Ben-Porath Y S, Waller N G, Butcher J N
Kent State University.
J Pers Assess. 1991 Aug;57(1):162-76. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa5701_18.
The prevalence and effects of inapplicable items on the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC) were studied. Three hundred seventy-six college students completed the WOC twice, referring to both heterogeneous (i.e., different types of) and homogeneous (the same) stressors. In addition to the standard procedure for administering this questionnaire, subjects were asked to identify items that were inapplicable to the stressors with which they were coping. Item inapplicability ranged from 2.1% to 83.9%, with a mean of 21.5% inapplicability across all WOC items. Application of a correction for item inapplicability demonstrated that situational effects are confounded by this phenomenon and may not hold up when the correction is applied. Implications of these findings include the possibility that previous research has over- or misidentified situational effects on coping.
研究了《应对方式问卷》（WOC）中不适用项目的发生率及其影响。376名大学生两次完成了WOC问卷，涉及异质（即不同类型）和同质（相同）应激源。除了发放该问卷的标准程序外，还要求受试者识别与他们正在应对的应激源不适用的项目。项目不适用率从2.1%到83.9%不等，所有WOC项目的平均不适用率为21.5%。对项目不适用性进行校正的结果表明，情境效应因这一现象而混淆，应用校正后可能不成立。这些发现的意义包括，先前的研究可能高估或错误识别了情境对应对的影响。
