ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Waclaw-Bak
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8629-6292
Selected publications
Jankowski, T., Bąk, W., & Miciuk, Ł. (2022). Adaptive self-concept as a predictor of dispositional mindfulness. Personality and Individual Differences, 190, 111519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111519
Jankowski, T., Bąk, W. & Miciuk, Ł. (2022). Adaptive self-concept: Identifying the basic dimensions of self-beliefs. Self and Identity, 21(7), 739–774. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1997796
Bąk, W., Wójtowicz, B., & Kutnik, J. (2022). Intellectual humility: an old problem in a new psychological perspective. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 10(2), 85–97. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2021.106999
Bąk, W., Dutkiewicz, D., Brudek, P. (2021, online first). Relationship between self-assessed health and life satisfaction in older adults: The moderating role of ego-resiliency. Ageing & Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21001689
Bąk, W., Kutnik, J. (2021). Domains of intellectual humility: Self-esteem and narcissism as independent predictors. Personality and Individual Differences, 177, 110815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110815
Bąk, W., Łysiak, M. (2021). Euthymia: a neglected aspect of trait depression and its role in predicting subjective well-being. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 9(4), 281–288. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2021.104801
Jankowski, T., Bąk, W. (2020). In search for the adaptive self: A model of adaptive self-concept. Annals of Psychology, 23(4), 309–328. https://doi.org/10.18290/rpsych20234-1
Bąk, W., Dutkiewicz, D., Kutnik, J. (2020). Self-standards in late adulthood. Perceived health as a moderator of the relationship between self-discrepancy and affect. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 51(3), 177–188. https://doi.org/10.24425/ppb.2020.134725
Jankowski, T., Bąk, W. (2019). Mindfulness as a mediator of the relationship between trait anxiety, attentional control and cognitive failures. A multimodel inference approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 142, 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.034
Bak, W. (2016). Personality predictors of anger. The role of FFM traits, shyness, and self-esteem. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 47(3), 373–382. https://doi.org/10.1515/ppb-2016-0044
Bąk, W. (2016). Measuring the state, trait, expression, and control of anger. The Polish adaptation of STAXI-2 [published in Polish]. Polskie Forum Psychologiczne, 21(1), 93–122. https://doi.org/10.14656/PFP20160107
Falewicz, A., Bak, W. (2016). Private vs. public self-consciousness and self-discrepancies. Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 4(1), 58–64. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2016.55762
Bak, W. (2015). Possible selves. Implications for psychotherapy. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 13, 650–658. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-015-9553-2
Bak, W., Ciastek, S., Michalczuk, M. (2015). Pressing obligations or inspiring potentials? The influence of the ought vs. expected selves on task performance. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 11(2), 349–362. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i2.943
Huflejt-Łukasik, M., Bąk, W., Styła, R., Klajs, K. (2015). Changes in the self in the course of psychotherapy. Roczniki Psychologiczne / Annals of Psychology, 18(3), 449–464. https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rpsych/article/view/601
Bak, W. (2014). Self-standards and self-discrepancies. A structural model of self-knowledge. Current Psychology, 33, 155–173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-013-9203-4
Łaguna, M., Bąk, W., Purc, E., Mielniczuk, E., Oleś, P. K. (2014). Short measure of personality TIPI-P in a Polish sample. Roczniki Psychologiczne / Annals of Psychology, 17, 421–437. https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rpsych/article/view/516
Oleś, P. K., Alessandri, G., Oleś, M., Bak, W., Jankowski, T., Laguna, M, Caprara, G. V. (2013). Positive orientation and generalized self-efficacy. Studia Psychologica, 55, 47–59.
Batory, A., Bąk, W., Oleś, P., Puchalska-Wasyl, M. (2010). The dialogical self: Research and applications. Psychology of Language and Communication, 14, 45–59.
Selected conference presentations:
Bak, W., Jankowski, T. (2019, July). Adaptive aspects of self-concept: Relations to affect and personality traits. ISSID Conference, Florence, Italy.
Bak, W. (2018, July). Content analyses of self-standards’ attributes in context of the Big Two and the Big Five. Paper presented at the 19th European Conference on Personality, Zadar, Croatia.
Jankowski, T., Bak, W. (2018, July). When the ego is our friend – the basic features of adaptive self-concept. Paper presented at the 19th European Conference on Personality, Zadar, Croatia.
Bak, W., Lysiak, M. (2018, July). Measurement of depressive emotions in non-clinical samples. Polish adaptation of STDS. Poster presented at the 19th European Conference on Personality, Zadar, Croatia.
Bąk, W., Jankowski, T., Miciuk, Ł. (2018, April). The Adaptive Self-Concept Scale (ASCS). Factor structure and convergent validity. Poster presented at the International Conference “Between Narcissism and Entitlement: Self-Enhancement in a Cross-Cultural Perspective”, Warsaw, Poland.
Jankowski, T., Bąk, W., Miciuk, Ł. (2018, April). How do we bias information about the self? Dynamic integrative model of self-construal. Paper presented at the International Conference “Between Narcissism and Entitlement: Self-Enhancement in a Cross-Cultural Perspective”, Warsaw, Poland.
Jankowski, T., Bak, W. (2017, July). The integrative view on the measurement of self-concept structure. The Adaptive Self-Concept Scale. Paper presented at the 14th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, Lisbon, Portugal
Bak, W. (2017, July). Measuring the experience, expression, and control of anger. The Polish adaptation of STAXI-2. Poster presented at the 14th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, Lisbon, Portugal.
Bak, W. (2017, July). How to measure self-discrepancies? DRP – an instrument for studying content of self-standards and structure of self-knowledge. Paper presented at the 14th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kutnik, J., Bąk, W. (2016, September). Internal dialogical activity and self-discrepancies. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Lublin, Poland.
Bąk, W., Alessandri, G. (2016, July). Further support for the hierarchical model of self-standards. Paper presented at the Motivation and Social Perception Conference, Gdańsk, Poland.
Laguna, M., Purc, E., Mielniczuk, E., Bak, W., Oleś, P. (2014, July). Polish adaptation of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI). Poster presented at the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, France.
Bąk, W. (2012, July). Does positive self-knowledge have always positive consequences? The effects of the „can self” accessibility on task performance. Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Personality Psychology, Trieste, Italy.
Bąk, W. (2010, July). Structure of self-discrepancies. Verification of the model. Poster presented at the 15th European Conference on Personality, Brno, Czech Republic
Bąk, W. (2010, June). Self-regulation in the context of the structure of the self. Three-dimensions of self-discrepancies. Paper presented at the First International Conference “Motivation, Self-regulation and Gender”, Gdańsk, Poland.
Bąk, W. (2009, July). Regulatory foci and the big five. Poster presented at the 11th European Congress of Psychology, Oslo, Norway.
Bąk, W. (2009, July). Personality predictors of the experience, expression and control of anger. Poster presented at the 11th European Congress of Psychology, Oslo, Norway.
Bąk, W. (2008, August). Three dimensions of self-regulation – a dialogical reinterpretation. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Cambridge, UK.
Bąk, W. (2008, July). Three dimensions of self-regulation. Paper presented at XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
Bąk, W. (2006, July). Three perspectives of self-regulation – a new theoretical proposition. Poster presented at the 13th European Conference on Personality, Athens, Greece.