Background The sense of threat to health and life in the face of a pandemic, accompanied by difficulties imposed by lockdown, may trigger a serious crisis. Among possible consequences of such a crisis may paradoxically be the phenomenon of psychological growth. The aim of this article is to identify predictors of pandemic-activated psychological growth (PPG). The relationships between extraversion, reflective and ruminative self-consciousness and PPG were the subject of our inquiry. Additionally, a question was posed about the indirect effect of self-consciousness on PPG through anxiety. Participants and procedure The study involved 1206 participants aged 18 to 26 years, who declared that the pandemic situation significantly threatened their important life goals. Procedure: cross-sectional design. Four online short questionnaire-measures were used: the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), the Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire (RRQ), the Current Self-disposition Scale (CSS), and the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). Results Extraversion and reflective self-consciousness were direct predictors of higher PPG, whereas ruminative self-consciousness was directly related to a lower PPG. There was an indirect effect of ruminative self-consciousness on PPG through COVID-19 related anxiety. Conclusions Although the results do not confirm the permanence of a growth effect, finding PPG predictors considered as beneficial resources for coping with difficult pandemic circumstances appears to be valuable in the current state of affairs.

The aim of the research was to identify differences between selected age groups in attitudes toward the contemporary globalised world and material personal resources. The Questionnaire World-I and the Time and Money Survey were used. Examined were 905 participants: 20–26 years old (n = 315), 27–40 years old (n = 317), and 60–88 years old (n = 273). The results demonstrated that acceptance of the contemporary world was higher in the emerging and young adult groups than in the late adults, while the opposite was the case for critical and fearful attitudes. This was evident for older people with below average material resources. The research showed that in order to be less negative about the globalised world, it is useful to stabilise material conditions of people, especially the older ones.

This study shows the results of the research into the relationships between attitudes toward globalization accepting, critical, fearful and psychological factors: identity styles, attitudes toward the Internet, and the quality of friendship. The survey conducted among Polish adolescents and young adults revealed that attitudes toward globalization had a stronger influence on psychological functioning for young adults than for adolescents. The results may help to understand social acceptance factors or disapproval of technological and globalizational changes.

The main aim of the article is to show the possible relations between attitudes toward globalization as described by Senejko and Łoś and the specificity of identity styles as described by Berzonsky. The participants were 601 people aged 16-26 – school students, university students, and working people from the Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland. We used the following instruments: The World–I Questionnaire (measuring attitudes toward globalization) and the Identity Style Inventory (ISI-5). The results obtained in correlational analyses and cluster analyses show that people with a strongly manifested accepting attitude toward globalization are characterized mainly by the informational style and the least strongly by the normative and diffuse-avoidant styles. As the results showed, the critical attitude toward globalization occurs in the form of two clusters: (1) with strong critical and accepting attitudes (people with this configuration of attitudes exhibit a strongly expressed informational identity style and commitment and a weakly expressed normative style); (2) with strong critical and fearful attitudes (individuals with this configuration of attitudes mainly exhibit the normative identity style and commitment). People with a strongly expressed fearful attitude toward globalization typically use the diffuse-avoidant or normative styles, while the least strongly expressed identity style in this group is the informational style and commitment. Cluster analysis made it also possible to distinguish people with a distanced attitude toward globalization, characterized by fairly strong identity commitment.

New information and communication technologies impose on the contemporary world such a dynamics that the resulting synergy and convergence effects of transformational change simultaneously within economical, social and cultural realm are difficult to predict. As a result, within growing complexity and unpredictability of the ambient conditions, there is no defined, closed repertoire, strategy or solution, whether business oriented or institutional that provides both effective and innovative approach to the increasing structural problems of the global environment. The only existing solution to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage within the today world of permanent and endogenous change seems to be the human capital (potential) involvement: its creativity and innovation approach, which solely can become a source of Schumpeter’s creative destruction. This implies in case of emerging economies, which are still lag behind the mature, developed countries both in economic, social and cultural standard of living that to close this gap, the interdisciplinary approach to human capital (human resources) is required. This is especially so in reference to the transformational potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with its new management techniques, new business models, and new regulatory policies. Thus, the objective of this conference is to provide a forum for interested researchers and practitioners to exchange their experiences and creative ideas related to ICT management for global competitiveness and economic, social and cultural growth in emerging economies. Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following: • Economical, psychosoacial and legal frameworks as they relate to ICT and ICT Management; • Unique ICT management techniques for emerging and transition economies; • Methods for measuring the benefits and costs of projects involving the adoption of ICT; • The role of human and social capital; • Gender and other socio-demographic factors in human and social capital and in innovations processes; • Innovative ways for generating revenues and creating commercial knowledge products; • Educational systems and training as they relate to ICT and ICT Management; • ICT innovations to support small and medium enterprises; • ICT innovations as a path to economic growth; • ICT productivity with specific reference to the prevalent social and business conditions; • Global supply chain management in emerging and transition economies; • Country specific case studies, with specific reference to the prevalent psychosocial and business conditions; • ICT off-shoring/outsourcing into emerging and transition economies; • ICT project management, with specific reference to the prevalent social and business conditions; • Digital divide in emerging and transition economies; • E-Commerce impact in emerging and transition economies; • E-Government in emerging and transition economies; • Psychological, social, and economic aspects of Internet use in emerging and transition economies; • Virtual reality in psychological treatment and psychotherapy; • Analytical psychology and psychotherapy in era of new technology; • Information and communication technologies in personnel recruitment, assessment and development; • Leadership and new technologies; • Psychological aspects of working in a virtual team; • Information and communication technologies in an ageing society; and • Quantitative methods and information technology in management.

Abstract Our article discusses the research results aimed at finding relations between Internet usage styles and attitudes toward globalization. The research included 597 people, aged 15 to 39 years, from Poland by using two methods: 1) The World-I Questionnaire (by A. Senejko, Z. Łoś) to diagnose attitudes toward globalization (accepting, critical, fearful); 2) The Internet-Interpersonal Relations Questionnaire (by D. Chmielewska-Łuczak) – diagnoses four categories of Internet usage styles (distanced, frustrated, omnipotent, ambivalent). The research was based on an idiographic analysis focused on the results obtained for the specific people under examination. The results revealed the relationships between the distanced and omnipotent Internet usage styles and the accepting attitude toward globalization; between the frustrated style and the critical attitude; and between the ambivalent style and the fearful attitude toward globalization. The ensuing discussion can be used to increase Internet user awareness that it is necessary to look for a strategy for coping with the challenges posed by the Internet that is best adjusted to a particular individual. The competence in choosing such an appropriate strategy is a valuable asset for any contemporary manager who would like to target his or her offer at a variety of customers representing different Internet usage styles.

In order to achieve this enhanced eGovernment, it was necessary to provide adequate infrastructure to the citizens. This has been achieved in many countries. The digital divide has become quite narrow. One aspect that has not been covered to the same extent is time and money divide and attitudes towards globalisation. The Department of Management and Engineering, Linkoping University, Sweden, and the Institute of Psychology, Wroclaw University, Poland, have started a joint project in order to fill this gap by investigating different profiles based on two models;

This article contains the main assumptions of the social-cognitive model of identity construction by M. Berzonsky, the characteristics of the Polish adaptation of the Identity Style Inventory (ISI-5), a report from five studies conducted using this questionnaire, and an evaluation of the ISI-5’s Polish adaptation. We followed the guidelines provided by the authors of the ISI-5 (Berzonsky, Soenens, Luyckx, Smits, Papini, Goossens, 2013), adjusting our procedure and analysis of results to the original ISI-5 study. The results obtained showed the adaptation to have similar properties to its original. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed the fit of the Polish data to the three-factor model of identity styles (RMSEA = .062; sRMR = .069; GFI = .90). Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients for ISI-5 scales were satisfactory and measured .68 for the Normative style scale, .77 for the Informational style scale, .71 for the Diffuse-avoidant style scale, and .80 for the Commitment scale. Intercorrelations between ISI-5 scales were also similar to those provided by Berzonsky et al. (2013). Correlations of ISI-5 scales with dimensions of identity (DIDS) and factors of personality (NEO-FFI) were approximate to the expected ones as well

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