Reliability, Validity, and Factor Analysis of the Collectivistic Coping Scale

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Coping Scale

Hobfoll's Strategic Approach to Coping: Reliability and Validity of the Italian Adaptation

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1130-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Laura Comunian
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Scale Data

A brief review of Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory is given, and the Italian adaptation of a measurement, based on this theory, the Strategic Approach to Coping Scale, is presented. The scale is useful measure to assess stress and coping conceptualized to identify coping styles. The investigation used a sample of Italian people (N = 251, 18 to 25 years of age). Confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the validity of the scale. Data on the Italian adaptation are discussed.

scholarly journals Development of a revised Jalowiec Coping Scale for use by emergency clinicians: a cross-sectional scale development study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e033053
Author(s):  
Jaimi H Greenslade ◽  
Marianne C Wallis ◽  
Amy Johnston ◽  
Eric Carlström ◽  
Daniel Wilhelms ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Item Reduction ◽  
Urban Hospitals ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Coping Scale

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure the coping strategies used by emergency staff in response to workplace stress. To achieve this aim, we developed a refined Jalowiec Coping Scale (JCS), termed the Jalowiec Coping Scale-Emergency Department (JCS-ED) and validated this scale on a sample of emergency clinicians.DesignA cross-sectional survey incorporating the JCS, the working environment scale-10 and a measure of workplace stressors was administered between July 2016 and June 2017. The JCS-ED was developed in three stages: 1) item reduction through content matter experts, 2) exploratory factor analysis for further item reduction and to identify the factor structure of the revised scale and 3) confirmatory factor analyses to confirm the factors identified within the exploratory factor analysis.SettingSix Emergency Departments (EDs) in Australia and four in Sweden. There were three tertiary hospitals, five large urban hospitals and two small urban hospitals.ParticipantsParticipants were eligible for inclusion if they worked full-time or part-time as medical or nursing staff in the study EDs. The median age of participants was 35 years (IQR: 28–45 years) and they had been working in the ED for a median of 5 years (IQR: 2–10 years). 79% were females and 76% were nurses.ResultsA total of 875 ED staff completed the survey (response rate 51%). The content matter experts reduced the 60-item scale to 32 items. Exploratory factor analyses then further reduced the scale to 18 items assessing three categories of coping: problem-focussed coping, positive emotion-focussed coping and negative emotion-focussed coping. Confirmatory factor analysis supported this three-factor structure. Negative coping strategies were associated with poor perceptions of the work environment and higher ratings of stress.ConclusionsThe JCS-ED assesses maladaptive coping strategies along with problem-focussed and emotion-focussed coping styles. It is a short instrument that is likely to be useful in measuring the types of coping strategies employed by staff.

scholarly journals General and Specific Avoidance

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lehan Stemmet ◽  
Derek Roger ◽  
Joana Kuntz ◽  
Jo Borrill
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Avoidance Coping ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Concurrent Validation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Emotional Avoidance ◽  
Scenario Technique ◽  
Three Factor

Abstract. Research on coping has been hampered by psychometric shortcomings in coping scales, which have typically relied on items based on face-value, extracted too many factors or lacked the evidence for the obtained structure from confirmatory factor analysis. The present paper describes the development and concurrent validation of a new three-factor avoidance coping scale, the General and Specific Avoidance Questionnaire (GSAQ), which comprises General Avoidance, Emotional Avoidance, and Conflict Avoidance. In contrast to earlier scales the items were derived from a scenario technique which elicits items from participants’ experience, and the three-factor structure was endorsed by two confirmatory factor analyses on independent samples and a further exploratory factor analysis based on the total pooled sample of participants from all three analyses. Factor correlations indicate that the scales measure discrete facets of the avoidance coping domain, and while concurrent validation showed that General and Conflict Avoidance were related in predictable ways to criterion measures, the pattern for Emotional Avoidance was unexpected.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties and Factor structure of the BRCS in an elderly Spanish sample

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Moret-Tatay ◽  
Juan J. Fernández-Muñoz ◽  
Cristina Civera-Mollá ◽  
Esperanza Navarro-Pardo ◽  
Carlos Alcover-de-la-Hera
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Coping Scale

Successful resilience is a variable often related toan optimal aging process. However, literature is rather limited when dealingwith assessment instruments for the elderly in the Spanish language. Theobjective of this work is to validate the Brief Resilient Coping Scale(Sinclair & Wallston, 2004), a four item likert scale, in the Spanishelderly.  For this propose, the scale wasadministrated to a sample of 991 elderly Spanish participants, and the data setanalysed in terms of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, internalconsistency and criterion validity. The scale demonstrated good psychometricproperties.  Furthermore, the homogeneityindices were higher than the recently literature, reinforcing the dimensionalstructure of the scale.  These resultshave shown higher reliability from previous Spanish versions. Therefore, theBrief Resilient Coping Scale is a valuable assessment instrument that could bevery useful in the assessing of resilience in the Spanish-speaking elderly.

Measures of Repression: Converging on the Same Construct?

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Turvey ◽  
Peter Salovey
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Repressive Coping ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Practical Utility ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis ◽  
Negative Thoughts ◽  
Coping Scale

Research on individual differences in repression, defined as the tendency not to experience negative thoughts and feelings, has led to the development of numerous measures. This article compares six common measures of repression: 1) the Byrne Repression-Sensitization scale, 2) Weinberger's Repressive Coping Scale, 3) the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory, 4) Miller's Monitoring and Blunting Scale, 5) Sackeim and Gur's Self-Deception Questionnaire, and 6) Paulus's Self-Deception Questionnaire. The measures were highly intercorrelated. A maximum likelihood factor analysis revealed that all but the Monitoring and Blunting Scale loaded on a single factor. Moreover, most of the measures correlated significantly with anxiety and social desirability. The instruments were then compared to assess their relative practical utility. Although all but the Monitoring and Blunting scale appear to measure the same construct, the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory appears to be the most psychometrically sound measure of dispositional repression.

LOCUS OF COPING IN A SAMPLE OF CHINESE WORKING PARENTS: RELIANCE ON SELF OR SEEKING HELP FROM OTHERS

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T.L. Shek ◽  
Chau-Kiu Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Validation Procedure ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Coping Scale

The Chinese Coping Scale (CCS) was constructed to assess the coping responses of Chinese people to stress in the marital, familial, interpersonal and occupational domains. This scale was administered to 1000 Chinese adults to examine the psychometric properties of the CCS and to test the hypothesis that coping responses of Chinese people could be categorized into two types: reliance on self (i.e., internal locus of coping) and seeking help from others (i.e., external locus of coping). The reliability results indicated that the CCS demonstrated acceptable internal consistency as a scale in different domains. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis endorsed the adequacy of the two-factor model for coping responses within and across the four domains. Favorable evidence arising from the cross-validation procedure was also found. The implications of the present data on the conceptualization and measurement of coping are discussed.

scholarly journals Measurement Invariance of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) in Peruvian and Spanish Older Adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose M. Tomas ◽  
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez ◽  
José Ventura-León ◽  
Patricia Sancho ◽  
Cirilo H. García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Structure Factor ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Factorial Invariance ◽  
Scalar Invariant ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis

AbstractAlthough the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS) has been validated in some European and American countries, there are no studies that evaluate its factorial invariance among different nations. In this sense, the objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial invariance of the BRCS in samples of older adults in Peru and Spain, using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. 236 older adults from Peru participated (Mean age = 72.8, SD = 6.90) and 133 older adults from Spain (Mean age = 71, SD = 7). In the Peruvian sample 78.4% were women and 21.6% men; while in the Spanish sample the majority were women (69.9%). The BRCS was scalar invariant but not strictly invariant between Spain and Peru. Our results found invariance of the structure, factor loadings and intercepts in both countries. These results support the use of BRCS in studies that compare the resilience between samples of older adults in both countries, and encourage applied research for the development of resilience in older adults in Spain and Peru.

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