title: [Dimensionality of the Coping Inventory for adolescents and college students].
abstract: Assessing coping has been a controversial subject and to this day, there is no consensus about its dimensionality. A short version for adolescents and college students of Moos' Coping Responses Inventory-Youth Form is presented. Psychometric analyses performed with 1,160 Argentinean students included: a) descriptive statistics, b) confirmatory factor analysis, and c) internal consistency. Three models (1-factor, 2-factor and 4-factor) were compared in two randomized samples, and by a bootstrap procedure carried out in 500 different samples. Nested models with progressive restrictions were also established successively in samples split by sex and age. Results indicated a better fit of the 4-factor model as well as its stability across different groups.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rial Boubeta
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de la Iglesia
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ongarato
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernández Liporace
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult