Psychometric qualities of the English Coping Scales of the Stress and Coping Inventory in a representative UK sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Coping Scales of the Stress and Coping Inventory (SCI; Satow in Stress- und Coping-Inventar (SCI): Test- und Skalendokumentation. Stress and coping inventory. http://www.drsatow.de , 2012) are well-established German self-report scales measuring five coping styles: Positive Thinking, Active Coping, Social Support, Support in Faith, and Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption. The purpose of this study was to translate the scales into English and to psychometrically evaluate this English version of the SCI coping scales with a representative sample of the UK population.

Methods

The coping scales of the SCI were forward-backward translated into English and administered to a representative sample according to age, gender, education, and region for the UK (N = 1006). In

SUBMITTER: O'Rourke T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7851809 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature