Guerreiro Diogo Frasquilho, Cruz Diana, Figueira Maria Luísa, Sampaio Daniel
Departamento de Psiquiatria. Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal..
Faculdade de Psicologia. Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal.
Acta Med Port. 2014 Mar-Apr;27(2):166-80. doi: 10.20344/amp.4729. Epub 2014 Apr 30.
Coping is a psychological process that prompts the individual to adapt to stressful situations. The Adolescent Coping Scale is a widely used research and clinical tool. This study aimed to develop a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Coping Scale and to analyze the strategies and coping styles of young people in our sample.
An anonymous questionnaire comprising the Adolescent Coping Scale was submitted and replied by 1 713 students (56% female, from 12 to 20 years, average age 16) The validity study of the scale included: principal component and reliability analysis; confirmatory analysis using structural equation modelling Subsequently, a gender comparison of both the strategies and the coping styles was conducted through independent samples t tests.
The final structure of the Adolescent Coping Scale adaptation retained 70 items assessing 16 coping strategies grouped into three major styles. The scales showed good internal consistency (Cronbach alpha values between 0.63. and 0.86, with the exception of one dimension that as shown a value of 0.55) and the confirmatory model showed a good fit (goodness of fit index values between 0.94 e 0.96). Two coping strategies were eliminated on statistical grounds (insufficient saturations of items in the corresponding dimensions). We found that the style of coping focused on problem solving is the most used by youths from our sample, in both sexes. Females had higher mean values in non-productive coping style and reference to others.
This adapted version has high similarity with the original scale, with expectable minor changes, given that coping is influenced by cultural, geographical and socio-economic variables.
The present study represents an important part of the validation protocol Portuguese Adolescent Coping Scale, including its linguistic adaptation and its internal consistency and factor structure studies.
应对是促使个体适应压力情境的心理过程。青少年应对量表是一种广泛应用于研究和临床的工具。本研究旨在开发青少年应对量表的葡萄牙语版本，并分析我们样本中年轻人的应对策略和应对方式。
向1713名学生（56%为女性，年龄在12至20岁之间，平均年龄16岁）发放并回收了一份包含青少年应对量表的匿名问卷。该量表的效度研究包括：主成分分析和信度分析；使用结构方程模型进行验证性分析。随后，通过独立样本t检验对策略和应对方式进行性别比较。
青少年应对量表改编版的最终结构保留了70个项目，评估16种应对策略，分为三种主要方式。各量表显示出良好的内部一致性（克朗巴哈α值在0.63至0.86之间，有一个维度的值为0.55除外），验证性模型显示拟合良好（拟合优度指数值在0.94至0.96之间）。基于统计学理由删除了两种应对策略（相应维度中项目的饱和度不足）。我们发现，我们样本中的年轻人，无论男女，最常用的应对方式是聚焦问题解决。女性在非生产性应对方式和求助他人方面的平均值较高。
鉴于应对受文化、地理和社会经济变量的影响，这个改编版与原始量表有高度相似性，只是有一些可预期的细微变化。
本研究是葡萄牙青少年应对量表验证方案的重要组成部分，包括其语言改编以及内部一致性和因子结构研究。
