title: Coping skill as a moderator between negative life events and suicide among young people in rural China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In the present study, we aim to test whether the approach or the avoidance coping skill can be a moderator between negative life events and suicide, and to test the deficient coping strain in the strain theory.
  
  
  METHODS
  This sample comprised 392 suicide cases and 416 community living controls, aged 15-34 years, from 16 rural counties in China. An established psychological autopsy method and a case-control design were used in this study. The 48-item Coping Response Inventory evaluated the degree of coping skills of the people who died by suicide.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results indicated that the avoidance coping skill, but not the approach coping skill, can moderate between negative life events and suicide.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The low level of the avoidance coping skill may represent a promising variable for screening for suicide risk in rural China.
authors.affiliation: Shandong University School of Public Health Center for Suicide Prevention Research.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008016:Life Change Events; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: China; approach coping skill; avoidance coping skill; moderator; negative life event; suicide