The purpose of the Adolescent Coping Orientation for Problem Experiences is to identify behaviors adolescents find helpful in managing problems.

Applicable Domains: Personal and Social Adjustment, Responsibility and Independence.

Administration: Two page self-report questionnaire with 54 Likert scale items; completed by adolescents 11-18 years of age.

Technical Characteristics: Three samples of adolescents were involved in the construction, development, and validity testing of the A-COPE. A repeated factor analyses was conducted to create 12 factors with good alpha reliabilities (ranged from .50 to .76).

Publisher/Contact: This project has moved to the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Dr. Marilyn McCubbin, co-director) and to Washington State University in Pullman (Dr. Laurie McCubbin, co-director). The CD-ROM "Family Measures: Coping and Resiliency" by McCubbin, Thompson and McCubbin is available from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Book Store.

Author: J. M. Patterson and H. McCubbin (1983).

Contact: Dr. Hamilton McCubbin, him@hawaii.edu Cost For current ordering and shipping information, please go to: http://homepage.mac.com/hamiltonmccubbin/Personal11.html