TY - JOUR PY - 2002// TI - Measuring Coping in Low-Income European American, African American, and Mexican American Adolescents: An Examination of Measurement Equivalence JO - Anxiety, stress, and coping A1 - Prelow, Hazel A1 - Michaels, Marcia A1 - Reyes, Leticia A1 - Knight, George A1 - Barrera, Manuel SP - 135 EP - 147 VL - 15 IS - 2 N2 - We examined the cross-ethnic and cross-language equivalence of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist (Ayers, T.S., Sandler, I.N., West, S.G. and Roosa, M.W. (1996). A dispositional and situational assessment of children's coping: Testing alternative models of coping. Journal of Personality , 64 (4), 923-958) by assessing item, functional, and scalar equivalence in a sample of 319 European American, African American, and Mexican American adolescents from low-income inner-city families. Depression, as measured by Children's Depression Inventory, was the criterion in the analyses of scalar equivalence. The results suggest considerable cross-ethnic and cross-language measurement equivalence of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist. The findings also suggest some caution in using the Children's Depression Inventory in comparative studies of African American and Mexican American adolescents or in studies that treat these groups as homogeneous samples.

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