Coping strategies in adolescents with non-vital emotional experiences

Pavlova T.S.

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2013. Vol. 5, no. 1
ISSN: 2587-6139 (online)

Coping strategies in adolescents with non-vital emotional experiences ²⁷³⁹

Pavlova T.S.
research associate, research laboratory «Scientific and Methodological Basis of Emergent Psychological Aid», Center for Emergent Psychological Aid, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: darzo@yandex.ru

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Our aim was to study the relationship of coping strategies choice and anti-vital experiences and the overall emotional well-being in adolescents. In October 2012, we surveyed 145 students of Moscow secondary school (54 boys, 91 girls) aged 12 to 16 years. The survey was conducted by a block of psychodiagnostic methods, testing emotional disadaptation, presence of suicidal thoughts and ways of coping with stressful situations. It was found that 22,8% of the participants reported presence of suicidal thoughts. Specific to adolescents with suicidal attitude were high social and interpersonal anxiety and severity of non-adaptive coping strategies, such as “self-incrimination” and “comparing oneself with the others”.

Keywords: adolescents, suicide, anti-vital experiences, coping strategies, emotional disadaptation.

Column: Psychology of safety

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