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Lucy Sarah McGregor1, Glenn A Melvin, Louise K Newman
1*Centre for Developmental Psychology and Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University; and †Centre for Women's Health, The Royal Women's Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract:
Youth from refugee backgrounds have been found to experience high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), even after years of resettlement. The present study sought to investigate how familial separations and coping styles act as correlates of PTSD symptoms in resettled refugee youth (N = 50). Participants (Mage = 16.63; range: 12-21) completed self-report questionnaires assessing PTSD symptoms and their use of coping styles, and engaged in a semi-structured interview designed by the authors to investigate their resettlement and adaptational experiences in Australia. Youth who were separated from immediate family members demonstrated significantly more PTSD symptoms than their counterparts, and there was a relationship between avoidant coping and PTSD, although this diminished once the confound between scales was controlled for. This study found evidence for the integrity of the family unit as a correlate of PTSD in refugee youth, but no evidence of a relationship between coping style and family separations.
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