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2026

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D-Index
70
Citations
21610
World Ranking
2252
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Poland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Poland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Aleksandra Luszczynska is affiliated with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Psychology, and Health Professions, contributing substantially to these scientific areas.

The subfields in which they conduct research include General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, and Sociology and Political Science. This diverse expertise reflects a multidisciplinary approach to health sciences.

The main topics covered in their work consist of Behavioral Health and Interventions, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health Policy Implementation Science, Physical Activity and Health, Community Health and Development, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, and Digital Mental Health Interventions.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Aleksandra Luszczynska are:

  • Advancing the evidence base for public policies impacting on dietary behaviour, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in Europe: The Policy Evaluation Network promoting a multidisciplinary approach (2020, Food Policy)
  • Policy implementation and priorities to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A pooled level analysis across eleven European countries (2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe)
  • Associations between self-efficacy and sedentary behaviour: a meta-analysis (2020, Psychology and Health)
  • Meta-review of implementation determinants for policies promoting healthy diet and physically active lifestyle: application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (2022, Implementation Science)
  • The trajectory of COVID-19 pandemic and handwashing adherence: findings from 14 countries (2021, BMC Public Health)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Aleksandra Luszczynska include:

  • Anna Banik
  • Zofia Szczuka
  • Ewa Kuliś
  • Nina Knoll
  • Nanna Lien

The venues where Luszczynska most frequently publishes are:

  • Obesity Reviews
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Psychology and Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Best Publications

  • The general self-efficacy scale: multicultural validation studies.

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Urte Scholz;Ralf Schwarzer

  • General self‐efficacy in various domains of human functioning: Evidence from five countries

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Benicio Gutiérrez‐Doña;Ralf Schwarzer

  • Mechanisms of health behavior change in persons with chronic illness or disability: the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA).

    Ralf Schwarzer;Sonia Lippke;Aleksandra Luszczynska

  • Social cognitive theory

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Ralf Karl Schwarzer

  • Implementation intention and action planning interventions in health contexts: state of the research and proposals for the way forward.

    Martin S. Hagger;Aleksandra Luszczynska;Aleksandra Luszczynska

  • A meta-analysis of the relationship between job burnout and secondary traumatic stress among workers with indirect exposure to trauma.

    Roman Cieslak;Kotaro Shoji;Allison Douglas;Erin Melville

  • Planning and Self-Efficacy in the Adoption and Maintenance of Breast Self-Examination: A Longitudinal Study on Self-Regulatory Cognitions

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Ralf Schwarzer

  • How to overcome health-compromising behaviors: The health action process approach

    Ralf Schwarzer;Aleksandra Luszczynska

  • Adoption and maintenance of four health behaviors: Theory-guided longitudinal studies on dental flossing, seat belt use, dietary behavior, and physical activity

    Ralf Schwarzer;Benjamin Schüz;Jochen P. Ziegelmann;Sonia Lippke

  • Associations between job burnout and self-efficacy: a meta-analysis.

    Kotaro Shoji;Roman Cieslak;Ewelina Smoktunowicz;Anna Rogala

  • Self-Efficacy and Health-Related Outcomes of Collective Trauma A Systematic Review

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Charles C. Benight;Roman Cieslak

  • Social-cognitive predictors of physical exercise adherence: Three longitudinal studies in rehabilitation.

    Ralf Schwarzer;Aleksandra Luszczynska;Jochen P. Ziegelmann;Urte Scholz

  • Improving fruit and vegetable consumption: a self-efficacy intervention compared with a combined self-efficacy and planning intervention

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Maciej Tryburcy;Ralf Schwarzer

  • Meaning in life and physical health: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Katarzyna Czekierda;Anna Banik;Crystal L. Park;Aleksandra Luszczynska

  • Planning to break unwanted habits: habit strength moderates implementation intention effects on behaviour change.

    Thomas L. Webb;Paschal Sheeran;Aleksandra Luszczynska

  • Multidimensional health locus of control: comments on the construct and its measurement.

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Ralf Schwarzer

  • Planning to lose weight: randomized controlled trial of an implementation intention prompt to enhance weight reduction among overweight and obese women.

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Anna Sobczyk;Charles Abraham

  • Stressful Life Events

    Ralf Schwarzer;Aleksandra Luszczynska

  • Self-efficacy as a moderator of the planning–behaviour relationship in interventions designed to promote physical activity

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Ralf Schwarzer;Sonia Lippke;Magda Mazurkiewicz

  • Measuring one component of dispositional self-regulation: attention control in goal pursuit

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Manfred Diehl;Benicio Gutiérrez-Doña;Patrik Kuusinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Urte Scholz
Urte Scholz University of Zurich
Nina Knoll
Nina Knoll Freie Universität Berlin
Ralf Schwarzer
Ralf Schwarzer Freie Universität Berlin
Charles C. Benight
Charles C. Benight University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Sonia Lippke
Sonia Lippke Jacobs University
John de Wit
John de Wit Utrecht University
Konstadina Griva
Konstadina Griva Nanyang Technological University
Tracey A. Revenson
Tracey A. Revenson City University of New York
Mariët Hagedoorn
Mariët Hagedoorn University Medical Center Groningen
Martin S. Hagger
Martin S. Hagger University of California, Merced

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