title: Hobfoll's strategic approach to coping: reliability and validity of the Italian adaptation.
abstract: A brief review of Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory is given, and the Italian adaptation of a measurement, based on this theory, the Strategic Approach to Coping Scale, is presented. The scale is useful measure to assess stress and coping conceptualized to identify coping styles. The investigation used a sample of Italian people (N=251, 18 to 25 years of age). Confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the validity of the scale. Data on the Italian adaptation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna Laura
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Comunian
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011582:Psychological Theory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires