A psychometric analysis of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 22 (1) , 203-210
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700032864
Abstract
SYNOPSIS This paper describes a psychometric replication study of a British coping scale, the Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale, on 239 USA cancer patients. The internal consistency and construct validity were similar to the original validation study. However, the factor structure was different. Cultural differences between the British and USA patient populations are discussed.Keywords
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