The dimensionality of coping among Chinese health care workers

J Soc Psychol. 2000 Jun;140(3):317-27. doi: 10.1080/00224540009600473.

Abstract

The transactional model defines coping as a process that changes on the basis of the context of an environmental encounter. An instrument used to investigate coping in diverse person-environment interactions is the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC; S. Folkman & R. S. Lazarus, 1988). Although evidence exists to support the basic underlying structure of the WOC in Western societies, no research has been conducted on the instrument's dimensionality in non-Western societies. The authors identified 14 factors for the WOC administered to a sample of health care workers in Beijing, China. The 14 factors identified in the present study were similar to the 8 factors identified in the original validation study (S. Folkman, R. S. Lazarus, C. Dunkel-Schetter, A. DeLongis, & R. J. Gruen, 1986), but they were more content specific.

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological*
  • Adult
  • China
  • Cultural Characteristics
  • Female
  • Health Personnel / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Male
  • Middle Aged