“…As far as coping strategies are concerned, in our sample, three studies evaluated coping styles (Hwang et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2022;Ma et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2021), four studies measured coping processes by identifying the thoughts and behaviours students employed (Bektaş et al, 2018;Durgun Ozan et al, 2020;Hou, 2019;Karaca et al, 2019) and the remaining studies focused on coping strategies. Because most studies assessed coping strategies using instruments (Alanazi et al, 2023;Al-Gamal et al, 2018;Alshahrani et al, 2018;Bhurtun et al, 2021;Bodys-Cupak et al, 2018;Dasgupta et al, 2020;Karaca et al, Coping Behaviour Inventory (CBI), which categorizes coping strategies into four categories: avoidance, problem-solving approach, staying optimistic and transference. Problem solving is identified as the most used strategy, as shown in Table 4.…”