ABSTRACT

The purpose of the present study was to validate the Romanian version of the 60-item COPE Questionnaire (Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989), which includes 15 coping strategies. The adaptation of COPE was conducted on a non-probabilistic, non-clinic, convenience sample of 1009 participants. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the factorial structure of the COPE, on litereature-based hypothetisized models. The results support a solution with four correlated factors, as most appropriate to describe the structure of the Romanian version for the COPE. These four factors are: problem focused coping, emotion focused coping, social support focused coping, and avoidant coping. Supplimentary, for both four-factor solutions, and the initial 15-scales internal consistency coefficients were computed. The internal consistency values range between .72 to .84 for the 4-factor solution, and between .48 and .92 for the 15 initial scales.

KEYWORDS: coping, COPE, confirmatory factorial analysis, reliability, construct validity

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