A pattern-centered analysis of adolescents' concerns and hopes about future crises: Differences in ways of coping and personal adjustment.

Autor: Zimmer-Gembeck MJ; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Centre for Mental Health, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Modecki K; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Centre for Mental Health, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Duffy AL; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Centre for Mental Health, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Hawes T; School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Farrell LJ; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Centre for Mental Health, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Waters AM; School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Centre for Mental Health, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Gardner AA; School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Southport, Australia., Shum D; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Mental Health Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Skinner EA; Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of adolescence [J Adolesc] 2023 Aug; Vol. 95 (6), pp. 1195-1204. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 18.
DOI: 10.1002/jad.12194
Abstrakt: Introduction: Many adolescents are concerned about global and future crises, such as the health of the planet or terrorism/safety. Yet, adolescents can also express hope about the future. Thus, asking adolescents about their concern and hope could yield subgroups with different ways of coping and personal adjustment.
Method: Australian adolescents (N = 863; age 10-16) completed surveys to report their concern (worry and anger) and hope about the planet, safety, jobs, income, housing, and technology, as well as their active and avoidant coping, depression, and life satisfaction.
Results: Four distinct subgroups were identified using cluster analysis: Hopeful (low on concern and high on hope across all issues, 32%), Uninvolved (low in concern and hope; 26%), Concerned about the Planet (CP, 27%), and Concerned about Future Life (CFL, 15%). When compared (adjusting for age, sex, and COVID timing), the CP subgroup was highest in active coping (e.g., taking action) but moderate in personal adjustment. Hopeful had the most positive adjustment, whereas CFL had the poorest adjustment. Uninvolved were lowest in coping but moderate in adjustment.
Conclusions: Findings suggest ways of coping and adjustment may not always align, in that CP is connected with more active coping but also some cost to personal adjustment, whereas Hopeful is associated with optimal adjustment but perhaps at the cost of active coping. In addition, although CFL adolescents emerged as the at-risk group, the low levels of hope and coping in Uninvolved adolescents raise the possibility that they are at risk of future problems.
(© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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