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The current research aims to identify: - The degree of the coping skill for the distinguished students. - differences functional in the coping skill according to two variables, gender (males, females) and the class (second and third intermediate). The research sample consisted of (400) male and female students from the second and the third classes of the Intermediate schools of the distinguished students and they were selected by the random stratified method within the General Education Directorates at Baghdad and Diyala Provinces The researcher also constructed a scale for measuring the coping skill based on the theory of Lazarus and Folkmann (1984) and the psychometric properties of this scale such as validity (logic, face, and constructing) and reliability have been obtained by the method of testing and retesting and were (0.83), and (0.81) by using the equation of Alpha-Coronbach. During the assessment of the scale and after deleting (4) items, the scale was consisting of (39) items. In order to analyze the data, the researcher used the following statistical methods: Chi-square, Pearson correlation coefficient, Alpha-Cronbach coefficient, , T-test for one sample, T-test for two independent samples. The results of the study were as follows: 1) The students in the study sample have a coping skill which is higher than that of the society to which they belong. 2) The coping skill does not depend on the gender (male, female) or on the class (second, third intermediate). (Published Abstract)