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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3417</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP121</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Coping Style and Defence Mechanisms among Traumatized and Non-Traumatized Adolescents in Malaysia&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SR</surname><given-names>Ghazali</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Elklit</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>YY</surname><given-names>Chen</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>23</day><month>02</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>en</volume><issue>es</issue><fpage>63</fpage><lpage>68</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Coping and psychological defence skills are frequently used when individuals experience trauma, stress, and anxiety. Objective: To examine the roles of Coping and psychological defence skills in traumatized adolescents exhibiting post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Methods: A sample of 1016 adolescents aged 12 to 17 answered the Coping Style Questionnaire-3, Defence Style Questionnaire-40, Traumatic Event Checklist, Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and a socio-demographic questionnaire. Results: Results showed that traumatized adolescents significantly used all coping styles: emotional focused, avoidance, rational, and detached. Similarly, adolescents with PTSD symptoms significantly used all the coping styles than those without PTSD symptoms: emotional focused, avoidance, rational and detached. Traumatized adolescents significantly used immature style, mature style than non-traumatized adolescents. Similarly, adolescents with PTSD symptoms significantly used immature defence style, mature style and neurotic style. Conclusion: Traumatized adolescents demonstrate a greater use of avoidance coping style, whereas non-traumatized adolescents tend to use rational coping style. Improving coping skills might directly improve traumatized adolescents__ampersandsignrsquo; daily functioning.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Coping</kwd><kwd> Defence</kwd><kwd> Trauma adolescents</kwd><kwd> Post traumatic stress disorder</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
