Discussion
The current study sought to test the factor structure of the
Coping Scale (Kidd and Carroll 2007), developed to assess
the coping strategies employed by homeless youth, and to
determine whether the identified coping factors predicted
depression among a relatively large and diverse sample of
homeless youth. While the Coping Scale offers unique
insight into homeless youths’ coping by using items
derived from qualitative interviews with youth (Kidd
2003), our study aimed to improve the utility of this