Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia
A two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping with cross-cultural and cross-Human Development Index Categories (HDI) application was tested: the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS). The MACS was answered by 809 adolescents of diverse origins from different parts of Fiji and compared with...
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ftunivnewengland:oai:rune.une.edu.au:1959.11/22387 2023-08-27T04:10:06+02:00 Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia Sveinbjornsdottir, Sigrun Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin School of Psychology orcid:0000-0003-2065-1989 Lingam, Govinda Ishwar 2017 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22387 en eng Cambridge University Press 10.1017/prp.2017.20 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22387 une:22575 Gold http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Developmental Psychology and Ageing Health Clinical and Counselling Psychology Journal Article 2017 ftunivnewengland 2023-08-10T19:25:42Z A two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping with cross-cultural and cross-Human Development Index Categories (HDI) application was tested: the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS). The MACS was answered by 809 adolescents of diverse origins from different parts of Fiji and compared with findings from Australia and Iceland. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results showed the MACS to have a reliable factorial and dimensional structure in Fiji. Differences between girls and boys were similar in Fiji, Australia, and Iceland. Stoicism/distraction was identical for boys and girls in all countries. There were no differences comparing mother tongue (Fijian and Hindi). The two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping was supported. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Research UNE - University of New England at Armidale, NSW Australia |
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Developmental Psychology and Ageing Health Clinical and Counselling Psychology Sveinbjornsdottir, Sigrun Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin School of Psychology orcid:0000-0003-2065-1989 Lingam, Govinda Ishwar Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia |
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A two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping with cross-cultural and cross-Human Development Index Categories (HDI) application was tested: the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS). The MACS was answered by 809 adolescents of diverse origins from different parts of Fiji and compared with findings from Australia and Iceland. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results showed the MACS to have a reliable factorial and dimensional structure in Fiji. Differences between girls and boys were similar in Fiji, Australia, and Iceland. Stoicism/distraction was identical for boys and girls in all countries. There were no differences comparing mother tongue (Fijian and Hindi). The two-dimensional theory of adolescent coping was supported. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Sveinbjornsdottir, Sigrun Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin School of Psychology orcid:0000-0003-2065-1989 Lingam, Govinda Ishwar |
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Sveinbjornsdottir, Sigrun Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin School of Psychology orcid:0000-0003-2065-1989 Lingam, Govinda Ishwar |
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Sveinbjornsdottir, Sigrun |
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Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia |
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Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia |
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Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia |
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Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia |
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Model Fit and Comparisons for the Measure of Adolescent Coping Strategies (MACS): Fiji, Iceland, and Australia |
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model fit and comparisons for the measure of adolescent coping strategies (macs): fiji, iceland, and australia |
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