Adapting the Brief COPE among Chinese Adolescents with Visual Impairment

Wei Yuan ()
Additional contact information
Wei Yuan: The University of Hong Kong

No 2603871, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The present research pioneered the effort in assessment of adolescents? coping with stress related to visual impairment through adapting the Brief COPE for use with visually-impaired Chinese adolescents. Firstly, the Brief COPE was tested in Study 1 among a sample of 176 adolescent students from schools for the visually impaired in China, and was then modified based on the results of psychometric analysis and follow-up interviews with teachers and students in order to make it appropriate for the sample studied. The modified Brief COPE, renamed as COPE-Revised, showed generally good internal scale reliability and validity in Study 2 (N=184). With slight further modifications, the final COPE-Revised which was made up of ten three-item subscales revealed sufficient psychometric characteristics for Chinese adolescents with visual impairment in Study 3 (N = 334). Specifically, a parsimonious three-factor hierarchical structure for the COPE-Revised was tested and confirmed by CFA results. Meanwhile, results showed significant correlations between the Adapted COPE dimensions and self-esteem, indicating good criterion-related validity of this scale among the sample investigated. This research broadens the applicability of the Brief COPE, and also improved its quality. The resulted COPE-Revised provides a tool for research on children and adolescents with visual impairment and potentially contributes to providing educational services, intervention and counselling services for this population. Limitations are also discussed.

Keywords: Brief COPE; adolescents' coping with visual impairment; scale modification; psychometric properties; self-esteem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2015-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 17th International Academic Conference, Vienna, Jul 2015, pages 599-599

Downloads: (external link)
https://iises.net/proceedings/17th-international-a ... =26&iid=109&rid=3871 First version, 2015

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:iacpro:2603871

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klara Cermakova ().