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. 2015 Aug 12;35(11):1895–1907. doi: 10.1007/s00296-015-3336-8

Table 2.

Definitions of strategies, examples of answers, and degree of similarity per vignette

Description Vignette 1: Family Day Vignette 2: caravan holiday Vignette 3: gardening
Example of solution Kappaa Example of solution Kappa Example of solution Kappa
Maintenance of goals Active attempts to adjust the environment so that your goal is attainable Try to join all day and accept the setback I get later .59 Raise the bed by using a higher mattress .72 Spread the work over several days .91
Adjustment of goals Adjust the goal to what is feasible, given the situation Participate in everything but less fanatically .79 Sell the caravan and spend the holidays in a hotel .79 Ask someone else to do the heavy work .71
Disengagement of goals Withdrawing of effort and commitment from a goal Be present, but no longer participate in the activities .70 Going on vacation is too strenuous, efforts outweigh the pleasure 1.00 Consider moving to an apartment .76
Re-engagement of goals Identification, committing to and starting to pursue new goal(s) Start taking pictures instead .79 Make day trips 1.00 Eventually let the garden run wild and make a photo diary of it until I die 1.00

aCohen’s kappa