Table 7.

Correlation coefficients of the CISS-SFC and emotion scales (BAI, BDI, and PANAS, N=972)

	Anxiety	Depression	Positive affect	Negative affect
Task-oriented coping	−0.037	−0.025	0.324***	−0.053
Emotion-oriented coping	0.328***	0.012	−0.049	0.362***
Distraction coping	0.083*	0.041	0.154***	0.076*
Social diversion coping	0.019	0.057	0.168***	−0.031

Notes: Task-oriented, emotion-oriented, distraction, and social diversion coping are the four dimensions of the CISS-SFC.

^*P<0.05;

^***P<0.001.

Abbreviations: CISS-SFC, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations – Short Form for Chinese; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; PANAS, Positive and Negative Affect Scale.