Abstract

BECKER DA SILVA, Andressa Melina et al. Scale of Coping with Pain for Dancers (COPAIN-Dancer): Construction and validity evidences. Revista de Psicología [online]. 2019, vol.37, n.1, pp.159-193. ISSN 0254-9247.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/psico.201901.006.

Dancers experience daily pain that impacts their health, but the pain is mediated by coping with pain. We elaborated the Scale of Coping with Pain for Dancers (COPAIN-Dancer) based on the Motivational Theory of Coping with 12 categories of coping. This study presents the validity of the COPAIN-Dancer. The content analysis conducted judges reduced 118 items to 35, that were then administered to 386 Brazilian dancers between 10 and 19 years old (M=15.35; SD=3.36). Applying the Exploratory Factor Analysis, a low correlation resulted among the items that represent the 12 coping categories. However, after conducting Item Response Theory and Network Analysis, we obtained two factors: Adaptive Coping and Maladaptive Coping. The COPAIN-DANCER shows reliability and can be used in adolescent dancers.

Keywords : coping; pain; dancers; test validity; test construction.

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