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Coping and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Chinese youth in the peak and remission periods of COVID-19

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  • Chen, Chun
  • Li, Chunbo
  • Chen, Mingyang
  • Wang, Lingling
  • Zhu, Yaqin
  • Zhu, Zhuoying

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed emergent vulnerability to adolescents’ mental health. This longitudinal study investigated the association between coping at the peak of the COVID outbreak (T1) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms concurrently, and at the remission periods of COVID in China three months (T2) and six months (T3) later in a sample of 6th to 12th-grade students (N = 782). The results showed that forward-focus coping was negatively associated with PTSD symptoms across all three timepoints and predicted reduced risk for more PTSD symptoms at T2, and trauma-focus coping was positively associated with PTSD symptoms across all three timepoints and predicted higher risk of PTSD symptoms both at T2 and T3. There was an interaction effect of trauma-focus coping and T1 symptoms on later symptoms (T3) — trauma-focus coping was more detrimental for those who had more initial symptoms. The results showed the beneficial effects of future-oriented coping and harmful effects of trauma-focus coping for Chinese youth during the epidemic. Clinical implications of the results were discussed.

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  • Chen, Chun & Li, Chunbo & Chen, Mingyang & Wang, Lingling & Zhu, Yaqin & Zhu, Zhuoying, 2022. "Coping and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Chinese youth in the peak and remission periods of COVID-19," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:143:y:2022:i:c:s0190740922003267
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106690
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