The original developmental diagnostic instrument was constructed and validated: The Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (ITEA), both versions in relation mother and father. It is a unique strongly reliable and valid questionnaire to assess individuation specifically in emerging adulthood. The Slovene student norms were also constructed and the IT-EA has been already applied international-wise. Its adaptation for use in various language communities (English, German, French, Norvegian, Croatian and Russian) has contributed to acknowledgments and reputation of the Slovene developmental psychology in the international research community. In addition, computer programs and e applications for users of the ITEA were developed in the aforementioned languages. The instrument can be used as a valuable assessment tool in student counseling, psychodiagnostics with emerging adults having psychological problems, and in treatments of families with emerging adults suffering for relational problems. The entire procedure of the test construction and validation is currently under review at the Journal of Personality Assessment. Selected research employing this instrument in Slovenia is published in a monograph and also presents a part of a monograph currently being in press.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
Organization in convening the invited symposium at The 12th European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul,Turkey, July, 04-08, 2011. Following an invitation of the Organizing and Scientific Committee ECP, M. Zupančič organized and convened the invited the scientific symposium entitled Young people's perceptions and experiences of emerging adulthood in different countries. A Slovene contribution was also presented within this symposium. The invitation by the organizers of the ECP and the performance of the symposium, which also included the presentation of our research on the project represents an important recognition of our research by the international research community, reflects excellence of our work at the international level, and further promotes the Slovene psychological science. Over the duration of the project, M. Zupančič also organized and convened symposiums at other international conferences and presented the Slovene paper, i.e.: (1) the symposium (convened with U. Sirsch) entitled The role of structural differences and personality of young people in emerging adulthood at the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Association on Adolescence, 29.8.-1.9. 2012, Spetses, Geece; (2) the symposium entitled Emerging adulthood: Testing the validity of some common measures at the 21st Biennial Conference ISSBD, 18.-22.7. 2010, Lusaka, Zambia; (3) the symposium entitled Subjective perceptions and experiences of emerging adulthood at the 9th Conference Alps-Adria on Psihology,16.-18.9. 2010, Klagenfurt, Austria, and (4) was a discuissant in the symposium Predictive value of child and adolescent personality at the 6th Congress of Slovene Psychologists with international participants, 29. 9. – 2. 10. 2010, Rogaška Slatina.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
The research in 2011 is embedded in undergraduate educational and doctoral programs at three Slovene universities (Ljubljana, Maribor, Primorska) and international-wise, e.g. at the University of Vienna, Vrie Universitet Brusels, Grand Valley (Allendale) and Longwood universities, Gainesville College (USA), universities in Akademgrodok and Perm (Russia). The findings are disseminated through lectures and seminars within a variety of courses across several educational programs at the university level, i.e. in psychology, neuropsychology, educational sciences, pedagogy, adult education, preschool education. The data collected by our research is also used to present the usefulness of multivariate statistical methods to our psychology students. The results of our studies there are included in our recent monographs, textbooks, chapters of monographs and papers published annually (see Cobiss). Those provide valuable academic material to the students in support to the lectures based on our latest findings.
D.10 Educational activities
A. Podlesek is the president of the National Committee for awarding the EuroPsy certificate. She is responsible for the implementation of this certificate in Slovenia and participates in the preparation of guidelines for the supervized practice of psychologists, based on the competence model of mentoring the psychologistsintraining. She is involved in developing a training program for mentors of supervised practice, which relies on the identification and evaluation of the competencies in psychology graduates. Within a project which aimed at establishing a mentoring network and developed a model of educational program for mentors and students involved either in internship or supervised practice, she (as a coauthor) presented steps in the educational process: acquiring the competence approach and task planning, hands on activities in practical settings, structured reflection, and assessment of students’ competences and mentors’ role. The project is evaluated and some guidelines for educational programs on supervised practice are outlined.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
Komidar has been editor-in-chief of the Horizons of Psychology since 2012 (published by the Slovene Psychological Society, Ljubljana), Cecić Erpič was the editor-in-chief of the journal Kinesiologia Slovenica (published by Faculty of Sports, Ljubljana) and has been the field editor at the International Journal of Psysical Education (published in Schorndorf: Hofmann) since 2004.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine