Table 4.

Coping questionnaire item loadings (N=655)

Item	Factor 1: Emotion-focused strategy	Factor 2: Problem-focused strategy
I’ve been trying to get advice or help from other people about what to do	.524	.195
I’ve been looking for something good in what is happening	−.029	.542
I put my trust in God	.068	.141
I turn to work or other substitute activities to take my mind off things	.391	.284
I admit to myself that I can’t deal with it, and quit trying	.391	−.055
I refuse to believe that it has happened	.479	−.143
I force myself to wait for the right time to do something	.516	.076
I’ve been using alcohol or other drugs to make myself feel better	.498	−.170
I’ve been making jokes about it	.295	.271
I feel a lot of emotional distress and I find myself expressing those feelings a lot	.713	−.106
I learn to live with it	−.210	.372
I try hard to prevent other things from interfering with my efforts at dealing with this	.193	.460
I try to get emotional support from friends or relatives	.576	.406
I think about how I might best handle the problem	.002	.728
I do what has to be done, one step at a time	−.110	.692
I concentrate my efforts on doing something about it	.269	.574
I make a plan of action	−.079	.594
I accept that this has happened and that it can’t be changed	−.056	.172
I get upset, and am really aware of it	.740	−.156
I talk to someone about how I feel	.436	.359
I put aside other activities in order to concentrate on this	.447	.295
I reduce the amount of effort I ' m putting into solving the problem	.338	.008
I sleep more than usual	.286	−.081
I pray more than usual	.231	.066
I talk to someone who could do something concrete about the problem	.502	.242
I learn something from the experience	.079	.610
I’ve been making fun of the situation	.153	.325
I ' ve been using alcohol or other drugs to help me get through it	.518	−.183
I restrain myself from doing anything too quickly	.383	.242
I act as though it hasn’t even happened	.086	−.246
% of the variance	14.410	12.505