Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria.
Department of Work, Organization and Society, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
BMC Psychol. 2021 Feb 2;9(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s40359-021-00528-3.
The Coping Scales of the Stress and Coping Inventory (SCI; Satow in Stress- und Coping-Inventar (SCI): Test- und Skalendokumentation. Stress and coping inventory. http://www.drsatow.de , 2012) are well-established German self-report scales measuring five coping styles: Positive Thinking, Active Coping, Social Support, Support in Faith, and Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption. The purpose of this study was to translate the scales into English and to psychometrically evaluate this English version of the SCI coping scales with a representative sample of the UK population.
The coping scales of the SCI were forward-backward translated into English and administered to a representative sample according to age, gender, education, and region for the UK (N = 1006). Internal consistencies, factorial validity, and construct validity were assessed for both the original factor structure of the SCI, as well as a newly identified factor structure.
The results for the original factor structure indicated good internal consistency and construct validity. The adaptive coping styles of this version were positively correlated with resilience and negatively with perceived stress. The maladaptive coping strategy, alcohol and cigarette consumption, showed the opposite correlations. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the English version resulted in a five-factor structure, but some items loaded on different factors than in the German version. These new factors were Religious Coping, Social Support, Various Coping, Alcohol and Cigarette Consumption, and Reflective Coping. The novel factors showed similar correlations to resilience and perceived stress as the original factor structure. Only religious coping did not significantly correlate to perceived stress. Confirmatory factor analysis with the original factor structure of the German SCI coping scales revealed poor model fit for the English SCI coping scales.
The English SCI coping scales consistently and accurately measure five different coping styles. Nevertheless, the original factor structure of the SCI coping scales, when applied to an English-speaking sample, did not fit the data well. The new factor structure established by EFA is only preliminary and needs further validation in future large samples using the English version of the SCI coping scales.
应激和应对量表（SCI；Satow 在 Stress- und Coping-Inventar (SCI): Test- und Skalendokumentation. Stress and coping inventory. http://www.drsatow.de ，2012 年）是一套经过充分验证的德国自评量表，用于测量五种应对方式：积极思维、积极应对、社会支持、信仰支持和烟酒消费。本研究的目的是将这些量表翻译成英文，并使用英国代表性人群样本对 SCI 应对量表的英文版本进行心理测量评估。
将 SCI 的应对量表正向和反向翻译成英文，并根据年龄、性别、教育程度和地区对英国的代表性样本（N=1006）进行施测。评估了 SCI 原始因子结构以及新识别的因子结构的内部一致性、因子有效性和结构有效性。
原始因子结构的结果表明具有良好的内部一致性和结构有效性。该版本的适应性应对方式与韧性呈正相关，与感知压力呈负相关。而适应不良的应对策略，即烟酒消费，呈现出相反的相关性。英文版本的探索性因素分析（EFA）得出了一个五因子结构，但有些项目在德国版本中的因子负荷不同。这些新因子分别为宗教应对、社会支持、各种应对、烟酒消费和反思应对。新因子与韧性和感知压力的相关性与原始因子结构相似。只有宗教应对与感知压力没有显著相关性。使用德国 SCI 应对量表的原始因子结构进行验证性因素分析，结果表明英文 SCI 应对量表的模型拟合度较差。
英文 SCI 应对量表能够准确一致地测量五种不同的应对方式。然而，当应用于讲英语的样本时，SCI 应对量表的原始因子结构并不能很好地拟合数据。通过 EFA 建立的新因子结构只是初步的，需要在未来使用 SCI 应对量表英文版本的大型样本中进一步验证。
