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By SINIŠA SUBOTIĆ

“Birthday blues” is sometimes used in epidemiological studies to describe occasionally observed effect of higher suicide ratios around birthdays. It is also colloquially used to describe a general feeling of disappointment, anxiety, etc. due to another year passing by, low achievement, or not having the expectations regarding birthday c...

By SAVINA ŠMIT

The Patient Health Questionnaire – PHQ-9 is a well known self-report measure of nine depression symptoms according to DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria. As the PHQ-9 is not yet validated in most of former Yugoslavian countries, the goal of this research was to determine its factor structure and psychometric properties on a large non-clinical BCS language...

By SINIŠA SUBOTIĆ, IVAN KNEŽEVIĆ, STRAHINJA DIMITRIJEVIĆ, DALIBOR MIHOLJČIĆ, SAVINA ŠMIT, MIRJANA KARAĆ, JELENA MIJATOVIĆ

Numerous international studies indicate a high level of belief in myths and conspiracy theories about HIV/AIDS, especially in relation to its origin and treatments. There are also findings of these beliefs being related to risky sexual behaviors. Moreover, it is useful to study these myths and their correlates in the context of prevention. This stu...

By DALIBOR MIHOLJČIĆ, ZDRAVKA KEZIĆ

Astrology is a pseudoscience of long tradition and large cultural impact. It is based on the assumption that position of celestial bodies can predict future events, explain human personality, etc. Despite being scientifically unsound, astrology maintains its popularity. Earlier research has shown that various sociodemographic characteristics, such ...

By JELENA MIJATOVIĆ

Social physique anxiety (SPA) is a derivative of social anxiety and people tend to experience it in response to others evaluating their physiques. Women achieve higher SPA scores than men. SPA correlates with higher body mass index (BMI). Previous studies have shown that people with higher SPA reported higher levels of distress in situations where ...

By GABRIELA NINKOVIĆ DOŠEN, JOVANA JANKOVSKI

A number of children diagnosed with the Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in the world is increasing. During 2014, a total of 158 people were registered with the ASD in the Republic of Srpska. Although there are many treatments designed for people with this disorder, efficacy of only a few of them has been confirmed. One of those which efficiency i...

By TATJANA GAJIĆ

Students’ satisfaction with life is a multidimensional construct, which encompasses the satisfaction within different domains, including a satisfaction with school. It refers to the evaluation process in which a person evaluates the quality of his or her life according to their own unique set of criteria. The goal of this research was to dete...

By DIVNA SLAVNIĆ, IVANA ZEČEVIĆ

A large number of students dislike school. Furthermore, a growing number of thinkers are criticizing conceptual, moral, and practical deficiencies of the current compulsory education paradigm (with an emphasis on the importance of freedom). However, systematic research on the structure of students’ attitudes about these fundamental issues is ...

By IVAN KNEŽEVIĆ, SINIŠA SUBOTIĆ

The Dark Triad of Personality includes three dimensions related to antisocial and manipulative behavior: Machiavellianism, subclinical narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy. The HEXACO personality model proposed honesty-humility as one of the basic personality dimensions, which shares a lot of variance with the Dark Triad. This research deals wit...

By MIRJANA KARAĆ

On the sample of 1711 students (649 males and 1062 females) from Serbia (N=570) and BiH (N=1141), ranging from 19 to 25 years of age (M=21.88, SD=1.67), the relationships between sexual compulsivity levels and the onset and frequency of masturbatory and interpersonal sexual activities were explored. The Sexual Compulsivity Scale (SCS) of Kalichman ...

By DŽANAN BERBEROVIĆ