Research has shown that women tend to cope with stressful events differently, and more healthfully, than men. Presumably, this is due to hormonal differences involving the release of epinephrine and oxytocin in women, and lower cortisol release in men. The present study sought to clarify these differences via a self-report questionnaire asking participants to rate the frequency of various coping behaviors, some healthy and some unhealthy. The questionnaire responses were analyzed according to gender and age, and to other questions on anxiety about grades, relationship status, mental health, and whether participants believe that their coping strategies are healthy. Results revealed a marginally significant difference across genders, with coping behaviors of women tending to be more healthy than those of men. In addition, more healthy coping behaviors were reported by students who were in a stable relationship and who had, in the past, consulted a mental health professional for stress related problems. Respondents’ self-report of coping behaviors correlated positively and reliably with their cognitive assessment of their coping, indicating that students have some awareness of whether their coping strategies are healthy or unhealthy, and that some students, particularly men, persist in unhealthy coping despite this knowledge. Statistically reliable differences were found to the hormones that come into play during stressful situations. In women, epinephrine and cortisol flow through the bloodstream, which allows the hormone oxytocin that is released from the brain, to counteract the epinephrine. Due to the oxytocin, women get feelings of nurturing and relaxing emotions. Men on the other hand don’t release as much cortisol during stressful events, thus impacts how they cope with stress. In the present study, I set out to determine if this evidence is substantial. So far, I have found significance between genders that women tend to have healthier coping behaviors. Also, the subjects that are in a relationship correlated with a higher levels of healthy coping strategies. Other findings that I found were that subjects who scored themselves on a self-report of how healthy they thought their stress coping strategies are correlated with their actual score for how healthy their coping strategies actually were. Also, subjects who had sought mental health professionals in the past or present also tended to have healthier coping strategies. There was no significance in my findings of a correlation between major in college and coping strategies. Also, there was no significance between year in school and coping strategies.