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Dorota Szczygieł, Ph.D., is a psychologist. She specializes in psychology of emotions and researches the impact of emotional intelligence on human behavior, emotion regulation in professional contexts (emotional labor), and determinants of professional stress in service professions. She co-developed the Emotional Labor Scale – a tool for the assessment of emotion regulation strategies in the service industry, and the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale – a tool for the assessment of emotional intelligence.

Dr. Szczygieł is a researcher in the International Investigation of Parental Burnout consortium, which researches determinants and consequences of parental burnout. Additionally, she has been collaborating with researchers from UCLouvain in Belgium on a project “Intervention and Research on Socio-Emotional Competence”.

She published numerous articles on emotion regulation and the correlation between emotions and wellbeing and the influence of emotional intelligence on this correlation. Her articles appeared in Annals of Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and the Polish Psychological Bulletin.

She is a member of the Polish Society of Social Psychology (PSPS), the Polish Association of Organizational Psychology, the Stress and Anxiety Research Society, and the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.

At SWPS University in Sopot, she teaches classes in psychological assessment and psychology of individual differences. She also teaches classes in psychology of emotions, emotional intelligence and professional stress in a postgraduate program offered by SWPS University.