Adaptation and preliminary validation of the Spanish version of the CSQ (Coping Style Questionnaire)

Abstract

The present paper reports on the results of the Spanish adaptation and preliminary validation of the Coping Style Questionnaire (CSQ; Roger, Jarvis & Nejarian, 1993), conducted with a sample of Venezuelan university students. The original 60 items scale measures four dimensions of coping styles: Rational, Emotional, Avoidance and Detached coping; however, Roger (1995) proposed a shorter version of 41 items, where the emotional and detached coping merged in one bipolar dimension with both factors on either side of the scale. This abbreviated scale, together with other personality questionnaires, was administered to a sample of 292 university students from three different universities in Carac..