Pristatomo tyrimo tikslas – įvertinti psichologų užuojautos keliamo nuovargio, teikiamo pasitenkinimo bei pervargimo tarpusavio ryšius ir sąsajas su sveikatai palankiu elgesiu. Tyrime dalyvavo 103 psichologai. Taikytos metodikos: Profesinio gyvenimo kokybės skalė (The Professional Quality of Life Scale – ProQOL; Stamm,1999–2000), Rūpinimosi savimi ir gyvenimo stiliaus pusiausvyros klausimynas (Self Care and Lifestyle Balance Inventory; McKay, 2004).Rezultatai atskleidė teigiamą užuojautos keliamo nuovargio koreliaciją su pervargimu ir neigiamą užuojautos teikiamo pasitenkinimo koreliaciją su pervargimu. Stipriau išreikštas sveikatai palankus elgesys siejasi su didesniu užuojautos teikiamu pasitenkinimu ir mažesniu užuojautos keliamu nuovargiu. Nustatyti reikšmingi išgyvenamos užuojautos pasekmių ir sveikatai palankaus elgesio būdų ryšiai: įsiklausymo į kūno signalus, gebėjimo atsikratyti darbinės įtampos ir kt. Nustatytos sąsajos tarp užuojautos teikiamo pasitenkinimo ir darbo krūvio, tiriamųjų laikymo save tikinčiais ir lankymosi bažnyčioje, tarp pervargimo ir švietimo įstaigoje išdirbto laiko bei sveikatai palankaus elgesio ir darboviečių skaičiaus.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: užuojauta, užuojautos keliamas nuovargis, užuojautos teikiamas pasitenkinimas, pervargimas, sveikatai palankus elgesys.Relationship between experienced compassion outcomes, burnout and health-related behaviour among psychologistsAukštinaitytė R., Zajančkauskaitė-Staskevičienė L. SummaryThe profession of psychologist is based on compassion which may have positive and negative outcomes for a professional. The energy of compassion can be transformed either into fatigue or into satisfaction, depending on the psychologist’s skills to increase affect, resources, and self-care as well as to maintain a balance between personal and professional life. Compassion satisfaction is about the pleasure a psychologist derives from being able to do work well and feeling a pleasure to help others. Compassion fatigue is a direct result of exposure to client’s suffering and complicated by a lack of support in the workplace. Burnout is not directly related to compassion but associated with feelings of hopelessness and difficulties in dealing with conflicts between professional standards and personal feelings and values. Self-care is a potential mechanism to increase the positive and reduce negative outcomes of work on psychologists’ well-being.The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and burnout as well as correlations of these constructs with health-related behaviour among psychologists. 103 psychologists took part in the study. The Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL, Stamm, 1999–2000), Self Care and Lifestyle Balance Inventory (McKay, 2004) were used.The results have indicated that compassion fatigue positively correlates with burnout (r = 0.725, p < 0.001). In contrast, compassion satisfaction negatively correlates with burnout (r = –0.209, p = 0.035). Also, it has been found that self-care is related with a higher level of compassion satisfaction (r = 0.356, p < 0.001) and with a lower level of compassion fatigue (r = –0.195, p = 0.048). Significant positive correlations have been found among a greater level of compassion satisfaction and sleeping quality, listening to the signals of one’s own body, preservation of good working and communication skills and healthy limits when struggling for onerself, short brakes at work, time spent with trusted people, self-believe and believing in one’s own abilities and satisfaction with important things in life. Compassion fatigue negatively correlates with the ability to leave the working strain behind, hearing the signals of one’s own body, preservation of healthy limits when struggling for oneself and not allowing others to exhaust you and setting real goals of life and systematically reaching them. Positive correlation has been recognized between compassion satisfaction and workload (r = 0.211, p = 0.033). A greater level of compassion satisfaction is also associated with the participants of the study considering themselves believers and church visiting. Additionally positive correlation has been found between psychologists’ burnout and a greater length of time working in education section. Self-care negatively correlates with a greater number of employments.Keywords: compassion, compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, burnout, health related behaviour.

Abstract. Background. In order to develop an effective alcohol and other psychoactive substance use prevention programs and improving addiction treatment methods, it is useful to determine the evolution of specific psychological factors of addiction disease during treatment. The aim of the research is to determine the changes in selfefficacy and perceived social support of alcohol-addicted men and women during the treatment. Results. The overall self-efficacy, drinking refusal self-efficacy and perceived social support of alcohol-addicted men and women at the end of treatment was higher than at the start of treatment. Changes in the overall self-efficacy, drinking refusal self-efficacy and perceived social support do not differ in alcohol-addicted men and women in the course of treatment. The results showed that there is a link between the overall self-efficacy, drinking refusal self-efficacy and perceived social support in alcohol-addicted women and men both at the start and at the end of treatment, when the participants age ranges from 40 to 59 years. A link has also been found between the overall self-efficacy and perceived social support after the treatment among the participants aged from 18 to 39 years. The Linear regression model showed that a change in drinking refusal self-efficacy in women can be predicted in regard to their perceived social support change, drinking refusal self-efficacy before treatment and perceived social support before 1 For contact: milda.cibulskyte@gmail.com.Milda Cibulskytė, Loreta Zajančkauskaitė-Staskevičienė 24 treatment. A change in drinking refusal self-efficacy in men can be predicted with regard to their drinking refusal self-efficacy before treatment and the change in the overall self-efficacy.

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Abstract. Background: It is well known that unhealthy lifestyle is one of the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality due to cardiac diseases. People who suffered or are suffering from heart related problems usually undertake cardiac rehabilitation procedures which help them improve their health and make lifestyle changes. So it is important to have a valid, short, clear measure of readiness to change health behavior in the native (Lithuanian) language as change in lifestyle can be a problematic field in rehabilitation of cardiac patients in Lithuania. According to the results of national study, smoking, unhealthy diet, low physical activity, overweight and risky alcohol consumption persist as actual problem among Lithuanian adults nowadays. The aim of this analysis is to examine psychometric properties of the "Readiness to change questionnaire" (RCQ, Rollnick et al., 1992) among cardiac rehabilitation patients. Methods: The internal consistency, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and factor structure of the RCQ was examined for 59 cardiac patients aged between 35 and 70 years (Mean = 55.68, SD = 8.62). The questionnaires for alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity and diet were completed at the beginning and end of rehabilitation. Results: Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the RCQ showed poor to good internal consistency (0.51-0.87) and test-retest reliability Pearson's correlations ranged from 0.31 to 0.84. Concurrent validity is supported for the stages of alcohol consumption and diet. An exploratory factor analysis of the RCQ indicated the three-factor solution for readiness to change alcohol consumption and diet data best. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that models demonstrate approximate data-model fit. Conclusions: The Lithuanian version of the RCQ is a reliable measure for group testing. Further investigations regarding validity and factor structure are required with a bigger sample size.

Psoriasis is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory skin disease that causes rashes on the skin of the body, scalp and nails. People with psoriasis face a variety of psychosocial difficulties due to their illness. The quality of life in psoriasis deteriorates due to the perceived stigmatization in society that a person affected by the disease may experience. Rashes, dandruff is often considered subjectively the worst aspect of the disease, as visible skin lesions change patients' appearance and perception of body image. A person well-being and health-related behaviors are related to a person’s perception of their health locus of control. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived stigmatization, body image perception, and health locus of control in psoriasis patients. Participants filled the Feelings of Stigmatization Questionnaire, Dresden Body Image Questionnaire (DBIQ-NL) and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC). The study involved adults with psoriasis (n = 111). The results showed that men with psoriasis have a more positive perception of the body, have perception that others were responsible for their health. The degree of skin damage in patients is directly related to perceived stigmatization. For psoriasis sufferers, the belief that control over their health is beyond their control acts as a mediator between perceived stigma and body acceptance.