Jelena Matić Bojić
Research associate
- Researcher’s unique code: 334986
- Job title: Assistant director
- Field of interest: psychology of education, personality, prejudice
Qualifications, scientific advancement and education
Research associate in social sciences, field of psychology
PhD in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Title of the thesis: The association between personality, cognitive ability and proneness to prejudice towards different social groups
MA in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
BA in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Research projects
Critical ChangeLab: Democracy meets arts: critical change labs for building democratic cultures through creative and narrative practices
Hand in hand: Empowering teachers across Europe to deal with social, emotional and diversity related career challenges
The role of personality, motivation and socio-emotional competences in early-career teachers’ occupational well-being
National monitoring of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 earthquake on the organization of the educational process and the well-being of students and educators in the Republic of Croatia
Support for the integration of third country nationals in need of international protection
Hand in Hand: Social and Emotional Skills for Tolerant and Non-discriminative Societies (A Whole School Approach)
The attitude of Zagreb citizens towards the integration of migrants and their human rights
Educational Aspirations of Pupils at Transitional Periods of Croatian Elementary Education: Nature, Determinants and Change
Regional support to inclusive education in South East Europe
Secondary school pupils’ civic competence, prejudice and discrimination experiences
Developing Curricula Culture: Empowering schools to develop and implement school curriculum
Competences for knowledge-based society and national curriculum in Croatia
Selected bibliography
Matić Bojić, J., & Bovan, K. (2024). Political knowledge of youth and their proneness to prejudice: Empirical test of direct and indirect effect via right-wing authoritarianism. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 14788047231225378.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14788047231225378
Löw, A., Puzić, S., & Matić Bojić, J. (2022). Anti-immigrant prejudice in a post-socialist context: the role of identity-based explanations. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(1), 113-132.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1862891
Bratko, D., Matić Bojić, J., & Pocrnić, M. (2021). Genetic and environmental contribution to social dominance orientation and its overlap with HEXACO personality traits: a twin study. Psihologijske teme, 30(1), 1-29.
https://doi.org/10.31820/pt.30.1.1
Matić Bojić, J. (2020). Odnos ličnosti i predrasuda: Teorijska osnova i pregled empirijskih nalaza [Personality - prejudice relation: Theoretical basis and overview of empirical findings]. Psihologijske teme, 29(3), 707-728.
https://doi.org/10.31820/pt.29.3.11
Matić, J., Löw, A. & Bratko, D. (2019). Personality and ideological bases of anti-immigrant prejudice among Croatian youth. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(13), 2387-2406.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1444470
Teaching activity
- 2015 - 2020 Introduction to psychology and Social psychology, Study Center for Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, external associate
- 2014 Psychology of education: Motivational and social processes, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, external associate