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Center for Research on Personality Development

Institute of Psychology

The Center for Research on Personality Development conducts studies on development of personality structures, personality disorders, and the impact of personality changes on human ability to face daily life requirements.

Center for Research on Personality Development SWPS University

Research Goals

The center focuses on short- and long-term quantitative longitudinal studies. Currently, we are researching the following issues: the role of perfectionism in adaptation to the requirements of daily life, identity development, personality determinants of parental burnout and regretting having children.

Research Areas

Currently, we focus on publication and dissemination of research results in the following areas:

Perfectionism

Perfectionism is a personality trait, which manifests as having unrealistic standards, strong self-criticism, and fear of failure.

The Center for Research on Personality Development conducts research on the development of different forms of perfectionism (e.g. adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism) as well as on the impact of perfectionism on adaptation to various social roles, such as a student, partner or a parent.

Identity

Identity is defined as a personality structure, which develops in the process of one’s identification with values, plans, and social roles. A well-developed and stable identity allows people make decisions, helps to cope with stress, and provides a buffer protecting individuals from psychological disorders. Developmental psychologists deem the identity development process to be the most important developmental task that people face over the course of their lifetimes.

The Centre for Research on Personality Development studies the development of identity in adolescents and adults.

Parental Burnout

Having children may lead to negative outcomes. One of the most serious difficulties experienced by parents includes parental burnout, i.e. a syndrome which manifests as a prolonged and extreme exhaustion caused by fulfilling the parental role. Parental burnout leads to self-isolation from one’s child/children, doubting one’s parenting competencies, and even regretting having children.

Researchers estimate that globally between 2 to 12 percent of parents experience strong parental burnout, which results from a disrupted balance between resources and burdens in the life of the parent. The Center for Research on Personality Development researches the role of personality traits in parental burnout.

Team

Konrad Piotrowski
Ph.D. / Associate Professor

Head of the Center for Research on Personality Development

psychologist, Principal Investigator in the Polish team of the Parenthood Regret Scale project

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Janowicz, Kamil
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psychologist, psychotherapist, cancer psychologist
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Katarzyna Sanna
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Collaborators

Luzelle Naudé

Luzelle Naudé

Professor

University of the Free State South Africa
psychologist, researches indentity of communities in Africa

Doctoral Students

Michalina Dzielińska

Michalina Dzielińska

M.A.

special education teacher, currently studies clinical psychology of children and youth at SWPS University in Poznań

Marta Lasota

Marta Lasota

M.A.

Doctoral student at SWPS University’s interdisciplinary Doctoral School. She researches family dynamics, identity, and gender, applying AI tools.

Interns

Jakub Duras

Jakub Duras

 

4th year psychology student. He is interested in identity development, particularly in relation to illness and disability identity. He is also involved in research on identity and parental burnout.

Bartosz Horoszkiewicz

Bartosz Horoszkiewicz

 

5th year psychology student at SWPS University in Poznań, contributes to research projects on identity development

Nina Jasiek

Nina Jasiek

 

3rd year psychology student. She is interested in identity development, particularly in illness identity,

Aleksandra Juchacz

Aleksandra Juchacz

 

4th year psychology student and a cultural researchers. She is the Chair of the USWPS Student Research Club in Poznań. She is interested in neurodiversity, in particular the autism spectrum.

Aleksandra Mencel

Aleksandra Mencel

M.A.

School psychologist and academic teacher. She is interested in correlations between perfectionism and school/academic burnout, mechanisms that shape perfectionism in the school environment, and the impact of perfectionism on the learning processes and motivation.


Research Projects

The Center researches the role of perfectionism in adaptation to the requirements of daily life, identity development in adolescents and adults, and personality determinants of parental burnout.

Parental burnout in the first years of parenting: determinants and consequences

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Maternal gatekeeping and parental identity. Tool adaptation and pilot study

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Long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of adolescents: a preliminary study

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Verification of supraliminal activation of the attachment system in adulthood: a pilot study

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University studies during the pandemic: The role of perfectionism in the process of adjusting to university studies

The study will assess the correlation between perfectionism of university freshmen and changes related to their adjustment to university life. The results will show whether the level of perfectionism actually impacts different development of students who had to study during the coronavirus pandemic.

Characteristics of different levels of personality organization in parental burnout: The mediatory role of parental identity

The goal of the project is to assess the significance of the basic and specific personality traits in changing levels of parental burnout. We want to find out whether a stable self-identification as a parent prevents parents from parental burnout.

Why do some parents regret having children? This is a pilot study using mixed methods

The study is financed by a grant from the National Science Centre. The goal of the study is to identify the key factors conducive to some parents regretting having children. Principal Investigator: dr Konrad Piotrowski.

Parental burnout, parental identity and self-harm without suicidal intentions: A longitudinal study of mothers in late adolescence and early adulthood

The goal of the study is to assess whether the degree of parental burnout and the parental identity crisis in young mothers (between 30 and 35 year of age) is related to self-harm without suicidal intentions. During the project we will determine if the level of self-harm can be explained by fluctuations in the level of parental burnout and the crisis of self-identification as a parent.

Selected Publications

 

Identity

Adaptation of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) to the measurement of the parental identity domain.

Piotrowski, K. (2018). „Scandinavian Journal of Psychology”, 59, 157–166.

How good it would be to turn back time: Adult attachment and perfectionism in mothers and their relationships with the processes of parental identity formation.

Piotrowski, K. (2020). „Psychologica Belgica”, 60, 55–72.

Adult roles as predictors of adult identity and identity commitment in Polish emerging adults: Psychosocial maturity as an intervening variable.

Piotrowski, K., Brzezińska, A. I., & Luyckx, K. (2020). „Current Psychology”, 39, 2149–2158.

Statusy tożsamości a style tożsamości i funkcjonowanie emocjonalne uczniów szkół zawodowych.

Brzezińska, A. I., Czub, T., Piotrowski, K. (2014). „Psychologia Rozwojowa”, 4, 51–71.

Skala Wymiarów Rozwoju Tożsamości DIDS – wersja zrewidowana.

Piotrowski, K., Brzezińska, A I. (2017). „Psychologia Rozwojowa”, 4, 89–111.

Perfectionism

Child-oriented and partner-oriented perfectionism explain different aspects of family difficulties.

Piotrowski, K. (2020). „PLoS ONE” 15(8), 1–19.

Perfectionism and Identity Processes in Two Domains: Mediational Roles of Worry, Rumination, Indecisiveness, Shame, and Guilt.

Piotrowski, K. (2019). „Frontiers in Psychology”, 10:1864, 1–11.

Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Polish adaptation of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale.

Piotrowski, K. & Bojanowska, A. (2019). „Current Psychology”, 40, 2754–2763.

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