Stress coping: Adaptation of the questionnaire COPE in university's students of lima

This study analyzes the psychometric properties of the coping estimation inventory COPE of 60 items on a group of 300 university students from Lima, Peru. There ages were between 16 to 25 years old (X=18.27 and S.D.=1.39 years). The results shown strong evidence related to the 15-strategy organization. The exploratory factorial analysis shown that 13 factors, explain 65.15 % of variance. Items from Active Coping scale and the Planning scales load together on one factor as in Seeking Social Support for Emotional Reasons and Seeking Social Support for Instrumental Reasons load as one distinct factor. The internal consistency analysis for scales shows the Cronbach alpha coefficients between .53 and .91. Exploratory and confirmatory factorial question the possibility of the organization of coping styles and finds weak evidence for a structure of 3 factors (Task/Approach-oriented coping, Social/Emotional-oriented coping and Avoidance-oriented coping).