The Situational Version of the Brief COPE: Dimensionality and Relationships With Goal-Related Variables

Monzani, Dario; Steca, Patrizia; Greco, Andrea; D’Addario, M; Cappelletti, E; Pancani, Luca

doi:10.5964/ejop.v11i2.935

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“…There are several study limitations. First, whilst the Brief COPE has demonstrated reliability in other samples (Carver, 1997;Monzani et al, 2015) the internal consistency of the subscale self-blame in our study was poor. One explanation is that the subscale may have been negatively affected by the measurement procedure as prior to the Brief COPE, our participants were asked to fill out questions about which combat-related events they had experienced.…”

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Childhood trauma and the role of self-blame on psychological well-being after deployment in male veterans

Dorresteijn¹,

Gladwin

Eekhout

et al. 2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Childhood trauma and combat-related trauma are both associated with decreased psychosocial functioning. Coping strategies play an important role in the adjustment to traumatic events.Objective: The present study examined childhood trauma and the mediating role of coping strategies in adult psychological symptoms in a non-clinical military population after deployment to Afghanistan. Additionally, the moderating role of coping strategies in vulnerability to combat events was explored.Method: Participants (N = 932) were drawn from a prospective study assessing psychological complaints (SCL-90), early trauma (ETISR-SF), combat-related events and coping strategies (Brief COPE). Mediation analyses via joint significance testing and moderation analyses were performed.Results: Childhood trauma is related to adult symptoms of general anxiety, depression and problems concerning interpersonal sensitivity through the mediation of self-blame as a coping strategy. Some evidence was found that self-blame moderated vulnerability to combat-related events resulting in psychological complaints, specifically symptoms of anxiety and depression.Conclusions: Military personnel should be made aware of self-criticizing maladaptive belief systems when dealing with aversive events. Negative beliefs about oneself and distorted trauma-related cognitions may have a basis in childhood events. Self-blame cognitions may be a potential mechanism of change in empirically supported trauma interventions such as cognitive processing therapy.

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Childhood trauma and the role of self-blame on psychological well-being after deployment in male veterans

Dorresteijn¹,

Gladwin

Eekhout

et al. 2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Originally, Brief COPE consists of 14 subscales (with only 2 items per scale). Due to their low reliability in this study, and following the suggestions of Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub (1989), as well as previous results on the dimensionality of the Brief COPE (Monzani et al, 2015), a second-order exploratory factor analysis was performed. Five higher-order factors were identified and analyzed further: Focus on Positive (consists of Acceptance, Positive reframing, Humor; α = .76), Active Coping (Active coping, Planning, Self-distraction; α = .72), Social Support Seeking (Use of emotion support, Use of instrumental support, Religion; α = .78), Evasive Coping (Selfblame, Denial, Venting, Behavioral disengagement; α = .71), and Substance Use (Substance use; α = .99).…”

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Actor and partner effects of coping on adjustment in couples undergoing assisted reproduction treatment

Kroemeke¹,

Kubicka²

2017

Health Psychology Report

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health psychology report • volume 5(4), 7 original article background Infertility is a shared experience as it affects both partners. However, mutual dependencies between coping and adjustment at the couple level remain to be fully elucidated. The study attempted to address this issue using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) to examine the actor effect (the extent to which an individual's score on coping predicted their own level of depressive symptoms and life purpose) and the partner effect (the extent to which an individual's score on coping predicted the level of adjustment in the partner) in couples undergoing assisted reproduction treatment (ART). participants and procedure Coping strategies, depressive symptoms, and life purpose were assessed among 31 married couples (aged 27-38 years) undergoing ART. The Brief COPE, CES-D, and PIL questionnaires were used. Data were analyzed by multilevel modeling (MLM). results The results of MLM indicated that focus on positive and active coping had an actor effect with depressive symptoms and life purpose, respectively. The actor effect of evasive coping on depression was moderated by gender and significant only in women. The partner effect was demonstrated for evasive coping, social support seeking, and substance use-the first two were gender moderated and significant in men. conclusions Coping efforts in the couple during infertility treatment are not only associated with the individual but also the partner's adjustment to that situation. Although the focus on positive and active coping was associated with individual benefits, other coping strategies which have the function of a protective buffer may also result in the occurrence of side effects, especially in females.

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“…Following sound theoretical guidance, a number of health-relevant studies have provided empirical evidences by using statistical tools to extract underlying domains and test psychometric properties in various settings and populations such as caregivers of people with dementia in the United Kingdom (Cooper, Katona, & Livingston, 2008), among breast cancer chemotherapy patients in Malaysia (Yusoff, Low, & Yip, 2009), people with traumatic brain injury in New Zealand (Snell, Siegert, Hay-Smith, & Surgenor, 2011), people living with HIV in China (Su et al, 2015), person living with HIV/AIDS in India (Mohanraj et al, 2015), pregnant minority women in the United States (Ruiz et al, 2015), adults in Italy (Monzani et al, 2015), and community population in Chile (García, Barraza-Peña, Wlodarczyk, Alvear-Carrasco, & Reyes-Reyes, 2018). Brief-COPE is also translated in a number of languages such as French version (Muller & Spitz, 2003), Malay version (Yusoff et al, 2009), Brazilian-Portuguese version (Brasileiro et al, 2016), and Chilean version (García et al, 2018).…”

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Psychometric properties of Brief-COPE inventory among nurses

Rahman

Bani‐Issa

Naing

2020

Preprint

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Objective: Coping with persistent demands in modern healthcare and facing new challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is increasingly necessary among nurses. Brief-COPE inventory is widely used to assess coping, however, validation evidence is absent and previous results were inconsistent. This study aimed to validate psychometric properties of Brief-COPE inventory to ensure culturally appropriate usage. Methods: Preliminary validation study on 423 female nurses from the United Arab Emirates. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with maximum likelihood estimation was computed to test four different previous models. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) protocol was used to determine underlying domain structure of Brief-COPE in this population.Results: The four previous models on CFA had inadequate fit indexes. Two-factor (22-items) second-order model that explained 37.0% of the total variance with Cronbach’s alpha at 0.81 and 0.88, respectively, was suggested. Conclusion: This validation of Brief-COPE is timely considering nurses enduring different types of stressors in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic situation. In addition, cultural diversity need to be considered in coping research. Re-assessment of this exploratory structure is necessary to ensure accurate measurement of coping strategies.

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The Situational Version of the Brief COPE: Dimensionality and Relationships With Goal-Related Variables

Cited by 99 publications

References 40 publications

Childhood trauma and the role of self-blame on psychological well-being after deployment in male veterans

Childhood trauma and the role of self-blame on psychological well-being after deployment in male veterans

Actor and partner effects of coping on adjustment in couples undergoing assisted reproduction treatment

Psychometric properties of Brief-COPE inventory among nurses

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