Coping and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Chinese youth in the peak and remission periods of COVID-19

C Chen, C Li, M Chen, L Wang, Y Zhu, Z Zhu�- Children and Youth�…, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed emergent vulnerability to adolescents' mental health.
This longitudinal study investigated the association between coping at the peak of the
COVID outbreak (T1) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms concurrently,
and at the remission periods of COVID in China three months (T2) and six months (T3) later
in a sample of 6th to 12th-grade students (N= 782). The results showed that forward-focus
coping was negatively associated with PTSD symptoms across all three timepoints and�…