Kateryna Maltseva
Biographic Data
| ID | 131461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kateryna Maltseva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kateryna |
| FAMILY NAME | Maltseva |
| SIGNATURE | MALTSEVA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6540-8734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From fear to meaning
Humans navigate existential anxiety provoked by mortality awareness through complex psychological networks designed to make life feel more manageable. The evolutionary foundations of terror management reveal how self-esteem, cultural worldviews, and structured belief systems serve as buffers against death-related cognitions. Culture and religion play critical roles in providing meaning, reassurance, and pathways to symbolic immortality, highlight…
Multidimensionality of stress
In research literature stress is characterized as a multidimensional phenomenon that comprises antecedents of stress, its cognitive appraisal, emotional and physiological consequences, as well as coping strategies. Stress response is an ontologically ancient adaptation that has been inextricably connected to all biological life. Stress response is instrumental to help the organism react to the signals of danger more efficiently and adapt to envir…
Social determinants of health in biocultural research
Health is biocultural. Some of the challenges the social scientists are traditionally facing include understanding, measuring, and explaining the effects of culture on human condition. While the effects of culture in cognition, emotion, behavior, and health are not disputed, the casual relationships between them and their specific mechanisms are still not clearly understood. Current biocultural research explores multiple themes and subsumes sever…
The Relationships between War-Induced Stressor Exposure, Endorsement of Values Dimensions, and Quality of Life in Ukraine
The present analysis explores the effects of the aggregate stress exposure measure on values endorsement and quality of life in Ukraine following the full-scale invasion. The results suggest that in the context of an armed conflict, nearly all classes of values, regardless of their individual or collective nature, predicted fusing one’s individual identity with that of a group in Ukrainian sample. While the summative stressful experiences did not…
Stress exposure, perceived stress severity, and their effects on health
While stress is one of the central concepts in many contemporary theories of health, there is no universal definition of stress or stressors. Stress is usually understood as a subjective experience of tension, pressure, distress, fear or negative emotions that occurs as a result of a perceived threat to one’s mental or physical well-being and is accompanied by an evolved biological response that facilitates adaptive reaction. While stress is conc…
Assessing psychometric of the perceived stress scale and identifying stress-associated factors in a sample of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic
The Ukrainian version of PSS-10 has good psychometric properties and can be relied upon to measure perceived stress. The study revealed factors associated with the perceived stress in the sample of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic and emphasised the necessity of psychosocial support services and developing interventions to help cope with stress among Ukrainian female refugees in the host country
Stress, Adaptation and Causal Pathways to Mental Health Disparities
The present article addresses the evolutionary dimension of stress process, specifically focusing on the conceptual division into ontologically ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’ stressors. A study conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine (n = 208) in 2020 examined the relationships between both stressor types and measures of short- and long-term mental health outcomes for both positive and negative sides of mental health spectrum. Three empirical observations are noted. …
Stress exposure, perceived stress, protective psychosocial factors, and health status in Ukraine after the full-scale invasion
The concept of stress as a cause of ill health has received much attention in social sciences. The distinction between stress exposure and perceived stress emphasizes the importance of cognitive dimension of stress. This quantitative study ( N = 213) conducted in Ukraine in November 2022 collected self-reported cognitive data on stress exposure, perceived stress, and self-rated heath. The goals of the study included (1) testing if stress exposure…
Using methods of multidimensional analysis to research decision making in academic career choice
The decision that students make regarding his or her further education or professional career is a complex process driven by multiple different factors. On the global scale, this research direction represents an important strategic tangent, given the significance of the universities in the formation of virtually all aspects of one’s life after graduation. It is equally crucial in the Ukrainian context, considering the educational reforms that are…
Individual values, collective values and sacred values
Cultural and social capitals as factors in self-rated health
The present-day epidemiological situation has once again drawn attention of the scientific community and policy makers to the importance of understanding of the social sources of biological risks. During the past few decades the empirical research into heath disparities has revealed the complex links existing between the socioeconomic status of an individual and his or her health. There are several theoretical models that explain health dispariti…
Stress perception
Stress research is an important area in medical sociology. Psychosocial stress accounts for negative health outcomes across various physiological systems and can have far-reaching consequences for the organism’s health. Socio-economic status, in its turn, influences the likelihood of stress exposure and how its consequences will be addressed. All in all, there is ample systematic evidence in support of complex associations between socio-economic …
Cognitive dimension of culture and social axioms
Parental socioeconomic status in childhood and individual’s attitudes in adulthood
The present publication focuses on the relationship between parental socioeconomic status in individual’s childhood and his/her attitude formation in adulthood. Based on prior empirical work on the effects of early life SES on general life outcomes in adulthood, as well as data collected in a series of semistructured interviews (N = 10), for this study we have identified several objects of relationship that can be influenced by the socio-economic…
Muzzling social media
Many organizations struggle to meaningfully engage with their stakeholders on political, societal and environmental topics via social media. Often such discourses unravel into splintered and negative conversations, raising the question whether organizations can and should exercise some level of control and ‘steering’ in these conversations and, if so, how stakeholders would react to such ‘top down’ moderation. Existing studies lack empirical insi…
Bridging sociology with anthropology and cognitive science perspectives to assess shared cultural knowledge
Following the cognitive revolution of the 1960s, cultural variation in behavior and knowledge has been a long-standing subject in social sciences. The “cognitive turn” in sociology brought to light many interesting issues and complex questions. The present publication addresses both theoretical and — to some extent — methodological challenges faced by the sociologists engaged in researching shared cultural variation within the culture-and-cogniti…
Using ethnographic approach and cultural models framework in research on recreational drug use
Substance abuse is one of the pressing issues that loom large in socio-epidemiological and health research in many countries nowadays. The empirical research on drug use is abundant, as are the perspectives on studying the risks associated with different aspects of drug use. In our article we give an overview of both prevalent and novel approaches to understanding the antecedents of drug use, focusing on the methodological means to create the eth…
Social networking sites using and stress levels among the NaUkma students
Nowadays, the scale of the influence the social networking sites have on the daily lives of individuals are difficult to overstate. It is particularly true in the case of young people and college students. One of the notable tendencies characterizing the situation of these social cohorts in the context of social networking sites use is a marked increase in mental health problems, regardless of gender, particularly in juncture with stress level au…
Internalized Cultural Models, Congruity With Cultural Standards, and Mental Health
Using the cultural consonance theory and the assumptions embedded in the culture consensus model, the present article addresses the associations between consensually understood and collectively shared cultural models and individual mental health. The study specifically explored the role of internalization. A structured survey was developed to extract the local variant of the American cultural model of a "good, worthy life." The data collected in …
Prosocial Morality in Individual and Collective Cognition
There has been much interest in understanding the operation of shared collective constructs. Cultural models theory is one of the frameworks in cognitive anthropology engaging the interaction between the individual and collective levels of culture in the process of cultural transmission. The present study attempts to produce the cognitive ethnography focusing on shared understanding of prosocial morality in Sweden. It draws on cognitive data asso…
Norm internalization and the cognitive mechanism of cultural consonance
Human societies are unique in that our behavior is regulated by learned norms and influenced by cultural standards. The present article addresses one of the aspects of how normative culture affects individual's mental life. This study specifically examined the role of norm internalization in cultural consonance and individual psychological flourishing. The data, collected in New England in the winter of 2012, contained measures of individual's (n…
Cognitive Organization of Cultural Values
A considerable body of data has been amassed to explain values structure and transmission. Values dimensions have been extracted and compared across societies in a number of values studies, many of which use quantitative methodology. However, there is little quantitative evidence of significant cross-cultural variation in values. This counterintuitive outcome has given rise to a doubt if an effective quantified comparison of values across societi…
Using Correspondence Analysis of Scales as Part of Mixed Methods Design to Access Cultural Models in Ethnographic Fieldwork
While most research on cultural models isolates qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this study applies mixed techniques to integrate qualitative and quantitative data to analyze cultural dimensionality. In a sequential research design, the data obtained in qualitative interviews, free-listing, and focus groups are validated by using triangulation method and further formalized to create survey items. Correspondence analysis of multi-item s…
Normative culture, cultural competence and mental health in Sweden
Positive effects of benevolence and prosocial behavior on mental and physical health have been well documented in psychological literature. Within this empirical framework, the present study explores the relationship between cultural norms and emotional health based on cognitive data collected in Sweden (2008–2009, n=128). Ethnographic data suggest that socialization of appropriate cultural conduct (i.e., achieving competence in normative culture…
Social Support Predicts Perceived Cultural Salience of Prosocial Ideas but not Normativeness of Prosocial Behaviour
The present study tests the hypothesis that the degree of perceived availability of social support predicts one’s perception of prosocial ideas as salient to one’s cultural group. Using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, cognitive data associated with prosocial ideas (formulated as values and norms) in Swedish society, including their structure, accessibility in recall and intergenerational transmission, as well as information on soci…
Internalized Cultural Models, Congruity With Cultural Standards, and Mental Health
Using the cultural consonance theory and the assumptions embedded in the culture consensus model, the present article addresses the associations between consensually understood and collectively shared cultural models and individual mental health. The study specifically explored the role of internalization. A structured survey was developed to extract the local variant of the American cultural model of a "good, worthy life." The data collected in …
Cognitive Organization of Cultural Values
A considerable body of data has been amassed to explain values structure and transmission. Values dimensions have been extracted and compared across societies in a number of values studies, many of which use quantitative methodology. However, there is little quantitative evidence of significant cross-cultural variation in values. This counterintuitive outcome has given rise to a doubt if an effective quantified comparison of values across societi…
Using Correspondence Analysis of Scales as Part of Mixed Methods Design to Access Cultural Models in Ethnographic Fieldwork
While most research on cultural models isolates qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this study applies mixed techniques to integrate qualitative and quantitative data to analyze cultural dimensionality. In a sequential research design, the data obtained in qualitative interviews, free-listing, and focus groups are validated by using triangulation method and further formalized to create survey items. Correspondence analysis of multi-item s…
A Crystal Seen From Each of Its Vertices
Europeans from 15 locations share a similar image of the national characters of each other and of nations outside of Europe, an image organized on the dimensions of modernity and self-control. Variation of the shared image is complexly patterned: Nations that are geographically close are judged similarly, especially if they are relatively far away from the judge. Similarly, judges that are close judge similarly, especially if the target nations a…
Norm internalization and the cognitive mechanism of cultural consonance
Human societies are unique in that our behavior is regulated by learned norms and influenced by cultural standards. The present article addresses one of the aspects of how normative culture affects individual's mental life. This study specifically examined the role of norm internalization in cultural consonance and individual psychological flourishing. The data, collected in New England in the winter of 2012, contained measures of individual's (n…
Normative culture, cultural competence and mental health in Sweden
Positive effects of benevolence and prosocial behavior on mental and physical health have been well documented in psychological literature. Within this empirical framework, the present study explores the relationship between cultural norms and emotional health based on cognitive data collected in Sweden (2008–2009, n=128). Ethnographic data suggest that socialization of appropriate cultural conduct (i.e., achieving competence in normative culture…
Cognitive dimension of culture and social axioms
Muzzling social media
Many organizations struggle to meaningfully engage with their stakeholders on political, societal and environmental topics via social media. Often such discourses unravel into splintered and negative conversations, raising the question whether organizations can and should exercise some level of control and ‘steering’ in these conversations and, if so, how stakeholders would react to such ‘top down’ moderation. Existing studies lack empirical insi…
A Crystal Seen From Each of Its Vertices
Europeans from 15 locations share a similar image of the national characters of each other and of nations outside of Europe, an image organized on the dimensions of modernity and self-control. Variation of the shared image is complexly patterned: Nations that are geographically close are judged similarly, especially if they are relatively far away from the judge. Similarly, judges that are close judge similarly, especially if the target nations a…
Social Support Predicts Perceived Cultural Salience of Prosocial Ideas but not Normativeness of Prosocial Behaviour
The present study tests the hypothesis that the degree of perceived availability of social support predicts one’s perception of prosocial ideas as salient to one’s cultural group. Using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, cognitive data associated with prosocial ideas (formulated as values and norms) in Swedish society, including their structure, accessibility in recall and intergenerational transmission, as well as information on soci…
Normative culture, cultural competence and mental health in Sweden
Positive effects of benevolence and prosocial behavior on mental and physical health have been well documented in psychological literature. Within this empirical framework, the present study explores the relationship between cultural norms and emotional health based on cognitive data collected in Sweden (2008–2009, n=128). Ethnographic data suggest that socialization of appropriate cultural conduct (i.e., achieving competence in normative culture…
Cognitive Organization of Cultural Values
A considerable body of data has been amassed to explain values structure and transmission. Values dimensions have been extracted and compared across societies in a number of values studies, many of which use quantitative methodology. However, there is little quantitative evidence of significant cross-cultural variation in values. This counterintuitive outcome has given rise to a doubt if an effective quantified comparison of values across societi…
Using Correspondence Analysis of Scales as Part of Mixed Methods Design to Access Cultural Models in Ethnographic Fieldwork
While most research on cultural models isolates qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this study applies mixed techniques to integrate qualitative and quantitative data to analyze cultural dimensionality. In a sequential research design, the data obtained in qualitative interviews, free-listing, and focus groups are validated by using triangulation method and further formalized to create survey items. Correspondence analysis of multi-item s…
Norm internalization and the cognitive mechanism of cultural consonance
Human societies are unique in that our behavior is regulated by learned norms and influenced by cultural standards. The present article addresses one of the aspects of how normative culture affects individual's mental life. This study specifically examined the role of norm internalization in cultural consonance and individual psychological flourishing. The data, collected in New England in the winter of 2012, contained measures of individual's (n…
Prosocial Morality in Individual and Collective Cognition
There has been much interest in understanding the operation of shared collective constructs. Cultural models theory is one of the frameworks in cognitive anthropology engaging the interaction between the individual and collective levels of culture in the process of cultural transmission. The present study attempts to produce the cognitive ethnography focusing on shared understanding of prosocial morality in Sweden. It draws on cognitive data asso…
Internalized Cultural Models, Congruity With Cultural Standards, and Mental Health
Using the cultural consonance theory and the assumptions embedded in the culture consensus model, the present article addresses the associations between consensually understood and collectively shared cultural models and individual mental health. The study specifically explored the role of internalization. A structured survey was developed to extract the local variant of the American cultural model of a "good, worthy life." The data collected in …
Social networking sites using and stress levels among the NaUkma students
Nowadays, the scale of the influence the social networking sites have on the daily lives of individuals are difficult to overstate. It is particularly true in the case of young people and college students. One of the notable tendencies characterizing the situation of these social cohorts in the context of social networking sites use is a marked increase in mental health problems, regardless of gender, particularly in juncture with stress level au…
Bridging sociology with anthropology and cognitive science perspectives to assess shared cultural knowledge
Following the cognitive revolution of the 1960s, cultural variation in behavior and knowledge has been a long-standing subject in social sciences. The “cognitive turn” in sociology brought to light many interesting issues and complex questions. The present publication addresses both theoretical and — to some extent — methodological challenges faced by the sociologists engaged in researching shared cultural variation within the culture-and-cogniti…
Using ethnographic approach and cultural models framework in research on recreational drug use
Substance abuse is one of the pressing issues that loom large in socio-epidemiological and health research in many countries nowadays. The empirical research on drug use is abundant, as are the perspectives on studying the risks associated with different aspects of drug use. In our article we give an overview of both prevalent and novel approaches to understanding the antecedents of drug use, focusing on the methodological means to create the eth…
Parental socioeconomic status in childhood and individual’s attitudes in adulthood
The present publication focuses on the relationship between parental socioeconomic status in individual’s childhood and his/her attitude formation in adulthood. Based on prior empirical work on the effects of early life SES on general life outcomes in adulthood, as well as data collected in a series of semistructured interviews (N = 10), for this study we have identified several objects of relationship that can be influenced by the socio-economic…
Muzzling social media
Many organizations struggle to meaningfully engage with their stakeholders on political, societal and environmental topics via social media. Often such discourses unravel into splintered and negative conversations, raising the question whether organizations can and should exercise some level of control and ‘steering’ in these conversations and, if so, how stakeholders would react to such ‘top down’ moderation. Existing studies lack empirical insi…
Cultural and social capitals as factors in self-rated health
The present-day epidemiological situation has once again drawn attention of the scientific community and policy makers to the importance of understanding of the social sources of biological risks. During the past few decades the empirical research into heath disparities has revealed the complex links existing between the socioeconomic status of an individual and his or her health. There are several theoretical models that explain health dispariti…
Stress perception
Stress research is an important area in medical sociology. Psychosocial stress accounts for negative health outcomes across various physiological systems and can have far-reaching consequences for the organism’s health. Socio-economic status, in its turn, influences the likelihood of stress exposure and how its consequences will be addressed. All in all, there is ample systematic evidence in support of complex associations between socio-economic …
Cognitive dimension of culture and social axioms
Using methods of multidimensional analysis to research decision making in academic career choice
The decision that students make regarding his or her further education or professional career is a complex process driven by multiple different factors. On the global scale, this research direction represents an important strategic tangent, given the significance of the universities in the formation of virtually all aspects of one’s life after graduation. It is equally crucial in the Ukrainian context, considering the educational reforms that are…
Individual values, collective values and sacred values
Stress exposure, perceived stress severity, and their effects on health
While stress is one of the central concepts in many contemporary theories of health, there is no universal definition of stress or stressors. Stress is usually understood as a subjective experience of tension, pressure, distress, fear or negative emotions that occurs as a result of a perceived threat to one’s mental or physical well-being and is accompanied by an evolved biological response that facilitates adaptive reaction. While stress is conc…
Assessing psychometric of the perceived stress scale and identifying stress-associated factors in a sample of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic
The Ukrainian version of PSS-10 has good psychometric properties and can be relied upon to measure perceived stress. The study revealed factors associated with the perceived stress in the sample of Ukrainian female refugees in the Czech Republic and emphasised the necessity of psychosocial support services and developing interventions to help cope with stress among Ukrainian female refugees in the host country
Stress, Adaptation and Causal Pathways to Mental Health Disparities
The present article addresses the evolutionary dimension of stress process, specifically focusing on the conceptual division into ontologically ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’ stressors. A study conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine (n = 208) in 2020 examined the relationships between both stressor types and measures of short- and long-term mental health outcomes for both positive and negative sides of mental health spectrum. Three empirical observations are noted. …
Stress exposure, perceived stress, protective psychosocial factors, and health status in Ukraine after the full-scale invasion
The concept of stress as a cause of ill health has received much attention in social sciences. The distinction between stress exposure and perceived stress emphasizes the importance of cognitive dimension of stress. This quantitative study ( N = 213) conducted in Ukraine in November 2022 collected self-reported cognitive data on stress exposure, perceived stress, and self-rated heath. The goals of the study included (1) testing if stress exposure…
Multidimensionality of stress
In research literature stress is characterized as a multidimensional phenomenon that comprises antecedents of stress, its cognitive appraisal, emotional and physiological consequences, as well as coping strategies. Stress response is an ontologically ancient adaptation that has been inextricably connected to all biological life. Stress response is instrumental to help the organism react to the signals of danger more efficiently and adapt to envir…
Social determinants of health in biocultural research
Health is biocultural. Some of the challenges the social scientists are traditionally facing include understanding, measuring, and explaining the effects of culture on human condition. While the effects of culture in cognition, emotion, behavior, and health are not disputed, the casual relationships between them and their specific mechanisms are still not clearly understood. Current biocultural research explores multiple themes and subsumes sever…
The Relationships between War-Induced Stressor Exposure, Endorsement of Values Dimensions, and Quality of Life in Ukraine
The present analysis explores the effects of the aggregate stress exposure measure on values endorsement and quality of life in Ukraine following the full-scale invasion. The results suggest that in the context of an armed conflict, nearly all classes of values, regardless of their individual or collective nature, predicted fusing one’s individual identity with that of a group in Ukrainian sample. While the summative stressful experiences did not…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)