Fontes Arlete Portella, Neri Anita Liberalesso
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gerontologia, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Av. Tessalia Vieira de Camargo 126, Barão Geraldo. 13083-887 Campinas SP Brasil.
Cien Saude Colet. 2019 Apr;24(4):1265-1276. doi: 10.1590/1413-81232018244.05502017. Epub 2019 May 2.
Coping strategies as components of resilience among the elderly serve three purposes: protection against threats to adaptation, recovery from the effects of adversity, and personal development. The present paper aims to investigate internal and external validity for a coping inventory. 415 elderly subjects (aged 65 and older) answered questions that measure coping, depression, self-rated health and satisfaction with life. Scores were compared with each other as well as according to gender, age and income. Exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis were conducted. Three factors explained 30.8% of the variance: 1. non-adaptive strategies, 2.adaptive strategies, and 3. development strategies. The scale showed moderate internal consistency (α = 0.541). Development strategies were positively correlated with self-rated health and with satisfaction with life, and negatively correlated with depression (p < 0.05). The explained variance and internal validity were moderate, possibly because the coping inventory does not reflect specific situations of old age, and also because of the complexity of strategy-context relationships, among other reasons. Correlations found with other indicators of resilience encourage further studies.
防范适应方面的威胁、从逆境影响中恢复以及个人发展。本文旨在研究一份应对量表的内部效度和外部效度。415名65岁及以上的老年受试者回答了有关应对、抑郁、自评健康和生活满意度的问题。对分数进行了相互比较，并按性别、年龄和收入进行了比较。进行了探索性因素分析和内部一致性分析。三个因素解释了30.8%的方差：1. 非适应性策略，2. 适应性策略，3. 发展策略。该量表显示出中等程度的内部一致性（α = 0.541）。发展策略与自评健康和生活满意度呈正相关，与抑郁呈负相关（p < 0.05）。所解释的方差和内部效度中等，可能是因为应对量表没有反映老年的具体情况，也由于策略与情境关系的复杂性等原因。与其他复原力指标的相关性结果鼓励进一步研究。
