COPE Coping Inventory Overview
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ScribdTranslationsCOPING ESTIMATION INVENTORY (Carver, Scheier & Weintraub, 1989)
Dispositive version
Below you will find a series of statements about how to act or feel in those situations.
situations. Indicate in each of them whether they match your own way of acting or feeling,
according to the following to the options that appear at the top of the box.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY OR DO.
CHOOSE THE MOST SUITABLE ANSWER FOR YOU.
What do you generally do or feel when you experience difficult situations?
stressful
1 2 3 4
Almost never Sometimes Usually I do this with
I do it I do this I do this very often
Affirmations
I do additional activities to get away.
on top of the problem
I am trying to devise a strategy about what
I have to do
I set aside other activities to be able to
focus on the problem
4. I force myself to wait for the
right moment to do something
I ask people who have had
similar experiences, what did they do
I talk about my feelings with someone.
I look for the good side in what is happening
8. I learn to live with the problem
I seek the help of God
10. I get upset and give free rein to my
emotions
11. I refuse to believe that happened.
12. I stop making attempts to achieve what
I want
13. I dedicate myself to work or other activities to
not thinking about the stressful situation
I focus my efforts on doing something
regarding the problem
15. I make an action plan
16. I focus on tackling this problem and, if it is
necessary, I set aside other things
17. I do nothing until the situation allows it
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Almost never Sometimes Usually I do this with
Affirmations
I do it I do this I do this very often
18. I try to seek someone's advice on
what to do
19. I try to get support from friends or
relatives
20. I try to see the problem from a point of
different view, to make it seem more positive
21. I accept that the fact has occurred and that it does not
can be changed
22. I put my trust in God
23. I let my feelings out
I convince myself that nothing has happened
25. I stop trying to reach my goal
I go to the movies or watch television to think
less in that
I do step by step what needs to be done
28. I think a lot about the steps I must take.
to follow
29. I don't let myself be distracted by other thoughts or
activities
30. I make sure not to make things worse by
act too quickly
31. I talk to someone who might know more about the
situation
I talk to someone about how I feel
I learn something from the experience
34. I get used to the idea that the fact
it happened
I try to find comfort in my religion
I feel that I get very agitated and express
too much of everything I feel
37. I act as if it didn't happen
I admit that I cannot deal with the problem, and
I stop trying to solve it
39. I daydream (a) about things different from
problem
I carry out actions aimed at confronting the
problem
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Affirmations Almost never Sometimes Usually I do this with
I do it I do this I do this very often
41. I think about how I could handle the
problem
42. I try to prevent other things from interfering with
my efforts to face the situation
43. I control myself not to do things
hurriedly
I talk to someone who can do something
concrete about the problem
I seek the kindness and understanding of someone
I try to let my experience make me, or lead me to
to mature
47. I accept the reality of what happened
I pray more than usual
I get upset and I'm aware of it.
50. I tell myself, 'this is not real'
I reduce the amount of effort I put into
solve a problem
I sleep more than usual
The COPE Coping Inventory was created in 1989 by Carver, Scheier
by Weintraub (with the original title of Coping Estimation Test), with the aim of knowing the
emotional, cognitive, and behavioral differences that people display when facing
various stressful situations. It was built based on Lazarus's theory and the model of
behavioral self-regulation, and translated into Spanish by Calvete, a professor at the University
from Deusto in Bilbao, Spain (Carver et al., 1989).
The COPE can be administered individually or collectively and consists of 52 items, which
they are divided into 13 different sub-scales which refer to the 13 strategies of
coping proposed by Carver et al. (1989).
Each scale consists of 4 items and the response options are presented under a
Likert format of 4 frequency scales, which indicate whether the subject adopts the type of
proposed coping almost never, rarely, many times, and almost always. Therefore, the
The score obtained by the scale fluctuates between 4 and 16 points. In this way, the scores
The scores obtained for each item are added to those corresponding to each scale, resulting in 13 scores.
that allow for characterizing a profile of approach in the individual, which may be oriented towards the
problem, emotion-oriented, or it can be considered as an avoidant coping
(Casuso, 1996; Chau, 1999; Rojas, 1997; Romero, 2009).
Forms, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and the test-retest procedure. For the
first, they found coefficients that vary between .45 and .92; and for the second, with
an interval of 8 weeks between both applications, they found values that range from
.46 to .86 (Carver et al., 1989).
Carver et al. (1989) reviewing different measures worked on by other researchers find
that there are many measures but none covers all types in their entirety
approach that they consider of theoretical interest; for this reason, they conducted different studies
using the Coping Strategies Questionnaire by Lazarus and Folkman. When conducting a
analysis of the responses from the studied samples, they found that the categories of styles of
confrontation 977 centered on the problem and the emotion were divided into different subgroups,
to those who called strategies, which led them to the creation of their own COPE test (The
Coping Estimation). I am authors proposed thirteen scales that considered that in turn they
they grouped in the two classical dimensions of Lazarus:
Problem-centered strategies:
1. Active Coping: It is defined as the process of carrying out direct actions to increase
the efforts aimed at removing or avoiding the stressor, or mitigating its negative effects.
2. Planning: It involves thinking about how to manage in the face of the stressor, organizing strategies for
action, thinking about what to take and establishing what will be the best way to handle the
problem.
3. Suppression of competent activities: Refers to setting aside, or even letting pass, others
projects or activities avoiding being distracted, with the aim of being able to manage the stressor.
4. Procrastination of coping: It consists of waiting until the opportunity presents itself.
appropriate to act on the problem without doing something premature.
5. Seeking social support for instrumental reasons: It consists of seeking from others
advice, assistance, and information in order to solve problems.
Emotion-centered strategies:
6. Seeking social support for emotional reasons: It consists of looking for support in others.
moral, empathy, and understanding of others in order to alleviate the negative emotional reaction.
7. Positive reinterpretation and growth: It consists of evaluating the problem in a positive way,
granting favorable connotations to the experience itself and in other cases embracing it
as a lesson for the future.
8. Acceptance: It encompasses two aspects during the coping process. The first is carried out
during the primary evaluation phase, when the person accepts that the stressful situation
it really exists, and the second takes place during the secondary evaluation and consists of accepting
Reality is a fact that one will have to live with as it cannot be changed.
9. Denial: It consists of refusing to believe that the stressor exists, trying to act as if.
as if the stressor were not real.
10. Turning to religion: It is the tendency to turn to religion in stressful situations with the
intention to reduce existing tension
Other coping scales
Carver et al (1989) found that the remaining scales did not group into the categories.
previous ones and grouped them into a category called other scales, which refer to
strategies usually considered inadequate for managing stress.
11. Focus and release emotions: It consists of focusing on the emotional consequences.
unpleasant that one experiences, openly expressing these emotions.
12. Behavioral disengagement: It consists of the reduction of effort directed towards the stressor.
giving up, without trying to achieve the goals with which the stressor is interfering.
13. Mental misunderstanding: It involves the person allowing a wide variety of
activities that distract her from the evaluation of the behavioral dimension of the problem or the goal
with which the stressor is interfering.
INFORMATION TAKEN FROM:
Cassareto, M. (2009). Relationship between the five major dimensions of personality and the
confrontation in pre-university students of Metropolitan Lima. Thesis no
published to opt for the master's degree in psychology with a specialization in psychology
clinic and health. National University of San Marcos. Lima, Peru. Available
en: htp://[Link]/bitstream/cybertsession/619/1/cassareto_bm.pdf