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  Introduction: Stress is assumed as mental under pressure in psychology. When a person is unable to manage or response to internal or external stimulators, stress occures and is followed by reducing psychological balance. Stress might affect mental health educational achievement, and social communication in students. There fore, we studied stress and cuping style in female students.   Methods and Materials : In this study, we selected 208 female students residing at hostels of Urmia University randomly, then the students completed stress and coping questionaires.   Results : Results of stress questionaire showed that 20.17% of students made sufficent balance between their charactor and enviromental stresses. 58.17% of them exaggrated their problems that influenced their coping. 15.86% of the students had very difficult and emotional life. 4.8% of them had very criticul period because of problems. Results of coping questionaire revealed that 6.25% of students had no difficult in coping with stress. 51.92% of students prefered that they give up rather than resist. 35.5% of students were hopeless. Tolorance of stress was very difficult for 3.36%.   Conclusion : According to the results, it appears as if special attention should be given to problems of students and coping styles should be taught to them.

Keywords: Stress, Coping, Female students, Hostels

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