Paweł Holas
Biographic Data
| ID | 2249864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paweł Holas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paweł |
| FAMILY NAME | Holas |
| SIGNATURE | HOLAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4210-3396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Synchronous Online Group MBCT vs. Guided Asynchronous Online MBCT for Mild to Moderate Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a promising intervention for mental health, but its effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms remains underexplored. While key mechanisms of change have been identified in traditional MBCT, their role in online delivery formats needs further investigation. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of synchronous and asynchronous online MBCT in reducing depressive symptoms and to examin…
Self-Compassion and Resilience as Mediators of a 30-Day Internet-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Pragmatic Open Trial
Brief, minimally guided, internet-delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (iMBCT) formats may offer a scalable alternative, but evidence for their effectiveness and mechanisms remains limited. This pragmatic two-arm open trial evaluated the feasibility and preliminary effects of a 30-day asynchronous iMBCT program in a community sample. The primary outcomes were reductions in perceived stress and emotional distress; secondary analyses exami…
When Compassion Protects—and When it Overwhelms: Compassionate Self-Responding, Empathy, and Depression
Heterogeneity in Problematic Social Media Use Among Adolescents: A Short‐Term Longitudinal Study
Problematic social media use (PSMU) is increasingly discussed within behavioral addiction and compensatory use frameworks, yet most adolescent evidence is cross‐sectional. We examined short‐term heterogeneity and stability in PSMU and tested whether baseline psychosocial factors predicted class membership. Polish high school adolescents were assessed at three waves approximately 3 months apart during the 2023–2024 school year. The broader analyti…
Attentional processes in brief mindfulness meditation and socio-affective responses to in-group and out-group suffering
Empathy and compassion often arise in response to others' suffering but can be inhibited when the sufferers represent out-groups. Mindfulness meditation may help counter these blocks by reducing distress and fostering compassionate responses. In this study, we tested whether a brief, 10-min mindfulness intervention could enhance empathic and compassionate reactions to in-group and out-group suffering. Eighty-three participants completed the Socio…
Toward enlightenment: Dissolving the ego and expanding the world through mindfulness and psychedelics
A systematic review of psychedelic use and its relationship with meaning and purpose in life
Adverse childhood experiences and diet quality in the national sample of Poles: The mediating role of emotion regulation
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of adverse psychological and physical outcomes and chronic disease in adulthood. The mechanism of this relationship is still unclear. ACEs might exert their negative influence on adult health via both dietary and psychological axes. Our study aimed to examine the relationship between ACEs and diet quality in the national sample of Poles. We also aimed to determine whether difficulty in regula…
Habitual Instagram Use and Emotional Distress in Adolescents and Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Social Comparisons Moderated by Instagram Use Profiles
Previous research has found that excessive social network site (SNS) use is associated with anxiety and depression, but the mechanisms underlying this association are not fully understood. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether these mechanisms vary across patterns of SNS use. This study examined the relationship between habitual Instagram use and emotional distress symptoms in adolescents and young adults, with social comparison orientation (SC…
Factors associated with burnout in Polish healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the healthcare system under substantial strain that has caused elevated psychological distress among healthcare workers (HCWs). Previous studies have found a high prevalence of burnout among HCWs exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and have delineated some associated factors, but further research is needed. Little is known, for example, whether the economic status of HCWs or experiencing negative an…
The relationship between self-esteem and self-compassion in socially anxious
Fear of evaluation and a negative view of the self are the core aspects of social anxiety. Self-compassion and self-esteem are two distinct positive attitudes toward the self, which are positively related to each other, well-being and good psychological functioning. It is less clear, however, how they interplay in socially anxious individuals and if self-compassion may reduce the negative effect of low self-esteem on social anxiety. The current r…
Collective action mitigates the negative effects of Covid-19 threat and anti-abortion restrictions on mental health
A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
Risk of Developing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Severe Covid-19 Survivors, Their Families and Frontline Healthcare Workers: What Should Mental Health Specialists Prepare For
Given the high mortality of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), having severe COVID-19 may be a life-threatening event, especially for individuals at high risk of complications. Therefore, in the article we try to answer two questions that are relevant to public mental health: Can we define groups who are at higher risk of developing pandemic-related PTSD? How can health specialists prepare for it? Given the results of previous research on P…
Manifestations of clinical depression in daily life: A daily diary study of descriptions of naturally occurring events
138) described the events that happened to them each day for two weeks, and these descriptions were content analysed. Participants also rated how stressful and how positive each event was. Multilevel analyses found that depressed individuals, compared to the non-depressed, used more negative emotion words and more pronouns and used fewer positive emotion words, and they rated events as more stressful and less positive. Stressfulness of events was…
Positive daily experiences can buffer the negative effects of daily stress: A conceptual replication
Metacognitive model of mindfulness
Defense Mechanisms in Alexithymia
The Polish version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire were completed by 387 university students. Scores on alexithymia correlate significantly with scores on the whole group of 12 immature defenses (Pearson r = .39, p < .001) and with scores on such individual immature defense mechanisms as Autistic Fantasy (r = .39), Somatization (r = .37), Projection (r = .32), and Displacement (r = .32). These results supp…
Adverse childhood experiences and diet quality in the national sample of Poles: The mediating role of emotion regulation
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of adverse psychological and physical outcomes and chronic disease in adulthood. The mechanism of this relationship is still unclear. ACEs might exert their negative influence on adult health via both dietary and psychological axes. Our study aimed to examine the relationship between ACEs and diet quality in the national sample of Poles. We also aimed to determine whether difficulty in regula…
Collective action mitigates the negative effects of Covid-19 threat and anti-abortion restrictions on mental health
Defense Mechanisms in Alexithymia
The Polish version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire were completed by 387 university students. Scores on alexithymia correlate significantly with scores on the whole group of 12 immature defenses (Pearson r = .39, p < .001) and with scores on such individual immature defense mechanisms as Autistic Fantasy (r = .39), Somatization (r = .37), Projection (r = .32), and Displacement (r = .32). These results supp…
Metacognitive model of mindfulness
Positive daily experiences can buffer the negative effects of daily stress: A conceptual replication
Manifestations of clinical depression in daily life: A daily diary study of descriptions of naturally occurring events
138) described the events that happened to them each day for two weeks, and these descriptions were content analysed. Participants also rated how stressful and how positive each event was. Multilevel analyses found that depressed individuals, compared to the non-depressed, used more negative emotion words and more pronouns and used fewer positive emotion words, and they rated events as more stressful and less positive. Stressfulness of events was…
A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder
Risk of Developing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Severe Covid-19 Survivors, Their Families and Frontline Healthcare Workers: What Should Mental Health Specialists Prepare For
Given the high mortality of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), having severe COVID-19 may be a life-threatening event, especially for individuals at high risk of complications. Therefore, in the article we try to answer two questions that are relevant to public mental health: Can we define groups who are at higher risk of developing pandemic-related PTSD? How can health specialists prepare for it? Given the results of previous research on P…
Factors associated with burnout in Polish healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the healthcare system under substantial strain that has caused elevated psychological distress among healthcare workers (HCWs). Previous studies have found a high prevalence of burnout among HCWs exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and have delineated some associated factors, but further research is needed. Little is known, for example, whether the economic status of HCWs or experiencing negative an…
The relationship between self-esteem and self-compassion in socially anxious
Fear of evaluation and a negative view of the self are the core aspects of social anxiety. Self-compassion and self-esteem are two distinct positive attitudes toward the self, which are positively related to each other, well-being and good psychological functioning. It is less clear, however, how they interplay in socially anxious individuals and if self-compassion may reduce the negative effect of low self-esteem on social anxiety. The current r…
Collective action mitigates the negative effects of Covid-19 threat and anti-abortion restrictions on mental health
Habitual Instagram Use and Emotional Distress in Adolescents and Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Social Comparisons Moderated by Instagram Use Profiles
Previous research has found that excessive social network site (SNS) use is associated with anxiety and depression, but the mechanisms underlying this association are not fully understood. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether these mechanisms vary across patterns of SNS use. This study examined the relationship between habitual Instagram use and emotional distress symptoms in adolescents and young adults, with social comparison orientation (SC…
A systematic review of psychedelic use and its relationship with meaning and purpose in life
Adverse childhood experiences and diet quality in the national sample of Poles: The mediating role of emotion regulation
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of adverse psychological and physical outcomes and chronic disease in adulthood. The mechanism of this relationship is still unclear. ACEs might exert their negative influence on adult health via both dietary and psychological axes. Our study aimed to examine the relationship between ACEs and diet quality in the national sample of Poles. We also aimed to determine whether difficulty in regula…
Synchronous Online Group MBCT vs. Guided Asynchronous Online MBCT for Mild to Moderate Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a promising intervention for mental health, but its effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms remains underexplored. While key mechanisms of change have been identified in traditional MBCT, their role in online delivery formats needs further investigation. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of synchronous and asynchronous online MBCT in reducing depressive symptoms and to examin…
Self-Compassion and Resilience as Mediators of a 30-Day Internet-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Pragmatic Open Trial
Brief, minimally guided, internet-delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (iMBCT) formats may offer a scalable alternative, but evidence for their effectiveness and mechanisms remains limited. This pragmatic two-arm open trial evaluated the feasibility and preliminary effects of a 30-day asynchronous iMBCT program in a community sample. The primary outcomes were reductions in perceived stress and emotional distress; secondary analyses exami…
When Compassion Protects—and When it Overwhelms: Compassionate Self-Responding, Empathy, and Depression
Heterogeneity in Problematic Social Media Use Among Adolescents: A Short‐Term Longitudinal Study
Problematic social media use (PSMU) is increasingly discussed within behavioral addiction and compensatory use frameworks, yet most adolescent evidence is cross‐sectional. We examined short‐term heterogeneity and stability in PSMU and tested whether baseline psychosocial factors predicted class membership. Polish high school adolescents were assessed at three waves approximately 3 months apart during the 2023–2024 school year. The broader analyti…
Attentional processes in brief mindfulness meditation and socio-affective responses to in-group and out-group suffering
Empathy and compassion often arise in response to others' suffering but can be inhibited when the sufferers represent out-groups. Mindfulness meditation may help counter these blocks by reducing distress and fostering compassionate responses. In this study, we tested whether a brief, 10-min mindfulness intervention could enhance empathic and compassionate reactions to in-group and out-group suffering. Eighty-three participants completed the Socio…
Toward enlightenment: Dissolving the ego and expanding the world through mindfulness and psychedelics
Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Mindfulness (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Distress (6 works) · Anxiety (5 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (5 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (5 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 works)