Selected psychological, organizational and socio-demographic determinants of students’ anxiety, depression, stress, and academic burnout
The goal of the project is to investigate study-related psychological well-being and burnout, in students pursuing various fields of study, in particular medical, technical and psychology degrees. The study addresses possible significance of socio-demographic variables, health-related variables, personality and organizational variables in the impact on severity of anxiety, depression, stress, and student burnout. The goal is to identify psychological characteristics and conditions that may be considerably associated with students’ burnout.
Questions are posed relating to possible relationships between personality variables (such as traits included in the so-called psychological capital, self-efficacy), variables of an organizational nature (subjective assessment of academic life areas), socio-demographic variables and the assessment of stress, anxiety, depression, and student burnout. The project also aims to compare the severity of anxiety, depressive symptoms, stress, and student burnout in students of different study levels and majors.
We are conducting several cross-sectional studies and a longitudinal study in which the measurement of variables will be repeated one year and a few years after the initial year of study.
Researchers: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., SWPS University; Teresa Chirkowska-Smolak, Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan; Weronika Różycka, psychology student at SWPS University (initiator of the study); Barbara Ostafińska-Molik, Ph.D., Jagiellonian University, in collaboration with Professor Katarzyna Stąpor, Silesian University of Technology; Alicja Łukaszczyk, Ph.D. AGH University in Kraków, and Dominik Adamek, M.A., Opole University.
Selected correlates of civic activity and civic behavior of students. Psychological well-being, stress and depressive symptoms experienced by young people, and their civic engagement
The goal of the project is to investigate the importance of psychological well-being (assessed according to Seligman’s 2011 PERMA model with the use of the Butler, Kern [2016] tool adapted to Polish by Ostafińska-Molik, Chudzicka-Czupała [2023]), and exacerbation of stress and depressive symptoms, and are associated with different types of civic behavior, passive, semi-active and active (Zalewska and Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz, 2011). This knowledge can provide important information for designing the practical programs to support social participation and civic engagement of young people.
Researchers: Agata Chudzicka-Czupala, Ph.D., and the study initiators – SWPS University students Magdalena Ludwik and Bartosz Grabski, members of the Social Psychology Student Research Club.
New tools, old habits: determinants of students' unethical use of AI. International Perspective
The goal of the project is to verify the significance of selected predictors of intent to use AI, e.g., ChatGPT, to fraudulently achieve academic goals (such as generating the content of written papers, paraphrasing existing sources and presenting them as one's own, generating false research data and bibliographies, using AI during tests, etc.).
As this phenomenon is a growing threat to the quality of academic teaching worldwide, it calls for in-depth scientific analysis. In this research project, we are interested in the attitudinal dimensions included in Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (1991), demographic factors and students' previous habits. We want to find an answer to the question of whether the use of AI to pursue academic goals in a fraudulent manner is a completely new phenomenon - or just a new iteration of a long-standing problem in universities around the world. The study will be carried out in different countries so that we can also control for variables such as the local availability/popularity of AI and the prevalence of corruption in a given country when verifying the main hypotheses.
The different prevalence of academic fraud in its "traditional" forms and the different possibilities of its control in different cultural conditions are indicated by previous research (cf. Chudzicka-Czupala, et al; 2016; Grimes, 2004; Hayes, Introna, 2005).
The project was presented by Dr. Maciej Kościelniak at the talk "Old Habits, New Tools: Unpacking the Psychological Continuity ofAcademic Dishonesty in the AI Era" at the Joint International Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia. Plagiarism, Prevention and Pedagogy in a new Digital Era in Canada.
Researchers: Maciej Kościelniak, Ph.D. and Professor Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, in collaboration with Anna Michalska, Ph.D. from Warwick Business School, UK and Irene Glendinning, Ph.D. from Coventry University, UK.
Strengthening people's commitment to volunteering for refugees from Ukraine. Motivations of volunteers and intentions behind volunteering - the role of psychological and social factors
Financed by the Foundation for Polish Science.
Project no.: PL-UA/2022/3 1E0C (No. 1295-31)
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Trust in the organization, conditions and consequences
The goal of the project is to verify a theoretical model of trust in organizations, developed on the basis of a literature review, and to study selected conditions conducive to developing trust or the lack of it, in the workplace. Specific objectives include formulation of assumptions for the design of an intervention in the organization aimed at building organizational trust.
Principal Investigator: Agnieszka Czerw, Ph.D., Researchers: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D. and Damian Grabowski, Ph.D.
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Personality and work ethic versus workaholism. Temperament and character components, work beliefs as predictors of work obsession and compulsion
The project examines potential relationships between temperament traits, i.e. negative emotionality and activity/extroversion, components of work ethic and conscientiousness, considered as a dimension of character, and workaholism.
Principal Investigator: Damian Grabowski, Ph.D., Researchers: Professor Katarzyna Stąpor from the Silesian University of Technology and Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D..
Polish adaptation of the Workplace PERMA Profiler
The goal of the project is to develop a Polish version of the questionnaire that investigates employee well-being. The result of the project will provide an important contribution to the Polish "market" of methods of diagnosing well-being in the context of work because so far, there have been very few Polish questionnaires that go beyond the hedonistic perspective of job satisfaction. The project has been inspired by a study published in 2016 (Butler & Kern, 2016), which described years of research focused on the design of a tool, which was based on one of the better-known theories of well-being, namely Martin Seligman's PERMA (2011, 2018). The Polish adaptation of this tool will enable researchers to carry out studies based on this popular model of well-being, which encompasses both hedonistic and eudaimonistic perspectives, including those in the field of work psychology.
Researchers: Agnieszka Czerw, Ph.D., Paweł Fortuna, Ph.D., from the Catholic University of Lublin.
Psychometric properties of the Polish adaptation of the PERMA Profiler questionnaire ("Polish adaptation of the PERMA Profiler")
The goal of the project is to establish the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the well-being questionnaire, prepared by Julie Butler, Margaret L. Kern and Marlena Kossakowska.
Researchers: Barbara Ostafińska-Molik, Ph.D., from Jagiellonian University, Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Agnieszka Czerw, Ph.D., Paweł Fortuna, Ph.D., from the Catholic University of Lublin.
The significance of the use of ACT therapy in the development of psychological flexibility of employees with high levels of perfectionism
The purpose of the study is to find out whether, and if yes, then how the application of the Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques and tools is related to the psychological flexibility of employees struggling with the consequences of maladaptive perfectionism.
Principal Investigator: Anna Gorzołka, Ph.D., Researchers: students from SWPS Unviersity's AkCepTacja Student Research Club .
Psychological and health consequences of war in Ukraine. Coping with stress by people in Ukraine, Poland and Taiwan
The project concerns the determinants of mental health and psychological response to the threat of war in Ukraine. The goal is to culturally compare the determinants of the responses of the surveyed residents of different countries to war-related stress.
Researchers from Poland: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Mateusz Paliga, Ph.D., Marta Żywiołek-Szeja, M.A., Damian Grabowski, Ph.D., Researchers from other countries: psychologists and psychiatrists from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, the National University of Singapore, Asia University, Taiwan, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Psychological and health consequences of coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
The project examines determinants of mental health and psychological response to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
Researchers from Poland: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Damian Grabowski, Ph.D., Marta Żywiołek-Szeja, M.A., Researchers from other countries: psychologists and psychiatrists from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Education, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China, the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, the University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, the East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA, the Zahedan Branch of the Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran, the University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention at the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health, DHQ Hospital Jhelum, Jhelum, Pakistan, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, the University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran, Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN), Chiang Mai, Thailand, and other universities.
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Remote, Hybrid and Onsite Working. Selected Psychological Aspects
The goal of the project is to expand the body of knowledge concerning the determinants of well-being and employee stress associated with different ways of work performance.
Principal Investigator: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Researchers: Marta Żywiołek-Szeja, M.A., Damian Grabowski, Ph.D., and Mateusz Paliga, Ph.D. from the University of Silesia.
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Motivation and selected determinants behind choosing psychology studies
The purpose of the study is to obtain information on the motives and psychological determinants of undertaking psychology studies. The knowledge obtained will allow a better understanding of the reasons for choosing this field of study and will enable researchers to learn more about the psychological determinants of motivation to study psychology.
Principal Investigator: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Researchers: Marta Żywiołek-Szeja, M.A., Bartosz Pudełek, psychology student from SWPS University in Katowice, Barbara Ostafińska-Molik, Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University, and students from the Social Psychology Student Research Club.
Development and professionalization of the business trainer and coach profession. Comparative sociological study of the Polish and Ukrainian personal development market
The goal of the project is to compile a comparative description and explanation of the professionalization of the business trainer profession from the perspective of business trainers and coaches. The study will also define criteria determining that a given activity or service is a profession, and it will confirm whether in recent years, these criteria have been met in the area of business training and coaching. The project will also provide recommendations for improvements pertaining to personal development services, both in Poland and Ukraine.
Principal Investigator: Anna Gorzołka, Ph.D..
Reasons for reading blogs and memorial pages published by people who lost a child. Motivations of "emotional rubberneckers"
The researchers are interested in motivations of people who read blogs of those who have experienced terminal illness and a death of a child, and who share their grief online. Using the "Reiss Motivation Profile" and qualitative methods, the researchers examine the life motivations of the so-called "emotional rubberneckers", i.e. readers of bereavement blogs and websites dedicated to deceased children. The researchers study the reasons and psychological sources of regular behavior of this type (motivation), such as interest in the person's health, compassion, desire to help, sense of connection, and others.
Principal Investigator: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Researchers: Agata Basek, M.A., from the Cordis Hospice in Katowice and the Municipal Hospital Network in Chorzów.
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Stigmatization of people who have experienced a mental health crisis. Determinants of stress and coping, and the role of peer-support
The researchers examine the impact of stigmatization of people who have experienced mental health crisis in the social and individual context. In particular, they study the well-being of people with a psychiatric diagnosis and the determinants of their adaptation to the environment. The project focuses on peer-support.
Principal Investigator: Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Ph.D., Researcher: Mateusz Biernat, M.A., from the Pedagogical University of Krakow.
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