dr Goran Opačić

associate professor

RESEARCH INTERESTS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Individual differences in area of personality, intelligence, executive function; Physiological basis of individual differences, especially in the field of personality; development of new methods of examining individual differences especially using new technologies in personality research, development of new psychometric methods, application of knowledge in the field of individual differences in human resource management, sport and medicine.

ACADEMIC COURSES

ACADEMIC COURSES

Undergraduate studies
Multivariate statistics in psychology
Neurological basis of cognitive and emotional processes
The principles of psychological testing
Selected topics in statistics and psychometrics
Psychology of individual differences – advanced course
Psychometrics
Psychometrics 1
Psychometrics 2
Master studies
Multivariate statistics in psychology
Neurophysiological methods in psychology
Doctoral school
Statistical analysis of multivariate data in psychology

BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

Ovde je unesena promena.

OTHER INFORMATION

OTHER INFORMATION

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Knežević, G., Lazarević, Lj. B., Purić, D., Bosnjak., M., Teovanović, P., Petrović, B., & Opačić, G. (2019). Does Eysenck’s Personality Model Capture Psychosis-Proneness? A Meta-Analytic Approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 143, 155-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.009 [pdf]

  • Živanović, M., Bjekić, J., & Opačić, G. (2018). Multiple solutions test Part I: Development and psychometric evaluation. Psihologija, 51(3), 351-375. https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI161031003Z [pdf]

  • Živanović, M., Bjekić, J., & Opačić, G. (2018). Multiple solutions test Part II: Evidence on construct and predictive validity. Psihologija, 51(3), 377-396. https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI170205004Z [pdf]

  • Knežević, G., Savić, D., Kutlešić, V., & Opačić, G. (2017). Disintegration: A Reconceptualization of Psychosis Proneness as a Personality Trait Separate from the Big Five. Journal of research in personality http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.06.001 [pdf]

  • Batinić, B., Opačić, G., Ignjatov, T., & Baldwin, D. S. (2017). Comorbidity and suicidality in patients diagnosed with panic disorder/agoraphobia and major depression. Psychiatria Danubina, 29(2).

  • Knežević, G., Lazarević, Lj. B., Bosnjak, M., Purić, D., Petrović, B., Teovanović, P., Opačić, G., Bodroža, B. (2016). Towards a personality model encompassing a Disintegration factor separate from the Big Five traits: A meta-analysis of the empirical evidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 95, 214-222 doi:http://10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.044 [pdf]

  • Filipović, S., Vukosavljević-Gvozden, T., Opačić, G. (2016). Irrational beliefs, dysfunctional emotions and marital adjustment: a structural model. Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 37(16), 2333-2350

  • Lazarevic, Lj. B., Bosnjak, M., Knežević, G., Petrovic, B.,  Puric, D., Teovanovic, P., Opacic, G., Bodroza, B. (2016). Disintegration as an Additional Trait in the Psychobiological Model of Personality – Assessing Discriminant Validity via Meta-Analysis. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 224(3), 204-215. doi:http://10.1027/2151-2604/a000254 [pdf]

  • Stanković, S., Matić, M., Vukosavljević-Gvozden, T., & Opačić, G. (2015). Frustration intolerance and unconditional self-acceptance as mediators of the relationship between perfectionism and depression. Psihologija, 48(2), 101-117. https://doi.org/10.2298/psi1502101s

  • Vukosavljević Gvozden, T., Opačić, G., & Peruničić Mladenović, I. (2015). Does empathy always inhibit amorality and offending? Psihologija, 48(3), 213–232. PDF

  • Vukosavljević-Gvozden, T., Filipović, S., & Opačić, G. (2015). The mediating role of symptoms of psychopathology between irrational beliefs and internet gaming addiction. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 33(3), 387–405. PDF

  • Filipović, S., Vukosavljević-Gvozden, T., Opačić, G. (2014). Povezanost disfunkcionalnih uverenja o partnerskom odnosu sa opažajem bračnog sklada. Psihološka istraživanja, Vol. XVII (1) 5-17. PDF

  • Batinić, B., Lemonis, E., & Opačić, G. (2014). Effects of internalized stigma of mental disorder on quality of life and self-esteem in panic disorder patients. Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics, 5(5), 1.

  • Purić, D. i Opačić, G. (2013). Poduzorkovanje, samouzorkovanje, postupak „univerzalnog noža“ i njihova upotreba u postupcima za statističku analizu multivarijacionih podataka. Primenjena psihologija, 6(3), 249-266. [pdf]

  • Dimitrijević, A., Hanak, N., Vukosavljević-Gvozden, T., & Opačić, G. (2012). Psychometric properties of the Serbian version of the Empathy Quotient (S-EQ). Psihologija, 45(3), 257-276. PDF

  • Spiric, Z., Opacic, G., Jovic, V., Samardzic, R. Knezevic, G., Mandic-Gajic, G., Todorovic, M. (2010). Gender differences in victims of war torture: types of torture and psychological consequences. Vojnosanitetski pregled, 67, 411-418. [pdf]

  • Vukosavljević-Gvozden, T., Opačić, G., Marić, Z. (2010). Iracionalne evaluacije i antisocijalno ponašanje adolescenata. Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2, 263-276

  • Knežević, G., Opačić, G., Savić, D. & Priebe, S. (2005). Do personality traits predict post-traumatic stress? – a prospective study in civilians experiencing air attacks. Psychological Medicine, 35, 659-663. [pdf]

  • Jović, V., Opačić, G., Knežević G., Tenjović, L., & Lečić-Toševski, D. (2002). War stressors assessment questionnaire – psychometric evaluation. Psychiatry Today, 34, 51-75. [pdf]

  • Savić, D., Knežević, G. & Opačić, G. (2001). Individual differences in Stress reaction: An Introduction to a Mathematical Model. Psychiatry Today, 32. (ISSN -0350-2538)

  • Savić, D., Knežević, G. & Opačić, G. (2000). A Mathematical Model of Stress Reaction: Individual differences in Threshold and Duration. Psychobiology 28, 581-592. [pdf]

  • Knežević, G., Radović, B. & Opačić, G. (1997): Evaluacija Big Five modela ličnosti kroz analizu inventara ličnosti NEO PI-R (Evaluation of the Big Five model of personality through an analysis of the NEO PI-R personality inventory). Psihologija 1-2, 54-87. [pdf]

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS

  • Opačić, G., Knežević, G., Jović, V. & Radović, B. (2010). Concomitants of Repatriation: The Case of Former Yugoslavia. In: H. C. Traue, R. Johler, and J. Jancovic Gavrilovic (Eds.), Migration, Integration, and Health: The Danube Region (pp. 83-97). D-49525 Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. (ISBN 978-3-89967-641-9) [pdf]

  • Jović, V., Opačić, G., Špeh-Vujadinović, S., Vidaković, I & Knežević, G. (2005). Izbeglice i mentalno zdravlje – implikacije za proces repatrijacije i integracije. U G. Opačić, I. Vidaković i B. Vujadinović (Eds.) Život u posleratnim zajednicama. (pp. 147-179). Beograd: IAN (Međunarodna mreža pomoći) (ISBN 86-83595-09-9).

  • Opačić, G., Knežević, G. (2004). Change in the Intensity and Frequency of Psychiatric Problems Related to Traumatic Experience after Three Months of Treatment. In Ž. Špirić, G. Knežević, V. Jović, Opačić G. (Eds.). Torture in war: consequences and rehabilitation of victims, Yugoslav experience. (pp. 221-232) Centar za rehabilitaciju žrtava torture, International Aid Network: Beograd. (ISBN 86-83595-08-0)

  • Knežević, G., Opačić, G., Tenjović, L. (1997): Teorija ličnosti ili skup neologizama: dokaz da nijedan od Cattell-ovih faktora ne ispunjava ni prvi uslov egzistencije (A theory or a set of neologisms: some proofs that not even one among Cattell’s factors satisfies the first condition of existence). In: K. Momirović (Ed.): Provera egzistencije psiholoških konstrukata. Institut za psihologiju, laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju, Beograd.

RESEARCH REPORTS

    PhD THESES

    • Živanović, M. (2019). Efekti transkranijalne neuromodulacije fronto-parijetalne funkcionalne mreže na više kognitivne funkcije (mentor prof. dr Goran Opačić, komentor dr Saša Filipović) [pdf]

    PROJECTS

    • 2022 - 2025: REASON4HEALTH Irrational mindset as a conceptual bridge from psychological dispositions to questionable health practices

      Rukovodilac projekta: dr Iris Žeželj

      Saradnici iz LIRA-e: Aleksandra Lazić, dr Danka Purić, dr Goran Knežević, dr Goran Opačić, dr Ljiljana B. Lazarević, dr Predrag Teovanović, dr Zorana Zupan, Marija Petrović, Marko Živanović, Milica Ninković, Petar Lukić, and Sanda Stanković

    • 2014 - 2018: Identifikacija darovitih studenata

      Rukovodilac projekta:

      Saradnici iz LIRA-e: dr Goran Opačić

    • 2011 - 2017: Identifikacija, merenje i razvoj kognitivnih i emocionalnih kompetencija važnih društvu orijentisanom na evropske integracije

      Rukovodilac projekta: dr Goran Knežević

      Saradnici iz LIRA-e: Aleksandra Lazić, dr Aleksandar Zorić, dr Danka Purić, dr Danka Savić, dr Goran Knežević, dr Goran Opačić, dr Iris Žeželj, dr Lazar Tenjović, dr Ljiljana B. Lazarević, dr Predrag Teovanović, dr Zorana Zupan, Jelena Vujičić, Marko Živanović, Milica Ninković, Petar Lukić, Tatjana Vukosavljević-Gvozden, Borjanka Batinić, and Sanda Stanković

    • 2006 - 2010: Psihološki problemi u kontekstu društvenih promena

      Rukovodilac projekta: dr Dijana Plut

      Saradnici iz LIRA-e: dr Goran Knežević, dr Goran Opačić, and Tatjana Vukosavljević-Gvozden