scholarly journals Polish Adaptation of Sexual Addiction Screening Test Revised (SAST-PL)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-150
Author(s):  
E. Kowalewska ◽  
◽  
M. Gola ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Sexual Addiction ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Clinical Interviews ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Polish Adaptation

Objective: Addictive sexual behaviors are being identified with increasing frequency in the practices of psychology and psychiatry, and are gaining more and more attention from researchers. There are actually 25 different questionnaires for assessing the level of loss of control over sexual behaviors (LoCoSB). None of them have been adapted and validated in a Polish language version. The aim of our work was to make such an adaptation of the Sexual Addiction Screening Test – Revised (SAST-R). Design and Method: For the purpose of psychometric features examination and validation of the Polish version of SAST-R for males (SAST-PL-M), we recruited 116 heterosexual men receiving psychological treatment due to LoCoSB and meeting the criteria for hypersexual disorder. The control group consisted of 442 heterosexual males using internet pornography but having never looked for any psychological help due to LoCoSB. Psychometrical characteristic of SAST-R for females (SAST-PL-W) was examined in the study with 423 women. Validation was performed on the group of 34 females (17 women receiving psychological treatment due to LoCoSB). Results: Both SAST-PL-M and SAST-PL-W have high reliability (α = .904 for SAST-PL-M and α = .762 for SAST-PL-W), and good filtering characteristics for identification of people who are potentially experiencing difficulty with control over sexual behaviors. Conclusions: SAST-PL can be used as an efficient screening test for symptoms of LoCoSB in clinical and research setups. Results below 6 points indicate a high probability of no problems, while more than 5 points can indicate the need for additional clinical interviews.

Perceived Residential Environment Quality and Neighborhood Attachment (PREQ & NA) Indicators by Marino Bonaiuto, Ferdinando Fornara, and Mirilia Bonnes – Polish adaptation

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-162
Author(s):  
Michał Dębek ◽  
Bożena Janda-Dębek
Keyword(s):  
Residential Environment ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Adaptation Procedure ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Neighborhood Attachment ◽  
Polish Adaptation ◽  
Made In

Abstract There have been increasing calls in environmental psychology for the standardized instruments measuring people’s subjective perception of urban environment quality. One such tool is a commonly accepted and oft-cited questionnaire for measuring perceived urban environmental quality, the Perceived Residential Environment Quality & Neighborhood Attachment (PREQ & NA) Indicators, developed by a team of Italian researchers: Ferdinando Fornara, Marino Bonaiuto, and Mirilia Bonnes. This article presents the results of the PREQ & NA’s adaptation study that we conducted in Poland. The adaptation project was divided into several qualitative and quantitative stages spanning April 2013 to December 2014. A total of 200 participants were examined, 99 women and 101 men aged between 18 and 89. We cooperated with six English and Italian translators. The results of our study demonstrated a factorial validity of the tool’s Polish language version relative to both the Italian original and its recent Iranian adaptation, which we used for comparisons with the data obtained in a non-European cultural area. In addition to describing the entire adaptation procedure and presenting its results, we propose that a number of minor but necessary modifications be made in the Polish version, as indicated by our analyses. Following a positive verification and discussion of the Polish adaptation’s convergent, discriminant, and criterion validity, we propose the final Polish version of the adapted questionnaire.

scholarly journals Multifactorial analysis of fatigue scale among nurses in Poland

Open Medicine ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 593-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kwiecień-Jaguś ◽  
Maria Wujtewicz
Keyword(s):  
Control Group ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Physical Fatigue ◽  
Multifactorial Analysis ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Special Character ◽  
Range Of Functions ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Main Components

AbstractSignificant progress in the field of nursing has contributed to the widening of range of functions and professional duties of nurses. More frequent lack of nursing personnel has an impact on negative reception of work, it decreases sense of professional satisfaction and increases the level of burden and fatigue. Methods. The study applied the non-experimental method – a descriptive comparative study without a control group. The data was collected on the basis of Polish-language version of a Japanese questionnaire. In order to evaluate the level of physical fatigue the pedometer was used. Results.158 respondents of a group of 160 were included in the statistical analysis. The study group was internally diversified. The research project assessed the usefulness of the multifactorial analysis in evaluating the main components of nursing fatigue. Multifactorial analysis has shown that mental fatigue concentrated with changes in activeness, motivation and physical fatigue are strongly correlated with age, professional experience and education. Conclusion. Nursing is a profession of a special character and mission. Regardless of the place of work, nursing staff should be given the possibility of pursuing their profession under conditions ensuring the sense of security and protecting them from harmful effects on health.

scholarly journals Psychometric Properties of Sex Addiction Screening Test-Revised (SAST-R) for Persian Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sina Shafiezadeh ◽  
◽  
Hossein Mohajeri ◽  
Atiyeh MohammadShirazi ◽  
Peyman Hassani-Abharian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sexual Addiction ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Persian Language

Background and Objectives: Sexual addiction is known as a disorder that afflicts a person with difficulty in controlling or delaying sexual behaviors. In order to prevent social, physical, and psychological consequences, validated screening tests are needed to diagnose this disorder. One of these tests is established by Carnes with the name of “Sexual Addiction Screening Test-Revised” (SAST-R). In this study, Sexual Addiction Screening Test-Revised has been translated and verified in the Persian language. Methods: To this purpose, the original screening test was translated to the Persian language and also back translated for matching by two different expert teams. Data was collected through online survey from 1268 participants who were between 18 to 65 years old (M=29.44 and SD=6.90) that 56.1% and 43.9% of them where women and men respectively. Three questionnaires including sexual addiction screening test–revised (SAST-R), hypersexual behavior consequences scale, and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale as the principal, convergent and divergent tests were administered to the participants. Results: The reliability of the test's internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.883), Split-Half (Cronbach's alpha = 0.779), and Guttman (lambda coefficients were between 0.773 to 0.883) tests were used. In addition, four methods of content validity (sexual hyperactivity specialist approved), convergent structure validity (P<0.001, R =0.731), the validity of divergent structure (P<0.09, R = -0.132), and factor validity (CFI=0.884, GFI=0.873, RMSEA=0.047) were measured and confirmed the validity of the test. Conclusion: The Persian version of the sexual addiction screening test–revised (SAST-R) seems to be a reliable pre-clinical tool to assess the severity of sexual desire of patients.

scholarly journals THE POLISH ADAPTATION AND FURTHER VALIDATION OF THE COVID STRESS SCALES (CSS)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Frydrychowicz ◽  
◽  
Julia Pradelok ◽  
Kinga Zawada ◽  
Dominika Zyśk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Impulsive Behavior ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Polish Adaptation ◽  
The Impact

"The scientific need to recognize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human psychosocial functioning requires reliable and valid research tools to assess this impact. Therefore, we designed a study to create and further validate a Polish version of a research instrument assessing stress, anxiety, and fear related to the pandemic – the COVID Stress Scales (CSS; Taylor et al., 2020). This paper presents the specific research steps designed to develop and validate the Polish-language version of CSS (Taylor et al., 2020). These steps are as follows: 1) the translation of the original CSS into the Polish language by three independent translators and the back-translation by three other independent translators; 2) the assessment of the equivalence of the Polish translation of CSS in a study involving a sample of 30-60 bilingual people, fluent both in English and Polish languages; 3) the pilot study employing the pre-final Polish version of CSS; 4) the validation study involving a sample 600-900 participants in which the following instruments will be used: the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Scale, the Short Health Anxiety Inventory, the Social Desirability Scale, the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised Scale, the Xenophobia subscale of the Questionnaire of Political Beliefs and the subscale Sensation seeking from the Impulsive Behavior Scale. We expect that the Polish version of CSS will be widely used by Polish researchers in their studies concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other epidemiological threats on mental health. At the same time, we hope that our study will provide results that will help foreign researchers understand the COVID-19 pandemic in other countries."

Polish Adaptation and Psychometric Validation of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-III

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław M. Michałowski ◽  
Paweł Holas ◽  
Michael J. Zvolensky
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Panic Disorder ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
Psychometric Validation ◽  
Sensitivity Index ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity Index ◽  
Polish Adaptation

The present study sought to adapt and validate the psychometric properties of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-III in Poland. The ASI-III consists of three subscales, each representing one of the three domains of fears of the negative consequences of anxiety-related physical, cognitive, or social sensations. The study included a total of 116 panic disorder patients and 411 controls who did not show the presence of mental disorders. The results indicated that the Polish-language version of the ASI-III is characterized by high content validity, internal consistency, and stability over a period of 28 days. Moreover, its factor structure was largely equivalent to that found on the original ASI-III.

scholarly journals Polish adaptation of Sexual Addiction Screening Test - Revised

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Gola ◽  
Maciej Skorko ◽  
Ewelina Kowalewska ◽  
Aleksandra Kołodziej ◽  
Małgorzata Sikora ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Screening Test ◽  
Sexual Addiction ◽  
Polish Adaptation

Evaluating the alliance in videolink teletherapy

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
G J Ghosh ◽  
P M Mclaren ◽  
J P Watson
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Working Alliance Inventory ◽  
The Face

The use of videoconferencing in psychotherapy remains largely unexplored. Videoconferencing compromises the range and quality of interactional information and thus might be expected to affect the working alliance (WA) between client and therapist, and consequently the process and outcome of therapy. A single case study exploring the effect of videoconferencing on the development of the WA in the psychological treatment of a female–male transsexual is described. The self-rated Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) was used to measure client and therapist perceptions of the WA after each session over 10 sessions of eclectic therapy conducted over a videolink. The serial WAI measurements charting the development of the WA in 4 cases of 10-session, face-to-face therapy by Horvath and Marx1 were used as a quasi-control. Therapist and client impressions of teletherapy are described. WAI scores were essentially similar to the face-to-face control group except for lower client-rated bond subscale scores. It is suggested that client personality factors accounted for this difference and that videoconferencing did not impair the development of an adequate working alliance or successful therapeutic outcome.

(Trans)fusions of Conrad’s darkness: Selected adaptations of Heart of Darkness

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Kujawska-Lis
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Opera ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Language Version ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The Us ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Radio Broadcast

Heart of Darkness, due to its semantic complexity, interpretative openness and universal thematic interests, has been frequently intersemiotically adapted in a variety of media, encompassing radio broadcast, films, opera, graphic narratives and video games, as well as rewritten in the form of interlingual translations and refracted, with refractions including reviews and critical assessments, but also textual versions radically different from the source text. This article considers selected reinterpretations of Conrad’s text and comments briefly on how in each case the adaptation illustrates a fusion of Conrad’s vision with that of the adapter, hence (trans)fusion, and how this may give a new life to the source text via interpretative shifts. The article presents case studies: the film adaptation – Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), Tarik O’Regan’s one-act chamber opera (both the United Kingdom in 2011 and the US staging in 2015), the graphic narrative by Catherine Anyango and David Zane Mairowitz (2010) and Jacek Dukaj’s Polish language version Serce ciemności (2017). This selection is governed by the variety of media and by the dissimilar approaches of the adapters to their source text. What is evident based on these variants is the role of the adapter as a creative participant in the process of transmitting the ideas of the original text, often updating them to make them relevant to new recipients of various cultural backgrounds. Additionally, reinterpretations and recontextualizations of the novella result directly from adaptive strategies specific to a given medium.

scholarly journals Cognitive dysfunction in children with sleep disorders

2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (2a) ◽  
pp. 212-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciane Bizari Coin de Carvalho ◽  
Lucila Bizari Fernandes do Prado ◽  
Luciana Silva ◽  
Marilaine Medeiros de Almeida ◽  
Tatiana Almeida e Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Lower Prevalence ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Similar Frequency ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
And Control

Sleep is basic for physical and cognitive development and some studies have suggested that there may be an association between sleep disorders (SD) and cognitive dysfunction (CD) in children. Little is known, however, about SD and cognition in 7-10-year-old children, a fact that motivated the present study. METHOD: We applied an SD questionnaire in 1180 children, 547 with SD and 633 without SD (CG), to assess cognition with a screening test (Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test - BT). RESULTS: We observed a similar frequency of CD in the children with SD (39%) and that ot the CG (40%). The 8-year-old children with SD presented a lower prevalence of CD than the CG (SD=6%, n=6; CG=13%, n=16; p=0.04). CONCLUSION: The frequency of children with CD was equal in the study and control groups when considering the total sample (7- to 10-year-old children). In contrast to our expectations, the SD group of 8-year-old children presented a lower frequency of CD than the control group.

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