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dr hab. Tomasz Besta
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- Associate Professor at Uniwersytet Gdański
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Year 2022
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Dataset Relating Collective Angst, Identifications, Essentialist Continuity and Collective Action for Progressive City Policy among Gdańsk Residents
PublicationThis dataset contains the individual responses of 456 residents of Gdańsk who participated in the study. The study was conducted before the second term of the presidential election in Poland in 2020. Demographic variables as well as psychological measures of angst, place attachment, identification in-group continuity and willingness to engage in collective action were collected. We also measured the perception of the risk of...
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Multiple Group Membership and Collective Action Intention
PublicationDatasets from two studies conducted in Poland on the relation between identity fusion, group identification, multiple group membership, perceived injustice, and collective action intention. The presented studies, in the context of protests against attempts to restrict abortion law, were conducted to examine the link between belonging to multiple groups, group efficacy & identification, perceived injustice and collective...
Year 2019
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Employees’ self-expansion as a mediator between perceived work conditions and work engagement and productive behaviors
PublicationThere has been increasing scientific interest in the relationships between self-perception and group identity development processes as well as the behavioural implications of these processes in organizational contexts. Recently, the concept of workplace self-expansion has been introduced to work and organizational psychology. That is, the self-expanding characteristics of work and the workplace have been related to job satisfaction...
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Expansion of the self of activists and nonactivists involved in mass gatherings for collective action
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Multiple group membership and collective actions of opinion-based internet groups: The case of protests against abortion law restriction in Poland
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Year 2018
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Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation
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Football, Conservative Values, and a Feeling of Oneness with the Group: A Study of Polish Football Fandom
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Is participation in music festivals a self-expansion opportunity? Identity, self-perception, and the importance of music’s functions
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Place Attachment and Collective Action Tendency
PublicationThree studies were carried out to examine how place attachment and collective action tendency are related and what role self-expansion and social interactions play in this relationship. In the first study (N = 156) we found that a more active form of attachment – place discovered – is a significant predictor of tendency to engage in collective action in favor of one’s neighborhood. In the second study (N = 197), we focused on...
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Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group’s Future
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What do I gain from joining crowds? Does self-expansion help to explain the relationship between identity fusion, group efficacy and collective action?
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Which is Better in Fat Times and in Lean Times: the Macho Man vs. the Nice Guy? Priming Effects on Polish and Norwegian Students’ Mate Preferences
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Year 2017
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Independent and Interdependent? Agentic and Communal? Self-construals of People Fused with a Group
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“OUT OF PLACE” IN THE CITY: DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOSPATIAL DISORDER SENSITIVITY SCALE IN URBAN SETTINGS
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Self-Presentation Strategies, Fear of Success and Anticipation of Future Success among University and High School Students
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Year 2016
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If my masculinity is threatened I won’t support gender equality? The role of agentic self-stereotyping in restoration of manhood and perception of gender relations.
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Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland)
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Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie
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When Membership Gives Strength to Act: Inclusion of the Group Into the Self and Feeling of Personal Agency
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Zastosowanie skali poczucia rozszerzenia Ja w miejscu pracy w warunkach polskich
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Year 2015
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Political extremism, group membership and personality traits: who accepts violence? / Extremismo político, pertenencia al grupo y rasgos de personalidad: ¿Quién acepta la violencia?
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Sense of Purpose in Life and Escape from Self as the Predictors of Quality of Life in Clinical Samples
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Year 2014
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Heart and mind in public transport: Analysis of motives, satisfaction and psychological correlates of public transportation usage in the Gdańsk–Sopot–Gdynia Tricity Agglomeration in Poland
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Is Easy Access Related to Better Life? Walkability and Overlapping of Personal and Communal Identity as Predictors of Quality of Life
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Original article Polish version of the Cognitive Distortions Scale (CDS): Preliminary validation and personality correlates
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OVERLAP BETWEEN PERSONAL AND GROUP IDENTITY AND ITS RELATION WITH RADICAL PRO-GROUP ATTITUDES: DATA FROM A CENTRAL EUROPEAN CULTURAL CONTEXT
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What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice.
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Year 2013
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