Abstract
Psychoperiscope is a coined nomenclature which integrates periscope and psychometrics to mirror the mediating-moderating effect of cognitive coping strategies in the relationship between illness and quality of life. Coping refers to the effort toward mastering demands posed by harm, threat, or challenge being appraised and/or perceived as taxing available resources. It could be in terms of problem-focused versus emotion-focused as well as behavioral coping versus cognitive coping dimensions. The mediating-moderating effect of cognitive coping strategies, in the relationship between illness and quality of life, has not been clearly understood due to lack of a construct-relevant assessment scale. Therefore, this study developed a suitable scale using mixed methods embedded design. The mixed methods embedded design was opted for due to its advantageous measurement characteristics which would elucidate quality of life variance in relation to the effects of cognitive coping strategies on the variance of illness. Based on the Gandi Psychometric Model, the term psychoperiscope was coined as a new psychometric nomenclature and adopted in this context as the scale name. Psychoperiscope was pilot-tested on a sample of 30*3 (i.e., n = 30 × 3) participants, translated as consisting of 30 patients alongside their respective 30 family members and 30 clinical practitioners selected by the multistage sampling method. The final psychoperiscope, a 21-item (3-version) scale, proves significantly reliable for research and also serves as a valid screening tool. Following the useful data it elicited in this study, psychoperiscope would effectively generate more optimal and robust data if complemented with an experimental case study.
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Gandi, J.C. (2020). Psychoperiscope. In: Wiberg, M., Molenaar, D., González, J., Böckenholt, U., Kim, JS. (eds) Quantitative Psychology. IMPS 2019. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43469-4_23
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