Peter Babinčák
Biographic Data
| ID | 809032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Babinčák |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Babinčák |
| SIGNATURE | BABINČÁK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Prešov |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3407-6631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages
Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the sentence-picture verification task, wherein participants first read a sentence that implies the object property (i.e., shape and orientation). Participants then respond to an image of an object by indicating whether it was an object from the sentenc…
Reported father involvement and indicators of subjective well-being in transition to adulthood
This study examined the possibility of predicting the indicators of adolescents’ subjective well-being (satisfaction with life and frequency of positive and negative experiencing) based on the reported father involvement, which was the reason for verifying the factor structure and examine the psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Reported Father Involvement Scale (R-FIS) in adolescents. The research sample consisted of 400 students…
Determinants of spirituality in children’s age
This study discusses the spiritual well-being of 8–11 year-old children and its determinants. The aim of the study was to examine differences in terms of gender and age in selected variables and verify the relationship between spiritual well-being and selected variables: the religiosity of children, parental support; peer support, as well as explaining to extent to which the stated variables predict individual domains of spiritual well-being. In …
Family Quality of Life and Family Satisfaction Measures for Use in Slovakia: Confirmatory Factor Analyses
The aim of this study is to provide evidence to support the measurement of psychological concepts of family functioning in Slovakia. The first objective was to verify the psychometric properties of two scales assessing family quality of life and family satisfaction: the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale (BFQOLS) and the Family APGAR in people from a standard population (without disabilities). The second objective was to determine the rela…
Slovak parents’ mental health and socioeconomic changes during the Covid-19 pandemic
The changes in people's mental health have become one of the hot topics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents have been said to be among the most vulnerable groups in terms of the imposed anti-pandemic measures. The present paper analyzes the trends in mental health indicators in a sample of Slovak parents ( N = 363) who participated in four waves of data collection over a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mental health indicators wer…
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics
The aim of this study was to develop a scale for assessing attitudes towards multi-child families, to examine the structure of these attitudes and their relationship with beliefs about optimal, desired and actual family size, and other variables to assess the characteristics of the instrument. On the sample of 548 adult respondents, by performing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) we identified the three-factor structure of attitudes: good life in…
Coronavirus anxiety in Slovakia during the second wave of the pandemic – Associations with depression, insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder
The study had two main goals: Firstly, the authors aimed to verify the validity and reliability of the Slovak adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS). Secondly, the authors examined the associations between the CAS and mental health indicators – depression, insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder. The representative sample consisted of 1625 Slovak participants from the general population (793 men and 832 women, Mage = 42.77 ±12.84). T…
Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Attitudes to poverty in Slovakia: A Q-methodology study
The analysis of poverty is not the primary subject-matter of psychology but the way how it is perceived and what consequences it has is traditionally studied in psychology using constructs like attitudes to poverty and the attribution of causes of poverty. The aim of the present study was to examine the attitudes to poverty using a mixed methods perspective, employing Q-methodology and to find out to what extent the findings about the attitude to…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Feeling Good, Living Life: Evaluation of Psychometric Properties of the Slovak Version in Children Age 8–11 Years
The aim of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the feeling good, living life questionnaire (FGLL) in Slovak children. Specifically, we aimed to assess the internal consistency and several proofs of the measure of the construct validity. The sample consisted of 454 children in grades 3-5, age 8-11 (mean age = 9.85, 48% boys) from state (N = 256) and Catholic school (N = 198). The internal consistency of the FGLL was assessed using Cronbach…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Is Spiritual Well-Being Among Adolescents Associated with a Lower Level of Bullying Behaviour? The Mediating Effect of Perceived Bullying Behaviour of Peers
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics
The aim of this study was to develop a scale for assessing attitudes towards multi-child families, to examine the structure of these attitudes and their relationship with beliefs about optimal, desired and actual family size, and other variables to assess the characteristics of the instrument. On the sample of 548 adult respondents, by performing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) we identified the three-factor structure of attitudes: good life in…
Attitudes to poverty in Slovakia: A Q-methodology study
The analysis of poverty is not the primary subject-matter of psychology but the way how it is perceived and what consequences it has is traditionally studied in psychology using constructs like attitudes to poverty and the attribution of causes of poverty. The aim of the present study was to examine the attitudes to poverty using a mixed methods perspective, employing Q-methodology and to find out to what extent the findings about the attitude to…
Is Spiritual Well-Being Among Adolescents Associated with a Lower Level of Bullying Behaviour? The Mediating Effect of Perceived Bullying Behaviour of Peers
Feeling Good, Living Life: Evaluation of Psychometric Properties of the Slovak Version in Children Age 8–11 Years
The aim of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the feeling good, living life questionnaire (FGLL) in Slovak children. Specifically, we aimed to assess the internal consistency and several proofs of the measure of the construct validity. The sample consisted of 454 children in grades 3-5, age 8-11 (mean age = 9.85, 48% boys) from state (N = 256) and Catholic school (N = 198). The internal consistency of the FGLL was assessed using Cronbach…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Slovak parents’ mental health and socioeconomic changes during the Covid-19 pandemic
The changes in people's mental health have become one of the hot topics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents have been said to be among the most vulnerable groups in terms of the imposed anti-pandemic measures. The present paper analyzes the trends in mental health indicators in a sample of Slovak parents ( N = 363) who participated in four waves of data collection over a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mental health indicators wer…
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics
The aim of this study was to develop a scale for assessing attitudes towards multi-child families, to examine the structure of these attitudes and their relationship with beliefs about optimal, desired and actual family size, and other variables to assess the characteristics of the instrument. On the sample of 548 adult respondents, by performing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) we identified the three-factor structure of attitudes: good life in…
Coronavirus anxiety in Slovakia during the second wave of the pandemic – Associations with depression, insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder
The study had two main goals: Firstly, the authors aimed to verify the validity and reliability of the Slovak adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS). Secondly, the authors examined the associations between the CAS and mental health indicators – depression, insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder. The representative sample consisted of 1625 Slovak participants from the general population (793 men and 832 women, Mage = 42.77 ±12.84). T…
Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample
Attitudes to poverty in Slovakia: A Q-methodology study
The analysis of poverty is not the primary subject-matter of psychology but the way how it is perceived and what consequences it has is traditionally studied in psychology using constructs like attitudes to poverty and the attribution of causes of poverty. The aim of the present study was to examine the attitudes to poverty using a mixed methods perspective, employing Q-methodology and to find out to what extent the findings about the attitude to…
Determinants of spirituality in children’s age
This study discusses the spiritual well-being of 8–11 year-old children and its determinants. The aim of the study was to examine differences in terms of gender and age in selected variables and verify the relationship between spiritual well-being and selected variables: the religiosity of children, parental support; peer support, as well as explaining to extent to which the stated variables predict individual domains of spiritual well-being. In …
Family Quality of Life and Family Satisfaction Measures for Use in Slovakia: Confirmatory Factor Analyses
The aim of this study is to provide evidence to support the measurement of psychological concepts of family functioning in Slovakia. The first objective was to verify the psychometric properties of two scales assessing family quality of life and family satisfaction: the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale (BFQOLS) and the Family APGAR in people from a standard population (without disabilities). The second objective was to determine the rela…
Reported father involvement and indicators of subjective well-being in transition to adulthood
This study examined the possibility of predicting the indicators of adolescents’ subjective well-being (satisfaction with life and frequency of positive and negative experiencing) based on the reported father involvement, which was the reason for verifying the factor structure and examine the psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Reported Father Involvement Scale (R-FIS) in adolescents. The research sample consisted of 400 students…
Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages
Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the sentence-picture verification task, wherein participants first read a sentence that implies the object property (i.e., shape and orientation). Participants then respond to an image of an object by indicating whether it was an object from the sentenc…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Confirmatory factor analysis (3 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (3 works) · Demography (3 works)