People

Mirta Mornar

Senior research assistant

  • Researcher’s unique code: 367226
  • Job title: Senior research assistant
  • Field of interest: psychology of education

Qualifications, scientific advancement and education

2019 – 2024

PhD in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
PhD thesis title: The role of social and emotional competencies in early-career teachers' occupational well-being

2013 – 2016

MA in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

2010 – 2013

BA in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Research projects

2021 – 2025

The role of personality, motivation and socio-emotional competences in early-career teachers’ occupational well-being

2019 – 2022

Innovate debate: applied curriculum for debate based youth work

2019 – 2020

Study report on the social dimension of higher education in the Republic of Croatia

2018 – 2020

Hand in Hand: Social and Emotional Skills for Tolerant and Non-discriminative Societies (A Whole School Approach)

2018

The use of ICT in learning, teaching and assessment in Croatian primary and secondary schools

Selected bibliography

Baketa, N., Kovačić, M., & Mornar, M. (2023). The role of debate in cognitive development and development of civic awareness of young people - a qualitative analysis. Sociologija, 65(3), 400-417. https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2303400b

Burić, I., & Mornar, M. (2022). Teacher dispositional affectivity, emotional labor, and self-efficacy: A longitudinal analysis. Current psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03029-7

Mornar, M., Marušić, I., & Šabić, J. (2022). Academic self-efficacy and learning strategies as mediators of the relation between personality and elementary school students’ achievement. European journal of psychology of education, 37(4), 1237-1254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-021-00576-8

Mornar, M., & Tonković Grabovac, M. (2022). Determinants of faking on personality questionnaires in selection situations-A qualitative analysis of the responses of young highly educated candidates. In 22nd Psychology Days in Zadar - Book of Selected Proceedings (pp. 95-110). University of Zadar.

Jugović, I., Puzić, S., & Mornar, M. (2020) Development of the social, emotional and intercultural learning programme for students. In Kozina, A. (ed.). Social, emotional and intercultural competencies for inclusive school environments across Europe, pp. 59–82. Berlin: Verlag Dr. Kovač.

Mornar, M., Matić Bojić, J., Odak, I., Eliasson, N., Goetzsche, K., Jurko, L., Kozina, A., Ojsteršek, A., Sälzer, C., Veldin, M., & Vieluf, S. (2020). Students’ Social, Emotional and Intercultural Competencies and their Development in School Settings. Šolsko polje, 31(3-4), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.32320/1581-6044.31(3-4)115-137

Veldin, M., Kozina, A., Mornar, M., & Dahlström, H. (2020). Students´ empathy and classroom climate as predictors of attitudes towards immigrants. A case study in three EU countries. In C. Pracana & M. Wang (Eds.), Psychology applications & developments VI. Advances in psychology and psychological trends serie (pp. 316-327). Science Press. https://doi.org/10.36315/2021pad28

Teaching activity

  • Lecturer, Algebra University
  • External associate, Department for Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb