Coping skill as a moderator between negative life events and suicide among young people in rural China

Résumé

textbfOBJECTIVE: In the present study, we aim to test whether the approach or the avoidance coping skill can be a moderator between negative life events and suicide, and to test the deficient coping strain in the strain theory. textbfMETHOD: This sample comprised 392 suicide cases and 416 community living controls, aged 15-34 years, from 16 rural counties in China. An established psychological autopsy method and a case-control design were used in this study. The 48-item Coping Response Inventory evaluated the degree of coping skills of the people who died by suicide. textbfRESULTS: Results indicated that the avoidance coping skill, but not the approach coping skill, can moderate between negative life events and suicide. textbfCONCLUSION: The low level of the avoidance coping skill may represent a promising variable for screening for suicide risk in rural China. CHINE ASIE ADOLESCENT JEUNE-ADULTE SUICIDE-COMPLÉTÉ MILIEU-RURAL AUTOPSIE-PSYCHOLOGIQUE COPING ÉVÉNEMENT-VIE RÉSILIENCE