TEMPORAL STABILITY AND REPLICABILITY OF A WORKPLACE STRESS AND COPINGMODEL FOR MANAGERIAL WOMEN - A MULTIWAVE PANEL STUDY

Stability and replicability of a stress-coping model were tested with data collected from 230 managerial women 8 times over a 1-year period. One year later, 135 women who remained in the study completed 3 addit ional assessments. Tests of mean stability, stability of individual di fferences, and factorial invariance revealed that virtually all constr ucts exhibited strong mean stability and that all multi-indicator cons tructs possessed stable factor loadings. The women were consistent in the way they described themselves over time on all constructs except A ppraisals. Disengagement Coping, Appraisals, and Distress were affecte d more by an underlying trait not accounted for in the model than was Engagement Coping. Replicability indicated that the model reliably rep resented the relationships among the measures over a 2-year interval.