Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Lukas Blinka, PhD et Ph.D., born February 26, 1980

Employment - Position

• Assistant Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2016: Ph.D. Social Psychology, Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic
• 2013: Ph.D. in Media and Communication, University Tartu, Estonia
• 2007: MA Psychology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, the Czech Republic

Employment

• 2017 - present: University of Akureyri, Iceland (2017 – 2018 assistant professor; 2019-present external lecturer)
• 2007 - present: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, assistant professor (2007-present Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Family; 2015-present Department of Psychology; 2015-present Department of Media Studies and Journalism)

Teaching Activities

• Applied Social Psychology; Social psychology; Media Psychology; Mass Media Theory; History of Psychology; Psychology of Addictions; Psychology of Computer Games; Analytical Psychology of C.G. Jung; Biopsychology

Scientific and Research Activities

• Research grants and research participations
• 2020-present: Member of Iceland team of Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children project (HBSC) and European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD)
• 2017-2019: Sexuality and the Internet in the second half of life (Czech Science Foundation; GA17-11384S). Co-investigator; Principal Investigator between 2017-1018
• 2015-2017: New Behavioural Addictions: Games and Sexuality Online (Czech Science Foundation; GAP407/11/0585). Principal Investigator
• 2012-2014: Revealing Factors of Excessive Online Gaming and its Development over Time (Czech Science Foundation; GA ČR (P407/12/1831). Co-investigator
• 2013-2018: Conceptualisations and experiences with public and private in technologically saturated society (Estonian Research Council; PUT44). Co-investigator
• 2011-2015: Generations and inter-generational relationships in the emerging information society (Estonian Research Council; ETF8527). Co-investigator
• 2008-2011: EU Kids Online II (European Commission and London School of Economics and Political Science). Czech team member
• 2007-2009: Weblog: a window into adolescent's soul" supported by "The Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic" (KJB708140702). Co-investigator
• Research and academic interests: Excessive media use; Behavioural addictions; Motivations of human behaviour; Motivations of media use; Sexuality; Sexuality and new media; Social psychology; Media psychology; Evolutionary psychology; Psychodynamics

Major Publications

• ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Anna, Lukas BLINKA, Kateřina ŠKAŘUPOVÁ and David VAŠEK. Online Sex Addiction After 50 : an Exploratory Study of Age-Related Vulnerability. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. New York: Springer, 2021, vol. 19, No 3, p. 850-864. ISSN 1557-1874. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-019-00200-3. URL info
• FALTÝNKOVÁ, Anna, Lukas BLINKA, Anna ŠEVČÍKOVÁ and Daniela HUSAROVÁ. The Associations between Family-Related Factors and Excessive Internet Use in Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Basel: MDPI, 2020, vol. 17, No 5, p. 1-11. ISSN 1660-4601. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051754. article - open access info
• ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Anna, Lukas BLINKA and Kristian DANEBACK. Sexting as a predictor of sexual behavior in a sample of Czech adolescents. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, vol. 15, No 4, p. 426-437. ISSN 1740-5629. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1295842. URL info
• HUSAROVÁ, Daniela, Lukas BLINKA, Andrea MADARASOVÁ GECKOVÁ, Jan ŠIRŮČEK, Jitse P VAN DIJK and Sijmen A REIJNEVELD. Do sleeping habits mediate the association between time spent on digital devices and school problems in adolescence? European Journal of Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, vol. 28, No 3, p. 463-468. ISSN 1101-1262. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckx198. URL info
• ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Anna, Lukas BLINKA and Veronika SOUKALOVÁ. Excessive Internet use for Sexual Purposes Among Members of Sexaholics Anonymous and Sex Addicts Anonymous. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity. London: Routledge, 2018, vol. 25, No 1, p. 65-79. ISSN 1072-0162. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2018.1431166. článek info
• ŠKAŘUPOVÁ, Kateřina, Lukas BLINKA and Adam ŤÁPAL. Gaming under the influence : an exploratory study. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2018, vol. 7, No 2, p. 493-498. ISSN 2062-5871. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.27. článek info
• HUSAROVÁ, Daniela, Andrea MADARASOVÁ-GECKOVÁ, Lukas BLINKA, Anna ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Jitse P. VAN DIJK and Sijmen A. REIJNEVELD. Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness. BMC Public Health. BioMed Central, 2016, vol. 16, No 130, p. nestránkováno, 5 pp. ISSN 1471-2458. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8. URL info
• ŠKAŘUPOVÁ, Kateřina, Kjartan ÓLAFSSON and Lukas BLINKA. The effect of smartphone use on trends in European adolescents’ excessive Internet use. Behaviour & Information Technology. 2016, vol. 35, No 1, p. 68-74. ISSN 0144-929X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2015.1114144. URL info
• ŠKAŘUPOVÁ, Kateřina and Lukas BLINKA. Interpersonal dependency and online gaming addiction. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 2016, vol. 5, No 1, p. 108-114. ISSN 2062-5871. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.002. URL info
• BLINKA, Lukas, Kateřina ŠKAŘUPOVÁ and Kristína MITTEROVÁ. Dysfunctional impulsivity in online gaming addiction and engagement. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. 2016, vol. 10, No 3, p. nestránkováno, 16 pp. ISSN 1802-7962. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2016-3-5. URL info
• KALMUS, Veronika, Lukas BLINKA and Kjartan ÓLAFSSON. Does It Matter What Mama Says: Evaluating the Role of Parental Mediation in European Adolescents’ Excessive Internet Use. Children & Society. 2015, vol. 29, No 2, p. 122-133. ISSN 0951-0605. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12020. URL info
• BLINKA, Lukas, Kateřina ŠKAŘUPOVÁ, Anna ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Klaus WÖLFLING, Kai MÜLLER and Michael DREIER. Excessive internet use in European adolescents: What determines differences in severity? International Journal of Public Health. 2015, vol. 60, No 2, p. 249-256. ISSN 1661-8556. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0635-x. info
• ŠKAŘUPOVÁ, Kateřina, Kjartan ÓLAFSSON and Lukas BLINKA. Excessive Internet Use and its association with negative experiences: Quasi-validation of a short scale in 25 European countries. Computers in Human Behavior. Elsevier, 2015, vol. 53, December 2015, p. 118-123. ISSN 0747-5632. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.06.047. URL info
• BLINKA, Lukas. Online závislosti (Online addictions). Praha: Grada, 2015, 200 pp. Psyché. ISBN 978-80-247-5311-9. info
• BLINKA, Lukas and Jakub MIKUŠKA. The role of social motivation and sociability of gamers in online game addiction. Cyberpsychology: Journal of psychosocial research on cyberspace. Masarykova univerzita, 2014, vol. 8, No 2, p. nestránkováno, 19 pp. ISSN 1802-7962. URL info
• ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Anna, Lukas BLINKA, Alena ČERNÁ, Lenka DĚDKOVÁ, Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ and David ŠMAHEL. Děti a dospívající online: Vybraná rizika používání internetu (Children and adolescents: Selected risks of internet use). Praha: Grada Publishing, a.s., 2014, 184 pp. Psyché. ISBN 978-80-247-5010-1. info
• KALMUS, Veronika, Andra SIIBAK and Lukas BLINKA. Internet and Child Well-Being (Internet and child well-being.Theories, methods and policies in global perspective). In Ben-Arieh, A.; Casas, F.; Frønes, I.; Korbin, J.E. Handbook of Child Well-Being. 1st ed. Dordrech: Springer, 2013, p. 2093-2133. ISBN 978-90-481-9062-1. info

2020/06/13

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