The Chair of General Psychology was created in 1934 in the Department of Humanities at the Catholic University of Lublin.  At that time its first director was Fr. Prof. Józef Pastuszka, who fulfilled this function until the time of his retirement in 1969.  Presently, the Chair of General Psychology functions within the Institute of Psychology and its director since 1981 is Fr. Dr. hab Zenon Uchnast, KUL professor.

Fields of academic work undertaken for the Chair are determined each year by the statute research assignments and concern, among others: psychological norm, psychological measurements of adequate functioning, personal competencies (self - actualization through cooperation, personal empathy, personality resilience), temporal competencies, working out and applying methods of quality analysis of the structure of personality experiences of life events, literary and narrative works, specifying personalistic approach in psychology of character (contemporary typologies and survey methods), theoretical basis for research and operationalization of coherent and narcisstic character personality assumptions.  In theoretical and research works, trends in character psychology, phenomenological-existential, ecological psychology, humanistic and personalistic issues are undertaken.

 

Important Accomplishments:

  • elaborating on the theoretical basis of psychology as a humanistic science and working out research methods for empirically verifying the hypotheses formulated in this paradigm;
  • Psychometric elaboration on the methods of psychological diagnosis for measuring the subjectivity of a person, realization of self, self-acceptance, feeling of security, personality resilience, personal empathy, character types, temporal competencies;
  • Methodological elaboration of the psychological model of the quality analysis of written reports concerning experienced life events;
  • Organizing the academic conference entitled "Psychological Norm."  Materials from this conference are enclosed in: Uchnast, Z. (ed.) (1998). Norma psychologiczna. Perspektywy spojrzeń (Psychological Norms. Perspectives of Viewpoints). Lublin: TN KUL.
  • Organizing the international academic conference entitled "Psychology of Time."  The extended materials from this conference are enclosed in: Uchnast, Z. (ed.) (2006). Psychology of Time. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL

 

Chair Employees:

- Chair Director: Prof. dr hab. Stanisława Steuden

Dr. hab. Stanisława Tucholska, WSB-NLU Prof.

Fr. Dr. hab. Zenon Uchnast, WSB-NLU Prof.

Małgorzata Artymiak, PhD

Agata Celińska-Miszczuk, PhD

Justyna Iskra, PhD

Andrzej Januszewski, PhD