Coping style in predicting posttraumatic stress disorder among Israeli students

Gil, Sharon

doi:10.1080/10615800500392732

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“…In contrast, emotion-focused coping aimed at changing one's own emotional responses to the stressor and avoidant coping are viewed as maladaptive and have been linked to poor psychological health in adolescents (Plancherel, Bolognini, and Halfon 1998). Furthermore, problem-focused coping has been found to be either not associated with posttraumatic symptomatology or to serve as a protective factor following different types of traumatic exposure, whereas avoidant and emotion-focused coping have been found to correlate with increased posttraumatic symptomatology across age groups (Bödvarsdóttir and Elklit 2004;Gil 2005;Riolli, Savicki, and Cepani 2002;Scarpa, Haden and Hurley 2006).…”

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Correlates of Coping Styles in an Adolescent Trauma Sample

Christiansen

Hansen

Elklit

2014

Journ Child Adol Trauma

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Individuals generally use the same coping styles across situations. It is important to identify maladaptive coping in adolescents as coping patterns may persist into adulthood, and are associated with mental health. The present study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the combined effect of personality traits, attachment, locus of control, and social support on rational (problem-focused), avoidant, and emotion-focused coping in 320 trauma-exposed adolescents. The combined variables only explained 20-23 % of the variance in avoidant and rational coping, and 49 % of the variance in emotion-focused coping. The largest contributing variable for emotion-focused coping was neuroticism, possibly due to a confounding of emotion-focused coping with distress. Thus, other variables are needed to fully account for coping style choice.

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Correlates of Coping Styles in an Adolescent Trauma Sample

Christiansen

Hansen

Elklit

2014

Journ Child Adol Trauma

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“…Notably, Gil [47] found that high trait avoidance and high trait emotion-focused coping (measured preevent) predicted PTSD at 6-month follow-up in a noninjured trauma-exposed college student sample. Furthermore, a recent cross-sectional study also found that both approach coping and avoidance coping predicted posttraumatic stress symptoms-the study did not report on combined coping using both methods.…”

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Approach-avoidance coping conflict in a sample of burn patients at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder

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“…Other disaster-related variables associated with poorer functioning include television viewing, loss of resources, [e.g., possessions, employment; Sattler et al, 2002], and an avoidant coping style [e.g., Gil, 2005;Scarpa et al, 2006]. Indeed, researchers have shown that the amount of time spent viewing television coverage on 9-11 and the days afterward significantly contributed to PTSD symptoms [Ahern et al, 2002;Schlenger et al, 2002;Silver et al, 2002].…”

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Symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder in an outpatient population before and after Hurricane Katrina

McLeish

Ben

2008

Depress. Anxiety

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The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in an outpatient psychiatric population before and after Hurricane Katrina. The sample consisted of 156 patients (110 females; M(age)=41.2 years, SD=10.9) at an outpatient psychiatric clinic who completed measures of psychological symptoms as part of their regular clinical care in the month before (n=76; 49%) and the 1 month after (n=80; 51%) Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Partially consistent with prediction, depression scores were significantly higher in the month following the hurricane, but PTSD scores were not significantly different. Depressive symptoms after the hurricane were predicted by watching television coverage of the looting that occurred in New Orleans and by the amount of time the participant was without electricity. Symptoms of PTSD after the hurricane were predicted by the participants' use of general television viewing as a coping strategy, the amount of time they spent watching television coverage of the looting in New Orleans, and the use of prayer as a coping behavior. Of these variables, only prayer was associated with a decrease in PTSD symptoms. Findings are discussed in relation to the need for collaborative efforts between clinically oriented and research-oriented institutions to study the impact of large-scale disasters on a variety of populations.

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Coping style in predicting posttraumatic stress disorder among Israeli students

Cited by 96 publications

References 11 publications

Correlates of Coping Styles in an Adolescent Trauma Sample

Correlates of Coping Styles in an Adolescent Trauma Sample

Approach-avoidance coping conflict in a sample of burn patients at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder

Symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder in an outpatient population before and after Hurricane Katrina

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