@article{ref1,
title="Coping skill as a moderator between negative life events and suicide among young people in rural China",
journal="Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)",
year="2014",
author="Sun, Long and Zhang, Jie",
volume="71",
number="3",
pages="258-266",
abstract="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. <br><br>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. <br><br>RESULTS: Results indicated that the avoidance coping skill, but not the approach coping skill, can moderate between negative life events and suicide. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The low level of the avoidance coping skill may represent a promising variable for screening for suicide risk in rural China.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9762",
doi="10.1002/jclp.22140",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22140"
}