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- 2025-06-05
Zakaz amortyzacji lokali mieszkalnych z perspektywy konstytucyjno prawnej. Uwagi na tle obecnego dorobku sądów administracyjnych
One of the newly introduced provisions along with the so-called „Polish Deal” was a complete ban on depreciation of residential premises. At the same time, both taxpayers and representatives of the literature questioned its compliance with constitutional principles, i.e. the principle of protection of vested rights and the principle of protection of pending interests. Taxpayers raised the issue of the unconstitutionality of this regulation and applied for individual interpretations. The unfavourable positions of the Director of National Tax Information led to disputes before administrative courts. The juries that decided these cases also did not agree with the plaintiffs’ arguments. The purpose of this paper is to examine the legitimacy of these decisions and to consider whether the ban is in fact incompatible with the Polish Constitution.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-05-15
Investigating the role of psychopathic personality traits, gender and ethnicity in rape myth acceptance
Research has found widespread endorsement of rape mythology, with several psychosocial variables underpinning beliefs in rape myths, including psychopathic personality traits. However, findings on the relationship between psychopathy and rape myths are often contradictory. The current study examined the role of four psychopathic personality traits (Affective Responsiveness, Cognitive Responsiveness, Interpersonal Manipulation and Egocentricity) on Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA) scores, controlling for the effects of gender and ethnicity while making use of subtle, contemporary measurement tools never previously employed. A cross-sectional community sample (N = 228) were recruited online to complete the psychosocial survey. Results revealed that deficits in Affective and Cognitive Responsiveness were associated with increased rape myth beliefs. Gender and ethnicity were also significant predictors of RMA. Cognitive Responsiveness, though not Affective Responsiveness, continued to be a significant predictor of RMA after controlling for gender and ethnicity. The role of empathy traits in the aetiology of sexually aggressive attitudes are discussed.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-05-16
Flourishing at work : Psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the Polish version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler (WPP). Our work was guided by Martin Seligman’s perspective on positive psychology, emphasizing well-being as its central theme, flourishing as the gold standard for measuring well-being, and the ultimate goal of increasing flourishing. According to his PERMA model, flourishing encompasses five key elements: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. The WPP is a tool specifically designed to measure this construct in the workplace context. Polish workers completed online surveys at the initial measurement (N = 1070). In addition, a group of working adults (N = 66) took part in a survey with a repeated measure diagnosing measurement stability. Flourishing, perceived stress, and work satisfaction were measured for comparisons of convergent validity, while zero-sum belief was measured for divergent validity. The reliability indices of the Polish version of the WPP met the minimum reliability requirements, and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis indicated that the five-factor model (contrasted to the single-factor model) achieved the desired goodness-of-fit properties. The WPP also demonstrated convergent validity through strong interrelationships with related constructs and strong stability. Obtaining satisfactory psychometric properties of the Polish version of the WPP enabled the conduction of additional type of exploratory analyzes focused on the relationship between workplace flourishing and the efforts aimed at building employee well-being undertaken by the organization where the respondents work. The study revealed a positive, moderate relationship between employees’ flourishing and the evaluation of organizational practices for increasing employee well-being.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025
Goal cycle: motivational and emotional antecedents and consequences of goal progress
Even though goal pursuit is often conceptualized as a linear phenomenon, it consists of feedback loops and reciprocal relationships between its crucial components. To investigate this cyclical aspect, we tested the relationships between core goal properties (i.e., goal importance and expectancy of success) as well as goal-related emotions (satisfaction and stress) and goal progress over time. In longitudinal Study 1 (N = 390), across three waves and 3156 unique goals, we found that progress on personal goals was not only positively predicted by expectancy and, less consistently, by goal importance, but also by goal-related satisfaction and, to a lesser extent, stress. Moreover, goal progress positively predicted future progress through increased importance, increased expectancy, and increased satisfaction and negatively through decreased stress, indicating an overall self-reinforcing feedback loop. In Study 2 (N = 235), we experimentally manipulated subjective progress on the weekly goal of walking and observed its positive effects on goal importance, expectancy, and satisfaction, but not stress. Once again, we demonstrated a positive indirect effect of (manipulated) goal progress on subsequent progress via increased satisfaction. These results provide insight into the mechanisms of goal-pursuit viewed as a cyclic process.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-06-03
Exchange and Communal Orientations (ECO) scale: The construction and validation of a method to measure target-specific relational orientations
This paper introduces the ECO Scale—a novel self-report measure to assess the degree to which individuals exhibit a dispositional tendency to orient themselves according to communal or exchange rules when establishing and maintaining relationships with others. In a series of six studies (total N = 3,252) conducted with diverse samples of Polish, American, and British participants, we documented that the 20-item ECO Scale in two separate language versions (English and Polish) is a psychometrically solid measure that can be used in different research settings. In Studies 1–3, we demonstrated the two-dimensional structure of the scale and provided support for configural, metric, residual, and partial scalar invariance of the scale across Poland and the United States (US). Study 2 supports the discriminant and construct validity of the scale, and demonstrates gender differences across orientations. Study 3 confirmed the convergent and divergent validity of the communal and exchange dimensions. Study 4 demonstrated the high test-retest reliability of the scale. Finally, Studies 5 and 6 verified the diagnostic and predictive validity of the ECO Scale. Study 5 showed that a high level of communal orientation predicts perceptions of the ambiguous social situation as more communal, while a high level of exchange orientation predicts perceptions of the ambiguous social situation as more exchange-based. Study 6 demonstrated that relational orientations measured with the ECO Scale predicts not only the declared willingness to provide assistance in a situation characterized by purely communal, purely exchange, or conflictual communal and exchange cues, but also actual behavior in these situations.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article