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doc. Ing. Mgr. Jozef Bavoľár, PhD.   SK

Email:
jozef.bavolar@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/FF/zamestnanec/jozef.bavolar
Faculty:
FF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Arts
Department:
KPS - Department of Psychology
Office:
S212
Phone:
+421 55 234 7114
ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0179-7261
After completing a one-subject study of psychology (2005, University of Prešov, Faculty of Arts) and a study of finance, banking and investment (2005. Technical University in Košice, Faculty of Economics), I completed my doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts of Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (2009). Since then, I have worked here as an assistant professor, since 2019 as an associate professor. As part of his pedagogical activities, I focus on statistics, psychometrics, work psychology and decision-making. In my research activity, my object of interest is especially stable decision-making properties. I regularly publish in foreign journals, assess articles in them, participate in scientific research projects (VEGA, APVV, principal investigator of one completed VEGA project and one ongoing APVV project). I am the person responsible for the bachelor's degree program in psychology.

Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
University of Prešov in Prešov, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, 2005, Psychology
Third degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2009, Social Psychology and Psychology of Work
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2019, Social Psychology and Psychology of Work

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: PSYb - Psychology - Member of the Study Programme Council, Person responsible for the study programme, Member of the Commission for State Final Examinations, study field: Psychology, bachelor I. degree degree
Study programme: PSM_en - Psychology - Member of the Study Programme Council, Person responsible for teaching a profile course , Member of the Commission for State Final Examinations, study field: Psychology, master II. degree degree
Study programme: SPPPd, SPPPdex, SPPPd_en, SPPPdex_en - Social Psychology and Psychology of Work - Member of the Subject Area Board for Doctoral Studies, study field: Psychology, Ph.D. III. Degree degree
Profile courses
KPS/USM/15 Introduction to Statistical Methods - Psychology, bachelor I. degree degree
KPS/PSM/21 Advanced Statistical Methods - Psychology, master II. degree degree
KPS/PPR/08 Psychology of Work - Psychology, master II. degree degree
KPS/MMS/05 Multidimensional Statistical Methods - Social Psychology and Psychology of Work, Ph.D. III. Degree degree
KPPaPZ/DPS1/15 Diploma seminar 1 - Teacher training combination study programmes, specialization of Psychology, master II. degree degree
KPPaPZ/DPS2/15 Diploma seminar 2 - Teacher training combination study programmes, specialization of Psychology, master II. degree degree
KPPaPZ/DPS3/15 Diploma seminar 3 - Teacher training combination study programmes, specialization of Psychology, master II. degree degree
Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure: Member of the Subject Area Council for Habilitation and Inauguration Procedures, study field to which it is assigned: Psychology
Selected publications

62459 | Psychometric characteristics of two forms of the Slovak version of the Indecisiveness Scale / Bavoľár, Jozef. WOS CC ; SCOPUS ; CCC

In:Judgment and Decision Making. – ISSN (online) 1930-2975. – Roč. 13, č. 3 (2018), s. 287-296

Intolerance of uncertainty and reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bavolar, J., Kacmar, P., Hricova, M., Schrötter, J., Kovacova-Holevova, B., Köverova, M., & Raczova, B., The Journal of General Psychology, 1-28. 2021

220667 | Decision-making styles and mental health-A person-oriented approach through clustering / Bavoľár, Jozef; Bačíková, Mária – SCOPUS ; CCC (IF 2.438 - 2020, 2020, JCR Psychology, applied - Q3)

In:Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. – ISSN 0894-3257. – Roč. 33, č. 5 (2020), s. 629-642

ID: 1022139 | Decision-Making Styles and Decision Outcomes / Bavoľár, Jozef [Autor, 100%]. – [recenzované]. – DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-15959-6

In:Brain, Decision Making and Mental Health [textový dokument (print)] [elektronický dokument] / Rezaei, Nima [Zostavovateľ, editor]. – 1. vyd. – Cham (Švajčiarsko) : SpringerOpen, 2023. – (Integrated Science , ISSN 2662-9461, ISSN 2662-947X ; 12). – ISBN 978-3-031-15958-9. – ISBN (elektronické) 978-3-031-15959-6, s. 465-486 [tlačená forma] [online]

79657 | Psychological protective factors mediate the relationship between decision-making styles and mental health / Bavoľár, Jozef; Bačíková, Mária DOI 10.1007/s12144-018-9831-9. – WOS CC ; SCOPUS ; CCC

In:Current Psychology: A Journal for Diverse Perspectives on Diverse Psychological Issues . – New York (USA) : Springer Nature. Springer International Publishing AG. – ISSN 1046-1310. – ISSN (online) 1936-4733. – Roč. 39, č. 4 (2020), s. 1277-1286

Selected projects

Registration Number: VEGA 1/0748/19 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic and Slovak Academy Of Science

Project title: Decision-making characteristics and crisis in the process of achieving goals.

Project solution period: 2018 - 2021

Position in the project: Principal investigator


Annotation: The project focused on the role of selected decision-making characteristics, goal characteristics and motivation in the emergence of obstacles threatening the achievement of the goal and the subsequent emergence of the crisis in achieving the goals (action crisis). The project aims to examine which decision-making methods (operationalized as decision-making styles) interact with motivation (internal / external, approach / avoidance) and goal characteristics (eg commitment to achieve the goal, perceived difficulty of the goal, goal self-effectiveness, effort, progress) related to the action crisis. This goal of the project was achieved within the framework of cross-sectional as well as longitudinal research, which also enabled the monitoring of time changes or causal relationships.


Link to selected publications:

https://unibook.upjs.sk/img/cms/2021/FF/rozhodovanie-a-proces-dosahovania-cielov.pdf

Registration Number: APVV-19-0284 Slovak Reseach and Development Agency Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic

Project title: Factors in the selection and achievement of long-term goals for young people in the period of transition to adulthood.

Project solution period: 2020 – 2024

Position in the project: Principal investigator


Annotation: The main goal of the project is to examine the targeting and planning of the future of young people aged 20 to 30. The result should be the identification of long-term goals and the state of planning in the area of ​​development tasks. Given the declared instability, as a characteristic of the observed development period, we plan to find out whether there is a change in goals, variability of target characteristics and whether there is a postponement of achieving development tasks to a later period. This objective is specified through the following objectives: to find out the current state of future planning by reviewing the long-term goals of young people over the period of 20 to 30 years; examine the stability of target ideas and the motivational and self-regulatory context of achieving targets over a given age period; to find out the significance of individual differences in goal-oriented behavior in developmental goals in the period of transition to adulthood, both in setting and achieving them. The topicality of the research is given by the use of current approaches and research methods to clarify the dynamics of motivational-self-regulatory context to goal-oriented behavior in a given age period.



Registration Number:APVV-15-0662 Slovak Reseach and Development Agency Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic

Project title: Psychological mechanism of changes in risk behaviour of pupils and university students. Risk behaviour and emigration, migration intentions

Project solution period: 07/2016 - 06/2020

Position in the project: investigator


Annotation: The aim of the presented project in the first part was to develop research-based substance abuse prevention (UNL) among schoolchildren and university students (Implementation of Solomon's model of four groups of research on program effectiveness among schoolchildren and university students). The effectiveness of the UNL Unplugged universal prevention program was also examined in a comparison of the program with and without booster sessions. The aim was to pay special attention to examining the risky behavior of schoolchildren and the effectiveness of Unplugged in the short and long term (up to three years) in relation to the risky behavior of parents and family processes on the basis of comparative parent-child data. The aim of the second part of the project was to examine migration (national), emigration (international) intentions, their changes in relation to risk behavior, internal forces and external resources of university students in Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary and other cooperating EU countries. The aim of the second part of the project was also to examine opinions on migration, emigration of schoolchildren, their changes in relation to risky behavior and their predictors.


Link to selected publications:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-018-9831-9

http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18114a/jdm18114a.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bdm.2183?

http://www.studiapsychologica.com/uploads/BAVOLAR_SP_2_vol.60_2018_pp.71-83.pdf

Registration Number: VEGA 1/0849/14 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic and Slovak Academy Of Science

Project title: Cognitive, metacognitive competencies, selfregulation and self-efficacy in university students in relation to motivation and achievement

Project solution period: 2014 - 2016

Position in the project:Vice-proncipal researcher


Annotation: The research project focused on examining the level, structure of students' cognitive competences in relation to other key competences (competence to think scientifically and creatively, competence to develop their potential, competence to learn to learn as well as social competences) important during lifelong learning. At the same time, the research examined the personality and motivational determinants of these competencies, as well as their relationships to self-regulation, self-efficacy with an emphasis on the realization of development potential and achieving relevant performance in a specific area of ​​study. Self-developed as well as standard methods of psychological diagnostics and evaluation of competencies, self-regulation and self-efficacy were used as methods in this research project.


Link to selected publications:

http://www.studiapsychologica.com/uploads/BAVOLAR_SP_4_vol.59_2017_pp.233-242.pdf

International mobilities and visits
Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom, 22.2.-25.2.2016, Erasmus+ Staff mobility for training
Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden, 12.6.-16.6.2018, Erasmus+ Staff mobility for training
Organisational activities
Departmental committee in the field of study Psychology, study program Social Psychology and Psychology of Work; member - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty, since 2021
Departmental committee in the field of study Psychology, study program General Psychology; member - Prešov University in Prešov, Faculty of Arts, since 2021

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