Coping behavior in depression: report on a new scale.

摘要: Abstract The Coping Strategies Scales (COSTS) were developed to provide a means of measuring how depressed persons cope with depression and identify the behavior which they find be most or least helpful. Items rated by eight psychologists, psychiatrists social workers. Those items achieving 75% level agreement on scale assignments included. COSTS was then administered 100 outpatients inpatients currently in psychotherapy. A replication study 64 patients also completed. Nine 10 scales had acceptable internal reliability, ranging from 0.70 0.86. An initial factor analysis scores showed there three primary factors. Internal reliability coefficients for these factorially-derived ranged 0.86 0.91.