Abstract：In order to investigate the relationship between the engineering postgraduates', stress and the coping styles and social support, the authors investigate 512 students' coping styles and the social support for them. It shows that the stress coping styles vary with the engineering postgraduates' gender, culture modes, marriage status and ages; and the social support differ in gender, origin, marriage status and whether or not an onlyson. The various factors of the social support are positively correlated with the ways of problem-solving help-seeking and other coping styles, while negatively with self-blame, withdrawal, rationalization and other coping styles.

Keyword：engineering; postgraduates; social support; coping style;