Jelena Ogresta

Biographic Data

ID4252587
NAMEJelena Ogresta
GIVEN NAMESJelena
FAMILY NAMEOgresta
SIGNATUREOGRESTA J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zagreb
ORCID0000-0001-5235-3180
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Multi-Scale Inventory of Social Worker Professional Competencies

    Open AccessJelena Ogresta, Ana Opačić et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2026

    Purpose: To develop and psychometrically evaluate the Multi-Scale Inventory of Social Worker Professional Competencies (SW-MSIPC). Method: An exploratory sequential mixed-methods design was used. Focus groups with social workers informed item refinement, followed by a pilot study (n = 115) and a large-scale survey (n = 905) conducted among social workers employed in Croatian social welfare centers to examine psychometric properties. Results: Eigh…

  • Motives for using Tinder and mental health in young adults

    Open AccessJelena Ogresta, Matea Kramarić et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2026

  • Invisible Services, Unheard Needs”

    Jelena Ogresta, Petra Kožljan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2025References: 66

  • Bez Škole Si Nitko«

    Open AccessJelena OgrestaARTICLEAnnual of Social Work2023

    Today’s adolescents grow up with digital technologies and the Internet from birth. In order to learn about the Internet experience of these adolescents, in accordance with the social constructivist perspective, qualitative methodology was used in this paper. The Uses and Gratification Theory guided the formulation of questions in a semi-structured interview. To explore the youth’s perception of the internet, ten girls and nine boys were interview…

  • Determinants of Causal Attributions of Homelessness in Croatia

    Open AccessOlja Družić Ljubotina, Marijana Kletečki Radović et al.ARTICLERevija za socijalnu politiku2022Cited by: 1References: 12

    Homelessness is one of the most difficult social issues, and people who have experienced homelessness are often exposed to stigmatisation and negative public perception. Public perception of homeless people also depends on how citizens interpret and what they attribute the causes of homelessness to. Therefore, this paper is aimed at verifying the causal attributions of homelessness based on Weiner’s three-dimensional attribution model. The aim of…

  • Why Do We Drop Out? Typology of Dropping Out of High School

    Open AccessJelena Ogresta, Ines Rezo et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2021References: 24

    We assessed how high school dropouts in Croatia interpret their school experiences and life circumstances, using semi-structured interviews of 20 young people, M ( SD) = 18.4 (1.23) years, 63.6% male, based on questions following a chronological life course from elementary to high school. Using qualitative content analysis and cluster analysis, we yielded a typology of high school dropouts. Four high school dropout types were identified based on …

  • Izloženost starijih osoba nasilju u obitelji

    Open AccessMarina Ajduković, Silvia Rusac et al.ARTICLERevija za socijalnu politiku2008Cited by: 1

    Family violence against elderly persons is one of the complex challenges that modern society is faced with. There has been no systematic research of the family violence against elderly persons in Croatia so far. The aims of this research were: (1) to check the constructive validity of the Survey of the exposure of elderly persons to violence, which survey was designed to research the extent and forms of manifestation of the violence against the e…