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- Title
Adaptation of an Adolescent Coping Assessment for Therapeutic Recreation and Outdoor Adventure Settings.
- Authors
Russell, Melissa S.; Widmer, Mark A.; Lundberg, Neil; Ward, Peter
- Abstract
This study addresses the need for sound assessments to measure adolescent coping in therapeutic recreation, wilderness and adventure therapy settings. Although consideration was given to developing a new measure, a well-developed general coping measure exists, and the authors indicated a need to adapt it to specific settings. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to adapt the Response to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ) for use in adventure-based therapeutic settings. Appropriate content was identified and items were adapted to create RSQ Outdoor Adventure Version (RSQ-OAV). These items were then evaluated for representativeness and relevance to provide content validity. An expert panel conducted a blind review by mapping the items based on content areas. The instrument was then administered to subjects to gather evidence supporting the reliability and validity of inferences. The RSQ-OAV provides a foundation for future research and understanding related to outdoor adventure coping skills in therapeutic recreation settings.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; STATISTICAL correlation; DISCRIMINANT analysis; FACTOR analysis; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECREATIONAL therapy for teenagers; RESEARCH evaluation; ADOLESCENT health; JUDGMENT sampling; STATISTICAL reliability; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; ADVENTURE therapy for teenagers; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 2015, Vol 49, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0040-5914
- Publication type
Article