Following the notion that the psycho-lexical approach in personality psychology is suboptimal if it does not encompass all the word categories potentially personality-relevant (De Raad, 2000), this ...paper describes the development of the Croatian taxonomy of social and reputational descriptors of personality. In the first step of the first study, a master list of social and reputational terms in the Croatian lexicon was constructed. In the second step, the personality-descriptive adjectives that were not captured by the earlier Croatian taxonomy (Mlačić & Ostendorf, 2005) were categorized by seven judges into 13 different types of descriptors, based on the classification system developed by Angleitner, Ostendorf, and John (1990). In the second study, the 532 adjectives that the majority of judges classified as prototypical for the three subcategories of interest of Social and Reputational aspects (social roles and relationships, social effects, and attitudes and worldviews) were used for self-ratings by a large sample of (N=524) University of Zagreb students and for peer-ratings by (N=502) those students’ best acquaintances. Results from factor analyses are presented, as well as the relations of the underlying dimensions of Social and Reputational aspects of personality with two different measures of social attitudes and with the Big-Five factors of personality.
In this article, we describe the factor structure in both self-reports and peer ratings of the items in a cross-cultural Big-Five inventory in Croatia. Using 2 versions of an inventory developed from ...the International Personality Item Pool (
IPIP; Goldberg, 1999
), this is one of the first cross-national analyses of these IPIP measures. A large sample of university students (N = 519) used the translated Croatian version of the 100-item IPIP Big Five inventory to describe themselves, and they were also described by 515 of their acquaintances on the same instrument. In separate analyses of both self-reports and peer ratings, the 100-item and 50-item versions of these IPIP measures showed clear Five-factor orthogonal structures that were nearly identical to the American structure. These factors were strongly related on a one-to-one basis with those derived from a Croatian translation of
Goldberg's (1992)
bipolar rating scales.
Much research has been conducted on the relationship between ideology, voter preferences and electoral choice. However, due to the complexity of the relationship, differences in the understanding of ...ideology and the diversity of political systems, the issue has not yet been fully explored. Current research approaches the problems by monitoring the dynamics of change in the association between ideological position and party preferences over time in Croatia. Data for the study were collected in three surveys conducted in 2003 (N=1248), 2014 (N=1000) and 2016 (N=750) on nationally representative samples of the Croatian adult population. The ideological position of an individual was measured in two ways, using General Social Attitude Scale (SAS_G) and left-right dimension self-placement. Political party preferences were measured by the reported electoral choice in the previous elections and the expressed voting choice in the forthcoming elections. The results of the current study indicate a ste-ady increase in the correlation between ideological factors and political preferences over the years. In the paper we argue that the observed increase in the corresponden-ce between one’s own ideology and the preference for a political party could be an additional indicator of democratic consolidation in transitional and post-transitional countries like Croatia. However, unlike the democratic consolidation taking place on the outside and involving the construction of democratic institutions, this is a change in the minds of citizens who broaden and deepen their political culture, knowledge of ideology, political competence and are becoming more aware of implications of their own electoral decisions.
Terms of abuse as expression and reinforcement of cultures Van Oudenhoven, Jan Pieter; de Raad, Boele; Askevis-Leherpeux, Francoise ...
International journal of intercultural relations,
03/2008, Letnik:
32, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In this study terms of abuse are investigated in 11 different cultures. Spontaneous verbal aggression is to a certain extent reminiscent of the values of a certain culture. Almost 3000 subjects from ...Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Croatia, Poland, Great Britain, USA, Norway, Greece, and The Netherlands were asked to write down terms of abuse that they would use given a certain stimulus situation, and in addition, to give their rating of the offensive character of those terms. A total set of 12,000 expressions was collected. The frequencies of the expressions were established, and the total list of expressions was reduced to 16 categories. Results point to some etic taboos, like sexuality and lack of intelligence. On the other hand clear differences across cultures were found, which cannot easily be explained by existing classifications of national cultures. Explanations are provided in terms of dimensions on which the 11 cultures differ.
AbstractThe aim of this study was to determine the relationship between personality dimensions according to the Big-Five model of personality and the success of high school students in physical ...education. A sample of participants consisted of 100 high school students at the age of 16 and 17. For the measurement of personality dimensions according to the Big-Five model of personality the IPIP100 questionnaire was used, which covers five broad dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability and Intellect. The success of students in physical education was defined by the average score at the half-term in five areas that are standardly scored during that course. Data analyzed by regression analysis indicate that personality dimensions of the Big-Five personality model significantly predict success in physical education. It was established that the male students' success in physical education was significantly predicted by the dimension of Conscientiousness, and negatively by the dimension of Extraversion, while the female students' success in physical education was significantly predicted by the dimensions of Conscientiousness and Emotional stability. The results also indicate that male students achieved higher scores on Extraversion and Emotional stability scales and the female students on Agreeableness scale.Key words: high school students; personality dimensions; physical education. --- SažetakCilj istraživanja bio je utvrditi povezanost osobina ličnosti i uspjeha u nastavi tjelesne i zdravstvene kulture kod srednjoškolaca. Uzorak sudionika sastojao se od 100 učenika srednjih škola dobi od 16 i 17 godina. Kao mjera dimenzija ličnosti prema velepetorom modelu upotrijebljen je upitnik IPIP100, koji obuhvaća pet dimenzija: ekstraverziju, ugodnost, savjesnost, emocionalnu stabilnost i intelekt. Uspjeh u nastavi tjelesne i zdravstvene kulture definiran je prosjekom ocjena na polugodištu iz pet područja koja se standardno provjeravaju u predmetu tjelesne i zdravstvene kulture. Podaci koji su obrađeni regresijskom analizom ukazuju na to da dimenzije ličnosti velepetorog modela značajno predviđaju uspjeh u tjelesnoj i zdravstvenoj kulturi. Kod učenika je utvrđeno da uspjeh u nastavi značajno predviđa dimenzija savjesnosti, a negativno dimenzija ekstraverzije, dok kod učenica uspjeh u nastavi značajno predviđaju dimenzije savjesnosti i emocionalne stabilnosti. Rezultati također ukazuju na to da su učenici postigli više rezultate na skali ekstraverzije i emocionalne stabilnosti, a učenice na skali ugodnosti.Ključne riječi:osobine ličnosti; tjelesna i zdravstvena kultura; učenici
► Research on media violence remains inconsistent and politicized. ► Aggressive personality, but not media violence predicts violent crime among Mexican Americans and English. ► Among Croatians, ...violent video game use predicted fewer violent crimes, but television predicted slightly more violent crimes. ► Depression is predicted by neurotic personality but not media violence exposure. ► Theories linking violent media with violent acts are likely mistaken.
The issue of potential media effects on psychological health of youth and young adults has been debated for decades. Research on media effects has not always been consistent. One issue that has been raised regards whether the relatively modest media effects found in some research might be explained through mediating personality variables. This hypothesis was examined in three samples of young adults: Mexican–Americans (
n
=
232), Croatians (
n
=
455) and English (
n
=
150). Results indicated that trait aggression was a consistent predictor of both violent crimes and depression across samples. General personality variables were less consistent predictors of violence, although neuroticism consistently predicted depression across samples. Media violence exposure did not predict negative outcomes except among Croatians for whom exposure to violent video games predicted fewer violent crimes, and exposure to television violence predicted increased violent crimes.
In this article, we describe the construct validation of a General Social Attitudes Scale
(SAS_G), designed to measure the basic dimensions of social attitudes in both self-reports and
peer-ratings. ...A large sample of Croatian university students (N = 452) used the
SAS_G to describe their own social attitudes, which were also described by 452 of their
acquaintances using the same instrument. All SAS_G subscales showed reasonably high internal
consistency reliability estimates as well as appropriate convergent and discriminant validity based
on self/peer correlations. Separate Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) of both self-reports and
peer ratings yielded five replicable factors and acceptable indices of fit. However, the validation
analyses against lexically based Saucier's
(2008) ISMS instrument showed little convergence, indicating that these two
approaches to general social attitudes scale construction can lead to the identification of
different basic constructs.
To examine the relationship between the Big-Five personality model and autodestructive behavior symptoms, namely Autodestructiveness and Suicidal Depression in two groups of participants: clinical ...and non-clinical adolescents.
Two groups of participants, clinical (adolescents with diagnosis of psychiatric disorder based on clinical impression and according to valid diagnostic criteria, N=92) and non-clinical (high-school students, N=87), completed two sets of questionnaires: the Autodestructiveness Scale which provided data on Autodestructiveness and Suicidal Depression, and the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), which provided data on the Big -Five personality dimensions.
Clinical group showed significantly higher values on the Autodestructiveness scale in general, as well as on Suicidal Depression, Aggressiveness, and Borderline subscales than the non-clinical group. Some of the dimensions of the Big-Five personality model, ie, Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness showed significant relationship (hierarchical regression analyses, P values for β coefficients from 0.000 to 0.021) with Autodestructiveness and Suicidal Depression, even after controlling for the sex and group effects or, when analyzing Suicidal Depression, after controlling the effect of other subscales.
The results indicate that dimensions of the Big-Five model are important when evaluating adolescent psychiatric patients and adolescents from general population at risk of self-destructive behavior.
The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality and the belief in the paranormal. Participants (N=307) were students from the University of Zagreb, ...Croatia. The measures used were the IPIP version of the Five Factor Model questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006) along with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 1988). The factor analysis of the latter yielded three previously unreported paranormal belief dimensions named: General paranormal belief, Traditional religious belief and Rituals and practices. The most significant personality correlations with all three factors were found for Openness, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism, respectively. Results to an extent confirmed previous findings, suggesting that open individuals accept more General paranormal beliefs, while rejecting Traditional religious belief. Conscientiousness displayed an opposite trend being positively related to Traditional religious beliefs and negatively to General paranormal beliefs. Finally, Neuroticism was related to Rituals and practices, i.e. superstitions, divinations and occult control of life outcomes. The relations are however modest ranging from 0.11 to 0.25. Both the novel paranormal belief structure and its significance to personality are discussed within an evolutionary perspective, with guidelines for further research highlighted in the end.
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