Adolescent Religious Coping Scale

Assessment name: Adolescent Religious Coping Scale

Scale overview: The Adolescent Religious Coping Scale is a multidimensional measure of adolescent religious coping developed to assess the relationship between religious coping and emotional functioning.

Authors: Jeffrey P. Bjorck and others – see 2010 reference below

Response Type: Self-report ratings

Scale items: There are seven subscales as follows organized in two groupings:

I. ACTIVE COPING

1 Positive God focused Coping

2 Seeking Religious Support

3 Constructive Distraction

II. PASSIVE COPING

4 Questioning

5 Avoidance

6 Denial

7 Deferring

Psychometric properties

The main sample data were gathered from 2 Christian schools in Southern California. (N = 500)

The second sample was from a Church of Christ Congregation in Texas (N = 62).

The results of factor analysis supported 7 factors and 39 total items.

Cronbach alpha values are provided in the article.

There is support for content, construct, and concurrent validity included in the article.

Availability: See the article for the items. Contact information is listed as jbjorck@fuller.edu

References for the scale

Bjorck, J. P., Braese, R. W., Tadie, J. T., & Gililland, D. D. (2010). The Adolescent Religious Coping Scale: Development, validation, and cross-validation. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 19(3), 343–359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-009-9305-7

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