n this article we address the relationship between the stress that teachers feel as a resultof student misbehaviour and the coping styles they use to respond to it, on the assumptionthat their coping styles operate as mediators of their classroom management techniques. Inthe next section, we introduce six classroom-based management techniques—which wecall Hinting, Discussion, Involvement, Recognition and reward, Punishment, andAggression—and we examine their relationships with the coping styles