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Ewa Skimina, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in personality psychology. She is interested in personality structure and relations between various personality constructs. She researches the correlation between personality traits, value preferences, and everyday behavior. She co-developed a model of self-regulation competencies.

Dr. Skimina has participated in several research projects as an expert specializing in the experience sampling method used to measure psychological processes in real time. She continuously develops her skills in the area of advanced statistics. She was a research fellow at Northwestern University, in Illinois, United States, and won a scholarship provided by Poland’s Ministers of Education and Science for young researchers.

She contributed to several implementation projects, such as two linked projects aimed at the development of diagnostic tools for psychological and pedagogical support (personality scope and emotional-social scope). While working in these projects, she co-developed a procedure for the comprehensive interpretation of the diagnosis concerning one’s emotional-social functioning and temperament. She also participated in international projects, which led to the development of mobile apps, such as an app for diagnoses of individual competencies concerning the maintenance of work-life balance, and one for monitoring graduate employability skills (GES App).

She has published articles in the leading academic journals specializing in personality psychology, such as the Journal of Personality, European Journal of Personality, and the Journal of Research in Personality. She also co-authored the Polish version of the APA style manual – a standard used by publishers of academic papers on psychology.

At SWPS University, she teaches classes in personality psychology and advanced statistical analysis.