Assessing the reliability and validity of the John Henry active coping scale in an urban sample of African Americans and white Americans

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-161

  Fernander, Anita F ^a   Durán, Ron E F ^b   Saab, Patrice G ^b   Llabre, Maria M ^b   Schneiderman, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; John Henry Active Coping scale; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH SURVEY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOHN HENRY ACTIVE COPING SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEGRO; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; URBAN POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141571293     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850303563     Document Type: Review

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