cavalini: Coping Strategies
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Data came from 17 polytomous items administered to 828 respondents (Cavalini, 1992) asking them how they coped actively with the bad smell from a factory in the neighborhood of their homes.

1	data(cavalini)

A 828 by 17 matrix containing integers. attributes(cavalini) gives details on the items.

Items have four ordered answer categories, never (score 0), seldom (1), often (2), and always (3). The 17 items constitute 4 scales (for detailed information, see Sijtsma and Molenaar, 2002, pp. 82-86).

Item1	Keep windows closed
Item2	No laundry outside
Item3	Search source of malodor
Item4	No blankets outside
Item5	Try to find solutions
Item6	Go elsewhere for fresh air
Item7	Call environmental agency
Item8	Think of something else
Item9	File complaint with producer
Item10	Acquiesce in odor annoyance
Item11	Do something to get rid of it
Item12	Say ``it might have been worse''
Item13	Experience unrest
Item14	Talk to friends and family
Item15	Seek diversion
Item16	Avoid breathing through the nose
Item17	Try to adapt to situation

Cavalini, P. M. (1992). It's an ill wind that brings no good. Studies on odour annoyance and the dispersion of odorant concentrations from industries. Unpublished doctoral disseratation. University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Sijtsma, K. and Molenaar, I. W. (2002). Introduction to nonparametric item response theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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