authors ■ av tor j i 213 ovala koncept socialne sprejetosti v povezavi z različnimi dimenzijami samopodobe in vedenja na spletnih socialnih omrežjih. Zanima jo razisk- ovanje, še bolj pa praktično delo z otoki in mladostniki. Kot svetovalna delavka in učiteljica dodatne strokovne pomoči je zaposlena na osnovni šoli Slave Klavore v Mariboru, dodatno pa je tudi del tima za delo z na- darjenimi učenci. Nina Jurinec Nina Jurinec completed her Master’s education of psychology in Febru - ary 2016, at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. In her final thesis titled Validation of the Slovenian adaptation of situational tests of emo- tional understanding and emotion management she examined the psy- chometric characteristics of the mentioned tests. Besides researching, she is also interested in clinical psychology. She works as an apprentice at the Department of Psychiatry at the University Medical Centre Maribor. Nina Jurinec je februarja 2016 zaključila študij psihologije na Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Mariboru. V zaključnem delu z naslovom Validacija slovenske priredbe situacijskih testov razumevanja in uravnavanja čustev je preverjala psihometrične značilnosti omenjenih testov. Poleg razisk- ovanja jo še posebej zanima klinična psihologija. Sedaj je kot pripravni- ca zaposlena na Oddelku za psihiatrijo v Univerzitetnem kliničnem cen- tru Maribor. Marina Horvat Asist. Marina Horvat works at the Department of Psychology (Faculty of Arts) at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. As a university assistant, she teaches Psychology students at BA level in form of exercises and seminar work. Her research interest include examining cognitive, mainly memo- ry abilities, and social functioning of gifted students. She is an author and co-author of various scientific articles published in national and interna- tional scientific journals. Asist. Marina Horvat je zaposlena na Oddelku za psihologijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Mariboru. Kot izvajalka vaj in seminarjev je vključe- na v izobraževanje predvsem študentov psihologije. Njeni raziskovalni in- teresi so vezani na preučevanje kognitivnih, predvsem spominskih, spo- sobnosti ter socialnega funkcioniranja nadarjenih učencev. Je avtorica in soavtorica različnih vrst prispevkov, objavljenih v domačih in tujih revi- jah. Katja Košir Katja Košir, PhD, works as associate professor at Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. She teaches students of elementary education, pri- šolsko polje, letnik xxvii, številka 1–2 214 mary education, fine arts and music education, and psychology. She also takes part in teacher trainings and carries out psychological counselling for students. Her research and professional work is mainly focused on ex- amining social relations in school context, bullying, teachers‘ profession- al development, psychological counselling in school and socioemotional characteristics of gifted pupils. She is an author and co-author of profes- sional and scientific monographs and author of various scientific articles published in national and international scientific publications. Izr. prof. dr. Katja Košir je zaposlena na Pedagoški fakulteti Univerze v Mariboru. Predava študentom razrednega pouka, predšolske vzgoje, lik- ovne in glasbene pedagogike ter psihologije, sodeluje pa tudi pri progra- mu pedagoško-andragoškega izpopolnjevanja za učitelje ter izvaja psi- hološko svetovanje za študente. Njeno raziskovalno in strokovno delo se nanaša predvsem na preučevanje socialnih spremenljivk v šolskem kon- tekstu, medvrstniško nasilje, profesionalni razvoj učiteljev, šolsko psi- hološko svetovanje in socioemocionalne značilnosti nadarjenih učencev. Je avtorica in soavtorica strokovnih in znanstvenih monografij ter avtori- ca različnih znanstvenih prispevkov, objavljenih v domačih in tujih pub- likacijah. Klaudija Šterman Ivančič Klaudija Šterman Ivančič is a researcher at the Educational Research In- stitute in the Center for Applied Epistemology. Her main research focus is results from international comparative studies (reading, mathematics, sci- ence and financial literacy) and personality, motivational and socio-emo- tional determinants that are linked to student’s behaviour and achieve - ment in national and international arena. Klaudija Šterman Ivančič je zaposlena kot raziskovalka na Pedagoškem inštitutu, v Centru za uporabno epistemologijo. Raziskovalno se ukvar- ja s področjem bralne, matematične, naravoslovne in finančne pismenos- ti v okviru mednarodnih primerjalnih raziskav ter s preučevanjem oseb- nostnih, motivacijskih in socialno-čustvenih dejavnikov učnega vedenja in dosežkov mladostnikov tako v Sloveniji kot v mednarodnem prostoru. Melita Puklek Levpušček Melita Puklek Levpušček is an associate professor of educational psychol- ogy at the Department of Psychology at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Her research interests include: psychosocial development of adolescents (i.e. social anxiety, interpersonal problems, individuation in relation to par- ents and friends, learning autonomy); representations of adulthood and individuation in emerging adults; multiple social contexts (family, peers,