Psychometric properties of the hurricane coping self-efficacy measure following hurricane katrina

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 562-567

  Hyre, Amanda D ^a,b   Benight, Charles C ^c   Tynes, L Lee ^d   Rice, Janet ^d   Desalvo, Karen B ^a,d   Muntner, Paul ^a,e  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Coping self efficacy; Coping.; Natural disasters; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INCOME; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 48449106041     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31817d016c     Document Type: Article

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