Construct validity of the Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational style: Correlations with four Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) subscales

Sivik, Tatjana; Delimar, N; Schoenfeld, Rebecca

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“…The Sivik Psycho Somaticism test (SPS) and test of Operationality (OPER) (24, 25) were created in order to assess the personality traits and coping strategies associated with the development of psychosomatic diseases or syndromes. The theoretical assumption was that the development of psychosomatic symptoms and diseases is a reflection of a disharmonious interaction between personality and environmental (psychosocial and/or physical) demands.…”

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The relationship between coping strategies and family burden among relatives of admitted psychiatric patients

Östman

Hansson

2001

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Coping strategies as assessed by a projective coping instrument, showed only a weak relationship to perceived family burden and participation in care among 78 close relatives of voluntarily and compulsorily admitted psychiatric patients in this study conducted in two psychiatric services in Sweden in 1997. The results rather indicate that problem solving coping strategies are used when the relatives are in situations amenable to change and that emotion-focused coping strategies are used in situations that are chronic and unchangeable. Furthermore, no differences in coping strategies were found between the relatives and a Swedish normative sample. No relationships were found between coping strategies and when the relative thought that the patient's mental health had led to mental problems in the relative or if the relative experienced that the relationship with the patient had been negatively affected by the mental illness. The usefulness of coping instruments based on personality components in research on family burden is called into question, and a reconsideration of qualitative research methods is recommended.

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“…The test has separate male and female versions. The instrument has been found reliable and valid in measuring different personality components that reflect the individual’s ability to cope with life events (24, 25).…”

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The relationship between coping strategies and family burden among relatives of admitted psychiatric patients

Östman

Hansson

2001

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Pain, Depression, and Anxiety: A Common Language of Human Suffering

Sivik

Bruscoli²

2013

Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms

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The framework of this chapter is psychosomatological. This represents an attempt to integrate different theoretical approaches, including psychodynamic theories of human development, complex systems theory, psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology (PNEI), and biosemiotics, in studying the pain-depression-anxiety complex [ 1 ].According to such a paradigm, the human being is an entity that simultaneously and constantly is feeling, thinking, and behaving in both physical and psychologicalexistential sense. Complex System Theory and PNEIAccording to complex system theory, human organism itself can be viewed as a suprasystem, consisting of interrelated subsystems in constant interaction within the environment. This complex web of interactions ( connectivity ) is in action, using

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Construct validity of the Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational style: Correlations with Karolinska Scheme of Personality

Sivik¹,

Delimar²,

Schoenfeld

1999

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

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To evaluate the construct validity (convergent and divergent) of Sivik Psycho Somaticism test (SPS) and test of Operationality (OPER), Pearson correlation coefficients between SPS scales and subscales and Karolinska Scheme of Personality (KSP) were calculated. Seventy-eight healthy individuals and 196 psychosomatic patients completed the SPS and OPER tests and KSP. The results show that the SPS and OPER subscales are significantly correlated to most KSP subscales. The correlations were higher for the psychosomatic group than for the normal population. The results confirm the validity of the SPS and OPER constructs.

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Construct validity of the Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational style: Correlations with four Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) subscales

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The relationship between coping strategies and family burden among relatives of admitted psychiatric patients

The relationship between coping strategies and family burden among relatives of admitted psychiatric patients

Pain, Depression, and Anxiety: A Common Language of Human Suffering

Construct validity of the Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational style: Correlations with Karolinska Scheme of Personality

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