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Registration number: VEGA 1/0145/23 Scientific grant agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Project name: If achieving a health goal becomes problematic - what then? Overcoming an action crisis as critical phase in achieving goals

Project implementation period: 01/2023 - 12/2026

Position in the project: project manager

Brief description of the project: The project aims to investigate the role of adaptive goal change strategies (abandonment of the goal, adjustment of the goal), coping strategies and individual differences in intentional attention (operationally analyzed as mindfulness and self-awareness) in overcoming an action crisis and their relationship with subjective well-being. The added value of the project is that we place the research in the field of health (as opposed to the hitherto preferred research on the general context of achieving the goal). The goal of the project will be achieved in the framework of cross-sectional as well as larger longitudinal research, which also allows tracking changes over time. Experiments monitoring the impact of the manipulation of intentional attention on the crisis will be focused on the assumed causal relationships.

Link to selected publications:

https://diskuzevpsychologii.upol.cz/artkey/dps-202201-0002_chcu-dvadsiatnici-to-co-od-nich-ocakava-spolocnost-obsah-dosahovanych-cielov-v-oblasti-vzdelavania-prace-vzt.php

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: 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.

Link to selected publications:

https://www.sav.sk/index.php?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=25621

Registration Number: VEGA 1/0853/21 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic and Slovak Academy Of Science

Project title: Specifics of the transition to adulthood in the context of goals and selected personality variables and their impact on the subjective well-being of young adults.

Project solution period: since 01/ 2021

Position in the project: investigator

Annotation: The aim of the presented project is to examine the specific features of the period of transition to adulthood, in terms of personal goals and goal-oriented behavior. The project builds on the successfully completed project VEGA Processes of self-regulation in achieving distal goals and use the acquired knowledge about the role of target characteristics (importance, achievability, target progress and motivation) in the process of forming personal goals in specific conditions of emerging adulthood. With regard to current trends in research, the aim of the project is to examine the links between personal goals and identity formation and selected individual characteristics of young people (optimism, hope, intolerance of uncertainty) and to clarify their impact on subjective well-being. These project goals will be pursued through cross-sectional and longitudinal research, which also allows for monitoring of developmental changes.

Link to selected publications:

https://ceskoslovenskapsychologie.cz/index.php/csps/article/view/87

https://ceskoslovenskapsychologie.cz/index.php/csps/article/view/222

Registration Number: VEGA 1/0748/19 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research 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: 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://hrcak.srce.hr/file/378872

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221309.2021.1922346

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1005516

Registration Number: APVV -14-0921 Slovak Reseach and Development Agency Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic

Project title: Self-Care as a Factor of Coping with Negative Consequences of Practicing Helping Professions

Project solution period: 2015 – 2019

Position in the project: investigator

Annotation: The basic goal of the project was to verify the assumption that self-care is a predictor of experiencing the negative consequences of performing professions. This goal was followed by verification of the assumption of the possibility of eliminating the negative consequences of the practice of helping professions by changing the self-care of people performing the helping professions. Part of the verification of these hypotheses was to find out the current state of self-care of people performing helping professions in social care facilities and the current occurrence of negative consequences of performing helping professions, such as stress, burnout, a trauma in representation, dissatisfaction with the work performed. As a result, questionnaires were verified to find out about self-care in the helping professions, to gain knowledge about these issues and to prepare intervention programs aimed at changing self-care and subsequently to eliminate the negative consequences of the practice of helping professions. Intervention programs were provided to social care facilities.

Link to selected publications:

http://www.psychiatria-casopis.sk/psychiatria/archiv-cisel/archiv/obsah-cisla-2-2014/povodna-praca/starostlivost-seba-psychologov.html

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1102/3c0e55ad7df0e92d57c2bdeaa7421df9ece1.pdf