This article is trying to answer the question if students starting their studies differ in their styles of coping with stress, level of hope and self-efficacy from students finishing their studies. Three main kinds of coping styles are measured: task oriented coping, emotion oriented coping and avoidance coping. Hope is the belief that one's goals can be achieved. Self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. Those tree variables are investigated with the following methods: Snyders's State Hope Scale, Endler's and Parker Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, Schwarzer's and Jerusalem Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale. Those findings suggest that the style of coping with stress, hope, self-efficacy are strongly connected with years of studies (age). The groups differed the least in the self-efficacy scale. There were slight or no differences between groups in the Self-efficacy Scale. The influence of gender was also investigated Results of this research give some implications for psychotherapy.