Marcin Moroń

University of Silesia in Katowice · Institute of Psychology

Background: Attachment styles have been found to play a significant role in adjustment to cancer. Couples often cope with breast cancer through an interdependent approach to the disease rather than just acting as individuals, and a sense of coherence is an important factor that influences these relationships. This study examined how attachment styl...

Scrupulosity is treated as a particular presentation of the symptomatology characteristic for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, typical treatment of OCD (e.g. cognitive-behavioral therapy) is less effective in the case of religious scruples. Recently, schema therapy has appeared as an alternative effective treatment in obsessive-compuls...

High-sensitivity signaling may be an attempt to adapt to an environment by sensitive individuals. However, it may also be a deceptive strategy of nonreciprocal resources extraction used by people with a highly exploitative interpersonal style. In their first study ( n = 102), the authors used a peer-rating design to investigate the associations bet...

Facial hair is a sexually dimorphic trait with potential evolutionary and sociocultural functions. Bearded men are perceived as dominant, aggressive, and masculine, but also as having better parenting skills. Men may intentionally manage the amount and shape of their facial hair as a part of their self-promotion strategy; however, facial hair manag...

Background People with cancer who have completed treatment still experience negative effects, such as an increased risk of experiencing cancer-related pain. Psychological factors tend to influence cancer patients’ ability to cope with pain in various dimensions. Although personal resources are an important factor in buffering total pain, still litt...

The first goal of the study was to investigate the internal structure of scrupulosity symptoms using network analysis in order to detect communities of symptoms and the central symptoms. The second goal was to investigate the associations between obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms and scrupulosity using network analysis. The participants...

Associations between resilience, self-efficacy, and coping strategies play an important role in the process of accepting the disease in cancer patients by their spouses. This study aims to examine whether coping strategies act as parallel mediators between resilience, self-efficacy, and the acceptance of the partner's illness by the spouse. Two hun...

Objectives The goal of the present study was to investigate the hypothesized complex interactions between dimensions of self-compassion and obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCD) in a non-clinical sample. Method Four hundred and twenty-four individuals (273 women) ranging in age from 18 to 83 years ( M = 41.00; SD = 14.50) participated in the cross-s...

The present study investigated, in a dyadic approach, whether phobic symptoms experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic correlated with conflicts with romantic partners and subjective change in the quality of romantic relationships during the pandemic. Although previous studies investigated stress and partner’s responsiveness as predictors of romant...

The goal of the present study was an initial validation of the Peer Conflict Scale (PCS) for Polish young adults (ages 18–30 years). The PCS measures two forms (overt and relational) and two functions (proactive and reactive) of aggression enabling multidimensional assessment of aggressive behavior in early adulthood. Study 1 (N =482) showed that t...

Objective: Associations between marital satisfaction and illness acceptance are mediated by different factors. This study examines whether partner communication mediates relationships between marital satisfaction and illness acceptance among couples coping with breast cancer within a dyadic approach. Methods: One hundred and thirty-six couples w...

Men with distinct facial hair are perceived as more aggressive, dominant, older, and more formidable, mostly by other men. However, despite considerable interest in the social perception of beardedness, only a few studies have explored men’s preferences toward facial hair. We investigated men’s preferences toward facial hair and whether their judgm...

Unlabelled: The COVID-19 pandemic and preventive measures undertaken by many governments have had a significant impact on family relationships, which could result in worsened parenting. In our study, we used network analysis to examine the dynamic system of parental and pandemic burnout, depression, anxiety, and three dimensions of relationship wi...

The COVID-19 pandemic could be regarded as a chronic psychological burden that may lead to prolonged, unmanageable stress, e.g. burnout. Previous studies on COVID-19 have indicated that pandemic burnout was frequent in the general population and could beregarded as a risk factor for psychopathological symptomatology (e.g. depression, anxiety).This...

Signaling high sensitivity to others may help individuals with heightened sensitivity to stimuli to craft their social relations to a preferred activation level ("assertive signaling of specific needs" hypothesis). Signaling sensitivity could be also a deceptive strategy helping to extract resources or obtain the desired treatment ("deceptive signa...

Scrupulosity is a phenomenon of the intersection between religiosity and obsessive-compulsive disorder. It could be regarded as an interactive effect of religiosity, religious internal conflicts, cognitive distortions associated with thought processing and self-reference, and obsessiveness. The present study investigated scrupulosity in the network...

Dispositional forgiveness and its various forms have been related to personality and religiosity. However, previous studies rarely focused on the unique contributions of personality and religiosity in predicting the particular tendencies to forgive self, others, and situations. The goal of this study was to investigate the incremental validity of r...

Cyberbullying is a form of antisocial online behaviors. Perpetration of intentional and repeated harm inflicted through electronic devices is associated with dark personality traits and may be caused by morally impaired reasoning. In the current study, we investigated the associations between the Dark Tetrad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopat...

Facial makeup has been associated with ambiguous social perception. Although women wearing makeup were perceived as attractive and warm, other studies indicated that they were also be perceived as dominant and less trustworthy. Makeup has been described as a tactic to attract mates and compete with rivals, which indicates that it may be perceived a...

Forgiveness could be regarded as one of the most important moral imperatives across various religions. Although numerous studies have confirmed the hypothesis that religious people tend to be more forgiving, there is still an open question as to which dimensions of religiosity are responsible for this tendency and whether religious people equally t...

This study validated Polish versions of the Coronavirus Stress Measure (CSM) and the COVID-19 Burnout Scale (COVID-19-BS) to measure stress and burnout associated with COVID-19. Participants were 431 Polish young adults (72.6% female; Mean age = 26.61 ± 12.63). Confirmatory factor analysis verified a one-factor solution for both the CSM and the COV...

In the present study, we examined the associations between self-perceptions of attractiveness, contingencies of self-worth and the attitude toward the use of physical attractiveness as an influence strategy (adonization) among young women. Five hundred and eighty-seven women aged 18–35 years assessed their self-perceptions of attractiveness, contin...

Based on the I3 theory of aggression (Finkel & Hall, 2018), in two studies, we examined the emotional awareness as an inhibitory control factor in predicting reactive relational aggression, aggression-impelling traits (dispositional anger) and diminished inhibitory control (maladaptive anger regulation), in a non-clinical samples of 218 and 103 Pol...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various domains of everyday life, including important religious rituals. In the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the reception of Holy Communion was substantially altered. The suggestion of the Polish Episcopal Conference and diocesan bishops was to receive Holy Communion on the hand during the pandemic, while rec...

In the present studies we examined how individual differences in general approach and avoidance motivation, romantic victimization and approach and avoidance relationship goals predicted romantic relational aggression. Two studies (N = 331) including participants involved in romantic relationships provided evidence that general avoidance motivation...

Researchers have found that men's facial hair may have certain signaling functions connected with intrasexual competition and intersexual attractiveness. The interesting issue is whether men's and women's preferences for men's facial hair may be considered a reflection of their intuitive knowledge about these functions. The aim of the presented stu...

The study examined trait emotional intelligence as a predictor for emotional reactions experienced during the first full week of the lockdown in Poland (from 16th to 22nd March). One hundred and thirty persons (101 women and 25 men; 4 did not report their gender)participated in the baseline measurement of trait emotional intelligence, positive and...

The study examined the relative importance of seven contingencies of self-worth of Polish college women's (appearance, others' approval, competition, academic competencies, family support, virtue, God's love), as well as the associations between preference for particular contingencies and global self-esteem. Additionally, the predictive role of the...

The study examined the relative importance of seven contingencies of self-worth of Polish college women's (appearance, others' approval, competition, academic competencies, family support, virtue, God's love), as well as the associations between preference for particular contingencies and global self-esteem. Additionally, the predictive role of the...

Involvement in relationally aggressive conduct is an important contributor to maladaptive functioning in both childhood and adulthood. Decreased emotional awareness and impairments of self-control are risk factors for relational aggressiveness, while emotional awareness can also be treated as an important prerequisite for proper self-control. The a...

Introduction Emotional intelligence is a positive predictor of well-being, and positive and negative affect were demonstrated to mediate this relationship. In two studies the balance between positive and negative affect (positivity ratio) is examined as a mediating factor between perceived emotional intelligence and satisfaction with life. Partici...

Prosocial behavior is correlated with better social adjustment among adolescents, while emotional abilities are prominent factors that enhance prosocial behaviors. Attention to emotions and clarity of emotion were found as two core dimensions of emotional abilities. In the presented study the relationships between attention to emotion and clarity o...

Jealousy is an adaptive emotional reaction that signals threat to the current romantic relationship and motivates the person to protect that relationship. Given that jealousy is a mechanism of sensitivity to signals of relational threat, it was predicted that neurobiological systems of fight-flight- -freeze (FFFS) and behavioral inhibition (BIS) wo...

Artykuł prezentuje procedur przygotowania polskiej wersji Skali przywiązania do miejsca Daniela Williamsa i Jerry'ego Vaske'a (2003). Pozycje skali zostały przetłumaczone z wersji oryginalnej w zespole geografów i psychologów, zajmujących si zagadnieniem przywiązania do miejsca i posługujących si biegle językiem angielskim. Przeprowadzono badania z...

The paper presents the construction procedure of the Questionnaire of Sequential Influence Techniques in Romantic Relationships, analysis of its factorial structure and theoretical validity. Initial pool of items were derived from free statements collected from males and females engaged in close romantic relationships (n = 874). In the experimental...

Agency and communion constitute two fundamental dimensions of social perception. Universal dimensions of mate preferences represent both agentic and communal content, but a direct test of mate preferences toward agency and communion is lacking. The present study examined preferences toward agentic and communal traits in mate preferences among 206 h...

Relational aggressiveness refers to actions focused on harming others through destroying their social relations, manipulating their social inclusion/exclusion, and threatening their social status (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). Among predictors of relational aggressiveness are empathic responding and hostility (Loudin, Loukas & Robinson, 2003). Relation...

The study examines the associations of emotion understanding, interpersonal competencies, loneliness and correlated variables (perceived social support, quality of social networks). Two conceptual models of relations were tested. In the first model it was hypothesized that interpersonal competencies mediate relations between emotion understanding a...

The article describes the procedure of designing and analysing two methods for examining adolescents’ prosocial activity: Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ) and Prosocial Tendencies Paraprojective Questionnaire (PKTP). Altogether 492 adolescents took part at this stage.. PBQ and PKTP examines similar but independent elements of prosocial tenden...

The article describes the procedure of designing and analysing two methods for examining adolescents’ prosocial activity: Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ) and Prosocial Tendencies Paraprojective Questionnaire (PKTP). Altogether 492 adolescents took part at this stage.. PBQ and PKTP examines similar but independent elements of prosocial tenden...