Coping with StressStress can be bearable once you know the proper coping mechanisms. This has been a very dominant topic in research on stress and which coping mechanism is most efficient. Each person might have different ways of dealing with stress without realizing it. Deatherage, Servaty, and Aksoz (2014) wanted to see if Internet use was used as a coping mechanism for stress. They conducted a survey of college seniors that was sent to random students via email. After analysis, the results showed “that different motivations for going online were related to different levels of perceived stress” (Deatherage et al 2014). Using the Internet helps students temporarily forget about their problems at that moment. They found that “emotional-avoidant coping was significantly and positively associated with perceived stress” (Deatherage et al 2014) because many students look to the Internet to avoid their emotions when they are overwhelmed. They also found that “problem-focused coping was not a predictor of stress” (Deatherage et al 2014), implying that the student was not aware of using the Internet to reduce stress. Further research has also been conducted on avoidant coping. Bodenlos, Noonan, and Wells (2013) wanted to see if some college students realized that they drink to cope with stress and some of the alcohol problems that many college students face. Bodenlos and colleagues surveyed students in all academic classes at a small private college, then performed a statistical analysis on the data. The results showed that “alcohol problems were negatively correlated with acting with mindfulness and describing experiences with aspects of mindfulness and positively correlated with stress” (Bodenlos et al 2013). The greater the student's stress was under the h... middle of the paper... methods to reduce it. Students drop out of college directly because of the stress it causes, as demonstrated in research by Weinstein and Laverghetta (2009). This is not good for the university or their financial accounts. There is still much research to be done on stress in college students. There is always the possibility of finding new coping mechanisms that can reduce stress or eliminate it completely. New methods need to be developed to teach students how to schedule time for coping mechanisms directly into their already busy schedules. Research into long-term health effects needs to be more advanced and more supported by the public so they know exactly how bad stress is on the human body. As long as society's academic expectations remain as they are, stress will never completely disappear. Society must change as a whole to completely eliminate stress.