Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the Turkish version of the children's coping...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the translation, cross-cultural adaptation, validity, reliability, and measurement invariance properties of the Children's Coping Scale-Revised Form (CCS-R) in a Turkish sample of preschool children.

A methodological and cross-sectional study design was used. The sample of the study consisted of parents of 496 children between the ages of 4-5. Content validity, language validity, and construct validity were first examined. Item analyses and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the scale were then conducted. EFA results revealed a structure with 3 factors and 26 items, as in the original scale. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to verify the structure revealed in the EFA. CFA indicated that good and acceptable model fit values.

A correlation between anxiety scores and the positive coping (PC), negative coping-emotional expression (NC-EE) and negative coping-emotional inhibition (NC-EI) among the CCS-R subdimensions was calculated within the scope of the convergent validity studies as -0.14, 0.40 and 0.33 respectively. To test the measurement invariance, the relationship between test-retest measures of CCS-R was examined. The reliability coefficients of Cronbach's alpha for PC, NC-EE, and NC-EI subdimensions of the scale ranged between 0.63 and 0.84. The correlation values calculated in the test-retest analysis of the scale were found to be 0.96, 0.97 and 0.97.

The results show that CCS-R is a valid and reliable measure for the Turkish sample.

Nurses and professionals working with children can use the CCS-R to simply and objectively measure children's coping styles.