Year 2024

• Urban Food Self-Production in the Perspective of Social Learning Theory: Empowering Self-Sustainability

  Publication

  • E. Duda
  • A. Korwin-Szymanowska

  - Year 2024

  Urban food production is becoming an increasingly significant topic in the context of climate change and food security. Conducting research on this subject is becoming an essential element of urban development, deepening knowledge regarding the benefits, challenges, and potential for the development of urban agriculture as an alternative form of food production. Responding to this need, this monograph presents the results of...

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Year 2023

• Conspiracy beliefs about groups benefitting from the COVID-19 pandemic moderate the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and subjective assessment of the efficacy of preventive measures

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  • I. Nowakowska
  • A. Zarazińska

  - STUDIA PSYCHOLOGICA - Year 2023

  Drawing on the protective motivation theory and parallel response model, in this cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study (N = 212) performed on the general public (age 18-65), we aimed to test the potential interaction effects of fear of COVID-19 and conspiracy beliefs about groups benefitting from the COVID-19 pandemic in predicting subjective assessment of the efficacy of three COVID-19 preventive measures. The results...

• Emotional distress, burnout and sense of safety during the COVID-19 pandemic in teachers after the reopening of schools

  Publication

  • D. Pankowski
  • E. Pisula
  • K. Wytrychiewicz-Pankowska
  • I. Nowakowska
  • A. Banasiak
  • M. Markiewicz
  • A. Jórczak-Kopeć

  - Advances in Cognitive Psychology - Year 2023

  The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on people's psychological well-being and mental health. This study aimed to identify factors linked to emotional distress, burnout and sense of safety in teachers related to the reopening of Polish schools after lockdown, remote work, and the holiday period between March and August 2020. A total of 1,286 teachers from different educational institutions participated in the...

• Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour through an educational mobile application: Preliminary insights from early adopters

  Publication

  • E. Duda
  • J. Kowal
  • I. Nowakowska
  • H. Obracht-Prondzyńska
  • H. C. Geirbo
  • K. Radziszewski
  • M. Romanowska
  • A. Wyciszkiewicz
  • J. Zawieska

  - International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies - Year 2023

  This article aims to explore the extent to which the educational mobile application PULA supports and promotes pro-environmental behaviours, identify the most utilised functionalities by early adopters, and explore the least engaged functionalities. The study employs a quantitative approach based on data collected from the application. The analysis provides a comprehensive understanding of users' experiences and behaviours within...

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• The importance of trust and altruistic social orientation for COVID-19 distress

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  • D. Jasielska
  • J. Rajchert
  • I. Nowakowska

  - Current Issues in Personality Psychology - Year 2023

  Background: The COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest global health crisis in decades, has been a difficult experience for nations all over the world. In the present study we wanted to assess to what extent a positive attitude towards others, expressed in altruistic social orientation and a high level of trust, would be linked to lower levels of COVID-19 distress in infected and non-infected individuals. Participants and procedure:...

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Year 2022

• Does pandemic denial help or harm? Belief in COVID-19 and experience of it affect psychological consequences of using neurotic defence mechanisms

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  • I. Kaźmierczak
  • I. Jelonkiewicz-Sterianos
  • I. Nowakowska
  • J. Rajchert
  • A. Zajenkowska
  • A. Jakubowska
  • M. Bodecka-Zych

  - Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna - Year 2022

  Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic may activate thoughts of death, leading to aversive psychological states. In such situations, defence mechanisms emerge; however, their adaptability depends on many factors. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between neurotic defence style and depressive symptoms. We assumed that the sense of coherence underlies this correlation and investigated how both believing (or not)...

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• The mediational role of future and past time perspectives in the relationship between negative affectivity and sense of coherence

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  • I. Nowakowska
  • I. Jelonkiewicz

  - PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS - Year 2022

  Sense of coherence (SoC) can promote positive coping, and one of its most prominent negative correlates is negative affectivity (NA). In the current study, we hypothesized that future and past time perspectives (TPs) will mediate the relationship between sense of coherence and negative affectivity, and the inverse relationship. The study was questionnaire-based, performed online. N = 719 participants aged 25-45 from...