Active and avoidant coping profiles in children and their relationship with anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Active and avoidant coping styles are important dispositional factors in the development of anxiety and depression symptoms. Children use both active and avoidant coping strategies together in daily life. No studies have investigated the relationship between active-avoidant coping profiles and internalizing symptoms in children. The present study aimed to investigate children's active-avoidant coping profiles and assess the relationship that active-avoidant coping profiles have with anxiety and depression symptoms. A two-wave longitudinal study was conducted among 322 Chinese children in the People's Republic of China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants completed the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist-Revised 1 at Time 1 and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale at Time

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352659 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature