Coping Strategies Among Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Exploration
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Adolescent pandemic stressors varied by location, with economic hardship in some areas and school lockdowns in others. Coping strategies, including social support and religious coping, also differed, highlighting the need for context-specific interventions.
Area Of Science
- Global adolescent mental health
- Sociocultural impacts of pandemics
- Coping mechanisms in youth
Background
- The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented stressors for adolescents worldwide.
- Understanding cultural variations in adolescent stress and coping is crucial for effective support.
Purpose Of The Study
- To identify pandemic-related stressors among adolescents across diverse cultural settings.
- To explore adolescent coping strategies in relation to stressor type, geographical location, and gender.
Main Methods
- Focus group discussions were conducted in 9 urban poor communities across 8 countries.
- Inductive thematic analysis of translated transcripts was performed using ATLAS.ti software.
Main Results
- Adolescents in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo reported economic stressors, while others cited school lockdowns.
- Religious coping was more prevalent in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo; social support was the most common strategy globally.
- Family and friend support emerged as the dominant coping mechanism across all studied sites.
Conclusions
- Adolescent stressors and coping mechanisms are significantly influenced by socioeconomic factors and local context.
- Interventions to enhance adolescent coping should be tailored to specific cultural and resource environments.
- Promoting adolescents' internal resources requires a nuanced understanding of their lived experiences during the pandemic.
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