Coping as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Personality and PTSD Symptoms among Surviving Adolescents of the Wenchuan Earthquake

Abstract

目的:考察人格特质与应对方式对汶川地震幸存青少年出现的创伤后应激障碍(简称PTSD)症状的影响,并检验应对方式在人格特质与PTSD症状间的中介作用。方法:在汶川地震发生半年后,选取四川省绵竹市某乡镇学校4～8年级学生共168人参加此次研究。施测量表包括事件冲击量表儿童版、艾森克人格问卷青少年版以及中学生应对方式量表。结果:神经质、情绪型应对与PTSD症状相关显著,相关系数分别为0.399(P<0.001),0.367(PObjective：To examine the impact of personality and coping on posttraumatic stress disorder among surviving adolescents approximately 6 months after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake.Methods：A total of 168 students from the 5th to 8th grade,were investigated with three questionnaires including CRIES-13,EPQ-Junior and Middle School Students＇ Coping Measure.Results：Both neuroticism and emotion-oriented coping were significantly related to PTSD symptoms.The correlation coefficient were 0.399（P〈0.01） and 0.367（P〈0.01） respectively.Results showed that these two variables explained 20.1% of the variance in the CRIES-13 together.With regard to the whole sample,emotion-oriented coping partly mediated the effect of neuroticism on PTSD symptoms.Conclusion：The present study suggested that personality is significantly related to PTSD.Coping works as a mediator between the above two variables