Coping represents the way people commonly react to stress. These reactions are related to personal factors, situational demands and available resources (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). However, measures of general coping rarely fully contemplate situational factors. Coping measures in occupational settings should take into account available resources, should be easy to answer and fulfil all psychometric criteria. The objective of this work was (1) to translate and to adapt to Portuguese an occupational coping scale and (2) to investigate its psychometric characteristics through factor analysis and its relationships with measures of social support, work overload and emotional exhaustion. Three hundred ninety seven office workers (x = 37.9; sd = 9.7) answered in their workplace the proposed occupational coping scale and measures of social support, work overload and emotional exhaustion. Factor analyses showed three factors that explained 29.6% of the total variance. The results gave support to the criterion validity and reliability of the translated occupational coping scale.
occupational stress; coping; psychological measure
