Margareta Jelić
Biographic Data
| ID | 245067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margareta Jelić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margareta |
| FAMILY NAME | Jelić |
| SIGNATURE | JELIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zagreb |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2478-0756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Are my needs heard?” A qualitative study on the psychosocial needs of unaccompanied minors in Switzerland
Is Intergroup Contact Desired by Migrants? The Case of Unaccompanied Minors in Switzerland
Intergroup contact has been shown to reduce prejudice and promote positive relationships between members of different groups, as in the case of the integration of migrants. Nevertheless, extant research has not explored the crucial question of whether members of the migrant group express a desire for contact with the host group. To explore this question, we collected and collated a rare set of data to create a substantial corpus of semi‐structure…
Understanding Attitudes Towards Refugees: The Role of Origin and Shared Social Identity
The public’s attitude towards pro-refugee policies and the willingness to help refugees largely depend on the specific context of the receiving country. An important factor behind these various attitudes is the degree of identification with refugees, influenced by the similarity of cultural and ethnic identity, as well as by the degree of identification with their refugee experience. In this regard, Croatia is specific because memories of the 199…
Efficacy of imagined contact intervention with children and adolescents in reducing negative intergroup outcomes: A systematic review
Is Dating Dead? Modern Dating Among Emerging Adults in Croatia
Traditionally, a romantic relationship starts with two people going on dates and developing emotional and then physical closeness. However, social developments and social media have begun to change that. Therefore, the main aim of our qualitative study was to outline modern dating scripts and forms of casual sexual relationships among Croatian emerging adults, and to identify the needs they fulfill. We conducted four focus groups with young peopl…
Ima Li Međugrupni Kontakt Jednak Učinak Na Manjinu I Na Većinu? Odnos Međugrupnog Kontakta, Percepcije Međugrupne Prijetnje I Spremnosti Na Kolektivnu Akciju
The aim of the research was to examine the moderating role of the group status (minority or majority) on the relationship between intergroup contact and willingness to get involved in a collective action with the aim of reducing inequalities of the persons with homosexual orientation with regard to the heterosexual majority. Additionally, the aim was to analyse the moderating role of the group status on the relationship between intergroup contact…
If school walls could talk: A mixed-method study of physical space marking in promoting multiculturalism
Combining two qualitative and a quantitative method, we explored whether school’s physical environment promotes multicultural values or reflects intergroup climate in two multiethnic communities in Croatia. Croatia offers unique context for this study because minority youth from two ethnic groups use their right on minority language education and hence attend separate minority schools. Results show that the representation of ethnic symbols in sch…
How do we process feedback? The role of self-esteem in processing self-related and other-related information
This study was designed to investigate the effect of the level and stability of self-esteem on self-referent vs. other-referent feedback recall and to determine which of the opposed self-concept motives, self-enhancement or self-verification, will prevail in adolescents with certain type of self- esteem. In a between-subjects experimental design, 450 high school graduates and freshmen were randomly assigned to a self-referent task (n = 230) or ot…
“We would love to, but…”—needs in school integration from the perspective of refugee children, their parents, peers, and school staff
Existing research on the education of refugee children has been conducted in countries with a longstanding tradition of refugee integration. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the integration process of refugee children in Croatian schools. Croatia is a small EU country with limited experience in refugee integration. The phenomenological approach was used to examine the experiences and perspectives of the relevant actors. Interviews a…
One Size Does Not Fit All: Multiculturalism, Assimilationism, and Identity Among Majority and Minority Groups in Two New-Established Democracies
This study compared attitudes toward multiculturalism and assimilationism among three ethnic groups (Serbs, Croats, and Hungarians) in two neighboring countries (Croatia and Serbia). Additionally, this study examined the predictive role of ethnic identity on aforementioned attitudes directly and indirectly via symbolic threat. The results showed that Croats and Serbs had less positive multicultural and more positive assimilationist attitudes when…
Longitudinal effects of direct and extended intergroup contact in multi-ethnic communities in Croatia
The purpose of this study was to examine the reciprocal longitudinal associations between different measures of direct and extended intergroup contact and various intergroup outcomes among majority and minority adolescents from four intergroup contexts in the Republic of Croatia. The research was carried out in two waves on a sample of 1,150 elementary and high school students, members of Croatian majority, and Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, and Ital…
Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change
What role does intergroup contact play in promoting support for social change toward greater social equality? Drawing on the needs-based model of reconciliation, we theorized that when inequality between groups is perceived as illegitimate, disadvantaged group members will experience a need for empowerment and advantaged group members a need for acceptance. When intergroup contact satisfies each group's needs, it should result in more mutual supp…
Competing collective narratives in intergroup rapprochement: A transgenerational perspective
In the context of an ethnically divided community, we explored the role of competing group narratives for intergroup rapprochement after violent conflict. In Study 1, data from a community survey conducted in Vukovar, Croatia, among 198 Croats, the local majority, and 119 Serbs, the local minority, were analysed to gain perspective on different narratives about the recent war and effects they may have on intergroup relations. In Study 2, focus gr…
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Author Correction: A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Intergroup Threat as a Mediator of Ethnic Identification and Intergroup Orientations
In Croatia, four minority groups practice their right to education in their respective mother tongues. Relations between the majority and minority groups in the four multiethnic communities have developed under different historical circumstances. Thus, in some regions the different language of the minority and the majority group can be perceived as a threat to identity and result in intergroup prejudice and discrimination, whereas in others it mi…
Attitudes towards Gay and Lesbian Parental Rights among Heterosexual Croatian Citizens: The Effect of Traditional Gender-Role Attitudes
Non-normative sexual orientations question the binary and hierarchically organised image of men-women relations. The main goal of this research was to explore the role of gender identity and gender-roles attitudes in predicting attitudes towards same-sex parenting. An additional goal was to assess whether socio-demographic variables such as age, education, religiosity and political preferences -which proved to be relevant in predicting homonegati…
Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality Predict Positive and Negative Behavioral Intentions Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men
This study focuses on essentialist beliefs about homosexuality as determinants of discriminatory intentions against gay men and lesbian women (LG) and the readiness to engage in positive action toward them. A sample of 997 exclusively heterosexual adults participated in an online study set in Croatia, a country with high homophobia undergoing social change that threatens the higher status of the heterosexual majority. Beliefs about immutability a…
What determines fresh fish consumption in Croatia
Long-Term Relations Among Prosocial-Media Use, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior
Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediat…
Ideološki stavovi većinske grupe u dvije višeetničke sredine
Istraživanje se bavi aktualnom temom ispitivanja uloge socijalnog konteksta na formiranje stavova vecinske grupe prema dvije temeljne orijentacije koje određuju odnose grupa u viseetnickim sredinama - prema multikulturnosti i asimilacionizmu. Vecina istraživanja u podrucju međugrupnih stavova i ponasanja fokusira se na razlike između vecinske i manjinske grupe, no rezultati provedenog istraživanja jasno pokazuju da etnicka vecina nije homogena u …
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality Predict Positive and Negative Behavioral Intentions Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men
This study focuses on essentialist beliefs about homosexuality as determinants of discriminatory intentions against gay men and lesbian women (LG) and the readiness to engage in positive action toward them. A sample of 997 exclusively heterosexual adults participated in an online study set in Croatia, a country with high homophobia undergoing social change that threatens the higher status of the heterosexual majority. Beliefs about immutability a…
Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change
What role does intergroup contact play in promoting support for social change toward greater social equality? Drawing on the needs-based model of reconciliation, we theorized that when inequality between groups is perceived as illegitimate, disadvantaged group members will experience a need for empowerment and advantaged group members a need for acceptance. When intergroup contact satisfies each group's needs, it should result in more mutual supp…
Intergroup Threat as a Mediator of Ethnic Identification and Intergroup Orientations
In Croatia, four minority groups practice their right to education in their respective mother tongues. Relations between the majority and minority groups in the four multiethnic communities have developed under different historical circumstances. Thus, in some regions the different language of the minority and the majority group can be perceived as a threat to identity and result in intergroup prejudice and discrimination, whereas in others it mi…
Ideološki stavovi većinske grupe u dvije višeetničke sredine
Istraživanje se bavi aktualnom temom ispitivanja uloge socijalnog konteksta na formiranje stavova vecinske grupe prema dvije temeljne orijentacije koje određuju odnose grupa u viseetnickim sredinama - prema multikulturnosti i asimilacionizmu. Vecina istraživanja u podrucju međugrupnih stavova i ponasanja fokusira se na razlike između vecinske i manjinske grupe, no rezultati provedenog istraživanja jasno pokazuju da etnicka vecina nije homogena u …
Competing collective narratives in intergroup rapprochement: A transgenerational perspective
In the context of an ethnically divided community, we explored the role of competing group narratives for intergroup rapprochement after violent conflict. In Study 1, data from a community survey conducted in Vukovar, Croatia, among 198 Croats, the local majority, and 119 Serbs, the local minority, were analysed to gain perspective on different narratives about the recent war and effects they may have on intergroup relations. In Study 2, focus gr…
One Size Does Not Fit All: Multiculturalism, Assimilationism, and Identity Among Majority and Minority Groups in Two New-Established Democracies
This study compared attitudes toward multiculturalism and assimilationism among three ethnic groups (Serbs, Croats, and Hungarians) in two neighboring countries (Croatia and Serbia). Additionally, this study examined the predictive role of ethnic identity on aforementioned attitudes directly and indirectly via symbolic threat. The results showed that Croats and Serbs had less positive multicultural and more positive assimilationist attitudes when…
Longitudinal effects of direct and extended intergroup contact in multi-ethnic communities in Croatia
The purpose of this study was to examine the reciprocal longitudinal associations between different measures of direct and extended intergroup contact and various intergroup outcomes among majority and minority adolescents from four intergroup contexts in the Republic of Croatia. The research was carried out in two waves on a sample of 1,150 elementary and high school students, members of Croatian majority, and Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, and Ital…
What determines fresh fish consumption in Croatia
Long-Term Relations Among Prosocial-Media Use, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior
Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediat…
Ideološki stavovi većinske grupe u dvije višeetničke sredine
Istraživanje se bavi aktualnom temom ispitivanja uloge socijalnog konteksta na formiranje stavova vecinske grupe prema dvije temeljne orijentacije koje određuju odnose grupa u viseetnickim sredinama - prema multikulturnosti i asimilacionizmu. Vecina istraživanja u podrucju međugrupnih stavova i ponasanja fokusira se na razlike između vecinske i manjinske grupe, no rezultati provedenog istraživanja jasno pokazuju da etnicka vecina nije homogena u …
What determines fresh fish consumption in Croatia
Essentialist Beliefs About Homosexuality Predict Positive and Negative Behavioral Intentions Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men
This study focuses on essentialist beliefs about homosexuality as determinants of discriminatory intentions against gay men and lesbian women (LG) and the readiness to engage in positive action toward them. A sample of 997 exclusively heterosexual adults participated in an online study set in Croatia, a country with high homophobia undergoing social change that threatens the higher status of the heterosexual majority. Beliefs about immutability a…
Attitudes towards Gay and Lesbian Parental Rights among Heterosexual Croatian Citizens: The Effect of Traditional Gender-Role Attitudes
Non-normative sexual orientations question the binary and hierarchically organised image of men-women relations. The main goal of this research was to explore the role of gender identity and gender-roles attitudes in predicting attitudes towards same-sex parenting. An additional goal was to assess whether socio-demographic variables such as age, education, religiosity and political preferences -which proved to be relevant in predicting homonegati…
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Author Correction: A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Intergroup Threat as a Mediator of Ethnic Identification and Intergroup Orientations
In Croatia, four minority groups practice their right to education in their respective mother tongues. Relations between the majority and minority groups in the four multiethnic communities have developed under different historical circumstances. Thus, in some regions the different language of the minority and the majority group can be perceived as a threat to identity and result in intergroup prejudice and discrimination, whereas in others it mi…
Competing collective narratives in intergroup rapprochement: A transgenerational perspective
In the context of an ethnically divided community, we explored the role of competing group narratives for intergroup rapprochement after violent conflict. In Study 1, data from a community survey conducted in Vukovar, Croatia, among 198 Croats, the local majority, and 119 Serbs, the local minority, were analysed to gain perspective on different narratives about the recent war and effects they may have on intergroup relations. In Study 2, focus gr…
If school walls could talk: A mixed-method study of physical space marking in promoting multiculturalism
Combining two qualitative and a quantitative method, we explored whether school’s physical environment promotes multicultural values or reflects intergroup climate in two multiethnic communities in Croatia. Croatia offers unique context for this study because minority youth from two ethnic groups use their right on minority language education and hence attend separate minority schools. Results show that the representation of ethnic symbols in sch…
How do we process feedback? The role of self-esteem in processing self-related and other-related information
This study was designed to investigate the effect of the level and stability of self-esteem on self-referent vs. other-referent feedback recall and to determine which of the opposed self-concept motives, self-enhancement or self-verification, will prevail in adolescents with certain type of self- esteem. In a between-subjects experimental design, 450 high school graduates and freshmen were randomly assigned to a self-referent task (n = 230) or ot…
“We would love to, but…”—needs in school integration from the perspective of refugee children, their parents, peers, and school staff
Existing research on the education of refugee children has been conducted in countries with a longstanding tradition of refugee integration. The aim of this study was to gain insight into the integration process of refugee children in Croatian schools. Croatia is a small EU country with limited experience in refugee integration. The phenomenological approach was used to examine the experiences and perspectives of the relevant actors. Interviews a…
One Size Does Not Fit All: Multiculturalism, Assimilationism, and Identity Among Majority and Minority Groups in Two New-Established Democracies
This study compared attitudes toward multiculturalism and assimilationism among three ethnic groups (Serbs, Croats, and Hungarians) in two neighboring countries (Croatia and Serbia). Additionally, this study examined the predictive role of ethnic identity on aforementioned attitudes directly and indirectly via symbolic threat. The results showed that Croats and Serbs had less positive multicultural and more positive assimilationist attitudes when…
Longitudinal effects of direct and extended intergroup contact in multi-ethnic communities in Croatia
The purpose of this study was to examine the reciprocal longitudinal associations between different measures of direct and extended intergroup contact and various intergroup outcomes among majority and minority adolescents from four intergroup contexts in the Republic of Croatia. The research was carried out in two waves on a sample of 1,150 elementary and high school students, members of Croatian majority, and Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, and Ital…
Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change
What role does intergroup contact play in promoting support for social change toward greater social equality? Drawing on the needs-based model of reconciliation, we theorized that when inequality between groups is perceived as illegitimate, disadvantaged group members will experience a need for empowerment and advantaged group members a need for acceptance. When intergroup contact satisfies each group's needs, it should result in more mutual supp…
Is Dating Dead? Modern Dating Among Emerging Adults in Croatia
Traditionally, a romantic relationship starts with two people going on dates and developing emotional and then physical closeness. However, social developments and social media have begun to change that. Therefore, the main aim of our qualitative study was to outline modern dating scripts and forms of casual sexual relationships among Croatian emerging adults, and to identify the needs they fulfill. We conducted four focus groups with young peopl…
Ima Li Međugrupni Kontakt Jednak Učinak Na Manjinu I Na Većinu? Odnos Međugrupnog Kontakta, Percepcije Međugrupne Prijetnje I Spremnosti Na Kolektivnu Akciju
The aim of the research was to examine the moderating role of the group status (minority or majority) on the relationship between intergroup contact and willingness to get involved in a collective action with the aim of reducing inequalities of the persons with homosexual orientation with regard to the heterosexual majority. Additionally, the aim was to analyse the moderating role of the group status on the relationship between intergroup contact…
Understanding Attitudes Towards Refugees: The Role of Origin and Shared Social Identity
The public’s attitude towards pro-refugee policies and the willingness to help refugees largely depend on the specific context of the receiving country. An important factor behind these various attitudes is the degree of identification with refugees, influenced by the similarity of cultural and ethnic identity, as well as by the degree of identification with their refugee experience. In this regard, Croatia is specific because memories of the 199…
Efficacy of imagined contact intervention with children and adolescents in reducing negative intergroup outcomes: A systematic review
Is Intergroup Contact Desired by Migrants? The Case of Unaccompanied Minors in Switzerland
Intergroup contact has been shown to reduce prejudice and promote positive relationships between members of different groups, as in the case of the integration of migrants. Nevertheless, extant research has not explored the crucial question of whether members of the migrant group express a desire for contact with the host group. To explore this question, we collected and collated a rare set of data to create a substantial corpus of semi‐structure…
“Are my needs heard?” A qualitative study on the psychosocial needs of unaccompanied minors in Switzerland
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)