Psychometric Characteristics and Race-Related Measurement Invariance of Stress and Coping Measures in Adults With HIV/AIDS

Widowed spouses who either participated or refused to participate in a longitudinal bereavement study were compared using the Bereavement Risk Index (BRI). Also investigated were the psychometric characteristics of the BRI. The total BRI had poor internal consistency (α = .50). A principle components analysis yielded one factor with adequate reliability (α = .74), composed of five items associated with stress and coping. Correlations of BRI scores and selected items with measures of depression and stress at three and six months postmortem suggest that they may be more predictive of immediate than of longer-term bereavement adjustment. On the BRI, refusers scored significantly higher than participants on only two items, suggesting that they exercised less control over their emotionality at the time of their loss, and that they were less likely to be working outside their homes. Refusers were also significantly older than participants. Findings were viewed as suggesting little substantive difference between participants and nonparticipants in bereavement research.

Download Full-text

Investigation of the benefits of HIV/AIDS caregiving and relations among caregiving adjustment, benefit finding, and stress and coping variables

AIDS Care ◽

10.1080/09540120310001618694 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 853-869 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

J. Mccausland ◽

K.I. Pakenham

Keyword(s):

Stress And Coping ◽

Benefit Finding ◽

And Coping ◽

Hiv Aids

Download Full-text

CAREGIVING AND HIV+/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: CONTEXT AND CULTURE IN THE STRESS AND COPING PROCESS

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igx004.2184 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽

pp. 622-622

Author(s):

J. Small ◽

Jeon Small

Keyword(s):

Stress And Coping ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Coping Process ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

And Coping ◽

Hiv Aids

Download Full-text

Stress and coping: the psychoneuroimmunology of HIV/AIDS

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ◽

10.1053/beem.1999.0047 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 615-633 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Elizabeth G Balbin ◽

Gail H Ironson ◽

George F Solomon

Keyword(s):

Stress And Coping ◽

And Coping ◽

Hiv Aids

Download Full-text

The Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS) Scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000350 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (5) ◽

pp. 352-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Silvia Bonino ◽

Federica Graziano ◽

Martina Borghi ◽

Davide Marengo ◽

Giorgia Molinengo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Multiple Sclerosis ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Measurement Invariance ◽

Sense Of Coherence ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Concurrent Validity ◽

Rasch Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

And Coping

Abstract. This research developed a new scale to evaluate Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS). The aim of this study was to investigate dimensionality, item functioning, measurement invariance, and concurrent validity of the SEMS scale. Data were collected from 203 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (mean age, 39.5 years; 66% women; 95% having a relapsing remitting form of MS). Fifteen items of the SEMS scale were submitted to patients along with measures of psychological well-being, sense of coherence, depression, and coping strategies. Data underwent Rasch analysis and correlation analysis. Rasch analysis indicates the SEMS as a multidimensional construct characterized by two correlated dimensions: goal setting and symptom management, with satisfactory reliability coefficients. Overall, the 15 items reported acceptable fit statistics; the scale demonstrated measurement invariance (with respect to gender and disease duration) and good concurrent validity (positive correlations with psychological well-being, sense of coherence, and coping strategies and negative correlations with depression). Preliminary evidence suggests that SEMS is a psychometrically sound measure to evaluate perceived self-efficacy of MS patients with moderate disability, and it would be a valuable instrument for both research and clinical applications.

Download Full-text

The Coping Scales From the German Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000530 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 545-553 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Heike Eschenbeck ◽

Uwe Heim-Dreger ◽

Denise Kerkhoff ◽

Carl-Walter Kohlmann ◽

Arnold Lohaus ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Self Report ◽

Partial Metric ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽

Language Version ◽

English Speaking ◽

And Coping

Abstract. The coping scales from the Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SSKJ 3–8; Lohaus, Eschenbeck, Kohlmann, & Klein-Heßling, 2018 ) are subscales of a theoretically based and empirically validated self-report instrument for assessing, originally in the German language, the five strategies of seeking social support, problem solving, avoidant coping, palliative emotion regulation, and anger-related emotion regulation. The present study examined factorial structure, measurement invariance, and internal consistency across five different language versions: English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. The original German version was compared to each language version separately. Participants were 5,271 children and adolescents recruited from primary and secondary schools from Germany ( n = 3,177), France ( n = 329), Russia ( n = 378), the Dominican Republic ( n = 243), Ukraine ( n = 437), and several English-speaking countries such as Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and the USA (English-speaking sample: n = 707). For the five different language versions of the SSKJ 3–8 coping questionnaire, confirmatory factor analyses showed configural as well as metric and partial scalar invariance (French) or partial metric invariance (English, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian). Internal consistency coefficients of the coping scales were also acceptable to good. Significance of the results was discussed with special emphasis on cross-cultural research on individual differences in coping.

Download Full-text