Temporal Stability and Replicability of a Workplace Stress and Coping Model for Managerial Women: A Multiwave Panel Study

Stability and replicability of a stress-coping model were tested with data collected from 230 managerial women 8 times over a 1-year period. One year later, 135 women who remained in the study completed 3 additional assessments. Tests of mean stability, stability of individual differences, and factorial invariance revealed that virtually all constructs exhibited strong mean stability and that all multi-indicator constructs possessed stable factor loadings. The women were consistent in the way they described themselves over time on all constructs except Appraisals. Disengagement Coping, Appraisals, and Distress were affected more by an underlying trait not accounted for in the model than was Engagement Coping. Replicability indicated that the model reliably represented the relationships among the measures over a 2-year interval.