SCALE OF PSYCHO-IMMUNOLOGICAL STRUCTURE: ASSESSING FACTORIAL INVARIANCE IN POLAND AND SLOVAKIA

• Authors: Adam Biela , Marian Špajdel , Jacek Śliwak , Rafał Piotr Bartczuk , Michał Wiechetek , Beata Zarzycka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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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 neighbouring 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.

Keywords

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MENTAL RESILIENCE; PSYCHO-IMMUNOLOGICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOSOMATIC SYSTEM; SLOVAKIA; POLAND

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 163 – 176

Contributors

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Adam Biela

• Institute of Psychology, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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Marian Špajdel

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Jacek Śliwak

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Rafał Piotr Bartczuk

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Michał Wiechetek

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Beata Zarzycka