Magdalena Blazek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 759967 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Magdalena Blazek |
| NOMBRES | Magdalena |
| APELLIDO | Blazek |
| FIRMA | BLAZEK M |
| AFILIACIONES | Gdańsk Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4629-4353 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Not just a calling
BACKGROUND: The choice of medical specialty does not arise solely from a sense of calling, but is a complex psychological and social process. The goal of the study was to examine whether selected psychological characteristics: emotional intelligence (EI; overall score and the dimensions of recognizing and using emotions) and sense of coherence (SOC; overall score and the dimensions of comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness), togethe…
Predictors of family resilience during the engagement stage
Objective This study aimed to identify key predictors of family resilience among engaged couples within a systemic family framework. Background Family resilience arises from a dynamic interplay of individual, relational, and contextual factors, shaping how families adapt to stress and adversity. Existing research highlights the relevance of goal orientation, coping strategies, and intergenerational influences, yet their joint impact remains under…
Mental Health Services for Medical Students in Poland
Background: The mental health of medical students is a global concern, with high rates of depression, anxiety, burnout, and suicidal ideation. Despite growing awareness, mental health services in higher education remain inconsistent and underfunded in many countries. Poland represents a particularly vulnerable case, with a rapidly expanding medical education sector, limited public investment in student mental health. This study presents the third…
The relationship between physical activity and depressive symptoms in males
Children’s geographies I
This review departs from the perception that children’s geographies are theoretically ‘stuck’, by showing how the field’s growing decolonial scholarship pushes its boundaries. Decoloniality involves delinking from Western constructs and developing pluralistic theoretical frameworks firmly grounded in the realities of marginalised childhoods. Organised around the themes of decolonial theory, praxis, and conceptualisations of childhood, the review …
Children’s geographies II
In this second report on children’s geographies, I ask what geographical research on children and childhood can tell us about adults and adulthood. Discussing three figurative relationalities – childhood as a projection, project and provenance of adulthood – the report addresses the asymmetrical dynamics between adults and children as they manifest distinctively in spatial contexts ranging from family and education to climate politics and war. Th…
Błażek Ambivalent Parental Communication Questionnaire (BAPCQ)
Communication is one of the three overarching processes of family resilience, along with the belief system and organizational processes of family life. Honest, unambiguous communication with a child is one of the important bases of a child's development and feeling of security and healthy functioning in relations. The aim of our research was to construct a questionnaire aimed to measure consistency in communication on two dimensions: verbal and n…
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education
This paper explores the role that conflicting rhythms of academic life and crisis have on the ability of academics to meet their commitments, such as providing support to students. Drawing from our experience in UK higher education, we argue that contemporary academic life can be seen as a constant process of being taken over by different crises. These crises tend to follow a rhythm of brief periods as emergencies subsequently operationalised int…
Teaching and learning emotional geographies
Teaching and learning emotional geographiesWe dedicate this symposium to the memory of Cath White.Cath was Senior Lecturer at the Northumbria University and a long-standing contributor to geography education in North East England and the United Kingdom more widely
Sibling Separation Due to Parental Divorce
Separation of siblings is one of the most difficult diagnostic problems faced by psychologists. Such situations are happening more often in the face of the increasing number of divorces and breakdown of relationships. Therefore, a diagnostic task becomes an in-depth assessment of intra-family relationships, ties connecting family members, the preferences of individual people and predicting the long-term consequences of the proposed solutions. The…
Questioning Gender and Sexual Identity in the Context of Self-Concept Clarity, Sense of Coherence and Value System
Sexual and gender identity is a fundamental part of one's overall identity and plays an important role in human functioning. Questioning one's sexuality associated with low level of self-concept clarity, certainty, consistency and stability with regard to the individual's beliefs about oneself, can affect their sense of coherence and value system. The aim of the study was to compare heterosexual and cisgender people with non-heteronormative and n…
Management Decisions
In Poland, often for economic reasons, the staffing of medical rescue teams is limited to the legally required minimum. This gives rise to problems related to the effectiveness and efficiency of medical rescue teams. A literature review did not find any sources addressing the issue of the verification of the effectiveness of paramedic teams depending on the personnel composition of units. The aim of the study was to analyze the effectiveness of r…
Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire—Polish Adaptation (WFRQ-PL)
Family resilience is a construct based on interactive processes occurring in the family, enabling the family to effectively overcome everyday stressors, as well as developmental and unpredictable crises. By observing how the family deals with difficulties using family resilience processes, we are able to support both parents and protect children against the harmful effects of unfavourable conditions. The aim of our research was to carry out the p…
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies
This paper reflects on tensions and challenges in encouraging and enabling students to foreground their personal emotional material in the learning process, while this process itself remains embedded in the neoliberal subjectivities of the university, wider social contexts and the individual selves. We explore our teaching on a final year undergraduate module in which students are asked to explore the emotional geographies of their everyday lives…
Analysis of the Way and Correctness of Using Automated External Defibrillators Placed in Public Space in Polish Cities—Continuation of Research
Immediate resuscitation is required for any sudden cardiac arrest. To improve the survival of the patient, a device to be operated by witnesses of the event-automated external defibrillator (AED)-has been produced. The aim of this study is to analyze the way and correctness of use of automated external defibrillators placed in public spaces in Polish cities. The data analyzed (using Excel 2019 and R 3.5.3 software) are 120 cases of use of automat…
Parent’s Stress Predictors during a Child’s Hospitalization
A child's illness and hospitalization are particularly difficult and most often an unpredictable situation in a family's life cycle. The level of stress of a parent of a hospitalized child depends on many factors, such as the psychological characteristics of the child and the parent, the child's health condition, and support from the family and medical staff. Our research aimed to search for interactions between the stress experienced by the pare…
Polish adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)
Family Assessment Resilience Scale (FRAS) by Sixbey (2005) is based on the model proposed by Walsh (1996), allows to evaluate the processes of family resilience. The main goal of this study was to adapt the English version of FRAS to the Polish population (FRAS-PL) as there is no questionnaire in Poland to assess family resilience. After the process of translation into Polish and then back to English to check the correctness, the final version wa…
For a relationship perspective on geographical ethics
We draw on a particular way of doing research – as volunteer practitioners based in community‐based organisations – to propose a relationship‐centred perspective on geographical ethics. Grounded in a wider rationale driven by socio‐spatial justice, politics of care, and emotional work, the paper reflects on praxes of doing geographical research as volunteer‐practitioners and considers how dimensions of relationship‐forging in community settings c…
The absent presence
This paper uses in‐depth qualitative data, obtained as part of research examining human trafficking from Slovakia to the United Kingdom, to explore the place of children in human trafficking processes. Rather than foregrounding cases of children as direct subjects of abuse, the paper focuses on instances where children are used to control, manipulate and exploit relatives embroiled in human trafficking. We study examples when children are moved a…
Relational geographies of human trafficking
This paper demonstrates why and how a fuller geographical perspective extends contemporary scholarship on human trafficking within and beyond the discipline. We employ a relational approach and draw on in‐depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom ( UK ), to depict how the processes underpinning human trafficking are non‐linear and operate instantaneously at multiple intersect…
Towards dialogic post-socialism
Feeling our way
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social & Cultural Geography on 03 Oct 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1240224
It's good but it's not enough
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 18 Feb 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1147059
Attachment Styles as Predictors of the Perception of Couples' Cohesion
Hazan and Shaver (1987, 1994) stated that intimate relationships represent a prototypical attachment bond in adulthood
Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities
The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts…
Feeling our way
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social & Cultural Geography on 03 Oct 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1240224
Relational geographies of human trafficking
This paper demonstrates why and how a fuller geographical perspective extends contemporary scholarship on human trafficking within and beyond the discipline. We employ a relational approach and draw on in‐depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom ( UK ), to depict how the processes underpinning human trafficking are non‐linear and operate instantaneously at multiple intersect…
Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities
The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts…
Emerging relationships and diverse motivations and benefits in participatory video with young people
The paper reflects on the process of participatory video production with young people from a deprived neighbourhood in Bratislava. We draw on Kindon's [2003. Participatory video in geographic research: a feminist practice of looking? Area, 35 (2), 142–153] and Parr's [2007. Collaborative film-making as process, method and text in mental health research. Cultural geographies, 14 (1), 114–138] arguments that the process of participatory video can b…
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies
This paper reflects on tensions and challenges in encouraging and enabling students to foreground their personal emotional material in the learning process, while this process itself remains embedded in the neoliberal subjectivities of the university, wider social contexts and the individual selves. We explore our teaching on a final year undergraduate module in which students are asked to explore the emotional geographies of their everyday lives…
Migration, vulnerability and the complexity of violence
Lifestyle and close relationship trends among young adults in Poland
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of recent relational trends in Poland. Based on the clinical, theoretical, and empirical literature, the overview addresses both attitudinal (e.g., focus on individual need fulfillment and gender equality) and behavioral (e.g., timing of first intercourse and living arrangements) factors. The literature review is divided into four categories: (a) leaving home; (b) intimate relationships; (c) l…
Place, children's friendships, and the formation of gender identities in a Slovak urban neighbourhood
The paper explores how children form their peer relationships in a small urban neighbourhood in Bratislava, and how their gender identities are affected by practices of friendship. Drawing on Hörschelmann and Stenning's (2008, Progress in Human Geography, 32, 339) idea of the ‘ethnographic attitude’ to researching ‘post-socialist’ change, the paper identifies links between children's everyday performances and broader structures in which these are…
For a relationship perspective on geographical ethics
We draw on a particular way of doing research – as volunteer practitioners based in community‐based organisations – to propose a relationship‐centred perspective on geographical ethics. Grounded in a wider rationale driven by socio‐spatial justice, politics of care, and emotional work, the paper reflects on praxes of doing geographical research as volunteer‐practitioners and considers how dimensions of relationship‐forging in community settings c…
Towards dialogic post-socialism
Teaching and learning emotional geographies
Teaching and learning emotional geographiesWe dedicate this symposium to the memory of Cath White.Cath was Senior Lecturer at the Northumbria University and a long-standing contributor to geography education in North East England and the United Kingdom more widely
The absent presence
This paper uses in‐depth qualitative data, obtained as part of research examining human trafficking from Slovakia to the United Kingdom, to explore the place of children in human trafficking processes. Rather than foregrounding cases of children as direct subjects of abuse, the paper focuses on instances where children are used to control, manipulate and exploit relatives embroiled in human trafficking. We study examples when children are moved a…
It's good but it's not enough
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 18 Feb 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1147059
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education
This paper explores the role that conflicting rhythms of academic life and crisis have on the ability of academics to meet their commitments, such as providing support to students. Drawing from our experience in UK higher education, we argue that contemporary academic life can be seen as a constant process of being taken over by different crises. These crises tend to follow a rhythm of brief periods as emergencies subsequently operationalised int…
Place, children's friendships, and the formation of gender identities in a Slovak urban neighbourhood
The paper explores how children form their peer relationships in a small urban neighbourhood in Bratislava, and how their gender identities are affected by practices of friendship. Drawing on Hörschelmann and Stenning's (2008, Progress in Human Geography, 32, 339) idea of the ‘ethnographic attitude’ to researching ‘post-socialist’ change, the paper identifies links between children's everyday performances and broader structures in which these are…
Self-Concept Clarity and Religious Orientations
The present study concerns the relationship between self-concept clarity, religiosity, and well-being, as well as the mediating influence of religiosity on the relationship between self-concept clarity and sense of meaning in life and self-esteem. Self-concept clarity was found to be a significant predictor of sense of meaning in life and self-esteem; intrinsic religious orientation was found to be a predictor of sense of meaning in life, while t…
Emerging relationships and diverse motivations and benefits in participatory video with young people
The paper reflects on the process of participatory video production with young people from a deprived neighbourhood in Bratislava. We draw on Kindon's [2003. Participatory video in geographic research: a feminist practice of looking? Area, 35 (2), 142–153] and Parr's [2007. Collaborative film-making as process, method and text in mental health research. Cultural geographies, 14 (1), 114–138] arguments that the process of participatory video can b…
Identity Fusion and Status of the Evaluator as Moderators of Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification at the Group Level of Self-Description
We examined the influence of identity fusion and status of evaluator on willingness to fight for one’s group after group-descriptive or not group-descriptive feedback. The valence of evaluative information was varied as well: feedback either support negative group-stereotype (negative but descriptive condition) or contradict negative group-stereotype (positive but not descriptive condition). In two studies (N=208 & N=119) we partially replicated …
Sense of Purpose in Life and Escape from Self as the Predictors of Quality of Life in Clinical Samples
Depression is a leading mental disorder from which suffer Europeans and especially women. In clinical groups with elevated risk of suicidal tendencies, both the negative factors and psychological variables that can protect a person should be analyzed. The aims of the current study were analysis of purpose in life function in perceived quality of life-self-efficacy and life satisfaction among people suffering from depression in comparison with con…
Migration, vulnerability and the complexity of violence
Lifestyle and close relationship trends among young adults in Poland
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of recent relational trends in Poland. Based on the clinical, theoretical, and empirical literature, the overview addresses both attitudinal (e.g., focus on individual need fulfillment and gender equality) and behavioral (e.g., timing of first intercourse and living arrangements) factors. The literature review is divided into four categories: (a) leaving home; (b) intimate relationships; (c) l…
Attachment Styles as Predictors of the Perception of Couples' Cohesion
Hazan and Shaver (1987, 1994) stated that intimate relationships represent a prototypical attachment bond in adulthood
Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities
The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in collaborative activities between researchers based in the UK and community youth workers and teenage female carers in Slovakia, leading to a series of (un)expected outcomes. We argue that while all research impacts…
It's good but it's not enough
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social and Cultural Geography on 18 Feb 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1147059
Towards dialogic post-socialism
Feeling our way
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social & Cultural Geography on 03 Oct 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1240224
Relational geographies of human trafficking
This paper demonstrates why and how a fuller geographical perspective extends contemporary scholarship on human trafficking within and beyond the discipline. We employ a relational approach and draw on in‐depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom ( UK ), to depict how the processes underpinning human trafficking are non‐linear and operate instantaneously at multiple intersect…
The absent presence
This paper uses in‐depth qualitative data, obtained as part of research examining human trafficking from Slovakia to the United Kingdom, to explore the place of children in human trafficking processes. Rather than foregrounding cases of children as direct subjects of abuse, the paper focuses on instances where children are used to control, manipulate and exploit relatives embroiled in human trafficking. We study examples when children are moved a…
Polish adaptation of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS)
Family Assessment Resilience Scale (FRAS) by Sixbey (2005) is based on the model proposed by Walsh (1996), allows to evaluate the processes of family resilience. The main goal of this study was to adapt the English version of FRAS to the Polish population (FRAS-PL) as there is no questionnaire in Poland to assess family resilience. After the process of translation into Polish and then back to English to check the correctness, the final version wa…
For a relationship perspective on geographical ethics
We draw on a particular way of doing research – as volunteer practitioners based in community‐based organisations – to propose a relationship‐centred perspective on geographical ethics. Grounded in a wider rationale driven by socio‐spatial justice, politics of care, and emotional work, the paper reflects on praxes of doing geographical research as volunteer‐practitioners and considers how dimensions of relationship‐forging in community settings c…
Analysis of the Way and Correctness of Using Automated External Defibrillators Placed in Public Space in Polish Cities—Continuation of Research
Immediate resuscitation is required for any sudden cardiac arrest. To improve the survival of the patient, a device to be operated by witnesses of the event-automated external defibrillator (AED)-has been produced. The aim of this study is to analyze the way and correctness of use of automated external defibrillators placed in public spaces in Polish cities. The data analyzed (using Excel 2019 and R 3.5.3 software) are 120 cases of use of automat…
Parent’s Stress Predictors during a Child’s Hospitalization
A child's illness and hospitalization are particularly difficult and most often an unpredictable situation in a family's life cycle. The level of stress of a parent of a hospitalized child depends on many factors, such as the psychological characteristics of the child and the parent, the child's health condition, and support from the family and medical staff. Our research aimed to search for interactions between the stress experienced by the pare…
Sibling Separation Due to Parental Divorce
Separation of siblings is one of the most difficult diagnostic problems faced by psychologists. Such situations are happening more often in the face of the increasing number of divorces and breakdown of relationships. Therefore, a diagnostic task becomes an in-depth assessment of intra-family relationships, ties connecting family members, the preferences of individual people and predicting the long-term consequences of the proposed solutions. The…
Questioning Gender and Sexual Identity in the Context of Self-Concept Clarity, Sense of Coherence and Value System
Sexual and gender identity is a fundamental part of one's overall identity and plays an important role in human functioning. Questioning one's sexuality associated with low level of self-concept clarity, certainty, consistency and stability with regard to the individual's beliefs about oneself, can affect their sense of coherence and value system. The aim of the study was to compare heterosexual and cisgender people with non-heteronormative and n…
Management Decisions
In Poland, often for economic reasons, the staffing of medical rescue teams is limited to the legally required minimum. This gives rise to problems related to the effectiveness and efficiency of medical rescue teams. A literature review did not find any sources addressing the issue of the verification of the effectiveness of paramedic teams depending on the personnel composition of units. The aim of the study was to analyze the effectiveness of r…
Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire—Polish Adaptation (WFRQ-PL)
Family resilience is a construct based on interactive processes occurring in the family, enabling the family to effectively overcome everyday stressors, as well as developmental and unpredictable crises. By observing how the family deals with difficulties using family resilience processes, we are able to support both parents and protect children against the harmful effects of unfavourable conditions. The aim of our research was to carry out the p…
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies
This paper reflects on tensions and challenges in encouraging and enabling students to foreground their personal emotional material in the learning process, while this process itself remains embedded in the neoliberal subjectivities of the university, wider social contexts and the individual selves. We explore our teaching on a final year undergraduate module in which students are asked to explore the emotional geographies of their everyday lives…
Błażek Ambivalent Parental Communication Questionnaire (BAPCQ)
Communication is one of the three overarching processes of family resilience, along with the belief system and organizational processes of family life. Honest, unambiguous communication with a child is one of the important bases of a child's development and feeling of security and healthy functioning in relations. The aim of our research was to construct a questionnaire aimed to measure consistency in communication on two dimensions: verbal and n…
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education
This paper explores the role that conflicting rhythms of academic life and crisis have on the ability of academics to meet their commitments, such as providing support to students. Drawing from our experience in UK higher education, we argue that contemporary academic life can be seen as a constant process of being taken over by different crises. These crises tend to follow a rhythm of brief periods as emergencies subsequently operationalised int…
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