Draft programme
This programme is provisional and may be subject to change. All times are shown in Warsaw time (CEST, UTC+2).
All conference activities take place in the main building of Ignatianum University in Krakow, 26 Kopernika Street.
If you notice an error or encounter a programme-related problem, please contact the Conference Secretary. Please note that, due to the complexity of the programme, we are unable to accommodate individual scheduling preferences.
DAY 1 — THURSDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2026
11:00–16:30
Participant Registration
Ground floor, in front of the main entrance
12:00–13:30
Members OnlyPolish
PSPRS Society Meeting
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor
13:30–14:10
English
Opening Ceremony
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor
14:10–14:30
Sponsored Lecture 1Polish
Presentation of the Ariadna Nationwide Research Panel [Prezentacja Ogólnopolskiego Panelu Badawczego Ariadna]
Tomasz Baran
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor
14:30–15:30
Keynote Lecture 1English
Doug Oman — Spiritually Integrated Public Health: an Emerging Healing Frontier for Health Professions
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
Room 005 — ground floor
16:00–17:40
Room 407 — 4th floor
Oral Session 1English
Conceptualizing Spirituality: Models, Processes, and Psychological Practice
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Spirituality Redescribed, Self-Esteem Misrecognized (ID 9)
Spirituality, Health, and Well-Being: the RiTE Model of Spirituality as an Organizing Principle (ID 33)
Addressing Religious/Spiritual Pluralism: the Approach of William James (ID 35)
Spirituality as A Psychological Process (ID 55)
Theory and Empirics on the Nature of Spirituality – the Role of Three Perspectives in Psychological Help (ID 77)
Room 409 — 4th floor
Oral Session 2English
Religion in Contemporary Culture, Institutions, and Society
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Meaning in Work and Work Addiction Across 91 Cultures: the Moderating Role of Work Engagement (ID 34)
The Gospel of Well-Being: Adam Szustak OP and the Rise of Therapeutic Catholicism in Poland (ID 41)
The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore and Desegregation, 1947-1974 (ID 53)
Self-Transcendent Value Profiles Are Linked to Higher Spirituality and Work Engagement Among Nurses (ID 69)
Silence in Meditation and Life: Problem and Remedy (ID 85)
Room 501 — 5th floor
Oral Session 3Polish
Meaning, Digital Culture, and Contemporary Challenges
Session Chair: to be confirmed
ChatOn’s Analysis of the Value System, Including Noetic Values, in Therapeutic Fairy Tales and A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Forms of Psychotherapy: Logotherapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy and Gestalt Therapy (ID 13)
Existential Attitudes and the Mental Health of Polish Students (ID 74)
When Passion Becomes Compulsion: Passion Type, Self-Compassion, and Problematic Gaming in Adults (ID 95)
Between Meaning and Tension: the Psychosocial Dimensions of Religious Struggles. (ID 24)
17:40–19:00
Room 407 — 4th floor
@ Online Oral Session 1English
Spirituality in the Context of Culture and Meaning
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Presented live online via Microsoft Teams and displayed in Room 407.
Room 409 — 4th floor
@ Online Oral Session 2Polish
Spirituality, Health, and Meaning in the Contemporary World
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Presented live online via Microsoft Teams and displayed in Room 409.
Room 501 — 5th floor
@ Online Oral Session 3English
Forgiveness, Sensitivity, and Mental Health
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Presented live online via Microsoft Teams and displayed in Room 501.
Emotional Resources and Distress as Mediators of the Association of Forgiveness with Suicidal Behavior Among Emerging Adult Problematic Drinkers (ID 68)
Exploring the Mediating Influence of Spirituality on the Link Between Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Depression (ID 71)
Examining the Association Between Forgiveness and Suicidal Behavior Among Emerging Adult Hazardous Drinkers: the Mediating Roles of Emotion Regulation and Psychache (ID 84)
19:30–21:30
Ticketed Event
Conference Banquet
Room 216 — Aula Kolegium, 2nd floor
DAY 2 — FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2026
08:00–18:00
Participant Registration
Ground floor, in front of the main entrance
09:00–10:00
Keynote Lecture 2English
Stefania Palmisano — from Religion to Spirituality and Back: Insights from the Italian Context to Contemporary Spirituality from A Sociological Point of View
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor
10:10–11:50
Room 407 — 4th floor
Oral Session 4Polish
Forgiveness and Religious Struggles in a Process of Discovering Personal Resources
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Lay Understandings of Forgiveness in Marriage: A Qualitative Analysis of A Polish Sample (ID 32)
From Childhood Adversity to Forgiveness: the Role of Religiosity and Personal Resource Profiles (ID 36)
Generational Differences in Religious, Moral, and Spiritual Foundations of Forgiveness (ID 61)
Forgiveness Dimensions Predict Well Being but Not Distress: A Parallel Latent Growth Curve Study in Emerging Adult Catholics (ID 70)
Room 409 — 4th floor
Oral Session 5English
Meaning, Nihilism, and Philosophies of Spiritual Life
Session Chair: to be confirmed
The Noosphere as A Remedy for Humanity: P. T. De Chardin’s Concepts in the Context of Catholic Dogmatics (ID 42)
An Anti-Nihilistic Message of Viktor Frankl’s and Eugene Rose’s Contributions to Modern Psychology and Spirituality (ID 105)
Spirituality in Ancient Cynic Philosophy (ID 114)
Spirituality as A Coping Mechanism for the Loss of Meaning (ID 115)
Transforming Suffering into Meaningful Service: Insights from A Grounded Theory Case Study of Lived Religiousness and Spirituality in Later Life (ID 123)
Room 501 — 5th floor
Symposium 1English
11:50–12:20
Coffee Break
Room 005 — ground floor
12:20–14:00
Room 407 — 4th floor
Oral Session 6English
Spirituality and Religiosity in Relation to Health and Chronic Illness
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Epidemiological Evidence for Survival Benefit from Religious Activities (ID 21)
Emotion Regulation, Spirituality, Self-Efficacy, and Social Support as Correlates of Quality of Life Among Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder: A Pilot Study (ID 37)
Religiosity and Mental Health in Chronic Illness: the Mediating Role of Meaning-Making Structures (ID 47)
“Does Pain Ennoble?” Relationships Between Spirituality and Total Pain from the Perspective of Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Cancer Patients (ID 48)
Forgiveness as A Spiritual Resource in Integrated Health: Impact on Sleep and Well-Being in Chronic Pain Patients (ID 62)
Room 409 — 4th floor
Oral Session 7English
Mortality, Vulnerability, and Existential Experience
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Perioperative Vulnerability and the Meaning of Surrender: A Phenomenological Approach to Spirituality and Religiosity at the Threshold of Anesthesia (ID 14)
A Story with A Gap: Phenomenological Reflections on Aesthetic Experience and Anesthesia (ID 15)
Quest Religious Orientation, Death Anxiety and Death Fascination. Relationship Analysis Among Ignatianum University Students. (ID 80)
Religious Support and Attitudes Toward Death in Middle and Late Adulthood: the Mediating Role of Loneliness and Fear of the Future (ID 106)
Room 501 — 5th floor
Oral Session 8English
Religion, Collective Identity, Conflict, and Prejudice
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Between Ego and Faith: Motivational, Affective, and Cognitive Dimensions of Religious Engagement in Narcissism (ID 38)
Praising God, Seeking Chaos? Religious Identity and the Need for Chaos (ID 39)
Collective Narcissism and Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Toward Peace and War: The Role of Religion (ID 87)
Blinded by Bad Identity: Catholic and Atheistic Collective Narcissism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Dogmatic Nonbelief as Predictors of Mutual Hostility (ID 110)
Antisemitism Among Muslims in Germany Before and After October 7, 2023 (ID 112)
14:00–15:00
Lunch Break
Rooms 005–006 — ground floor
15:00–16:40
Room 407 — 4th floor
Oral Session 9Polish
Spirituality in Health, Illness, and Psychological Support
Session Chair: to be confirmed
When Faith Hurts: Pathological Patterns of Evangelical Spirituality (ID 8)
Death of A Child in Neonatal Intensive Care and Palliative Care: Health and Spiritual Implications (ID 12)
Indirect Relationship Between Religious Well-Being and Emotional Well-Being Through Gratitude Among Polish Patients with Chronic Pain: Two-Wave Longitudinal Study (ID 64)
Profiles of A Compassionate Spirit: Self-Compassion and Mental Health in Older Adults (ID 86)
Balancing on the Border of Spirituality, Religion and Morality: What New Things Do Behavioral Psychotherapies: CBT, ACT and CFT Bring to the Care of People Diagnosed with Scrupulosity? (ID 124)
Room 409 — 4th floor
Oral Session 10English
Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice, Professional Training, and Uniformed Service
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Teaching Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (ID 57)
Is Yoga Spiritual? Perception of Yoga Among Gestalt Psychotherapists. (ID 63)
The Attitudes of Catholic Church Priests Towards Seeking Psychological Help by Clergy Members (ID 66)
The Psychology of Religion in Psychology Training in Confessional Higher Education Institutions (ID 73)
Spirit in Service: Does Being Spiritual Help with Coping with the Challenges of Uniformed Service (ID 44)
Room 501 — 5th floor
Symposium 2Polish
After Religion: Identity, Meaning, and Religious Residue in the Process of Deidentification (ID 93)
16:50–17:20
4th-floor corridor
Poster Session 1English
Poster Block A
Posters should be prepared in portrait orientation, with a size of 100 × 70 cm (approximately 39.4 × 27.6 inches), and delivered to the registration desk at least one hour before the poster session.
The Relationship Between Spirituality and Health Anxiety in Adults (ID 16)
A Meaning of Spiritual Experience in Coping Among Polish Consecrated Women (ID 58)
Religiosity and Nonviolence: the Role of Forgiveness as A Mediating Mechanism (ID 75)
Religiosity, Moral Intelligence, and Spiritual Well-Being in Early Adulthood (ID 76)
Teleological Thinking as A Cognitive Mechanism Linking Analytic Thinking and Religiosity (ID 27)
Forgiveness and Alcohol Problems as Mediated by Psychological Distress Among A U.S. Sample of Emerging Adult Hazardous Drinkers (ID 102)
More Than Mere Survival: Exploring the Interplay Among Spirituality, Institutional Integrity, Sense of Belonging and Student’s Thriving in A Virtual Learning Environment. (ID 118)
Mechanisms of Noogenic Crisis in Frankl’s Logotherapy: Between Existential Frustration and the Reconstruction of Meaning (ID 127)
17:30–19:00
Polish
In Memoriam Session: Paweł Socha
Room 407 — 4th floor
17:30–19:00
Debate 1English
Debata: Virtual or Real Authenticity? the Limits of Technological Support for A Person’s Moral and Spiritual Development (ID 101)
Piotr Duchliński; Piotr Mazur; Eliza Mazur; Małgorzata Klimczyk
Room 409 — 4th floor
DAY 3 — SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2026
08:00–15:00
Participant Registration
Ground floor, in front of the main entrance
09:00–10:00
Keynote Lecture 3English
Vassilis Saroglou — Pro-Environmental Commitment: Is Religion/Spirituality A Collaborator or an Adversary?
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor
10:10–11:50
Room 407 — 4th floor
Oral Session 11English
Religious Identity, Deidentification, and Spiritual Change
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Religious Orientations and Life Satisfaction in Catholic Communities – Importance of Social Identity and Meaning in Life (ID 19)
Development and Validation of Multidimensional Scale of Religious Deidentification (MSRD-12) (ID 23)
When Doubt Becomes Development: Ruminative Exploration in Religious Identity Formation During Emerging Adulthood (ID 60)
Polish Validation of the Multidimensional Measures of Spiritual Yearning: Preliminary Results (ID 92)
The Experience of Spiritual Dryness Among Participants of the Spiritual Exercises (ID 103)
Room 409 — 4th floor
Oral Session 12Polish
Religiosity, Representations of God, and Social Functioning
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Spirituality as A Psychological Regulator Under Conditions of Migration-Related Uncertainty (ID 5)
Attachment to God and God Representations: Evidence from the Circumplex of Faith Modes (CFM) (ID 26)
The Relationships Between Religiosity, Humility, and the Dark Triad Traits in Polish Employees (ID 65)
Research on Religiosity: Comparative Analysis of Tools (ID 111)
Room 501 — 5th floor
Oral Session 13English
Cognition, Teleology, and the Structure of Spiritual Belief
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Teleological Thinking and Religiosity: Integrating Cross-Sectional, Momentary, and Meta-Analytic Evidence (ID 18)
Spiritual Transcendence and Moral Foundations: Psychological Correlates of Spiritual Orientation (ID 45)
Teleological Thinking in Adults: an ESM Study on the Real-Time Dynamics of Purpose Perception (ID 90)
Presentation Spirituality Is Not A Brain Function: Towards A Personalistic Neurotechnology of Experience – Between Neuroplasticity and Transcendence. (ID 100)
Religiosity, Spirituality, and Dark Triad Personality Traits as Predictors of Self-Enhancement in the Spiritual Domain (ID 121)
11:50–12:20
Coffee Break
Room 005 — ground floor
12:20–14:00
Room 407 — 4th floor
Oral Session 14English
Forgiveness, Relationships, and Family Life
Session Chair: to be confirmed
Spirituality, Forgiveness, and Relationship Satisfaction: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study (ID 28)
Religiosity and Life Satisfaction Among Childless Women: the Mediating Role of Readiness for Parenthood and Procrastination (ID 107)
Religious Involvement and Parental Regret: Examining the Mediating Role of Positive Life Balance (ID 108)
Religious Support and Postponement of Parenthood: the Mediating Role of Gratitude and Self-Efficacy (ID 109)
Room 409 — 4th floor
Oral Session 15English
Spiritual Help and Care in Specific Cultural Contexts
Session Chair: to be confirmed
The Face in War: Spirituality and Relational Resilience Under Threat (ID 4)
Extension Work Activities of Mackenzie Presbyterian University for Family Care as A Resource for Religious Counseling: from Riverside Communities in the Amazon to the Family Clinic. (ID 72)
The Evil Eye as A Religious Coping Mechanism: A Psychological and Cultural Analysis of Meaning-Making and Protection (ID 94)
The Role of Religious and Spiritual Struggles and Moral Suffering Following Trauma (ID 104)
Room 501 — 5th floor
Symposium 3English
Collective Religious Narcissism Across Contexts: Measurement, Roots, and Consequences (ID 25)
14:00–15:00
Lunch Break
Rooms 005–006 — ground floor
15:00–15:30
4th-floor corridor
Poster Session 2English/Polish
Poster Block B
Posters should be prepared in portrait orientation, with a size of 100 × 70 cm (approximately 39.4 × 27.6 inches), and delivered to the registration desk at least one hour before the poster session.
PLSpirituality in Relation to Health Behaviors and the Severity of Anxiety and Depression Among Patients in General Psychiatric Wards (ID 97)
ENAuthenticity and Meaning-Making as Pathways Linking Religious Deidentification to Psychological Distress (ID 29)
ENPsychotherapy and Religious Contents: Religiosity in 21st-Century Psychotherapeutic Practice (ID 88)
ENThe Impact of Contemporary Forms of Animalism on Human Well-Be (ID 96)
PLSpirituality in the Light of Perceived Social Support and Quality of Life Among Parents (ID 98)
ENDeconversion and Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood: the Mediating Role of Perceived Religious Support (ID 119)
PLSpirituality as A Potential Protective Factor Against the Pressure of Romantic Ideals in Social Media (ID 125)
PLThe Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Psychological Coping with Chronic Illness (ID 126)
15:30–15:50
English
Closing Ceremony
Room 208 — Great Hall (Aula Wielka), 2nd floor