Sexual Assault Coping Self Efficacy Measure (Pankau, 2021)

• Populations: Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults
• Age ranges: 13-17, 18-26, and 26+
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

• Feeling good about myself
• Managing my housing, food clothes, and medical needs 
• Handling feelings of hopelessness and helplessness 
• Controlling thoughts that I am going crazy 
• Managing my feelings of guilt and self-shame about the assault 
• Handling fears of anger/rage at my relationship with the assailant 
• Controlling feelings of anxiety and panic 
• Coping with loneliness and isolation 
• Dealing with nightmares/flashbacks concerning the assault 
• Dealing with feelings of shame concerning the assault 
• Coping with feelings completely overwhelmed by everything 
• Being able to concentrate and effectively handle personal responsibilites
• Controlling thoughts that “I just can’t handle this”
• Trusting others
• Dealing with feelings of sadness
• Controlling negative thoughts about myself
• Coping with the feelings that family and friends just don’t understand
• Handling feelings of embarrassment
• Handling feelings of inadequacy

Responses:

Items used a 5 point Likert type scale, 1 = not at all capable, 5 = totally capable.

Scoring

Not reported

Citations

Pankau, Thomas, “Psychometrics of a Measure of Sexual Assault Coping Self-Efficacy: A Comparison of Across Age Groups” (2021). Clinical Psychology Disseratations. 70. https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/cpy_etd/70

Team comments

This scale was validated on three subsamples aged 13-17, 18-26, and 26+, with eldest member of 26+ sample reported at 60 years of age.  For reporting purposes here, validation data pertain to the 13-17 sample.