Psychometric Properties of the Brief COPE Among Pregnant African American Women
Recommended Citation
Peters RM, Solberg MA, Templin TN, and Cassidy-Bushrow AE. Psychometric Properties of the Brief COPE Among Pregnant African American Women. West J Nurs Res 2020.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-26-2020
Publication Title
Western journal of nursing research
Abstract
This paper describes the assessment of the psychometric properties of the Brief COPE in a sample of 189 pregnant African-American women. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tested the original 14-factor model, and exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) determined whether a reduced number of factors still accounted for inter-item covariances. The CFA replicated 13 of the 14 original factors. After deleting substance use items and allowing for correlated error across the support factors, the 13-factor model achieved an acceptable fit (CMIN/
Medical Subject Headings
Adaptation; Psychological; Adult; Black or African American/statistics & numerical data; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Pregnancy; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Social Support; Surveys and Questionnaires; African American; Brief COPE; psychometric properties
PubMed ID
32100645
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
Volume
42
Issue
11
First Page
927
Last Page
936
