Papers by Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić
Dijete, vrtić, obitelj : Časopis za odgoj i naobrazbu predškolske djece namijenjen stručnjacima i roditeljima, Dec 12, 2012
What Pre-school Children Think about Happiness, Hope, Gratitude, Wisdom, Justice, and Optimism? The Positive Conceptual Thinking Development Study
The purpose of this research was to explore how pre-school children define and understand positiv... more The purpose of this research was to explore how pre-school children define and understand positive psychology concepts such as happiness, wisdom, hope, justice, gratitude, and optimism. The research included 100 children (4-7 years old) in Croatia. After receiving consent from parents, an individual structured interview with children was applied. Qualitative and quantitative methodology was used in data processing. It was found that children had the most comprehensive definitions of happiness, but defined the concept of justice the least. Furthermore, although the concept of gratitude recorded the highest answer frequency, the concept of happiness in relation to gratitude was accurately defined. Gratitude was followed by hope, justice, wisdom, and optimism. Boys gave significantly more answers considering happiness, wisdom, justice, and optimism, while older children offered significantly more answers considering the concept of happiness.
International journal of psychology and behavioral sciences, 2017
Optimal cognitive functioning is an essential prerequisite of an effective learning. However, dur... more Optimal cognitive functioning is an essential prerequisite of an effective learning. However, during the learning process, in addition to basic cognitive processes and abilities and from the perspective of intrapersonal factors, the personality of the learner significantly influences on his/her learning outcomes. Prior psychological research demonstrated significant differences in teaching methods and learning outcomes between people who have high and low levels of extraversion. This moderating effect of personality is especially visible in certain learning models, such as the operant conditioning. Taking into account the biological basis of cognition and personality, the question is whether it is possible that different personality traits have the effect on the operant conditioning of brainwaves (neurofeedback)? In other words, is it possible to explain the various neurofeedback training results by the moderation effect of personality traits, especially extraversion? Moreover, some critical validation studies have indicated that extraversion might be the cause of various findings on the effectiveness of neurofeedback, since it has not been controlled in these studies. Therefore, the main focus of this review is to present the research proposal for studying the possible extraversion effect in neurofeedback.
The Relationship between Social Desirability and Visual Evoked Potentials: Implications for Personality Measurement
Cognitie, Creier, Comportament, Jun 1, 2015
ABSTRACTThe main aim of this research was to explore the biological bases of social desirability ... more ABSTRACTThe main aim of this research was to explore the biological bases of social desirability with possible implications for future personality measurement. Fifty four female psychology students (Mage = 20 years) participated in the research. Social desirability was measured with Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire - Revised version (Eysenck, Eysenck & Barrett, 1985). The evoked brain potentials (N1, P2, N2, P3 & SW) were elicited by a standard visual oddball paradigm, in two measuring trials for each subject, using two occipital and two parietal electrodes. The results revealed a positive correlation between subjects' results on the social desirability subscale and visual N2-P3-Sw-latency on occipital and parietal electrodes. These findings confirmed earlier research results about prolonged EP-latencies during information processing in giving more socially desirable answers during self-rating at personality questionnaires. Consequently, current findings generate possible implications for improving personality assessment methodology.KEYWORDS: event-related potentials, social desirability, students, personality assessment, implicationsINTRODUCTIONSocial desirability is defined as humans' tendency to "present themselves as good individuals", which is especially pronounced in highly desirable situations (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1994). As it was elaborated within Eysenck's personality theory (1967) this characteristic reflects a stable personality factor that indicates the extent of a person's social conformity. Therefore, in this study social desirability and social conformism are used as equivalent. Besides the definition of social conformity as a stable personality characteristic, it has also been characterized as a major difficulty when it comes to predicting outcomes in high-stakes situations. Specifically, social conformity also reflects individuals' potential to fake their responses in self-rated personality questionnaires (Mesmer-Magnus, Vieswesvaran, Deshpande, & Joseph, 2006). Consequently, when trying to measure it, participants' tendency to conform could result in various methodological problems. Therefore, it can have two facets: as a stable personality trait and as a form of dissimulation. Although one could say that it is more than useful to investigate the electrophysiology of social desirability as personality trait, it is even more valuable to use these findings as a possible solution to deal with dissimulation effects in personality measurement.The theoretical and empirical framework of the relation between social desirability and personality assessment improvement is not novel and it represents a main focus in previous studies (e.g., Paulhus, 1984; Holtgrawes, 2004; Kulas & Stackhowski, 2012; Mentus & Opacic, 2013). All studies ask the major question: "Does lying on personality questionnaires take time?". In the contemporary literature, there are three theoretical models that have the potential to provide the answer to the previous question. The first model, the Response editing model (Holtgraves, 2004), emphasizes that lying takes time, while the second one, the Response Reflection model (Kulas & Stackhowski, 2012) emphasizes that actually giving an honest answer takes more time. The most recent model is an Interactive model, which states that time for answering on the personality questionnaire depends on the individuals' cognitive schema (Mentus & Opacic, 2013). If individuals' answers on specific questions or tasks are in accordance with that schema, the answering time is shorter, and vice versa. Some studies have confirmed this interactive model (e.g., Mentus & Opacic, 2013), yet these studies did not take into consideration the biological bases of social desirability and its relationship to the response latencies of evoked potentials (EP) in order to determine all relevant factors of social desirable answering in personality measurement. …
Frontiers in Psychology
As children and young people today face ever increasing social, emotional and mental health chall... more As children and young people today face ever increasing social, emotional and mental health challenges, schools, as one of the primary systems in children’s lives, are called to broaden their agenda and help to address these challenges. This paper discusses the evaluation of a school-based, universal mental health promotion programme developed recently for the European context. The programme provides a universal curriculum from early years to high school, aiming to promote social and emotional learning and resilience and prevent social, emotional, and behavioural problems in children and adolescents. A total of 7,789 students (and their teachers and parents) from kindergarten to high school across 6 countries in Europe were recruited from 434 classrooms in 124 schools, making use of cluster sampling. A quasi-experimental longitudinal design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme on students’ outcomes by comparing the groups’ outcomes within times (pre-test vs. post-...
Higher education students’ achievement emotions and their antecedents in e-learning amid COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country survey
Learning and Instruction
Kreativnost, otpornost i ličnost kao važne karakteristike suvremenog odgajatelja
Učitelj - između tradicije i suvremenosti, May 18, 2021
Prilagodba djeteta u jaslicama: Studija slučaja
Zajedno rastemo - Suradnički odnosi u ranom i predškolskom odgoju i obrazovanju, 2021
Cijeli niz istraživanja potvrđuje povezanost između osobina licnosti, samoregulacije ucenja i aka... more Cijeli niz istraživanja potvrđuje povezanost između osobina licnosti, samoregulacije ucenja i akademskog postignuca, iako ove povezanosti nisu jednostavne. Osobine licnosti važni su prediktori objasnjenja samoregulacije ucenja, a i jedni i drugi važni su prediktori objasnjenja objektivnog i subjektivnog akademskog postignuca. U ovom istraživanju osnovni cilj je bio ustanoviti kako osobine licnosti (prema Big Five modelu), kognitivne strategije samoregulacije ucenja, strategije suocavanja sa skolskim neuspjehom i strategije traženja socijalne podrske, razlicita obrazovna razina i rod ucenika (kao prediktori) objasnjavaju objektivno i subjektivno akademsko postignuce (kao kriteriji). U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 457 ucenika 6. i 8. razreda osnovne skole i 2. razreda srednje skole iz 4 osnovne i 3 srednje skole u RH. Rezultati pokazuju da su osobine licnosti (osim Neuroticizma), kao i adaptivne strategije samoregulacije ucenja i strategije suocavanja sa skolskim neuspjehom umjereno po...
From semi-profession to the profession? Starting of graduate studies and the status of the kindergarten teacher profession in Croatian society
Tema priloga je analiza statusa odgajateljske struke u hrvatskom drustvu te problematizacija utje... more Tema priloga je analiza statusa odgajateljske struke u hrvatskom drustvu te problematizacija utjecaja podizanja obrazovanja na master razinu na tu poziciju. U prvom su dijelu teksta ocrtana promisljanja o profesijama unutar najznacajnijih socioloskih perspektiva (funkcionalizma, neo- veberijanske, neomarksisticke teorije i feminizma) s posebnim naglaskom na odgajateljsku struku. U drugom dijelu analizira se pozicija i status odgajateljske struke u kontekstu proturjecnih procesa modernizacije i retradicionalizacije hrvatskog drustva. Treci je dio empirijsko istraživanje stavova studentica o pokrenutoj diplomskoj razini studija za afirmaciju odgajateljske struke. Anketnim upitnikom, koji je imao 59 pitanja (motivi upisa studija, kompetencije koje diplomski studij osigurava, socio-demografski podaci i otvorena pitanja o pozitivnim/negativnim dojmovima sa studija), anketirana je 71 studentica prve generacije studija. Ispitanice smatraju iznimno važnim pokretanje diplomskog studija za af...
Cilj je ovoga rada bio istražiti koji važni cimbenici u organizacijskoj klimi, kulturi, sustavima... more Cilj je ovoga rada bio istražiti koji važni cimbenici u organizacijskoj klimi, kulturi, sustavima i strukturama utjecu na aktivnost pojedinca u procesu ucenja. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo ukupno 85 ucitelja iz 14 osnovnih skola Primorsko-goranske županije. Primijenjena Skala dimenzija organizacije koja uci i organizacijskih ishoda skracena je i adaptirana inacica A forme Upitnika o dimenzijama organizacije koja uci (Marsick i Watkins, 2003). Ova skala mjeri sedam dimenzija organizacije koja uci na individualnoj, timskoj i organizacijskoj razini te također financijske rezultate i rezultate ucenja kao dio skale organizacijskih ishoda. Ucitelji su najvise procjene dali na organizacijskoj razini i to na dimenziji osiguravanje strateskog vodstva za ucenje, a najniže na individualnoj razini, te unutar nje na dimenziji promicanje propitivanja i dijaloga. Korelacijske analize su pokazale znacajne pozitivne korelacije između svih sedam dimenzija organizacije koja uci. Utvrđeno je da s pove...
Četvrti Festival diplomskih radova studenata Učiteljskog fakulteta u Rijeci
Psychological topics, 2020
Series of studies have confirmed the significant correlation between personality traits, selfregu... more Series of studies have confirmed the significant correlation between personality traits, selfregulation of learning and academic achievement, although these relations are not simple. Personality traits are important predictors of self-regulation of learning, and both are significant predictors of the explanation of objective and subjective school achievement (school satisfaction). The main objective of this research was to examine the extent to which demographic characteristics of students (age and gender), personality traits, the (meta)cognitive strategies of self-regulation of learning, the coping strategies with school failure and the strategy of seeking social support (as predictors) explain objective and subjective school achievement (as criteria). Total of 457 students from 6th and 8th grade of elementary school and 2nd grade of high school from four elementary and three secondary schools in the Republic of Croatia participated in the study. The results show that objective sch...
Hrvatska Revija za Rehabilitacijska Istraživanja, 2017
Results on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) represent psychological adjustment,... more Results on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) represent psychological adjustment, well-being, and mental health of children and youth. The SDQ contains 25 items, 10 of which reflect strengths, and 15 of which reflect difficulties, in children’s behaviour. Based on its content, five different subscales can be generated: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, and prosocial behaviour. The aim of this study was to test the factor structure and reliability of this instrument. Twenty-nine preschool teachers in this study assessed the strengths and difficulties of 416 preschool children of both genders (241 boys and 220 girls), aged between 1.5 and 7.5 years (M = 5.00, SD = 1.17). After obtaining informed consent from preschool teachers, parents, and managers of randomly chosen kindergartens in Primorsko-goranska County in Croatia, preschool teachers rated the children’s behaviour on the SDQ. A confirmatory factor analysis using principal compon...
Redefining the education of preschool teacher: analysis of faculty experience of the first generation of university graduate study
U radu se analiziraju rezultati evaluacije novog studijskog programa od strane prve generacije st... more U radu se analiziraju rezultati evaluacije novog studijskog programa od strane prve generacije studenata diplomskog sveucilisnog studija. Pokretanje diplomskog sveucilisnog studija ranog i predskolskog odgoja i obrazovanja odgovor je na promijenjenu ulogu odgajatelja u suvremenom izvanobiteljskom institucionalnom kontekstu. Odgajateljska je profesija danas shvacena kao složeno zanimanje koje implicira refleksivno misljenje, kontinuirani profesionalni razvoj, autonomiju, odgovornost, kreativnost istraživanja i osobnu prosudbu. Primjenom kvalitativne metodologije analizirana su pozitivna i negativna iskustva studentica prve generacije diplomskog studija. U skladu s ocekivanjima studentice su u evaluaciji navele veci broj pozitivnih i dragocjenih iskustava nego onih negativnih. Najvažnijim pozitivnim iskustvom odgajateljice smatraju uspostavu socijalnih mreža koje omogucuju razmjenu iskustava i podizanje kvalitete njihova rada.
Kompetencije budućih odgajatelja iz područja prijelaza i prilagodbe: Analiza studijskih programa i implikacije za promjene
Glazba I Dijete S Posebnim Potrebama
U ovoj e-publikaciji prikazani su sažeci diplomskih radova studenata Uciteljskog fakulteta u Rije... more U ovoj e-publikaciji prikazani su sažeci diplomskih radova studenata Uciteljskog fakulteta u Rijeci, te prezentacija slikovnice.
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997, 1999, 2001) presents the measure of... more Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997, 1999, 2001) presents the measure of children and youth psychological adjustment, well-being and mental health and it has been widely used. It contains of 25 items within ten of them reflect strengths and 15 of them reflects difficulties in children’s behaviour. Based on that it is possible to generate five different subscales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems and prosocial behaviour. Regarding the importance of measures development in the field of developmental psychopathology in our country, the main aim of this study was to test the factor structure and reliability of this instrument.
Odnos Doživljenih Emocija I Vrste Računalnih Igara Kod Djece Predškolske I Školske Dobi
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