Dr. Hasan Sarıcı
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RESEARCH

My central question is how context and psychological processes jointly shape well-being and behaviour.

My research programme examines how psychological processes emerge across environmental threats, social and educational conditions, digital environments, and performance settings, and through which mechanisms they relate to important outcomes.

This framework brings together topics ranging from climate anxiety and poverty-sensitive school counselling to cyberbullying and athlete psychology. Across these areas, I focus particularly on psychological mechanisms, contextual variation, cross-cultural comparison, and processes that may be amenable to intervention.

RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Four interconnected lines of research

01

Climate & Environmental Psychology

I examine the psychological consequences of climate change and the formation of environmental behaviour by considering emotional, cognitive, social-norm, and contextual processes together.

Key themes

  • Climate anxiety and climate emotions
  • Climate change and mental health
  • Pro-environmental behaviour and policy support
  • Psychological mechanisms
  • Social norms and cross-cultural variation

02

Psychological Counselling, Education & Psychosocial Contexts

This line focuses on how counselling and educational processes intersect with structural and contextual conditions including poverty, trauma, social disadvantage, and inclusion.

Key themes

  • Poverty-sensitive school counselling
  • Trauma-informed education and school resilience
  • School-based psychosocial support
  • Teacher professional development
  • Inclusive education and school contexts

03

Digital Behaviour & Emotion Regulation

I study behaviour in digital environments together with empathy, resilience, self-regulation, and interpersonal processes, while also examining adaptive and maladaptive patterns of emotion regulation.

Key themes

  • Cyberbullying and cybervictimisation
  • Digital citizenship
  • Empathy and psychological resilience
  • Cognitive emotion regulation
  • Mediation and psychological mechanism models

04

Sport & Performance Psychology

I examine psychological functioning, distress, and performance processes in athletes, with particular interest in intervention-based and evidence-synthesis approaches. I connect this line with my applied experience in football settings.

Key themes

  • Athlete psychology and psychological performance
  • Mindfulness-based interventions
  • Psychological functioning and distress
  • Intervention effectiveness
  • Psychological processes in football

CURRENT ANALYTICAL EMPHASIS

Making mechanisms, heterogeneity, and context visible

Mechanism-Oriented Models

Using mediation, moderation, and multivariable models to examine not only whether variables are associated, but also the psychological processes through which those associations may arise.

Cross-Cultural & Multilevel Analysis

Using comparative and multilevel approaches that place individual psychological processes and contextual indicators within the same analytical framework across countries and groups.

Person-Centred & Network Approaches

Moving beyond average effects to examine heterogeneity in psychological patterns through person-centred classifications and network-based models.

Evidence Synthesis

Integrating fragmented literatures through systematic review, meta-analysis, and evidence mapping while making the limits of the available evidence explicit.

METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

Methods matched to the research question, with transparent analytical workflows

Quantitative Research

Multivariable models, psychometric evaluation, multilevel analysis, and advanced statistical approaches.

Qualitative & Mixed Methods

Case study methodology, qualitative analysis, and mixed-method designs when contextual and experiential processes require complementary forms of evidence.

R-Based Research Workflows

R-based data processing, statistical modelling, and visualisation designed to be as reproducible as the research context permits.

Open Science

Making analytical decisions, code, and research outputs traceable and verifiable when appropriate and feasible.

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORKS

COST Action working groups

PEACE · CA23129

Peace Research Community Europe

WG3 · Local Peace

Go2CHANGE · CA24113

Global Network on Cultural Heritage Conservation Under Climate Change

WG1 · Climate Risk Assessment
WG4 · Community Involvement and Capacity Building
WG5 · Urban Living Lab Heritage Cities

SMART-RURAL · CA24170

Building Resilient Rural Communities through Synergy of Traditional Knowledge and Technological Innovation

WG1 · Traditional Knowledge Systems and Rural Resilience
WG3 · Integrated Resilience Assessment and Monitoring
WG4 · Knowledge Dissemination and Capacity Building

Research outputs

Explore my published work and current publication pipeline on the Publications page, and research projects on the Projects page.

Publications Projects

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