Innstrand, ST, Charzyńska, E., Eikefjord, I. M., Slupphaug, K., Aboagye, E., van der Vaart, L., Buźniak, A., Czerwiński, S. K., Schneider, Z., Woropay-Hordziejewicz, N., & Atroszko, P. A. (2026). …To be, or not to be… engaged! Revealing the mystery of global work engagement: A cross-cultural study [Oral presentation]. 17th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 15–17, 2026.

Bochniarz, K. T., Charzyńska, E., & Atroszko, P. A. (2026). Emotional exhaustion as the core of burnout: Measurement invariance of a brief scale across sociodemographic and occupational characteristics in 91 countries [Oral presentation]. National Conference of Psychology 2026: Bridging Theory and Practice – Psychology at the Workplace, FLAME University, Pune, India, March 27–28, 2026.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, Buźniak, A., Czerwiński, S. K., Schneider, Z., Woropay-Hordziejewicz, N., Bochniarz, K. T., & Charzyńska, E. (2026). The gender equality–addiction paradox: Unique evidence from a global work addiction study across 91 cultures [Oral presentation]. National Conference of Psychology 2026: Bridging Theory and Practice – Psychology at the Workplace, FLAME University, Pune, India, March 27–28, 2026.

Charzyńska, E., Buźniak, A., Czerwiński, S., Schneider, Z., Woropay-Hordziejewicz, N., Bochniarz, K., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). Balancing at the edge: Gender differences in work-life balance among full-time workers across 91 cultures [Oral presentation]. Global Congress of Flourishing, Humanitas University, Sosnowiec, Poland, October 8–10, 2025. Best Presentation Award in the Experienced Researcher category.

Charzyńska, E., Czerwiński, S. K., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). Self-determination theory around the globe: The role of motivation in work addiction and work engagement across 85 cultures [Oral presentation]. Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology “Advancing Workaholism Research: Setting the Stage for Organizational Prevention”, Gdańsk, Poland, September 25–26, 2025.

Herttalampi, M., Tapaninen, M., Vuorenmaa, M., Charzyńska, E., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). Associations of work addiction and work engagement with work involvement profiles based on motivation, organizational identification, and job centrality [Oral presentation]. Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology “Advancing Workaholism Research: Setting the Stage for Organizational Prevention”, Gdańsk, Poland, September 25–26, 2025.

Atroszko, P. A., Balducci, C., Menghini, L., Charzyńska, E., & Spagnoli, P. (2025). Presentation of main points of a policy brief on workaholism with the input of invited stakeholders [Policy brief discussion]. Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology “Advancing Workaholism Research: Setting the Stage for Organizational Prevention”, Gdańsk, Poland, September 25–26, 2025.

Charzyńska, E., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). Work without borders: A global study of work addiction [Praca bez granic: globalne badanie uzależnienia od pracy] [Oral presentation]. 23rd Scientific Conference “Value Management” [XXIII Konferencja Naukowa Zarządzanie Wartością], Gdańsk, Poland, and Stockholm, Sweden, September 20–23, 2025.

Charzyńska, E., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). The global study of work addiction: Assumptions, process, results, and implications [Globalne badanie uzależnienia od pracy: założenia, przebieg, rezultaty, implikacje] [Oral presentation]. 37th Congress of the Polish Psychological Association [XXXVII Kongres Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego], Łódź, Poland, September 18–20, 2025.

Charzyńska, E., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). How to develop research on work addiction: Insights from global studies [Jak rozwijać badania nad uzależnieniem od pracy: spostrzeżenia z globalnych badań] [Invited lecture]. 12th International Scientific Conference “Gambling Disorders and Other Behavioral Addictions” [XII Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa „Zaburzenia uprawiania hazardu i inne uzależnienia behawioralne”], Warsaw, Poland, September 15–17, 2025.

Charzyńska, E., Buźniak, A., Czerwiński, S. K., Schneider, Z. M., Woropay-Hordziejewicz, N., Bochniarz, K. T., & Atroszko, P. A. (2025). The cost of being a woman at work: The role of gender and country’s gender inequality in work addiction [Oral presentation]. ICBA 2025 – 10th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Nantes, France, July 7–9, 2025.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2025). Work addiction: Current state of scientific knowledge [Uzależnienie od pracy: Aktualny stan wiedzy] [Invited lecture]. 42nd Winter School of the Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences: Chemical and behavioral addictions in the 21st century [XLII Szkoła Zimowa Instytutu Farmakologii im. Jerzego Maja Polskiej Akademii Nauk: Chemiczne i behawioralne uzależnienia w XXI wieku], Kraków, Poland, February 24–26, 2025.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2024). What are the social, economic, and political causes and consequences of occupational burnout in Poland? [Jakie są społeczne, ekonomiczne i polityczne przyczyny oraz konsekwencje wypalenia zawodowego w Polsce] [Invited lecture]. Conference of Directors General of Polish Ministries, Uniejów, Poland, November 22–23, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, Czerwiński, S., Buźniak, A., Woropay-Hordziejewicz, N., Schneider, Z., & Charzyńska, E. (2024). Work addiction measurement across countries: The role of cultural dimensions in construct cohesion [Oral presentation]. ICBA 2024 – 9th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Gibraltar, July 8–10, 2024.

Charzyńska, E., Buźniak, A., Czerwiński, S., Woropay-Hordziejewicz, N., Schneider, Z., & Atroszko, P. A. (2024). International Work Addiction Scale (IWAS) as a globally valid screening tool: Cut-offs, sensitivity, specificity, and classification consistency [Oral presentation]. ICBA 2024 – 9th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Gibraltar, July 8–10, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Kun, B. (2024). Work addiction [Session co-chair]. ICBA 2024 – 9th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Gibraltar, July 8–10, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Charzyńska, E. (2024). Gender differences in work addiction across 81 countries from 6 continents [Oral presentation]. EAOHP – 16th Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology 2024, Granada, Spain, June 4–7, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Balducci, C. (2024). Work addiction and occupational health: Organizational and clinical characterization of workaholism [Symposium co-chair]. EAOHP – 16th Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology 2024, Granada, Spain, June 4–7, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Charzyńska, E. (2024). Work as an escape from difficult emotions: Work addiction in 85 cultures around the world [Praca jako ucieczka od trudnych emocji: Uzależnienie od pracy w 85 kulturach świata] [Invited lecture]. 9th “Closer to Emotions” Scientific Conference [IX Konferencja Naukowa „Bliżej Emocji”], John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, May 15, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2024). Work addiction and sustainable HR [Oral presentation]. Sustainable Human Resource Management Conference – An International Perspective, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, April 24–25, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Charzyńska, E. (2023). International Work Addiction Scale: Development and validation of the measurement invariance of a short screening tool in over 70 countries from six continents [Poster presentation]. Work, Stress, and Health 2023 Conference, Miami, FL, USA (online), November 8–11, 2023.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Charzyńska, E. (2023). The current state of knowledge on micro, meso, and macro risk factors of work addiction and the design of a global survey in over 60 countries [Oral presentation]. ICBA 2023 – 8th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, Incheon, South Korea, August 23–25, 2023.

Science communication and public-engagement events

Charzyńska, E. (2025). When learning and work become addictions [Kiedy uczenie się i praca stają się nałogami] [Public lecture]. 9th Silesian Science Festival Katowice [9. Śląski Festiwal Nauki Katowice], Katowice, Poland, December 7, 2025.

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Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2025). What do we know about work and study addiction? [Co wiemy o uzależnieniu od pracy i uczenia się?] [Public lecture]. Solidarity in crisis: Everyone has the right to weakness [Solidarni w kryzysie: Każdy ma prawo do słabości], University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, October 9, 2025.

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Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2025). Burned-out society? On the limits of resilience in work, education, and everyday life [Wypalone społeczeństwo? O granicach odporności w pracy, edukacji i życiu codziennym] [Online public lecture]. Think Tank TETOS, online, September 4, 2025.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2025). Not only science: Mental well-being and burnout in academia [Nie tylko nauka: Dobrostan psychiczny i wypalenie w akademii] [Plenary panel]. 5th Congress of Young Science: International Scientific Conference [V Kongres Młodej Nauki: Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa], University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, July 17, 2025.

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Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2025). Relationships between occupational burnout and work and study addiction [Związki wypalenia zawodowego z uzależnieniem od pracy i uczenia się] [Public lecture]. Everyday life under pressure: Burnout at work, in the family, and in education – How to respond and prevent it? [Codzienność pod presją: Wypalenie w pracy, w rodzinie, w edukacji – jak reagować i zapobiegać?], SWPS University, Poznań, Poland, May 30, 2025.

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Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2025). Men and addictions [Mężczyźni i uzależnienia] [Panel discussion]. 2nd Congress of Men [II Kongres Mężczyzn], Pałac Staszica, Warsaw, Poland, April 26, 2025.

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Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2024). Sense of security and work addiction [Poczucie bezpieczeństwa a uzależnienie od pracy] [Invited lecture]. First: Safety. Employee well-being from the ground up [Po pierwsze: Bezpieczeństwo. Czyli dobrostan pracownika od podstaw], meet&grow, Warsaw, Poland, March 19, 2024.

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Atroszko, Pennsylvanie, & Charzyńska, E. (2023). Work addiction: HR and employee benefits [Uzależnienie od pracy: HR i benefity] [Online invited lecture]. Health and Benefits 4: More for health and ecology [Zdrowie i Benefity 4: Więcej dla zdrowia i ekologii], meet&grow, Warsaw, Poland, November 28, 2023.

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Other research dissemination activities

Charzyńska, E. (2026). Psychological well-being in a culture of overwork: How to maintain balance? [Dobrostan psychiczny w kulturze przepracowania. Jak zachować równowagę?] [Invited lecture]. Psychological Symposium “Sources of Well-Being in a World of Contemporary Challenges” [Sympozjum psychologiczne „Źródła dobrostanu w świecie współczesnych wyzwań”], Ignatianum University, Kraków, Poland, April 16, 2026.

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Charzyńska, E. (2026). Work addiction: When work stops working for us [Invited lecture]. USC Institute for Addiction Science, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 3, 2026.

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Charzyńska, E. (2024). Work addiction: What we know and what we want to know [Invited lecture]. Seminar on work addiction, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 5, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2024). Work addiction [Invited lecture]. Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland, May 22, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2024). Work addiction [Online invited lecture]. University of Malta, Msida, Malta, January 18, 2024.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2023). Work addiction [Online invited lecture]. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, May 10, 2023.

Atroszko, Pennsylvanie (2023). Work addiction [Online invited lecture]. University of Malta, Msida, Malta, May 2, 2023.