Tamara Dzamonja

University of Belgrade · Department of Psychology

This work is the result of a qualitative study that investigated experiences and quality of life of participants from different age groups during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Serbia and the ensuing state of emergency. The research aim was to examine the changes in lifestyle, taking into consideration the life context before the pandem...

Transgender people are one of the most stigmatized social groups. They are experiencing institutional stigma and stigma on the individual psychological level through different medical and legal procedures specific to their group. Though gender confirmation surgeries have been performed in Serbia for more than three decades, research on experiences...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging experience for many professionals worldwide. Healthcare workers in particular had to invest a lot of efforts to cope with the stressors related to professional challenges, which can adversely affect their mental health and cause burnout syndrome. However, it is important to explore mental health outcomes of t...

Apstrakt: Iako se žene u Srbiji i dalje suočavaju s različitim oblicima diskriminacije u porodičnim i partnerskim odnosima, one sebe retko opažaju kao žrtve takvog po-stupanja. Umanjivanje opažene rodne diskriminacije pomaže da kratkoročno očuvaju pozitivnu sliku o sebi, ali ih istovremeno sprečava da reaguju na činove diskriminacije i dugoročno za...

Numerous studies show that civic education (CE) courses can be successful in increasing students’ political knowledge, but that their effects in changing students’ values are rather limited, reasonably because values do not change as a result of mere “exposure” to CE “messages”. It is noted that only specific “messages”, related to the context (ope...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relevance of participatory class climate for the acceptance of democratic values among Serbian students who attend the civic education courses and to analyse the moderating role of students' socioeconomic status. The data collected in the CE evaluation study (N = 1073, 42% of boys) were used. Multiple regress...

styles (withdrawal and action) were assessed with modified Coping with discrimination check list (Mc Neilly et al., 1996). Regression analyses showed that belief in a just world does not moderate the relation between experienced and perceived gender discrimination. However, it does moderate the effect of gender discrimination on self-esteem, and th...

Background/Aim. Burnout syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that occurs as a response to chronic interpersonal stressors at work. It is manifested by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a sense of reduced personal accomplishment. The aim of the study was to examine the correlation between burnout syndrome, individual-psychological factor...

Predmet ovog istraživanja je evaluacija statusa predmeta građansko vaspitanje (GV) i sticanje uvida u eventualne promene statusa kroz poređenje sa rezultatima slične studije sprovedene deset godina ranije (2009. godine). U istraživanju je učestvovalo 1073 učenika/ca, 36 nastavnika/ca i 20 direkto-ra/ki iz 20 srednjih škola sa cele teritorije Srbije...

Nacionalna evaluativna studija o predmetu Gradjansko vaspitanje

The aim of this research was to examine the levels of burnout syndrome dimensions in special education teachers and correlations with some socio-demographic characteristics, job characteristics, and levels of assertiveness. The research included 225 special education teachers from Serbia (82% were women, 18% were men, with the average age of 42.51...

The main aim of the research is gaining more detailed knowledge on how children with disabilities and their families use the community based services developed and supported by the project, as well as on the circumstances in which they live, in order to improve the practices of social protection according with the social inclusion policy.

Background: Families that have children with disabilities face numerous difficulties related to the lack of services support, social isolation and poverty in Serbia. Mostly due to the prolonged effect of social and economic crisis, there are insufficient adequate and diverse community-based services for those families. Aims: The aim of the study...

Background/Aim. Adolescence is characterized both by a large developmental potential and by an increased risk for emergence of different forms of psychopathology. International classifications of mental disorders recognize the psychopathology of adolescence at the age of 15?18 through the categories of conduct disorders and some forms of addiction:...

The aim of the study was to analyse preferable gender characteristics based on underlying gender stereotypes among the students from the University of Belgrade. The specific objective was to explore the prescribed value and the structure of those stereotypes. The participants were 261 students (69.7% female) from the University of Belgrade, 55.2% f...

Marko Milanović Centar za istraživanje i razvoj društva IDEAS Branislava Popović-Ćitić Univerzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju Istraživanje se bavi utvrđivanjem specifičnih dimenzija ličnosti adolescenata " internet-zavisnika " , ličnosti njihovih roditelja i karakteristika porodičnog funk-cionisanja s ciljem bolje...

The goal of the study was to identify specific personality characteristics of adolescents who have a problem with 'internet addiction', as well as the characteristics of their parents' personalities and of thefunctioning of their families. The sample consisted of 60 adolescents of both genders, agedbetween 15 and18. There were 30'internet addicts'...

Personality inventories for assessment and study temperament and character of adolescents, an age critical for the finalisation of both normal and pathological mental development, have not been specifically developed. In this paper, we introduce a new personality inventory based on Cloninger's Psychobiological model of personality to assess adolesc...

We empirically evaluated indexes derived from the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS) and the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) that are used for the assessment of psychotic functioning in schizophrenia. We compared the Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI) and the Ego Impairment Index (EII-2) with their revised versions: Thought and Percep...

Contemporary programs that have been implemented in order to help unemployed reduce time for finding a job are based on clear theoretical background and empirical evidence. In addition to providing opportunities to learn necessary skills, these programs also incorporate important psychological components which will be addressed in this paper. The g...

This paper presents a model of the implementation of mediation in cases where a power disbalance between partners exists. The model includes relevant theoretical concepts which are important for understanding of violence phenomenon in the family, and the contemporary approaches to the work on balancing unequal power in relationships. In creating th...

The study compares characteristics of Serbian and American children on the dimensions of temperament and character on the Junior TCI (JTCI) for assessment of 9 to 13 year olds - based on Robert Cloninger's Psychobiological model of temperament and character. Given the lack of assessment tools for this age group, the goal of the present study was to...

The paper presents research results regarding Psychobiological model of personality by Robert Cloninger. The primary research goal was to test the new TCI-5 inventory and compare our results with US normative data. We also analyzed the factor structure of the model and the reliability of basic TCI-5 scales and sub-scales. The sample consisted of 47...

The study presents theoretical and empirical comparison of the three indexes in Rorschach Comprehensive System that were developed for psychotic functioning assessment: the Schizophrenia Index (SCZI), the Ego Impairment Index (EII) and the Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI). In spite of the conceptual and nominal differences, these indexes significant...

In this study, two leading "Western" models of personality developed in the United States are tested in Eastern Europe, specifically in Yugoslavia. First, the models were tested psychometrically, for their construct validity and cross-cultural applicability. Next, these Western personality models were used to explore the underlying structure of axi...