Coping Flexibility Scale: A Validated Instrument to Assess Coping Flexibility

As the situational demands has been in an increased pace and concerning the need for a flexible nature in coping ability of individuals in an ever-changing environmental, social and economic context, this study is to develop an instrument to assess the coping flexibility. The developed instrument is in form of a five-point scale with a three-dimensional structure. Rooted upon the theory of coping flexibility and Triple Bottom Line theory, the instrument varies in its dimensionality as coping repertoire, changeability and reflexivity on the aspects of environmental, social and economic. After the pilot study conducted among a sample of 327 secondary school students, the validity of the tool has been established on base of statistical methods as exploratory factor analysis, item analysis and reliability testing. A total item of 24 has been retained from 36, with value ranging from 0.35 to 0.711 when subjected to exploratory factor analysis. These 24 items were then subjected to item analysis and 23 items fulfilled the criterion of critical value of 1.96. the pilot study data has also been subjected to Corrected Item Total Correlations and Cronbach’s Alpha if Item Deletedwhich lead to the final draft of the instrument with number of items as 22. The results reflect that the developed tool is a validated one with a reliability of 0.758 (Cronbach’s Alpha) that can effectively assess the coping flexibility of targeted population.