Contextual and Behavioral Correlates of Coping Strategies Among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Urban Adolescents in the Midwestern United States.

IF 2.3 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Child Psychiatry & Human Development Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-13 DOI:10.1007/s10578-023-01493-1

Sonya S Brady, Elijah F Jeffries, Willie Winston

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Abstract

Coping is recognized as an important life skill. In the present cross-sectional analysis, early adolescents' relationships with their caregivers (support, conflict) and exposure to stressors (uncontrollable life events, violence) were examined as contextual correlates of both positive and negative coping strategies. Coping strategies were examined as mediators of associations between adolescents' family and community contexts and adjustment outcomes (externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, academic investment). Participants were recruited from an urban Pre-K-8 school and Boys and Girls Club. Adolescents who reported greater support from caregivers reported greater engagement in all forms of positive coping (behavioral/problem-focused coping, cognitive/emotion-focused coping, and coping through seeking support); they also reported less engagement in coping through anger and helplessness. Adolescents who reported greater conflict with caregivers or violence exposure reported greater engagement in coping through avoidance, anger, and helplessness. Problem-focused coping, coping through anger, and coping through helplessness mediated associations between different contextual factors and outcomes.

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美国中西部不同种族城市青少年应对策略的背景和行为相关性。

应对被认为是一种重要的生活技能。在本横断面分析中，研究人员考察了早期青少年与照顾者的关系（支持、冲突）以及所面临的压力（无法控制的生活事件、暴力），并将其作为积极和消极应对策略的背景相关因素。研究还将应对策略作为青少年的家庭和社区环境与适应结果（外化症状、内化症状、学业投资）之间关联的中介因素。研究人员从一所城市学前班-8 年级学校和男孩女孩俱乐部招募参与者。据报告，获得照顾者更多支持的青少年更多地参与各种形式的积极应对（以行为/问题为中心的应对、以认知/情感为中心的应对以及通过寻求支持来应对）；他们还报告说，通过愤怒和无助来应对的情况较少。与照顾者发生冲突或遭受暴力的青少年则更多地采取回避、愤怒和无助的应对方式。以问题为中心的应对方式、通过愤怒来应对的方式和通过无助来应对的方式在不同的环境因素和结果之间起到了中介作用。

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Child Psychiatry & Human Development Multiple-

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0.50

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174

期刊介绍： Child Psychiatry & Human Development is an interdisciplinary international journal serving the groups represented by child and adolescent psychiatry, clinical child/pediatric/family psychology, pediatrics, social science, and human development. The journal publishes research on diagnosis, assessment, treatment, epidemiology, development, advocacy, training, cultural factors, ethics, policy, and professional issues as related to clinical disorders in children, adolescents, and families. The journal publishes peer-reviewed original empirical research in addition to substantive and theoretical reviews.