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The depression coping questionnaire
Author(s) -
Kleinke Chris L.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198807)44:4<516::aid-jclp2270440407>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - psychology , clinical psychology , beck depression inventory , somatization , coping (psychology) , population , aggression , depression (economics) , psychiatry , analysis of variance , developmental psychology , anxiety , demography , medicine , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Factor analysis of the Depression Coping Questionnaire (DCQ; Kleinke, Staneski, & Mason, 1982) identified 11 coping responses: Social support, problem solving, self‐blame/escape, aggression, indulgence, activities, medication, stimulation, eating, TV, and ignoring. Multiple regression analyses indicated that the DCQ contributed significant variance in predicting Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores of men ( R = 0.705) and women ( R = 0.568) from three population samples. Both men's and women's BDI scores were correlated positively with age, self‐blame/escape, medication, and TV and correlated negatively with social support, problem solving, and indulgence. Four significant functions were identified in a discriminant analysis that compared nine groups made up of schizophrenic male veterans, depressed and nondepressed male and female college students, and depressed and nondepressed male and female chronic pain patients.