Evaluation of spherical and hexagonal models of interest structure in Croatian and Serbian samples

Prikladnost sfernog i heksagonalnog modela interesa provjerena je u uzorcima hrvatskih i srpskih mladih odraslih ljudi. Ukupan uzorak činilo je 1190 ispitanika, od čega 630 iz Hrvatske i 560 iz Srbije, oba spola, prosječne dobi oko 23 godine. Kao mjera interesa, primijenjene su hrvatska i srpska verzija Upitnika profesionalnih interesa PGI (Personal Globe Inventory, Tracey, 2002). Rezultati su pokazali da i sferni i heksagonalni model dobro objašnjavaju strukturu profesionalnih interesa u oba uzorka, o čemu govore rezultati Hubertova i Arabijeva randomizacijskog testa, Myorsova testa, multidimenzionalnog skaliranja s fiksiranim koordinatama te eksploratorne faktorske analize. Prikladnost sfernog i heksagonalnog modela sukladna je rezultatima ranijih istraživanjima provedenim u drugim zemljama. Također, rezultati su uputili i na izuzetnu sličnost struktura tipova interesa utvrđenu na hrvatskom i srpskom uzorku.The adequacy of Tracey\u27s spherical and Holland\u27s hexagonal model was tested in samples of Croatian and Serbian young adults. The joint sample consisted of 1190 respondents; 630 coming from Croatia and 560 from Serbia, both males and females, with an average age of 23 years. As a measure of vocational interests, Croatian and Serbian versions of Personal Globe Inventory were applied. The adequacy of models has been analyzed with Hubert and Arabie\u27s randomization test, Myors\u27 test, Multidimensional scaling procedure and Exploratory factor analysis. Results have shown that in both samples the spherical and hexagonal model explained the structure of vocational interests well and to a similar extent as in previous studies. Also, a great similarity of vocational interest structure was found in the Croatian and Serbian sample

Evaluation of spherical and hexagonal models of interest structure in Croatian and Serbian samples

Prikladnost sfernog i heksagonalnog modela interesa provjerena je u uzorcima hrvatskih i srpskih mladih odraslih ljudi. Ukupan uzorak činilo je 1190 ispitanika, od čega 630 iz Hrvatske i 560 iz Srbije, oba spola, prosječne dobi oko 23 godine. Kao mjera interesa, primijenjene su hrvatska i srpska verzija Upitnika profesionalnih interesa PGI (Personal Globe Inventory, Tracey, 2002). Rezultati su pokazali da i sferni i heksagonalni model dobro objašnjavaju strukturu profesionalnih interesa u oba uzorka, o čemu govore rezultati Hubertova i Arabijeva randomizacijskog testa, Myorsova testa, multidimenzionalnog skaliranja s fiksiranim koordinatama te eksploratorne faktorske analize. Prikladnost sfernog i heksagonalnog modela sukladna je rezultatima ranijih istraživanjima provedenim u drugim zemljama. Također, rezultati su uputili i na izuzetnu sličnost struktura tipova interesa utvrđenu na hrvatskom i srpskom uzorku.The adequacy of Tracey\u27s spherical and Holland\u27s hexagonal model was tested in samples of Croatian and Serbian young adults. The joint sample consisted of 1190 respondents; 630 coming from Croatia and 560 from Serbia, both males and females, with an average age of 23 years. As a measure of vocational interests, Croatian and Serbian versions of Personal Globe Inventory were applied. The adequacy of models has been analyzed with Hubert and Arabie\u27s randomization test, Myors\u27 test, Multidimensional scaling procedure and Exploratory factor analysis. Results have shown that in both samples the spherical and hexagonal model explained the structure of vocational interests well and to a similar extent as in previous studies. Also, a great similarity of vocational interest structure was found in the Croatian and Serbian sample

STRUCTURE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FREQUENCY OF MICRONUCLEI IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD LYMPHOCYTES AND AGE, GENDER, SMOKING HABITS AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS IN SOUTH-EAST REGION OF SERBIA

Frequency of micronuclei (MN) in peripheral blood lymphocytes is a measure of genotoxicity and spontaneous chromosomal instability with many modifying factors. The aim of this work was to examine the relation between results of micronucleus test and set of socio-demographic parameters in healthy population in south-east Serbia using structure equation approach. Cytokinesis–block (CB) technique was used for analysis of MN frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes on 133 healthy volunteers of various ages. Socio-demographic data was collected through a questionnaire. The mean frequency of MN gradually rose with age from 0.56±0.71 in new-borns to 5.48 ±3.65 in the 61-80 years age group (AG), with a decrease in the 81-92 years AG. MN frequency was positively correlated with age, altitude of birth place, altitude of place of residence, nuclear buds and nucleoplasmatic bridges, and negatively with education level and smoking habits. Linear structural model revealed age to be related to all of the examined variables, and indicates probable existence of another factor, independent of age, influencing all of these except nuclear buds. It can be concluded that the frequency of micronuclei is influenced by age and factor/s resembling socioeconomic status or lifestyle and this influence is independent of age

Excessive use of the Internet, life satisfaction and personality factors

Cilj rada bilo je ispitivanje povezanosti prekomjerne upotrebe interneta s grupom sociodemografskih faktora, zadovoljstvom životom i osobinama ličnosti. U tu svrhu, uzorku od 186 korisnika interneta iz Srbije različitog spola i godina zadani su Big Five Inventory (BFI), Skala zadovoljstva životom i Skala internet adikcije, te prigodno konstruiran upitnik kojim su mjerene određene sociodemografske varijable. Rezultati su pokazali da su srednje obrazovani, nezaposleni i neoženjeni muškarci skloniji prekomjernoj upotrebi interneta u odnosu na ostale ispitanike. Dobivena je povezanost prekomjerne upotrebe interneta s više osobina ličnosti, međutim kada se promatraju nezavisni doprinosi objašnjenju fenomena, jedini statistički značajan prediktor fenomena iz grupe osobina ličnosti je Savjesnost. Ova osobina ima i najveću pojedinačnu korelaciju s prekomjernom upotrebom interneta od osobina ličnosti. Kada je zadovoljstvo životom u pitanju, podaci su pokazali da veza ovog konstrukta s prekomjernom upotrebom interneta nije direktna, već se ostvaruje posredno preko Savjesnosti kao medijatora.The goal of the paper was exploration of relations between excessive internet use and a set of sociodemographic factors, life satisfaction and personality traits. For that purpose a sample of 186 internet users was asked to complete the Big Five Inventory (BFI), the Life Satisfaction Scale and the Internet Addiction Scale, as well as a questionnaire used to assess a set of sociodemographic variables. The results showed that males with a secondary education, who are unemployed and not married are more prone to excessive use of internet when compared to other participants. Excessive internet use was found to be related with several of the Big Five personality traits, but when independent contributions to the prediction of the phenomenon are considered, the only statistically significant predictor of the examined personality traits was Consciousness. This trait also has the single greatest correlation with excessive internet use of the five considered personality traits. Relative to life satisfaction, the results showed that the relation of this construct to excessive internet use is not a direct one, but that it is mediated by Consciousness

Excessive use of the Internet, life satisfaction and personality factors

Cilj rada bilo je ispitivanje povezanosti prekomjerne upotrebe interneta s grupom sociodemografskih faktora, zadovoljstvom životom i osobinama ličnosti. U tu svrhu, uzorku od 186 korisnika interneta iz Srbije različitog spola i godina zadani su Big Five Inventory (BFI), Skala zadovoljstva životom i Skala internet adikcije, te prigodno konstruiran upitnik kojim su mjerene određene sociodemografske varijable. Rezultati su pokazali da su srednje obrazovani, nezaposleni i neoženjeni muškarci skloniji prekomjernoj upotrebi interneta u odnosu na ostale ispitanike. Dobivena je povezanost prekomjerne upotrebe interneta s više osobina ličnosti, međutim kada se promatraju nezavisni doprinosi objašnjenju fenomena, jedini statistički značajan prediktor fenomena iz grupe osobina ličnosti je Savjesnost. Ova osobina ima i najveću pojedinačnu korelaciju s prekomjernom upotrebom interneta od osobina ličnosti. Kada je zadovoljstvo životom u pitanju, podaci su pokazali da veza ovog konstrukta s prekomjernom upotrebom interneta nije direktna, već se ostvaruje posredno preko Savjesnosti kao medijatora.The goal of the paper was exploration of relations between excessive internet use and a set of sociodemographic factors, life satisfaction and personality traits. For that purpose a sample of 186 internet users was asked to complete the Big Five Inventory (BFI), the Life Satisfaction Scale and the Internet Addiction Scale, as well as a questionnaire used to assess a set of sociodemographic variables. The results showed that males with a secondary education, who are unemployed and not married are more prone to excessive use of internet when compared to other participants. Excessive internet use was found to be related with several of the Big Five personality traits, but when independent contributions to the prediction of the phenomenon are considered, the only statistically significant predictor of the examined personality traits was Consciousness. This trait also has the single greatest correlation with excessive internet use of the five considered personality traits. Relative to life satisfaction, the results showed that the relation of this construct to excessive internet use is not a direct one, but that it is mediated by Consciousness

POLNE RAZLIKE U PROFESIONALNIM INTERESOVANJIMA U TRI BALKANSKE ZEMLJE

The main objective of the study was to examine gender differences in vocational interests across three neighboring Balkan countries – Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Vocational interests were operationalized through the spherical model of vocational interests and Holland’s RIASEC circumplex model. The study reanalyzed data from previously published studies that collected vocational interest data from these countries. Participants of the study were 2536 young people, bachelor students in case of Bulgaria and North Macedonia and young people, with a high proportion of students, in the case of Serbia. They completed the Personal Globe Inventory. The results showed large gender differences along the People-Things dimension with Cohen’s d values ranging between 1.34 and 1.5 in the three country subsamples. Males tended to have higher preferences for jobs and activities that involved working with things than females, while females tended to have higher preferences for jobs and activities involving working with people than males. A substantial difference, but of smaller magnitude, was found in all three countries on the vocational interest dimension of Prestige, with females having higher scores than men. This difference came partly from higher preferences of women for high prestige jobs compared to men, but to a much greater extent from a much lower preference of women for low prestige jobs and activities compared to men. Comparisons were also made on vocational interest types and the largest differences found corresponded to those found in other world countries.Osnovni cilj ovog istraživanja je bilo ispitivanje polnih razlika u profesionalnim intersovanjima u tri susedne balkanske zemlje – Srbiji, Bugarskoj i Severnoj Makedoniji. Profesionalna interesovanja su operacionalizovana preko sferičnog modela profesionalnih interesovanja i preko Holandovog cirkumpleksnov RIASC modela. U ovom istraživanju su reanalizirani podaci iz prethodno objavljenih studija u kojima su prikupljeni podaci o profesionalnim interesovanjima u ovim zemljama. U istraživanju je učestvovalo 2356 mladih ljudi, studenata osnovnih studija u slučaju Bugarske i Severne Makedonije i mladih ljudi iz opšte populacije, ali sa velikim udelom studenata u Srbiji. Učesnici su popunjavali Personal Globe Inventory, PGI upitnik profesionalnih interesovanja. Rezultati su pokazali postojanje izraženih polnih razlika duž Ljudi-Stvari dimenzije profesionalnih interesovanja sa Koenovim d vrednostima razlike između polova koje su se kretale od 1.34 do 1.5 u poduzorcima iz ove tri zemlje. Pokazalo se da muškarci u proseku više od žena vole poslove i aktivnosti koje uključuju rad sa stvarima, dok žene više od muškaraca vole poslove i aktivnosti koji uključuju rad sa ljudima. Substantivna, ali manja, razlika dobijena je i na dimenziji profesionalnih interesovanja Prestiž, pri čemu su žene imale u proseku više skorove od muškaraca. Ove razlike delom potiču od izraženijih preferencija žena za visoko prestižne poslove, ali mnogo većim delom od toga što žene mnogo manje preferiraju nisko prestižne poslove i aktivnosti od muškaraca. Poređenja su rađena i u pogledu skorova na tipovima profesionalnih interesovanja i najveće dobijene razlike su odgovarale onima koje su nađene u dobijene u drugim zemljama sveta

PROFESIONALNA INTERESOVANJA REKREATIVNIH SPORTISTA

The goal of the study was to examine the characteristics of vocational interests of people who practise sports recreationally, as operationalized by the spherical model of vocational interests proposed by Tracey and Holland’s RIASEC model. For the abovementioned purpose, the vocational interests of a sample of 295 respondents who stated that their leisure activities included sport were compared with the vocational interests of 769 respondents whose leisure activities did not include sports. The participants in the study completed the Serbian version of the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI, Tracey, 2002, Serbian version, Hedrih, 2008). The results show that level of fit of the spherical model of interest of our data is similar to the level found in other samples in Serbia, and other countries. Average scores of the two groups differed on a number of vocational interests type measures, and these differences were low. When gender was taken into account, some statistically significant differences were found in the male subsample, while there were no differences in the female subsample. The results show that recreational practice of sports in general is not related to vocational interests, although the selection of a particular sport activity may be.CorrigendumVOCATIONAL INTERESTS OF RECREATIONAL ATHLETESVladimir Otmar Hedrih1, Milica Ristić2, Kristina Ranđelović31Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia2Pedagogical faculty in Vranje, University of Niš, Serbia3Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia The Editor-in-Chief has been informed that in the article ‘Vocational Interests Of Recreational Athletes’, FACTA UNIVERSITATIS, Series Physical Education and Sport Vol. 15, No 1, 2017, pp. 37-48, DOI: 10.22190/FUPES1701037H, co-author’s names - Milica Ristić, Kristina Ranđelović - have been omitted. After further discussion with the corresponding author, the Editor-in-Chief has decided to publish a corrigendum for this article.Link to the corrected article - DOI: 10.22190/FUPES1702435E Cilj rada bilo je ispitivanje karakteristika profesionalnih interesovanja ljudi koji se rekreativno bave sportom. Profesionalna interesovanja su operacionaliyovana preko sferičnog modela profesionalnih interesovanja i preko Hollandovog RIASEC modela interesovanja. U ovu svrhu ispitana su profesionalna interesovanja 295 ispitanika koji su naveli da njihove aktivnosti u slobodno vreme uključuju sport i 769 ispitanika koji nisu naveli da se u slobodno vreme bave sportom. Ispitanici su popunjavalisrpsku verziju Personal Globe Inventory-a (PGI, Tracey, 2002, srpska verzija, Hedrih, 2008). Rezultati su pokazali da se struktura odnosa između mera profesionalnih interesovanja nanašem uzorku uklapa u pretpostavke sferičnog modela u zadovoljavajućoj meri, tj. Da su mere uklapanja podataka u pretpostavke modela slične onima koje su dobijene na drugim uzorcima i u drugim zemljama. Kada su u pitanju interesovanja ljudi koji se rekreativno bave sportom i onih koji se sportom ne bave, dobijene su razlike na nizu tipova interesovanja, ali su sve ove razlike bile niske. Kada je pol uzet u obzir, razlike su dobijene na poduzorku muškog pola, ali ne i na poduzorku ženskog pola. Ovi rezultati ne ukazuju na povezanost rekreativnog bavljenja sportom generalno sa profesionalnim interesovanjima, iako nije isključeno da povezanost interesovanja sa izborom konkretne vrste sporta može postojati

SOCIJALNA TRAUMA I AFEKTIVNA VEZANOST

Trauma can be described as an injury that leaves permanent consequences, latent traces that can be activated in periods of crisis (Krstić, 2009). In the second part of the 20th century, the term trauma started being used ever more outside the medical and psychiatric context and entering the domain of social sciences (Sztompka, 2009). In the scope of this, one way the concept of trauma is used is in confronting negative and dysfunctional consequences that social change can leave in its wake. Various authors have studied social and psychological consequences of social changes on individuals and society. In this way, they opened the road to recognizing a new meaning of trauma, which they titled cultural or social trauma. It is known that the theory of emotional attachment states that in crisis or traumatic situations, members of a family group feel insecure, that risks in the environment can lead to lowered responsiveness of the parents, but it is less widely known if unresolved traumatic experiences of parents can be transferred to children and their later emotional attachment patterns. There is particularly little knowledge on whether significant social changes leave consequences on emotional lives of individuals and the emotional lives of their children. In this paper, we try to make a brief review of the literature on the topic, and summarize the theoretical and partly empirical knowledge in the area that exists so far.Trauma se može okarakteristati kao povreda koja ostavlja trajne posledice, latentne tragove, koji u kriznim periodima ličnosti mogu biti aktivirani (Krstić, 2009). U drugoj polovini 20. veka izraz trauma počeo je sve više da se koristi i van medicinckog i psihijatrijskog konteksta, i da zalazi u domen socijalnih nauka (Sztompka, 2009). U okviru toga, jedan vid upotrebe koncepta traume je i suočavanje sa negativnim i disfunkcionalnim posledicama koje društvene promene mogu ostaviti za sobom. Različiti autori su proučavali socijalne i psihološke posledice društvenih promena na pojedince i društvo. Time je otvoren put ka sagledavanju novog značenja traume, koja je nazvana kulturna ili socijalna trauma. Poznato je da teorija afektivne vezanosti ukazuje na to da se u kriznim ili traumatskim situacijama članovi porodice osećaju nesigurno, da rizici u okruženju mogu uticati na smanjenu responzivnost roditelja, ali je manje poznato da li se nerazrešena traumatska iskustva roditelja prenose na decu i njihove kasnije afektivne obrasce. Naročito je malo saznanja o tome da li značajne socijalne promene, ostavljaju posledice po pojedince, njihov, i emocionalni život njihove dece. U ovom radu pokušali smo da napravimo kratak pregled postojeće literature na ovu temu i sumiramo postojeća teorijska i delom empirijska znanja koja za sada postoje na ovu temu

Psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale (MJS) on a Serbian sample

The goal of the current study was to examine psychometric properties of the Serbian version of the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale (MJS, Pfeiffer & Wong, 1989). For this purpose, 500 participants, aged 18–40, were asked to complete this version of MJS. In order to examine external validity of MJS, participants were asked to complete The Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale, The Big Five Inventory and the Love Attitudes Scale. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the three-factor structure of the instrument, but required the addition of a number of error covariance arguments to achieve fit. Another model was tested, after which acceptable fit levels were achieved with smaller number of error covariance arguments in the model. Internal consistency of subscales was high. Correlations with neuroticism, self-esteem and mania love styles are consistent with the theoretical expectations and previous results, suggesting good external validity of the instrument. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 179002