1731. The role of higher education and civic involvement in converting young adults’ social responsibility to prosocial behaviorNikša Alfirević, Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, Žan Lep, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: This study investigates the indirect mechanisms relevant to converting young adults’ prosocial attitudes and individual responsibility into their prosocial behavior. Our results are based on a sample of 530 young adults studying at three public regional business schools in South East Europe. They show a signifcant favorable infuence on young adults’ civic and political involvement, mediating the relationship between individual responsibility attitudes and prosocial behavior. However, this would not have been expected based on previous research. Another indirect path between the same variables is modeled using a hypothesized moderated mediation efect. The institutional infuence of higher education proves to be a signifcant mediator of the proposed relationship, moderated by the amount of educational content in the felds of ethics, social and environmental responsibility. At midand-high levels of exposure to relevant educational content, this indirect path signifcantly infuences the developing young adults’ pro-environmental behaviors. The study results are discussed from the viewpoint of peripheral regions with a history of dysfunctional social capital mechanisms.
Keywords: education, higher education, young adults, generation Z, civic involvement, prosocial behaviour
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1732. Psychometric properties of the Slovenian adaptation of Zuckerman-Kuhlman Cross-Cultural 50 item personality questionnaire (ZKPQ-50-CC) in a sample of emerging adultsTimotej Glavač, Žan Lep, Maja Zupančič, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: The aim of the present study was to validate the Slovenian version of the ZKPQ-50-CC (Aluja et al., 2006). The ZKPQ-50- CC is a shortened, cross-culturally validated version of the Zuckerman Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ; Zuckerman et al., 1988), based on an alternative five-factor model of personality. Our sample included 2138 emerging adults (1534 females; Mage = 21.28 years; SD = 3.62) who filled in both the ZKPQ-50-CC and the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John et al., 1991). The results of a confirmatory factor analysis showed similarities to those of the original validation study across four European countries (Aluja et al., 2006). To improve upon the psychometric properties of the ZKPQ-50-CC scales, however, we removed six items with low factor loadings (below .30), resulting in the ZKPQ-44-CC. The five factors (Impulsive Sensation Seeking, Neuroticism-Anxiety, Aggression-Hostility, Activity, and Sociability) of the adjusted instrument suggested acceptable internal reliability, as well as satisfactory convergent and divergent validity against the BFI factors. We also determined relatively high levels of temporal stability (measurements two years apart) of the alternative five factors in a smaller follow-up sample (n = 168). Despite several drawbacks, we consider the ZKPQ-44-CC appropriate for psychological research in Slovenia.
Keywords: Zuckerman’s alternative five-factor personality model, the ZKPQ-50-CC, Slovenian validation, validity, internal reliability, temporal stability, Zuckerman-Kuhlman Cross-Cultural 50 item personality questionnaire ZKPQ-50-CC, test validity, psychometrics, test reliability
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1733. Governing by slogansMitja Sardoč, Vladimir Prebilič, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: Throughout recorded history, slogans have been an important part of our public life. From political rhetoric and propaganda, to social movements and awareness-raising campaigns, their usage has overcome historical periods, cultural barriers, ethnic affiliation, political systems, party allegiance or personal taste. Arguably more than any other linguistic ‘device’, slogans deliver a clearly recognizable message with as little complexity as possible. Nevertheless, despite their rhetorical‘economy’, the narratives provided by slogans have also been associated with a simplified or even reductionist portrayal of otherwise complex or controversial phenomena. This article aims to address a range of previously neglected aspects associated with slogans and governmentality. The introductory part provides a genealogy of discussions over slogans and the main shortcomings the use of slogans has been associated with. The central part takes a closer look at zero tolerance, a flagship policy associated with the neoliberal logic of governance. The concluding part of this article outlines the subversive character associated with the mechanism of sloganization.
Keywords: slogans, public policy, governmentality, neoliberalism, sloganization, moral enterpreneurship, zero tolerance
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1734. Students’ and teachers’ perceptions of students’ academic outcomes in Slovenia : evidence from REDS dataPlamen Mirazchiyski, Eva Klemenčič Mirazchiyski, 2023, original scientific article Keywords: education, covid-19, distance or remote schooling, students' academic outcomes, grading knowledge, Slovenia, REDS data
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1736. Intergenerational model of financial satisfaction and parent-child financial relationshipMaja Zupančič, Mojca Poredoš, Žan Lep, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: The study examined an intergenerational model offinancial socialization and its outcomesthat connects parents’and their children’s self-perceivedfinancial learning outcomes tosatisfaction withfinancial management and parent-childfinancial relationships. Theconceptual model was based on models offinancial socialization processes contributing tohealthyfinancial development of emerging adult students (Shim et al., 2010; Sirsch et al.,2020), but extended the links across two generations within the same family. Consideringperspectives of both generations in a single model, it was tested in a sample of 482 pairs ofSlovenianfirst-year university students and one of their parents. Structural equationmodeling revealed that parental healthyfinancial learning outcomes (knowledge, be-havioral control, behavior) shaped their children’s positivefinancial development (fi-nancial learning outcomes and satisfaction) and promoted the parents’satisfaction withfinancial management. In turn, both the students’and the parents’financial managementsatisfaction positively predicted a joint measure of satisfaction with parent-childfinancialrelationship. Similar links offinancial learning outcomes to satisfaction withfinancialmanagement and parent-childfinancial relationships were observed for both generations,even though parents and their children werefinancially socialized under different so-cioeconomic conditions.
Keywords: financial relationship, parent-child, financial satisfaction, intergenerational model, financial socialization, financial management
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1738. Attitudes on (future) EU integration and cooperation among youth : regional divide?Aleš Trunk, Eva Klemenčič Mirazchiyski, Urška Štremfel, Igor Stubelj, 2023, original scientific article Keywords: education, youth's attitudes, EU integration, European cooperation, European future, ICCS
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1739. The relative effect of job demands, resources, and personal resources on teaching quality and students' engagement during the COVID-19 pandemicŽan Lep, Eva Klemenčič Mirazchiyski, Plamen Mirazchiyski, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic's school closures and the distance education that resulted from it, teachers were faced with an increasing workload and significant changes in their working environment. Because increased workload can result not only in worsened mental health and lower work motivation, but also in worsened learning outcomes, this article explores how teacher-perceived job demands, job resources, and personal resources are related to teachers' assessment of teaching quality and student engagement during the pandemic. Using the data of 1,422 8th grade teachers in Slovenia from the IEA Responses to Educational Disruptions Survey (REDS) survey, this study also explores the perceived level of support from different institutional actors and the utility of Job demands-resources model for this specific group of workers in a specific work setting. The results show that the teachers of 8th graders in Slovenia perceived a higher level of support from their closest working environment compared to the national bureaucracy. In terms of job demands, the increased workload in preparing the lessons had negative effect on both teaching quality and student engagement, while the reported increase in time spent on direct work with students and social support received (a job resource) contributed positively to both outcome variables. In line with theoretical expectations, personal resources were positive predictors of teaching quality and student engagement in our model. Compared with the initial expectations this study had based on the underlying theoretical model, the results paint a complex relationship between job characteristics and learning outcomes during distance learning. Thus, some of the challenges both teachers and policy-makers face and will continue to face in possible similar situations are discussed.
Keywords: job demands, job resources, teachers, teaching quality, student engagement, job demandsrResources model, covid-19
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1740. Affective authoritarianism and anti-government protests : Demokracija’s journalistic narratives as acts of “making people feel” in authoritarian waysBarbara Gornik, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: In 2020, the world faced a global state of emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Slo-venia, the situation coincided with the formation of Janez Janša’s government in March.Janša’s rise to power—and the rapid introduction of Covid-19 measures that significantlyrestricted public and civic space—prompted widespread resistance, most visibly throughgrassroots initiatives such as the anti-government bicycle demonstrations, also known asthe Friday Protests. During this period, private media outlets closely affiliated withJanša’s Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), including Demokracija magazine andNova24TV, played an active role in shaping the political discourse, also in relation to theprotests. This paper examines the affective dimensions of journalistic narratives aboutthe anti-government protests as published in Demokracija magazine between 1 March2020 and 28 February 2021. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of 41 articles, thestudy explores journalistic narratives as acts of “making people feel.” It engages with theconcept of affective authoritarianism, understood as a political process that simultaneouslymobilizes and generates specific affective intensities, emotions, and atmospheres thatrender individuals more receptive to authoritarian values, attitudes, and practices. This per-spective contributes to ongoing scholarly debates by highlighting the affective conditionsthat intensify authoritarianism within formally democratic states.
Keywords: affective authoritarianism, journalistic narratives, anti-government protests, affective change, authoritarian predisposition, Slovenia
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