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Coping skill as a moderator between negative life events and suicide among young people in rural China
1Shandong University School of Public Health Center for Suicide Prevention Research.
Objective:
In the present study, we aim to test whether the approach or the avoidance coping skill can be a moderator between negative life events and suicide, and to test the deficient coping strain in the strain theory.
Method:
This sample comprised 392 suicide cases and 416 community living controls, aged 15-34 years, from 16 rural counties in China. An established psychological autopsy method and a case-control design were used in this study. The 48-item Coping Response Inventory evaluated the degree of coping skills of the people who died by suicide.
Results:
Results indicated that the avoidance coping skill, but not the approach coping skill, can moderate between negative life events and suicide.
Conclusion:
The low level of the avoidance coping skill may represent a promising variable for screening for suicide risk in rural China.
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