Proactive Coping Inventory, PCI

Test scores

Report

• Poactive Coping. This scale combines autonomous goal setting with self-regulatory goal attainment cognitions and behavior.

• Reflective Coping. This scale describes simulation and contemplation about a variety of possible behavioral alternatives by comparing their imagined effectiveness and includes brainstorming, analyzing problems and resources, and generating hypothetical plans of action.

• Strategic Planning. This scale focuses on the process of generating a goal-oriented schedule of action in which extensive tasks are broken down into manageable components.

• Preventive Coping. Preventive coping deals with anticipation of potential stressors and the initiation of preparation before these stressors develop fully. Preventive coping is distinct from proactive coping. Preventive coping effort refers to a potential threat in future by considering experience, anticipation or knowledge. In comparison, proactive coping is not based on threat but is driven by goal striving.

• Instrumental Support Seeking. This scale focuses on obtaining advice, information and feedback from people in one's social network when dealing with stressors

• Emotional Support Seeking. This scale is aimed at regulating temporary emotional distress by disclosing to others feelings, evoking empathy and seeking companionship from one's social network

• Avoidance Coping. Avoidance Coping, measured by this scale, eludes action in a demanding situation by delaying