Less Maladaptiveness of the Maladaptive Coping Styles in Japan than in Germany: Cross-cultural Comparison of Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping Styles

Abstract The Maladaptive and Adaptive Coping Style Questionnaire (MAX) is a comprehensive tool for measuring coping styles including three subscales: maladaptive coping, adaptive avoidance. This study developed Japanese version of MAX evaluated the relationship between psychopathologies sample German sample. For cross-cultural comparison, we used community data set acquired by Moritz et al. ( Journal Affective Disorders 191:300–307, 2016). Factor analysis was conducted with MAX. Referring to original version, hypothesized three-factor structure. However, results showed that subscale had less similarity whereas avoidance subscales were similar original. As result cultural participants more Moreover, weaker correlations in than those present study.