Describe the 50-Item Ways of Coping Scale

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Essay

Describe the 50-item Ways of Coping scale. What coping strategies does this inventory measure?

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Definitions:

Intelligence Quotient

A measure of a person's cognitive ability in relation to their age group, usually represented as a numerical score.

Intellectual Quandary

A state of confusion or uncertainty, often involving a complex or perplexing matter that requires deep intellectual effort to resolve.

Primary Mental Abilities

Basic intellectual skills that include numerical and verbal abilities, spatial relations, memory, and others, as identified by psychologist L.L. Thurstone.

Thurstone

A psychologist known for his contributions to psychometrics and the theory of intelligence, including the development of multiple-factor analysis.