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Due to geographic and cultural transition, most international students experience difficulty in adapting to anunfamiliar environment. These adjustment difficulties are commonly regarded as the primary cause of acculturativestress. In order to relieve their acculturative stress, various effective coping strategies are used to improve theiradaptation. Effectively using coping strategies enhances their psychological well-being, whereas ineffective copingexacerbates the effects of stress on adjustment. This study, based on both quantitative and qualitative data, investigatescoping strategies used by international students in an Australian tertiary context. The findings indicate thatacceptance, positive reappraisal, active coping, and suppression are the top four coping strategies mostwidely used by international students, while denial is the least used. In addition, participants demographics such asgender, degree pursued, length of stay in Australia, and English proficiency are significantly associated with their use ofcoping strategies.
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