{"id":3172,"date":"2026-03-30T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caregiving-tests.de\/?page_id=3172"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:44:17","slug":"coping-strategien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.caregiving-tests.de\/en\/coping-strategien\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coping strategies<\/strong> are mechanisms and processes (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) that an individual uses to deal with <strong>internal<\/strong> and <strong>external<\/strong> stressors. They are relevant in home care by informal caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of <strong>coping strategies<\/strong> is primarily based on Lazarus and Folkman\u2019s <strong>&#8220;Transactional Model of Stress and Coping&#8221;<\/strong>, that distinguishes between two types of coping strategies: emotion-focused and problem-focused coping (Lazarus, 1966; Lazarus and Folkman, 1984). Carver and colleagues (1989) expanded the &#8220;Transactional Model of Stress and Coping&#8221; with dysfunctional (\u201cunfavorable\u201d) strategies that can operate alongside the functional (\u201cfavorable\u201d) emotion- and problem-focused coping mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>The COPE 6, developed by Lauer et al. (2026), encompasses <strong>functional<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>dysfunctional<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>coping strategies<\/strong>, drawing on Frydenberg\u2019s (2014) definition. Functional coping strategies involve strategies directly addressing the challenges of the situation, such as those that arise in the context of home care. Dysfunctional coping strategies, on the other hand, involve a response to the situation that is \u201cunfavorable\u201d in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>COPE 6<\/strong> is based on Carver\u2019s (1997) <em><strong>Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE) Inventory<\/strong>,<\/em> which has been validated and translated multiple times. Nevertheless, the Brief COPE shows a need for further development. To address this, the COPE 6 was developed and validated (Lauer et al., 2026). The COPE 6 comprises only six items and is therefore very time-efficient to administer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rrze-elements accordion style_default\" id=\"accordion-0\">\n<div class=\"accordion-group med\">\n<h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\"  href=\"#collapse_0\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse_0\" id=\"collapse_button_0\"> Informationen \u00fcber den COPE 6 <\/button><\/h2>\n<div id=\"collapse_0\" class=\"accordion-body\" aria-labelledby=\"collapse_button_0\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caregiving-tests.de\/en\/cope-8\/\">General Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caregiving-tests.de\/en\/validation-study-cope-6\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Information about the item construction and validation<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caregiving-tests.de\/en\/research-cope-6\/\">Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caregiving-tests.de\/?page_id=56&amp;preview=true\">Download<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rrze-elements accordion style_default\" id=\"accordion-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion-group med\">\n<h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\"  href=\"#collapse_1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse_1\" id=\"collapse_button_1\"> Literature <\/button><\/h2>\n<div id=\"collapse_1\" class=\"accordion-body\" aria-labelledby=\"collapse_button_1\">\n<div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., &amp; Weintraub, J. K. (1989). Assessing coping strategies: a theoretically based approach.\u00a0<i>Journal of personality and social psychology<\/i>,\u00a0<i>56<\/i>(2), 267.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Carver, C. S., &amp; Scheier, M. F. (2012).\u00a0<i>Attention and self-regulation: A control-theory approach to human behavior<\/i>. Springer Science &amp; Business Media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lauer, N., Graessel, E., Hinkl, P., Rohleder, N., &amp; Pendergrass, A. (2026). Coping strategies in challenging situations among informal caregivers: validation of the newly developed six-item German short version of the Brief COPE Inventory (COPE 6). <i>BMC psychology<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lazarus, R. S. (1966). Psychological stress and the coping process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lazarus, R. S., &amp; Folkman, S. (1984). <i>Stress, appraisal, and coping<\/i>\u00a0(Vol. 445). Springer.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Six-Item Short Version of the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE) Inventory (COPE 6)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coping strategies are mechanisms and processes (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) that an individual uses to deal with internal and external stressors. 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