Saturday, January 29, 2011

Great News from Dr Jalowiec!

Dear Ms Dalton:
Thank you for your questions about the Jalowiec Coping Scale. Please note that I used the JCS in my own 10-year NIH study on heart transplant patients both pre-op and post-op, and it has also been used by other researchers for other transplant populations so I'm sure it would be useful for your study on all kinds of transplant patients.
The JCS is a generic instrument that has been used for over 30 years in more than 30 countries (including Canada) to assess how people cope with numerous types of stressors, including many different kinds of illnesses plus developmental, social, work, family, and catastropic stressors.
The JCS has 60 cognitive and behavioral coping items with a Part A and a Part B: Part A measures how much the person used each coping method on a scale from 0-3 to cope with a particular stressor as noted on the cover page (stressor written/typed in by the researcher) and Part B measures on a 0-3 scale how much the person feels that coping method helped to decrease stress (ie, its effectiveness).
The JCS has 8 subscales that measure 8 different kinds of coping patterns: confrontive, evasive, optimistic, fatalistic, emotive, palliative, supportant, and self-reliant; the JCS packet of materials lists which items belong to which subscales. Different types of scores can be computed for the JCS, which are also described in the JCS packet. In addition, reliability and validity information is also provided in the packet.
Further information on the JCS can be found in my 2003 book chapter: The Jalowiec Coping Scale in the book by Strickland and DiIoria.
Please note that there is a fee of $75 (in US dollars) for permission to use the JCS and to obtain the JCS packet of materials. Therefore, if you are interested in using the JCS for your project, please send a check for $75 (in US dollars) made out to my name (Anne Jalowiec) to the following address:
Dr Anne Jalowiec

1 comment:

  1. I am from India
    I would like to use JCS for my project. How can I get it?

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