The impact of major earthquakes on students' emotional distress and internalizing symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and coping during the implementation of keepin' it REAL-Mexico

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dc.contributor.affiliationFacultad de Psicología, UNAM, Av. Universidad 3004, Col. Copilco - Universidad, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
dc.contributor.emailkulis@asu.edu (Stephen S. Kulis)
dc.creatorMedina-Mora, María Elenaes_ES
dc.creatorKulis, Stephen S.es_ES
dc.creatorReal, Taniaes_ES
dc.creatorNuño-Gutiérrez, Bertha L.es_ES
dc.creatorCorona, María Doloreses_ES
dc.creatorCutrín, Olallaes_ES
dc.creatorMarsiglia, Flavio F.es_ES
dc.date2024
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-07T16:51:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-27T15:31:41Z
dc.date.available2025-04-07T16:51:30Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.published2024
dc.descriptionThis article reports on effects of two earthquakes in Mexico on adolescents attending middle school. The earthquakes struck in close succession during the implementation of a school-based prevention program, providing an opportunity to assess emotional distress due to the earthquakes and whether the life skills taught in the program affected how students coped with the natural disaster. The objectives were to (1) evaluate the earthquakes' impact on students' distress; (2) assess if distress is associated with internalizing symptomology and externalizing behaviors; and (3) investigate if students receiving the original and adapted versions of the intervention coped better with the events. A Mexico-US research team culturally adapted keepin' it REAL to address connections between substance use among early adolescents in Mexico and exposure to violence. A random sample of public middle schools from three cities (Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey), stratified by whether they held morning or afternoon sessions, was selected. A total of 5522 7th grade students from 36 schools participated in the study. Students answered pretest and posttest questionnaires; the latter assessed earthquake-related distress and coping strategies. Earthquake-related distress was associated with all measures of undesired internalizing symptomology and externalizing behaviors. Compared to controls, students in the adapted intervention reported less aggressive and rule-breaking externalizing behavior and less violence perpetration. However, these intervention effects were not moderated by the level of earthquake-related distress, and they were not mediated by positive or negative coping. The findings have implications for prevention intervention research and policy as natural and human-made disasters occur more often.es_ES
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dc.identifierJC75es_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11121-023-01542-0
dc.identifier.eissn1573-6695
dc.identifier.issn1389-4986
dc.identifier.organizacionInstituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz
dc.identifier.placeEstados Unidos
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-023-01542-0
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.inprf.gob.mx/handle/123456789/8294
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherSpringer Naturees_ES
dc.relation25(2):256-266
dc.relation.jnabreviadoPREV SCI
dc.relation.journalPrevention Science
dc.rightsAcceso Cerradoes_ES
dc.subject.kwAdolescents
dc.subject.kwEarthquakes
dc.subject.kwPrevention
dc.subject.kwIntemalizing symptomatology and externalizing behavior
dc.subject.kwCoping
dc.titleThe impact of major earthquakes on students' emotional distress and internalizing symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and coping during the implementation of keepin' it REAL-Mexicoes_ES
dc.typeArtículoes_ES

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