title: Use of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations in a clinically depressed sample: factor structure, personality correlates, and prediction of distress.
abstract: The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS; Endler & Parker, 1990) is a self-report measure of Emotion-, Task-, and Avoidance-oriented coping. The psychometric properties of the CISS were evaluated in a large sample of outpatients with major depressive disorder (N = 298). The CISS scales demonstrated good reliability and support for their factorial validity was obtained. Relationships between the CISS scales and the broad personality domains from the five-factor model of personality, as well as two measures of emotional distress, were examined. Less-adaptive coping strategies (i.e., Emotion-oriented coping) were associated with less-adaptive personality traits (i.e., Neuroticism) and with psychological distress (i.e., Depression), whereas the reverse was found regarding adaptive coping strategies (i.e., Task-orientated coping). The incremental validity of the CISS was demonstrated by multiple-regression analyses that found two CISS scales accounted for significant variance in psychological distress beyond that contributed by the demographic and personality variables.
authors.affiliation: PsycHealth Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. ummcwil1@umanitoba.ca
authors.forename: Lachlan A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: McWilliams
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: Murray W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Enns
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012938:Social Perception; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*