A PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF THE ROLE PIC (O) INSTRUMENT FOR ASSESSING COPING STYLES AMONG MANAGERSININDIAN CONTEXT2020

Role PICS (Projective Instrument for Measuring Coping Styles, Pareek, 1983) is a semi projective instrument for assessment of styles or strategies used by the respondents to cope with role stress. It consisted of 24 situations represented by pictures. In this self administered scale, the subjects were asked to write a response which comes first to their mind after reading the comment made by another person in the stimulus situations.Some problem is raised in a particular situation and the respondent is required to give a response as to how the persons to whom a statement has been made would respond.