Journal article
Coping During Pregnancy Following Exposure to a Natural Disaster: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study
Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol.273, pp.341-349
2020
Abstract
Introduction: This study investigated how coping strategies moderated the impact of disaster-related objective hardship on subjective distress in pregnant women.
Methods: The objective hardship (exposure severity), subjective distress (Peritraumatic Distress Inventory, Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire and Impact of Event Scale-Revised) and coping styles (Brief COPE) of pregnant women (N = 226) exposed to the 2011 Queensland, Australia flood were assessed. Moderation analyses were used to assess how coping strategies moderated the relationship between objective hardship and subjective distress levels.
Results: We found that the more severe the objective flood exposure, the greater the women's subjective distress. The moderation analyses were significant for the Brief COPE's three coping styles (i.e., problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and dysfunctional coping). For women experiencing high levels of objective hardship, problem-focused (∆R2 = 1.7%) and dysfunctional coping (∆R2 = 1.5%) elevated subjective distress levels. For women experiencing low or moderate levels of objective hardship, emotion-focused coping reduced levels of subjective distress (∆R2 = 1.3%). A three-way interaction between objective hardship, emotion-focused coping, and dysfunctional coping approached significance (∆R2 = 1.0%), indicating a protective role of emotion-focused coping under high levels of objective hardship, for women who frequently use maladaptive coping strategies.
Limitations: Sample was generally high SES and no measure of social support was available.
Conclusion: Results suggest that both problem-focused and dysfunctional coping strategies were maladaptive for women with relatively high exposure levels. Overall, emotion-focused coping strategies were more likely than problem-focused or dysfunctional strategies to reduce pregnant women's subjective distress following the flood.
Details
- Title
- Coping During Pregnancy Following Exposure to a Natural Disaster: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study
- Authors
- T Chen (Author) - Tsinghua UniversityD.P Laplante (Author) - Douglas Institute Research Center, Montreal, CanadaG Elgbeili (Author) - Douglas Institute Research Center, Montreal, CanadaA Brunet (Author) - Douglas Institute Research Center, Montreal, CanadaGabrielle Simcock (Author) - University of QueenslandS Kildea (Author) - University of QueenslandS King (Author) - McGill University
- Publication details
- Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol.273, pp.341-349
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.165
- ISSN
- 1573-2517
- Organisation Unit
- Thompson Institute; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99469908002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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