Júlia Halamová
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 809439 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Júlia Halamová |
| NOMBRES | Júlia |
| APELLIDO | Halamová |
| FIRMA | HALAMOVÁ J |
| AFILIACIONES | Comenius University Bratislava |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2655-2327 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
‘I didn’t know there was a name for what I was feeling’
The Short Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales for self, to others, and from others (S-Socs-S; S-Socs-O; S-Socs-FO)
Virtual reality nature exposure reduces self-criticism and shows trends toward enhanced self-compassion
BACKGROUND: Building on the therapeutic potential of nature exposure and the increasing accessibility of immersive virtual reality (VR), this study investigates whether custom-designed VR environments-specifically a virtual forest and a virtual city-can differentially influence self-compassion, self-criticism, self-protection, and perceived stress. OBJECTIVE: This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the psychological impact of VR nature…
The development and the factor analysis of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion from others scale in the Slovak population
Much of compassion research focuses on giving compassion to others and self-compassion, but compassion functions as an integrated flow, including receiving compassion from others. While these components are essential for well-being and life meaning, existing measurement tools do not comprehensively assess all three. The only available scale attempting to measure all three—Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales—has shown inconsistent factor st…
What makes partners attractive? Slovak adaptation and psychometric validation of the Interpersonal Attraction Scale and its short forms
Interpersonal attraction, encompassing the positive feelings, perceptions, and behavioral tendencies toward others, plays a fundamental role in the formation and maintenance of romantic relationships. Despite its importance, validated measures of this construct remain scarce outside English-speaking contexts. The Interpersonal Attraction Scale (IAS), measuring social, physical, and task attraction, has been widely used but never validated in Cent…
Qualitative Analysis of Emotion Schemes Theory of Compassion Satisfaction in Emotion - Focused Therapy
There is little to no research focused on the qualitative understanding of compassion satisfaction among helping professionals, despite the demanding nature of the profession. Our aim was to examine how helping professionals experience compassion satisfaction through the lens of emotion scheme theory applied in emotion-focused therapy. Eight helping professionals were randomly selected from the pool of 29 participants representing a convenience s…
Coping with the Covid-19 pandemic
Prior research has focused on distinct coping strategies or groups of coping strategies. However, recent research supports the idea that there are distinct coping profiles that contain unique sets of coping strategies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify combinations of coping strategies in a general non-clinical adult population and to examine whether the coping profiles differ in perceptions of coronavirus risk, confidence in safegu…
A puzzle about knowledge ascriptions
Philosophers have argued that stakes affect knowledge: a given amount of evidence may suffice for knowledge if the stakes are low, but not if the stakes are high. By contrast, empirical work on the influence of stakes on ordinary knowledge ascriptions has been divided along methodological lines: “evidence‐fixed” prompts rarely find stakes effects, while “evidence‐seeking” prompts consistently find them. We present a cross‐cultural study using bot…
Analysis of Action Units, Emotions, and Voice Units in High and Low Self-Critical Participants During Self-Criticizing
Self-criticism is considered a transdiagnostic predictor of psychopathology, treatment, and persistence. Hence, diagnosing the various levels of self-criticism might help in its early screening, prevention and then easier treatment. Recently, self-criticism has even been associated with the reduced capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of our research was to analyze differences in action units, emotions, and voice units in individu…
Breaking the vicious cycles of self-criticism
Despite continuous efforts to understand self-critical inner dialogues, little is known about the best practices people use to overcome their self-critics. In this study, we aimed to analyse the self-critical cycles of participants who scored high on coping to understand the most adaptive strategies and responses to the self-critic. The consensual qualitative analysis was performed by a team of three researchers and one auditor. The high scorers …
Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among teachers
The development of the Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue scale
Background: There is a high probability of compassion fatigue occurring in helping professionals who work with traumatized clients or patients. Several instruments exist for measuring compassion fatigue, but all of them have methodological flaws. The original Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers is time-consuming and its psychometric properties, including factor structure, have not been supported in the research. Methods: Therefo…
Anger or happiness superiority effect
Clients’ Facial Expressions of Self-Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Self-Protection in Emotion-Focused Therapy Videos
Clients' facial expressions allow psychotherapists to gather more information about clients' emotional processing. This study aims to examine and investigate the facial Action Units (AUs) of self-compassion, self-criticism, and self-protection within real Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) sessions. For this purpose, we used the facial analysis software iMotions. Twelve video sessions were selected for the analysis based on specific criteria. For self…
Improvements in Compassion and Fears of Compassion throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic
During large-scale disasters, social support, caring behaviours, and compassion are shown to protect against poor mental health outcomes. This multi-national study aimed to assess the fluctuations in compassion over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents (Time 1 n = 4156, Time 2 n = 980, Time 3 n = 825) from 23 countries completed online self-report questionnaires measuring the flows of compassion (i.e., Compassionate Engagement and Actio…
Differences Between High and Low Self-Critics in Compassionate Facial Expression
The goal of this study was to identify differences between high and low self-critical participants in relation to compassionate facial expressions. Our convenience sample consisted of 151 participants aged 18-59 years old (M = 25.17; SD = 7.81). The highest and the lowest scoring participants in self-criticism were selected for final analysis ( N = 35). Participants, at home alone, watched a short video stimulus eliciting compassion while their f…
Effect of the intervention mindfulness based compassionate living on the - level of self - criticism and self – compassion
Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions
One of the key elements of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is decreasing self-criticism as a secondary, maladaptive emotion within two-chair interventions while simultaneously increasing self-compassion and self-protection as primary, adaptive emotions. Though the concepts of self-compassion, self-protection, and self-criticism are highly acknowledged within psychotherapy research, the verbal articulation of these constructs within therapy sessions…
Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Slovak Version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
The Slovak version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory is a statistically sound instrument with high coefficients of reliability as well as validity and has an acceptable factor structure
Emotion-Focused Mobile App for Promoting Self-Compassion, Self-Protection, and Self-Criticism
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our daily lives and restricted access to traditional psychological interventions. Hence there is an immediate and growing demand for accessible and scalable mental health solutions. Emotion-focused training for self-compassion and self-protection was developed and distributed using mobile phone technologies, and its effectiveness was tested. The available research sample consisted of 97 participants with a mean a…
Let Us Take It into Our Own Hands
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new health situations for patients and health professionals alike and, with them, opportunities to study these new patient experiences, gain insights into changed healthcare practices, and propose potential new healthcare solutions. The aim of our study was to explore how people coped with their health issues during the pandemic. We utilized a consensual qualitative analysis. The convenience sample that was gather…
Prevalence of compassion fatigue among helping professions and relationship to compassion for others, self‐compassion and self‐criticism
INTRODUCTION: Helping professionals are at high risk of being affected by the negative aspects of helping such as compassion fatigue. To date, no study has provided a comprehensive overview of compassion fatigue and compared the prevalence among different helping professions. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and differences in compassion fatigue among different helping professions. We also wanted to explore the rela…
Sex and age differences in facial emotions expressions measured by artificial intelligence
Our aim was to test existing sex and age stereotypes related to emotional expressivity, gender and age. This was a complex analysis of facial expressions of all basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise) to everyday life stimuli observing a large sample (2,969 unique participants creating 39,694 recordings) using an Emotion Artificial Intelligence. Our data partially support emotion-specific stereotype that women expr…
Factor Structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 11 International Samples
In this study, different factor analysis models were employed to test the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) in 11 distinct populations (n = 15,266) in different countries. The results strongly suggest that the most appropriate use of the SCS is to measure levels of Self-Compassionate responding (positive items) and Self-Uncompassionate responding (negative items) separately
Consensual Qualitative Research on Free Associations for Criticism and Self-Criticism
Criticism and self-criticism have far reaching impacts on wellbeing and emotional balance. In order to create better interventions for criticism and self-criticism, more in-depth knowledge about these two constructs is required. The goal of our study was to examine three associations for criticism and self-criticism. The data were collected from a sample of 151 psychology students: 114 women and 37 men (Mean age 22.2; SD 4.4). We were interested …
Consensual qualitative research on free associations for compassion and self-compassion
The aim of our study was to explore the first three associations for the following two stimulus words: compassion and self-compassion. In addition, we were interested in whether the participants would conceptualise these words more in terms of emotions, cognitions, or behaviours. The sample consisted of 151 psychology students. A consensual qualitative research approach was adopted. Three members of the core team and an auditor analysed the free …
Factor Structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 11 International Samples
In this study, different factor analysis models were employed to test the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) in 11 distinct populations (n = 15,266) in different countries. The results strongly suggest that the most appropriate use of the SCS is to measure levels of Self-Compassionate responding (positive items) and Self-Uncompassionate responding (negative items) separately
Non-expert views of compassion
Although the research on compassion is growing, there is a lack of knowledge about how non-expert people perceive compassion. Therefore, the aim of the study was to explore compassion from the perspective of non-experts. Our sample consisted of 56 non-expert participants (Slovaks and Czechs) in 10 focus groups and we conducted a Consensual Qualitative Research analysis with two members of a core team and one auditor. In general, compassion was de…
Emotion-focused training for emotion coaching – an intervention to reduce self-criticism
Emotion-Focused Training for Emotion Coaching (EFT-EC) is based on Emotion-focused Therapy findings and was developed to help participants deepen their emotional skills. The goal was to examine the efficacy of a 12-week EFT-EC group program the level of emotion intelligence, self-compassion and self-criticism in a student population. A quasi-experiment with no control group was conducted with pre- and post-measurements using The Self-compassion s…
Relationships as Sources of Forming Self in the Religious Groups
Current psychological concepts often emphasise the importance of close personal relationships and social context in creating self. The study focuses on the relationships and the influence of the relationship contexts (relationships in family, religious group, ideal group, Slovak current society, God etc.) on forming the perceived self. 128 members of small Christian groups were given a questionnaire consisting of socio-demographic questions and a…
Process of Religious Conversion in the Catholic Charismatic Movement
The study deals with a religious conversion of members of the Catholic Charismatic movement. This movement is characterised by the integration of those aspects of spirituality, which draw on traditional religious life as well as on the spirituality of new religious movements. The consensual qualitative research was used for analyses of thirty stories of personal conversions from the members of this movement. The stories were described in a public…
Development and Psychometric Analysis of the Sense of Community Descriptors Scale
The authors report the development and robust evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Sense of Community Descriptors Scale, which, as one of the few scales that measures the psychological sense of community regardless of context, can be utilized in all kinds of communities for assessing community intervention effectiveness. The Sense of Community Descriptors Scale uses a semi-projective method in the form of a semantic differential. Cont…
Consensual qualitative research on free associations for compassion and self-compassion
The aim of our study was to explore the first three associations for the following two stimulus words: compassion and self-compassion. In addition, we were interested in whether the participants would conceptualise these words more in terms of emotions, cognitions, or behaviours. The sample consisted of 151 psychology students. A consensual qualitative research approach was adopted. Three members of the core team and an auditor analysed the free …
Non-expert views of compassion
Although the research on compassion is growing, there is a lack of knowledge about how non-expert people perceive compassion. Therefore, the aim of the study was to explore compassion from the perspective of non-experts. Our sample consisted of 56 non-expert participants (Slovaks and Czechs) in 10 focus groups and we conducted a Consensual Qualitative Research analysis with two members of a core team and one auditor. In general, compassion was de…
Differences in Guided Imagery between High and Low Self-Critical Participants
As self-criticism is considered to be the major underlying factor of all sorts of psychopathology, it is meaningful to explore the differences between how people deal with their self-criticism based on their level of self-criticism. The aim of this study was to categorise descriptions and investigate differences between 5 high and 5 low self-critical participants in their self-critical, self-protective and self-compassionate imageries. The total …
Introductory community psychology in Slovakia
Community psychology is a psychological discipline that is usually categorized within applied psychological disciplines. According to Dalton, Elizabeth, and Wandersman (2001), community psychology deals with the relationships between individuals, communities, and societies. Through collaborative research and interventions, community psychologists seek to understand and enhance quality of life for individuals, communities, and societies. To better…
Emotion-focused training for emotion coaching – an intervention to reduce self-criticism
Emotion-Focused Training for Emotion Coaching (EFT-EC) is based on Emotion-focused Therapy findings and was developed to help participants deepen their emotional skills. The goal was to examine the efficacy of a 12-week EFT-EC group program the level of emotion intelligence, self-compassion and self-criticism in a student population. A quasi-experiment with no control group was conducted with pre- and post-measurements using The Self-compassion s…
Factor Structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 11 International Samples
In this study, different factor analysis models were employed to test the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) in 11 distinct populations (n = 15,266) in different countries. The results strongly suggest that the most appropriate use of the SCS is to measure levels of Self-Compassionate responding (positive items) and Self-Uncompassionate responding (negative items) separately
Consensual Qualitative Research on Free Associations for Criticism and Self-Criticism
Criticism and self-criticism have far reaching impacts on wellbeing and emotional balance. In order to create better interventions for criticism and self-criticism, more in-depth knowledge about these two constructs is required. The goal of our study was to examine three associations for criticism and self-criticism. The data were collected from a sample of 151 psychology students: 114 women and 37 men (Mean age 22.2; SD 4.4). We were interested …
Sex and age differences in facial emotions expressions measured by artificial intelligence
Our aim was to test existing sex and age stereotypes related to emotional expressivity, gender and age. This was a complex analysis of facial expressions of all basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise) to everyday life stimuli observing a large sample (2,969 unique participants creating 39,694 recordings) using an Emotion Artificial Intelligence. Our data partially support emotion-specific stereotype that women expr…
Effect of the intervention mindfulness based compassionate living on the - level of self - criticism and self – compassion
Qualitative Analysis of Chair Tasks in Emotion-Focused Therapy Video Sessions
One of the key elements of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is decreasing self-criticism as a secondary, maladaptive emotion within two-chair interventions while simultaneously increasing self-compassion and self-protection as primary, adaptive emotions. Though the concepts of self-compassion, self-protection, and self-criticism are highly acknowledged within psychotherapy research, the verbal articulation of these constructs within therapy sessions…
Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Slovak Version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
The Slovak version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory is a statistically sound instrument with high coefficients of reliability as well as validity and has an acceptable factor structure
Emotion-Focused Mobile App for Promoting Self-Compassion, Self-Protection, and Self-Criticism
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our daily lives and restricted access to traditional psychological interventions. Hence there is an immediate and growing demand for accessible and scalable mental health solutions. Emotion-focused training for self-compassion and self-protection was developed and distributed using mobile phone technologies, and its effectiveness was tested. The available research sample consisted of 97 participants with a mean a…
Let Us Take It into Our Own Hands
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new health situations for patients and health professionals alike and, with them, opportunities to study these new patient experiences, gain insights into changed healthcare practices, and propose potential new healthcare solutions. The aim of our study was to explore how people coped with their health issues during the pandemic. We utilized a consensual qualitative analysis. The convenience sample that was gather…
Prevalence of compassion fatigue among helping professions and relationship to compassion for others, self‐compassion and self‐criticism
INTRODUCTION: Helping professionals are at high risk of being affected by the negative aspects of helping such as compassion fatigue. To date, no study has provided a comprehensive overview of compassion fatigue and compared the prevalence among different helping professions. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and differences in compassion fatigue among different helping professions. We also wanted to explore the rela…
Anger or happiness superiority effect
Clients’ Facial Expressions of Self-Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Self-Protection in Emotion-Focused Therapy Videos
Clients' facial expressions allow psychotherapists to gather more information about clients' emotional processing. This study aims to examine and investigate the facial Action Units (AUs) of self-compassion, self-criticism, and self-protection within real Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) sessions. For this purpose, we used the facial analysis software iMotions. Twelve video sessions were selected for the analysis based on specific criteria. For self…
Improvements in Compassion and Fears of Compassion throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic
During large-scale disasters, social support, caring behaviours, and compassion are shown to protect against poor mental health outcomes. This multi-national study aimed to assess the fluctuations in compassion over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents (Time 1 n = 4156, Time 2 n = 980, Time 3 n = 825) from 23 countries completed online self-report questionnaires measuring the flows of compassion (i.e., Compassionate Engagement and Actio…
Differences Between High and Low Self-Critics in Compassionate Facial Expression
The goal of this study was to identify differences between high and low self-critical participants in relation to compassionate facial expressions. Our convenience sample consisted of 151 participants aged 18-59 years old (M = 25.17; SD = 7.81). The highest and the lowest scoring participants in self-criticism were selected for final analysis ( N = 35). Participants, at home alone, watched a short video stimulus eliciting compassion while their f…
The development of the Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue scale
Background: There is a high probability of compassion fatigue occurring in helping professionals who work with traumatized clients or patients. Several instruments exist for measuring compassion fatigue, but all of them have methodological flaws. The original Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers is time-consuming and its psychometric properties, including factor structure, have not been supported in the research. Methods: Therefo…
Coping with the Covid-19 pandemic
Prior research has focused on distinct coping strategies or groups of coping strategies. However, recent research supports the idea that there are distinct coping profiles that contain unique sets of coping strategies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify combinations of coping strategies in a general non-clinical adult population and to examine whether the coping profiles differ in perceptions of coronavirus risk, confidence in safegu…
A puzzle about knowledge ascriptions
Philosophers have argued that stakes affect knowledge: a given amount of evidence may suffice for knowledge if the stakes are low, but not if the stakes are high. By contrast, empirical work on the influence of stakes on ordinary knowledge ascriptions has been divided along methodological lines: “evidence‐fixed” prompts rarely find stakes effects, while “evidence‐seeking” prompts consistently find them. We present a cross‐cultural study using bot…
Analysis of Action Units, Emotions, and Voice Units in High and Low Self-Critical Participants During Self-Criticizing
Self-criticism is considered a transdiagnostic predictor of psychopathology, treatment, and persistence. Hence, diagnosing the various levels of self-criticism might help in its early screening, prevention and then easier treatment. Recently, self-criticism has even been associated with the reduced capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of our research was to analyze differences in action units, emotions, and voice units in individu…
Psychology (23 obras) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (19 obras) · Compassion (12 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Self-compassion (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (8 obras) · Mindfulness (8 obras) · Criticism (7 obras)