1. Effects of parenting styles on academic achievement : the moderating role of a country’s economic developmentTina Cupar, Rudi Klanjšek, Katja Košir, Miran Lavrič, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Although numerous studies have examined the relationship between parenting styles and academic achievement in different socio-cultural contexts, the moderating role of specific macro contextual characteristics remains understudied. This cross-national study examined the effects of three parenting styles on two aspects of academic achievement (self-reported average grade and educational attainment) in a sample of adolescents and young adults from ten Southeast European countries (N = 10,909) and tested whether the associations were moderated by economic development as an indicator of socio-cultural context. Results indicated that country-level authoritative parenting style was positively associated with both academic outcomes, while authoritarian and permissive parenting styles were negatively associated (authoritarian with both outcomes, permissive only with educational attainment). Furthermore, the country’s higher economic development increased the positive impact by authoritative parenting and decreased the negative impact by authoritarian parenting style on educational attainment. Study results provide evidence of the importance of contextual characteristics in which parenting takes place, especially for adolescents’ and young adults’ long-term educational outcomes. The results are dis cussed in terms of importance of general value orientations and life goals for the varying effects of parenting styles on educational attainment.
Ključne besede: academic achievements, parenting styles, Southeast Europe, cross-national, youth
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2. Roles of personal values and information technology usage in forming the university students’ view of environmental sustainability : a preliminary regional study of economics and business studentsNikša Alfirević, Vojko Potočan, Zlatko Nedelko, 2024, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: This study focuses on two significant factors shaping university students’ perception
of environmental sustainability. Those are (a) personal values, measured by the Portrait Values
Questionnaire (PVQ) and (b) the usage of and proficiency in information technology. Personal
values have been widely used to analyze individual perspectives toward various issues, including
environmental ones. As contemporary social arrangements include significant influences from social
networks and mobile phone usage, overall engagement with technology becomes an essential factor
affecting university student attitudes and behaviors. While the individual impact of those factors
can be found in the extant literature, we look into their interaction concerning university student
pro-environmental attitudes, measured by the Revised NEP (New Ecological Paradigm) Scale, and
their environmental self-efficacy. Our sample comes from the population of undergraduate business
and economics students from Central and Southeast Europe, specifically Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro. We discuss our findings in the context of previous studies
from the same regions and consider the unique socio-economic factors. The research results address
Sustainable Development Goals 4 (quality education), 12 (responsible consumption and production),
and 13 (climate action) by analyzing the factors contributing to university student pro-environmental
attitudes and their self-efficacy in the context of their information technology usage and proficiency.
Ključne besede: personal values, information technology, university students, pro-environmental worldview, Central Europe, Southeast Europe
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3. Pull factors and capital inflows : empirical insights from transformative dynamics in Southeast EuropeMehmed Ganić, Nedim Gavranović, 2024, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: This study seeks to examine pull factors of capital inflows, offering an
empirical analysis based on a panel study of eleven Southeast
European countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Romania,
Serbia, and Türkiye) over the period of 2004 – 2021. Methodologically,
the study utilizes a fixed effects (FE) regression model with robust
Driscoll-Kraay standard errors to address issues of heteroskedasticity,
autocorrelation, and potential cross-country correlation. The study
finds that several pull factors can be relevant in driving capital inflows
as follows: market size, inflation, financial and trade openness. The
empirical analysis confirms that the forces of trade liberalization,
financial liberalization, market size, real interest rates and inflation
stability are the elements that encourage capital inflows. On the other
hand, the estimated effects of current account balance and real
economic growth are not very convincing. Finally, we stress that more
study is required to fully understand the pull variables' ultimate
macroeconomic implications at the national level. The overall
influence of these positive (or negative) inflows may be moderated by
several characteristics, even if certain countries may be extremely
susceptible to these factors.
Ključne besede: capital inflows, pull factors, southeast Europe, panel data analysis, Driscoll-Kraay standard errors
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4. Behavioral expectations of business school students concerning extreme climate events : regional insights and implications for Southeast EuropeNikša Alfirević, Darko Rendulić, Sonja Mlaker Kač, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Abstract: This article presents the role of environmental attitudes and self-efficacy in shaping the behavioral expectations of business students in Southeast Europe regarding extreme climate events. Conducted across twelve public and private business schools in five countries, the study provides a baseline for comparison with similar empirical research. Using multiple linear regression, we analyze the relationship between the proenvironmental attitudes and environmental self-efficacy to the students’ climate change expectations. Our results indicate that pro-environmental attitudes significantly predict the students’ expectations of extreme climate events, while environmental self-efficacy plays a secondary but statistically significant role. These findings extend the extant literature by focusing on the role of sustainability in business school curricula and the potential positive outcomes of experiential learning methods and approaches.
Ključne besede: pro-environmental attitudes, environmental self-efficiency, climate change expectations, business students, Southeast Europe
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5. Development of rural space in post-communist southeast Europe after 1989 : a comparative analysisPeter Jordan, 2009, pregledni znanstveni članek Opis: This paper investigates the reasons for the current state of rural space in Southeast Europe, as well as its current structure. It is confirmed that pre-Communist structures, as well as divergent Communist systems and policies, contributed as much to current structures as have divergent post-Communist approaches and developments. Thus, we meet today very different situations in the rural space of Yugoslavian successor states on the one hand, and of other post-Communist countries of Southeast Europe with a planned economy (Romania, Bulgaria and Albania) on the other. But even the countries of former Yugoslavia show many divergences, mainly due to divergent demographic development in the wake of the Yugoslavian dissolution wars.
Ključne besede: structure of rural space, communist systems, transformation, agricultural policies, Southeast Europe
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6. Principal space-related transformation processes demonstrated by maps of the Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern EuropePeter Jordan, 2008, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: The article highlights some principal transformation processes in the post-Communist transformation countries of Central and Southeast Europe. This comprises (1) environmental change, (2) growing spatial disparities, (3) democratic transformation with a focus on administrative decentralisation and (4) the consequences of a rise in national and ethnic consciousness. As its main source this article is based on the Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, edited as a thematic map series since 1989 by the author of this article.
Ključne besede: transformation, Central Europe, Southeast Europe, environment, spatial disparities, administrative decentralisation, national consciousness
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