Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
PLoS One. 2022 Dec 1;17(12):e0278486. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278486. eCollection 2022.
The Brief COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced) inventory is 14 faced scales used to assess coping strategies. It has been administered on different population samples and translated into several languages. Nonetheless, the Italian validation of its situational format is missing, and the present study aimed to fill this gap. To this end, the original English version of the scale was translated into Italian and administered to a sample of 682 Italian healthcare workers (HCWs), during the first wave of COVID-19. The Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (EFA and CFA) were performed and led to the validation of the Italian Brief COPE (I-Brief COPE) scale, consisting of 21 items, loading properly on 6 factors, which range from activation (F1) to deactivation (F2), via social support (F3), humorous reframing (F4), religious/spiritual reliance (F5), substances use (F6). The six factors identified represent, according to our analyses, the relevant dimensions of coping in a stressful situation such as COVID-19. The results of this study reveal that the I-Brief Cope can be considered as a valid tool for measuring coping strategies in facing stressful, unpredictable, and damaging events.
Brief COPE（应对经验问题的取向）量表包含 14 个面向应对策略的量表，已在不同的人群样本中进行了测试，并被翻译成多种语言。然而，其情境格式的义大利验证仍然缺失，本研究旨在填补这一空白。为此，我们将量表的原始英文版翻译成义大利语，并在 COVID-19 第一波期间对 682 名义大利医疗保健工作者（HCWs）进行了测试。我们进行了探索性和验证性因素分析（EFA 和 CFA），并验证了义大利语版 Brief COPE（I-Brief COPE）量表，该量表由 21 个项目组成，适当地加载在 6 个因子上，这些因子的范围从激活（F1）到失活（F2），包括社会支持（F3）、幽默重新构建（F4）、宗教/精神信仰（F5）、物质使用（F6）。根据我们的分析，这六个因子代表了在 COVID-19 等压力情境下应对的相关维度。本研究的结果表明，I-Brief Cope 可以被视为衡量应对压力、不可预测和破坏性事件的有效工具。
