About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Resilience and coping |
Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
Subscales | Problem focussed coping; Emotion focussed coping |
Description | A brief measure of coping designed for children. |
Example | Think of a problem or something that has gone wrong, what did you do?... You tried to think of different ways to solve the probl |
Link | Maybery, D., Steer, S., Reupert, A., & Goodyear, M. (2009). The kids coping scale. Stress and Health, 25(1), 31-40. doi:10.1002/smi.1228 |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 9 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 7-13 |
Cost single purchase | Free - Available |
Cost per child | Free - Available |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .30-.61 |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | PCA (oblique) re |
CFA | Not reported |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | The Kids Coping Scale (KCS) problem focussed coping and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (parent): prosocial subscale, r= .19; hyperactivity subscale; r= -.25; problems with other adults, r= -.20; KCS emotion focussed coping and self esteem, r= -.10 |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Maybery, D., Steer, S., Reupert, A., & Goodyear, M. (2009). The kids coping scale. Stress and Health, 25(1), 31-40. doi:10.1002/smi.1228 |