English description

  1. Members

Number of researchers: 13

1 Professor PhD (Alin Gavreliuc – Director)

4 Associate Professors PhD (Bogdan Nadolu, Melinda Dincă, Ramona Paloș, Dana Gavreliuc)

1 Lecturer PhD (Daniela Moza)

3 Researchers PhD (Ana Pășcălău, Zsolt Veress, Alin Semenescu)

3 PhD Student (Bogdan Popoveniuc, Denis Coca, Raluca Oneț-Furdui)

1 PostDoc Researcher (Andreea Constantin – Almeria University, Spain)

  1. Objectives & Center description

CDS (Center for Social Diagnosis) represents an advanced research center focused on societal,  organizational, and individual diagnosis. CDS provides expertise in the area of Social Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ethno-Psychology, and Political Psychology. Encouraging also interdisciplinarity, CDS has assumed to become a reflection center interested in a theoretical reframing of several topics like identity dynamics, cultural determination upon social identities, intergenerational transfer of values and attitudes in post-communist Romania.

CDS comprises multiple research groups, focused mainly on Cross-Cultural/Ethnopsychology areas of study or organizational/societal topics.

The main research topics are:

  • Self-construal in cross-cultural contexts;
  • The cultural basis of individual happiness;
  • Social beliefs and cultural dimensions in the different organizational environments;
  • Time perspective and social axioms;
  • Intergenerational transfers of values and attitudes in contemporary Romania;
  • Social diagnosis at the organizational or/and structural level;
  • Cultural dimensions in Romanian educational organizations;
  • Assessment of the inter-ethnic and inter-regional relationships.

The recent results group the following:

  • Scientific articles, volumes, and conferences (see below)
  • Research reports for local and regional administrations on:
    • total quality management (TQM) in the academic environment;
    • cultural changes, generational differences, and social behaviors in the U.S. and Eastern Europe;
    • consumer culture values, identity processes, mindfulness, and well-being;
    • face, dignity and honor cultures;
    • Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2021 – psycho-sociological report;
    • psychological-sociological studies for the local urbanistic plans.
  1. National & international research projects and grants (selection)
 2022-2025 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Global Social Norms (GSN), global coordinator: Kimmo Erikson, Mälardalen University, Sweden. https://www.globalsocialnorms.org/members
2021-2023 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Social change and epistemic thinking. Global coordinator: Patricia Greenfield, University of California, UCLA, https://greenfieldlab.psych.ucla.edu/
2020-2024- coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Good development. The culturally sensitive study on “folk theories of societal development” and on “ideal types of well-being”, a collaborative project coordinated by Kuba Krys, Laboratory for Cultural Psychology and Cross-Cultural Research, Institute of Psychology Polish Academy of Sciences. https://www.kuba.krys.pl/research
2019-2021 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Towards gender harmony, collaborative project – global coordinator: Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Jeniffer Bosson, Joseph Vandello, Deborah Best (University of Gdansk & University of Texas Austin, University of Illinois, University of North Carolina); project type: Harmonia 5 from NSCP 2017/26/M/HS6/00360. https://towardsgenderharmony.ug.edu.pl/about-the-project/
2020-2022 – coordinator – Ramona Paloș – project CNFIS “Growing in WUT” (Crește în UVT: crearea de oportunități pentru promovarea dezvoltării academice și sociale a studenților, prin programe de tutoring și consiliere educațională și în carieră (CreșteInUVT”). Code CNFIS-FDI-2020-0232
2019-2021 – coordinator – Ramona Paloș – project CNFIS ”Stay in WUT” (”Stai în UVT”: susținerea progresului studentului de-a lungul întregului program de studii universitare si finalizarea acestora, prin servicii de consiliere educațională și în carieră (StaInUVT). Code: CNFIS-FDI-2019-0153
2018-2020 – coordinator – Ramona Paloș – project CNFIS ”Finding your way toward WUT” (”Găsește-ți calea spre UVT”: Creșterea șansei de acces a elevilor din medii defavorizate la învățământul superior prin servicii de consiliere și orientare în carieră) (GoToUVT). Code: CNFIS-FDI-2018-0186
2018-2021 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Cross-National Study on Communal Roles / Understanding Communal Orientation in Man, global coordinators: Toni Schmader & Katharina Block (University of British Columbia, Canada https://ucom2017.wordpress.com/confirmed-sites-2/
2018-2021 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Dignity, Honour and Face Cultures in a collaborative project with Sussex University (UK), coordination team: Peter B. Smith, Yasin Koc, Matthew J. Easterbrook & Vivian M.C. Lun. https://www.researchgate.net/project/Contrasts-between-Dignity-Face-and-Honor-Cultures
2017-2021 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant The happiness meanders. The happiness of families and valuation of different types of happiness, a collaborative project coordinated by Kuba Krys, Laboratory for Cultural Psychology and Cross Cultural Research, Institute of Psychology Polish Academy of Sciences. https://www.kuba.krys.pl/research
2017-2020 – coordinator for Romania – Bogdan Nadolu –  Cofund Smart Urban Futures: Smart Shrinkage Solutions – Fostering Resilient Cities in Inner Peripheries of Europe, supported in “International and European Program”, WP 33.3 Horizon 2020, nr. 66/2017, in a global consortium coordinated by Oxford University, JPI Urban ERA-NET.
2017-2019 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory’s research pipeline, collaborative project coordinated by Martin Schweinsberg, INSEAD, France, https://www.insead.edu/faculty-research/academic-areas/organisational-behaviour
2016-2019 – coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: ”Cultural Changes and Psychology: Generational Differences in Psychology and Social Behaviors in the U.S. and Eastern Europe”, in a collaborative project with University of California, Santa Barbara, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, A. I. Cuza University from Iași and Kobe Univeristy, Japonia. https://labs.psych.ucsb.edu/kim/heejung/
2015-2018:  coordinator for Romania – Alin Gavreliuc (institutional partner – Center for Social Diagnosis – CDS) in the grant: Consumer Culture Values, Identity Processes, Mindfulness, and Well-being. Project co-supervised by Dr. Helga Dittmar and Dr. Vivian Vignoles (University of Sussex) under the auspices of the Culture and Identity Research Network: https://sites.google.com/site/identitymotives/CIRN
  1. Publications & books & book chapters (selection)
  1. Studies & articles (ISI WoS, IF>1.00):
Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc, D., & Semenescu, A. (2022). To steal or not to steal: Self-discrepancies as a way to promote prosocial behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 4,  748298. Indexat WoS. IF = 4.232 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.748298/full

Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Bosson, J., Jurek, P., Besta, T., Olech, M., Vandello, J. A., … & Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2022). Gendered self-views across 62 countries: A test of competing models. Social Psychological and Personality Science, (online first) https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221129687

Indexed WoS. IF = 5.316.

Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc, D., & Semenescu, A. (2021). Beyond the façade of generosity – regional stereotypes within the same national culture influence prosocial behaviors. PLoS ONE, 16(5): e0250125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250125

PLOS ONE is indexed WoS, IF = 3.752.
Dincă, M., Luștrea, A., Onițiu, A., Crașovan, M., & Berge, T. (2021). The Effects of Disciplinary Composition on Virtual Learning Group Process Dynamics: Students’ Perspectives. Sustainability, 13(15), 8493.

Semenescu, A. & Gavreliuc, A. (2021). Structural, psychological and contextual predictors of car use. Frontiers in Psychology. 12, 692435. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.692435

Calitatea de autor principal se poate indentifica prin menționarea explicită a calității de autor corespondent.

Indexed WoS. IF = 4.232.
Bosson, P., Jurek, P., …, Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2021). Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52 (3), 231-258. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022022121997997 Indexed Wos. IF = 2.577

Krys, L., Park, L., …, Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2021). Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study. Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(1), 117-130.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1858332

Indexed WoS. IF = 4.290

Moza, D., Lawrie, S., Maricuțoiu, L., Gavreliuc, A., Kim, H. (2021). Not all forms of independence are created equal: only being independent the “right way” is associated with self-esteem and life satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology. 11:606354. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606354

Indexed WoS. IF = 4.232

Smith, P., Easterbrook. M. J., … Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc D. et al. (2021). Is an Emphasis on Dignity, Honor and Face more an Attribute of Individuals or of Cultural Groups?. Cross-Cultural Research., 55(2-3), 95-126. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1069397120979571

Indexed WoS. IF = 2.178

Pascalau, A., Gavreliuc, A., Gouveia, V. & Coelho, G. (2021). Honor Scale in Romania: Psychometric Parameters and Associations to Human Values. Psychological Reports, 124 (4), 1912-1931. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120945598

Indexed WoS, IF = 1.789

Krys, K., Park, J., Kocimska-Zych, A.,…, Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2021). Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22 (5) , 2197-2214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y

Indexed Wos. IF = 4.087.

Smith, P., Easterbrook. M. J.,… Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc D. et al. (2020). Sex Differences in Self-Construal and in Depressive Symptoms: Predictors of Cross-National Variation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(7-8), 616-635.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022022120939655

Indexed Wos. IF = 2.618

Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Best, T., Bosson, J., Jurek, P., Vandello, A., …, Gavreliuc, A., Gavreliuc, D. et al. (2020). Country level and Individual-level Predictors of Men’s Support for Gender Equality in 42 Countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(6), 1276-1291. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2696

Indexed Wos. IF = 3.376

Semenescu, A., Gavreliuc, A. & Sîrbescu, P. (2020). 30 Years of soft interventions to reduce car use – A systematic review and meta-analysis. Transportation Research Part D. Transport and Environment, 85, 102397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102397

Indexed WoS. IF= 5.495
Lawrie, S., Eom, K., Moza, D., Gavreliuc, A., & Kim, H. (2020). Cultural Variability in the Association Between Age and Well-Being: The Role of Uncertainty Avoidance. Psychological Science, 31(1), 51-64. Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF =7.029 https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619887348
Nadolu, B., & Nadolu, D. (2020). Homo interneticus—The sociological reality of mobile online being. Sustainability, 12(5), 1800.
Paloș,R., Maricuțoiu,L., & Costea,I. (2019). Relations between academic performance, student engagement and student burnout: a cross-lagged analysis of a two-wave study. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 60, 199-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2019.01.005

Moza, D., Maricutoiu, L., & Gavreliuc, A. (2019). Cross-Lagged Relationships Between Self-Esteem, Self-Construal, and Happiness in a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study. Journal of Individual Differences. 40(3), 177-185. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000290

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 1.283
Paloș,R. (2018/2020). Exploring the impact of achievement goals orientation and study engagement on nursing students’ approaches to learning. Educational Studies, 46(2), 205-220; DOI:10.1080/03055698.2018.1555454
Dincă, M., & Lucheș, D. (2018). Work integration of the roma: between family and labor market. Sustainability, 10(5), 1495.

Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Owe, … Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2018). Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures. Self and Identity, 17(3), 276-293. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2017.1330222

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 2.170
Krzysztofik, R., Dymitrow, M., Biegańska, J., Senetra, A., Gavriilidou, E., Nadolu, B., … & Brauer, R. (2017). Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning. Quaestiones Geographicae, 36(4), 29–45.

Stanciu, A.  J., Cohrs, C., Hanke, K., & Gavreliuc, A. (2017). Within-Culture Variation in the Content of Stereotypes: Application and Development of the Stereotype Content Model in an Eastern European Culture. The Journal of Social Psychology, 157(5), 611-628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2016.1262812.

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF=1.203.

Smith, P. B, Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Owe, E., Easterbrook, M. J., … Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2016). Individual and culture-level components of survey response styles: A multi-level analysis using cultural models of selfhood. International Journal of Psychology, 51(6), 453-463. DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12293

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 1.198
Smith, P. B., Ahmad, A. A., Owe, E., Gosku, C. C., Hu, P., … Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2016). Nation-level moderators of the extent to which self-efficacy and relationship harmony predict students’ depression and life satisfaction: Evidence from ten cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47(6), 818-834. DOI: 10.1177/0022022116648210 Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 1.929

Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Becker, M., Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M., … Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2016). Beyond the ‘East-West’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145 (8), 966-1000. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000175

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 5.929

Becker, M., Vignoles, V.,…, Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2014). Cultural Bases for Self-Evaluation: Seeing Oneself Positively in Different Cultural Contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 657-675. doi: 10.1177/0146167214522836

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 2.515
Gavreliuc, A., & Gavreliuc, D. (2014). Cartography of the Banatian Identity Dynamics in the Last Decade: the Registers of Social Attitudes and Social Capital. Review of Research and Social Intervention, 44 (1), 212-228. Indexed ISI WoS, IF = 1.354 (IF WoS – SSCI 2012).

Owe, E., Vignoles, V.,…, Gavreliuc, A. et al. (2013). Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs across 37 National Groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(1), 24-45. doi:10.1177/0022022111430255

Advance on-line publication: January 2012; print: January 2013.

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 1.547
  • b) (BDI & ISI WoS, IF<1.00)

Nadolu, B. (2020). Perspectives of Romanian students about life in social isolation. Journal of Research in Higher Education, 4(1), 32-43.

BDI indexed: DOAJ, ERIH Plus.

Semenescu, A., & Gavreliuc, A. (2019). Car use reduction: a matter of reasoned calculus, morality or habit? An integrative perspective. Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology, 21(2), 44-53. DOI: 10.24913/rjap.21.2.02

Indexed DOAJ (full-text), EBSCO – Academic Search Complete (full-text), CrossRef, PsychINFO, ERIH Plus.
Paloș,R., Măgurean,S., Petrovici,M.C. (2019). Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Performance – The Mediating Role of Students’ Achievement Goals. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 67, 234-249. DOI: 10.33788/rcis.67.15. https://www.rcis.ro/

Veress, Z., & Gavreliuc, A. (2019). Linking social axioms with behavioural outcomes in Romanian organizational settings. Psihologia Resurselor Umane, 17(1), 27–47.

http://dx.doi.org/10.24837/pru.2019.1.493

Indexed: PsychInfo, EBSCO, SCOPUS.

Diaconu-Gherasim, L., Iacob, L. M., & Gavreliuc, A. (2017). Children’s Academic Achievement and Goal Orientations: Does the Ethnic Membership Matter? Cultura y Educación (RCYE) (Culture and Education), 29(4), 728-761.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2017.1377992

Indexed ISI Thomson (ISI Web of Knowledge). IF = 0.607.

Pășcălău, A., & Gavreliuc, A. (2018). Teoria funcțională a valorilor – o nouă perspectivă în evaluarea dinamicii sociale. Revista de Psihologie (Journal of Psychology), 64(4), 305-315.

BDI indexed: PsychInfo, DOAJ, ERIH Plus, EBSCO.

Veress, Z., & Gavreliuc, A. (2018). Organizational Commitment, Organizational Justice and Work Satisfaction: A

Comprehensive Model in a Romanian Organizational Setting. Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology, 20(2), 60-69.

DOI: 10.24913/rjap.20.2.05

Indexed: DOAJ (full-text), EBSCO – Academic Search Complete (full-text), CrossRef, PsychINFO, ERIH Plus.
Indexed ISI WoS: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000332682000013

Gavreliuc, A., & Gavreliuc, D. (2018). Social cognitions and cultural dimensions in the Romanian educational field, Journal of Research in Higher Education, 2(2), 2-18. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/JRHE.2018.2

BDI indexed: DOAJ, ERIH Plus.

Gavreliuc, A. (2012). Continuity and change of values and attitudes in generational cohorts of post-communist Romania. Cognition, Brain, Behaviour. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14(2), 191-212. http://www.cbbjournal.ro/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=493&Itemid=59.

BDI indexed: PsychInfo, EBSCO, Proquest, Scopus, International Bibliography of Social Science.

  1. Chapter in international books

Gherasim, L., Butnaru, S., Gavreliuc, A., & Iacob, L. (2013). Optimistic Attributional Style and Parental Behaviour in the Educational Framework: A Cross-Cultural Perpective. In Knoop, H. H.; Delle Fave, A. (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, vol. 3, New York: Springer, 195-217, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4611-4_13
Friedlmeier, M., & Gavreliuc, A. (2013). Value orientations and perception of social change in postcommunist Romania. In I. Albert & D. Ferring (Eds.), Intergenerational relationships in society and family: European perspectives. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 119-131.
Gavreliuc, D., & Gavreliuc, A. (2018). Generational belonging and historical ruptures: continuity or discontinuity in terms of values and attitudes in post-communist Romania. In N. Lebedeva. R. Dimitrova,  & J. Berry (eds.). Changing values and identities in the post-communist world. (pp. 207-222) New York: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_12
  1. Books (national)
Paloș, R. (coord.). (2020). Culegere de aplicații și exerciții structurate. Suport în procesul de orientare și consiliere vocațională primară. Editura Universităţii de Vest, Timişoara
Gavreliuc, A. (2019). Psihologia socială și dinamica personalității. Iași: Editura Polirom.
Gavreliuc, D. (ed.) Gavreliuc A. (co-autor) (2016). Education, culture and identity. Diagnosis of societal and personal changes in post-communist Romania. Timișoara: Editura de Vest.
Ionescu, A., Nadolu, B., Moza, D., & Lobont, F. (2016). R2PRIS Methodological Framework. Timisoara: West University of Timisoara Press.
  1. Chapter in books (national)
Gavreliuc, A. (2013). Limitele cunoașterii psihologice și regăsirea sensului integrator. In P. Iluț (ed.), În căutare de principii. Epistemologie și metodologie socială aplicată. Iași: Polirom, 135-158.
Gavreliuc, A. (2013). Attitudes toward family, value orientation and demographical behaviour in the Romanian population. In I. Rogobete & A. Neagoe (eds.), Contemporary issues facing families. (pp. 71-90). Verlag fur Kultur and Wissenschaft: Bonn.
Gavreliuc, A., Moza, D. (2015). Fundamentele culturale ale fericirii. O lectură din perspectiva psihologiei interculturale. In P. Iluț (ed.), Dragoste, familie și fericire. Spre o sociologie a seninătății. (pp. 183-207). Iași: Polirom.
Krzysztofik, R., Dymitrow, M., Biegańska, J., Senetra, A., Gavriilidou, E., Nadolu, B., … & Brauer, R. (2017). Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planning. Quaestiones Geographicae, 36(4), 29–45.
Gavreliuc, A. (2019). Logica implicită evoluționistă și atracția sexuală. In Ș. Boncu, A. Holman (eds), Cum gîndim în viața de zi cu zi. (pp. 132-142). Iași: Polirom.
Gavreliuc, A. (2019). Un secol de unire: între rupturi social-istorice si continuități valorice sau atitudinale. In V. Boari (ed.), Cine sunt românii? Perspective asupra identității naționale (pp. 145-165). Cluj-Napoca: Editura Școala Ardeleană.
Lucheș, D. & Dincă, M. (2020). Opiniile liceenilor despre toleranță. In Voicu B, Rusu H, Tufis C (Eds.), 2020, Atlasul valorilor sociale. Romania la 100 de ani, Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca.

  1. Partnerships & collaborations with other research centers

Strategic partners:

  • CIRN – Culture and Identity Research Network (CIRN) from International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology:

https://sites.google.com/site/identitymotives/CIRN

  • University of California, Santa Barbara, USA:

https://labs.psych.ucsb.edu/kim/heejung/

  1. Equipment
  • 2 Laptops i5 & i7 – 8th generation
  • 2 printers (HP 5200 & HP LaserJet M477fnw)
  • IBM SPSS 21.0 Statistics
  • AMOS 21.0 Statistics
  • BORIS (Behavioral Observation Research Interactive Software)
  • MAXQDA (from 01.01.2023)
  1. Contact

Director: Alin Gavreliuc, Professor PhD

E-mail: alin.gavreliuc@e-uvt.roo

Phone: +40256592377

Website: www.cds.uvt.ro

ERRIS: https://erris.gov.ro/CENTRUL-DE-DIAGNOZA-SOCIALA

EERTIS: https://eertis.eu/errf-2200-000c-03003