Beata Mirucka

University of Bialystok

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobów korzystania z uważności psychoterapeuty na zjawiska cielesności. W części pierwszej zarysowana została autorska koncepcja podmiotu ucieleśnionego, według której doświadczenie ciała jest nieustannie opracowywane w formie trzech podstawowych psychicznych reprezentacji: obrazu ciała, schematu ciała i poczuci...

The presented study was intended to shed some new light on the disturbance of body experience in persons with schizophrenia in reference to the Embodied Subject Model. The model proposes to complement theoretical linkages between concepts related to bodiness – body self and mental representations of the body (body schema, body image, body awareness...

Cel pracy Celem pracy było znalezienie odpowiedzi na pytanie: czy podczas pandemii COVID-19 poczucie zagrożenia życia oraz lęk jako stan stanowią istotne predyktory zakłóceń psychicznego funkcjonowania Polaków w wieku 18-65 lat? Metoda W przekrojowym badaniu internetowym wzięło udział 1466 polskich respondentów (1074 kobiet, 73,3%) w wieku 18-65 l...

The study explored the impact of experimentally induced state self-objectification on creative potential in visual domain in mid-adolescence. The experiment was conducted in a group of 140 adolescents at the age of 14–16: 70 boys (Mage = 15.21; SD = .81) and 70 girls (Mage = 14.99; SD = 0.83), randomly allocated to two groups: experimental and cont...

This paper investigates the impact of state self-objectification on body image and tests the role of self-esteem in this relationship. The study group consisted of 136 adolescents from a junior high school in Poland, aged 14 to 16 years: 65 boys (Mage = 15; SD = 0.79) and 71 girls (Mage = 14.93; SD = 0.82). Both age groups were relatively homogeneo...

Aim: The prospective analysis of sense of coherence (SOC) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) correlations in breast cancer survivors in the first year after surgery and the evaluation of the prognostic value of SOC for HRQOL. Method: Thirty-nine women aged from 34 to 68 years (mean = 55.92, standard deviation, SD = 8.84) completed the follo...

The main aim of the study discussed in the present paper was to explore the role of disturbances of bodily experience (of the sense of body ownership) in the regulation of a general emotional state. An attempt was made to verify the hypothesis that the autonomic emotional response (i.e. the objective state of stress) and the subjective sense of str...

Aim. The aim of the study was to verify the following hypotheses: (1) Do women who have undergone surgical treatment for breast cancer differ from healthy women in the way they experience their body (body self)?; (2) Does the surgical technique (mastectomy vs. breast conserving treatment) differentiate the group in terms of experiencing their body...

Objectives: The aim of the study was to verify the following hypotheses: (1) Do women who have undergone surgical treatment for breast cancer differ from healthy women in the way they experience their body (body self)?; (2) Does the surgical technique (mastectomy vs. breast conserving treatment) differentiate the group in terms of experiencing the...

Objective: Analysis of the relationship between the body self (BS) and the sense of coherence (SOC) in women after breast surgery due to cancer in comparison with a control group. Methods: A cross-sectional study in a group of 78 women using the Body-Self Questionnaire (BS-Q), and the Life Orientation Questionnaire (SOC-29). Statistics based on...

The aim of this research was to explore the connection between subjective age and positive orientation in old age. A group of 194 seniors were examined using the Positivity Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. The results revealed that a majority of the sample reported younger subjective age.Hierarchical reg...

Objectives: The aim of the research was to explore the susceptibility to disturbances in one's sense of body ownership induced in patients with schizophrenia. The research questions were: 1) Is Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) significantly more intense in a group of patients with schizophrenia than in a group of patients without a diagnosed mental illn...

The objective of the research presented in this paper was to investigate whether an association existed between the activation of the body schema and reaching adulthood among people in late adolescence. Three activities that are known to enjoy popularity among young people were analysed, namely: dancing, playing computer games that require motor in...

This study investigated the relationship between disorders of the body self and personality defence mechanisms of women with bulimia nervosa. It was hypothesized that women with bulimia nervosa would not form a homogeneous group in terms of the body self disorder and that the extent of this disorder would be signifi cantly related to personality fu...