Background to the Röder Coping Data

Data analysed in: Kroonenberg, P. M. (2008). Applied multiway data analysis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

The original data set consisted of 392 primary school children between 8 and 12 year-old. A subset of 14 "extreme" children were selected for several of the analyses. The children were asked to react on 8 emotions and coping strategies scales for each of 6 situations. The data are arranged as "three-way rating scale data"

The complete data set as well as the data set containing the data of a group of asthmatic children can be requested from The Three-Mode Company. We also have a limited number of copies available of the Rö (2000) thesis for researchers working in the area.

References:

Kroonenberg, P. M., & Röder, I. (2008). Situational dependence of emotions and coping strategies in children with asthma. A three-mode component analysis (pp. 191- 198). In K. Shigemasu, A. Okada, T. Imaizumi, & T. Hoshino (Eds.), New trends in psychometrics. Tokyo: Universal Academic Press.
Röder, I. (2000).
Stress in children with asthma: Coping and social support in the school context. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Röder, I., Boekaerts, M., & Kroonenberg, P. M. (2002). The stress and coping questionnaire for children (School version and Asthma version): Construction, factor structure, and psychometric properties. Psychological Reports, 91, 29-36.
Röder, I., Kroonenberg, P. M., & Boekaerts, M. (2003). Psychosocial functioning and stress-processing of children with asthma in the school context: differences and similarities with children without asthma. Journal of Asthma, 40, 777-787.

Data description

Rows (1st mode): Situations

No.	Abbreviation	Description
1.	Succee	Fail to fulfill assingments in class
2.	NoPart	Not allowed to play with other children
3.	TeacNo	Forbidden to do something by the teacher
4.	Bullie	Victim of bullying
5.	NotWrk	Too much school work
6.	MothNo	Forbidden to do something by the mother

Columns (2nd mode): Scales

No.	Abbreviation	Description
1.	Annoy	Unpleasant
2.	Sad	Sad
3.	Afraid	Afraid
4.	Angry	Angry
5.	Approa	Approach coping
6.	Avoid	Avoidant coping
7.	Suppor	Social support seeking
8.	Agresi	Emotional reaction (esp. aggression)

Slices (3rd mode): Children

Fourteen selected children out of the total sample of 392 children.

Data arrangement

A three-way data array X = (x(i,j,k)) has the following form

                        |-----|i=1
                   |-----|    |i=2
              |-----|    |    |..
              |     |    |    |..
              |     |    |____|i=I=6    k=K=14
              |     |____|            k=2
              |_____|              k=1

            j=1,.,J=8

The actual data file has the following form:


          j=1,.,J=8
            |-----|i=1
            |     |i=2
            |     |..     k= 1
            |     |..
            |_____|i=I=6
            |-----|i=1
            |     |i=2
            |     |..     k= 2
            |     |..
            |_____|i=I=6
            |-----|i=1
            |     |i=2
            |     |..     k=14
            |     |..
            |_____|i=I=6

Thus the first mode (i) is nested in the third mode (k) and there are 6 (situations) times 14 (children) rows and 8 (scales) columns.

Data handling

Preprocessing

The data can be centred and normalised in two different ways as is common for three-way rating scale data. For details see Kroonenberg (2008). Applied multiway data analysis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley (Chapters 6 and 14).

Permissions

These data have kindly been made available for bonafide researchers by Dr. Irma Röder (previously Leiden University). Please be sure to quote her papers mentioned above and this website when using these data in a publication.

[Download the Röder Coping Data]

P.M. Kroonenberg
Institute of Leiden Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University
Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
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Created: 8-7-2009
Last Updated: 11-7-2009