How do older people discuss their own sexuality? A systematic review of qualitative research studies.

This study captured older people's attitudes and concerns about sex and sexuality in later life by synthesising qualitative research published on this issue. The systematic review was conducted between November 2015 and June 2016 based on a pre-determined protocol. Key words were used to ensure a precise search strategy.

Reference intervals for six salivary cortisol measures based on the Croatian Late Adolescence Stress Study (CLASS).

Introduction: The aim of this nested study is to provide the reference intervals for already published measurements of salivary cortisol from the Croatian Adolescence Stress Study (CLASS).

Material And Methods: A total of 969 individuals (372 males and 597 females) were included in the reference sample (age range: 18-21 years). Salivary cortisol concentrations were determined by the enzyme immunoassay (LUCIO-Medical ELISA Salivary Cortisol Kit, Nal von Minden, Germany) in the Department of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Split.

A concept analysis of the term migrant women in the context of pregnancy.

Aim: This paper explores the concept of migrant women as used in European healthcare literature in context of pregnancy to provide a clearer understanding of the concept for use in research and service delivery.

Methods: Walker and Avant's method of concept analysis.

Results: The literature demonstrates ambiguity around the concept; most papers do not provide an explicit or detailed definition of the concept.

Weather conditions: a neglected factor in human salivary cortisol research?

There is ample evidence that environmental stressors such as extreme weather conditions affect animal behavior and that this process is in part mediated through the elevated activity of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis which results in an increase in cortisol secretion. This relationship has not been extensively researched in humans, and weather conditions have not been analyzed as a potential confounder in human studies of stress. Consequently, the goal of this paper was to assess the relationship between salivary cortisol and weather conditions in the course of everyday life and to test a possible moderating effect of two weather-related variables, the climate region and timing of exposure to outdoors conditions.

Daily salivary cortisol profile: Insights from the Croatian Late Adolescence Stress Study (CLASS).

Introduction: The aim of the study was to examine basal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity and to determine associations of various covariates (gender, sleep-wake rhythm, demographic, academic, life style and health-related characteristics) with altered daily salivary cortisol profiles in late adolescence.

Materials And Methods: The total analytic sample consisted of 903 Croatian secondary school students aged 18 - 21 years (median 19 years). Salivary cortisol was sampled at home at three time points over the course of one week and its concentrations were measured by using the enzyme immunoassay.

Measuring Cross-Cultural Supernatural Beliefs with Self- and Peer-Reports.

Despite claims about the universality of religious belief, whether religiosity scales have the same meaning when administered inter-subjectively-or translated and applied cross-culturally-is currently unknown. Using the recent "Supernatural Belief Scale" (SBS), we present a primer on how to verify the strong assumptions of measurement invariance required in research on religion. A comparison of two independent samples, Croatians and New Zealanders, showed that, despite a sophisticated psychometric model, measurement invariance could be demonstrated for the SBS except for two noninvariant intercepts.

What differs between happy and unhappy people?

This study explores the determinants (demographic, personal, behavioural, and social) by which happy and unhappy people differ. The primary sample from which the participants were chosen was a representative sample of Croatian citizens (N = 4000). On the basis of the distribution of overall happiness the sample of the highest (the happy group) and the lowest 10 % of participants (the unhappy group) were selected.

Materialism, affective states, and life satisfaction: case of Croatia.

In recent years, a number of studies have used Material Values Scale (MVS) to assess beliefs about importance to own material things. The aims of this study were to validate the MVS scale and to explore the relationships between materialistic values and well-being of Croatian citizens. The study was carried out on a representative sample of N = 1129 Croatian citizens.

Work happiness among teachers: a day reconstruction study on the role of self-concordance.

Self-concordant work motivation arises from one's authentic choices, personal values, and interests. In the present study, we investigated whether self-concordant motivation may fluctuate from one work-related task to the next. On the basis of self-determination theory, we hypothesized that momentary self-concordance buffers the negative impact of momentary work demands on momentary happiness.

The relation between school entrance age and school achievement during primary schooling: evidence from Croatian primary schools.

Background: Compulsory school entrance age and admission policies differ across countries and educational systems, and there is a continuing debate on the question whether and how the age at school entry affects various student outcomes.

Aims: This study explored the relation between school entrance age and school achievement among students attending fourth (ages 10-11) and eighth (ages 14-15) grade of Croatian primary schools.

Sample: Participants were 44,479 fourth- and 43,338 eighth-grade students from all Croatian primary schools.

Brainstorming for which brains are prohibited: analyzing our bio-neoliberal realities.

This paper is based on the will to provide a methodology/exercise in bringing our perceptional and analytical tools (when doing biomedical and applied biological research) to the level of today's neoliberal challenges. Better said, exactness does not give accurate end results in the intellectual surrounding of wrongly interpreted (biological) data without much connection to our on-ground (neoliberal) realities. The main problem that is being tackled is that our bio-neoliberal realities, immersed into decades long build up of political and economic factors, if elegantly ignored before, cannot be disregarded anymore.

Talking culture, crying health, hoping for nothing: surviving the many flyers above the human rights global cuckoo's nests.

Today's talk about any health issue is part of a wider web of neoliberal destructive processes of which all fall into the category of discriminating populations and their cultures, downgrading their right to life and violating their human dignity. Poor health, poverty stricken health systems and screaming epidemiological factors make just one more triangle of the successive visible consequences of destruction that equals to the violation of human dignity, to begin with. Yet no correction is possible since every problem is tied to the double standard perceivement of Human Rights.

Monthly income and subjective well-being of Croatian citizens.

Aim: To examine the differences in subjective well-being among people with different household income.

Method: Data were obtained from the national survey conducted in June 2005, in which a representative sample of 896 participants were administered a questionnaire on several measures of subjective well-being as follows: happiness, life satisfaction, and satisfaction with different life domains (personal and national well-being index). One-way ANOVA was performed to test the differences in subjective well-being measures between participants grouped into six categories according to their monthly income.

Tie--an accessory fashion detail or a symbol?

Aim: The first aim of this study was to establish the frequency of wearing a tie or business neckerchief on different occasions and in relation to age and educational level. The second aim was to establish whether men who frequently wear a tie were attributed certain characteristics more often than men who rarely wear a tie and to establish whether there were differences in the attribution of these characteristics according to sex, age, educational level, and the frequency of wearing a tie.

Method: Data were collected in 2005 by a method of face to face interview on a national representative sample (n = 1007).

An analysis of a cross-cultural personality inventory: the IPIP Big-Five factor markers in Croatia.

In this article, we describe the factor structure in both self-reports and peer ratings of the items in a cross-cultural Big-Five inventory in Croatia. Using 2 versions of an inventory developed from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP; Goldberg, 1999), this is one of the first cross-national analyses of these IPIP measures. A large sample of university students (N = 519) used the translated Croatian version of the 100-item IPIP Big Five inventory to describe themselves, and they were also described by 515 of their acquaintances on the same instrument.

Socioeconomic stress and drug consumption: unemployment as an adverse health factor in Croatia.

Aim: To explore to what degree unemployment was related to health problems expressed in terms of consumption of prescription drugs in Croatian citizens.

Methods: Based on the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance data for 2003, the number of prescriptions per insured individual (NPI) was calculated for employed and unemployed persons, as well as for different subsets according to the region (Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek), age, gender, and prescribed drug category.

Results: During 2003, a total of 1 003 547 drugs were prescribed to 949 746 health-insured persons aged 18-69 years.

The long-term effects of war experiences on children's depression in the Republic of Croatia.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate whether different levels of depressive symptoms in early adolescent boys and girls could be predicted on the basis of war experiences, perceived available social support (instrumental support, support to self-esteem, belonging and acceptance) and extraversion.

Methods: The sample consisted of 583 children ages 12 to 15 years; 283 children were displaced from different parts of Croatia for a period of approximately three and a half years. The following instruments were administered: Questionnaire on Children's Stressful and Traumatic War Experiences, Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale, Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and Interpersonal Support Evaluation List.

Quality of life, life satisfaction and happiness in shift- and non-shiftworkers.

Objective: To investigate the quality of life, life satisfaction, happiness and demands of work in workers with different work schedules.

Methods: The survey was carried out on professional workers in social care. Some were shiftworkers whose schedule included night shifts (N=311), some were shiftworkers without night shifts (N=207) and some were non-shiftworkers (N=1,210).

Beliefs about age and physical demands of work in shiftworkers.

The aim of the study was to investigate the differences between shiftworkers and non-shiftworkers in terms of several aspects of aging. Our interest was in particular focused on the differences observed in the assessment of subjective age, and physical, mental and social demands of work. Subjects were workers in a medical setting, 54 shiftworkers and 53 non-shiftworkers of the comparable chronological age.

Development and testing of promotion materials on tissue and organ donation.

Aim: To develop leaflets that would promote and increase tissue and organ donation and to test their persuasive value.

Method: The study was carried out in two parts. In Study 1, we assessed attitudes, knowledge, and intentions about tissue and organ donation of 200 randomly chosen persons from the population of the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, as well as of 108 health professionals in different hospitals in Zagreb.

Perceived parental acceptance-rejection, family-related factors, and socio-economic status of families of adolescent heroin addicts.

Aim: To compare adolescent heroin addicts and non-addicts with respect to their perceived parental acceptance and rejection, family factors (structure of the family, parents' marital status, and psychopathological disorders in the family), socio-economic status, and subjective appraisal of their family relations.

Methods: Fifty-two heroin addicts aged between 17 and 21, were compared with a group of 52 non-addicts of the same age. The comparison group was selected from an ad-hoc sample of high-school juniors and seniors and first- and second-year university students.

Chronological and subjective age in relation to work demands: survey of Croatian workers.

The aim of the study was to investigate chronological and subjective age and gender differences in terms of the physical, mental, and social demands of work. Subjects, 88 women and 25 men, were workers in a medical setting who completed the Survey of Health Care Professionals. Subjects' reports of effort required by their work, tiredness resulting from their work, and personal skills needed to complete their work were used to assess the physical, mental, and social demands of work.

The relation of parental practices and self-conceptions to young adolescent problem behaviors and substance use.

The object of the present research was to examine the role of parenting practices for young adolescent psychosocial adjustment and self-regulation problems. The sample included 287 sixth- and seventh-grade subjects from intact families. The participants completed a questionnaire that measured variables including family interaction, parental involvement in children's activities, parental support, joint decision-making, and monitoring of children's behavior.