Adolescent Coping Scale--Second Edition

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Frydenberg ◽  
Ramon Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale

scholarly journals Estudo de Adaptação e Características Psicométricas da Versão Portuguesa da Adolescent Coping Scale – Escala de Coping para Adolescentes

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Frasquilho Guerreiro ◽  
Diana Cruz ◽  
Maria Luísa Figueira ◽  
Daniel Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale

<strong>Introduction:</strong> Coping is a psychological process that prompts the individual to adapt to stressful situations. The Adolescent Coping Scale is a widely used research and clinical tool. This study aimed to develop a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Coping Scale and to analyze the strategies and coping styles of young people in our sample.<br /><strong>Material and Methods:</strong> An anonymous questionnaire comprising the Adolescent Coping Scale was submitted and replied by 1 713 students (56% female, from 12 to 20 years, average age 16) The validity study of the scale included: principal component and reliability analysis; confirmatory analysis using structural equation modelling Subsequently, a gender comparison of both the strategies and the coping styles was conducted through independent samples t tests.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> The final structure of the Adolescent Coping Scale adaptation retained 70 items assessing 16 coping strategies grouped into three major styles. The scales showed good internal consistency (Cronbach alpha values between 0.63. and 0.86, with the exception of one dimension that as shown a value of 0.55) and the confirmatory model showed a good fit (goodness of fit index values between 0.94 e 0.96). Two coping strategies were eliminated on statistical grounds (insufficient saturations of items in the corresponding dimensions). We found that the style of coping focused on problem solving is the most used by youths from our sample, in both sexes. Females had higher mean values in non-productive coping style and reference to others.<br /><strong>Discussion:</strong> This adapted version has high similarity with the original scale, with expectable minor changes, given that coping is influenced by cultural, geographical and socio-economic variables.<br /><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present study represents an important part of the validation protocol Portuguese Adolescent Coping Scale, including its linguistic adaptation and its internal consistency and factor structure studies.

Resources loss, gain, investment, and coping in adolescents

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Wojcik ◽  
Vicki McKenzie ◽  
Erica Frydenberg ◽  
Charles Poole
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Resource Loss ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
And Coping

AbstractYear 9 students from a Melbourne metropolitan secondary school (N = 176) completed the specific version of the Adolescent Coping Scale and a Resources Questionnaire on 10 resources valued by young people. Having and valuing of the 10 resources was associated with productive coping by adolescents. Having fewer resources and greater resource loss was related to use of nonproductive coping. Girls and boys managed their resources differently as part of their coping efforts. Investing in and gaining resources was reported by girls who coped productively and focused on solving their problems, but not by productively coping boys, nonproductively coping girls, or girls who reported avoiding negative emotional states when dealing with problems. The indications are that in counseling and in designing interventions aimed to improve resilience in young people, gender may have an impact on particular resources of value to the person, and the approach taken to developing resources may similarly vary.

Adolescent Coping Scale--Modified

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Batanova ◽  
Dorothy L. Espelage ◽  
Mrinalini A. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale

A Replication Study of the Structure of the Adolescent Coping Scale: Multiple Forms and Applications of a Self-Report Inventory in a Counselling and Research Context

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Frydenberg ◽  
Ramon Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Directed Change

This paper reports two independent studies designed to investigate the reliability and validity of the Long and the Short Form of the Adolescent Coping Scale (ACS). Since we have found from our research that much of an individual's behaviour is situation-specific there is a Specific Form of the ACS which allows for the measurement of responses to a particular self-nominated (or administrator-nominated) concern. However, it is also clear that an individual's choice of coping strategies is, to a large extent, consistent regardless of the nature of the concern. Thus, there is a General Form of the instrument which addresses how an individual copes with concerns in general. The two sets of data reported, utilising the General and the Specific Form (in a Long and Short format), show the value of utilising separately 18 coping scales when measuring adolescent coping strategies. The reliability, validity and empirical distinctiveness of each scale is demonstrated. Nevertheless, factor analyses reported here show that there is some benefit to be gained from considering three coping styles comprising combinations of between four and seven coping strategies. The use of coping styles is particularly relevant when the Short Form of the ACS has been administered. The justification of the use of the different forms of the scale in both educational and clinical contexts, is discussed. The instrument provides an individual or group coping profile which can be used by respondents to guide them in the self-directed change of the coping repertoire.

Adolescent Coping Scale--Adapted Arabic Translation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orna Braun-Lewensohn ◽  
Shifra Sagy ◽  
Haled Al Said
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale

The coping strategies used by adolescents in intact and in separated families

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Frydenberg ◽  
Ramon Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young People ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Coping Scale

While for some young people family life is smooth sailing, for many others it is fraught with turbulence. In this study of secondary students in metropolitan Melbourne the major concerns of children in intact and separated families were compared. The study also compared how young people cope according to their family circumstances. The 238 young people who live in intact households reported fights with parents and happiness as their major concerns. The major concern of the 114 young people in separated households was lack of access to the non-residential parent.The investigation utilised the Adolescent Coping Scale (Frydenberg & Lewis, 1993a), an 80-item instrument developed and validated over a five-year period as an instrument to measure adolescent coping. The results of the study indicated that there was a significant variation in coping according to gender and a significant relationship between coping and family status. There were significant gender differences regardless of whether the families were intact or separated.

Coping and its correlates: What the adolescent coping scale tells us

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Frydenberg
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Family Climate ◽  
The Family ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Item Checklist ◽  
Experience Of Stress ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Adolescent Perceptions ◽  
Highly Able

ABSTRACTThis paper on the coping actions of Australian adolescents reporls on research spanning a 5-year period. The central indicator of coping in this work is the Adolescent Coping Scale (ACS), an 80-item checklist that identifies 18 coping strategies commonly used by adolescents. There are clear indications that age, gender, and family of origin are concomitants of coping. Furthermore, coping varies according to adolescent perceptions of the self, perception of the adolescent's ability by others, family climate, and the experience of stress in the family. Positive family climate is generally associated with the use of functional styles of coping. Adolescents who are identified as highly able or gifted use a different coping repertoire in comparison to their nongifted peers. Young people in intact or separated households use similar strategies to manage their general concerns. Moreover, those dealing with separation of parents were generally as adaptive in their use of coping strategies.

Psychometric Characteristics of the Adolescent Coping Scale with Academically Gifted Adolescents

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Plucker
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Adolescent Coping ◽  
Oblimin Rotation ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Gifted Adolescents ◽  
Academically Gifted

Researchers investigate the affective aspects of adolescents' giftedness with increasing frequency, but their efforts are hampered by the lack of information regarding the reliability and validity of available instruments. The purpose of this study was to provide evidence of the psychometric properties of the Adolescent Coping Scale (Frydenberg & Lewis, 1993) when used with academically gifted adolescents. Results suggest that the Adolescent Coping Scale is sufficiently reliable for group administration and research purposes with the possible exception of the Not Coping (alpha = .57) and Seek Relaxing Diversions scales (alpha = .51). Exploratory factor analysis (maximum likelihood extraction with oblimin rotation) provides evidence of construct validity for 12 of the 18 scales. Researchers are advised to cautiously interpret gifted students' scores on the remaining six scales (Invest in Close Friends, Not Coping, Focus on Solving the Problem, Seek to Belong, Wishful Thinking, Seek Relaxing Diversions).

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