Self-descriptive test of adolescents’ with mild intellectual disability coping in difficult situations with  significant persons (R-PDPI) - experimental version Cover Image

Projekcyjny test radzenia sobie młodzieży z lekką niepełnosprawnością intelektualną w sytuacjach trudnych z osobami znaczącymi (R-PDPI) – wersja eksperymentalna
Self-descriptive test of adolescents’ with mild intellectual disability coping in difficult situations with significant persons (R-PDPI) - experimental version

Author(s): Paweł Kurtek
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: mild intellectual disability; daily hassles with referent persons; coping

Summary/Abstract: The paper is concerned on presentation the projective instrument (R-PDPI) to get acquainted with youth’s with mild intellectual disability coping with teacher’s or parental humiliation and dominance and also mates’ bullying and isolation. The cognitive concept of universal social stress was adopted to prepare the set of daily hassles (Tyszkowa, 1986; Hobfoll, 2006). The Content adequacy was checked by the competent judges (the Difference of Proportion Test for independent data). Then an empirical research in the target group of 17-21 years old made it possible to find the range of the coping strategies, declared by themselves, which were sorted comparatively to dimensions: active, directiveness and social costs (Hobfoll, 2006). Analyzes of discriminative value of type of dealing in each situations enable to find their scope and coherence. So the psychometric goodness of the instrument were proved.

  • Issue Year: 20/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 77-94
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish