Psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Professional quality of life scale: Preliminary results
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Stamm's (2010) model of professional quality of life distinguishes two aspects of working in helping professions: positive (compassion satisfaction) and negative (compassion fatigue consisting of burnout and secondary traumatic stress), which represent possible effects of helping on the lives of the helpers. Research on professional quality of life in Slovak settings is scarce, since no reliable and valid instrument measuring the concept is available. The objective of the research was therefore to examine the psychometric properties (internal consistency, convergent and discriminant validity) of the Slovak version of the Professional quality of life scale, which was translated from the original English version by Stamm (2009). Students of social work in external study form who worked in the field of social care and people working in helping professions (counselors, social workers) participated in the research and completed Professional quality of life scale, Life orientation test - revised, Emotional habitual subjective well-being scales, Rosenberg self-esteem scale, State-trait anxiety inventory and Beck depression inventory. It was hypothesized that higher level of compassion satisfaction would be linked with optimism, self-esteem, higher frequency of experiencing positive emotions (joy, happiness, pleasure, energy), lower frequency of experiencing negative emotions (anger, fear, sadness, shame, guilt, pain) and low levels of anxiety and depression. Compassion fatigue (burnout and secondary traumatic stress) was expected to be associated with pessimism, lower self-esteem, rare experiencing positive emotions, frequent experiencing negative emotions and higher levels of depression and anxiety. Description of the psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Professional quality of life scale and the interpretation of the results are discussed in the paper.
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Keywords: Professional quality of life scale; Reliability; Validity; Slovak version
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