Individual and contextual factors contributing to the development of mental and physical helath
INKOMET
INKOMET
She is employed at the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, at the Department of Kinesiology. She has extensive scientific, research, and professional experience relevant to the interdisciplinary project “Individual and Contextual Factors Contributing to the Development of Mental and Physical Health (INKOMET)”.
Her scientific interests focus on kinesiology education, physical activity, rehabilitation, and health-related aspects of children, with particular emphasis on children with chronic diseases and special educational needs. She graduated in 2010 from the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, specializing in Kinesiotherapy, where she already addressed diabetes-related topics in her graduation thesis. She obtained her PhD in 2021 from the same faculty, with a doctoral dissertation focused on kinanthropological characteristics, physical activity, and specific health conditions in children.
She is the author and co-author of numerous scientific and professional publications addressing the development and rehabilitation of children with cochlear implants, with a particular focus on motor abilities and factors influencing their development. She has published a series of studies examining physical activity and its association with children’s mental health, socio-emotional development, and working memory, and has contributed to the development and validation of new measurement instruments in the field of kinesiology.
Over the past five years, she has published 11 scientific and professional papers, three of which are indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. In total, she has authored or co-authored 14 original scientific papers, five of which are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. According to citation databases, she has an h-index of 2 in both Scopus and Google Scholar, with a total of 106 citations.
As the project leader, she is responsible for the overall project management, coordination of the research team, supervision of research activities, financial and administrative project monitoring, ensuring ethical compliance of the research, and dissemination of scientific results.
She is affiliated with the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. She is an expert in the field of developmental and health psychology, with extensive experience in the application of counseling and psychological interventions in work with children and parents. Within the project, she contributes to the theoretical framework of the research, the selection of measurement instruments, the planning and implementation of the study, and the interpretation of results, with a particular focus on the psychological aspects of children’s mental health.
She is affiliated with the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Her scientific work focuses on the study of offline and online risk behaviors among children and adolescents and their mental health. Within the project, she is involved in the development and validation of measurement instruments, data analysis, dissemination of results at scientific conferences, and the preparation of scientific publications.
He is affiliated with the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. For many years, his research has focused on the quality of life of children, adolescents, and adults, both healthy individuals and those living with chronic conditions. In his previous research, he has validated several questionnaires and published numerous scientific papers in this field. Within the project, he is responsible for the validation of instruments for assessing the quality of life of children with type 1 diabetes, data analysis, and the dissemination of results at scientific conferences. He mentors a PhD student on the topic of quality of life in children with type 1 diabetes and contributes to the preparation of scientific publications.
He is affiliated with the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. His research focuses on swimming, kinesiology methodology, kinesiology education, and physical activity. Within the project, he is involved in field data collection, the preparation of scientific publications, and the supervision of a PhD student on the relationship between weekly physical activity and motivation.
He is affiliated with the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. His scientific interests focus on kinesiology, kinesiology education, physical activity, and mental health. Within the project, he contributes to field data collection and the preparation of scientific publications.
He is affiliated with the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. His expertise encompasses student sports, physical and health education teaching, and kinesiology culture. Within the project, he is involved in field data collection and the preparation of scientific publications.
Ljiljana Šapić, Filip Petković, Patrik Petrov, Martina Tot Vesić
The project is funded by the European Union – Recovery and Resilience Facility.