The KIDCOPE scales are widely used to measuring coping in children and adolescents. There is a lot of literature using them, or assessing them, but nowhere can I find the actual scales and information on scoring. I have managed from various sources to find the items in the child and adolescent scales, but while the adolescent scale seems to be scored on a 5 point likert scale the child one does not. All of these articles refer back to an article about the KIDCOPE's original development - Spirito A., Stark L. J., & Williams, C. (1988). Development of a brief checklist to assess coping in pediatric patients. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 13, 555–574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/13.4.555. But nowhere can I find how the different versions were arrived at, responses, feeder/explanatory text etc.
Article Coping Scale for Children and Youth: Scale Development and Validation
Article Adolescent coping scales: A critical psychometric review
Amanda, did you find these? I have the children's scale but not the adolescent one. Happy to share the children's one if you don't have it already but I appreciate your post was a while ago!
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