Martyna Płudowska

Dr. Martyna Płudowska serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology of Individual Differences at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin's Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on gifted education, materialism in consumer culture, and psychological predictors of quality of life.

• Key research areas include gifted students' career motivation, decision-making styles, and mediators' creative competences.
• Recent work explores gerotranscendence, wisdom development, and psychological support models for gifted individuals.

Notable publications span 2011-2025 in journals like The Humanistic Psychologist and Archive of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Collaborating with Andrzej Sękowski, she investigates materialism's impact on life satisfaction and creative processes in psychotherapy.

Her studies often integrate existential psychology with socioeconomic and developmental perspectives, particularly examining how materialistic orientations moderate relationships between self-esteem, anxiety, and quality of life.