Development of a short version of the Coping Strategies Inventory

When an external and/or internal demand is perceived as exhausting individual resources, certain strategies are used to cope with the stress involved. One of the strategies most associated with certain pathological conditions is emotional repression. Despite this, there are no brief instruments in S...

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Main Authors: Schetsche, Christian, Jaume, Luis Carlos, Azzollini, Susana Celeste
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPSI, Conicet-UNC) 2022
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revaluar/article/view/37412
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Summary:When an external and/or internal demand is perceived as exhausting individual resources, certain strategies are used to cope with the stress involved. One of the strategies most associated with certain pathological conditions is emotional repression. Despite this, there are no brief instruments in Spanish that evaluate this stress coping strategy. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop a brief version of the Coping Strategies Inventory that contains only three items for each factor. The sample (N = 762) was collected online and divided into two parts. The first was used to conduct an exploratory factor analysis, which showed the existence of eight dimensions. For all subsequent analyses, the second part of the sample was used. The results of the confirmatory factoranalysis showed not only adequate psychometric properties, but also the suitability of using the instrument with a first-order factorstructure rather than a higher-order one. In order to test convergent validity, significant correlations were found with all personalitytraits. It is concluded that the development of a short version of the Coping Strategies Inventory was successful, as all psychometricindices reached values equal to or even higher than the original version with more items.