The dimensionality of coping among Chinese health care workers

The transactional model defines coping as a process that changes on the bas is of the context of an environmental encounter. An instrument used to inve stigate coping in diverse person-environment interactions is the Ways of Co ping Questionnaire (WOC; S. Folkman & R. S. Lazarus, 1988). Although eviden ce exists to support the basic underlying structure of the WOC in Western s ocieties, no research has been conducted on the instrument's dimensionality in non-Western societies. The authors identified 14 factors for the WOC ad ministered to a sample of health care workers in Beijing, China. The 14 fac tors identified in the present study were similar to the 8 factors identifi ed in the original validation study (S. Folkman, R. S. Lazarus, C. Dunkel-S chetter, A. DeLongis, & R. J. Gruen, 1986), but they were more content spec ific.