Bosnian Students Research Articles

Adolescent Adjustment, Caregiver-Adolescent Relationships, and Outlook Towards the Future in the Long-Term Aftermath of the Bosnian War

Using a mixed-method design with Bosnian students (n = 63, ages 16–19) and their primary caregivers (n = 50), we explored the impact of post-war adversities on adolescent adjustment, adolescent-caregiver relationships, and future outlook 8 years after the 1992–1995 Bosnian civil war. Adolescents and caregivers identified themes linking the war and its aftermath to ongoing emotional adjustment difficulties, relationships challenges, and negative future outlook. Adolescents’ posttraumatic stress symptoms were positively correlated with self-report measures of interpersonal stressors, existential stressors, parental psychological control, and anxious/withdrawn symptoms. Parental psychological control partially mediated the association between interpersonal post-war adversities and posttraumatic stress symptoms.

Description of Learning Strategies and Socio-Cultural Background Influence on the Productive Skills of Turkish and Bosnian Students

Description of Learning Strategies and Socio-Cultural Background Influence on the Productive Skills of Turkish and Bosnian Students

Exploring the difference between Turkish and Bosnian students in Triangular Love scale

Numerous studies show that different cultures experience emotions. Some cultures tend to express emotions without restrictions while some others try to suppress the expression of emotions. These differences are particularly more manifest when Eastern and Western cultures are compared. The fact that definition of love differs between different cultures makes it difficult to determine cultural differences in the concept of love. This might serve as a basis of prejudices about some nations in relation to how they perceive love. The main aim of this study is to explore differences between Turkish and Bosnian students on love scale. The term love is operationalized by Sternberg's triangular theory of love scale which includes intimacy, passion and commitment component of love. Using quasi-experimental design we tested gender differences, the length of current relationship and correlation between them on overall scale and individual subscales. The sample consisted of 87 Turkish (22 males and 65 females) and 64 Bosnian students (23 males and 41 females) total 151 students (N=151). Results of the study show statistically significant differences between Turkish and Bosnian students on two dimensions in Sternberg triangular love scale intimacy and passion. Bosnian students scored higher on these subscales. Study results suggest that there is no statistically significant differences between males and females in any subscale. The length of love relationship is positively correlated with intimacy, which indicates that the length of connections weakly associated with intimacy, and that is not associated with the passion and the decision of commitment, suggesting longer relationship does not mean more romantic relationship, and vice versa

The Effects of Structural Features of Learning Turkish Language as a Foreign Language from Learners’ Perspective: Bosnia and Herzegovina Case

The structure of a language that is learned and the structure of the native languages of learners is a prominent factor in affecting learning foreign language. In this context, the objective of this study is determining the effects of the syntax, phonetic and phonological features on learning foreign languages. As a qualitative study, in the process of learning Turkish, a survey to discover the impact of the structural attributes of Turkish language on 178 Bosnian students was administered. The reliability Co-efficient, Cranach’s Alpha, has been found 0.73 on all questions. Descriptive statistics and One Sample T-Tests have been run in the data analysis section. In the findings, some positive factors such as the progress of literacy in learning Turkish as a foreign language, making the words plural, the absence of irregular verbs and the regular conjugation, the easiness of Turkish pronunciation, the absence of gender in word formation have been found.

Intellectual Styles of Bosnian Students: A Cross-cultural Perspective

In this paper the focus is on the intellectual styles of the Bosnian students which are presented through the prism of the Threefold Model of intellectual styles. The participants, 45 graduate students, completed the Bosnian version of the Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI). The results showed the following: a) acceptability, the three-dimensional structure of TSI, which is in line with contemporary research on intellectual styles, b) dominance of Type I, creativity-generating intellectual styles on norm-favoring, the Type II intellectual styles. The implications of these findings from the cross-cultural standpoint are discussed in this paper.

Bosnian and American Students’ Attitudes Toward Electronic Monitoring

The use of community corrections continues to grow across the globe as alternatives to incarceration are sought. Little research attention, however, has been directed at correctional alternatives from a global orientation. The purpose of this research study is to compare the way that a sample of criminal justice students from the United States (n = 118) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (n = 133) perceive electronic monitoring. Because electronic monitoring is a newer sentencing alternative and it is used differently in Bosnia and Herzegovina than it is in the United States, it is predicted that Bosnian students will view electronic monitoring differently than will students from the United States. This study finds that while students are largely supportive of electronic monitoring sentences, support is affected by offender type and student nationality. For example, Bosnian students are more supportive of electronic monitoring sentences for drug offenders while American students are more supportive of electronic monitoring sentences for juvenile offenders. Differences were also found across student groups when attitudes toward electronic monitoring and the costs and pains associated with electronic monitoring were assessed. Specifically, American students were less likely to view electronic monitoring as meeting the goals of rehabilitation and more likely to view the conditions and restrictions associated with electronic monitoring as being punitive than Bosnian students were. Implications from these findings, as well as limitations and suggestions for further research are discussed.

The Ethics of Tax Evasion: A Comparative Study of Bosnian and Romanian Opinion

This paper compares the views of Bosnian and Romanian business students on the ethics of tax evasion. Wilcoxon tests found that their views were significantly different for 12 of the 18 fact situations examined.

The Ethics of Tax Evasion: A Survey of Bosnian Opinion

Very little has been written about tax evasion from an ethical perspective. Most of the prior research explores the public finance and policy implications of tax evasion. This study investigates the ethics of tax evasion utilizing a survey instrument consisting of 18 statements. These statements represent the predominant issues and viewpoints that have emerged regarding tax evasion in the Western philosophical and theological literature over the past 500 years. This study explores the acceptance of these Western arguments related to tax evasion among business and economics students at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia. Results indicate that the belief that tax evasion is ethical is not widespread among the Bosnian students. However, their responses to the survey indicate that tax evasion is frowned upon in some cases more than others and that the attitude toward tax evasion differs depending upon the issue.

Reeducating the Hearts of Bosnian Students: An Essay on Some Aspects of Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The article looks into the present education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the influence of politics in the creation and maintenance of segregated schools. It analyzes the concept of “educational protectionism,” which underlines the difference between “ethnically correct education” and “adequate education,” the latter being embedded in the human rights for group minorities to have education that reflect their language, culture, history, and religion. The article presents a preliminary case study of a multiethnic schoolin Popov Most, Eastern Bosnia, analyzing parents’ attitudes toward controversial educational issues such as language, religious teaching, and history.