Institute of Sociological, Political and Juridical Research

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The Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research was founded in 1965 with the decision of the Council of the University “St. Cyril and Methodius". Since then, the ISPJR is devoted to scientifically examine the sociological, political and legal phenomena in the country, to encourage and to organize appropriate researches for social development, to educate young scientist and to develop scientific staff. Институтот за социолошки и политичко-правни истражувања е основан во 1965 година со одлука на Советот на Универзитетот "Св.Кирил и Методиј" во Скопје. Од тогаш, ИСППИ е посветен на научното истражување на социолошките, политиколошките и правните појави во земата, на поттикнување и организирање соодветни истражувања за развој на општеството, на подготвување на научен подмладок и усовршување на научен кадар.

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Personality Dimensions and Importance of the Social Role of the University Student in Explaining Student Involvement in Student Organization
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> In order to explore the student involvement in the student organization, field research was conducted amongst 669 students. The research instrument contained a questionnaire on students’ perception and satisfaction of the student organization; two scales of IPIP NEO (short form): Agreeableness (A) and Conscientiousness (C), and one dimension of the Laponce’s questionnaire: the importance of the social role of the university student. The analysis of the overall obtained data showed a very low level of involvement in student organization and a weak expression of the importance of the social role of the university student. A relatively weak connection between two personality dimensions and the involvement of students in the student organization has been found. A student’s involvement is determined more by the importance of the role, than by personality dimensions.</jats:p>
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Motive for Social Justice and Students Activism at University Level
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> Student organizations exist to protect the rights and interests of their members. Therefore, if they are organized into representative student governments, students can be a very influential agent who shapes the policy of higher education, and build themselves as democratic force in the society. The purpose of this study conducted by Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research (ISPJR), Skopje was to consider student activism at university level in light of social justice motive. The data show that components of social justice motive influence the activism in Student Organization but also certainly proved that educational system of the country has serious omissions and errors in developing responsible and active youth and the country has to invest in its students because good student organization, in addition to exercising rights, freedoms and needs, and engaging in improving students’ standard and their well-being, means investing in an active, efficient, motivated and democratic youth.</jats:p>
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Student’s Social Justice Motivation and Attitude toward Students’ organization
(INSTITUTE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND JURIDICAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY “Ss. CIRYL AND METHODIUS” - SKOPJE, 2018)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
Student organizations exist and should exist to protect the rights and interests of their members. If certain research is correct and say that more than 80% of students in Macedonia are not members of any student organization, then the situation is worrying and of course it is necessary to find suitable ways to change it. Therefore, a research team at the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research conducted a research on student organization, in particular about the ways in which students work, their attitudes and opinions about student organization, and their motivation to behave in accordance with the concepts of social justice. In the period of May 2017, 669 students from different faculties at the University “Ss.Cyril and Methodius” were examined about their views and opinions for student organization, as well as their moral motivation, or whether they are morally motivated to behave in accordance with the principles of social justice in society. The results show that students do not understand the concept of social justice and are very little aware that with their behavior they contribute to the fight for social justice. This also means that if they are not fully aware about their potential contribution in society they will not be active in the processes of student’s life and their future.
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STIMULATION OF CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING PROCESS THROUGH PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS AMONG POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
(Goce Delcev University in Shtip, Republic of Macedonia, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
Stimulation of critical and creative thinking process is the most essential aspect of shaping democratic citizens’ identity and ideology, which have influence in establishing citizenship society. But, in the process of satisfying our ego, our tendency to see world only through our wishes and needs, we can often deny ourselves intellectual growth and opportunity. Critical thinking includes a complex combination of skills. Among the main characteristics are the following: rationality, self-awareness, honesty, open-mindless, moral judgment etc. Psychological laboratory at the Institute for sociological, political and juridical research, Skopje, established block of 10 workshops with 6 groups of post-graduated students. Each workshop has different topic: building self-capacity, stimulation of communication skills, emotional management, conflicts, motivation stress management, stimulation of moral judgment competence etc. The workshop process by itself has character of research in action. Changes among students happened during each workshop. Some of effect which have been shared in the groups are following: students become more aware about themselves and others, they can control their emotions and can manage arising conflicts. Other thing is that they find this process of learning as very effective in their professional life and academic too. They shared that this process stimulated their process of changes in personality and identity.
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SHAPING AND MODELING PERSONALITY IN PROCESS OF LONG LASTING TRANSITION-CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
(Goce Delcev University, Shtip, Republic of Macedonia, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
The years of socio-economic and political transition in the Republic of Macedonia were characterized with: rising ethnic tensions, refugee crisis, transformation of the political system and political ideology, and the introduction of political pluralism. Macedonia faced interethnic tensions which escalated with the war conflict in 2001. There were more or less other problems with neighbors which were related with the identity of Macedonian nation and Macedonian state. During the period of more than 15 years (1999-2015), Psychological laboratory at the Institute for Sociological Political and Juridical Research (ISPJR) -Skopje has implemented several surveys which purpose was to indentify the process of psychological transformation of the citizens under the influence of politically motivated events. Analyses showed that politically motivated factors of stress can influence changes in the psychological processes as: perception, competence for moral judgment, identity, social attitudes, (authoritarianism) and political ideology. And, at the end, changes in the political culture bring new shape of the average personality profile. Findings showed that citizens’ average personality profiles can be shaped as a result of long lasting changes in society. The new generations of individuals become more self oriented and less prepared to participate in collective initiatives.
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The Role of Macedonian Folk Songs Featured in Macedonian Films in Amplifying the Emotions
(Musicologist, 2019)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
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Ganka Cvetanova
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Velika Serafimovska Stojkova
Macedonian folk songs, as a part of Macedonian traditions and culture, represent an integral part of Macedonian history marked by resistance, military feats, and tendencies for maintaining the Macedonian national identity. This paper is focused on the issue of whether two Macedonian folk songs With Torments I was Born and Listen Patriots created in the course of the 19th century – a period marked with active struggle for liberation and independence of the Macedonian nation – additionally intensify the emotions provoked by the storyline and action of the films, in which they have been incorporated. During the research process, the authors of the paper used the mechanism of cognitive appraisal as a model for content analysis, as well as psychological and ethnomusicological analysis of the resulting data. The units of content analysis were the sequences of scenes of the film, in which the two Macedonian folk songs were used. The selected songs and films, as well as the interaction between the sound and visual senses, clearly present the deep relationship between music and emotions in a specific, identity-related context. The findings of the study are in favor of the thesis that Macedonian folk songs, created as a result of the centuries-old struggle of the Macedonian people, when used in Macedonian films, intensify the patriotic emotions of the viewers and strengthen the concept of uniqueness in the Macedonian identity, due to the processes of repetition and revitalization of collective memories.
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Political crisis, media and emotions
(Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
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Trajkov Ivan
Macedonia will remember 2015 as a year of long-term political crisis. It was a year of intensive activity against the Government. There were “opposition bombs”, disclosed incriminating phone calls, strikes in education, mass protests, camping in front of the Government and the Assembly, a police action against the terrorists in Kumanovo, migrant crisis... The understanding of the start and the end points of the crisis largely depends on the individual perception created as a result of the personal experience and the experience mediated through offiine networks, online networks and media. Apart from the diversity of the events in the surroundings there is also a difference in the style of processing or living one's own emotions (feeling them, expressing them, understanding them). This research focuses on how students process emotions provoked by news/media stories on the events connected to the abovementioned critical political events. Students from the Faculty of Philosophy, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" voluntarily accepted to take part in this research. Two research instruments were used: questionnaire for the evaluation of the media content and their influence on the emotions of the respondent and the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) regarding the nature of processing emotions. The research design provides quantitative and qualitative analysis. This study showed that anger, fear and rage are dominantly provoked by negative emotions which are unprocessed or there is avoidance of coping with them (the two unhealthy ways of emotional processing).
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Personality dimensions and student’s participatory behavior in student organization
(Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical research, University SS. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 2018)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
This text is based on the analysis of the data obtained from the wider research about the student’s participation in Student organization. During May, 2017 the field research among students at University of “Ss Cyril and Methodius” (UKIM) in Skopje was conducted. The total number of respondents was 669. Respondents were students from 1 till 5 year from almost all faculties which constitute UKIM. For the purpose of this research, two scales (Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) from the short version of IPIP NEO, (Five Factorial personality test) and Questionnaire were used. Agreeableness (A) personality dimension is a tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic toward others, and dimension Conscientiousness (C), is a tendency to be self-disciplined, to act dutifully. Both dimensions are relevant in institutionalized forms of participation (as student organization is). Questionnaire contains set of questions which were indicators for student’s participatory behavior. In this research participatory behavior has been defined as involvement and influence that students have in decision- making processes in student organization. The overall findings of this research pointed out that independent variables - personality dimensions (Agreeableness and Consciousness) cannot predict student’s participatory behavior in their student organization.
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCING OF THE MACEDONIAN EPIC FOLK SONGS
(INSTITUTE FOR SOCIOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND JURIDICAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY “Ss. CIRYL AND METHODIUS” - SKOPJE, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
In the course of the past centuries, the Macedonian folk song embraced all significant moments of the lives of the Macedonian people. These songs pay tribute to the years of servitude, resistance, military feats, whether individual or group, spontaneous or organized. Throughout the conducted research, the question we focused on was whether these Macedonian songs created in the course of the 19th century -period of active struggle for liberation and independence of the Macedonian nation; evoke feelings of patriotism among the young in contemporary time when the Republic of Macedonia has acquired its sovereignty and independence. For the purpose of determining the influence of music on the emotions, and identifying the emotions, thoughts, ideas and behavior ‘touched upon’ and evoked by the Macedonian epic folk song, experimental research was conducted. The experiment was realized in a time period of 2 hours with a group of 18 students that participated on a voluntary basis. The findings from the analysis of the emotions experienced by the respondents in the experiment indicate that the respondents can identify the different emotions, thoughts and ideas embodied in two popular Macedonian epic folk songs. Hence, these epic songs (especially when listened with lyrics) not only evoke negative emotions but cause negative thoughts and ideas as well. In this sense, the main conclusion is that the Macedonian epic folk songs created in 19th century still “‘touch upon” the present generations.
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Perception of Personal Characteristic and Importance of the Identity of Students in the Republic of Macedonia: Factors and Consequences
(MI-AN Publishing, 2016)
Marijana Markovikj
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Eleonora Serafimovska
This paper comes out from more extensive research named “Real and virtual identities” realized by Institute for sociological, political and juridical research during year 2013. Its tendency was to explore how young people see themselves, which attributes they use in process of self definition, as well as to find out what are the factors and outcomes of self definition process. This part of the research is actually in the field of psychology of personality and identity and it is based on the circumflex model of interpersonal behavior. The main hypothesis in this segment of the study assumed that certain socio-demographic factors influenced the identity perception of young people and that it has an impact in several segments of their socio-political life. Research sample size was 707 respondents, male 256 and 451 female students from Skopje, Tetovo and Bitola. When the factors are in focus, the data show that male, with a greater intensity than women perceive themselves as dominant, calculating, cold-blooded and introverted, while women with more intensity than men perceive themselves as cooperative; Albanians, in comparison with the Macedonians, in the description of self stress more: dominance, accountability, coldblooded, introvert, while the Macedonians, stress more: cooperation and sociability; respondents living in the village to a greater extent describe themselves as introverted, less dominant, compared to those living in the city. Those who live in the city, compared with those who live in the village over perceived themselves as social. Speaking about the outcomes, openness to different social events is usually connected positively with dimensions as gregariousness, willingness to cooperate and domination, and negatively to introversion and inferiority.

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