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Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy
2025. Vol. 33, no. 2, 171–190
doi:10.17759/cpp.2025330208
ISSN: 2075-3470 / 2311-9446 (online)

Meaning-centered coping as a target of psychological assessment

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. The work is aimed at adapting the “Meaning-Centered Coping” (MCC) scale (Eisenbeck et al., 2022). Methods and materials. The adaptation was carried out on the basis of several samples. The first one was collected in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic as a part of the large scale international study, in which the technique was created (402 participants), the second one as a part of a separate methodology-centered study on the adult sample (95 participants), and the third one on a sample of university students (175 participants). All participants filled Meaning-Centered Coping Scale. Study 1 included also PERMA Profiler, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale SASS 21, a situational version of COPE inventory related to pandemic, Sense of Coherence Scale. Study 2 included PERMA Profiler, Study 3 — PERMA, Noetic Orientations Test and Test of Personal Life Position. Results. A satisfactory scale consistency was revealed, the test score was significantly associated with meaning scale of PERMA, NOT scales and the Sense of Coherence; to a lesser degree with other well-being indices and with awareness and authenticity scales of PLP. In the pandemic context MCC scores decreased through 6 months’ interval, predominantly in those participant who claimed that pandemic has a negative impact on their life. Besides, MCC was strongly associated with reappraisal and personal growth copings in the pandemic context and, to a lesser degree, with active coping, religion, acceptance and planning. Conclusions. The scale can be of use for the assessment of meaning-centered coping in the counseling practice.

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Keywords: meaning of life, coping, crisis, well-being, personal life position

Journal rubric: Testing and Validating Instruments

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2025330208

Funding. The study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 24-28-01602, https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-01602/ at the National Research University «Higher School of Economics», Moscow.

Received 12.12.2024

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For citation: Leontiev, D.A., Rasskazova, E.I., Taranenko, O.A. (2025). Meaning-centered coping as a target of psychological assessment. Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 33(2), 171–190. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2025330208

© Leontiev D.A., Rasskazova E.I., Taranenko O.A., 2025

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Information About the Authors

Dmitriy A. Leontiev, Doctor of Psychology, Head of International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation; Professor of Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Psychology, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2252-9805, e-mail: dmleont@gmail.com

Elena I. Rasskazova, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Associate Professor, Department of Neuro- and Patopsychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Researcher,Mental Health Research Center, Senior Researcher, International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-5238, e-mail: e.i.rasskazova@gmail.com

Olga A. Taranenko, junior researcher, International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4273-5681, e-mail: otaranenko@hse.ru

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