CBI-20: Psychometric Properties for the Coping Behaviors Inventory for Alcohol Abuse in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: For any professional, it is of crucial importance to know not only how coping styles and strategies are present in an individual, but to know about its role to the treatment of alcohol abuse. Moreover, new approaches have emerged in this area in terms of relapse prevention and the counseling by phone can be an alternative. The aim of this study is to examine the factor structure of the Coping Behaviors Inventory (CBI) and to test its invariance across groups face-to-face and phone counseling in Brazil. For this purpose, two studies were carried out: study I, the factor structure was revisited in terms of exploratory factor analysis. Study II, face-to-face and phone counseling were examined through confirmatory factor analysis and multigroup analysis. The results confirmed the 4-factor solu

SUBMITTER: Constant HMRM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6243092 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature