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Table 3 Operationalization of coping strategies

From: A social perspective on resilience: social support and dyadic coping in teacher training

Dimension

Items

α

Example item

   

When facing stress in teacher training (support recipients)/When facing a stressful situation in everyday life (sources of support)

Seeking support

5

.85/.86

… I let/had someone help me

Problem-focused coping

6

.78/.86

… I start/started tackling the problem

Palliative emotion regulation

6

.84/.87

… I try/tried to do something to relax

  1. Items adapted from Lohaus et al. (2018); α = Coping P1 (support recipients) / Coping P2 (sources of support)