Principal component analysis
| ECQ subdomains | Component | |
| 1 | 2 | |
| Distance and self-promotion | 0.856 | |
| Acting/problem-oriented coping | 0.819 | |
| Active search for social integration | 0.794 | |
| Willingness to accept help | 0.703 | |
| Finding of inner stability | 0.687 | |
| Information seeking and exchange of experiences | 0.644 | |
| Trust in medical care | 0.552 | |
| Depressive processing | 0.897 | |
| Trivialisation, wishful thinking and defence | 0.590 | |
| Eigen values for component | 3.93 | 1.28 |
| Variance explained (%) | 43.7 | 14.3 |
| Cronbach's alpha | 0.80 | 0.71 |
ECQ, Essen Coping Questionnaire.