Ingrid Brdar

• PhD
• University of Rijeka

This article presents the development of a socially interactive industrial robot. An Avatar is used to embody a cobot for collaborative industrial assembly tasks. The embodied covatar (cobot plus its avatar) is introduced to support Flow experiences through co-regulation, interactive emotion regulation guidance. A real-time continuous emotional mod...

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...

Worldviews are culturally derived assumptions that influence individual and collective behaviors, values, and representations of reality. The study of mental functions is not exempt from this influence, as reflected in scientific theories, methodological approaches, and empirical studies. Despite acknowledging the interplay of mental processes with...

The Meaning in Life Questionnaire assesses presence of and search for meaning in life. Although the questionnaire has shown promising psychometric properties in samples from different countries, the scale’s measurement invariance across a large number of nations has yet to be assessed. This study is aimed at addressing this gap, providing insight i...

Cover Caption: The cover image is based on the Review Article Physical and mental well‐being of cobot workers: A scoping review using the Software‐Hardware‐Environment‐Liveware‐Liveware‐Organization model by Fabio A. Storm et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/hfm.20952

The concept of harmony was neglected by scientific psychology until recent years, when the growing interest in the investigation of well-being, happiness and the good life brought this dimension to the attention of researchers. Within the literature on human positive functioning, harmony was variously defined and operationalized as a component of w...

The present scoping review investigated the current state of the art concerning factors affecting physical and mental health and well‐being of workers using collaborative robots (cobots) in manufacturing industries. Each identified factor was classified using the SHELLO (Software‐Hardware‐Environment‐Liveware‐Liveware‐Organization) conceptual model...

Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, and character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these two styles with the BenCor in 22 countries. The present study extends the previous one by including further countries (a total of 25 countries in 29 samples with N...

Problem statement: Satisfaction and enjoyment in everyday experience, work and leisure is important for understanding subjective well-being. However, people experience different levels of pleasure, meaning, and engagement during specific activities. Research questions: The study investigated the effect of activity type (related or unrelated to lear...

We are pleased to announce the inaugural volume of the Journal of Well-Being Assessment, a new journal dedicated to the advancement of the well-being assessment theory, research and practice across domains and cultures. The journal aims at including different assessment topics and theories within the common topic of well-being. A new journal on wel...

The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) across five European countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia; (2) to investigate mean differences in life satisfaction in these five countries; (3) to examine associations between SWLS an...

Recently, two forms of virtue-related humor, benevolent and corrective, have been introduced. Benevolent humor treats human weaknesses and wrongdoings benevolently, while corrective humor aims at correcting and bettering them. Twelve marker items for benevolent and corrective humor (the BenCor) were developed, and it was demonstrated that they fill...

In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction. However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the available literature, this study explored lay definitions of happiness across nations and cultural dimensions, analyzing their components and relationship with particip...

According to the hedonic perspective, happiness is defined as subjective well-being, which refers to cognitive and affective evaluations of one's life. The vast majority of researchers use PANAS scales to measure the affective component of subjective well-being. These scales were constructed to assess high-arousal affects. Whereas some cultures fav...

This study examined sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood using a mixed methods approach. Participants (N = 666) from seven Western countries reported sources of life meaning, and why they were meaningful. They rated their perceived meaningfulness of 10 life domains and completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Family and personal...

This study examined sources and motives for personal meaning in adulthood using a mixed methods approach. Participants (N = 666) from seven Western countries reported sources of life meaning, and why they were meaningful. They rated their perceived meaningfulness of 10 life domains and completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Family and personal...

This chapter aimed to explore perceived happiness and meaningfulness experienced by 666 adults in the spirituality/religiousness life domain across seven Western countries. Participants concurrently evaluated spirituality and religiosity with regards to their perceived levels of happiness and meaningfulness. Results showed significant crosscountry...

Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati vremensku povezanost raspoloženja i zadovoljstva životom. U istraživanju sudjelovalo je 30 studentica, a korištena je metoda uzorkovanja iskustva. Svaka ispitanica procijenila je svoje trenutno raspoloženje (20 čestica PANAS upitnika), te trenutno zadovoljstvo (jedna tvrdnja). Procjene su prikupljane 5 puta dn...

The present study explored whether participants can be classified into groups according to their intrinsic and extrinsic life goals and how these groups differ in satisfaction of basic psychological needs and well-being. Four questionnaires were administered to 835 college students: Aspiration Index (Kasser and Ryan, 1996), The Basic Psychological...

This study investigated possible gender differences in the relationship between character strengths and life satisfaction. Two questionnaires were administered to 818 students (488 females and 330 males), Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) (Peterson & Seligman, Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification, 2004) and...

This paper illustrates a new project developed by a cross-country team of researchers, with the aim of studying the hedonic and eudaimonic components of happiness through a mixed method approach combining both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Data were collected from 666 participants in Australia, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and...

We investigated relations among strengths of character in 881 students from Croatian universities. We also examined links between strengths and various well-being indices. Our conceptualization was based on the Values in Action classification system with 24 strengths organized within six superordinate virtues (Peterson & Seligman, 2004). A factor a...

Istraživanja su pokazala da su osobine ličnosti povezane s afektivnom i kognitivnom komponentom subjektivnom dobrobiti (Diener i Lucas, 1999). Neuroticizam i ekstraverzija su najviše povezane s pozitivnim i negativnim emocijama. Budući da kognitivna i afektivna komponenta subjektivne dobrobiti imaju različiti odnos prema mnogim konstruktima, ovim s...

Subjective well-being depends on the fulfillment of basic psychological needs for relatedness, autonomy and competence (Deci & Ryan, 2000), but it is also linked with personality (DeNeve & Cooper, 1998). Personality traits and satisfaction of basic psychological needs have both been shown to predict subjective well-being, but the two sets of predic...

Sreća se najčešće istražuje kao subjektivna dobrobit koja se odnosi na osobnu kognitivnu i emocionalnu evaluaciju života. Istraživanja pokazuju da intrinzični ciljevi (osobni razvoj ili samoprihvaćanje, povezanost s ljudima i doprinos zajednici) pridonose subjektivnoj dobrobiti jer omogućavaju zadovoljavanje osnovnih psiholoških potreba. Sretniji s...

Happiness is most frequently investigated as subjective well-being, referring to people's cognitive and emotional evaluations of their lives. Studies have shown that intrinsic life goals, like self-acceptance, affiliation and community feeling, contribute to subjective well-being because they enable the fulfillment of basic psychological needs. Hap...

Past research has revealed that relative importance a person places on extrinsic life goals as oposed to intrinsic ones is related to lower well-being. But sometimes it is more important why a goal is being pursued than the content of the goal. Materialistic aspirations will not decrease people's well-being if they help them to achieve basic financ...

The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in different countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH (Ruch and Titze, GELOPH〈46〉, University of Düsseldorf, 1998; Ruch and Proyer, Swiss Journal of Psychology 67:19–27, 2008b) were translat...

According to Seligman (2002) there are three paths to happiness: the life of pleasure, the life of engagement and the life of meaning. Several lines of research have shown that investment in, or success at, so-called intrinsic goals is associated with enhanced well-being. On the other hand, investment in and/or success at extrinsic goals do not enh...

The aim of this study was to examine classification of subjects into groups considering different coping patterns when confronted with poor school grade, and to compare those groups in some characteristics (school success, self-esteem, anxiety, extracurricular activities and consumption of some drugs). 270 high school students (75 males and 192 fem...

The present study examined the relationship between goal orientation, coping with school failure and school achievement. Two questionnaires, Goal Orientation (Niemivirta, 1996a) and The School Failure Coping Scale (Rijavec & Brdar, 1997), were administered to 1057 high school students (aged from 15 to 17 years). The first goal of this study was to...

The present study examined the relationship between coping with school failure, emotional competence, personality, goal orientation, school achievement, and cognitive stress appraisals. Two hypotheses were tested: 1) emotion-focused coping can be best predicted from personality variables and emotional competence; 2) problem-focused coping can be be...

Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1991; Sheldon & Kasser, 1998), the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic life goals, satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and well-being was explored in a sample of 439 freshmen from four different faculties. Three models were examined by structural equation modeling: for goal importan...

Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1991; Sheldon & Kasser, 1998), the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic life goals, satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and well-being was explored in a sample of 439 freshmen from four different faculties. Three models were examined by structural equation modeling: for goal importan...

The aim of this investigation was to determine whether pupils could be classified into groups based on their leisure activities and to study the relationship between leisure activities and coping strategies that pupils use when confronted with academic stress. The School Failure Coping Scale and Leisure Time Activities Questionnaire were administra...

The aim of this investigation was to determine whether pupils could be classified into groups based on their leisure activities and to study the relationship between leisure activities and coping strategies that pupils use when confronted with academic stress. The School Failure Coping Scale and Leisure Time Activities Questionnaire were administra...

The aim of the study was to explore whether students can be classified in groups according to their coping strategies in dealing with school failure and to assess relationships between coping strategies and various components of self regulated learning. The sample consisted of 470 high school students (15 to 18 years old). The students responded to...

The present study is an attempt to investigate the parents' perceptions of their children's coping strategies with school failure. The School Failure Coping Scale was administered to 387 elementary school students aged from 10 to 15 years (241 girls and 146 boys) in order to assess their coping strategies with school failure. The same scale was adm...

A total of 401 Croatian university students completed a translation of the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale. Scores were compared with those of a sample similar in age and sex composition from Omaha, Nebraska (N = 242). The American respondents scored significantly higher on the element of self-described humor creativity. Factor analyses of in...

The present study describes the development of a self-report measure of coping with school failure for elementary school children. In the pilot study a list of 56 items was collected on a sample of 75 subjects aged from 9 to 14. The items were administered to 275 elementary school students of the same age (139 girls and 136 boys). Factor analysis o...

The present study describes the development of a self-report measure of coping with school failure for children and adolescents. A list of 56 items had been collected in the sample of 142 subjects aged from 9 to 18 years. The items were administered to 500 elementary and high school students. Factor analysis of the data produced seven coping strate...

The frequency and variability of make-up usage (powder blush, eye-shadow, mascara, lipstick, facial cream, liquid make-up) of female university students were related to some aspects of self-concept (self-esteem, perception of incompetence, masculinity-femininity, social desirability, anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, private self-consciousness)...

The frequency and variability of make-up usage (powder blush, eye-shadow, mascara, lipstick, facial crean1, liquid make-up) of female university students were related to some aspects of self-concept (self-esteem, perception of incompetence, masculinity-femininity, social desirability, anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, private self-consciousness...

Happiness is most frequently investigated as subjective well-being, referring to people’s cognitive and emotional evaluations of their lives. Studies have shown that intrinsic life goals, like self-acceptance, affiliation and community feeling, contribute to subjective well-being because they enable the fulfillment of basic psychological needs. Hap...