Citation

Christiansen DM, Hansen M, Elklit A. J. Child Adolesc. Trauma 2014; 7(2): 75-85.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s40653-014-0011-2

PMID

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Abstract

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.

Language: en