Complex sentence: Researchers have attempted to disentangle the maladaptive and functional aspects of emotion-focused coping by demonstrating in multiple studies that emotion-focused measurements of coping often aggregate approach and avoidance strategies.
Split into simpler sentences: Researchers have attempted to disentangle the maladaptive and functional aspects of emotion-focused coping by examining the measurements of emotion-focused coping. Several studies have found that emotion-focused measurements of coping often aggregate approach and avoidance strategies.