How do Attitudes Toward Globalization Influence Human Functioning?

ABSTRACT

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.

KEYWORDS:

• Attitudes toward globalization
• information systems
• Poland
• psychosocial functioning
• survey

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Notes on contributors

Alicja Senejko

Alicja Senejko is a professor of psychology in the Institute of Psychology, Wrocław University. She is researching problems of developmental psychology and personality, the author of the Function-Action Model of Psychological Defense which elucidates developmental aspects of psychological defense and has developed 2 methods related to this model. She wrote 3 monographs, 60 articles and edited 4 books. Alicja Senejko is a member of the Polish Psychological Association (PTP), Polish Association of Developmental Psychology (PSPR), European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) and International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).

Zbigniew Łoś

Zbigniew Łoś is a psychologist, PhD in human sciences, assistant professor of in Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław. His own theory assumes that the psychological organization of human beings consists of four evolutionarily shaped functional layers which may be subject to progressive psychological development throughout four periods. He is now engaged in research aiming to falsify this theory. In particular, the research examines the mutual relations between the traits of temperament, adaptation patterns, lifestyles and worldviews, as well as the significance of socialization determinants. His main publication is “Life-long psychological development of human beings” (2010, a monograph).

Magdalena Żurko

Magdalena Żurko is a psychologist, PhD in human sciences, assistant professor in Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław. The author of publications on developmental psychology, especially about friendship and social network.

Dorota Chmielewska-Łuczak

Dorota Chmielewska-Łuczak is a psychologist, PhD in human sciences, assistant professor in Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław. She is the author of publications about developmental psychology, particularly about attitudes toward the Internet.