TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring coping in low-income European American, African American, and Mexican American adolescents
T2 - An examination of measurement equivalence
AU - Prelow, Hazel
AU - Michaels, Marcia
AU - Reyes, Leticia
AU - Knight, George
AU - Barrera, Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
Work on this study was funded by National Institute of Mental Health grant (5-P30-MH39246-13) to support the Center for the Prevention Research and also by National Institute for Mental Health grant (5-T32-MH18387) to support the Research Training in Child Mental Health/Primary Prevention at Arizona State University. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals: Gina Boyer, Christine Contreras, Larry Dumka, Diana Formoso, Nancy Gonzales, Sonia Krainz, Shannon McQuaid, Kathe Morton, Sonia Ruiz, Roxana Samaniego, Amalia Sirolli, and Jenn-Yun Tein. We thank Dr. Mark Roosa for his comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.
PY - 2002/6
Y1 - 2002/6
N2 - We examined the cross-ethnic and cross-language equivalence of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist (Ayers, T.S., Sandler, I.N., West, S.G. and Roosa, M.W. (1996). A dispositional and situational assessment of children's coping: Testing alternative models of coping. Journal of Personality, 64(4), 923-958) by assessing item, functional, and scalar equivalence in a sample of 319 European American, African American, and Mexican American adolescents from low-income inner-city families. Depression, as measured by Children's Depression Inventory, was the criterion in the analyses of scalar equivalence. The results suggest considerable cross-ethnic and cross-language measurement equivalence of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist. The findings also suggest some caution in using the Children's Depression Inventory in comparative studies of African American and Mexican American adolescents or in studies that treat these groups as homogeneous samples.
AB - We examined the cross-ethnic and cross-language equivalence of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist (Ayers, T.S., Sandler, I.N., West, S.G. and Roosa, M.W. (1996). A dispositional and situational assessment of children's coping: Testing alternative models of coping. Journal of Personality, 64(4), 923-958) by assessing item, functional, and scalar equivalence in a sample of 319 European American, African American, and Mexican American adolescents from low-income inner-city families. Depression, as measured by Children's Depression Inventory, was the criterion in the analyses of scalar equivalence. The results suggest considerable cross-ethnic and cross-language measurement equivalence of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist. The findings also suggest some caution in using the Children's Depression Inventory in comparative studies of African American and Mexican American adolescents or in studies that treat these groups as homogeneous samples.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Coping measures
KW - Ethnic and racial minorities
KW - Measurement equivalence
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U2 - 10.1080/10615800290028440
DO - 10.1080/10615800290028440
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036013112
SN - 1061-5806
VL - 15
SP - 135
EP - 147
JO - Anxiety, Stress and Coping
JF - Anxiety, Stress and Coping
IS - 2
ER -