The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations: Factorial Structure and Associations With Personality Traits and Psychological Health1

Abstract

Principal components analyses on the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (C1SS; Endler & Parker, 1990a) were carried out for 730 Scottish doctors and farmers. Endler and Parker's three‐factor structure was supported both in the male and female subgroups and in the two occupational groups. Intercorrelations of the C1SS factors with personality factors of the NEO‐Five Factor Inventory and a self‐reported psychological distress scale, the General Health Questionaire‐28, provided predictive validity for the C1SS in the transactional model of stress.