Coping with Anxiety, Depression, Anger and Aggression: The Mediational Role of Resilience in Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Ng, Reuben; Ang, Rebecca P.; Ho, Moon-Ho Ringo
Titel	Coping with Anxiety, Depression, Anger and Aggression: The Mediational Role of Resilience in Adolescents
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Care Forum, 41 (2012) 6, S.529-546 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1053-1890
DOI	10.1007/s10566-012-9182-x
Schlagwörter	Psychopathology; Health Services; Personality Traits; Mental Health; Adolescents; Questionnaires; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology); Coping; Mental Health Programs; Resilience (Psychology); Prevention; Role; Help Seeking; Aggression; Psychological Patterns; Intervention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychopathologie; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Psychohygiene; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Fragebogen; Angst; Bewältigung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Rollen; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten
Abstract	Background: The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health urged that mental health services be transformed from a reactive approach of treatment to a proactive one of prevention and building resilience. In response, the present study delineates the role of resilience in reducing psychopathology. Objective: The study examined the mediational role of resilience (positive thinking, tenacity and help-seeking), on the relationship between coping (approach and avoidance) and psychopathology (anxiety, depression, anger and aggression). Methods: Adolescents (n = 719) aged 14-15 completed questionnaires assessing study variables in school settings. Results: Mediation analysis using Structural Equation Modeling found that resilience factors mediated the approach coping-psychopathology relationship but not the avoidance coping-psychopathology relationship. Specifically, "positive thinking" mediated the approach coping-internalizing disorders (anxiety; depression) relationship; "tenacity" mediated the approach coping-aggression link; "help-seeking" mediated both the approach coping-internalizing disorders, and approach coping-externalizing behaviors (anger; aggression) links. Further, strength-of-mediation analysis revealed that help-seeking was a stronger mediator than positive thinking in the approach coping-anxiety relationship. Conclusion: Approach coping works via resilience processes to bring about a decrease in internalizing (anxiety and depression) and externalizing (anger and aggression) conditions. Specific strategies to cope with these aforementioned conditions are: think positive for anxiety and depression; be tenacious when coping with aggression and seek help for anxiety, depression, anger and aggression. These findings lay the groundwork for resilience interventions. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10