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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Ment Health Res Intellect Disabil. 2008 Apr;1(2):109–127. doi: 10.1080/19315860801988426

Table 1.

Descriptive Information for Measures of Coping, Psychological Distress, and Stressful Social Interactions

Range
Mean (SD)
Median
Inter-quarter
range
Coping
  Coping (%) 13 – 100 83.0 (16.5) 86 75 – 100
  Active (%) 0 – 100 56.5 (32.2) 57 33 – 84
 Problem-Focused (%) 0 – 100 34.2 (26.1) 33 11 – 50
 Emotion-Focused (%) 0 – 66 13.4 (17.0) 0 0 – 25
 Support Seeking (%) 0 – 75 17.5 (19.5) 15 0 – 29
  Avoidant (%) 0 – 100 29.6 (25.9) 25 0 – 50
 Behavioral (%) 0 – 100 19.3 (22.7) 17 0 – 33
 Cognitive (%) 0 – 83 15.4 (19.6) 0 0 – 33
  Coping Dimensions Used (n) 1 – 5 2.88 (0.86) 3 2 – 3
Psychological Distress
  Composite (z-score) −2.72 – 5.07 −.03 (−.175) −.11 −1.60 – 1.31
Stressful Social Interactions
 Frequency (score) 3 – 41 15.80 (7.83) 15.00 9.75 – 20.00
 Stress Impact (score) 0 – 3 2.07 (0.56) 2.17 1.75 – 2.50
  Frequency × Stress Impact (score) 0 – 280.03 81.04 (61.31) 68.31 32.86 – 113.30