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Personality, sense of coherence and the coping of working mothers

Author(s) -

Lettie Herbst,

Sanet Coetzee,

Deléne Visser

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

sa journal of industrial psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 2071-0763

pISSN - 0258-5200

DOI - 10.4102/sajip.v33i3.397

Subject(s) - psychology , coping (psychology) , personality , internal consistency , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between personality dimensions, sense of coherence and coping styles among working mothers. The OPQ, OLQ and COPE questionnaires were administered to 120 married, working mothers. In view of contrasting results obtained by other researchers regarding the dimensionality of the COPE, its factorial validity and internal consistency were assessed. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that the COPE measured five factors with high degrees of internal consistency. Several personality dimensions and sense of coherence variables correlated significantly with the dependent variables (coping styles). It appeared that these independent variables predicted substantial percentages of the variability in the coping styles

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