ISSN 2520-6265 (print)
ISSN 2520-6273 (online)
Authors:
O. O. Veldbrekht, PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences),
Associate Professor, Department of General Psychology,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0000-0001-7805-0890
E-mail: veldbreht@gmail.com
D. V. Marfina, Second-year undergraduate student,
Faculty of Psychology,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0009-0004-5815-0930
E-mail: dmarfina13@gmail.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/upj.2025.1(23).3
Article Information
Issue: 1(23) 2025, pages: 41-68
Language: Ukrainian
Received: 10.02.2025
1st Revision: 16.02.2025
Accepted: 19.02.2025
The article describes the procedure for adapting and validating a Ukrainian version of the questionnaire for assessing the perceived availability of social resources – the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (short version with 12 items). The theoretical foundation of this instrument is the stressor-support matching model, developed by S. Cohen and colleagues within the cognitive theory of stress. Subjective perception of social support influences significantly how individuals interpret stressful situations as well as their ability to cope such situations, thus contributing to physical health and psychological well-being during adverse life events. The tool has a well-established history and has been widely used in clinical, social and psychological research. The brief version ISEL-12 provides an economical procedure for conducting and processing, suitable for online surveys. At the same time, the questionnaire provides a differentiated assessment of three functional subtypes of social support: belonging, appraisal and tangible support. The adaptation procedure included forward and backward translation, a pretest with a focus group of 26 university students, and a large-scale validation study on a sample of 437 participants aged 14 to 74. The empirical results supported psychometric soundness of the Ukrainian version. The instrument demonstrated high internal consistency, good discriminant capacity, retest reliability, structural and convergent validity, and predictive validity in relation to perceived stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed adequacy of the three-factor structure, supporting the theoretical model of social support. Our adapted version of Ukr-ISEL-12 can be recommended for use by specialists in scientific research and practitioners in psychological and social care settings. The article includes the questionnaire form and sample normative data.
Key words: social support, subjective perception, stress, coping, personal resources, psychological well-being, depression, anxiety.
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