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Multidimensional Investigation of the Structure of Coping Among People with Amputations

Received April 19, 1999; revised August 30, 1999; accepted September 15, 1999. From the Rehabilitation Counseling Program, Department of Special and Counselor Education, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; the School of Education, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana; and Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. Address reprint requests to Dr. Livneh, Department of Special and Counseling Education, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207.

In this study, the responses of 61 people with amputations to a measure of coping strategies were submitted to multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Interpretations of the three-dimensional solution, aided by the emergence of five coping clusters, suggested that respondents' perceptions of their coping with amputation-related stress were best explained by the following three dimensions: 1) active/confrontive versus passive/avoidance coping; 2) pessimistic/fatalistic versus optimistic/positivistic coping; and 3) social/emotional versus cognitive coping.

Key Words: Amputation • Coping • Psychosocial Adaptation

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