The aim of this study was to examine the associations of Slovenian emerging adults’ individuation... more The aim of this study was to examine the associations of Slovenian emerging adults’ individuation characteristics (in relation to mother and father) with career goals and career optimism. We were interested in contributions of age, gender, certainty of study choice, and individuation dimensions when predicting intrinsic/extrinsic career goals and career optimism. The participants provided self-reports on the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults, the Career Goals Scale and the Career Futures Inventory. The results showed that age did not relate to emerging adults’ career goals; however, older students reported lower career optimism than their younger counterparts. Furthermore, certainty of study choice was the most important predictor of career optimism, and, along with gender, of intrinsic career goals. Emerging adults who reported higher connectedness with both parents and self-reliance in relation to mother had higher intrinsic career goals, while self-reliance in relation to mother was positively associated with stronger optimism about an individual's future career. Fear of disappointing both parents significantly contributed to the prediction of extrinsic career goals and optimism, while parental intrusiveness did not add significantly to the prediction of the two measured career outcomes. The study confirmed the correlational effects of positive and negative aspects of individuation on career outcomes in emerging adulthood.
Development of the short version of the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (ITEA-S) and its measurement invariance across Slovene and U.S. emerging adults.
In this study we developed a short version of the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (ITEA–S)... more In this study we developed a short version of the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (ITEA–S) and tested its measurement invariance across Slovene and U.S. samples of emerging adults. The item reduction process resulted in retaining 21 out of 36 items. The content analysis of the retained and discarded items revealed that the ITEA–S adequately measures the 5 individuation domains (support seeking, connectedness, intrusiveness, self-reliance, and fear of disappointing the parent). In our samples, the ITEA–S demonstrated evidence for construct validity and its 5 scales showed adequate internal consistency. The scale scores were also meaningfully associated with the relevant demographic variables in both countries, as well as the three scales of the Psychological Separation Inventory (Hoffman, 1984; the Slovene sample), and the scales of the Differentiation of Self–Revised questionnaire (Skowron & Schmitt, 2003; the U.S. sample). The results of multiple group confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesis of full metric and partial scalar invariance for both ITEA–S forms (in relation to mother and father) across the 2 country groups.
Some factors affecting the decision on non-mandatory vaccination in an influenza pandemic: comparison of pandemic (H1N1) and seasonal influenza vaccination
In Slovenia, the adapted Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test (FT-SI) has been used to assess the comm... more In Slovenia, the adapted Freiburg Monosyllabic Word Test (FT-SI) has been used to assess the communication function in an audiology patient. To measure the speech recognition threshold (SRT), the ascending procedure that is applied in FT-SI may be very time consuming. The aim of our study was to compare several adaptive procedures with the FT-SI ascending procedure. Based on the analysis of comprehensibility and commonness of stimuli used in FT-SI, the most appropriate words were selected and used in three adaptive procedures: two variants of a descending procedure, both recommended by the ISO 8523-3 standards for measuring an SRT, and the staircase method. On a normal-hearing sample (N = 36 in test measurement and N = 24 in retest measurement), comparable SRTs were obtained with the adaptive procedures, whereas the FT-SI ascending procedure yielded slightly higher SRTs. When a selected pool of words was used in FT-SI, SRTs became more comparable to the results of the adaptive metho...
The effect of motion type, acceleration, and direction of motion on oculomotor pursuit and overtracking responses after the disappearance of a moving target
Some factors affecting the decision on non-mandatory vaccination in an influenza pandemic: comparison of pandemic (H1N1) and seasonal influenza vaccination
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2009
The paper deals with the recording and the evaluation of a multi modal (audio/video) database of ... more The paper deals with the recording and the evaluation of a multi modal (audio/video) database of spontaneous emotions. Firstly, motivation for this work is given and different recording strategies used are described. Special attention is given to the process of evaluating the emotional database. Different kappa statistics normally used in measuring the agreement between annotators are discussed. Following the problems of standard kappa coefficients, when used in emotional database assessment, a new time-weighted free-marginal kappa is presented. It differs from the other kappa statistics in that it weights each utterance's particular score of agreement based on the duration of the utterance. The new method is evaluated and the superiority over the standard kappa, when dealing with a database of spontaneous emotions, is demonstrated.
This article presents the construction, exploratory dimensionality analysis (Study 1), and valida... more This article presents the construction, exploratory dimensionality analysis (Study 1), and validation (Study 2) of the self-report and 36-item Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (ITEA). It is the first instrument to measure different aspects of individuation (in relation to mother and father) specifically in emerging adulthood. The construct validity of the final 5-factor structure (Support Seeking, Connectedness, Intrusiveness, Self-Reliance, and Fear of Disappointing the Parent) was satisfactory. The results of multigroup analyses demonstrated that the factor structure is stable across male and female emerging adults for ITEA assessments in relation to both mother and father. The ITEA scales also show good internal consistency and concurrent validity against Emotional, Conflictual, and Functional Dependence scales of the Psychological Separation Inventory.
Objective This exploratory study examined the role that illness representations and personality p... more Objective This exploratory study examined the role that illness representations and personality play in the various adherence behaviors of adolescents diagnosed with essential hypertension. Methods The participants were 97 hypertensive adolescents. They completed self-report questionnaires pertaining to (1) demographic and medical data, (2) adherence, (3) illness representations, and (4) personality. Medical charts were also assessed. Results The hierarchical regression analyses indicated that: (1) conscientiousness, agreeableness, and perception of treatment effectiveness account for a significant amount of variance in general adherence; (2) perception of treatment effectiveness is predictive of overall specific adherence; and (3) for adherence to most of the individual specific regimen recommendations, illness representations are more predictive compared to personality dimensions. Conclusions The personality domains of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and illness representation dimensions (treatment control, concern, and emotional burden) were shown to predict adherence behaviors in adolescent hypertensive patients differentially. Study implications and limitations are discussed.
The study investigated associations of Slovene emerging adults' age, gender, living situation, ro... more The study investigated associations of Slovene emerging adults' age, gender, living situation, romantic relationship, and employment status with aspects of individuation in relation to mother and father. Controlling for demographic variables and transitional markers of adulthood, we further explored the contribution of individuation measures to individuals' perceptions of achieved criteria for adulthood and life satisfaction. The participants provided self-reports on the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, and the list of Achieved Criteria for Adulthood. Age and living out of parental home were positively associated with self-reliance in relation to both parents, whereas female gender was related to higher levels of connectedness and seeking parental support. Along with age and involvement in a romantic relationship, connectedness and self-reliance predicted adulthood criteria attainment and life satisfaction. The results support the models of individuation that emphasize growing autonomy and retaining connectedness to parents as pathways towards personal adjustments. Ó
The aim of this study is to compare the outcome of 3 different approaches to pyloromyotomy in a l... more The aim of this study is to compare the outcome of 3 different approaches to pyloromyotomy in a large single institution series.
Vpliv teksture predmeta, teksture podlage in nagiba vektorja gibanja na zaznavanje pospeenega priblievanja predmeta
integration, 2004
Povzetek: Ljudje nenatančno zaznavamo pospeenost gibanja v čelni ravnini in v globini. Dosedanje... more Povzetek: Ljudje nenatančno zaznavamo pospeenost gibanja v čelni ravnini in v globini. Dosedanje raziskave zaznavanja pospeenega gibanja v globini so gibanje v globini simulirale zgolj z večanjem ali manjanjem relativne velikosti predmeta. Namen raziskave je bil zato preučiti vpliv ...
Perceived velocity decreases with time: The case of interrupted motion
When a target is moving in the frontal plane with constant velocity, the perceived velocity decre... more When a target is moving in the frontal plane with constant velocity, the perceived velocity decreases with time. This phenomenon could be explained with Bachmann et al's concept of perceptual acceleration (2003 Consciousness and Cognition 12 279 - 297). Here, we examined how ...
Comparison of three psychophysical methods for measuring displacement in frontal plane motion
Review of Psychology, 2007
Saetak Displacement is a phenomenon related to representations of dynamic stimuli. The final pos... more Saetak Displacement is a phenomenon related to representations of dynamic stimuli. The final position of a target moving in the frontal plane is not remembered correctly, but is instead shifted in the direction of the motion. Previous studies of displacement have mostly used the ...
The bias in acceleration perception for simulated motion in depth
For motion in the frontal plane, acceleration is perceived with bias, ie motion having constant v... more For motion in the frontal plane, acceleration is perceived with bias, ie motion having constant velocity is perceived as decelerated (Runeson, 1974 Psychological Research 37 3 - 23). We examined whether such a bias can also be observed with motion in depth. In the first ...
This paper presents our work on recording a multi-modal database containing emotional audio and v... more This paper presents our work on recording a multi-modal database containing emotional audio and video recordings. In designing the recording strategies a special attention was payed to gather data involving spontaneous emotions and therefore obtain a more realistic training and testing conditions for experiments. With specially planned scenarios including playing computer games and conducting an adaptive intelligence test different levels of arousal were induced. This will enable us to both detect different emotional states as well as experiment in speaker identification/verification of people involved in communications. So far the multi-modal database has been recorded and basic evaluation of the data was processed.
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tested its measurement invariance across Slovene and U.S. samples of emerging adults. The item
reduction process resulted in retaining 21 out of 36 items. The content analysis of the retained and
discarded items revealed that the ITEA–S adequately measures the 5 individuation domains (support
seeking, connectedness, intrusiveness, self-reliance, and fear of disappointing the parent). In our samples,
the ITEA–S demonstrated evidence for construct validity and its 5 scales showed adequate internal
consistency. The scale scores were also meaningfully associated with the relevant demographic variables
in both countries, as well as the three scales of the Psychological Separation Inventory (Hoffman, 1984; the
Slovene sample), and the scales of the Differentiation of Self–Revised questionnaire (Skowron & Schmitt,
2003; the U.S. sample). The results of multiple group confirmatory factor analyses supported the
hypothesis of full metric and partial scalar invariance for both ITEA–S forms (in relation to mother and
father) across the 2 country groups.