Vladimir Mihić

• University of Novi Sad

Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective effo...

Misrecognition describes everyday practices that deny the autonomy of minority members to define who they are and instead impose identities that may diverge from their own sense of self. Being misrecognized is particularly relevant for the historically marginalized Roma people, whose national belonging is repeatedly questioned despite centuries of...

Sustainable human resource management is gaining importance in organizations due to its role in developing a sustainable work environment and well-being. This paper discusses the relationship between employee perceptions of sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction in 54 countries. We propose that sustainable HRM is positively asso...

Education of ethnic minorities in Serbia (and not only here) is often connected to the question of whether ethnic minorities should be educated only in their native language, and, even more importantly, for the field of intergroup relations, and whether this education should be integrated into the mainstream education and in which way. The Serbian...

Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflec...

Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated ge...

To define intergroup reconciliation is still a dynamic topic in social-psychological research, and lay people are seldom included in the study. Given that post-conflict processes in the context of Bosnia and Herzegovina are still marked by ethnic divisions, the main aim of our research has been to explore how Serbs and Bosniaks define reconciliatio...

Not many studies have dealt with how Serbs from Serbia see Croats and Bosniaks in the light of the wars from 1990s. In our study, we used a quasi-experimental approach to assess the type of stereotypes provoked in Serbs, and their relationship to social distance and the national identity. The sample consisted of 66 participants of Serbian ethnicity...

The idea of ambivalence in gender prejudice, as one of the modern forms of prejudice, has been in the spotlight of social psychologists for the last two decades, sometimes even more than most of the well-explored, traditional forms of prejudice such as ethnic or race prejudices. The central problem of this paper is the level of ambivalent gender pr...

Osnovni problem istraživanja je kako izgledaju stereotipi adolescenata prema pojedinim etničkim grupama koje žive na teritoriji Vojvodine, kao i kakva je direkcija tih stereotipa. Uzorak je činilo 804 učenika završnih razreda osnovnih škola i sva četiri razreda srednjih škola sa teritorije Vojvodine. Kao instrument za utvrđivanje stereotipa prema e...

Inkluzivno obrazovanje u Srbiji uvedeno je 2009. godine. Istraživanja koja su se bavila ispitivanjem stavova učitelja, kao glavnih nosilaca inkluzije u našoj zemlji,vrlo su retka, a brojna istraživanja u inostranstvu ukazala su na značaj učitelja i važnost njihovih pozitivnih stavova prema inkluziji za socioemocionalni i akademski razvoj dece. Ovim...

In January 2006, the Law on juvenile offenders and legal protection of mi¬nors came into effect. By the provisions of substantive-criminal law, the Law has foreseen diversionary measures and alternative sanctions. After successful piloting of implemen¬tation of alternative sanctions for juvenile offenders, the work on social rehabilitation of juven...

In this paper, we explored the in-group and outer-group social distance towards sex workers and its relations to authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and self-respect. The sample consisted of 92 participants from the general population and 45 female sex workers (age 18-50). The instruments used were the Bogardus social distance scale, the...

Prikazano istraživanje je imalo za cilj ispitivanje bračnog zadovoljstva u kontekstu podele posla u okviru porodice. Ispitane su razlike u bračnom zadovoljstvu partnera u zavisnosti od podele posla u domaćinstvu i stavova bračnih partnera prema rodnim ulogama. U istraživanju je učestvovalo 446 ispitanika, odnosno 223 partnera iz brakova u kojima ob...

span>Ovaj rad bavio se utvrđivanjem faktora koji doprinose nastanku i snazi negativnih stavova prema pripadnicima tuđih grupa, odnosno, konkretno, rodnih predrasuda. S obzirom na specifičnosti većeg istraživanja iz kojeg je ovaj rad i nastao, uzorak je bio donekle selekcionisan (u uzorak nisu ušli pripadnici romske nacionalne zajednice, kao ni ispi...

U radu su prikazane dve studije, prva namenjena proveri internih metrijskih karakteristika i konstruktne validnosti nove skale za procenu autoritarnosti, UPA-S, a druga pokušaju da se doprinese odgovoru na pitanje da li je autoritarnost osobina ličnosti ili sindrom stavova. Ovaj 47- ajtemski instrument predstavlja kombinaciju stavki dve skale – ADO...

Researches of the correlates of the national identity are plentiful both in Serbianand foreign literature. However, in the past decade or so, a new social identitystarts to make its way into the researches of the social psychologists-Europeanidentity or the sense of belonging to the Europe and the Europeans. This paper dealswith the relation betwee...

The aim of this study was to find out if national and European identity exist simultaneously, or are they mutually exclusive. Citizens from two European countries, not yet members of the European Union, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, participated in this study. Participants from Zagreb and Novi Sad, 400 from each town, were selected according t...

The sample of the research presented in this paper consisted of 575 children age 10 and 11 from four of Novi Sad`s primary school. 58 of them were Roma and the rest were Serbs, Hungarians, Croats, etc. The paper deals with the social distance toward the six ethnic groups (Roma, Serbs, Croats Hungarians, Slovaks and Ruthenians), as well as stereotyp...

The aim of this study was to find out if national and European identity exist simultaneously, or are they mutually exclusive. Citizens from two European countries, not yet members of the European Union, Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro, participated in this study. Participants from Zagreb and Novi Sad, 400 from each town, were selected according t...

The aims of this research are the establishment of the level and the structure of European and national identity of the citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, as well as the establishment of relations between socio-demographic characteristics of the subjects (regional belonging, age, level of education) and European identity. The sample consisted of 28...

This paper deals with political attitudes of voters in the Vojvodina region and some correlates of these attitudes. Sample was 302 people, all voters of either six of the parties currently in the Serbian parliament (DSS, SRS, SPS, G17+, DS or SPO), or three of the other major parties in Vojvodina (LSV, PSS or SVM). Instruments used were: political...

The research presented in this paper is a part of the project "Condition, Factors and Development of European Identity in Serbia and Montenegro" which is financed by the Ministry for Science and Protection of Environment of the Republic of Serbia. The goal of this research is to determine the relation between the achievement motive and locus of con...

The research presented in this paper is a part of the project “Condition, Factors and Development of European Identity in Serbia and Montenegro”, which started in 2002 with the financial support of the Ministry for Science and Protection of Environment of the Republic of Serbia. The research studied the relation between certain kinds of social iden...

The main objectives of this paper were to determine what physical and psychological traits are evaluated as characteristic auto and heterostereotypes for the defined social groups - law students, psychology students, art academy students and the students of physical education, as well as to determine whether the differences in auto- and heterostere...

This paper aims to answer whether an ethnic distance in young children, age 11-12 (third and fourth year of primary school)s, as well as if their parents can be determined and what are the levels of that distance. Main techniques used were Bogardus` scale of social distance (somewhat modified for the children) and a questionnaire for the parents de...

The subject of this paper is the comparison of the results of the survey of public opinion before and after the change of the regime in Serbia as of 5th October 2000. Both researches (May 2000 and June 2001) were field researches, reaching for households, using random sample of the citizens of Serbia, without Kosovo. The obtained results show that...

Research is dealing with the following: Do men and women differ in level or structure of the achievement motive? Are level of education and age significant factors in differentiation of young concerning the level of achievement motive? Do such values as collectivism/individualism and conservativism/radicalism correlate with the person's tendency to...

Nivo muzičke kulture studenata vaspitačkih škola koji umnogome utiče na njihove kompetencije kao budućih stručnjaka, često je uslovljen postojanjem prethodnog muzičkog obrazovanja, kao i nekim aspektima kulturno-pedagoške klime porodice. U ovom radu prikazani su rezultati istraživanja koje je za cilj imalo da ispita povezanost prethodnog formalnog...

Istraživanjem se razmatrao značaj personalnih korelata kvaliteta bliskih odnosa u odraslom dobu. Postavilo se pitanje u kojoj meri osobine ličnosti i afektivna vezanost doprinose njihovom kvalitetu. Istraživanje je realizovano 2015. godine u Novom Sadu na uzorku od 400 ispitanika oba pola, uzrasta od 19 do 51 godine, putem mernih instrumenata: Inve...

For the past few decades, European integration has been one of the primary issues not just in politics, but also in the social sciences. This issue becomes even more important when research takes place in countries where the population is ambivalent in their support for the EU and European integration. The main aims of the study presented in this p...