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Abstract
With the advancement in society and the increasing competition in every field, almost every person is facing the condition of stress. Being adolescent is the growing period also suffers from lots of stress conditions so it is essential to use suitable coping strategies to come out of the period of stress and support from our dear one is considered as the best way to come from the condition of stress. So the present study purposes to find the stress coping strategies among adolescents in relation to social support received from the significant persons. The objectives of the study were to find the significant relationship between stress coping strategies and social support among adolescents (boys and girls).To study the significant difference between stress coping strategies and social support among adolescents with respect to gender. Descriptive survey method was used to collect data. The tools used for the study were Coping Strategies Scale which was prepared by the investigator and Social Support Questionnaire (Varghese, 1994).A sample of 1000 adolescents was collected from government and private schools of Punjab. The results shows that stress coping strategies are positively and negatively correlated with social support in different dimensions both for boys and girls. There is very less difference in the means of coping strategies for both girls and boys this means both uses both types of coping strategies according to situation. And the girls received more social support as compared to boys.