The Impact of Major Earthquakes on Students' Emotional Distress and Internalizing Symptoms, Externalizing Behaviors, and Coping During the Implementation of keepin' it REAL-Mexico.
The Impact of Major Earthquakes on Students' Emotional Distress and Internalizing Symptoms, Externalizing Behaviors, and Coping During the Implementation of keepin' it REAL-Mexico.
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“keepin it REAL-Mexico”实施过程中，重大地震对学生情绪困扰及内化症状、外化行为和应对的影响。
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10.1007/s11121-023-01542-0
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2024
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Marsiglia,FlavioF
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Medina-Mora,MariaElena;Kulis,StephenS;Real,Tania;Nuño-Gutiérrez,BerthaL;Corona,MariaDolores;Cutrín,Olalla;Marsiglia,FlavioF
本文报道了墨西哥两次地震对上中学的青少年的影响。在以学校为基础的预防计划实施期间，地震接连发生，提供了一个评估地震造成的情绪痛苦的机会，以及该计划中教授的生活技能是否影响了学生应对自然灾害的方式。研究的目的是(1)评估地震对学生痛苦的影响；(2)评估痛苦是否与内化症状和外化行为有关；(3)调查接受原始和改编版干预的学生是否更好地应对事件。墨西哥-美国的一个研究小组在文化上进行了调整，以解决墨西哥早期青少年使用药物和接触暴力之间的联系。从三个城市(墨西哥城、瓜达拉哈拉和蒙特雷)的公立中学中随机抽取了一批，按照上午或下午的课程进行分层。来自36所学校的5522名7年级学生参与了这项研究。学生回答了前测和后测问卷；后者评估了与地震相关的痛苦和应对策略。与地震相关的痛苦与所有不受欢迎的内化症状和外化行为的测量有关。与对照组相比，适应性干预组的学生报告的攻击性和违反规则的外化行为较少，暴力行为也较少。然而，这些干预效果并没有被地震相关的痛苦程度所缓和，也没有通过积极或消极的应对来调节。这些发现对预防、干预、研究和政策有影响，因为自然灾害和人为灾害发生得更频繁。
This article reports on effects of two earthquakes in Mexico on adolescents attending middle school. The earthquakes struck in close succession during the implementation of a school-based prevention program, providing an opportunity to assess emotional distress due to the earthquakes and whether the life skills taught in the program affected how students coped with the natural disaster. The objectives were to (1) evaluate the earthquakes’ impact on students’ distress; (2) assess if distress is associated with internalizing symptomology and externalizing behaviors; and (3) investigate if students receiving the original and adapted versions of the intervention coped better with the events. A Mexico-US research team culturally adaptedkeepin’ it REALto address connections between substance use among early adolescents in Mexico and exposure to violence. A random sample of public middle schools from three cities (Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey), stratified by whether they held morning or afternoon sessions, was selected. A total of 5522 7th grade students from 36 schools participated in the study. Students answered pretest and posttest questionnaires; the latter assessed earthquake-related distress and coping strategies. Earthquake-related distress was associated with all measures of undesired internalizing symptomology and externalizing behaviors. Compared to controls, students in the adapted intervention reported less aggressive and rule-breaking externalizing behavior and less violence perpetration. However, these intervention effects were not moderated by the level of earthquake-related distress, and they were not mediated by positive or negative coping. The findings have implications for prevention intervention research and policy as natural and human-made disasters occur more often.