Do We Know How We Cope? Relating Daily Coping Reports to Global and Time-Limited Retrospective Assessments.
- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 86 (2) , 310-319
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.310
Abstract
The current study examined the concordance among daily, trait (global retrospective), and time-limited retrospective reports of coping. A sample of 93 adults completed the COPE (C. S. Carver, M. F. Scheier, & J. K. Weintraub, 1989) prior to recording coping with the day's most negative event for 30 consecutive days. At the end of daily data collection, participants recalled to what extent they used each of 16 coping strategies over the past 30 days. Whereas findings indicate generally good concordance between daily and time-limited retrospective reports, concordance between global and daily reports was weak. Only limited evidence was found for systematic individual differences in concordance. Time-limited reports appear to be an adequate, though not ideal, method of determining usual patterns of coping with stress.Keywords
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