ArticleBMC public health2025
Adaptive versus maladaptive coping strategies: insight from Lebanese young adults navigating multiple crises.
Article in BMC public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effectiveness of the coping and parental competence intervention on mental well-being in parents of preschool children with special educational needs: A randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Stress, coping, and other determinants of poor sleep quality among healthcare students in a conflict region: a cross-sectional study.Medical education online · 2026Article
- The architecture of depression and comorbid symptoms in chinese vocational college students: a dual-method network analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Childhood Trauma and Social Skills in Residential Care Youth: the Roles of Coping Strategies and Self-efficacy.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Striving or surviving? Influence of bullying on psychological well-being and coping approaches among undergraduate dental students.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- The mechanisms between illness representations and depression in a sample of Chinese chronic kidney disease patients: mediation via maladaptive emotional coping and positive reframing.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Distinct Stress Appraisal Dimensions, Insomnia, and Physical Activity as Differential Pathways to Psychological Distress: A Cross-Sectional Study in Tunisian University Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The relationship between economic status, poverty, and health among Arabs in Israel.Israel journal of health policy research · 2026Article
- Association of parental stress, depression, anxiety, and somatisation: Mediating role of coping behaviours among mothers of preterm infants in Ghana.Dialogues in health · 2026Article
- Mental adjustment to cancer and its predictors in patients with non-small cell lung cancer undergoing surgery.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- How negative life-events affect sleep quality of college students: a chain-mediating model.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence as Predictors of Coping with Stress in Patients with Personality Disorders-A Single-Arm Pre-Post Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- The relationship between childhood trauma and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with depressive disorders: the mediating role of alexithymia and coping strategies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Longitudinal association between perceived stress and depressive symptoms among student-athletes: the mediating roles of positive reframing and behavioral disengagement and moderating role of stress mindset.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associations between uncertainty in illness and cardiac rehabilitation adherence in patients with CHD: a cross-sectional chain mediation and latent profile analysis of cardiac self-efficacy and fear of activity.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- From trait emotional intelligence to wellbeing and growth: the role of adaptive coping during hardship.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Layered vulnerabilities in young adults with major depressive disorder: personality, coping, and cognition.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Coping Strategies and Health-Related Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- School-to-work transition: The role of life satisfaction, risk perception, and resilience in youth career decision-making.PloS one · 2025Article
- Nonlinear associations between punishment sensitivity and problematic Internet use among adolescents: Results from cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundCoping strategies are composites of cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage the internal and external demands of stressful situations. They have been documented to relate to general well-being and mental health. However, not all types of coping are created equal, and adaptive versus maladaptive strategies seem to have understudied differential impacts, notably with accumulated adversities.
methodsWe examined coping strategies in a sample of 489 Lebanese university students during accumulating crises, including socio-political unrest and the COVID- 19 pandemic. They were asked to fill out an online survey including standardized questionnaires of well-being (WEMWBS), depression (PHQ- 9), anxiety (HAM-A), intolerance of uncertainty (IUS), and coping (Brief COPE), in addition to demographics and questions about their attitudes and future perspectives.
resultsThe results highlight that adaptive coping strategies positively correlate with psychological well-being, whereas maladaptive ones are associated with higher levels of psychopathology. Specifically, it was shown that a positive association exists between anxiety, depression, intolerance of uncertainty, and maladaptive coping strategies while evidencing a negative association between the latter and well-being. Our multinominal regression showed that anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty and well-being were associated with low levels of adaptive coping when taking adaptive coping as a dependent variable.
conclusionOur study mainly highlights the relation between coping, uncertainty, and mental health. Although intended to help relieve tension, maladaptive strategies might worsen it instead. We emphasize previous findings to promote healthy adaptive coping strategies in times of unprecedented crises.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.