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UTJECAJ DUŽINE UPITNIKA NA ANKETNI ODZIV

Author(s): Mirta Galešić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 67/2003

It is generally assumed that questionnaire length has a significant effect on survey response rate. However, the empirical findings are equivocal. One of the reasons is that various authors use different operational definitions of questionnaire length. Studies that define length as the number of questions and/or pages usually show a negative relationship between questionnaire length and response rates. When questionnaire length is defined by its physical format, the same number of questions printed on smaller-sized paper, but also on a larger number of pages would yield bigger response rates. The duration of interview in minutes can be positively related to its relevance for respondents, which in turn has a positive effect on the response rate. Many authors claim that response rates are influenced by subjective rather than objective indices of questionnaire length. Perception of length is often moderated by various other characteristics of the survey situation, such as respondents' interest in the topic of the survey and use of financial or other incentives. A complete theory of survey behavior is needed in order to better understand and generalize the empirical findings.

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PERCIPIRANA MORALNOST I KOMPETENCIJA U MOTIVACIJSKOJ STRUKTURI POLITIČKIH PREFERENCIJA

Author(s): Vesna Lamza Posavec,Stanko Rihtar / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 63+64/2003

With an accent on the dominant theoretical viewpoints and results of extensive empirical research, the work analyses the mutual relationship of the perceived morality and competence of political protagonists in the motivational structure of voting at the 2001 elections for the City Council of Zagreb representatives. Also, the work examines these criteria with regard to the cognitive capacity of voters. The results confirm the initial hypothesis that, in general, judgements concerning the morality of political protagonists have a more important role in the motivational repertoire of voters than do impressions of their competence, as well as having an influence on the formation of global impressions on a more general theoretical level.

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SUBJEKTIVNA DOB, ŽIVOTNO ZADOVOLJSTVO I ZDRAVLJE

Author(s): Ljiljana Kaliterna-Lipovčan,Zvjezdana Prizmić-Larsen,Vlado Šakić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 62/2002

The aim of the study was to examine the relationships between different measures of subjective age, as well as relations of these measures to the subjective health, life satisfaction and happiness. The subjects were 118 health care professionals, who were administered a questionnaire that was developed for the purpose of the study. Weak or non-existent correlations, found between different measures of subjective age, showed that these measures may reflect different constructs. On average, our subjects felt about five years younger than their actual age, and wanted to be about ten years younger. Better subjective health was found in subjects with younger age identifications. Also, younger age identification was related to more happiness. The relationship between ideal age and life satisfaction showed that greater life satisfaction was related to older ideal age.

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KAOS I NELINEARNA DINAMIKA – NOVI METODOLOŠKI PRISTUPI U DRUŠTVENIM I POLITOLOGIJSKIM ZNANOSTIMA

Author(s): Aleksandar HALMI / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 57/2002

Systems theory has greatly advanced during the past two decades. Chaos and complexity theory and their accompanying research methods provide a new way of understanding systems theory and advancing more sophisticated mathematical methods for studying complex social phenomena. Often termed "nonlinear dynamics" because they seek to understand social systems that change in ways not amenable to the linear cause and effect models familiar to social and political scientists, these theoretical perspectives are thought to have application across a wide range of social science disciplines. This article discusses the disciplines of nonlinear dynamics – chaos and complexity – in a way that is understandable and relevant to all social science researchers and practitioners. The article presents an overview of some basic concepts and methods from chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics. The author hopes that this article will provide social researchers with new information that will inspire new and more empirical work on the applications of systems theory in social practice.

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U POTRAZI ZA DOBROM ZABAVOM: ISTRAŽIVANJE NOĆNOGA ŽIVOTA MLADIH U DISKO KLUBOVIMA NA PODRUČJU PRIMORSKIH ŽUPANIJA

Author(s): Anči Leburić,Renata Relja / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 56/2001

In this paper the authors present the results of sociological research, where they try to establish disco-club entertainment as an interesting and completely unexplored social phenomenon in Croatia. Methodologically and theoretically, the authors made on effort to pull out the research of young people's spare time from the context of functionalist-structuralist theories and from the already instrumentalized theoretical typologies in sociology. Therefore, they created a new research paradigm which united a quantitative and qualitative approach towards the disco phenomenon. The main purpose was to find an effective key for identifying newly established transformations of young people's night entertainment in seaside counties, where this research was field located. Combining methods of survey and semistructured interview, 1 502 young people were examined.

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SOME CONCEPTUALISATIONS AND MEANINGS OF DOMESTIC LABOUR

Author(s): Lynette Šikić-Mićanović / Language(s): English Issue: 54-55/2001

In this article, it is suggested that the definitions and conceptualisations of domestic labour should emphasise that it is productive, involving many different types of work and that it is also about constructing 'proper' and 'appropriate' gender relations. An overview of studies, mostly from Anglo Saxon contexts, show that unpaid domestic labour is persistently segregated by gender and continues to be, in practice, mainly 'women's work'. The implications, meanings and consequences of this are outlined as well as a number of explanations that elucidate why inequitable divisions of labour within the home are considered to be fair. It is concluded that the gendered division of domestic labour is not based on a static agreement between individuals but rather should be viewed as a way to 'do gender' that also produces appropriate gender relations. Clearly, these relations as interpersonal processes in combination with prevailing discourses (in the media, community, and government policies) constitute, maintain and enhance a gendered division of labour within a particular context.

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SUKOB OBITELJSKIH I RADNIH ULOGA: UZROCI, POSLJEDICE I NERIJEŠENI ISTRAŽIVAČKI PROBLEMI

Author(s): Mira Čudina-Obradović,Josip Obradović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 54-55/2001

The authors analyze concepts and problems in research of the work-family interface, i.e. the interrelation of the family and work stress and strain and the influence of both types of conflict on the individual's job and life satisfaction, health and well-being. Also, the research results are reviewed and special attention is given to complex models that take into account numerous determinants of the work-family interface (job involvement, family and job stress, family support, work-family conflict and family-work conflict) as well as the consequences of the work-family conflict (work and life satisfaction, psychological and physical health and alcohol abuse). The inconsistencies and contradictions of the research results are pointed out and the unsolved problems are identified and defined. The problem of a spillover or segregation of different domains of conflict is stressed as the main unresolved issue which is important both from the theoretical and practical point of view.

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CROSS-CULTURAL VALIDITY OF SCORES IN THAYER'S ACTIVATION-DEACTIVATION ADJECTIVE CHECK LIST (AD ACL)

Author(s): Adrijana Košćec,Biserka Radošević-Vidaček / Language(s): English Issue: 54-55/2001

It is often difficult and sometimes impossible to find the exact equivalent of a single word in another language. This study was conducted to evaluate whether it was possible to transport a list of English adjectives forming the AD ACL into Croatian and to measure activation dimensions proposed within the framework of Thayer's activation theory. In this study the AD ACL Short Form was translated by eight translators using a combination of several methods, and applied to 650 students of diverse study groups. The first and second order component analyses were performed with oblique rotations applied. The analyses replicated Thayer's four primary components (Energy, Wakefulness, Tension and Calmness) as well as two secondary components (Energetic and Tense Arousal). The primary components were moderately or slightly correlated while the secondary components showed neglectful correlation. The translated activation descriptors loaded on the primary and secondary components mostly as expected with a few cross-loadings.

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DOSLJEDNOST SAMOPREDSTAVLJANJA POJMU PRIVATNOGA SEBE

Author(s): Josip Burušić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 53/2001

In this paper consisting of two studies the author attempts to establish to which extent the self-presentation of people is consistent with the private notion they have of themselves, since some of the previous research on self-presentation does not provide unambiguous answers to this question. In the first study, 139 examinees assess the notion of private self and mode of self-presentation using a larger number of adjectives of different social desirability in completely anonimous conditions. In the second study 145 examinees assess the notion of private self in anonimous circumstances, whereas the mode of self-presentation is assessed by signing a protocol and receiving instruction that introduces group discussion on these assessments. The aim of the latter is to determine whether the introduction of the variable of publicity, operationalised through demands for signatures and hints of group discussion, can influence the assessment of modes of self-presentation. The results obtained indicate that a statistically significant difference in assessments has appeared and that the attribution of specific traits as more characteristic of the notion of self and others as more characteristic of the mode of self-presentation depends on the social desirability of these traits.

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WHEN IS SEX FUN? SEXUAL SATISFACTION AMONG SLOVENIAN YOUTH

Author(s): Valentina Hlebec,Ivan Bernik / Language(s): English Issue: 50/2000

The main aim of the paper is to provide, on the basis of a survey of youth sexuality in Slovenia, support for the thesis that sexual experience, including sexual satisfaction, is largely socially con-strued. First, the indices of satisfaction and dissatisfaction among Slovenian respondents with their first and most recent sexual intercourse are presented and compared to the results of similar surveys conducted in Austria and Germany. Then, some cultural and social causes of variation in the levels of sexual satisfaction of Slovenian youth are analysed in the next two parts of the paper. The analysis focuses on two sets of variables influencing sexual satisfaction – the first represents the socio-cultural context of sexual communication, and the second, the internal dynamic of sexual communication. The analysis is motivated by a hypothesis that both sets of variables are strongly linked to the level of sexual satisfaction, although it can be expected that the link will be more obvious for the second set of variables. This hypothesis is only partly confirmed by the available data.The variables related to the socio-cultural context of sexual communication are not systematically linked to the level of sexual satisfaction among Slovenian respondents, whereas the other set of variables has some influence on the level of sexual satisfaction, but less than expected.

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Iné škály, iné výsledky? Ako ovplyvňuje použitá škála odpovede v dotazníkových výskumoch

Author(s): Miloslav Bahna,Jozef Zagrapan / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2019

Different Scales, Different Results? How are Survey Responses Influenced by the Employed Scales. The paper analyses the results of a series of split ballot experiments included in three representative surveys fielded in 2016 and 2017. The focus of the experiments is to compare alternative versions of various scales to test the validity of the intensity hypothesis and to compare fully labeled scales with end labeled ones in a Slovak language questionnaire. We find strong support in favor of the intensity hypothesis observing less answers to the more intensely formulated answer categories in the tested rating scales. It seems, however, that to identify the effect on a five categories agree – disagree scale reliably, a sample larger than N = 1200 is necessary. Thought relatively small, the effect becomes more notable if respondents tend to choose answers mostly towards the scale endpoints. We demonstrate how multivariate analysis results can be substantially influenced by minor scale modifications. Our experiment comparing a fully labeled scale to an end labeled scale supports the hypothesis that end labeled scales make the endpoints more salient and are more often selected by the respondents. Sociológia 2019, Vol. 51 (No. 1: 5-24)

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PROVJERA VIŠEKOMPONENTNOG MODELA MEĐUGRUPNIH STAVOVA I PRATEĆIH MJERA OTVORENOG TIPA

Author(s): Renata Franc / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 45/2000

According to the multicomponent model of intergroup attitudes our attitudes towards groups are based on emotions toward group members, beliefs about specific characteristics of members of the social group and beliefs about which values are promoted or blocked by the group members. The first aim of this study was to check the validity and reliability of the open-ended measures for assessing components of attitudes towards groups, and the second aim was to test the multicomponent model of intergroup attitudes. The study examined attitudes toward two groups as attitude objects. General attitude was assessed by semantic differential scales. On the bases of data analysis with regard to the content and favorability of subjects’ (N=119) free-responses it was concluded that open-ended measures are valid indicators of attitudinal components. The split-half reliability of open ended measures are satisfactory although lower than mean reliability indices found in literature.

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KONTINUITET I PROMJENE LIČNOSTI OD ADOLESCENCIJE DO RANE ODRASLOSTI: REZULTATI LONGITUDINALNOG ISTRAŽIVANJA

Author(s): Denis Bratko / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 60+61/2002

The study presents results of the longitudinal study of personality development from adolescence to young adulthood. Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 262 participants in two measurement points. The mean age of participants was 17.25 in the first measurement, and the test-retest interval was exactly four years. Data was analyzed in order to estimate the personality continuity and change at the phenotypic level. First, the changes in mean scale scores were analyzed. The significant decrease of neuroticism and lie scores were obtained (p<.01), while extroversion scores decreased slightly (p<.05). Second, individual differences were moderately stable for all scales. The test-retest correlations were, respectively, .571, .595, .509, and .509 for extroversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and lie scales.

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SIMULIRANI PTSP

Author(s): Dragica Kozarić-Kovačić,Andreja Borovečki,Sanja Udovčić,Dubravka KOCIJAN HERCIGONJA / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 65+66/2003

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a difficult diagnosis to make with certainty. Because of its complicated differential diagnosis and the fact that PTSD's diagnosis is based largely on symptoms that are reported by the patient, PTSD is not hard to malinger. In the cases of compensation-related purposes such as forensic evaluations, the diagnostic problem is more sensitive. A valid psychiatric assessment of PTSD demands detailed review of the patient's previous medical, social and combat documentation, evaluation of the patient (anamnesis, structured clinical interview, observation, psychological assessment) and diagnostic classification. Besides post-traumatic stress disorder in isolated form, there is an overlapping of comorbid symptoms in PTSD with other psychiatric disturbances that can also be malingered.

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VREDNOSTI I VRIJEDNOSNE ORIJENTACIJE ADOLESCENATA: HIJERARHIJA I POVEZANOST SA STAVOVIMA I PONAŠANJIMA

Author(s): Renata Franc,Vlado Šakić,Ines Ivičić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 58+59/2002

This work aimed to establish the hierarchy of values of adolescents and the possibilities of interpreting attitudes and behaviours based on value orientations. The examination took place in 1998 and 2 823 adolescents participated comprising a representative sample of high school students of the Republic of Croatia in 1998. Two scales of values were used: the Scale of ranking values, and the Scale of value orientations operationalising conventional, self-realising and hedonist orientations. The attitudes analysed were the evaluation of factors responsible for success in life and social responsibility, while the behaviours analysed were ways of spending free time and substance abuse. In the adolescents' hierarchy of values the greatest importance is given to values from the group of self-realising values and the least to values from the hedonist group. Regression analyses and control of the contribution of sociodemographic variables indicate a significant possibility of interpreting analysed attitudes and behaviours on the basis of value orientations, whereas a better explanation of attitudes than behaviours has been achieved.

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SAMOISKAZANA SKLONOST ADOLESCENATA SOCIJALNIM DEVIJACIJAMA I ANTISOCIJALNIM PONAŠANJIMA

Author(s): Vlado Šakić,Renata Franc,Boris Mlačić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 58+59/2002

The aims of this paper were to establish the occurrence of self-expressed deviant and antisocial behaviour of adolescents and check whether there are differences in the expressed inclination towards certain types of behaviour with regard to some sociodemographic variables. The gathering of information took place in 1998 on a representative sample of Croatian highschool students (N= 2 823). Antisocial and deviant behaviour was examined by means of an adapted Scale for self-expressing delinquency comprising 36 individual behaviours grouped into six types of behaviour, based on the results of the main components analysis. These were: deviant behaviour, vandalism, thefts, thefts with violence, violence and social pathology. The sociodemographic variables included in the analysis consisted of gender and age of adolescents, school success and repeating a grade, father's and mother's level of education and work status, self-assessment of economic status and the level of urbanisation of the place of education.

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FUNKCIONALNA VAŽNOST KOMUNIKACIJE U LIJEČNIKOVU DJELOVANJU

Author(s): Živka Staničić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 58+59/2002

The paper analyses two main directions of doctors' activities: purposeful-rational and communicative activities. It is proven that the overall activity of doctors cannot be based exclusively on natural, empirical sciences, in spite of the fact that many doctors find this field the safest. In therapeutic reality the purposeful-rational activity represents not more than a preliminary stage; for the complete treatment of a patient, the doctor needs to move from the level of establishing facts by "measurement" and "calculation" to the level of observation of the actual patient, which, however, involves a completely different and in principle new medical activity: communication.

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OBITELJ - SOCIJALNA MREŽA - SOCIJALNI RAD

Author(s): Nino Žganec / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 18+19/1995

The article deals with certain aspects of family life with regard to a broader network of its social relations. The age of destruction of family values is revealed in the functional reduction and social isolation of the family, on the one hand, but also in its inclusion into different kinds of social networks, on the other hand. Although these networks were initially research ed by social anthropologists, due to the development of the social systems' theory, interest for this phenomenon has started to transcend into the fields of other sciences. Special attention is given to social networks, as a comprehensive field of relations, in the so-called applicative disciplines. Social work, regarded as such a discipline, has found in the social network model, and especially in the method of social work in organizing the community, a significant number of solutions in the process of r;oping with the ever more complex problems of contemporary persons and their families.

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БЪЛГАРСКА ВЕРСИЯ НА ВЪПРОСНИКА НА ПОЛ СПЕКТЪР ЗА УДОВЛЕТВОРЕНОСТ ОТ ТРУДА – JSS

Author(s): Mihail Prodanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

A Bulgarian version of Paul Spector's questionnaire of job satisfaction (JSS) is presented. Samples of employees in the public sector and human services are surveyed - a total of 137 respondents. The results of the statistical analyses suggest that the Bulgarian version has good psychometric parameters. Moreover, an option to refine the method by assessments of subjective significance of the sources about job satisfaction is proposed.

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Balanced Scorecard in Universities

Author(s): Justyna Fijałkowska,Cidália Oliveira / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Objective: Performance measurement and reporting leading to greater transparency and accountability of universities have become a challenging issue. Increasingly, universities have been required to provide performance indicators—empirical evidence of their value creation — to the different group of stakeholders. One of the approaches that may be applied by universities is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The objective of this paper is to indicate the BSC as a useful tool for the evaluation of the universities’ performance. Methodology: This study is based on the following research methods: descriptive, deductive, and the literature review. It refers also to case studies that are quoted in the context of their practical BSC application experience and it presents the pioneer approach of California University in BSC adoption. The rationale of this paper follows the principal-agent theory that is a foundation of the accountability concept. It refers also to the new managerialism, new public management, and entrepreneurial university.

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