Dimensions of Coping and Anxiety Symptoms in a Community Sample of Young Children

Autor/inn/en	Quy, Katie; Gibb, Jennifer; Neil, Louise; Owen, Charlie; Smith, Marjorie
Titel	Dimensions of Coping and Anxiety Symptoms in a Community Sample of Young Children
Quelle	In: Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 23 (2018) 3, S.230-244 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Quy, Katie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-2752
DOI	10.1080/13632752.2018.1461456
Schlagwörter	Coping; Anxiety; Children; Preadolescents; Foreign Countries; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Adjustment (to Environment); Well Being; Questionnaires; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Depression (Psychology); Measures (Individuals); Statistical Analysis; United Kingdom (England); Childrens Depression Inventory; Childrens Manifest Anxiety Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bewältigung; Angst; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Ausland; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Fragebogen; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Messdaten; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Coping style plays an important role in children's wellbeing. This paper describes the patterns of associations between children's self-reported coping styles and symptoms of anxiety in order to determine whether particular dimensions are associated with better adjustment. Participants were 2566 children (1268 girls, 1298 boys) aged 7-11 years attending 15 schools in the South East of England. Results showed that aspects of coping were differentially associated with children's self-reported anxiety. Patterns of association also varied by age and gender. Dimensions of coping were shown to form distinct adaptive and maladaptive coping styles which were also differentially associated with anxiety. Analysis of these styles indicated that it is the absence of maladaptive coping strategies, rather than the presence of adaptive strategies, that is significant in emotional wellbeing. These findings suggest that interventions designed to reduce or extinguish maladaptive coping styles may be of particular benefit in facilitating emotional wellbeing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01