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The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents
Parenting generally brings about high internal and external demands, which can be perceived as stressful when they exceed families’ resources. When faced with such stressors, parents need to deploy several adaptive strategies to successfully overcome these challenges. One of such strategies is copin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7998814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33801958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062806 |
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author | Nunes, Cristina Pérez-Padilla, Javier Martins, Cátia Pechorro, Pedro Ayala-Nunes, Lara Ferreira, Laura I. |
author_facet | Nunes, Cristina Pérez-Padilla, Javier Martins, Cátia Pechorro, Pedro Ayala-Nunes, Lara Ferreira, Laura I. |
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description | Parenting generally brings about high internal and external demands, which can be perceived as stressful when they exceed families’ resources. When faced with such stressors, parents need to deploy several adaptive strategies to successfully overcome these challenges. One of such strategies is coping, an important cognitive and behavioural skill. In this study, we intended to examine the psychometric properties of Carver’s (1997) Brief COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced), extending its cross-cultural validity among a Portuguese sample of community and at-risk parents. The sample comprised community (n = 153) and at-risk (n = 116) parents who completed the brief COPE, the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales and the Parenting Stress Index—Short Form. Confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency, cross sample invariance, convergent and discriminant validity were analysed. Data from the confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the 14-factor model obtained the best fit. The results provided evidence that the Brief COPE is a psychometrically sound instrument that shows measurement invariance across samples and good reliability. Our findings demonstrated that the Portuguese version of brief COPE is a useful, time-efficient tool for both practitioners and researchers who need to assess coping strategies, a relevant construct in family context. |
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spelling | pubmed-79988142021-03-28 The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents Nunes, Cristina Pérez-Padilla, Javier Martins, Cátia Pechorro, Pedro Ayala-Nunes, Lara Ferreira, Laura I. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Parenting generally brings about high internal and external demands, which can be perceived as stressful when they exceed families’ resources. When faced with such stressors, parents need to deploy several adaptive strategies to successfully overcome these challenges. One of such strategies is coping, an important cognitive and behavioural skill. In this study, we intended to examine the psychometric properties of Carver’s (1997) Brief COPE (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced), extending its cross-cultural validity among a Portuguese sample of community and at-risk parents. The sample comprised community (n = 153) and at-risk (n = 116) parents who completed the brief COPE, the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales and the Parenting Stress Index—Short Form. Confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency, cross sample invariance, convergent and discriminant validity were analysed. Data from the confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the 14-factor model obtained the best fit. The results provided evidence that the Brief COPE is a psychometrically sound instrument that shows measurement invariance across samples and good reliability. Our findings demonstrated that the Portuguese version of brief COPE is a useful, time-efficient tool for both practitioners and researchers who need to assess coping strategies, a relevant construct in family context. MDPI 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7998814/ /pubmed/33801958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062806 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Nunes, Cristina Pérez-Padilla, Javier Martins, Cátia Pechorro, Pedro Ayala-Nunes, Lara Ferreira, Laura I. The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents |
title | The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents |
title_full | The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents |
title_fullStr | The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents |
title_full_unstemmed | The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents |
title_short | The Brief COPE: Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Properties among Community and At-Risk Portuguese Parents |
title_sort | brief cope: measurement invariance and psychometric properties among community and at-risk portuguese parents |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7998814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33801958 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062806 |
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