Browsing by Author "Martynowska, Klaudia"

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    Employability of University Students: Introduction of the Concept and the Psychometric Properties of the Polish Self-Perceived Employability Scale
    (2021) Domagała-Zyśk, Ewa; Mamcarz, Piotr; Martynowska, Klaudia; Fudali-Czyż, Agnieszka; Rothwell, Andrew
    Higher education has been undergoing a number of changes in recent years, and its effect is to be not only the diploma but the competencies needed for professional work. The employment model has also changed – currently, employees change jobs more often, contracts are rather short-term, and work requires the acquisition of new competencies in line with the idea of lifelong learning. The Covid-19 reality complicated the job market, even more, making people to lose and change their jobs much more often and be prepared to work constantly in unstable hybrid reality. Consequently, studies should not so much prepare to undertake a specific job but provide competences that build “employability”. The aim of the research presented in the article is to adapt and prepare the Polish version of The Self-Perceived Employability Scale of Rothwell & Arnold (2007). 600 first-year students took part in the study. The research results indicated a significant two-factor model, and therefore a Polish version of the scale based on two subscales was developed, which has good psychometric properties. The scale differs from the original British version, which may be related to social and cultural differences. The changes have been discussed and approved by the team and consulted with the author of the original version. The scale can be used to assess the perceived level of own employability for students of different years of study. Its results may form the basis for making decisions regarding the design of study programs and their evaluation in longitudinal studies.
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    Oblicza życia. Księga Jubileuszowa Profesor Doroty Kornas-Bieli
    (Wydawnictwo Episteme, 2021-05-10) Domagała-Zyśk, Ewa; Borowicz, Aleksandra; Kołodziejczyk, Renata; Martynowska, Klaudia
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    Religiosity as a coping resource during the COVID-19 crisis among catholic university students
    (Association for Catholic Institutes for the Study of Education – ACISE, 2024) Martynowska, Klaudia; Kornas-Biela, Dorota
    This study focused on university students, mostly young adults, coping with the challenges of academic learning, part time work and interpersonal adjustment, and on top of that – the abrupt change in learning methods and routines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fear of an unknown future, social isolation, the need to quickly acquire new technical skills necessary for remote teaching are major factors associated with stress, anxiety and in the longer run – depression and other negative outcomes. 159 pedagogy students from a Catholic university took part in an online study in April 2020. The results revealed that being Catholic provided participants with a deep sense of hope understood as the the expectation of ‘good things’ and goal-directed energy. Religiosity was negatively correlated with depression but not anxiety. The results support the role of hope in young adults coping with stressors, and even more than that offer a new insight into the role of religiosity as a coping resource, a buffer against depression in times of the pandemic.
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    Sex differences in self-perceived employability and self-motivated strategies for learning in Polish first-year students
    (Public Library of Science, 2022) Domagała-Zyśk, Ewa; Fudali-Czyż, Agnieszka; Mamcarz, Piotr; Martynowska, Klaudia; Rothwell, Andrew
    Self-perceived employability (SPE) is defined as the ability to attain sustainable employment appropriate to one’s qualification level (Rothwell 2008) and perceived as a crucial factor in university graduates’ career development. Meanwhile, University students are mainly assessed through the lens of academic achievement, which depend, inter alia, on the self-motivated strategies for learning (MSL). Firstly, we tested hypothesised sex differences in SPE’s and MSL’s factors in a group of the first-year university students (n = 600) in a Central European context. Our analyses revealed that female students, despite their higher results in MSL’s factors (self-regulation, learning strategies, intrinsic values, self-efficacy) presented lower internal SPE than male students. Secondly, we explored how much general SPE can be predicted from general MSL, taking into account sex as a moderator, finding that sex factor was not significant as a moderator. We can consider general MSL as a good predictor of general SPE in both sex groups. The results will provide evidence to support HEI curricular development and strategies for workplace attitude change to address existing sex inequalities. In addition, our findings relating to MSL will provide evidence to support the development of approaches to enhancing student employability with additional long term benefits in mental health and well-being.
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    Tutoring dla początkujących
    (Wydawnictwo KUL, 2023) Krauze-Kołodziej, Aleksandra; Paprocka-Piotrowska, Urszula; Gładysz, Andrzej; Domagała-Zyśk, Ewa; Martynowska, Klaudia; Bartnik, Artur
    Podręcznik Tutoring dla początkujących składa się z trzech rozdziałów. Rozdział 1 skupia się na teoretycznych aspektach tutoringu. Prezentuje on różnorodność definicji pojęcia tutoring, podkreślając jego ewolucję i niuanse znaczeniowe w różnych kontekstach akademickich. Ponadto analizowane są tu modele tutoringu, które stały się fundamentem dla wielu praktyk edukacyjnych stosowanych w uczelniach wyższych na całym świecie. Kolejne części opracowania (rozdziały 2 i 3) skierowane są ku praktycznym aspektom zastosowania metod tutoringowych. W rozdziale 2 omawiane są tematy i możliwe formy pracy ze studentem w ujęciu indywidualnym (1:1), w małych grupach, jak również w kontekście bardziej licznych (tzw. większych) grup studenckich. W rozdziale tym zwrócono też uwagę na wyzwania, możliwości i strategie skutecznego stosowania metod tutoringowych w różnych kontekstach dydaktycznych (między innymi poziomy nauczania, profile studentów, potrzeby tutorantów ). Rozdział 3 ukazuje progresywną ścieżkę rozwoju tutora opartą na najlepszych praktykach w tej dziedzinie. Krok po kroku prowadzi on czytelnika przez etapy kształcenia i doskonalenia się w roli tutora, oferując konkretne narzędzia, metody i zasoby
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    ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’: Emotional Intelligence, Social Support, and Distress during the COVID-19 Outbreak
    (MDPI, 2023) Kornas-Biela, Dorota; Martynowska, Klaudia; Zysberg, Leehu
    The COVID-19 pandemic presented a global existential social and health challenge, with individuals suffering mentally and psychologically. College and university students are young adults, typically away from their natural support systems; with pandemic-imposed measures such as isolation, they may have been at higher risk of experiencing negative psychological outcomes. The study tested a model in which social support mediated the association between emotional intelligence (EI) and a latent factor representing general mental distress at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in Poland. One hundred and fifty-nine young adults filled in measures of trait EI, psychological and instrumental social support, three distress measures (depression, anxiety, and stress), and demographics. The results supported a model in which psychological social support (but not instrumental social support) mediated the association between trait EI and a factor representing all three distress measures. The results shed light on how individual and social resources work together to help maintain psychological integrity in times of crisis. They add to recent results on the differential effects of psychological-emotional and instrumental social support on distress and well-being.