Psychological Assessment in Poland: Tracking Changes in Psychologists' Attitudes Toward Tests and Testing. A Decade's Perspective

• Published in: European journal of psychology open 2023-12, Vol.82 (4), p.181-192
• Main Authors: Brzezińska, Urszula, Rafalak-Matysiak, Maria
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: EFPA; EFPA survey; Exploratory Factor Analysis; Female; Human; Male; Measurement; Poland; Psychological Assessment; Psychologist Attitudes; Psychologists; Questionnaires; test use; testing culture
• ISSN: 2673-8627; 2673-8627
• DOI: 10.1024/2673-8627/a000052

Introduction: The EFPA Questionnaire on Test Attitudes of Psychologists (EQTAP) is periodically employed to gather the opinions of European psychologists. A decade after the prior study, Poland and other EFPA member states participated in a follow-up investigation. This paper presents the results of the 2020 Polish edition of the survey involving 650 psychologists. It also provides a comparison with the findings from the 2009 EQTAP survey. Methods: Using exploratory factor analysis, we delved into the EQTAP questionnaire's psychometric properties to evaluate the suitability of its thematic scales. Additionally, we undertook a detailed analysis, both at the single-item and scale level. Results: The results suggest a five-scale solution, which is consistent with other international studies (Evers et al., 2012, 2017). Reliability coefficients for the questionnaire scales range between 0.40 and 0.87, strongly correlating with scale length. Conclusion: The article concludes with a discussion of the Polish psychological testing culture, which has remained relatively unchanged from 2009 to 2020, signaling a stabilization (despite changes in the behavioral patterns in the testing context related to technology). In the last section, we include a list of Polish psychologists' most favored psychometric tests over the last decade.