Miran Lavrič
Biographic Data
| ID | 195442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miran Lavrič |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miran |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavrič |
| SIGNATURE | LAVRIČ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maribor |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5818-1647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An initial statistical model for estimating the number of street children in cities, countries, and throughout the world
Within the research community dealing with street children, there is an acute awareness of the need to update the categorizations of street children and to develop unified models for estimations of their numbers at different levels. In this article, we set out to develop an initial multi-level model that would enable researchers to make sound estimates of the number of street children at three levels. For the level of individual cities, we presen…
Mental health and social trust: Age and religiosity as moderators among young people in Croatia and Slovenia
Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement: The moderating role of a country’s economic development
The impact of primary schools’ inclusiveness on the inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder
The inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex issue for schools. This study investigates the impact of the inclusivity of Slovenian primary schools on the inclusion of their students with ASD. We postulated that each pedagogical dimension of inclusion (i.e., academic, social, and emotional inclusion) of students with ASD would demonstrate a positive correlation with each dimension of inclusiveness of primary schools (…
Exceptional human experiences among pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago: A typology of experiences and transformative aftereffects
Religious polarization among youth in southeast Europe: The role of secularization and prevailing confession
Recent rapid secularization has been a major force behind the overwhelming political and ideological polarization in some Western countries. Focusing on Western European countries, Ribberink et al. (2018) found that religious polarization was associated with higher levels of secularization, and at the same time, with the relative dominance of Catholicism. Based on national representative surveys from 2018, this paper analyses religious polarizati…
Examining Motivations to Walk the Camino de Santiago: A Typology of Pilgrims
The purpose of this article is to develop a comprehensive understanding of people’s motivations for going on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage using qualitative and quantitative methods. The methodology comprised qualitative research based on content analysis of 32 travelogue testimonies and quantitative research based on an online survey of prospective pilgrims ( N = 228). Three dimensions of motivation were identified using the following factor…
Leaving out of necessity or out of ambition? The impact of socio-economic development on factors of youth emigration from countries of South Eastern Europe
Based on survey data from representative national samples of young people, we compared the impact of nine different factors of emigration desire among young people from 10 countries of Southeast Europe. The results show that (1) the impact of factors of necessity decreases with higher levels of Human Development Index (HDI), while factors of ambition tend to have stronger impact. We also found that across all 10 countries, (2) the experience of h…
Predictors of Euroscepticism in six Western Balkan countries
Based on a combination of national representative surveys and semi-structured interviews conducted in six Western Balkan countries, the study represents a pioneering attempt at a systematic, comparative analysis of Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans. By employing a theoretical framework that tests the effects of utilitarian, political and cultural factors, the study identifies and interprets the strongest socio-demographical and attitudinal pr…
Shifts in Support for Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Western Balkans
The countries of the Western Balkans have experienced more than a decade of democratic backsliding. Analysis of survey results revealed that these trends were accompanied also by substantial changes in citizens’ political attitudes. The support for a strong political leader has noticeably increased, while support for democracy has suffered a substantial decline. The results suggest that these tendencies can better be explained by the economic ins…
The power of authoritative parenting: A cross-national study of effects of exposure to different parenting styles on life satisfaction
The quality of integrated urban strategies in light of the Europe 2020 strategy: The case of Slovenia
Youth and Family in Southeast Europe: Patterns of Individualization Along with the Lines of Human Development
The individualization of family life is one of the crucial ideas among leading theorists dealing with late modernity (Giddens, 1991; Beck, 1992; Bauman, 2000; Beck-Gemsheim, 2002). The individualization thesis was applied in a study of youth attitudes and actions relating to individualization in family life. Data were gathered through surveys on representative samples of young people from nine countries in Southeast Europe. The Human Development …
Typology of Household Strategies of Action in Four Countries of Southeastern Europe in a Period of Economic Crisis
In this paper, we explore whether the myriad production and consumption household practices in four societies of Southeastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) can empirically be reduced to a relatively small number of coherent and socially meaningful combinations, which we have labelled household strategies of action. Approaching the same data from two different angles, namely, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA)…
Household Strategies in Southeast European Societies in the Period of Economic Crisis
Religious References in the Constitutions of European Post-Communist Countries and Ethno-symbolism
The downfall of communism in Europe took place around 1989-1991, within a brief historical period. All the post-communist countries did away with their previous constitutions (which had sometimes been decorative in nature) and adopted new, post-communist constitutions. According to a Council of Europe membership count, there are twenty-three such countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Re…
Using Social Indicators in Assessing Factors and Numbers of Street Children in the World
Divergent Trends in Legal Recognition of Religious Entities in Europe: The Cases of Slovenia and Hungary
Religious dynamics in Europe, especially regarding religious pluralism, are largely affected by the characteristics of legal recognition of religious entities in individual countries. The implementation of the European Convention of Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights clearly points to democratic pluralism as the essential principle in treating religious entities by the state. On the other hand, the situation in European countries …
Intrinsic religious orientation and religious rewards: An empirical evaluation of two approaches to religious motivation
Gordon Allport defined intrinsic religious orientation as the polar opposite of the utilitarian and instrumental extrinsic orientation. On the other hand, Rodney Stark and associates developed a theory of religion according to which the utilitarian motive is at the very core of (any) religious motivation. A study of undergraduate students from three social settings with different dominant religions (Catholic, Islamic and Eastern Orthodox) showed …
Trait anxiety and measures of religiosity in four cultural settings
Several measures of religious practice and religious orientation (intrinsic/extrinsic/quest) and the trait form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were employed in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural environments: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, and the USA. The results suggest that (1) the relationship between trait anxiety and religiosity substantially varies between these samples; (2) the rela…
Measuring religious costs and rewards in a cross-cultural perspective
The assumption of rationally motivated individual religious behavior was tested in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural/religious environments: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and the United States of America. In particular, an attempt was made to explain readiness to bear religious costs by the expectation of otherworldly rewards and some other variables, such as religious socialization, support in…
The Role of Culture in the Relationship Between Religiosity and Psychological Well-being
Is intrinsic religious orientation a culturally specific American Protestant concept? The fusion of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation among non‐Protestants
The relationship between intrinsic and personal extrinsic religious orientation as suggested by Gorsuch and McPherson is studied within four denominational samples of university students in four different cultural environments. Results show that intrinsic and extrinsic personal religious orientation form two separate dimensions only within the American Protestant sample. In three different European religious environments (one Eastern Orthodox, on…
On the Validity of Cross-Cultural Social Studies Using Student Samples
Student samples have become a widely used resource in the study of not only particular phenomena and problems within individual environments but also of their study within a cross-cultural context. A number of such studies, most often generalizing their results to the level of cultures, are illustrated in this article. In addition, the authors carry out a number of empirical tests of the generalizability of results attained on student samples in …
Operationalizing the Civil Religion Concept at a Cross-Cultural Level
This study represents an attempt to operationalize and validate the civil religion concept on four different national samples. The cultural heritage of these countries varies greatly, and according to Samuel Huntington's (1994) classification, they belong to three different civilizations. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to confirm the statistical adequacy of a proposed civil religion scale at the national and at the cross-c…
Shifts in Support for Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Western Balkans
The countries of the Western Balkans have experienced more than a decade of democratic backsliding. Analysis of survey results revealed that these trends were accompanied also by substantial changes in citizens’ political attitudes. The support for a strong political leader has noticeably increased, while support for democracy has suffered a substantial decline. The results suggest that these tendencies can better be explained by the economic ins…
The power of authoritative parenting: A cross-national study of effects of exposure to different parenting styles on life satisfaction
Is intrinsic religious orientation a culturally specific American Protestant concept? The fusion of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation among non‐Protestants
The relationship between intrinsic and personal extrinsic religious orientation as suggested by Gorsuch and McPherson is studied within four denominational samples of university students in four different cultural environments. Results show that intrinsic and extrinsic personal religious orientation form two separate dimensions only within the American Protestant sample. In three different European religious environments (one Eastern Orthodox, on…
On the Validity of Cross-Cultural Social Studies Using Student Samples
Student samples have become a widely used resource in the study of not only particular phenomena and problems within individual environments but also of their study within a cross-cultural context. A number of such studies, most often generalizing their results to the level of cultures, are illustrated in this article. In addition, the authors carry out a number of empirical tests of the generalizability of results attained on student samples in …
Measuring religious costs and rewards in a cross-cultural perspective
The assumption of rationally motivated individual religious behavior was tested in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural/religious environments: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and the United States of America. In particular, an attempt was made to explain readiness to bear religious costs by the expectation of otherworldly rewards and some other variables, such as religious socialization, support in…
Examining Motivations to Walk the Camino de Santiago: A Typology of Pilgrims
The purpose of this article is to develop a comprehensive understanding of people’s motivations for going on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage using qualitative and quantitative methods. The methodology comprised qualitative research based on content analysis of 32 travelogue testimonies and quantitative research based on an online survey of prospective pilgrims ( N = 228). Three dimensions of motivation were identified using the following factor…
Operationalizing the Civil Religion Concept at a Cross-Cultural Level
This study represents an attempt to operationalize and validate the civil religion concept on four different national samples. The cultural heritage of these countries varies greatly, and according to Samuel Huntington's (1994) classification, they belong to three different civilizations. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to confirm the statistical adequacy of a proposed civil religion scale at the national and at the cross-c…
Intrinsic religious orientation and religious rewards: An empirical evaluation of two approaches to religious motivation
Gordon Allport defined intrinsic religious orientation as the polar opposite of the utilitarian and instrumental extrinsic orientation. On the other hand, Rodney Stark and associates developed a theory of religion according to which the utilitarian motive is at the very core of (any) religious motivation. A study of undergraduate students from three social settings with different dominant religions (Catholic, Islamic and Eastern Orthodox) showed …
Mental health and social trust: Age and religiosity as moderators among young people in Croatia and Slovenia
The quality of integrated urban strategies in light of the Europe 2020 strategy: The case of Slovenia
Youth and Family in Southeast Europe: Patterns of Individualization Along with the Lines of Human Development
The individualization of family life is one of the crucial ideas among leading theorists dealing with late modernity (Giddens, 1991; Beck, 1992; Bauman, 2000; Beck-Gemsheim, 2002). The individualization thesis was applied in a study of youth attitudes and actions relating to individualization in family life. Data were gathered through surveys on representative samples of young people from nine countries in Southeast Europe. The Human Development …
Social inequalities in slovenian higher education
In this article the authors study social inequalities in Slovenian higher education, using a census of students at the University of Maribor. Using the common odds ratio test, it was found that young people whose fathers had completed higher education or levels beyond are approximately 14 times more likely to enter the higher education system than those whose fathers had not completed primary education. Stratification is even more acute when moth…
Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox religiosity in Central Europe in contrast to American Protestant religiosity
Four religious cultural settings, a Slovenian Catholic one, a Bosnian Muslim one, a Serbian Orthodox one and an American Protestant one, are compared on the basis of a variety of measures of religiosity, resulting from a survey carried out on large student samples in 2005. Certain cultural peculiarities of the groups emerge: e.g., the particular Muslim stress on the concept of God as austere judge. These peculiarities, indicative of a more pronou…
Operationalizing the Civil Religion Concept at a Cross-Cultural Level
This study represents an attempt to operationalize and validate the civil religion concept on four different national samples. The cultural heritage of these countries varies greatly, and according to Samuel Huntington's (1994) classification, they belong to three different civilizations. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to confirm the statistical adequacy of a proposed civil religion scale at the national and at the cross-c…
The Role of Culture in the Relationship Between Religiosity and Psychological Well-being
Is intrinsic religious orientation a culturally specific American Protestant concept? The fusion of intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation among non‐Protestants
The relationship between intrinsic and personal extrinsic religious orientation as suggested by Gorsuch and McPherson is studied within four denominational samples of university students in four different cultural environments. Results show that intrinsic and extrinsic personal religious orientation form two separate dimensions only within the American Protestant sample. In three different European religious environments (one Eastern Orthodox, on…
On the Validity of Cross-Cultural Social Studies Using Student Samples
Student samples have become a widely used resource in the study of not only particular phenomena and problems within individual environments but also of their study within a cross-cultural context. A number of such studies, most often generalizing their results to the level of cultures, are illustrated in this article. In addition, the authors carry out a number of empirical tests of the generalizability of results attained on student samples in …
Trait anxiety and measures of religiosity in four cultural settings
Several measures of religious practice and religious orientation (intrinsic/extrinsic/quest) and the trait form of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were employed in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural environments: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, and the USA. The results suggest that (1) the relationship between trait anxiety and religiosity substantially varies between these samples; (2) the rela…
Measuring religious costs and rewards in a cross-cultural perspective
The assumption of rationally motivated individual religious behavior was tested in a survey of undergraduate university students from four different cultural/religious environments: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and the United States of America. In particular, an attempt was made to explain readiness to bear religious costs by the expectation of otherworldly rewards and some other variables, such as religious socialization, support in…
Intrinsic religious orientation and religious rewards: An empirical evaluation of two approaches to religious motivation
Gordon Allport defined intrinsic religious orientation as the polar opposite of the utilitarian and instrumental extrinsic orientation. On the other hand, Rodney Stark and associates developed a theory of religion according to which the utilitarian motive is at the very core of (any) religious motivation. A study of undergraduate students from three social settings with different dominant religions (Catholic, Islamic and Eastern Orthodox) showed …
Using Social Indicators in Assessing Factors and Numbers of Street Children in the World
Divergent Trends in Legal Recognition of Religious Entities in Europe: The Cases of Slovenia and Hungary
Religious dynamics in Europe, especially regarding religious pluralism, are largely affected by the characteristics of legal recognition of religious entities in individual countries. The implementation of the European Convention of Human Rights by the European Court of Human Rights clearly points to democratic pluralism as the essential principle in treating religious entities by the state. On the other hand, the situation in European countries …
Religious References in the Constitutions of European Post-Communist Countries and Ethno-symbolism
The downfall of communism in Europe took place around 1989-1991, within a brief historical period. All the post-communist countries did away with their previous constitutions (which had sometimes been decorative in nature) and adopted new, post-communist constitutions. According to a Council of Europe membership count, there are twenty-three such countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Re…
Typology of Household Strategies of Action in Four Countries of Southeastern Europe in a Period of Economic Crisis
In this paper, we explore whether the myriad production and consumption household practices in four societies of Southeastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) can empirically be reduced to a relatively small number of coherent and socially meaningful combinations, which we have labelled household strategies of action. Approaching the same data from two different angles, namely, using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA)…
Household Strategies in Southeast European Societies in the Period of Economic Crisis
The quality of integrated urban strategies in light of the Europe 2020 strategy: The case of Slovenia
Youth and Family in Southeast Europe: Patterns of Individualization Along with the Lines of Human Development
The individualization of family life is one of the crucial ideas among leading theorists dealing with late modernity (Giddens, 1991; Beck, 1992; Bauman, 2000; Beck-Gemsheim, 2002). The individualization thesis was applied in a study of youth attitudes and actions relating to individualization in family life. Data were gathered through surveys on representative samples of young people from nine countries in Southeast Europe. The Human Development …
Predictors of Euroscepticism in six Western Balkan countries
Based on a combination of national representative surveys and semi-structured interviews conducted in six Western Balkan countries, the study represents a pioneering attempt at a systematic, comparative analysis of Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans. By employing a theoretical framework that tests the effects of utilitarian, political and cultural factors, the study identifies and interprets the strongest socio-demographical and attitudinal pr…
Shifts in Support for Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Western Balkans
The countries of the Western Balkans have experienced more than a decade of democratic backsliding. Analysis of survey results revealed that these trends were accompanied also by substantial changes in citizens’ political attitudes. The support for a strong political leader has noticeably increased, while support for democracy has suffered a substantial decline. The results suggest that these tendencies can better be explained by the economic ins…
The power of authoritative parenting: A cross-national study of effects of exposure to different parenting styles on life satisfaction
Exceptional human experiences among pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago: A typology of experiences and transformative aftereffects
Religious polarization among youth in southeast Europe: The role of secularization and prevailing confession
Recent rapid secularization has been a major force behind the overwhelming political and ideological polarization in some Western countries. Focusing on Western European countries, Ribberink et al. (2018) found that religious polarization was associated with higher levels of secularization, and at the same time, with the relative dominance of Catholicism. Based on national representative surveys from 2018, this paper analyses religious polarizati…
Examining Motivations to Walk the Camino de Santiago: A Typology of Pilgrims
The purpose of this article is to develop a comprehensive understanding of people’s motivations for going on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage using qualitative and quantitative methods. The methodology comprised qualitative research based on content analysis of 32 travelogue testimonies and quantitative research based on an online survey of prospective pilgrims ( N = 228). Three dimensions of motivation were identified using the following factor…
Leaving out of necessity or out of ambition? The impact of socio-economic development on factors of youth emigration from countries of South Eastern Europe
Based on survey data from representative national samples of young people, we compared the impact of nine different factors of emigration desire among young people from 10 countries of Southeast Europe. The results show that (1) the impact of factors of necessity decreases with higher levels of Human Development Index (HDI), while factors of ambition tend to have stronger impact. We also found that across all 10 countries, (2) the experience of h…
The impact of primary schools’ inclusiveness on the inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder
The inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex issue for schools. This study investigates the impact of the inclusivity of Slovenian primary schools on the inclusion of their students with ASD. We postulated that each pedagogical dimension of inclusion (i.e., academic, social, and emotional inclusion) of students with ASD would demonstrate a positive correlation with each dimension of inclusiveness of primary schools (…
Mental health and social trust: Age and religiosity as moderators among young people in Croatia and Slovenia
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Economics (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)