Ivana Pikić Jugović

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• PhD
• Scientific advisor at Institute for Social Research

Studies on early school leaving (ESL) from countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia have been missing from the international early school leaving research map. As a contribution to remedying this, the article reviews research papers and strategic documents from these countries, guided by the general questio...

This study investigates the complex interplay between teacher–student and peer relationships in shaping academic engagement during early adolescence. Drawing on a sample of 6048 students from public elementary schools in Slovenia, the predictive power of these relationships beyond academic achievement was examined. Results revealed that both positi...

Teacher well-being has increasingly become a prominent research topic due to its significant impact on various teacher and student outcomes. This focus is particularly crucial for early career teachers, who often encounter numerous challenges at the beginning of their careers, leading to elevated levels of stress and burnout. Our study aimed to exa...

The paper explores the way in which motivational beliefs, gender roles and stereotypes, cultural resources and practices shape students' choices of university courses in technical sciences and social sciences and humanities. It is grounded in Eccles et al. 's situated expectancy-value theory, with an emphasis on the importance of its gender dimensi...

The chapter is based on summarised findings of both the HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges policy experiment (presented in volume 1) and analyses of current European Union and national policy frameworks (presented in this volume), and elaborates on the conditions ne...

The present paper focuses on teacher’s role in social justice and explores how teachers perceive and react upon diversity and inequality in their classrooms. Through a literature review, we aimed to answer three research questions: 1) what are diversity awareness and critical consciousness in education; 2) why are diversity awareness and critical c...

Teacher empathy is an essential part of teacher professional role, related to various student outcomes. Research have shown that women are more empathetic than men. However, when personality traits or gender roles are included into regression models, gender no longer predicts empathy. Research have pointed to agreeableness and expressiveness as the...

Numerous interventions in the school environment focus on supporting empathy to prevent aggressive behaviour. But when planning interventions inside classrooms one needs to consider the context of each specific classroom, e.g., relationships between students and teachers. Based on the Developmental System Theory and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Syst...

The aim of this study was to explore gender differences in motivation for choosing teaching as a profession and perceptions of men’s demotivation for the choice of this profession. 279 preservice subject teachers from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, filled in the FIT-Choice Scale (Watt & Richardson, 2007) and the Demotivation of Men for Teaching...

The goal of the paper was to investigate, using the qualitative method, how students under¬stand their own process of choosing a study course at the higher education level. This study was grounded in the Eccles et al.’s situated expectancy-value theory. The research questions were the following: 1) What do students recognize as the main reasons for...

Cilj je rada bio ispitati dolazi li do intenzifikacije, konvergencije ili stabilnosti u rodnoj tipičnosti visokoškolskih obrazovnih aspiracija djevojaka i mladića tijekom vremena provedenoga u srednjoškolskom obrazovanju. U istraživanju na uzorku od 13 301 učenika/ca četverogodišnjih i petogodišnjih srednjoškolskih programa ispitana je i uloga sred...

Contemporary educational research and international assessment of knowledge and competences indicate a gender imbalance in students' educational achievement, choices and motivation. This chapter examines the gender perspective of academic motivation and educational achievement and provides an overview of contemporary empirical research on the gende...

The book „Social, emotional and intercultural competencies for inclusive school environments across Europe: Relationships matter“ brings in the insights from the three-year learning process of the HAND in HAND: Social and Emotional Skills for Tolerant and Non-discriminative Societies Erasmus K3 policy experimentation project that targeted the need...

The inclusion of social, emotional, and intercultural competences (SEI) in academic contexts has been supported by international organizations, such as the European Union, the United Nations, and the OECD, since the early 2000s. However, little information is yet available regarding the assessment of these competencies. This paper shares the findin...

Sve veći broj istraživanja ukazuje na važnost socio-emocionalnih kompetencija za brojne životne ishode, poput boljeg akademskog uspjeha, mentalnog zdravlja i kvalitetnijih odnosa s drugim ljudima (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor i Schellinger, 2011). Prema CASEL modelu (Bridgeland, Bruce i Hariharan, 2013), socio-emocionalne kompetencije uključ...

Usredotočena svjesnost (eng. mindfulness) je pojačana svjesnost usmjerena na sadašnji trenutak, na vlastite emocije, misli ili tjelesne senzacije, te uključuje njihovo prihvaćanje takvima kakve jesu, bez prosuđivanja (Kabat-Zin, 2003 ; Maloney i sur., 2016). Pregled literature pokazuje da sudjelovanje u programima usredotočene svjesnosti povećava z...

This chapter provides an introduction to psychology of gender, including theoretical perspectives, basic concepts, current trends, and methodological approaches applied in research in psychology of gender. The first section of the chapter, theoretical review, includes theories of socialization such as social learning theory and cognitive-developmen...

This chapter presents research which explores if high-school students, who have felt same-sex attraction and those who have not, differ in their experiences of violence in schools and in perceived support from their teachers. It also encourages new perspectives on how schools can transform into safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students to support their posit...

The inclusion of social, emotional, and intercultural competences (SEI) in academic contexts has been supported by international organizations, such as the European Union, the United Nations, and the OECD, since the early 2000s. However, little information is yet available regarding the assessment of these competencies. This paper shares the findin...

Empirical research and statistical data from Croatia and many other countries indicate that girls and boys differ in their educational aspirations and choices, interests in particular educational domains, as well as in self-efficacy and self-esteem for different activities and educational outcomes. This research is framed within the expectancy-valu...

In recent years, Croatia, like other EU countries, has been facing increasing numbers of migrants and asylum seekers. At the same time current research indicates predominantly negative attitudes towards immigrants in Croatia (Franc, Šakić, & Kaliterna-Lipovčan, 2010 ; Čačić Kumpes, Kumpes, & Gregurović, 2012 ; Gregurović, Kuti, & Župarić-Iljić, 201...

One of the key ingredients of social, emotional and intercultural competencies, which contributes significantly to a positive and inclusive classroom climate is empathy (Zorza, 2015). Empathy enables us to understand others and feel connected with them (Eisenberg, et al., 1996). High ability of empathy, which includes cognitive (e.g. taking the per...

Socio-emocionalne kompetencije su sklop vještina koje omogućuju osobi da prepozna vlastite emocije i njima upravlja, uvažava perspektivu drugih, ostvaruje dobre međuljudske odnose i odgovorno donosi odluke (Jennings, 2011). Dobro razvijene socio-emocionalne kompetencije nastavnika/ca važne su za njihovu osobnu dobrobit i nošenje sa stresom, kao i z...

Istraživanja pokazuju da razlozi za odabir nastavničke profesije mogu biti vrlo različiti, od intrinzičnih vrijednosti, preko želje za doprinosom društvu, do više ekstrinzičnih razloga, kao i da su povezani s različitim karakteristikama budućih nastavnika/ca (npr. osobinama ličnosti, ciljnim orijentacijama) (Jugović i sur., 2012 ; Marušić i sur., 2...

The HAND in HAND project started with in-depth and systematic state-of-the-art analyses in the partner countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Sweden, Germany, Denmark) and wider (the EU and international) in relation to SEI competency measurements or the SEI programme development, resulting in three comprehensive catalogues to be used during the project lif...

The goal of the research was to explore the role of motivation, gender roles and stereotypes in the explanation of students’ educational outcomes in a stereotypically male educational domain: physics. Eccles and colleagues’ expectancy-value model was used as a theoretical framework for the research. The research sample included 736 grammar school s...

Many studies of teacher motivation have been conducted in different contexts over time. However, until fairly recently there has not been a reliable measure available to allow comparisons across samples and settings. This has resulted in an abundance of findings which cannot be directly compared or synthesised. The FIT-Choice instrument offers the...

The first part of the chapter gives an overview of teacher education and teacher professional development in Croatia, together with an empirical review of motivations for the teaching profession in Croatia, whereas the second part presents the results of the new study. The goal of the present study was to explore the role of personality and motivat...

The first part of the chapter gives an overview of teacher education and teacher professional development in Croatia, together with an empirical review of motivations for the teaching profession in Croatia, whereas the second part presents the results of the new study. The goal of the present study was to explore the role of personality and motivat...

The presented research set in a Croatian context explores beliefs about parental/maternity leave and factors explaining these beliefs. The data was gathered on a nationally representative sample of people living in Croatia (N=1000). Participants were asked questions about their beliefs towards parental leave take-up by the mother and the father, th...

The motivation, skills and professional identity of future teachers develop during their initial teacher education. The aim of this research is to assess the differences between first-year and fifth-year student teachers on a number of personality and motivational variables that are indicative of their approaches to learning, using a cross-sectiona...

Current public debates in Croatia brought the issues of gay and lesbian civil rights to the forefront of scientific interest. So far, Croatian researches were mostly interested in the determinants of general attitudes towards gays and lesbians, while research on attitudes toward their civil rights remained neglected. Our study aimed to investigate...

Cilj ovog poglavlja je dati pregled ključnih teorijskih i empirijskih objašnjenja koja odgovaraju na pitanje zašto se djevojke i mladići razlikuju u obrazovnim odabirima i postignućima. Obrazovno područje u kojem su djevojke podzastupljene, imaju lošije postignuće ili slabiju motivaciju, jest područje koje obuhvaća prirodne znanosti, tehnologiju, i...

Teorija očekivanja i vrijednosti Eccles i suradnika (1983) jedna je od ključnih u području psihologije obrazovanja koja se bavi rodnom di-menzijom obrazovnih postignuća, aspiracija i odabira. Pretpostavka ove teorije je da će obrazovne ishode, poput odabira škole ili studija, najbolje predviđati učenička očekivanja uspjeha u tom području te vrijedn...

The article presents the research results on the effects that gender and socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics have on pupils' achievement in mathematics and secondary school choice. The research was conceptually connected to Bourdieu (1977) and carried out on a sample of 693 elementary school pupils from Zagreb and the surrounding Zagr...

The goal of this study was to explore whether gender and religiosity/spirituality affected beliefs about gender roles and same-sex relations in Slovenia and Croatia. Data were gathered on the national representative samples from Croatia (N=1201) and Slovenia (N=1065) from the International Social Survey Programme (module Religion 2008). As expected...

The study presents results founded upon the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice scale validation and the relations between personality traits and motivation for teaching in Croatia. A sample of 374 first-year preservice teachers from three universities participated in the study. Confirmatory factor analysis of the items comprising the Croatian vers...

The goal of this research was to test gender differences in academic achievement in mathematics and in mathematics anxiety, and to explore the factors that explain mathematics achievement and anxiety. According to the expectancy-value theory (Eccles, 1983) educational choices and achievement are determined by motivational variables such as expectan...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of early experience of gender discrimination on the perception of gender inequality and related behavior later in life. According to social learning theories, individuals who experienced unequal treatment in their family of origin should internalize traditional gender roles. On the other hand, bas...

Rad se temelji na rezultatima istraživanja provedenog 2009. godine na uzorku od ukupno 1363 sudionika/ca starijih od 15 godina. Ispituju se elementi percepcije i iskustva rodne diskriminacije tijekom školovanja, kao i stavovi prema rodnoj diskriminaciji u obrazovanju u Hrvatskoj. Rezultati pokazuju da različite društvene skupine imaju različite sta...

Studies on motivation for teaching as a career choice are still relatively rare and lacking clear theoretical framework based on recent theories of motivation and career choice. The aim of this research was to empirically test the model of influences on choice of teaching as a career based on expectancy-value theory of motivation (Eccles, 2005) in...

Cilj ovog poglavlja je izložiti teorijske i empirijske spoznaje o rodnim pitanjima u obitelji kao što su socijalizacija djece u rodno tipizirana ponašanja u obitelji, podjela kućanskih poslova i brige o djeci između roditelja, sudjelovanje partnera/ica u donošenju odluka i upravljanju financijskim resursima obitelji, te zlostavljanje djece u obitel...

Cilj ovog poglavlja je prikazati kako sudionici/e percipiraju ravnopravnost odnosa muškaraca i žena u obitelji u našem društvu, koje oblike rodne diskriminacije su doživjeli u obitelji te kakvi su im stavovi o jednakosti rodnih uloga u obitelji. Istraživanje je provedeno na nacionalno reprezentativnom uzorku od ukupno 1363 sudionika/ca starijih od...

This article examines the gender (in)sensitivity of primary school literature textbooks in Croatia, operationalised as gender balanced authorship of textbooks and texts and a nonstereotypical portrayal of textbook characters. Content analysis was carried out on literature textbooks which are used in the first to the eighth grade of primary schoolin...

The goal of this research is to explain gender differences in the choice of study in a stereotypically male education domain. Previous research has shown that women are underrepresented in the studies of engineering at university and adolescents hold stereotypical feelings about careers in engineering and science, especially physics, as more approp...

The aim of this article is to review the key instruments measuring gender roles and attitudes toward gender roles and to evaluate these scales taking into consideration their psychometric characteristics. The most popular scales are identified; scales measuring attitudes toward gender roles Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS, Spence & Helmreich, 197...

Gender roles which are specific for the period of adolescence are not well defined and there is a lack of instruments to measure this concept, especially in the Croatian social context. Therefore, the aims of this article were to examine what constitutes gender roles in adolescence and to select items for the construction of the Gender Roles in Ado...

The goal of this paper was to examine to what extent can Goffman's concepts of stigma and methods of stigma management (Goffman 1963) be applied to sexual minorities, and to what extent are lesbians, gays and bisexual persons in Croatia stigmatized and how they manage stigma in their everyday lives. The survey was conducted at the end of 2005. Part...

This is the first research conducted within the LGB community in Croatia which investigated the extent and structure of violence against the LGB persons due to their sexual orientation. The goals of the research are as follows: 1. informing Croatian LGB community about their member’s life experiences with homophobic violence, 2. drawing attention o...

Istraživanje je provedeno na području grada Zagreba na uzorku od 703 odrasle osobe ; 373 žene i 330 muškaraca u dobi od 20 do 84 godine. Rodne uloge ispitivane su modificiranim skalama egalitarnosti rodnih uloga, a za ispitivanje zadovoljstva rodnim ulogama osmišljena je skala Likertovog tipa od pet tvrdnji. Namjera ovog rada je istražiti percepcij...