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The Adolescent Religious Coping Questionnaire. Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Pargament’s RCOPE Scale for Polish Adolescents

Author: Elżbieta B. Talik

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 1/2013

Abstract

The paper presents the process of translation and cultural adaptation of the Religious Coping Questionnaire (the RCOPE) by Pargament et al. (2000) for Polish adolescents. The work was driven by the necessity to obtain a structural and measurement equivalence between the American and Polish versions of the instrument. The Polish version was created at the Department of Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. The exploratory factor analysis with the Oblimin oblique rotation was carried out. The principal components method was used as an extraction method of common factors. The results provided input for constructing the scales. The Adolescent Religious Coping Questionnaire consists of 105 items, grouped in 16 scales, which reflects positive and negative religious coping strategies.

The permission obtained by e-mail on 7 April, 2004.

This part of analysis is described in details in unpublished doctoral thesis by Talik (2008). Religious and non-religious coping strategies and the sense of controllability of stressful situation among adolescents. Lublin: KUL.

It was hypothesized that most of the items from the different subscales could be classified as either positive or negative religious strategies.

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Title: The Adolescent Religious Coping Questionnaire. Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Pargament’s RCOPE Scale for Polish Adolescents
Author: Elżbieta B. Talik
Publication date: 01-03-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-011-9464-x

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