title: The dimensionality of coping among Chinese health care workers.
abstract: The transactional model defines coping as a process that changes on the basis of the context of an environmental encounter. An instrument used to investigate coping in diverse person-environment interactions is the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC; S. Folkman & R. S. Lazarus, 1988). Although evidence exists to support the basic underlying structure of the WOC in Western societies, no research has been conducted on the instrument's dimensionality in non-Western societies. The authors identified 14 factors for the WOC administered to a sample of health care workers in Beijing, China. The 14 factors identified in the present study were similar to the 8 factors identified in the original validation study (S. Folkman, R. S. Lazarus, C. Dunkel-Schetter, A. DeLongis, & R. J. Gruen, 1986), but they were more content specific.
authors.affiliation: College of Business and Administration, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA. rscherer@wright.edu
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Scherer
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged