Validating a measure of children's monitoring-blunting coping styles in dental situations

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume17
dc.contributor.authorWilliams MN
dc.contributor.authorJones LM
dc.date.available1/01/2012
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Psychology, Health & Medicine on 15 Aug 2011, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13548506.2011.601748."
dc.description.abstractThe monitoring-blunting theory of coping suggests that when faced with a threatening situation, individuals can respond by either monitoring or avoiding (blunting) threatening information. The current study sought to validate a scale of children's preferences for monitoring or blunting in dental situations (the Monitoring Blunting Dental Scale or MBDS). The psychometric characteristics of the scale were assessed in a sample of 240 New Zealand children aged 11-13. Reliability was adequate for both monitoring (α = 0.74) and blunting (α = 0.76) subscale scores. Convergent validity was indicated by strong correlations (>0.6) between the measure's subscales and those of a related scale, although discriminant validity with respect to dental anxiety was problematic for the blunting subscale. Exploratory factor analysis supported a two-factor monitoring-blunting model, although confirmatory factor analysis indicated reasonable but imperfect fit for this model, SBχ²(251) = 510.7, p < 0.001, RMSEA = 0.066. We reflect on conceptual issues which may underlie the difficulties experienced here and elsewhere in developing psychometrically sound measures of Miller's blunting construct and suggest that the monitoring subscale of the study scale may be most useful to other researchers.
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dc.identifier.citationPSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE, 2012, 17 (3), pp. 274 - 284 (11)
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13548506.2011.601748
dc.identifier.elements-id102325
dc.identifier.issn1354-8506
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/5743
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group
dc.relation.isPartOfPSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE
dc.subjectScience & Technology
dc.subjectLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subjectPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health
dc.subjectPUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SCI
dc.subjectPUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SSCI
dc.subjectdental anxiety
dc.subjectcoping styles
dc.subjectblunting
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectfactor analysis
dc.subjectINFORMATION-SEEKING
dc.subjectORAL-HEALTH
dc.subjectANXIETY
dc.subjectFEAR
dc.subjectPREVALENCE
dc.subjectCOMPONENTS
dc.subjectNUMBER
dc.subjectCANCER
dc.subjectTHREAT
dc.subjectWOMEN
dc.subject.anzsrc1503 Business and Management
dc.subject.anzsrc1701 Psychology
dc.titleValidating a measure of children's monitoring-blunting coping styles in dental situations
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Psychology
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