Contact information

Mailing Address: Department of Psychology, Institute for Population and Human Studies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
“Acad. G. Bonchev” Str., block 6, floor 5, 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
Phone: + 359 2 979 30 02
E-mail: kalina_popova@yahoo.com

Research Interests

Research Design and Methodology, Personality Psychology, Belief in a Just World, Personality
Rigidity

Education

1989-1992 – Specialisation in Medical Psychology, Medical University, Sofia
1979-1984 – Master Degree in Psychology & German language, Sofia University “St.
K.Оhridski”

Academic Positions

2018 – present – Assistant, IPHS, BAS
2000 – 2018 – Specialist, Institute of Psychology, BAS

Research Projects (last 5 Years)

Personality and belief in a just world, Bulgarian academy of sciences (2017-2019). Principal
researcher Assoc.Prof. Ergyul Tair

Selected Publications (10 in the last 10 Years)

Tair, E., Popova, К. (2019). Values, Belief in a Just World and the Flourishing of Bulgarian
Adolescents. Psychological Research, 22, 3, 657-680, ISSN 0205-0617 (Print); ISSN 2367-9174
(Online).
Stoycheva, K., Popova, K. (2019). Tolerance/Intolerance of Ambiguity: Assessing Its Perceived
Importance. Psychological Research, Vol. 20, 3, 629-640.
Tair, E., Popova, К. (2017). Functional Values as Factors for Psychological Well-Being.
Psychological Research, 2, 287-300 (in Bulgarian)
Stoycheva, K., Shtetinski, D., Popova, K. (2014). Studies on the validity of Ivan Paspalanov’s
questionnaire for measuring rigidity, Bulgarian Journal of Psychology, No 4, pp. 27-46 (in
Bulgarian)
Stoycheva, K., Shtetinski, D., Popova, K. (2013). Age and education differences in personality
rigidity and its components. Psychological Research, No1, pp. 59-70 (in Bulgarian)
Stoycheva, K., Shtetinski, D., Popova, K. (2011). The study of rigidity in personality: Featuring
Ivan Paspalanov’s questionnaire for measuring rigidity. Bulgarian Journal of Psychology, 3-4,
136-142 (in Bulgarian)
Stoycheva, K., Shtetinski, D., Popova, K. (2008). Torrance’s Creative Motivation Scale:
Reliability and construct validity of its Bulgarian form. Psychological Research, No1, pp. 215-
230 (in Bulgarian)