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Dr. Kovács Karolina Eszter

 

She is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Debrecen. She is a psychologist, sport-psychodiagnostic counsellor and translator (arts and humanities), managing editor of the Hungarian Educational Research Journal (HERJ) and assistant editor of the Central European Journal of Educational Research (CEJER). In her research, she mainly investigates health consciousness as a non-academic achievement of young people along different pedagogical and psychological factors, with a special focus on sport. She is a member of the Hungarian Educational Research Association (HERA) and the Hungarian Psychological Association (MPT) and a senior researcher at the Center for Higher Educational Research and Development (CHERD-H). Since 2019, she has worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of Debrecen and since 2022, she is a senior lecturer. Since the academic year 2019/20, she has been a mentor and lecturer in the Talent Development Programme (DETEP) of the University of Debrecen, where she is currently mentoring psychology students. In 2022, she joined the Cambridge University ReachSci Global Programme, where she will be a local mentor in the summer of 2022, supporting undergraduate students interested in research who are underrepresented in the student population (e.g. women in STEM, undergraduate and master students with disabilities).

Projects (selected)  

  • Preventing Post-Covid Social Exclusion Together (PCSET) Visegrad Strategic Grant No. 22110213
  • MTA-DE-Parent-Teacher Cooperation Research Group (Research Programme for Public Education Development of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Health-Behaviour of Sports School Students (Sportiskolák Tanulóinak Egészségmagatartása) NTP-NFTÖ-16 (doctoral project, funded by a talent program of Hungary)
  • Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe (CALOHEE)
  • Development of Infrastructure Conditions of Child and Youth Psychiatry, Addictology and Mental Hygienic Healthcare System (Gyermek és ifjúságpszichiátria, addiktológiai és mentálhigiénés ellátórendszer infrastrukturális feltételeinek fejlesztése) EFOP-2.2.0-16-2016-00002·
  • The role of social and organisational factors in student dropout (Társadalmi és szervezeti tényezők szerepe a hallgatói lemorzsolódásban) OTKA K_123847
  • Institutional Effects on Students’ Achievement, project of the University of Debrecen as research university·
  • Support of public education problems of churches (Egyházak köznevelési feladatainak támogatása – TÁMOP-3.1.17- 15)·
  • Effect of Structural Crisis of Families on Academic Achievement (Családok strukturális válságának hatása az iskolai eredményességre)

 

Publications (selected)

  • Kovács, K. E., Kovács, K., Szabó, F., Dan, B. A., Szakál, Zs., Moravecz, M., Szabó, D., Olajos, T., Csukonyi, Cs., Papp, D., Őrsi, B., Pusztai, G. (2022). Sport Motivation from the Perspective of Health, Institutional Embeddedness and Academic Persistence among Higher Educational Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7423. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127423 (impakt faktor: 4.614)
  • Kovács, K. E., Dan, B., Hrabéczy, A., Bacskai, K., & Pusztai, G. (2022). Is resilience a trait or a result of parental involvement? The results of a systematic literature review. Education Sciences, 12(6), 372. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12060372
  • Kovács, K., & Kovács, K. E. (2021). Using the behavioural regulation in an exercise questionnaire (BREQ–2) in central and eastern europe: Evidence of reliability, sociocultural background, and the effect on sports activity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 11834. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211834 (impakt faktor: 3.364)
  • Kovács, K. E., & Nagy, B. E. (2021). Student health clusters based on health-behaviour and academic achievement: the Hungarian evidence in an international comparison. Italian Sociological Review, 11(3), 903. http://dx.doi.org/10.13136/isr.v11i3.498 (impact factor: 0.176)
  • Nagy, B. E., Kovács, K. E., Varga, T., Boris, P., Józsa, T., & Oláh, R. (2021). A review on children and adolescents’ mental health indicators: Towards a valid mental health assessment in Hungarian youth. Cognition Brain Behaviour: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25(4), 357-383. https://doi.org/10.24193/cbb.2021.25.18
  • Nagy, B. E., Munkácsi, B., & Kovács, K. E. (2021). Factors influencing adherence among youth with type-1-diabetes mellitus—The Hungarian case. Current Diabetes Reviews, 17(2), 222–232. https://doi.org/10.2174/1573399816666200120123719 (impact factor: 1.953)
  • Kovács K. E. (2019). Toward the pathway of sports school students: Health awareness and dropout as the index of academic and non-academic achievement. Hungarian Educational Research Journal 9(4), 726-729. https://doi.org/10.1556/063.9.2019.4.60
  • Munkácsi, B., Papp, G., Felszeghy, E., Nagy, B. E., & Kovács, K. E. (2018). The associations between mental health, health-related quality of life and insulin pump therapy among children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism: JPEM, 31(10), 1065–1072. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2018-0130 (impact factor: 1.634)
  • Kovács, K. E., Szekér, B., Kondé, Z., & Nagy, B. E. (2018). A nemfigyelési vakság jelensége a sportpályán [The phenomenon of inattentional blindness on the sports field]. Alkalmazott Pszichológia, 18(1), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.17627/ALKPSZICH.2018.1.27
  • Nagy B. E., & Kovács K. E. (2017). Egészség-magatartással kapcsolatos attitűdök vizsgálata középiskolás és egyetemista fiatalok körében [The investigation of attitudes toward health behaviour among high school and university students]. Orvosi Hetilap, 158(44), 1754–1760. https://doi.org/10.1556/650.2017.30839 (impact factor: 0.54)