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To evaluate the construct validity (convergent and divergent) of Sivik Psycho Somaticism test (SPS) and test of Operationality (OPER), Pearson correlation coefficients between SPS scales and subscales and Karolinska Scheme of Personality (KSP) were calculated. Seventy-eight healthy individuals and 196 psychosomatic patients completed the SPS and OPER tests and KSP. The results show that the SPS and OPER subscales are significantly correlated to most KSP subscales. The correlations were higher for the psychosomatic group than for the normal population. The results confirm the validity of the SPS and OPER constructs.
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Author’s Note: Tatjana Sivik, Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine and the Neuroscientific Center, University of Göteborg, Sweden; Natasa Delimar, Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine, Göteborg, Sweden; Rebecca Schoenfeld, Department of Linguistics and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California (now at the Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine, Göteborg, Sweden). Correspondence regarding this article and requests for copies of the SPS and OPER tests as well as for copies of the scale properties of the tests should be directed to Tatjana Sivik, Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine, Kvibergsvägen 5, S-415 04, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Sivik, T., Delimar, N. & Schoenfeld, R. Construct validity of the Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational style: Correlations with Karolinska Scheme of Personality. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 34, 71–78 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688712
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