“Stress Coping Strategies and Life !chievement among University Students”

Present study aims at estimating the relationship between stress coping strategies and life achievement of students. The sample size of this study consists of 205 students that were selected at random from science and art faculties of the Universities in Kerala. Stress Coping Strategies Inventory and Student's Life Expectation Scale were used to collect the data. Results illustrated that life significantly correlated with task focused and avoidance coping (p<0.01), but emotion focused had not significant correlation with Expectation. The results of the stepwise regression revealed that avoidance coping (p<0.001) was related with student's life Expectation and it accounted for 9.4% variance in life satisfaction of students. The results of t test illustrated that there was not any significant difference between art and science students on life Expectation, but female students scored higher on life Expectation scale as compared to male students i.e. female students was most satisfied with their life than male students.