Table 4.

Coping Strategies by gender and survey year

	Girls			Boys			Girls		Boys
	2020	2021	p	2020	2021	p	2020	2021	2020	2021
	%	%		%	%		Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)
Active
Cognitive restructuring	52.0	40.1	0.002	49.3	51.2	0.587	1.51 (0.83)	1.40 (0.88)	1.49 (0.92)	1.53 (0.94)
Problem solving	14.7	12.4	0.425	18.0	17.6	0.890	0.74 (0.75)	0.70 (0.73)	0.77 (0.83)	0.77 (0.80)
Emotional regulation-express feeling	6.0	7.1	0.564	3.7	2.3	0.285	0.39 (0.66)	0.39 (0.64)	0.26 (0.55)	0.24 (0.50)
Emotional regulation-calming down	16.3	18.7	0.386	10.0	11.0	0.673	0.75 (0.85)	0.76 (0.84)	0.49 (0.74)	0.57 (0.73)
Social support	23.0	25.0	0.535	19.7	19.6	0.981	0.94 (0.88)	0.94 (0.88)	0.87 (0.86)	0.86 (0.87)
Sum scores							4.33 (2.43)	4.19 (2.57)	3.88 (2.46)	3.97 (2.43)
Avoidant
Distraction	27.0	25.8	0.696	24.0	29.6	0.069	1.07 (0.89)	1.06 (0.83)	0.94 (0.86)	1.00 (0.88)
Social Withdrawal	25.4	24.2	0.696	19.3	18.3	0.649	1.03 (0.91)	0.94 (0.97)	0.85 (0.91)	0.77 (0.89)
Wishful thinking	20.6	24.6	0.238	13.7	14.6	0.746	0.56 (0.87)	0.92 (0.94)	0.62 (0.83)	0.69 (0.79)
Resignation	64.7	51.2	< 0.001	57.7	53.5	0.248	1.89 (1.04)	1.63 (1.03)	1.70 (1.10)	1.62 (1.08)
Sum scores							4.85 (2.12)	4.55 (2.37)	4.10 (2.35)	4.08 (2.36)
Negative
Self criticism	4.8	8.7	0.054	4.7	6.6	0.280	0.34 (0.66)	0.41 (0.75)	0.25 (0.58)	0.31(0.61)
Blaming others	6.4	5.6	0.670	7.0	6.6	0.838	0.41 (0.69)	0.42 (0.64)	0.38 (0.72)	0.43 (0.72)
Sum scores							0.75 (1.08)	0.83 (1.08)	0.63 (1.03)	0.74 (1.09)