In my recent studies I examine the role of positive emotions in the workplace or education and their impact on individual outcomes, job satisfaction, performance, motivation, and creativity.
I also explore the mechanisms of effective organizational change and the factors (i.e. resilience, optimism, social support) enhancing employees readiness for change. I also investigate the interrelation between psychological capital and employee well-being, job satisfaction and job engagement.
Lastly, I explore domains of interactive mobile technology use in professional counseling and applied psychology, supporting healthcare professionals, treating mental and physical health, humanizing technology, and improving its efficiency in business field, as well as in social field including vocational education, safeguarding, communities and ethnic minorities. In total, I have published 28 journal papers, 18 conference papers, 7 book chapters, 8 reports and manuals in English, Ukrainian, and Polish.
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Abstract
his paper explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of graduate students at universities and research institutions around the world. In so doing, it assesses the intra-individual effects of pandemic-related restrictions on a key cohort in academia: doctoral candidates. We trace this cohort’s ability to adapt to the pandemic over a two-year period by investigating their quality of mental health, indicators of mental health disorders, and indicators of wellbeing and resilience. A consensual qualitative research methodology was adopted when analyzing data gathered during April 2020 and February 2022. The study uses Ecological Systems Theory as a framework, providing insights into how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the wellbeing and mental health of graduate students in myriad ways. The researchers found that while the pandemic negatively affected cognitive processes, a significant proportion of doctoral candidates exhibited remarkable levels of resistance and reconfiguration resilience and short-term improvements in mental health during the period under investigation.
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This bibliometric study explored the scientific patterns of the effectiveness of different psychosocial interventions improving well-being among various categories of individuals with mental and physical diseases, to synthesize well-being intervention studies, and to suggest gaps and further studies in this emerging field. The bibliometric analysis included identifying the most productive authors, institutions, and countries; most explored fields and subjects of study; most active journals and publishers; and performing citation analysis and analyzing publication trends between 2014 and 2022. We focused on data retrieved from known databases, and the study was conducted with a proven bibliometric approach.
This study indicates an overall interest in the declared domains within the last decade. Our findings primarily indicate that psychosocial interventions (PIs) were evaluated as being effective in managing mental and physical problems and enhancing well-being. Cognitive behavioral therapy was assessed as being effective in treating anxiety, psychoeducation in relapse prevention, and gratitude interventions in improving overall health, and the mindfulness approach had a positive impact on decreasing distress and depression. Moreover, all these intervention types resulted in an overall increase in an individuals’ well-being and resilience. Integrating social and cultural factors while considering individual differences increases the efficiency of PIs. Furthermore, PIs were evaluated as being effective in managing symptoms of eating disorders, dementia, and cancer.
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The development of interactive mobile technologies (IMTs) as a supportive tool for psychological treatment of eating disorders has been enhanced significantly throughout the past 10 years. Thus, to investigate how research on those techniques is reflected in the current literature, the author analyzed peer-reviewed publications to determine the existing patterns of research domains in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) applying IMTs and eating disorder treatments and suggested future research directions in this research area. Bibliometric analysis was employed to identify publication patterns, frequent keywords, and tendencies for the fields during 2010 and 2021.
A total of 875 relevant studies were retrieved from the LENS database. The study found a significant increase in research domains during the past decade, indicating General Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental Health as leading subject areas. Among the most productive journals are Health Technology Assessment, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and JMIR mHealth and uHealth, which published papers in Medicine, Psychology and Psychological Intervention. This current study indicated that IMT, in combination with in- person CBT increases the efficiency of health intervention for eating disorders, reduces essential symptoms and improves overall well-being. IMT proved its efficiency as a supportive tool in managing diet, body image, stress, and sleeping disorders. This study will be beneficial for researchers to obtain an overview of the publication trends further studies, and it indicates the potential gaps in explored fields.
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There has been emerging interest in the effectiveness of interactive mobile technology usage in psychological, social, medical and business interventions. However, the field still lacks holistic overviews of the role of technology for psychological, social, medical and business interventions. The present bibliometric study was employed to identify and synthesize the results from studies exploring domains of interactive mobile technology used in applied psychology and counseling, supporting health professionals, manag- ing mental and physical health, humanizing technology and improving its effi- ciency in the business field, as well as in the social field including vocational education, safeguarding, communities and ethnic minorities. An author analyzed the papers published in highly ranked and cited journals which were indexed andrankedintheWebofScienceCoreCollectionandScopus,intheperiodof 2020 to 2021. The results demonstrated high interest in studied domains within various subjects and fields of study, demonstrating the interest in the opportu- nities which provide the technology for professional education and developing methodological competences.
MY RESEARCH
Pervasive learning and technology usage for creativity development in education
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This paper’s aim is to investigate the role of creativity and pervasive learning in a modern education paradigm. The research was conducted by relevant literature review along with reflective analysis on sub-context such as creativity, educational development, pedagogical methods, important factors behind of creativity development and technology-learning systems affects. Various issues may become a supportive factor or barrier for creativity development in educational processes. Technology in an education field provides many opportunities for creativity enhancement, among which supports to enhance curiosity to develop some skills to improve student's cognitive processes and engagement as well as to increase intrinsic motivation, self-regulation. Authors attempted to consider all the benefits, challenges and risks related to enhancing creativity with the help of technology in modern educational paradigm. Many studies have been analyzed in order to answer main research question: How technology-pervasive learning environment can enhance stimulation and development of creativity among students.
Critical Thinking, Creativity and Gender Differences for Knowledge Generation in Education
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This study discovers the relationship between critical thinking and creativity, measures empirically the level of their development among youngsters for knowledge generation and dissemination in education. Authors attempted to explore the relationships between critical thinking and creativity from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The research background was constructed by relevant literature review on creative potential, critical abilities, as well as relationships between them and their role in learning processes along with knowledge acquisition and management. In order to empirically investigate the relationships between the variables, the authors performed a survey, gathered the data (findings) and conducted statistical analysis with using SPSS software. This research as preliminary study concentrates to explore the quality of the relations between the variables among young generation (220 participants: 86 female, 134 male). The primary findings show that existing relationships between all studied constructs are complex and influenced by other variables such as personality, social environment, educational system, technology usage and knowledge generation, teacher’s philosophy etc. It was discovered that gender has a significant impact on critical thinking skills and creativity. Therefore it ensures of knowledge creation and sharing in modern educational era.
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The research patterns of creativity and innovation: the period of 2010-2019
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The emerging interest in creativity and innovation increased attention to the exploration of their relationship with organization
culture, entrepreneurship, leadership, and education. The current bibliometric study was employed to identify and synthesize the results from studies exploring domains of creativity and innovation. Authors analyzed the papers published in highly ranked and cited by the journals which indexed and ranked in Web of Science Core Collection, in the period of 2010 to 2019. Major findings in this study include: (a) the number for journals published in 2010 significantly increased by 2019; (b) there are three leading countries publishing
research in the creativity and innovation field, including the USA, PR China
and England; (c) there are three prominent fields by subject category, including the management and business, leading field with 58.92% articles, a psychological area with 15.14% articles, and engineering and environmental studies 8.65% articles; (d) Creativity and Innovation Management Journal is leading in publishing studies on creativity and innovations (11 records, 6% of
published studies). Although findings were dispersed widely in sub-contexts,
the review suggests that there are strong relationships between creativity and
innovations, along with concepts and environment, culture, organizational
characteristics, individual features, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
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There has been emerging interest in the effectiveness of technology usage in professional education for establishing various competences among future educators. However, the field still lacks in holistic overviews of the role of technology for establishing various competences among future educators. The present bibliometric study was employed to identify and synthesize the results from studies exploring domains of professional education, technology and establishing competence. An author analyzed the papers published in highly ranked and cited journals which were indexed and ranked in the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus, in the period of 2000 to 2020. The results demonstrated high interest in studied domains within various subjects and fields of study, demonstrating the interest in the opportunities which provide the technology for professional education and developing methodological competences.