Psychometric Properties of the Brief COPE Among Pregnant African American Women

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-26-2020

Publication Title

Western journal of nursing research

Keywords

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

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

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