Determination the trait anxiety levels and coping stress strategies of the students who study at university preparatory classes of the private courses in Izmir metropolitan city

This study intent to determine the trait anxiety levels and coping stress strategies of the students who study at university preparatory classes of private courses in İzmir Metropolitan City. The research was conducted with 215 students. ?The Way of Coping Scale? for stress was used to assess available coping resources. ? The Way of Coping Scale? was developed by Amirkhan (1990) and adopted to Turkish by Aysan (1994). ?The Trait Anxiety Inventory? was used to determine trait anxiety levels of the students. ?The Trait Anxiety Inventory? was developed by Spielberger (1970). Also a questionnaire, developed by the researcher, was used to survey the demographic characteristics of the students. The data obtained by the questionnaire were analized by percentages. Analyses regarding mean scores of the students from ?Trait Anxiety Inventory? 5 months before and 1 months before the exam were carried out using T-Test. In order to perceive the contibution amongh the ways of coping and trait anxiey levels of the students according to the demographic variables, One-Way Anova was used. The results of the study indicate that the trait anxiety levels of the students showed statistically significant increase in comparison with 5 months before and 1 month before the exam. Results indicated that there is a statistically significant relationship between trait anxiety levels of the students and their gender, economic well-being and father attitudes. The demographic variables of gender, mother&and father attitudes, feelings on the probability of failing the exam, sharing problems contributed statistically significent relationship between social support strategies and trait anxiety levels of the students. xii The demographic variables of feelings on the probability of failing the exam also contributed statistically significent relationship between ?avodiance strategies? and ?trait anxiety? levels of the students. There is no statistically significant relationship perceived between ?solving problems strategies?, ?trait anxiety levels? and variables.