Me. Robinson et al., THE COPING STRATEGIES QUESTIONNAIRE - A LARGE-SAMPLE, ITEM LEVEL FACTOR-ANALYSIS, The Clinical journal of pain, 13(1), 1997, pp. 43-49
Objective: The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ), a measure of cop
ing in chronic pain patients, was subjected to item-level exploratory
factor analysis.Subjects: A sample of 965 chronic pain patients were u
sed in the analysis. Results: Principal components analysis using a va
rimax rotation procedure identified nine factors that accounted for 54
.5% of the variance. Of these nine factors, the first five represent s
ubscales of the original CSQ subscales. The catastrophizing subscale r
eplicated with significant loadings for all six original items, and ig
noring sensations replicated with five of six items. Factors represent
ing reinterpreting pain sensations, coping self-statements, and divert
ing attention subscales also appeared. The items from the praying and
hoping subscale split into separate praying and hoping factors (factor
s 6 and 8). When reliability coefficients were calculated, factors 7 t
hrough 9 had unacceptably low internal consistency and thus were not c
onsidered stable factors. Correlations between factors 1 through 6 and
other measures of psychological and physical functioning were calcula
ted in the construct validation portion of this study. Previously foun
d relationships were replicated in that the correlations between CSQ f
actor scores and measures of pain, depression, and disability were in
the same direction in this data set as those previously reported.