Bojana Bodroža

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Novi Sad

Understanding the psychological characteristics of video game players provides game designers with greater opportunities to develop personalized gaming experiences. In this light, this study examined the relationships between preferred roles and positions in the video game League of Legends (LoL) and players’ indicated basic personality traits, emp...

Although much literature has focused on prejudice-based traditional bullying, there are not a lot of studies about prejudice-based cyberbullying. This kind of cyberbullying reflects any form of cyberbullying based on a group affiliation or identity characteristics of the victim, often including historically marginalised and other “protected charact...

As large language models (LLMs) continue to gain popularity due to their human-like traits and the intimacy they offer to users, their societal impact inevitably expands. This leads to the rising necessity for comprehensive studies to fully understand LLMs and reveal their potential opportunities, drawbacks and overall societal impact. With that in...

Introduction People who belong to a sexual and gender minority often face prejudices that have their roots in heterosexism, a sociocultural system that can manifest itself in different ways and sometimes in a seemingly benevolent fashion. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Heterosexism Inventory (MHI), a...

According to the Behavioural Immune System (BIS) theory, humans are motivated to avoid exposureto harmful pathogens. However, most sources of infection are impossible to avoid completely, leadingto the development of tools to reduce pathogen threat. Condoms are one example of an effective toolthat can be used to avoid exposure to sexually transmitt...

Istraživanje seksualnog uznemiravanja i ucjenjivanja u suvremenom srpskom društvu novijeg je datuma. Ranija istraživanja pokazuju da se ono može dogoditi u najrazličitijim situacijama. Međutim, sveučilište je rijetko bio kontekst u kojem se taj problem analizirao, usprkos evidentnoj hijerarhiji moći baziranoj na različitim izvorima. Kako su student...

Ekološki značajna ponašanja, poput pro-ekološkog ponašanja i ekološkog aktivizma do danas su ostala relativno neodređena i neintegrisana, a posebno je nejasna veza između ekološkog aktivizma i subjektivnog blagostanja. Stoga je cilj ovog istraživanja bio da se utvrde da li neke socio-demografske odlike, poput roda, starosti i nivoa obrazovanja pred...

To assess the potential applications and limitations of chatbot GPT-3 Davinci-003, this study explored the temporal reliability of personality questionnaires applied to the chatbot and its personality profile. Psychological questionnaires were administered to the chatbot on two separate occasions, followed by a comparison of the responses to human...

Cyberbullying includes harmful, intentional and often repetitive behaviour that occurs in the cyberspace. Considering different prevalence of cyberbullying across countries, cross-national comparison of this phenomenon and its risk factors is important and necessary. The aim of this research was to examine individual factors of cyberbullying perpet...

Workshop "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Publishing Paper" held at the 5th International Doctoral Summer School 2022 at the Institute of Educational Research, Education Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

COVID‐19 pandemic led to introduction of lockdown measures in many countries, while in Serbia the Government also introduced the curfew by which vulnerable groups of citizens were prohibited from leaving their homes at any time. In such a situation many citizens organized to voluntarily offer their help to those in isolation, which offered a unique...

Self-handicapping is an effective strategy for self-enhancement and self-protection in situations in which one’s self-image is evaluated. Previous studies have shown that grandiose narcissists use self-handicapping for self-enhancement, while research on vulnerable narcissists’ use of self-handicapping is still scarce. In this study, we examined tr...

Research on online social networks has indicated that it is appropriate to differentiate between active and passive use of these services, especially since they often have reverse effects on well-being. This study focused on Instagram selfies as a specific form of Instagram activity. We adopted the proposed distinction between active and passive us...

The Psycho-Social Aspects of Facebook Use (PSAFU) scale was developed by Bodroža and Jovanović (2016) to comprehensively measure psychological and social aspects of the users’ Facebook (FB) experiences i.e. compensatory use of FB, self-presentation on FB, socializing, and seeking sexual partners through FB, FB addiction, and FB profile as the virtu...

Društvene mreže predstavljaju kontekst u kom se aktivno uspostavljaju i razvijaju intimni odnosi. Zbog specifičnosti onlajn interakcije, društvene mreže su pogodno okruženje u kom se ispoljavaju i razna nelojalna partnerska ponašanja. U ovom radu ispitivane su determinante obraćanja pažnje na alternativne partnere i neverstva na društvenim mrežama,...

Having in mind that student achievement and interest in subject are some of the most important educational goals, and that quality of teaching is the crucial schooling factor influencing them, we examined the contribution of teacher-level variables from the dynamic model of educational effectiveness to student achievement and interest in mathematic...

The aim of this study was to explore the effects of prosocial and antisocial personality tendencies and context-related state factors on compliance with protective behaviors to prevent the spread of coronavirus infections. Six types of prosocial tendencies (altruism, dire, compliant, emotional, public, and anonymous) and selfishness as the antisoci...

Large-scale educational effectiveness research requires valid student questionnaires to assess teaching practices. This research validated eight scales for measuring teaching factors from the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness (DMEE). Parallel versions of scales for measuring teaching factors in mathematics and biology were constructed and...

Stockpiling during a crisis is usually seen as a response to experienced fear or as a form of social behavior. This study aimed to explore the effects of personality traits linked to antisociality (selfishness) and prosociality (prosocial tendencies) and the context-related state factor (fear related to the pandemic) on stockpiling during the COVID...

Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If these studies use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting the phenomenon of interest, then a failure to replicate may be a failure of the protocol rather than a challenge to the original finding. Formal pre-data-collecti...

Across three studies, LoBue and DeLoache (2008) provided evidence suggesting that both young children and adults exhibit enhanced visual detection of evolutionarily relevant threat stimuli (as compared with nonthreatening stimuli). A replication of their Experiment 3, conducted by Cramblet Alvarez and Pipitone (2015) as part of the Reproducibility...

The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries (N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower stat...

The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries (N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower stat...

The Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) has garnered intense attention over the past 15 years. We examined the structure of these traits’ measure—the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (DTDD)—in a sample of 11,488 participants from three W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., North America, Oceania, Western Europe) and five non-W.E.I.R.D. (i.e., Asia, Midd...

Replications in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If replications use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting the phenomenon of interest, then a failure to replicate may be a failure of the protocol rather than a challenge to the original finding. Formal pre-data collection peer...

The principal aim of the article was to explore the psychological aspects of Facebook (FB) users’ travel-related behavior on FB. This especially refers to the time they post their travel-related information, the type of information they post (photos, videos, comments, etc.), when they watch the photos of other people, are they keen to post the info...

Relying on a recent re-conceptualization of psychosis proneness as a personality trait, its relations with the Big Five traits were investigated in a meta-analytic study. This re-conceptualized trait – named Disintegration – is articulated as a broad, hierarchically organized, nine-faceted behavioral disposition. Disintegration is postulated to be...

This meta-analytic study investigates the relations between Disintegration-like phenomena (i.e., various aspects of symptomatology with the prefix “schizo-,” both at the clinical and the subclinical level) and the traits of the Psychobiological Model of Personality (PBMP). The empirically based benchmark for assuming the distinctness of the trait D...

Psychological research shows that gender identity roles have a certain place in the personality profile of creative people, especially musicians (Kemp, 1996). The aim of the research was to investigate how gender identity and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality characteristics of young music performers relate to their success in music performan...

Numerous educational reforms have been initiated in Serbia since 2000. The aim of this study was to examine education policymaking in Serbia in order to provide policymakers and stakeholders with recommendations on how to minimize pitfalls and increase success of future educational endeavors. In the study, we utilized the education policy cycle heu...

Dve trećine stanovnika Srbije suočava se sa problemom prekomerne telesne težine. Na evropskom nivou gojaznost je proglašena formom invaliditeta, a zabranjena je i diskriminacija gojaznih osoba. Kako je diskriminacija povezana sa negativnim stavovima, cilj ovog istraživanja bio da se ispitaju stavovi adolescenata prema gojaznim osobama i gojaznosti....

U periodu adolescencije slika o sebi tesno je povezana sa doživljajem sopstvenog fizičkog izgleda. Važnost fizičkog izgleda koju promovišu mediji, a naročito ideal mršavosti koji se nameće ženama, dodatno doprinosi senzitivnosti adolescentkinja kada su ove teme u pitanju. Istraživanja takođe pokazuju da su ljudi skloni da kompenzuju osećaj lične ne...

The aim of this research was to validate two aspects of fragile high self-esteem: a combination of contingent and high (explicit) self-esteem and a combination of high explicit and low implicit self-esteem (i.e. incongruent high self-esteem), as well as to examine the relationship between these aspects of fragile self-esteem and narcissism. No conv...

The specificities of general and special school teachers' work might influence their career differently. The aim of the study was to examine the career cycle of these teachers. A survey was conducted on a sample of 120 teachers from general and 95 from special schools. Five stages of career cycle were discovered: induction, competency building and...

Current research in the field of education indicates that the behaviour of the teacher affects significantly the quality and level of the pupil's motivation. The aim of our research was to determine the structure of the motivational style of teachers seen from the pupils' perspective, and to find out whether the pupils' perceptions of the teacher's...

Labeling students with strong academic orientation as “nerds” is very common in educational settings and it can cause a variety of negative consequences, such as decline of academic aspirations and increase in anxiety and loneliness among the labeled students. This research was conducted in order to examine the content and the latent structure of t...

Istraživanja pokazuju da, kada su suočeni sa pretnjom po ličnu vrednost, ljudi kompenzuju ugroženo samopoštovanje omalovažavanjem drugih osoba i potcenjivanjem njihovih kvaliteta. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je da se ispita da li će kod osoba sa uslovnim samopoštovanjem poređenje sa fizički atraktivnim i neatraktivnim osobama dovesti do promene pred...

Cilj ovog istraživanja je da se ispita latentna struktura stereotipa o štreberima i da se utvrdi da li dimenzije ovog stereotipa koreliraju sa socijalnom distancom prema štreberima, roditeljskim pristiskom u pogledu akademskog postignuća i sa pripadnošću kategoriji štrebera. Uzorak je obuhvatio 658 studenata fakulteta sa Univerziteta u Beogradu i N...

Use of social networking sites has become common part of peoples' everyday life. Many research suggest that there is a connection between personality traits and behaviours on social networking sites. This study explored the relationship between dimensions of Facebook (FB) behaviour and personality traits. FB behaviour was measured using FB Behaviou...

Psychological aspects of social networking sites (SNS) have become widely popular scientific topic. Facebook (FB) is by far the most popular and predominant SNS in Serbia, but also worldwide. Yet, review of the literature in the field shows lack of questionnaires for systematic and comprehensive measurement of behaviours on FB. The aim of this stud...

Istraživanje je sprovedeno sa ciljem da se utvrdi da li se korisnici Facebook-a (FB) mogu svrstati u grupe na osnovu korisničkih ponašanja i da li se razlike između tih grupa mogu opisati preko osobina ličnosti. Uzorak je obuhvatio N=804 korisnika FB. Primenjeni su Upitnik ponašanja na FB, Upitnik Velikih pet, Kratka skala traženja senzacija i Skal...

The modern society holds creativity in high esteem while criticising education for not investing sufficient efforts in accomplishing this valuable goal. Teachers' opinions about the manifestation and development of creativity can significantly affect the extent to which they recognise the importance of creativity and are prepared to encourage it in...

Skoriji teorijski i empirijski nalazi ukazali su na to da visoko samopoštovanje nema uvek visoko adaptivnu vrednost, te da je, osim razlika u nivou (visoko ili nisko), neophodno uzeti u obzir i kvalitativne razlike u samopoštovanju. Stoga se u literaturi sve češće spominju „sigurno“ i „krhko“ visoko samopoštovanje. Maladaptivni oblik visokog samopo...

Defensive behaviour after failure, such as denial of the responsibility for own achievement, reduces person’s openness for further learning and development and, thus, is undesirable in pedagogical practice. General causality orientations success-fully predict defensive behaviours after failure. Autonomous causality orientation implies behaviours mo...

Teorije samoosnaživanja (eng. self-enhancement) i samopotvrđivanja (eng. self-verification) vodeće su teorije koje se bave uticajem samopoštovanja na kognitivne i afektivne reakcije na evaluaciju ličnosti. Pripisivanje neuspeha spoljašnjim, a uspeha unutrašnjim faktorima jedna je od kognitivnih strategija koje ljudi koriste da bi održali pozitivnu...

Kada se suoče sa ličnim neuspehom ljudi često reaguju izrazito odbrambeno ne bi li se tako zaštitili od implikacija koje neuspeh može imati za sliku o sebi. Pretnja po osećaj lične vrednosti je veća ukoliko je neuspeh doživljen u domenu koji je za osobu važan. Prema teoriji samodeterminacije ljudi se međusobno razlikuju u stepenu odbrambenosti pona...

A study was conducted to ascertain what the dominant self motivation is like – self-verifying or self-enhancing? – in a situation when a person is faced with a negative evaluation of a central personality characteristic. Previous research suggested that affective reactions should follow the pattern predicted by self-enhancement theory by which all...

The study was conducted to ascertain if implicit self-esteem (ISE) and explicit self-esteem (ESE) would influence affective reactions on success and failure. The sample of N=118 students of psychology performed computer-based intelligence test and received bogus negative and positive feedback. Pretest and posttest measurements of three negative aff...

The research was conducted to explore the convergent and divergent validity of implicit self esteem (ISE) measured by Implicit Association Test (IAT) and Name-Letter Preference (NLP) technique. Aside from these two instruments, the Global Self-Esteem Scale – a measure of explicit self-esteem (ESE), and Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI-16) we...

U radu su prikazane dve studije, prva namenjena proveri internih metrijskih karakteristika i konstruktne validnosti nove skale za procenu autoritarnosti, UPA-S, a druga pokušaju da se doprinese odgovoru na pitanje da li je autoritarnost osobina ličnosti ili sindrom stavova. Ovaj 47- ajtemski instrument predstavlja kombinaciju stavki dve skale – ADO...

Social Networking Sites (SNS) representing a virtual space for communication and development of social relations attract more and more users. The Social Compensation Theory, intending to explain this form of communication, suggests that socally anxious, introverted and diffident persons can find SNS communication particularly interesting in order t...