessity to provide some

counseling and psychological services for university students especially for

the first year students at the university.