Application of sense of coping ability and development of the Scale of Sense of Coping Ability for College Students and its reliability and validity

This study had three purposes. The first purpose was to examine applicability of the sense of coping ability to college students. The second purpose was to develop Scale of Sense of Coping Ability for College Students (SSCA for College students) for measuring effects of intervention in the psychoeducational stress management program for college students. The third purpose was to examine reliability and validity of the developed scale. Study 1 reported structure of factor analysis of the scale and its reliability. The result showed that the scale was consisted of 3 factors: 1) More active life (6 items), 2) Difficulty of coping (3 items), 3) Positive awareness (3 items). The results ware almost consistent with the original scale and the scale also had acceptable level of internal consistency. Study 2 reported and the validity of this scale. In correlational analysis, the scale correlated negatively with Stress Responses Scale, and subscales of this scale correlated positively with some subscales of Tri-axial Coping Scale 24 which measure positive aspects of coping. Therefore, the applicability of this scale was confirmed.