Citation

Wang Z, Gan Y. Anxiety Stress Coping 2011; 24(3): 343-358.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10615806.2010.515026

PMID

20865589

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationships between neuroticism, social support, and depression in two groups of adolescents: earthquake group and examination group. Adolescents facing earthquake stress (earthquake group, N=219) completed measures of neuroticism, perceived social support, coping strategies, and self-rating depression. Similarly, adolescents facing examination stress (examination group, N=241) completed the same measures. Results indicated that the earthquake group reported more use of secondary control engagement coping, whereas the examination group reported more use of primary control engagement coping. In addition, neuroticism was more strongly associated with coping in earthquake group and coping strategies explained significantly larger part of the relationship between neuroticism and depression. In contrary, perceived social support was more strongly associated with coping in examination group, and coping strategies explained significantly larger part of the relationship between perceived social support and depression.

Language: en