First-year Students＇ Psychological and Behavior Adaptation to College： The Role of Coping Strategies and Social Support

This study investigates 311 first-year students＇ psychological and behavior adaptation to college and the mediate role of coping strategies and social support. The investigates reveal that： （1） first-year students who are from countryside, live in poor families, speak in dialects or major in science and engineering have poorer adaptation to college than their counterparts; （2） first-year students＇ psychological and behavior adaptation to college was influenced by not only directly coping strategies, but also indirectly social supports. Positive coping strategies maybe make students＇ adaptation to college better.