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Comprehensive Coping Inventory (CCI-20) Test

With 20 questions and a completion time of about four minutes, the Comprehensive Coping Inventory (CCI-20) Test explores patterns linked to stress, worry, threat appraisal, and avoidance. Your result highlights areas for self-reflection, helping you identify recurring responses and the situations in which they arise.

Questions: 204 minutes

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How the Scales are Structured

Stress IntoleranceSI

Measures how strongly a person believes they cannot cope with stressful circumstances and the emotions they evoke.

example score20/25

20/25Highexample score

5 – 11Low

12 – 18Moderate

19 – 25High

A score of 20 falls in the High range, suggesting a strong tendency to feel overwhelmed by stress and doubt one’s ability to manage it.

Cognitive ReappraisalCR

Measures how often you tend to interpret neutral or safe situations as threatening and then mentally reframe them in a threat-focused way under stress.

example score18/25

18/25Moderateexample score

5 – 11Low

12 – 18Moderate

19 – 25High

A score of 18 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable tendency to misread neutral situations as threats, though not at the highest level on this scale.

WorryW

Measures the tendency toward persistent worry and negative forecasting that can disrupt effective problem-solving under stress.

example score17/25

17/25Moderateexample score

5 – 12Low

13 – 19Moderate

20 – 25High

A score of 17 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable tendency toward ongoing worry and negative expectations that may sometimes make it harder to focus on solutions when stressed.

AvoidanceA

Measures how strongly a person tends to reduce anxiety by avoiding triggering people, places, situations, objects, or internal sensations.

example score16/25

16/25Moderate avoidanceexample score

5 – 11Low avoidance

12 – 18Moderate avoidance

19 – 25High avoidance

A score of 16 falls in the Moderate avoidance range, suggesting avoidance is used fairly often as a way to manage anxiety-provoking triggers.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Anxious or overwhelmed adults

41%OF USERS

People feeling persistent stress, worry, or panic take it to see whether they cope by avoiding, overthinking, or struggling to tolerate stress.

Clients starting therapy

34%OF USERS

People beginning counseling use it to quickly map their default coping style and set clearer therapy goals for everyday triggers.

Clinicians screening coping patterns

25%OF USERS

Psychologists and therapists use it as a brief intake measure to identify maladaptive coping mechanisms and guide treatment focus.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Stress IntoleranceSI

You?

Average13.3

Typical rangeTypical10 – 16.5

Possible5 – 25

Cognitive ReappraisalCR

You?

Average10.3

Typical rangeTypical7.5 – 13.2

Possible5 – 25

AnxietyA

You?

Average14

Typical rangeTypical11.1 – 16.8

Possible5 – 25

AvoidanceA

You?

Average19.2

Typical rangeTypical16.3 – 22

Possible5 – 25

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

The items in this questionnaire are intended to help identify different approaches to problem solving. When completing this questionnaire, think about difficult situations and stressful events you have experienced. For each item, provide the most accurate rating possible based on how often you use the strategies described or experience the feelings indicated. There are no right or wrong answers; therefore, select the response that most accurately reflects your current state rather than the one that seems most acceptable to you or to most people. Rate your state and behavior on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 indicates that you do not use the strategy at all / do not experience such feelings, and 5 indicates that you rely on the described strategy / experience the described sensations very often.

- 1: Do not use
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5: Very often
- 1: Not at all
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5: Very often
- 1: Never
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5: Very often

These are 3 of the 20 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Comprehensive Coping Inventory (CCI-20) Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People examining recurring anxiety, threat-focused thinking, or avoidance may use a structured self-reflection tool to clarify their coping profile. The Comprehensive Coping Inventory (CCI-20) Test helps readers see how they appraise pressure, anticipate outcomes, and respond when discomfort rises. The result shows which of four measured tendencies are more prominent in the respondent’s profile.

What This Assessment Explores

Four related tendencies organize the result: difficulty handling distress, threat-biased interpretations, repetitive negative forecasting, and withdrawal from anxiety-provoking experiences. The profile is descriptive and shows how strongly each coping tendency is represented.

The displayed dimensions are:

Stress Intolerance: 5-25 measures conviction that pressure and its emotions cannot be managed; Low 5-11, Moderate 12-18, High 19-25.
Cognitive Reappraisal: 5-25 measures interpreting neutral or safe events as threatening; Low 5-11, Moderate 12-18, High 19-25.
Worry: 5-25 measures persistent worry and negative expectations that may hinder problem-solving; Low 5-12, Moderate 13-19, High 20-25.
Avoidance: 5-25 measures escaping people, places, situations, objects, or sensations that provoke distress; Low avoidance 5-11, Moderate avoidance 12-18, High avoidance 19-25.

Higher scores indicate stronger endorsement of the tendency measured by the relevant scale.

Methodology and Evidence Base

This coping questionnaire asks how often or how strongly each statement describes the respondent’s experience. The five response positions range from no endorsement or never at one end to very often at the other; some items label the low end as do not use. Responses are grouped by dimension, and four separate dimension scores are reported.

The related published Comprehensive Coping Inventory described in Zurita Ona’s 2007 dissertation provides a conceptual reference, and this questionnaire is conceptually consistent with it. Related CBT perspectives in McKay, Fanning, and Zurita Ona (2011) and McKay, Skeen, and Fanning (2017) help explain links among threat appraisal, worry, emotional distress, and avoidance. Folkman and Lazarus (1980) supply a broader framework for viewing coping as a response to demanding situations.

The dissertation’s evidence concerns its published instrument, whereas this online form presents the displayed low, moderate, and high bands as descriptive categories within each dimension. Current stress, self-awareness, and willingness to endorse uncomfortable reactions can shape self-report results, so use them to identify themes for reflection rather than as a standalone clinical conclusion.

Author: R. S. Lazarus, S. Folkman

Literature:

Zurita Ona, Patricia E. (2007). Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Coping Inventory. PhD dissertation, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
McKay, Matthew, Patrick Fanning, and Patricia E. Zurita Ona. (2011). Mind and Emotions: A Universal Treatment for Emotional Disorders. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
McKay, Matthew, Michelle Skeen, and Patrick Fanning. (2017). The CBT Anxiety Solution Workbook: A Breakthrough Treatment for Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Panic. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
Folkman, Susan, and Richard S. Lazarus. (1980). An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 21(3), 219-239. 10.2307/2136617

Updated: 2025-10-02