Perceived stress and coping strategies: Gender differences among college students’

Pages: 234-237
Akanksha Soni and Anshika Bhalla (Department of Psychology, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab)

The current study examined the gender differences in perceived stress and coping strategies among college students’. Two Hundred college students’ (100 females & 100 males) were included in the study. The Perceived Stress Scale and Ways of Coping Questionnaire scale were used to measure college students’ perceived stress and coping styles. The results indicated that females experienced high perceived stress as compared to male college students’. In addition to this, during stressful situations males college students’ employ positive coping strategies and females college students’ implement negative coping strategies.