Аdaptation of research methods of tolerance to uncertainty into the Kazakh language

Abstract

Uncertainty creates difficulties that arise in society in determining the nature of scientific
knowledge, the image of a person and the self-determination of values. The solution to this problem can be
determined in accordance with the existential picture of the world based on the recognition of uncertainty
as the basic condition of being. Recognition of uncertainty and tolerance to it is a condition and a sign of
psychological maturity and health.
The article analyzes the concept of tolerance to uncertainty as one of the main characteristics of the
modern world and attempts by various authors to develop and implement a psychometric scale to measure
tolerance to uncertainty as a stable personal identity by the method of subjective self-assessment.
The article presents adapted Kazakh-language versions of the methods of D.McLane “Scale of
Tolerance To Uncertainty” and S. Badner “Tolerance and Intolerance To Uncertainty”. The purpose of the
study is to form a Kazakh-language version of the psychodiagnostic tools used in English and Russian,
to contribute to the replenishment of the psychodiagnostic fund in the Kazakh language with reliable
and valid methods. In the course of the study, the structure of tolerance to uncertainty is analyzed and
the characteristics of the corresponding constructs are given. The scale of tolerance to uncertainty by D.
McLane and the methodology of “Tolerance and Tolerance To Uncertainty” by S. Badner has been translated
into Kazakh, a number of psychological tools in Kazakh have been supplemented with a psychometric
questionnaire, the level of reliability of which (according to the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient) has been
confirmed by the SPSS program. These psychodiagnostic techniques can be used by Kazakh-speaking
scientists, psychologists, educational psychologists in the study of tolerance to uncertainty.