Sara Tement

University of Maribor | UM · Department of Psychology

Quality of life (QoL) assessments are integral to cancer care, yet their effectiveness in providing essential information for supporting survivors varies. This study aimed to elucidate key indicators of QoL among colorectal cancer survivors from the perspective of healthcare professionals, and to evaluate existing QoL questionnaires in relation to...

Quality of life (QoL) assessments are integral to cancer care, yet their effectiveness in providing essential information for supporting survivors varies. This study aimed to elucidate key indicators of QoL among colorectal cancer survivors from the perspective of healthcare professionals, and to evaluate existing QoL questionnaires in relation to...

Negative cognitions and emotions about work during off-job time (e.g., worry about work tasks) can hinder the necessary recovery from work and lead to impaired occupational well-being. To better understand when this negative cognitive–affective involvement arises, we considered simultaneous and interactive effects of external and individual factors...

The present study examined how time pressure at work is transmitted to the home domain and how it affects individuals' (spillover) as well as their partners' relationship satisfaction (crossover). We examined the role of work-related spousal support seeking and proposed that it serves as a mediator of the spillover as well as the crossover process....

In the contemporary 24/7 working society, the separation of work and private life is increasingly turning into an unrealizable ideal. Ruminating about work outside the work context lets work spill over into private lives and affects the dynamics of workers’ private relationships. Although negative work rumination was linked to couples’ reduced rela...

The boundaries between work and private life are gradually blurring. More and more employees are involved in work during leisure time through cognitions, emotions, or behaviors, in both negative and positive ways. This so‐called work‐home integration (WHI) can, on the one hand, hamper the necessary recovery from work and result in strain, but on th...

Sleep plays an essential role in maintaining employees’ health and well-being. However, stressors, such as conflict at work, may interfere with employees’ sleep. Drawing on previous literature on the relationship between conflict at work and sleep outcomes, we proposed a negative relationship between daily conflict at work and physiological changes...

(1) Background: The needs of cancer survivors are often not reflected in practice. One of the main barriers of the use of patient-reported outcomes is associated with data collection and the interpretation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) due to a multitude of instruments and measuring approaches. The aim of the study was to establish an expert...

Although all drivers have in common the task of safe driving, as individuals, they are all unique. Each driver’s uniqueness depends on his or her driving skills and behavior, learning experiences, collision history, stress management, cultural environment, and consequently different expectations and judgments. The fact that these antecedents can be...

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a training course »Living e-Motions« for people living with mental health challenges in the context of their recovery. The course was developed in the joint project of partners from Spain, Estonia, Slovenia and the UK. The curriculum of the course is focused on emotional educa...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of employees faced the challenges of telework. However, the current literature has a limited understanding of the implications of employees’ obligated home-based telework and their satisfaction with the work and home domains. We use boundary theory to examine work and home boundary violations in...

The present study adopts an exploratory, person-oriented approach to investigate possible patterns of work–life interference. We examine work–life interference from a cognitive (i.e., thinking about work), behavioral (i.e., engaging in work-related behavior), and performance perspective (i.e., reduced functionality in private life, or work–life con...

The present study examines the profiles, determinants, longitudinal trends, and consequences of young people's cultural participation in Slovenia and Europe. The book consists of fourteen chapters, the last presenting recommendations for decision-makers based on empirical data analyses in the remaining chapters. The authors investigate the conceptu...

Background The changing landscape of the work environment, which often encompasses expectations of employees being continuously available, makes it difficult to disengage from work and recover. This can have a negative impact on employees’ well-being, resulting in burnout, depression and anxiety, among other difficulties. The current study will tes...

Teachers’ work engagement determines the quality of their teaching and classroom behavior. Understanding the factors that contribute to a high level of teacher engagement is thus crucial to promoting quality educational work. The existing research shows that the perceived characteristics of the working environment are an important factor of work en...

The purpose of the study is the identification of informative elements, provided by the patients, which, according to their criteria, would allow more personalized decisions to be taken and early actions to improve the prevention and early detection of the appearance of late toxicities, recurrence, second neoplasms, sudden death and nutritional or...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of driving demands, neuroticism, and their interaction when predicting driving behavior. More precisely, we strived to examine how driving behaviors (i.e., speeding, winding, tailgating and jerky driving) unfold across low and high driving demands and whether they are contingent on a personal...

Individuals with burnout often report having difficulties with concentration and memory in everyday life. However, empirical evidence on cognitive decline using performance‐based measures is limited and often obtained on small clinical samples. The aim of the present two studies was to investigate cognitive correlates of emotional exhaustion on oth...

While earlier research in mostly Western countries has shown that socioeconomic elites prefer “high-brow” cultural activities (are cultural “univores”), more recent studies indicate they engage in a wide range of cultural activities (are culturally “omnivorous”). There is a lack of studies on cultural profiles and their correlates among youth, espe...

Background: Past research indicated that future orientation might protect against substance use; however, this potential had not yet been examined in the context of a multiple risk factor model that would include different parenting styles and indicators of the material situation. Additionally, past research draws primarily from a limited set of ge...

We aimed to identify longitudinal leisure activity profiles among working adults and their links to recovery experiences and job performance. Leisure activities, recovery experiences, and job performance were investigated in 831 employees using survey data collected in spring 2013 (T1) and 2014 (T2). Through latent profile analysis (LPA) four stabl...

The aim of the present study was to investigate job resources and demands and their relatedness to work flow. In line with the three-dimensional model of flow, absorption, work enjoyment and intrinsic work motivation were explored as separate outcomes. Our predictions were tested using a sample of 293 higher education teachers in Slovenia. The part...

Two studies examined the main and interactive effects of work intensification and work-home segmentation (WHS) on work-to-home conflict (WHC) and enrichment (WHE). In Study 1 (N = 201), work intensification was positively related to WHC and negatively related to WHE. Moreover, WHS, assessed as an organizational supply, was associated with less WHC...

EEG alpha frequency band biomarkers of depression are widely explored. Due to their trait-like features, they may help distinguish between depressive and burnout symptomatology, which is often referred to as "work-related depression". The present correlational study strived to examine whether individual alpha frequency (IAF), power, and coherence i...

This study evaluates the factorial validity and reliability of the Slovenian adaptation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) in a sample of 1436 Slovenian employees of various occupations. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to evaluate alternative structural models of OLBI, and reliability of variant scales was estimated. The results revea...

The aim of the present study was to examine the predictive value of elementary school teachers' workplace characteristics on work stress and burnout. Workplace characteristics were defined as job demands and resources, which were further divided into general and specific, related to work with special education needs students. We examined whether va...

Based on the work-home resources model, the aim of the present research was to test a process model of family-to-work enrichment by examining whether self-efficacy (i.e., personal resource) mediates the relationship between support from one’s family and work engagement. Further, it was assumed that positive affectivity (i.e., key resource) moderate...

The present study examined the levels of self-perceived stress and its sociodemographic and socioeconomic predictors, using data from two representative studies of Slovenian youth carried out in 2010 and 2013 (young people aged 16–27 years). Self-perceived stress was measured with a standard single item widely used in the literature: “How often wou...

This research aims to examine for whom combining work and family/caregiving may be most harmful. Employed parents, elder caregivers, and the sandwiched generation were compared with their coworkers without such responsibilities. Based on the job demands–resources model, we assumed that high job demands/low job resources would relate to work-to-fami...

Although the relation between teacher–student relationship and academic achievement has been addressed in many studies, the reciprocal relations between these two constructs have not been explored sufficiently. The aim of the present study was to test three competing models that hypothesized directionality of influence in relations between teacher...

A four-dimensional typology of work-family balance (WFB) that has previously been reported was tested in four samples: Finnish nurses (n=662), Slovenian nurses (n=667), Finnish health and social care workers (n=1493) and Finnish service sector employees (n=827). Latent profile analyses identified three rather than four types of WFB in each sample....

The present study examines whether negative and positive affectivity (NA and PA, respectively) predict different forms of work-to-family conflict (WFC-time, WFC-strain, WFC-behavior) and enrichment (WFE-development, WFE-affect, WFE-capital) beyond job characteristics (workload, autonomy, variety, workplace support). Furthermore, interactions betwee...

In contrast to common burnout interventions, BOIT is a combination of a person-as well as an organization-directed intervention. It aims at sensitizing supervisors towards burnout. Moreover, it also exceeds the conception of person-directed training by identifying possibilities to intervene as a supervisor. The present paper discusses the training...

Research on the work−family interface has gained importance especially because of the changing composition of the working population and the rapidly changing working environment worldwide. However, there are no appropriate questionnaires available that would address negative and positive experiences of the work−family interface. Therefore, a study...