Beata Zarzycka

John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

This study examined the mediating role of forgiveness and hope in the relationship between religiousness and satisfaction with life in late adults in Poland. Participants were 237 people (165 females and 72 males) aged between 60 and 92. The mean age of the sample was 68.37 years (SD = 6.92), and the most represented religious affiliation was Roman...

Previous studies have demonstrated links between parental attachment styles and increased religiousness or conversion. However, few studies have focused on how parental attachment may influence departure from religion. This study examined the relationships between parental attachment characteristics and adolescent deconversion. The moderating role...

Although religiosity has been recognized as a predictor of health and well‐being, links between religiosity and body image have not been extensively examined. The objective of our study was to explore possible pathways through which religious commitment might be associated with body appreciation in a Polish sample. Participants ( N = 262) completed...

The book consists of ten chapters. The first four chapters present the issues of religious struggles: definitions and types of struggles; tools used to measure struggles; subjective and contextual predictors of struggles; and a review of research on the relationship of struggles with health, well-being, and quality of life. Chapter 5 presents the d...

Ten Zeszyt jest bardzo na czasie. Poświęcony został dwom wartościom, bliskości i autonomii, bez których trudno wyobrazić sobie życie szczęśliwe i spełnione. Pójdziemy ścieżką rozważań proponowanych przez s. Beatę Zarzycką ZSAPU, ich dopełnieniem zaś będzie rozważanie ks. Krzysztofa Wonsa SDS. Autorka jest doświadczonym psychologiem, skupia nas głów...

Objectives: Religiosity may serve as a personal source of support when people face a life-threatening illness, but it can also elicit stress. The main aim of this study is to show how various religious dimensions interplay in predicting death anxiety in patients diagnosed as having cancer. Material and Methods: In the cross‐sectional, descriptive‐a...

Emotions are essential in many areas of human life, including religion. Religion can arouse emotions, for example, God’s closeness can be a source of joy and gratitude, while God’s silence can cause anger or disappointment. Furthermore, and vice versa, emotions can affect how people experience or refer to God. This study investigated guilt and sham...

Catholicism is the predominant religion in Poland, but formal religious participation has decreased in recent years. Given this decline, we examined the current relevance of religious support (i.e., support perceived from church leaders, fellow Catholics, and God) to psychological functioning among Polish Catholics. We translated the Religious Supp...

This study aimed to adapt the Work Moral Disengagement Scale (WMDS) to Polish culture and explore its psychometric properties. The Polish version of the WMDS (WMDS-PL) was validated using a sample of 539 employees. The investigation covered the factor structure, internal consistency, measurement invariance, and associations with HEXACO personality...

The experiences of inner harmony and ethical sensitivity among late adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic depend on the interplay of perceptive factors, personal resources and cognitive and stress mechanisms. Using a sample from Poland, the present study examined the relationships between the perceptions of COVID-19 and the Light Triad and the c...

Religious and spiritual (R/S) struggles are defined as the occurrence of tension, conflict, or strain that focus on matters of ultimate significance perceived by people as sacred. The widespread prevalence of R/S struggles and the growing demand for research in this area created the need for a brief tool. Recently, the 14-item form of the Religious...

Deconversion is a biographical change in which one goes from claiming adherence to a religion to departing from it. A meaning system model can help us understand the processes through which deconversion occurs. Drawing on that framework, we explored how perceiving hypocrisy in one’s religious setting influences adolescent deconversion. Irrational b...

The pressured experienced due to COVID-19 for young people has become clearly visible in the domain of well-being. Although the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on emerging adults have been examined, little is known about the role played by risk perception and religiosity for their well-being. In addition, the mediating effects of mea...

Adolescence is a time of biological, psychological, and social changes during which youth may undergo religious/spiritual (r/s) transformations. Previous studies on adolescents’ r/s transformations have focused on factors that predict involvement in or converting to a religion. Deconversion, which is going from being religious to leaving religion,...

Objective: Relationships between pain and well-being are mediated by a variety of factors. This study examines a serial mediating role of meaning in life and coping in the relationship of total pain with psychological well-being in abdominal and pelvic cancer patients. Total pain is understood in terms of physical, psychological, social, and spiri...

This study aimed to investigate the differences in psychological functioning between nuns and those who left the order and the changes in personality in persevering nuns along the religious life timeline. Data were collected at two time points seven years apart. A total of 103 nuns participated in the research at Time 1; 45 left the order, and 29 p...

Cancer patients experience pain not only in its physical dimension, but also in a broader context that includes psychological, social, and spiritual aspects due to a higher level of anxiety and stress. The present prospective, longitudinal study examined the relationship between total pain and illness acceptance among pelvic cancer patients, taking...

The present study examines social, family, and romantic loneliness as mediators and satisfaction with social and intimate relationships as moderators in the link between daily spiritual experiences and purpose in life. This cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation involved 700 Polish adults at T1 (M = 39.83, SD = 9.24) and 236 at T2. Our cros...

The pressured experienced due to COVID-19 for young people has become clearly visible in the domain of well-being. Although the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on emerging adults have been examined, little is known about the role played by risk perception and religiosity for their well-being. In addition, the mediating effects of mea...

Introduction: The experiences of inner harmony and ethical sensitivity among late adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic depend on the interplay of perceptive factors, personal resources and cognitive and stress mechanisms. Using a sample from Poland, the present study examined the relationships between the perceptions of COVID-19 and the Light T...

Ingratiation refers to acts of flattery, typically given by a low-power person to a high-power one, performed to gain acceptance and approval. This study investigates ingratiation in the religious setting, asking whether people feeling high levels of guilt or shame tend to manifest such ingratiating behavior toward God. The study aimed to examine t...

Maturing in humanity requires a realized presence in authentic contact with oneself, close relationships with others, and openness to a relationship with God. The paradox of our time is that our experience is one of alienation, complicated relationships with others, and skepticism about God and that online accessibility has become a substitute for...

Objective: The Relational Depth Frequency Scale (RDFS) is a 6-item measure to assess the impact of relational depth experiences on psychotherapeutic outcomes. To date, the RDFS has only been validated in online samples of clinical and non-clinical individuals. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the RDFS in clinical dyads of...

Prayer is one of the most important aspects of religious/spiritual life. The psychological literature has identified various types of prayer and a few methods for measuring it. The Multidimensional Prayer Inventory (MPI) has received much attention from researchers since it allows for the capture of the most universal forms of prayer, characteristi...

During adolescence, biological, psychological, and social changes naturally propel youth to confront religious matters and form outlooks, moral beliefs, and religious attitudes. However, it is not uncommon for them to manifest changes of affiliation with a religious group or a total removal of all religious expressions within their lives. In Poland...

Adolescence is a period of exceptional sensitivity to the ideals that are subject to verification. Therefore, a phenomenon of deconversion (i.e. abandonment of religion) is observed among adolescents. The paper aims to analyze deconversion and its connections with the identity formation as well as mediators and moderators of these relationships. Pa...

Religion can determine how people perceive socio-political reality, especially in a cultural context in which religious affiliation is an important part of national identity. This has a special significance in the Polish cultural context, in which Catholicism is considered the national religion, and its institutional dimension plays an important ro...

Previous studies on the therapists’ burnout have focused on individual and environmental risk factors. This study aimed to analyze whether variables reflecting therapeutic relationship— the therapist experience of relational depth and quality of the therapeutic relationship—can be related to psychotherapist burnout. Four alternative path models wer...

People are often engaged in internal dialogues. It means that they adopt (at least) two different viewpoints and the utterances formulated (silently or aloud) from these viewpoints respond to one another. Internal dialogues fulfill several important functions. However, this complexity has not been reflected in how the functions of internal dialogue...

Previous research has identified close relationships between religious and nonreligious factors and well-being in cancer patients. This study expands on such studies by examining the interplay of religious and nonreligious meaning-making factors on psychological well-being in gastrointestinal cancer patients; 317 patients (160 women and 157 men) wi...

Adolescents have come to be greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing containment measures in recent months. The aim of the present study was to examine the relations among religiosity, meaning-making, fear of COVID-19, and subjective well-being within a moderated mediation model. Three hundred and sixteen late adolescents (173 wome...

The character of the relationship between religiosity and resilience depends to a large extent on mediation and moderation mechanisms which rely on cognitive and emotional processes. Research conducted within hope theory and the broaden and build theory indicates that hope and affect can mediate and moderate this relationship. The present study exp...

Religion is a significant predictor of self-regulatory processes. Procrastination has been described as the very essence of self-regulatory failure. In this study, we examined the relationship between religiousness and procrastination, with locus of control and styles of prayer playing mediating roles. These relationships were tested using data fro...

Past research links a decrease in religiosity with the development of marketing and, in particular, with the growing role of brands in consumers’ lives. Building on James's (1920) theory of the self, we propose that focusing on brands as a strategy for self-expression (brand engagement in self-concept; BESC) does not exclude religious commitment an...

Spis treści Wstęp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beata Zarzycka Tradycja czy charyzmat? Religijność w Polsce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Teresa Zakrzewska Represywny styl radzenia sobie ze stresem a religijność...

Although a number of studies have reported the psychological and physical benefits of prayer, only a few have examined the means by which prayer affects health. Winkeljohn Black, Pössel, Jeppsen, Bjerg, and Wooldridge (2015) found disclosure to God as a mediator in the relationship between prayer and mental health. In their study, the authors used...

Forgiving others may play an important role in achieving meaning in life as it offers a valuable platform for deliberate moral acts of acceptance of positive affect, behaviour, and cognition towards a transgressor. The aim of this paper was to analyse the relationship between forgiveness and presence, and the search for meaning in life, as well as...

The latest research suggests that the relationships between the risk of contracting COVID- 19, personal resources and subjective well-being have rather an indirect character and can include the occurrence of mediating factors related to meaning-making processes and stress experiences. Protection motivation theory offers a theoretical paradigm that...

The phenomenon of abandonment of faith, which in psychology is referred to as deconversion, is observed today. Deconversion is particularly widespread in young people. In this paper we examine the parents' religiosity, parents' care, and social support as potential predictors of deconversion in adolescents. Specifically, we aimed to analyse whether...

The well-being of healthcare personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic depends on the ways in which they perceive the threat posed by the virus, personal resources, and coping abilities. The current study aims to examine the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between risk perception of COVID-19 and psychological well-being, as wel...

Although a number of studies have demonstrated links between religious/spiritual struggle and well-being, only a few have examined what makes religious/spiritual struggle increase or decrease well-being. The present paper aims to examine different forms of internal dialogues (IDs) as potential mediators of the relationship between religious/spiritu...

When people are praying, they are not only communicating with God (upward prayer), but also they are exploring their relationships with themselves (inward prayer) and with other people (outward prayer). Internal dialogical activity includes areas which correspond to upward, inward, and outward prayer. Therefore, the aim of this article is to examin...

Previous research links religiosity/spirituality with a wide variety of organizational functions and practices, and, in particular, with management processes and leadership practices. Building on Huber’s concept of the centrality of religiosity, we propose that religiosity can also affect career choice and development—in particular, work orientatio...

Prior research suggests a potential moderated mediation effect between self-efficacy and psychological well-being. Based on the Meaning Making Model and the Broaden-and-Build Theory, this study examines the relationship between self-efficacy and psychological well-being in the moderated mediation perspective of affect and meaning-making in coronary...

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Objectives: Narcissism and psychological entitlement were examined as predictors of divine, demonic, moral, interpersonal, ultimate meaning, and religious doubt struggles, in two separate studies. Religious attributions were tested as mediators of these relationships. Participants and setting: The participants were 180 adults, 102 women and 78 men...

Although a variety of studies have found robust links between religious/spiritual (r/s) struggle and poorer well-being, only a few have examined the means by which r/s struggle affects mental well-being. The present paper aims to examine religious support and meaning making as mediators of the relationship between r/s struggle and well-being. The s...

The centrality of religiosity scale (CRS) is a measure of the importance of religious constructs in personality. The Polish CRS has been applied in more than 40 published studies on the psychology of religion, with over 18,000 total participants. However, no comprehensive overview on the Polish CRS is available. This paper shows how using the CRS s...

A number of studies have demonstrated links between spiritual struggles and health problems. As yet, however, only a few studies have investigated what makes religious struggle a source of mental problems or a source of well-being. We determined whether spiritual growth, spiritual decline, and meaning-making mediated the relationship between religi...

Objective Religiosity is an important source of consolation among individuals suffering from cancer. However, religion does not always bring comfort. Religious struggles elicit stress. We examined whether religious comfort predicts anxiety in patients diagnosed as having cancer. Hope was examined as a mediator and religious struggle as a moderator...

Objective: The character of the mediational relations between illness perception and affective symptoms often depends on the coping strategies used by patients. For example, these relationships may be moderated by meaning in life which plays a buffering role against the negative consequences of cancer. This study examined moderated mediation effec...

The two studies portray the predictors and functions of tendency and attitudes toward forgiveness in interpersonal relationships. Study 1 includes the analysis of relationships between personality traits, parental attitudes, religious struggle, tendency and attitudes toward forgiveness. Study 2 embraces the analysis of the mediatory function of ten...

The empirical study of prayer has remained an underdeveloped field in the Polish psychology of religion. Furthermore, the lack of adequate and psychometrically sound methods to measure prayer has also been observed. The Polish adaptation of the Content of Prayer Scale (CoP) by Huber is designed to meet this gap. The CoP builds upon the theoretical...

The aim of this paper is to present the structure of the measurement method for psychological readiness to engage in interreligious dialogue. The definition of a dialogue in a democratic society forms the theoretical framework for the test construction. The readiness to engage in interreligious dialogue was defined as a mental readiness to exchange...

Presumably, people who have a tendency to become involved in internal dialogue, analyzing and resolving internal and interpersonal problems in a dialogical way, are more likely to address God in a dialogical way. It is also posited that prayer, similar to private speech, allows the person to self-regulate his or her own behavior and thought process...

Aim of the study: The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire has been widely used for people with life-threatening illnesses since 1996. In 2016 Cohen et al. revised the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire and improved its psychometric properties and length. The aim of the present study was to adapt the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Revise...

The ideas that religion capitalizes on the operation of the attachment system and that believers’ perceived relationships with God can be characterized as symbolic attachment relationships have been well established in the psychology of religion. This study aims to explore the relationships between early caregiver experiences and religious and spir...

The aim of the paper is to present the theoretical basis and factorial structure of the Polish adaptation of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale – RSSS-PL. We present the results of two studies. Study 1 included an exploratory factor analysis, which showed that the Polish adaptation of the RSSS, like the original version, measures six domai...

The importance of religion on the several stages of migration is mentioned in the literature (Hagan, Ebaugh 2003; Hagan 2013; cf. Williams 2000). Although in the shaping of migrational intentions and decision making in this area, the crucial role play nancial issues and need of impro- ving material status (Kontuly, Smith, Heaton 1995; Myers 2000),...

The aim of the study is to analyze motivation for undertaking activities to help others by people involved in various forms of volunteer work. We analyzed two sources of mo- tivation: moral endo‒exocentrism and the value system among three groups: hospice, missionary and sports volunteers. The study involved 173 people between 16 to 77 years of...

Objective: Anxiety may have negative repercussions on the surgery including poorer outcomes. On the other hand, the majority of patients reporting preoperative anxiety fear not receiving enough attention from a caregiver. Purpose: In patients undergoing fast-track knee arthroplasty, we determined the relationship between patients’ preoperative anxi...

The aim of the research was to analyse the relationships of religious comfort and struggle with state anxiety and satisfaction with life in homosexual and heterosexual samples of men. A hundred and eight men aged between 18 and 43 participated in the research in total, 54 declared themselves as homosexual and 54 as heterosexual. The Religious Comfo...

Priorytety polskiej polityki zagranicznej zdefiniowane przez Ministra Spraw Zagranicznych w 2016 roku wskazują m.in. na konieczność wzmocnienia promocji Polski, zredefiniowania i skutecznego wsparcia dyplomacji historycznej, a także podjęcie skutecznych działań komunikacyjnych. Kompleksowa realizacja wymienionych zadań wydaje się być możliwa tylko...

The aim of the study was to analyze the connection between religious comfort and struggle and quality of life in Anonymous Alcoholics. The interaction effect of the length of abstinence and religious variables on the quality of life was tested as well. The participants were 100 members of an Alcoholics Anonymous group. We used the Religious Comfort...

The aim of the study was to analyze the connection between religious comfort and struggle and quality of life in Anonymous Alcoholics. The interaction effect of the length of abstinence and religious variables on the quality of life was tested as well. The participants were 100 members of an Alcoholics Anonymous group. We used the Religious Comfort...

Zjawisko religijności jest coraz częściej eksplorowane przez przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin naukowych. Szczególnie dostrzegalne jest to w obszarze psychologii religii. Obszar ten zyskuje coraz większe zainteresowanie również wśród polskich badaczy. Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje główne trendy obrazujących rozwój zainteresowania zjawiskiem religijn...

An enormous volume of research in the area of the psychology of religion is focused on the positive function of religion in terms of somatic health and well-being, in particular on its role in the processes of coping with stress in difficult life situations. However, thinking about God is not always a source of comfort and consolation. Despite many...

The phenomenon of religiosity is increasingly often explored by representatives of various scientific disciplines. This is particularly noticeable in the field of the psychology of religion. The issues of human religiosity have been attracting an increasing amount of interest among Polish scholars. The present article presents the main trends illus...

Przedmiotem prezentowanego artykułu jest analiza zależności między wsparciem, zmaganiem religijnym i jakością życia mężczyzn uzależnionych od alkoholu po uwzględnieniu moderacji przez czas abstynencji. Przebadano 100 mężczyzn, należących do grupy wsparcia Anonimowych Alkoholików (AA). Zastosowano Skalę Pocieszenia i Napięcia Religijnego Yali, Exlin...

Sprawczość i wspólnotowość traktowane są jako dwa istotne aspekty ludzkiej egzystencji. Z jednej strony, człowiek realizuje własne cele (sprawczość), z drugiej natomiast – stanowi część pewnej społeczności i jest uczestnikiem relacji społecznych (wspólnotowość; Bakan, 1966; Gebauer, Paulhus, Neberich, 2013; Wojciszke, 2010). W literaturze podkreśla...

Individualism-collectivism has emerged as one of the most important constructs to depict cultural differences and similarities. It is typical to examine individualism and collectivism through comparison between the cultures of the West and those of the East or comparison between various religious traditions, e.g. Christianity has been seen as the s...

Przebaczenie ma długą historię rozważań na polu filozofii i teologii, zwłaszcza teologii chrześcijańskiej. W psychologii wzrost zainteresowania problematyką przebaczenia datuje się na koniec lat 80. XX wieku. Miało ono swoje źródło przede wszystkim w praktyce klinicznej. Psychologowie praktycy dostrzegli możliwość zastosowania przebaczenia w terapi...

This study aims to examine various aspects of religiosity in members of the Neocatechumenal Way and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. First, we assigned intergroup differences in Emotions toward God, Religious Comfort and Strain and Religious Attributions. Next, we estimated the net effects of Emotions toward God, Religious Comfort and Strain and R...

Based on empirical studies, we may assume religion is an important source of support, consolation and a sense of life for many individuals. However, notwithstanding the psychological benefits religion provides, it is also a reason for discomfort and struggle. The research presented in this paper is an attempt at analyzing one of religious struggle...

The paper starts with an attempt to develop a hypothetical cognitive structure of mental resiliency, called psycho-immunological system, which plays both a reactive (coping with difficult health situations) and proactive (health protection) role in relation to the human somato-immunological system. In order to answer the question: is the psycho-imm...

The relationship between religiosity and mental health is a relatively common topic in psychology of religion. Many studies have been performed examining this topic and the results have reported both positive and neutral and even negative relationships between religious commitment and mental health. The ambiguous findings may be due to the fact tha...

The aim of this article is to present the theoretical background and internal structure of the Polish adaptation of the Religious Comfort and Strain Scale (RCSS) by Yali, Exline, Wood, and Worthington. Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that the Polish adaptation of RCSS has four factors: it consists of a one-dimensional Religious Comfort subscale...

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja podstaw teoretycznych oraz struktury wewntrznej polskiej adap-tacji Skali Pocieszenia i Napicia Religijnego (Religious Comfort and Strain Scale – RCSS) autor-stwa Yali, Exline, Wood i Worthington. Opierajc si na wynikach eksploracyjnych analizy czyn-nikowej ustalono, e polska wersja RCSS ma struktur czteroczynnikow:...

The values acquired during the socialization process are modified during the life of man. Family and the widely-understood social environment of an individual are of particular importance in shaping values and their system. In the case of migrants, the change of social environment is associated with the experience of cultural differences, new moral...

Based on Schwartz`s (1992) value theory, Fontaine, Luyten and Corveleyn (2000) found that the value patterns associated with Wulff`s (1991, 1999) four approaches toward religion could be reduced to a combination of two theoretically meaningful value patterns: a Transcendence/Mutual Care and a Social order/ Uncertainty avoidance pattern. In this stu...

The paper describes the theoretical background and the development of a psychometric tool designed to measure the structure of the psychoimmunological system. Theoretical terms related to the psychoimmunological system were discussed, integrated into the theoretical model and operationalized as a pilot version of the Scale of Psychoimmunological St...

The subject of the presented research is the analysis of relations between Post-Critical Belief and Sense of Coherence in women and men in early, middle, and late adulthood. Six hundred and thirty-six individuals participated in the research, 332 women and 304 men, at the age of 18-79 years. We applied the Post-Critical Belief scale by Hutsebaut (J...

Hutsebaut and his colleagues (1996, 2000; Fontaine et al., 2003) constructed the Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCBS) in order to measure the two dimensions along which Wulff (1991) summarized the various possible approaches to religion: Exclusion vs. Inclusion of Transcendence and Literal vs. Symbolic Interpretation. In the present article, the inter...

D. Wulff (1991) developed a notion of post-critical beliefs as a proposal for the description of religion in the light of the progress of secularization and socio-cultural changes. According to his theory, we can situate(place) potential attitudes toward religion in a two-dimensional space. The vertical dimension stands for Inclusion vs. Exclusion...

In questo volume il rapporto tra Religiosità e Narcisismo viene esplorato discutendo il significato e le ricadute della "perdita dell'unità narcisistica originaria", e valorizzando come fondamento psichico più significativo dell'esperienza religiosa il bisogno di "dipendenza narcisistica dall'oggetto ideale". Pur dandoparticolare risalto all'appr...

In the epilogue of his work, Wulff (1999) presented the concept of post–critical beliefs as a proposal for the description of religion in the context of continuous secularization processes and socio–cultural changes. According to Wulff (1999), we may place potential attitudes toward religion in a two-dimensional space in which the vertical dimensio...

In the epilogue of his work, Wulff described four approaches to religion in a secularized context. They are set by two dimensions: Inclusion vs. Exclusion of transcendence, and literal vs. symbolic. Hutsebaut constructed the Post-Critical Belief scale (referred to as PCBS) as a tool to measure Wulff’s approaches to religion. This article presents t...

This study explores the effect of the position of the religious construct-system (central vs. subordinated vs. marginal) in personality on the relationship between social desirability and structure of religiosity, emotion to God and post-critical belief. The sample comprised Polish Students (N = 200) aged between 19 and 29 years. The Social Desirab...

Religijność jest źródłem emocji oraz regulatorem odpowiedzi emocjonal-nych (Hill, 1995; Emmons, 2003; Emmons, Paloutzian, 2003; Huber, Richard, 2010). Związki religijności z emocjami można zaobserwować w postawach i doświadczeniach religijnych oraz w różnych formach ekspresji religijności. Uczucia, takie jak wdzięczność i szacunek, miłość i nadziej...

The article focuses on the issue of cognitive correlates of loneliness. In the field of cognitive factors, the research concentrated on the type of self-awarrenes. Correlations between loneliness and self-awarrenes defined as the processing of information about one-self, were examined. The research was carried out on the group of 116 people aged 24...

The present research focuses on the issue of relation between anxiety and structure as well as level of loneliness among homosexual male. The project included 72 homosexual men, in the age from 18 to 41, examined with the IPAT Scale and De Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale. The sexual orientation of each participant was determined by his direct declar...

In the course of life, everyone is subject to taking the trouble of developing both personality and religious life. Axiological sensitivity and religious sensitivity are interdependent phenomena. Valuing comprises cognitive, emotional and motivational processes as well as behaviours such as: acknowledging, reasoning, accepting, estimating, preferri...

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in patients prone to malignant ventricular arrhythmias proved to be the most successful method in preventing sudden cardiac death. The remaining problem is the acceptance of the device and patients' quality of life (QOL). The aim of the research presented in this paper is the analysis of selected medic...

Discovering rules which govern social life and showing social specificity of the human nature seems to be particularly important in the context of contemporary global social and cultural changes. With its dynamics, the world possesses certain implications in relation to an individual. Numerous efforts have been done to describe the psychological-so...

The present research investigates the relationship between anxiety and the religiosity dimensions that Wulff (Psychology of religion: classic and contemporary views, Wiley, New York, 1991; Psychology of religion. Classic and contemporary views, Wiley, New York, 1997; Psychologia religii. Klasyczna i współczesna, Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne,...

The presented research was aimed at the analysis of links between shyness and interpersonal relations. We applied the Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale as well as the Interpersonal Relations Questionnaire by Vertommen and Rochette. We tested secondary school students (N=166), aged between 16 and 18 (M=17,07; SD=1,23), among them 103 women and 63 men. Th...

Introduction. The aim of the presented work is to compare MMPI-2 profiles in a group of homosexual and heterosexual men. Material and Methods. The project included 110 men: 55 homosexual and 55 heterosexual men. The sexual orientation of each participant was determined by his direct declaration. The study involved the revised version of The Minneso...