The scope of scientific research realized at the Institute of Psychology,
Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Lodz
DEPARTMENT OF WORK, ORGANISATION, AND CAREER GUIDANCE PSYCHOLOGY
Topics of ongoing scientific research:
Personality and situational determinants of employees’ well-being
Trauma at work and its effects
Aggression/Mobbing/Sexual abuse at work
Issues in career development (ability to adapt to a career, career construction)
Standardisation of diagnostic techniques useful in vocational counselling
Personal (including psychological gender, psychological capital) and situational (including organizational climate) determinants of an employee’s functioning at work
Work models and forms of employment as related to satisfaction with varied spheres of life
Diagnostic tools used in personal guidance
Satisfaction with work
Commitment to work
Relations (including trust) at work
Work conditions
Employees’ positive personal resources and possibilities of their development
A person at labour market (methods of staff selection, key competencies)
Organisational climate – individual and organisational consequences
Generation differences in work environment
Psychological determinants of success in business
Psychological well-being of people of business: psychological, financial, and organizational determinants
Environmental psychology, local identity, place psychology, neighbourhood capital
DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Topics of ongoing scientific research:
Psychology of procreation – postpartum depression and its determinants and consequences, adaptation to motherhood and fatherhood, menopause and andropause
Cognitive susceptibility to depressive disorders in varied stages of life
Biological and personality determinants of depression in women and men
Addictions and addiction therapy
The role of early negative schemas (the idea by Young) in aetiology of disorders
Clinical neuropsychology
Suicides – risk factors and prevention possibilities, the role of a ‘gatekeeper’
Eating disorders
Cognitive susceptibility to affective and anxiety disorders, also in children with
a chronic autoimmune disease – type 1 diabetes
Well-being of aging men and women, chronopsychology
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND FAMILY STUDIES
Topics of ongoing scientific research:
Psychology of emotions: Emotional work – its determinants and consequences, emotional contagion and emotional mimesis, emotion and mood measurement, social cognition, social meanings of tears, affective communication
Social attitudes: Attitudes towards sexual minorities, seniors, and towards sexuality
Psychology of close emotional relationships (marriages, cohabitations, same-sex relationships, ‘two-careers’ relationships). Strategies of partner selection, partner relationships, interpersonal commitment, sexual satisfaction, conflicts and crises, consequences of relational ostracism. Analysis of processes in close relationships. Close emotional relationships and life quality. Health and interpersonal relationships in singles.
Family psychology: Family values in cross-sectional studies, intergenerational transmission of behavioural patterns in a family system, family determinants of personal autonomy in young adults. Systemic mechanisms of developing psychological well-being. Family relations in the context of economic migrations. Interpersonal relations among siblings from the systemic perspective, determinants and consequences of positive and negative bonds among siblings, the role of family relations and siblings in forming aggression among young adults. Digitization of family life and its consequences.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Topics of ongoing scientific research:
Traumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and its determinants in adults, children, and youth
Identification of risk factors of secondary traumatisation
The relation between trauma and behavioural addictions (to eating, shopping, Internet)
Adaptation to a chronic somatic disease (especially cancer and a dermatological disease)
Healthy behaviours, especially among seniors
Determinants of mental health in school environment. The ongoing research activity includes elaboration of new measurement tools to be used in health psychology. At present these include: The List of Symptoms after Traumatic Stress, The Inventory of Secondary Positive Posttraumatic Changes.
