PROSPECT: Providing Social Support and Health: Conditions and Temporal Dynamics
The study is carried out in collaboration with MSB Medical School Berlin (leaders of the German part of the project: Professor Lisa Marie Warner and Professor Simone Grimm). Project financed by the National Science Centre and Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft; project no. 2020/39/G/HS6/02216.
Principal Investigators: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska and Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
The team examines the conditions, which are beneficial from the point of view of the person providing support, and tests the dynamically changing health outcomes resulting from support provided by persons from general population in the so-called symmetrical dyads.
Meaning-reconstruction process in cancer: the role of psychological flexibility. Intensive longitudinal and experimental studies
The team verifies a new theoretical model developed through expanding the traditional integrative meaning-making model of coping by a model of psychological flexibility derived from the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
Project financed by the National Science Centre; project no. 2020/39/B/HS6/01927.
HIV/AIDS stigma and its mechanisms among people living with HIV: The role of minority stress and social support in two temporal perspectives.
The project is carried out by a consortium including the University of Warsaw (Principal Investigator: Professor Marcin Rzeszutek). The project is financed by the National Science Centre; project no. 2019/35/B/HS6/00141.
Principal Investigator from SWPS University: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska.
The researchers examine psychological and social determinates of HIV/AIDS stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS.
MEDFAKE: Building trust in immunization, using the latest tools of communication and social influence
The project is carried out in collaboration with partners of a consortium that includes: Centrum Medyczne Kształcenia Podyplomowego (Center for Postgraduate Medical Education) – project leader, the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), and Kozminski University. The study is financed by the National Centre for Research and Development, project no. GOSPOSTRATEG-II/0007/2020).
Research leader: Professor Jolanta Życińska
Principal Investigator: Professor Dariusz Doliński
The goals of the project include:
- developing influencing tools for encouraging women to make conscious decisions concerning child immunization, applicable in relationships between medical experts (doctors and midwives) and women carrying their firs uncomplicated pregnancies
- developing assumptions and tools for an educational campaign, introducing the topic of fake news identification into the public debate, addressed to parents who refuse to vaccine their children.
SAFEST: A novel project examining the social transmission of vaccination beliefs and attitudes.
The project is carried out in collaboration with the University of Cyprus (Principal Investigator: Angelos P. Kassianos) and financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus (Research and Innovation Foundation).
Principal Investigator from SWPS University: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska
The researchers investigate specific and universal factors related to people’s readiness to get vaccinated against SARS CoV-2. The study is carried out in six European countries.
Trajectories of Coping with Illness: a multilevel analysis in a patient-partner dyads.
Project financed by the National Science Centre; project no. 2013/10/E/HS6/00189.
Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
The researchers test bidirectional dynamic relationships between the variables of the coping process: individual (specific self-efficacy) and social (social support) resources as well as coping strategies, emotions (positive and negative), and somatic symptoms. The research perspective includes the interpersonal context: the study of patient-partner dyads in cases of hematopoietic cells transplant. Read more about the project