2017 | Koło Badań Psychologicznych Experior

The relationship between action control and general self-efficacy – empirical data

Autorzy: Paulina Koryczan, Lucjan Dybczak, Kaja Malicka, Artur Sawicki, Paweł Andrzej Atroszko

Streszczenie: Psychological processes that lead from intention to a specific action have drawn attention of researchers for decades. The aim of this research was to investigate which aspects of willpower determine the feeling of high efficacy in achieving goals amongst some individuals whereas others struggle even with simple tasks.

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Validation of The Primary Emotional Appraisal Scale in the sample of university students

Autorzy: Paulina Golińska, Julia Barańska, Adriana Biernatowska, Julia Maria Balcerowska, Paweł Andrzej Atroszko

Streszczenie: Stress is one of the crucial factors affecting well-being in different aspects of people’ lives (The American Institute of Stress 2014). It can be perceived as a negative state that is a threat for health (distress) or an constructive and motivating reaction to a challenge which an organism has to face (eustress; Selye 1975). In this context, it seems to be highly relevant to create valid and reliable tools that could be used to assess differences in the perception of a stressful situation.

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Uzależnienie od zakupów – przegląd badań

Autorzy: Paulina Koryczan, Michalina Sęktas, Lucjan Dybczak, Kaja Malicka

Streszczenie: Zmiany współczesnego świata mają znaczący wpływ na funkcjonowanie człowieka i sprzyjają powstawaniu uzależnień. Uzależnienie od zakupów rozumiane jest jako kompulsywne, nadmierne i niekontrolowane kupowanie i wydawanie pieniędzy powodujące negatywne konsekwencje (Black 2007). Problem ten może dotyczyć do 10% populacji osób dorosłych (CBOS 2012). Celem artykułu jest przegląd badań i teorii związanych z tym rodzajem uzależnienia.

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Validity of Single-Item Self-Report Measure of Learning Engagement

Autorzy: Paulina Łukowicz, Anna Choynowska, Anna Maria Świątkowska, Piotr Bereznowski, Wiktor Kornel Wróbel, Paweł Andrzej Atroszko

Streszczenie: Interest in learning engagement of children and university students is constantly growing since 1960s. It resulted in plurality of theories conceptualizing the phenomenon and tools created to measure it. Moreover, studies about learning engagement are often conducted on large samples with multiple measurement in different time periods and multiplicity of other traits measured at the same time.

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Validity of Single-Item Self-Report Measure of Examination Stress

Autorzy: Paulina Łukowicz, Anna Choynowska, Anna Maria Świątkowska, Piotr Bereznowski, Wiktor Kornel Wróbel, Paweł Andrzej Atroszko

Streszczenie: Interest in the examination stress among children and university students, often referred to as test anxiety, has been constantly growing since 1950s. This phenomenon has quickly become subject of many theories, which spawned various tools to measure it.

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Why narcissists are using Facebook? – the relationship between narcissism dependent on others and using Facebook among students

Autorzy: Adriana Biernatowska, Julia Maria Balcerowska, Luiza Pianka

Streszczenie: The present study examined the relationship between narcissism dependent on others and styles of using Facebook in order to see what motivates narcissists when using social media. Depending on what is the main motive of regulating self-esteem there are different expressions of narcissism.

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Gender differences in using Facebook—preliminary analysis

Autorzy: Adriana Biernatowska, Julia Maria Balcerowska, Piotr Bereznowski

Streszczenie: The aim of the study was to examine gender differences in styles of using Facebook in order to see what motivates males and females when using social media. Different styles of using Facebook were proposed: Facebook as an integral part of life, Celebrities of Facebook, Gamers, Aware self-presenters, Fanpage members and Information seekers.

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The meaning of teacher’s unconditional positive regard towards students in educational contexts

Autorzy: Agnieszka Swarra, Monika Mokosińska, Artur Sawicki, Michalina Sęktas

Streszczenie: The aim of this article is to describe teachers’ attitudes which might influence the development of students’ potential in a positive and negative way as well. On the basis of previous research and humanistic psychology theories, it has been assumed that the therapist’s features which positively influence the client’s well-being can be reflected in the teacher-student relation.

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Further validation of Single-Item Self-Report Measure of Satisfaction with Life

Autorzy: Paweł Andrzej Atroszko, Artur Sawicki, Aleksandra Mąkinia, Bartosz Atroszko

Streszczenie: Valid, reliable and easily applied measures of well-being are essential in large surveys concerning public health, education and psychology. General satisfaction with life is often measured in such surveys. Previous studies showed that single-item self-report measure of satisfaction with life could be sufficient in terms of validity and reliability in certain research contexts. To provide more data on its psychometric properties convergent validity with Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al., 1985) was investigated.

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A comparison of general education students and special education students in terms of self-efficacy and hopelessness

Autorzy: Bartosz Atroszko, Agnieszka Swarra, Luiza Sendal

Streszczenie: The aim of this study was to compare general education students and special education students in terms of selfefficacy and sense of hopelessness. Two hypotheses were put forward. Hypothesis 1: Special education students have higher levels of self-efficacy than general education students. Hypothesis 2: Special education students have lower levels of hopelessness than general education students.

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