Confirmatory factor analysis of the Spanish version of the brief-COPE in argentine elderly people

RICHARD?S, MARÍA M.; ZAMORA, ELIANA V.; KRZEMIEN, DEISY; CUPANI, MARCOS; COMESAÑA, ANA

Current Psychology

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

Año: 2021

1046-1310

Although the progress in theoretical and methodological models in the study of coping has been growing in the last decades, the focus has been on adolescent and young adult population. Thus, the first aim of this study was to investigate the latent structure of the Brief-Cope Inventory and to determine its fit in a sample of Argentine older adults. The second aim was to determine if the three-dimension structure suggested by the author of the questionnaire is coincidental with the empirical evidence obtained in the Argentine older sample. The assessed sample involved 504 older adults from both sexes, ranging in ages from 60 to 92. The results allowed identifying the two-factor model as having the best fit to this sample. Likewise, these data made possible to understand the nature of the factor structure of the coping construct and highlighted the active-cognitive coping profiles in the older population.