Psychometric properties of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations in Hungarian
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17627/ALKPSZICH.2025.2.189Keywords:
stress, coping, CISS-20, adolescencesAbstract
Background and Aims: Stress is part of our daily lives and it is impossible to avoid it. But how we cope with it affects our overall well-being and is linked to other traits. The most reliable factor-structured questionnaire measuring coping with stressful situations is The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS). It was developed by Endler and Parker and has been translated into many languages since 1990. The psychometric properties of the questionnaire are excellent in all cases. The CISS has been used in several studies in Hungary, but its formal validation and psychometric reliability have not yet been confirmed. The aim of this study is to present the validity and factor structure of the questionnaire in Hungarian.
Methods: The data come from a large-scale study conducted in 2012–2013. In our analysis we used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in addition to exploratory factor analysis (EFA).
Results: In the analyses conducted on a randomly split sample of 1,651 participants, the EFA supported a four-factor structure over the traditional three-factor model. The KMO value of 0.82 indicated adequate suitability for factor analysis. The CFA confirmed the four-factor model with good fit indices (RMSEA = 0.044; CI₉₀ = 0.039–0.049; pClose = 0.978; SRMR = 0.059; CFI = 0.917; TLI = 0.904; χ²/df = 2.58). Based on the EFA and CFA, 20 items were retained from the original 40-item questionnaire. Of these, the emotion-focused coping and task-focused coping factors included 7 items each, while the two avoidance subfactors (social diversion and self-care/distraction) contained 3 items each. Cronbach’s alpha values for all factors exceeded 0.70.
Conclusion: The 20-item Hungarian version of the CISS (CISS-20) is a valid measure, which corresponds with the results found in the international literature.
