Background: College students inevitably encounter setbacks in learning, interpersonal and life,
so they need to take appropriate methods to deal with them. On the one hand, the coping styles adopted
by individuals will affect their physical and mental health; On the other hand, the domain function model
points out that individuals can effectively solve the difficulties in learning and life only by adopting correct
and positive coping styles and making more efforts. Aim: To explore the relationship among perceived
stress, psychological capital and coping style of college students. Method: 280 undergraduate students
were investigated by Chinese Perceived Stress Scale, Positive Psychological Capital Questionnaire and
Simple Coping Style Scale. Results: (1) There was a significant negative correlation between perceived
stress and psychological capital (r=-0.624, P<0.01); There was also a significant negative correlation
between perceived stress and coping tendency (r=-0.581, P<0.01). (2) There was a significant positive
correlation between psychological capital and coping tendency (r=0.506, P<0.01). (3) Psychological
capital plays a partial mediating role between perceived stress and coping tendency, and the mediating
effect accounts for 24.2% of the total effect. Conclusion: Psychological capital plays a partial mediating
role between perceived stress and coping tendency in college students.