title: Analysis of the Jalowiec Scale with cardiac patients' spouses.
abstract: The Jalowiec Coping Scale was factor analyzed using scores of spouses of 210 cardiac surgery patients. Three factors were found which agreed with the factors reported by Jalowiec. Factor I was related to Confrontive coping strategies, Factor II to Palliative strategies, and Factor III to Emotive strategies. A little over 31% of the variance was accounted for by the three factors. Alpha reliabilities were .84, .70, and .74, respectively, for the three factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Omaha 68182.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Wikoff
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D011340:Problem Solving; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics