Understanding the coping approaches for students involves recognizing that students utilize various strategies to manage stress and challenging situations. These approaches can be broadly categorized into problem-focused, emotion-focused, meaning-focused, and social coping. Effective coping strategies can improve a student's ability to handle academic pressure, build resilience, and enhance overall well-being. Coping is defined as the thoughts and behaviors mobilized to manage internal and external stressful situations. It is a term used distinctively for conscious and voluntary mobilization of acts, different from 'defense mechanisms' that are subconscious or unconscious adaptive responses, both of which aim to reduce or tolerate stress.