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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Stress and Coping Mechanisms
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Coping flexibility, defined by dual-process theory, involves abandoning ineffective strategies (abandonment) and adopting effective ones (re-coping).
  • The coping flexibility hypothesis (CFH) posits that greater coping flexibility leads to more adaptive stress responses and reduced dysfunction.
  • The reliability and validity of the Coping Flexibility Scale-Revised (CFS-R) needed to be established to measure coping flexibility accurately.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the reliability and validity of the Coping Flexibility Scale-Revised (CFS-R).
  • To empirically test the coping flexibility hypothesis (CFH) using the CFS-R.
  • To investigate whether specific components of coping flexibility predict psychological outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Three studies were conducted with a total of 6,752 participants.
  • Study 1: Confirmatory factor analysis to assess the psychometric properties and factorial structure of the CFS-R.
  • Study 2: Examination of associations between CFS-R subscales and conceptually similar variables to estimate validity.
  • Study 3: Longitudinal design to test the CFH, controlling for typical coping strategies and other flexibility types.
  • Meta-analysis of Cronbach's alphas for abandonment, re-coping, and meta-coping across all samples.

Main Results:

  • The CFS-R demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity.
  • The coping flexibility hypothesis (CFH) was supported by the study findings.
  • Abandonment and re-coping significantly predicted reduced depressive symptoms, outperforming other theoretical framings of coping flexibility.
  • Meta-analysis yielded high Cronbach's alphas: 0.87 for abandonment, 0.92 for re-coping, and 0.86 for meta-coping.

Conclusions:

  • The CFS-R is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring coping flexibility.
  • The findings support the CFH, indicating that adaptive stress responses are associated with higher coping flexibility.
  • The distinct components of abandonment and re-coping are crucial predictors of reduced depressive symptoms, highlighting their clinical significance.