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Yifan Li1, Yingying Ye1, Xima Yang2
1Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
Objective:
We aimed to investigate whether adolescents employ different profiles of coping, how profiles transition, and how transitions influence adolescents' depressive symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and posttraumatic growth (PTG).
Method:
We surveyed 585 Chinese adolescents (Age: M = 15.50, SD = 1.58) 12 (T1), 21 (T2), 27 (T3) months after the Jiuzhaigou earthquake. We used latent profile analysis and random intercept latent transition analysis in identifying emergent profiles and transitions of coping, and examined their associations with depressive symptoms, PTSS, and PTG.
Results:
We identified three profiles (Low Generic Copers; Problem-focused Copers; High Generic Copers) that formed seven transitions. Stable low or high generic coping and the transition from low to high generic coping were related with high distress and high growth; stable high problem-focused, low emotion-focused coping or transitions from high problem-focused coping to low or high generic coping were related with low distress and high growth; transition from high to low generic coping was related with low distress and low growth.
Conclusions:
The findings highlight that adolescent employ heterogeneous coping strategies that dynamically transition over time.
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