The Construction Of The Scale Of Stress Coping Personality (scp) For College Students

Objective: To develop the Scale of Stress Coping Personality (SCP) for college students, construct its structure and research the development of college students'stress coping personality.Methods: Based on the analysis of research literatures and college students'daily reactions both on mind and behavior, the primary scale of SCP was formulated by changing items from the ready questionnaires and developing new items, which consisted of 82 items. 1357 college students from 13 colleges were surveyed by the scale. According to dealing with all the data by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, administer the formal scale and revise the structure of the college students'stress coping personality.Results:(1) The formal scale of SCP consisted of 50 items and 7 factors, including controlling (12 items), ability and wisdom (7 items), emotion-control (8 items), self-determination (7 items), hardiness(6 items), extroversion(5 items) and tolerance(5 items).(2) The scale had good reliability and validity. The whole scale's Cronbach's Alpha was 0.925, and the coefficients for each factor ranged from 0.694~0.907. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that all indexes were good. RMSEA=0.054, NFI, NNFI, IFI, CFI were beyond 0.9. There were good criterion validity showed by both the coefficients between college students'stress reaction questionnaire and the scale of SCP and data got from the experiment.(3) The demographic variables, school, major, gender, grade, the only child or not, family sources, styles of growing circumstance, styles of education showed significant differences in the whole SCP or in part.