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Health & Coping Research Group

Institute of Psychology

The team of the Health & Coping Research Group specializes in health psychology, in particular various aspects of coping with prolonged stress.

Center for the Study of Democracy SWPS University

Research Goals

The main goal of the Health and Coping Research Group is to contribute to the development of health psychology, in particular the correlates of coping with prolonged stress, especially the determinants of behavior change related to one’s habits and lifestyle as well as those concerning the introduction of prophylactics. Currently the Center carries out three research programs:

  • Stress and Coping in Dyads Program: research on coping with stress in dyads. Leader: Aleksandra Kroemeke, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
  • Chronic Stress Program: observational studies (natural experiments) related to coping with stress. Leader: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
  • Health Behavior Program: researching motivation to introduce health behavior change. Leader: Jolanta Życińska, Ph.D. / Associate Professor
Growiec, Katarzyna
Bio
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First and last name
Katarzyna Growiec
Academic degree or title
Ph.D. / Associate Professor
Permanent employee
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City
warszawa
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psychology
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Ph.D. / Associate Professor Katarzyna Growiecsocial psychologist
Gruszczyńska, Ewa
Bio
Tak
First and last name
Ewa Gruszczyńska
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Ph.D. / Associate Professor
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warszawa
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psychology
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Vice-Rector for International Affairs
Ph.D. / Associate Professor Ewa Gruszczyńskapsychologist
Życińska, Jolanta
Bio
Tak
First and last name
Jolanta Życińska
Academic degree or title
Ph.D. / Associate Professor
Permanent employee
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City
katowice
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psychology
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Ph.D. / Associate Professor Jolanta Życińskahealth psychologist

Doctoral Students

Marta Kijowska

M.A.

doctoral student, Stress and Coping in Dyads Program

Nadia Majewicz

Nadia Majewicz

M.A.

doctoral student, Stress and Coping in Dyads Program


International Partners

Simone Grimm

Professor

MSB Medical School Berlin

Lisa M. Warner

Professor

MSB Medical School Berlin

Gertraud Stadler

Professor

and the Heterogeneity Assessment Research Team, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Karolina Kołodziejczak-Krupp

Ph.D.

MSB Medical School Berlin

Ray Owen

Ph.D.


Collaborators

  • Formanowicz, Magdalena Institute of Psychology, SWPS University
    Bio
    Tak
    Permanent employee
    Tak
    Role in the Research Center
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    Specialization
    psychologist
    First and last name
    Magdalena Formanowicz
    Academic degree or title
    Ph.D. / Associate Professor
    City
    warszawa
    Discipline
    psychology
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    profesor uczelni
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    Ph.D. / Associate Professor Magdalena Formanowiczpsychologist
  • Dudek, Joanna Faculty of Psychology in Warsaw, SWPS University
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    Tak
    Permanent employee
    Tak
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    Specialization
    psychologist, specializing in ACT and FAP therapy
    First and last name
    Joanna Dudek
    Academic degree or title
    Ph.D. / Assistant Professor
    City
    warszawa
    Discipline
    psychology
    Position
    adiunkt
    Institute
    DecisionLab
    Faculty
    Array
    Role in the Institute
    []
    Ph.D. / Assistant Professor Joanna Dudekpsychologist, specializing in ACT and FAP therapy
  • Józefacka, Natalia Faculty of Psychology in Katowice, SWPS University
    Bio
    Nie
    Specialization
    psychologist
    Permanent employee
    Tak
    First and last name
    Natalia Józefacka
    Academic degree or title
    Ph.D. / Assistant Professor
    Discipline
    psychology
    Position
    adiunkt
    Role in the Institute
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    Institute of Psychology
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    []
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    Ph.D. / Assistant Professor Natalia Józefackapsychologist
  • Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, Małgorzata Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch
    Bio
    Nie
    Specialization
    oncologist
    Permanent employee
    Nie
    First and last name
    Małgorzata Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka
    Academic degree or title
    Dr. med. sci.
    Dr. med. sci. Małgorzata Sobczyk-Kruszelnickaoncologist
  • Błaszyk, Marta Wrocław Medical University
    Bio
    Nie
    Permanent employee
    Nie
    First and last name
    Marta Błaszyk
    Academic degree or title
    M.A.
    M.A. Marta Błaszyk
  • Mierzejewska-Floreani, Dorota psychologist
    Bio
    Nie
    Permanent employee
    Nie
    First and last name
    Dorota Mierzejewska-Floreani
    Academic degree or title
    M.A.
    Specialization
    psychologist
    M.A. Dorota Mierzejewska-Floreani
  • Research
    Projects

    The Center focuses on studies concerning health psychology.

    LONELY-EU: Providing Social Support and Health: Conditions and Temporal Dynamics

    The project, financed by a Horizon grant provided by the European Commission, brings together six European universities and research labs. The work carried out within the project is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

    Principal Investigator: Professor Katarzyna Growiec.

    Financed by: Horizon Europe program (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01), project no. 101177225.

    Read more about the project

    Usability and application of the Polish version of the Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS) questionnaire

    Research conducted in collaboration with Center for Research on Social Relations (Prof. Magdalena Formanowicz) and MSB Medical School Berlin (Dr. Karolina Kolodziejczak-Krupp). We are investigating the acceptability and usefulness of the Polish version of the Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS) questionnaire, which is used to collect demographic data in scientific research in an inclusive manner, taking into account the diversity of study participants.

    Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.

    Learn more about DiMIS  

    PROSPECT: The Social Isolation and Loneliness in Europe Network: Evidence-Based Policy Recommendations on its Causes, Consequences and Monitoring

    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). 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.

    Principal Investigators: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska and Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.

    Financed by: the National Science Centre and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; project no. 2020/39/G/HS6/02216.

    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 researchers examine psychological and social determinates of HIV/AIDS stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS.

    Principal Investigator from SWPS University: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska.

    Financed by: the National Science Centre; project no. 2019/35/B/HS6/00141.

    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 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.

    Leading investigator: Professor Jolanta Życińska, Principal Investigator: Professor Dariusz Doliński

    Financed by: the National Centre for Research and Development, project no. GOSPOSTRATEG-II/0007/2020).

    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). 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.

    Principal Investigator from SWPS University: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska

    Trajectories of Coping with Illness: a multilevel analysis in a patient-partner dyads.

    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.

    Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.

    Financed by: the National Science Centre; project no. 2013/10/E/HS6/00189.

    Read more about the project

    Publications

     

    2022

    The role of psychological flexibility in the meaning-reconstruction process in cancer: The intensive longitudinal study protocol.

    Kroemeke, A., Dudek, J., Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M. (2022). PLoS ONE, 17(10): e0276049

    Daily stress and received social support in hematopoietic cell transplant patient-caregiver dyads.

    Kroemeke, A., Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M. (2022). Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 35(6), 673-686.

    Daily analysis of autonomy support and well-being in patient-caregiver dyads facing haematopoietic cell transplantation.

    Kroemeke, A., Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M. (2022). Health Psychology Report, 10(1), 68-81.

    Physician-patient agreement on physicians’ communication skills and visit satisfaction in dermatology clinics: a one-with-many design.

    Kwissa-Gajewska, Z., Kroemeke, A. (2022). British Journal of Health Psychology, 27(3), 789-801.

    2021

    2020

    Affective Well‐Being, Rumination, and Positive Reappraisal among People Living with HIV: A Measurement‐Burst Diary Study.

    Gruszczyńska, E., & Rzeszutek, M. (2020). Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 12, 587-609.

    Daily received support and relational functioning in HCT survivors and their caregivers: additive and buffering effects.

    Kroemeke, A., Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M. (2020). Psycho-Oncology, 29(8), 1329-1337.

    2019

    Dyadic support and affect in patient-caregiver dyads following hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation: A diary study.

    Kroemeke, A., Knoll, N., Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M. (2019). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(6), 541-550.

    2018

    Complications in the sexual activity of women after surgical intervention for breast cancer.

    Kusz-Marcol, J., Konietzka, M., Życińska, J. (2018). Medical Science Pulse, 12 (2), 43-46.

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