@article{ref1,
title="The role of meaning-focused coping in significant loss",
journal="Anxiety, stress, and coping",
year="2013",
author="Guo, Mingzhu and Gan, Yiqun and Tong, Jing",
volume="26",
number="1",
pages="87-102",
abstract="Abstract When individuals face uncontrollable situations such as natural disasters, meaning-focused coping (MFC) can contribute to individuals' adjustment. The objectives of the current study were to examine the role of MFC in post-traumatic growth and to explore how three different types of coping (problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and MFC) affected the mental health of earthquake victims following the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that MFC had a significantly incremental value in predicting positive affect (ΔR(2)=7.6%, p<.01) and well-being (ΔR(2)=3.1%, p<.01), above and beyond problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping. In contrast, for negative affect and depression, these incremental effects were not significant. Path analysis was conducted to test the mediating role of post-traumatic growth among the three coping styles and the outcome variables (well-being, positive affect, negative affect, and depression). The results showed that post-traumatic growth mediated the path from MFC to well-being and positive affect (for positive affect: Sobel z = 3.74, p<.001; for well-being: Sobel z = 5.02, p<.001). In addition, post-traumatic growth mediated the path from problem-focused coping to depression (Sobel z = 2.21, p<.001). The hypothetical model of emotion-focused coping did not converge.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1061-5806",
doi="10.1080/10615806.2011.627507",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2011.627507"
}