Scale Development of Meaning-Focused Coping

The objectives of the current study were to develop an inventory that measures meaning-focused coping and to explore its reliability and validity. In total, 668 middle school students who had experienced significant negative events were recruited. The Meaning-Focused Coping Questionnaire included 26 items within eight dimensions: Changes in Situational Beliefs, Changes in Global Beliefs, Changes in Goals, Meaning Making, Long-Term Prevention Strategies, Rational Use of Resources, Acceptance, and Heuristic Thinking. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the questionnaire had good construct validity. The results based on item response theory indicated that all of the item discrimination values were greater than 0.5.