Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships between stress, coping and social support in college entrance examinees. The research found that stress recognized by the college entrance examinees was different depending upon school grades, financial status, satisfaction in schools, suicide and runaway impulse, along with the drinking. Most of the stresses are coped with a problem-oriented coping. The human-relationship and the emotional stresses were coped with using emotion-oriented coping. When receiving emotional, evaluation, and informational support in relation to the stress and social support, it is indicated that the family factor of stresses are experienced as to be low. When receiving emotional, materialistic, and evaluation support, it is indicated that the physical factor of stress is also low. Therefore, as a result of the present study, the stresses that college entrance examinees experience are not because of school grades, but the pressures from the expectations of their families and friends as for their advancement in society. This functions as the heavier element for their stresses, and at the same time the support from the others is confirmed to be the essential factors in positively dealing with the stress.