ISSN 2520-6265 (print)
ISSN 2520-6273 (online)
Authors:
O. V. Savchenko, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0000-0002-7069-7419
E-mail: elena.savchenko@knu.ua
O. S. Borysova, Master’s degree student,
Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman
ORCID: 0009-0002-5478-1319
E-mail: alenbor@ukr.net
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/upj.2025.1(23).10
Article Information
Issue: 1(23) 2025, pages: 204-226
Language: Ukrainian
Received: 07.05.2025
1st Revision: 19.05.2025
Accepted: 24.05.2025
The article presents a Ukrainian-language adaptation and shortening of the Psychological Immune System Inventory (PISI), created by A. Oláh. Psychological immunity is defined as a systemic formation that ensures an individual’s ability to withstand negative environmental influences, effectively adapt to changes and maintain psychological stability in crisis situations.
The adaptation process included five main stages: professional translation from English into Ukrainian, expert evaluation of the translation for clarity and relevance, a pilot study to collect respondents’ comments regarding the wording of statements, reduction of the questionnaire from 80 to 48 statements to optimize the time of its completion, and reliability assessment for the subscales from the adapted version. We also tested the assumption on a three-component structure of psychological immunity, which was measured using the PISI.
The three-component structure of psychological immunity was confirmed in the Ukrainian-speaking sample by combining the «Beliefs and Effective Execution Subsystem» (7 subscales: Positive Thinking, Sense of Control, Sense of Coherence, Sense of Self-Growth, Self-Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Goal Orientation, Creative Self-Concept), the «Monitoring-Creating-Problem Solving Subsystem» (5 subscales: Change and Challenges Orientation, Social Monitoring, Problem-Solving Capacity, Social Mobilizing Capacity, Social Creating Capacity), the «Self-Regulation Subsystem» (4 subscales: Synchronicity, Impulse Control, Impulse Control, Emotional Control, Irritability Control).
We obtained satisfying indicators of correspondence for the shortened and restructured version of the Inventory to the three-component structure of psychological immunity (CFI=0.911; RMSEA=0.08 [0.063-0.093]), which exceed all other considered models. In total, the article considered 9 models, which were compared with the confirmatory factor analysis (Jamovi 2.6.26).
Reliability-consistency, reliability-stability, average discrimination of all subscales and the Inventory indicators were determined, which proved applicability the Inventory to solve research and applied problems of psychological examination. The statements and subscales that required further improvement were determined (Self-Efficacy, Synchronicity, Impulse Control, Irritability Control); test norms were formed for all indicators of the Inventory. The adapted method opens up new opportunities for studying psychological immunity in different age and social groups, monitoring the dynamics of psychological states under stressful influences, and assessing the effectiveness of psychological correctional programs, which is of particular importance for controlling Ukrainians’ resource status during the full-scale war.
Key words: psychological immunity, adaptation of the methodology, psychometric properties, psychological resources, psychological stability, stress resistance, adaptability, self-regulation.
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