Helping you
reach your full potential and improve your well-being.

I have devoted my academic career to the study of well-being, because I believe this to be the core of what psychological research is about. In my opinion, the role that psychology plays in everyday life should be about making people happier and more fulfilled. I look for factors that enhance people's well-being and ways of unlocking people's potential.

My research is driven by the search for effective methods of improving people's lives. I am interested in personality factors, social interactions and values related to human happiness, as well as burnout processes and mechanisms related to perfectionism. 
I have a love for philosophy and am curious about experimental methods of working with the mind. 
I have studied psychological interventions and developed my own value-based
program aimed at enhancing well-being. 

 

Currently, I am focusing on two fields:
the use of psychedelics for individual growth and
well-being interventions in the work environment. 

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I published numerous papers in international journals and
I regularly present my research at science conferences.
I thrive from public speaking and sharing my knowledge with students and other researchers. I like working with the media to popularise science about human well-being.

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Below is a list of my publications:

Piotrowski, K., Bojanowska, A., Szczygiel, D., Mikolajczak, M., Roskam, I. Parental Burnout at Different Stages of Parenthood: Links with Temperament, Big Five traits, and Parental Identity. Frontiers in Psychology 14. Doi:
10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1087977.

Bojanowska, A., Kaczmarek, Ł. Urbańska, B., Puchalska, M. (2022). Acting on Values: A Novel Intervention Enhancing Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies 23 (8), doi: 10.1007/s10902-022-00585-4

Bojanowska, A., Kościelniak, M., Gąsiorowska, A. (2022). Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values. Journal of Religion and Health, Doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01670-x
 

Bojanowska, A., Kaczmarek, Ł., Urbańska, B. (2021). How healthy and unhealthy values predict hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Dissecting value-related beliefs and behaviors. Journal of Happiness Studies. Doi: 10.1007/s10902-021-00396-z

Bojanowska, A., & Urbańska, B. (2021). Individual values and well-being: The moderating role of personality traits.
International Journal of Psychology, 56 (5), pp. 698-709, doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12751
 

Bojanowska, A., Kaczmarek, Ł., Kościelniak, M., Urbańska, B. (2021). Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. PLOS One, Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255491
 

Piotrowski, K., & Bojanowska, A. (2021). Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Polish adaptation of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Current Psychology . http://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00198-w
 

Piotrowski, K., Bojanowska, A., Nowicka, A. et al. (2021). Perfectionism and community-identity integration: the mediating role of shame, guilt and self-esteem. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01499-9
 

Bojanowska, A., Piotrowski, K. (2021). Two levels of personality: Temperament and values and their effects on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Current Psychology 40, 1185–1193
 

Bojanowska, A., & Piotrowski, K. (2020). Is Person-Group Value Congruence Always a Good Thing? Values and Well-Being Among Maladjusted Teens and Their Peers. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 , 1–10. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02035
 

Bojanowska, A., & Czerw, A. (2020). Values and well-being – how are individual values associated with subjective and eudaimonic well-being? Polish Psychological Bulletin , 51 (2), 162–169. http://doi.org/10.24425/ppb.2020.133773
 

Bojanowska, A., & Piotrowski, K. (2019). Values and psychological well-being among adolescents – are some values
‘healthier’ than others? European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16 (4), 402–416.
http://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2018.1438257
 

Kościelniak, M., & Bojanowska, A. (2019). The Role of Personal Values and Student Achievement in Academic Dishonesty. Frontiers in Psychology , 10 (1887), 1–7. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01887
 

Bojanowska, A., & Zalewska, A. (2018). Temperamental predictors of subjective well-being from early adolescence to midlife: The role of temporal and energetic regulation. International Journal of Psychology , 6 (53), 458–467.
http://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12414
 

Bojanowska, A., Zatorski, M., Gazdowska, J., & Durlik, M. (2017). Adherence to treatment among chronically ill ambulatory patients. Polish Psychological Bulletin , 3 (48), 380–387. http://doi.org/10.1515/ppb-2017-0044
 

Bojanowska, A., & Zalewska, A. (2016). Happy temperament? Four types of stimulation control linked to four types of Subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies , 18 (5), 1403–1423. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9777-2
 

Gozdowska, J., Zatorski, M., Bojanowska, A., Trochalla, p., Białek, Ł., Tomaszek, A., … Durlik, M. (2016). Living-Donor Versus Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation: Comparison of Psychosocial Consequences for Recipients. Transplantation Proceedings, 48 (5), 1498–1505. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.01.075
 

Bojanowska, A., & Zalewska, A. (2015). Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some
Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others? Journal of Happiness Studies , 17 (2), 793–815.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-015-9620-1
 

Bojanowska, A., Siegień, W. (2010). Playing with people in the same country. [in:] A. Ross, M. Dooly (red.) What’s fair?
Young Europeans constructions of equity, altruism and self-interest. Barcelona: UAB Press.

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