Psychometric evaluation of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire as applied to clinical and nonclinical groups

The relationship between function, quality of life and coping in patients with low-grade gliomas

“…Second, the patients may have difficulty in concentrating throughout the questionnaire, which will increase the error variances and lead to ambiguous results. Therefore, it is recommended that these 16 items be deleted from WCQ in future research [24].…”

“…The scale has previously been translated into Swedish and used for Swedish patient populations [23]. Lundqvist and Ahlström [24] have confirmed that the Swedish version has satisfactory psychometric properties in clinical studies.…”

Measuring emotion regulation and emotional expression in breast cancer patients: A systematic review

“…The non-modified version of the WCQ is widely used in studies of cancer patients and in other contexts. These studies point to poor internal consistency in some of the WCQ subscales (e.g., α's < .70 for cancer patients or survivors of suicide for confrontive coping, distancing and accepting responsibility, dimensions of the non-modified version of the WCQ) (Lundqvist & Ahlstrfm, 2006;Terhorst & Mitchell, 2012). A search of the PsychInfo database using the term Ways of Coping Questionnaire showed that it appears in 491 publications.…”

Exploring Suitable Emotion-Focused Strategies in Helping Students to Regulate Their Emotional State in a Tutoring System: Malaysian Case Study

“…The Ways of Coping questionnaire has demonstrated good reliability and validity (Folkman & Lazarus, 1988). In recent years, many researchers (e.g Lundqvista & Ahlstrfmb, 2006;Yip & Rowlinson, 2006) have reported reliable findings in the use of the WCQ questionnaire in assessing individual coping strategies in various disciplines (i.e. medicine, sport science and education).…”