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BUY A BOOK... MECHANISMS OF CIVIC ACTIVITY IN POLAND

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Lewicka M.
Psychological Studies
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2004
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vol. 42
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issue 4
65-82
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Individual differences in civic activity may be due to many social and psychological factors. Three types of factors will be analyzed in this paper: cultural capital, social capital and place attachment. Studied was a representative sample of 1328 subjects from eight Polish voivodships. In a series of regression analyses cultural capital, and particularly the number of books at home, turned out to be by far the best predictor of both spontaneous and organizational activity, followed by interest taken in the family roots and by knowledge about these roots. Social capital (neighborhood relations) was a positive predictor of spontaneous constructive activity. Place attachment stayed in complex relations to civic activity. Type of involvement in spontaneous activity was used as a criterion in distinguishing four groups of Poles: the passive, the protesting, the constructive, and the generally active (protesting and constructive). More detailed analyzes involving additional psychological variables (e.g., attitudes of entitlement, political alienation, well-being etc.) testified to clear differences between these four groups.
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IF I HAD A MILLION ZLOTIES... DREAMS OF POLES AT THE TURN OF THE XXI CENTURY

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Lewicka M.
Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)
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2004
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vol. 12
217-237
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Representative sample of 1328 participants from three geographical regions of Poland was asked to specify ways of spending a big amount of money (million zloties). Qualitative answers were categorized into 19 different goal categories, which created three natural clusters: materialistic goals (house, car, bank deposits, investments etc.), mixed goals (charity, education, life expenses etc.) and traditional goals (donations to the family). The paper presents demographic and psychological determinants of choices. Materialistic goals predominated over traditional, which in turn predominated over mixed goals. Age turned out to be the major determinant of materialistic vs. traditional choices. The choices were also dependent on sex and country region. Results are accounted for in terms of the theories of values and their evolution in contemporary societies, proposed by S. Schwartz and R. Inglehart.
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GATED COMMUNITIES: IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE WAY?

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Lewicka M., Zaborska K.
Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)
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2007
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vol. 16
135-152
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Fences and walls, monitoring systems, and presence of guards become increasingly popular in cotemporary Polish housing estates. Only in Warsaw there are almost 400 gated estates and guarded apartment houses. In this paper we consider: (a) factors that underlie motivation for gating, (b) attitude towards gating among people in general and, more specifically, among inhabitants of gated communities, (c) alternative ways of ensuring security - the secure-by-design architectural projects.
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