Browsing by Author "Špajdel, Marián"

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    Odporność psychiczna: jej struktura i konstrukcja Skali Struktury Psychoimmunologicznej (SPS)
    (Stowarzyszenie Psychologia i Architektura, 2013) Biela, Adam; Śliwak, Jacek; Bartczuk, Rafał; Szymołon, Jerzy; Wiechetek, Michał; Zarzycka, Beata; Špajdel, Marián
    The paper describes the theoretical background and the development of a psychometric tool designed to measure the structure of the psychoimmunological system. Theoretical terms related to the psychoimmunological system were discussed, integrated into the theoretical model and operationalized as a pilot version of the Scale of Psychoimmunological Structure (SPS). 375 adults participated in the research. The Principal Component Analysis revealed that the SPS has six components and the theoretical model was generally confi rmed. On the basis of the results of the study the experimental version of SPS was constructed and it’s preliminary psychometric characteristic was found as satisfactory.
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    The Scale of Psycho‒Immunological Structure: assessing factorial invariance in Poland and Slovakia
    (Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2015) Biela, Adam; Špajdel, Marián; Śliwak, Jacek; Bartczuk, Rafał; Wiechetek, Michał; Zarzycka, Beata
    The paper starts with an attempt to develop a hypothetical cognitive structure of mental resiliency, called psycho-immunological system, which plays both a reactive (coping with difficult health situations) and proactive (health protection) role in relation to the human somato-immunological system. In order to answer the question: is the psycho-immunological system invariant in two neighboring cultures, Slovakia and Poland, the authors propose the psychometric operationalization of theoretical constructs of the psycho-immunological system in the form of The Scale of Psycho-immunological Structure (SPS) in both countries. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that four factors of the scale are equivalent in both samples on the structural level.