The next set of analyses examined whether the types of coping styles used by participants were predictive of perceived coping efficacy. A multiple regression model was estimated to test the
hypothesis that higher levels of task coping would be associated with perceived coping efficacy, and that higher levels of emotion and avoidance coping would be inversely related to perceived coping efficacy. Regression results indicated the overall model significantly predicted perceived coping efficacy [R2 = .395, R2 adj = .378, F(3, 105) = 22.881, P = b.001, Cohen's f 2 = 0.653]. A summary of the regression coefficients is presented in Table 2, and indicates that as hypothesized, higher perceived coping efficacy was predicted by greater reliance on task-focused coping and less use of emotion-focused coping. Avoidance coping was unrelated to perceived coping efficacy.