Development and Validation of an Exploratory Measure to Assess Student Coping: The Student Coping Scale

Autor/in	Boujut, Emile
Titel	Development and Validation of an Exploratory Measure to Assess Student Coping: The Student Coping Scale
Quelle	In: College Student Journal, 47 (2013) 1, S.12-23 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0146-3934
Schlagwörter	Test Construction; Test Validity; Coping; College Students; Foreign Countries; Factor Analysis; Interviews; Questionnaires; Social Support Groups; Problem Solving; Emotional Response; Correlation; Scores; Psychological Characteristics; Self Esteem; Substance Abuse; Stress Variables; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Depression (Psychology); Life Satisfaction; Student Attitudes; Predictive Validity; France; Beck Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testaufbau; Testvalidität; Bewältigung; Collegestudent; Ausland; Faktorenanalyse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Problemlösen; Emotionales Verhalten; Korrelation; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Lebensvollendung; Schülerverhalten; Frankreich
Abstract	Students is a very specific population according to their manner to cope with stress. A coping questionnaire for students was developed and administered to 1100 French students at the beginning of the term (T1). Principal Component Analysis of responses, followed by varimax rotations, yielded three factors accounting for 50.5% of the total variance. Factors were identified as seeking social support, avoidance/emotion-focused coping and festive-addictive coping. Associations were observed between scores on these factors and a general coping scale (WCC-R), personal variables measured at the same time (T1), neuroticism, self-esteem, substance use, and four stress factors, as well as variables measured at the end of the term (T2), somatic symptoms, depressive symptoms, eating disorders, and life satisfaction. It would be very interesting to develop the students' personal competencies, so that they are learning how to adopt functional strategies of coping rather than of the harmful kind. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10