Threat Appraisals and Coping Responses to Stressors: Links to Chinese Children's Behavioral Problems and Social Competence

Autor/inn/en	Chung, Sara; Zhou, Qing; Eisenberg, Nancy; Wolchik, Sharlene
Titel	Threat Appraisals and Coping Responses to Stressors: Links to Chinese Children's Behavioral Problems and Social Competence
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 39 (2019) 2, S.280-305 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431617737627
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preadolescents; Elementary School Students; Adolescent Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Coping; Stress Variables; Behavior Problems; Student Behavior; Interpersonal Competence; Cognitive Restructuring; Behavior Modification; Grade 5; Grade 6; Help Seeking; Student Adjustment; Decision Making; Psychological Patterns; China (Beijing) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Schülerverhalten; Bewältigung; Student behaviour; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	Given the increasing societal concerns about youth's mental health problems in the context of rapid sociocultural changes in urban China, studying the links of appraisals and coping to Chinese children's adjustment can inform cultural adaptations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions for this population. In a school-based sample of 591 Chinese preadolescent children (53.6% girls, X-Bar age = 11.6 years, in fifth and sixth grades) in Beijing, we tested the concurrent relations between (a) children's self-reported threat appraisals of stressors and use of coping strategies (active, avoidant, distraction, and support seeking), and (b) three domains of adjustment (externalizing and internalizing problems, and social competence) rated by parents, teachers, and children. Structural equation modeling revealed that controlling for stressors and family demographics, threat appraisals and avoidant coping were positively associated with internalizing problems. Active coping was negatively associated with externalizing problems and positively associated with social competence, and support seeking coping was negatively associated with internalizing problems. Gender did not moderate threat/coping-adjustment associations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01