“…The CSI has been used with a wide variety of populations to assess coping strategies in a variety of contexts. For example, undergraduate students, exam-related coping and responses to racial discrimination (Ptacek, Smith, Espe, & Raffety, 1994;Utsey, Ponterotto, Reynolds, & Cancelli, 2000), coping responses of spouses of depressed patients (Spangenberg & Theron, 1999), returning refugees (Gillespie, Peltzer, & MacLachlan, 2000), haemodialysis patients (Welch & Austin, 2001), psychiatric inpatients (Bijttebier & Vertommen, 1999), international medical students (Glennon & MacLachlan, 2000) and individuals with amputations (Gallagher & MacLachlan, 1999).…”