Spending as Social and Affective Coping (SSAC): Measure Development and Initial Validation

The authors discuss spending as a use of coping and examine both social and affective forms of coping through the lens of coping theory. They describe the development and methodology used to create the SSAC Measure and how it was tested. Finally they describe limitations to the study and also implications for research, practice, advocacy and education/training.

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• Define the two types of coping related to spending.
• Discuss the research methodology used to create the SSAC Measure.
• Describe the ways that the scale can be used in future advocacy and training.

• Alexander Rice, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• Yunkyoung Loh Garrison, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• William Ming Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.

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