Monika Mynarska

Monika Mynarska, Associate Professor, is a social psychologist and demographer. She heads the Centre for Individual and Family Life-Course Studies (LIFE) at the Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, and serves as Director of the Families and Generations Lab at the Warsaw School of Economics, where she leads the Polish team of international Generations and Gender Programme.
Her research focuses on childbearing decisions, ambivalence toward parenthood, and fertility determinants from a life-course perspective. Her research interests include psychological and social mechanisms underlying the postponement of or withdrawal from parenthood, gender differences in childbearing motivations, and the links between relationship quality and family intentions. In her work, she draws on both large-scale survey data and qualitative data. She is actively involved in international research infrastructures studying family and generational change.