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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.838667 THE STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AMONG THE STUDENTS STUDYING AT THE SCHOOLS WHICH ADMIT THE STUDENTS WITH A SPECIAL TALENT EXAM Hayri Demir, Mehmet Altıni, Havva Demirel, Selçuk Buğdaycı, Yahya Gökhan Yalçın Selçuk University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Konya, Turkey Abstract: The purpose of the research was to determine the styles of coping with stress among the students studying at the schools which admit the students with a special talent exam. The scope of the research involved the schools which admit the students with a special talent exam, the sample group included total 413 students; 226 males, 187 females, having education at the Faculty of Sport Sciences SBF , the Dilek Sabancı Conservatory (DSK) and the Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF) in Selçuk University. Firstly, a personal information form and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) developed by Folkman and Lazarus and created as a short form by Şahin and Durak 5 were used. By testing the homogenity and variance of data, the Independent Sample ttest for the gender factor, the One Way Anova for multiple comparisons, the Tukey test for the resources of differences were applied. The Cronbach alpha value was determined to be 0,76 for the Coping Questionnaire. Depending on the gender factor; statistically significant differences were observed in all of sub-dimensions to cope with stress among the SBF, DSK and GSF students (P<0.05). Given the school types, there was a lower point in the SBF student averages concerning the desperation dimension rather than the other two schools as there was a higher average in the Conservatory students’ optimism dimension rather than the other two schools, a lower average in their social support points, these differences were regarded to be statistically significant (P<0.05). In accordance with the school type, differences between active and passive coping strategies did not have stable changes and any specific situation was not Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 424 Hayri Demir, Mehmet Altın, Havva Demirel, Selçuk Buğdaycı, Yahya Gökhan Yalçın THE STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AMONG THE STUDENTS STUDYING AT THE SCHOOLS WHICH ADMIT THE STUDENTS WITH A SPECIAL TALENT EXAM observed in the school type. This situation can result from the specific exam criteria and the ability and measurement techniques of the schools which admit the students with a special talent exam. Keywords: special talent, exam, stress, reasons of stress, university student 1. Introduction Nowadays stress has kept on affecting all livings without losing its effects and with heavier results based on developing technology and life conditions. Intensity and effects of stress may depend on individuals and structures of societies, furthermore, they may depend on many social, cultural, economic, psychological, physiological factors. Even though stress is defined in various ways under different fields and disciplines, it is obvious that stress creates same effects on individuals and societies. The efforts for overcoming with stress, taking stress under control, turning stress on individuals and societies’ favor are among current issues of recent times. Stress can be evaluated in unusual structures and situations by individuals and societies. Since it is related with distinctive scientific fields, there is a common definition about stress, so researchers interested in stress reveal stress definitions in various ways (Akgemci, 2001; Güney, 2001; Ekinci and Ekici, 2003). As an athlete may become under a lot of strain at last seconds of a competition, an artist may feel stressed when completing one’s own picture with a last brush. Like the stress concept, another substantial factor is of skills to overcome with stress. For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/933 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 8 │ 2017 425