Comparing Stress Confrontation Techniques in Female and Male Students

The aim of study is the comparison of the styles confrontation with the stress of athlete and non – athlete and boy student at shabestar university. In the statistics of this study, all of the athlete and non- athlete girl and boy students in the academic year of 1390-91 studying at shabestar university were selected, and considering the less number of the regarded students, the statistics of the students was concordant with the sample and 80 boy and 50 girls were selected equally and randomly from different faculties considering the athlete students. To collect the data the individual questionnaire and the styles of confronting with Stress of Andler and Parker (1991) were used. The data analysis was performed by statistical software of (SPSS for windows ver 11) Chi-test was used for determining the Probable differences of confronting styles. The findings showed that the dominant Style in all groups was problem – Oriented, and just the girl non- athlete students were emotion-Oriented.the difference was significant only about the athlete girl groups with non- athlete ones and about girl athletes with boy ones.