The current research examined the characteristics and the influencing factors of individuals’ coping strategies to social negative issues，such as issues related to compensation for demolition，judiciary justice，corruption，salary，pollution. The 15869 sample from CASS-KDnet Social Mentality Survey 2016 was analyzed. The results show that coping strategies to different social negative issues are varied. Generally，people tend to adopt positive strategies rather than negative strategies to cope most issues. The elements of social mentality，i.e. subjective social-class identity，social value，social support perception and social fairness perception are correlated to coping strategies. To be more specific，for most of the social negative issues in this research，middle-class identity，value of equal power，value of future planning，strong social support and social fairness perception can accelerate positive coping and attenuate negative coping.