Explores how coping with war-related traumatic events in Sierra Leone impacted mental health outcomes among 529 youth. Two types of coping items (approach and avoidance) were examined using multiple regression models to test their relations with long-term mental health outcomes (internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, adaptive/prosocial behaviors, and posttraumatic stress symptoms); and mediation analyses were used to test whether coping explained the relation between previous war exposures (being raped, death of parent(s), or killing/injuring someone during the war) and those outcomes. (Description from source)
