THE COPING RESOURCES INVENTORY FOR STRESS - A MEASURE OF PERCEIVED RESOURCEFULNESS

This article reviews previous studies with the Coping Resources Invent ory for Stress (CRIS) and reports the results of a recent convergent/d ivergent study on six CRIS scales. CRIS scales have high internal cons istency and test-retest reliabilities and appear to be useful in predi cting illness, emotional distress, personality type, drug dependency, occupational choice, and life satisfaction. The convergent/divergent s ample consisted of 68 graduate student volunteers in a southeastern ur ban university. Each of the CRIS scales converged with its validating test and diverged from a test that measures a different construct. Res ults offer considerable support for the construct validity of CRIS sca les and suggest that it may be a promising research and clinical instr ument for the study of stress coping.