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• Doctor of Psychology
• Associate Professor at Fakultet Za Pravne i Poslovne Studije Dr Lazar Vrkatić

The objective of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS) on an adolescent sample from Serbia. The study involved 494 participants (58.6% females)-266 elementary school students (53.8%; aged from 12 to 15) and 228 (46.2%; aged from 16 to 18) high school students. CFA...

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, people around the world are facing various challenges in maintaining their well-being, which can be compromised due to risk of illness and harsh measures of social distancing. As proposed by the Self-Determination Theory, basic psychological needs are essential nutrients of well-being. The aim of this study was to e...

Significance Communicating in ways that motivate engagement in social distancing remains a critical global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study tested motivational qualities of messages about social distancing (those that promoted choice and agency vs. those that were forceful and shaming) in 25,718 people in 89 countries...

Unlabelled: The present study sought to contribute to self-determination theory by examining the nature of adolescents' academic motivation profiles defined while considering its global and specific nature. The construct validity of these profiles was examined by considering their replicability across samples of upper elementary (n = 781) and seco...

Research into the role of identity orientations (the relative importance an individual places on different personal and social attributes and characteristics when defining her or his identity) in adolescent mental health is extremely limited. Furthermore, the potential mechanisms that might explain the associations between identity orientations and...

Romantic love is a near-universal human experience. However, while it transcends cultural boundaries, its intensity varies significantly across individuals and societies. We hypothesize that this variability is partly driven by socio-cultural factors, particularly individualism—a cultural orientation prioritizing personal goals over group interests...

Intuition often guides our thinking effectively, but it can also lead to consequential reasoning errors, underpinning poor decisions and biased judgments. Little is known about how people globally self-correct such intuitive reasoning errors and what enhances their correction. Defying prevailing models of reasoning, recent research suggests that pe...

Intuition often guides our thinking effectively, but it can also lead to consequential reasoning errors, underpinning poor decisions and biased judgments. Little is known about how people globally self-correct such intuitive reasoning errors and what enhances their correction. Defying prevailing models of reasoning, recent research suggests that pe...

The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) assesses two distinct dimensions of meaning in life: presence of meaning and search for meaning. The MLQ is the most widely used instrument for measuring meaning in life, yet there is a limited variety of validity evidence on the originally proposed two-factor confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) solution. In t...

The Big Five personality traits have been consistently shown to predict subjective well-being (SWB) among undergraduate students and adults. However, their role in adolescent SWB, as well as their unique contributions over sociodemographic variables, remains understudied. Furthermore, most studies on the relationship between personality traits and...

The role of self-construal in subjective well-being (SWB) among adolescents is poorly understood. Therefore, the main goal of the present study was to investigate the relationships between self-construal (i.e. four identity orientations: personal, relational, public, and collective) as conceptualized within the tetrapartite model of the self and ad...

The present research evaluated evidence for structural and convergent validity and measurement invariance across gender of the Aspects of Identity Questionnaire-IV (AIQ-IV), which is designed to measure four identity orientations: Personal, Relational, Public, and Collective. We recruited two independent samples of Serbian adolescents aged 15–19 ye...

Data from 83,423 parent reports of temperament (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulatory capacity) in infants, toddlers, and children from 341 samples gathered in 59 countries were used to investigate the relations among culture, gender, and temperament. Between-nation differences in temperament were larger than those obtained in similar stud...

This research aimed to enhance understanding of the associations between identity orientations and adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) by testing a theoretical model that integrates the tetrapartite model of the self and the self-determination theory. The main goals of the present study were twofold: (1) to investigate the relationships between...

The purpose of this paper was to examine the relationship between the basic psychological needs related to satisfaction and frustration with various types of self-handicapping behaviors. The sample consisted of 518 adults (Mage = 35.87, SD = 10.36), 108 of which (20.8%) declared themselves as male. The instruments used were the Basic Psychological...

The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g., sex, sociosexuality, gender inequality, parasitic...

The current study examines whether the prevalence of COVID-19 cases and cultural flexibility correlate to one's use of acceptance coping across 26 cultures. We analyzed data from 7476 participants worldwide at the start of the first outbreak from March 2020 to June 2020. Results showed that cultural flexibility moderated the relationship between CO...

Love is a phenomenon that occurs across the world and affects many aspects of human life, including the choice of, and process of bonding with, a romantic partner. Thus, developing a reliable and valid measure of love experiences is crucial. One of the most popular tools to quantify love is Sternberg’s 45-item Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45), which...

The aim of this research was to test whether students' school level (primary school or secondary school level) has a significantly moderating impact on relationships between students' perception of teachers' motivating styles (autonomy, structure and involvement support) and students' academic motivation (intrinsic, extrinsic, introjected motivatio...

S obzirom na značajne promene koje su nastale u celom svetu usled pandemije virusa Kovid-19, kao i dužinu trajanja onlajn modaliteta izvođenja nastave, na koji su škole, fakulteti i druge obrazovne ustanove morale da se preusmere, u radu istražujemo kakosu univerzitetski nastavnici jezika, književnosti i kultura u AP Vojvodini odgovorili na najveći...

Considering the significant changes that have occurred throughout the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the duration of the online teaching modality, we will investigate how university teachers of Language, Literature and Culture in Autonomous Province of Vojvodina responded to the biggest challenge of today’s education. For the purpos...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures...

Love is a worldwide known phenomenon that affects many aspects of human life, including considering a romantic partner with whom to bond. Thus, developing a reliable and valid measure of love experiences is crucial. One of the most popular tools to test love levels is Sternberg's 45-item Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45), which measures three love com...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in t...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This crosscountry , preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted p...

Резиме: У овом раду приказаћемо како и у којој мери је промењена универзитетска настава италијанског језика као изборног и обавезно-изборног предмета у онлајн-контексту, наметнутим у условима пандемије вируса корона. Прелазак са наставе у учионици на онлајн-наставу (енг. pure e-learning, потом blended learning) у синхроном и асинхроном облику знача...

According to the Eudaimonic Activity Model (EAM) eudaimonia concepts (like vitality) lead to subjective well-being (like positive and negative affect), via satisfaction of the basic psychological needs. Since the Self-Determination Theory and organismic hypothesis propose that basic psychological needs are environment dependent, the aim of this stu...

According to the Self-Determination Theory, subjective vitality as a significant indicator of well-being, represents the subjective feeling of energy and aliveness. Originally, the Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS) is a one-dimensional 7-items scale, but further validation studies of the SVS yielded different factor-solutions (unidimensional solution...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about...

Cilj ovog rada bio je identifikovanje potencijala dimenzija ličnosti operacionalizovanih HECAXO modelom u predikciji pripadnosti specifičnim obrazacima promene pozitivnog i negativnog afekta tokom pandemije virusa kovid 19 u Republici Srbiji. U istraživanju je učestvovalo 472 odrasla ispitanika sa teritorije Republike Srbije, starosti od 17 do 81 g...

Gađenje predstavlja impuls da se povučemo od štetnih nadražaja. Ono ima svoju evolutivnu svrhu, predstavljajući deo bihejvioralnog imunog sistema čoveka. Prirodne otrove, po svom ukusu, ljudi procenjuju kao gorke odnosno gadne, a prljavštinu i manifestacije zaraznih bolesti kao gadne za gledanje. Razvojem ljudske psihe gađenje je preraslo svoju izv...

Cilj istraživanja bio je da se utvrde doprinosi karijerne adaptabilnosti, osobina ličnosti i socio-demografskih karakteristika u objašnjenju predanosti organizaciji kod zaposlenih. Istraživanje je realizovano na prigodnom uzorku od 390 ispitanika zaposlenih u državnim (34%) i privatnim (66%) preduzećima u Srbiji (42% muškog pola i 58% ženskog pola)...

We have surveyed the general population of Serbia during the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting emergency state. These are the results of the fist 4 weekly surveys. The research is still in progress.

This project involves more than 30 researchers from 25 countries in more than 15 languages. This is a brief presentation highlighting current phase of data collection with the measures we've been using and overall data collection sites and expected sample sizes. I've also provided some brief expected results or anticipated findings. I am still Data...

The aim of this research was to examine whether psychological variables which make up basic dimensions of personality and self-esteem distinguish competitors in combat sports from competitors in team sports. The research included 149 respondents, aged 19 to 27 years. The Self-Esteem Scale questionnaire was used to measure self-esteem. The BFI inven...

The aim of this research was to examine whether psychological variables which make up basic dimensions of personality and self-esteem distinguish competitors in combat sports from competitors in team sports. The research included 149 respondents, aged 19 to 27 years. The Self-Esteem Scale questionnaire was used to measure self-esteem. The BFI inven...

Basic psychological needs as mediators between teachers' motivating styles and students' academic motivation The aim of the research was to check the effects of teachers' motivating styles-autonomy, structure and relatedness support-on students' academic motivation by testing mediatory influence of basic psychological needs. Academic motivation was...

Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je da se utvrde efekti različitih načina rada učitelja na učenička postignuća na testovima znanja iz matematike. Kvantitativni deo istraživanja podrazumevao je analize podataka o načinima rada učitelja dobijenih u TIMSS 2015 i u njega je bilo uključeno 192 učitelja/ice iz 160 osnovnih škola u Srbiji i 4036 učenika. Kvalit...

The aim of this study was to explore the role of personality traits as predictors of perfectionism and to determine the existence of gender differences in the ways perfectionism is manifested. The study was conducted on 302 respondents aged 18 to 57. The Perfectionism Inventory scale (PI) used to measure perfectionism assesses lower-order perfectio...

Uticaj interpersonalnih stilova roditelja i motivacionih stilova nastavnika na samopoštovanje adolescenata 1 Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je da se ispitaju uticaji interpersonalnih stilova roditelja i motivacionih stilova nastavnika, zasnovanih na Teoriji samoodređenja, na izgradnju samopoštovanja adolescenata. U istraživanje je uključeno 535 mladih...

Uzrast i pol kao moderatori odnosa između motivacionih stilova nastavnika i akademske motivacije učenika u kontekstu prirodno-matematičkih predmeta Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je da se proveri da li uzrast i pol moderiraju odnose između motivacionih stilova nastavnika i akademske motivacije učenika u kontekstu prirodno-matematičkih predmeta. Na uzor...

Nastavnici, glavni nosioci vaspitno-obrazovnih procesa, predstavljaju značajan faktor postignuća učenika. Sagledavanje načina na koji nastavnici doprinose kvalitetu učenja može imati implikacije za poboljšanje rada nastavnika i škole uopšte. Cilj ove sekundarne analize TIMSS 2015 podataka je da se otkrije kako karakteristike nastavnika i njihova na...

Spolne i uzrasne razlike u akademskoj motivaciji Pod okriljem teorije selfdeterminacije razvijen je hijerarhijski model koji ističe značaj kontekstualnog mjerenja motivacionih konstrukata. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je da se ustvrde spolne i uzrasne razlike u akademskoj motivaciji za učenje prirodno-matematičkih (PM) i društveno-humanističkih predm...

Teorija bazičnih psiholoških potreba pretpostavlja da svaka individua ima tri urođene psihološke potrebe-za autonomijom, kompetencijom i povezanošću. Zbog problema u merenju datih dimenzija nastala je nova koncepcija koja zadovoljenje i osujećenje tri potrebe posmatra kao zasebne dimenzije. Stoga, cilj ovog istraživanja je provera strukture bazični...

According to Self-determination theory, academic motivation plays a crutial role in adolescents' development of self. Results of several exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) from Serbian research using modified version of Academic motivation scale, conducted mainly on younger adolescents, revealed four stable dimensions defined...

According to Self-determination Theory, motivation has an integrative role in socialization and adaptation processes. More autonomous behaviors have more positive outcomes while maladaptive behaviors have more negative ones. Questionnaire designed to examine the relationships between academic motivation and risk behavior was administered to a sampl...

Self-Determination Theory (SDT) postulates several types of academic motivation along the continuum from complete autonomy to amotivation. According to SDT, academic motivation is systematically related to different developmental outcomes. The present research is conducted in order to examine whether autonomously motivated behavior is correlated wi...

Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić Novi Sad, Srbija Samoefikasnost, kao sržni motivacijski konstrukt socio-kognitivne teorije, predstavlja uvjerenje osobe u vlastite mogućnosti za izvršenje i prevladavanje različitih situacija i akcija. Na temelju podataka generiranih na prigodnom uzorku od 1921 ispitanika oba spola (62% ispitan...

Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić Novi Sad Jedno od ključnih pitanja o empirijskim osnovama srodnosti konstrukata, poput samopoštovanja i samoefikasnosti, u ovom istraživanju reformulirano je kao problem zajedničke faktorske strukture čestica instrumenata za mjerenje ove dve osobine. Na uzorku od 1921 ispitanika oba spola (62%...

Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić Novi Sad Višestrukom regresijskom analizom provjerene su pretpostavke o značajnosti spola, dobi, obrazovnog i radnog statusa roditelja i školskog uspjeha, u objašnjenju individualnih razlika u samoefikasnosti adolescenata. Podaci o samoefikasnosti generirani su primjenom upitnika SEQ-C (Self-Ef...

This paper has tested the most frequently used instrument for assessing academic motivation in adolescents, which measures seven aspects of motivation in accordance with the self-determination theory. In the first version of this questionnaire, four factors were singled out in the Serbian sample. Based on the first version, the second one was made...

p>Brojna istraživanja dovode u sumnju validnost školskog uspeha izraženog preko prosečne nastavničke ocene. Sa ciljem rasvetljavanja opravdanosti te sumnje analizirani su podaci iz tri istraživanja u kojima su, pored sociodemografskih karakteristika, registrovani i podaci o ostvarenom školskom uspehu na kraju polugodišta školske godine. Primenjene...

Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić Novi Sad, Srbija U teoriji self-determinacije razlikuje se širok raspon ponašanja od amotivisanog do unutrašnje motivisanog ponašanja ili potpune unutrašnje kontrole. Za razliku od fenomenološkog razumjevanja uzročnosti u okviru teorije self-determinacije, konstrukt lokusa kontrole potkrepljenj...

Vasić, A., i Šarčević, D. (2014). Lokus u fokusu provjere internih metrijskih karakteristika jedne skale za mjerenje lokusa kontrole potkrepljenja IE-FPPS-NS. XIX. dani psihologije u Zadru (knjiga rezimea). LOKUS U FOKUSU PROVJERE INTERNIH METRIJSKIH KARAKTERISTIKA JEDNE SKALE ZA MJERENJE LOKUSA KONTROLE POTKREPLJENJA IE-FPPS-NS 1 U istraživanjima...

Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić Novi Sad Istraživanje alijenacije mladih proisteklo je iz niza provera pretpostavki o strukturi akademske motivacije u adolescenciji prema teoriji samoodređenja u kojima su analizirani i srodni konstrukti poput lokusa kontrole potkrepljenja. Osnovni nalaz u istraživanjima lokusa kontrole potkre...

Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić, Novi Sad Putem hijerarhijske višestruke regresione analize provereni su potencijalni korelati alijenacije kao što su neke sociodemografske karakteristike i bazične osobine ličnosti. U merenju alijenacije korišćena je skala ALIEN20, a za merenje osobina ličnosti upitnik BFI. Podaci su generisan...

Prema teoriji samoodređenja može da se razlikuje širok raspon ponašanja u zavisnosti od stepena izraženosti autonomije od amotivisanog do unutrašnje motivisanog. Rezultati prethodnih istraživanja na domaćim uzorcima govore o postojanju četiri vrste akademske motivacije od kojih je jedna amotivacija, često u teoriji povezana sa pojmom alijenacije. N...

Using the sample of adult respondents from the domestic population we defined the structure of achievement motivation with four relatively independent dimensions of competing with others, perseverance in achieving goals, achieving goals as a source of pleasure and orientation towards planning. Based on this model we constructed the MOP/D scale for...

Originalni naučni rad OD ALFE DO OMEGE I NATRAG Koeficijent α, poznat i kao koeficijent interne konzistencije, jedna je od najc� ešc´e korišc´enih i istovremeno najviše zloupotrebljavanih pro-cena pouzdanosti kompozitnih mernih instrumenata ili testova. Za tumac� enje rezultata dobijenih primenom nekog psihološkog testa naj-važnija zloupotreba koef...

Dušana Šarčević i Aleksandar Vasić Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Lazar Vrkatić, Novi Sad Aleksandra Trogrlić Filozofski fakultet, Novi Sad MERENJE I KORELATI OPŠTEG DOŽIVLJAJA SAMOEFIKASNOSTI U socio-kognitivnoj teoriji (Bandura, 1997) samoefikasnost, kao jedan od važnih izvora motivacije, predstavlja uverenje osobe u sopstvene mogućnost...

Zadovoljstvo životom je jedna od osnovnih komponenata ličnog blagostanja i određuje se kao globalna samoprocena kvaliteta života u odnosu na sopstvene kriterijume, nezavisno od konkretnih vrednosti, normi i ciljeva. Najčešće korišćeni instrument u proceni ove komponente blagostanja je Skala zadovoljstva životom (SWLS – Satisfaction With Life Scale;...