Being in college and dealing with stress, students learn to draw on coping strategies to deal with stress (Dyson 1233). When I started college I didn't have to invent new ways to deal with stress because I knew how to get rid of it myself, but I learned that having lots of people to help pick you up when you're down is extremely important. Problem-focused coping is associated with lower levels of depression, while emotion-focused coping is associated with tension and maladaptive functioning (Dyson 1233). When you see these statistics, it makes sense to me why problem-focused coping is related to lower rates of depression because you get rid of the stress and then you don't have it with you anymore. All those using different coping styles, men are typically more likely to use a problem-focused coping strategy while women are more emotionally focused (Dyson