Polish Psychological Forum

is a scientific magazine established in 1996 as Psychological Forum at the Psychology Department of at that time WSP in Bydgoszcz which was transformed into Kazimierz Wielki University. It has been published under the current name since 2001. 

Since 2013 PFP has been published online four times a year in open access.

In pursuit of the journal's internationalization and to enhance its visibility and accessibility within the global academic community, the Editorial Board has adopted a policy of prioritizing articles submitted in English, commencing from January 2026.

  • PFP is indexed by ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, BN, Base and Openaire
  • PFP is under evaluation by IC Journals Master List (ICV in 2024: 100 – archived)
  • Since 2014 each article reveives individual DOI number
  • e-ISSN: 2449-6871; ISSN 1642-1043
  • Every author of a text published in Polish Psychological Forum has a copyright according to license 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (from 2020 /issue 2/ to 2024 /up to issue 4/). Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication from 2025 are entitled to the CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows everyone to use, distribute and reproduce in any medium, provided that the source is properly cited https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Authors retain the copyright to their works.

We would like to inform you that in 2022-2024 Polish Psychological Forum was provided with ministerial funds from the program "Development of scientific journals", implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science. The grant contributed to raising the level of the journal and implementing published articles into the international circulation of scientific research results.

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Ludmiła Zając-Lamparska

Associate Editors

Elżbieta Kasprzak
Monika Wiłkość-Dębczyńska
Beata Ziółkowska
Patrick D. Gajewski

Statistical editor

Barbara Ciżkowicz

Editorial assistants

Dorota Suwalska-Barancewicz
Monika Deja 
Maryia Kuzyan
Magdalena Grabowska

Language editor

Anna Kolińska

In number 2/2025

Aleksandra Witkowska, Dorota Mącik, Łukasz Mackiewicz: Polish adaptation of Self-Presentation on Facebook Questionnaire (SPFBQ) – Skala autoprezentacji na Facebooku (SAF)

Karol Kubrak: Do reflectiveness and religiosity matter when you don’t believe in free will? An analysis of the impact of a deterministic worldview on prosocial behavior

Anna Chudyba, Anna Hamerla, Anna Kaźmierska, Magdalena Bodera, Dariusz Jastrzębski, Szymon Skoczyński: The undervalued role of psychology in pulmonary rehabilitation. Short review

Adrianna Kaczuba-Kozic, Marta Kucharska-Hauk: What do women need for happiness? The mediating role of basic psychological needs in the relationship between women's role preference and satisfaction with life

Monika Dworczyńska, Karolina Juszczyk, Aleksandra Wolska, Kamilla Komorowska: Dependencies in the areas of work-home relationships, job satisfaction, and well-being levels among musicians and actively working officials

Zuzanna Małecka: Is a minimalist life a good life? Preliminary definitions and connections between minimalism and psychological well-being, self-esteem and self-efficacy