Publication details
Development and use of Test of responses to stress
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Test of responses to stress is new graphics projective psychological test which is intended to assessment of stress situations and their responses on these situations. We collected the data from three sequential versions and using them we developed current version of TRS. Basic version of TRS (Test of responses to stress) is determined to computer administration in platform of MuTeP. Computer version of TRS consists of general tasks, personal data, graphics version of stress situations, two open questions and five scales related to the situations. Furthemore, the paper draws on qualitative research of TRS, which was included into therapeutic interview with hospitalised children with chronic illness. The data will be used in developing the test and also for analysis of individual stress coping of children with chronic illness. We found that there were a small relationship between describing emotion on the picture and ability to communicate the own emotions in the therapeutic interviewSo, it seems that it could be a good alternative way to detect individual coping strategies of children with low ability to verbal expresion of own emotions. In this paper we discused the development of new psychological method, its theoretical ground and sequential verification of applicability of Test of responses to stress. As well we presented the results of individual analysis of stress coping. In addition we focused on the potentiality of using the test in comparative study between children from Czech republic and the UK. |