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PUBLICATIONS

“The personality is the core product of human evolution. It is a basis of everything the human being is capable.”

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Selected Publications List

Musek, J. (1985). The nature and determinants of conscious decision making. Ljubljana: Research Institute of Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Musek, J. (1990). Symbols, culture and people. Ljubljana: Research Institute of Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (includes a comprehensive chapter of color symbolism)
Musek, J. (1992). Dimensions of personality and value orientations. In: L. Marjanovic-Umek and D. Zagar (Eds.). Department of psychology : 40 years : collection of scientific papers. Ljubljana: Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, pp. 11-27.
Musek, J. (1993). The universe of human values: A structural and developmental hierarchy. Studia Psychologica, Vol. 35, No. 4-5, pp. 321-326.
Musek, J. (1994). Values and Value Orientations in the Background of European Cultural Traditions. Anthropos (Ljublj.), 26, International issue, pp. 272-280.
Musek, J. (1996). The impact of transitional changes on value systems in Postcommunist Europe : the implications for the higer education reform processes. In: Perspectives in higer education reform : based upon the sixth annual conference held in prague, Czech Republic, November 3-6, 1996
Kobal, D., Musek, J. (1996). Self-concept, personality styles and academic achievement : their inter-relationship. In: D. Piciga, (Ed.) Cognition, learning & instruction, (The School Field, Vol. 7, no. 3/4). Ljubljana: The Slovene Society of Research in the School Field, pp. 61-77.
Musek, J. (1997). Personality stereotypes : psychological comprehension of stereotypes. In: B. Jezernik and R. Muršic (Eds.). Prejudices and stereotypes in the social sciences and humanities, (Etnološka stičišča, 5; 7), (Razprave Filozofske fakultete). Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, 1997, pp. 15-26,
Musek, J. (1997). Scientific image of personality. Ljubljana: Educy.
Musek, J. (1998). Political and religious adherence in relation to individual values. Stud. psychol., 40, 1/2, pp. 47-59.
Musek, J. (1999). Psychological models and theories of personality. Ljubljana: Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Musek, J. (2000). The new psychological theory of values. Ljubljana: Institute of Personality Psychology & Educy.
Kobal, D., Musek, J. (2001). Self-concept and academic achievement : Slovenia and France. Pers. individ. differ.. [Print ed.], 2001, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 887-899.
Marušič, A., Musek, J., Gudjonsson, G. H. (2001). Injury proneness and personality. Nord. j. psychiatry, 2001, vol. 55, no. 3, str. 157-161,
Musek, J., Pergar-Kuščer, M., & Bekeš, A. (2001). The universality of the basic structure of value categories. Jpn. soc. (Tsukuba), 2000, vol. 4, str. 45-64.
Musek, J. (2003). History of psychology. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana.
Musek, J. (2005). Psihološke in kognitivne študije osebnosti (Psychological and cognitive studies of personality). Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete (Scientific Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Ljubljana), 2005. 253 pp.
Musek, J. (2007). A general factor of personality: Evidence for the Big One in the five-factor model.  Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 1213-1233.
Musil, B., Rus, V. S., & Musek, J. (2009). The Rokeach Value Survey in comparative study of Japanese and Slovenian students : towards the underlying structure. Stud. psychol., 2009, vol. 51, no. 153-68.
Kobal Grum, D. & Musek, J. (2009). Perspektive motivacije (Perspectives of motivation). 1. natis. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2009. 316 pp.
Avsec, A., & Musek, J. (2010). Self-discrepancies in agentic and communal personality traits as predictirs of well-being. Stud. psychol., 2010, vol. 52, no. 2, 117-131.
Musek, J. (2010). Psihologija življenja (Psychology of life) : [monografija (scientific monography)]. 1. izd. Vnanje Gorice: Inštitut za psihologijo osebnosti, 2010 (585 pp.).
Musek, J. (2011). Veliki faktor osebnosti (The Big Comprehensive Factor of Personality). Anthropos (Ljubljana), 3-4 (223-224), 131-152.
Musek, J. (2011). Towards a comprehensive theory of values. In: CHADEE, Derek (Ed.), KOSTIĆ, Aleksandra (Ed.). Social psychological dynamics. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2011, str. 243-268.
Musek, J. (2014). Psihološki temelji družbe prihodnosti (Psychological bases of the society of the future). Ljubljana: Institute of Ethics and Values, 240pp.
Musek, J. (2015). Osebnost, vrednote in psihično blagostanje (Personality, values and wellbeing). Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, 242 pp.
Musek, J. (2017). The General Factor of Personality. London, Cambridge (MA): Academic Press, Elsevier.
Musek, J. (2017). The general factor of personality : ten years after. Psihologijske teme, ISSN 1332-0742, 2017, vol. 26, no. 1, 61-87.
Musek, J. (2017). Values related to the religious adherence. Psihologijske teme, ISSN 1332-0742, 2017, vol. 26, no. 2, str. 451-480.


 

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Books and chapters

The general factor of personality.

Towards a comprehensive theory of values.

The theories of religion and spirituality in psychology and cognitive sciences.

Economy and values after a century of empirical research.

Nova psihološka teorija vrednot (The new psychological theory of values).

Values and value orientations in the background of European cultural traditions.

Articles

MUSEK, Janek. Values - more important than ever : the place of values in human life. In: JANKOVIĆ, Ivana (ed.), ĆIROVIĆ, Nikola (ed.). Psychology in the function of the well-being of the individual and society : 17th International Conference Days of Applied Psychology 2021 : Niš, Serbia, September 24th-25th 2021 : international conference proceedings. Niš: Faculty of Philosophy, 2022. Str. 15-27, graf. prikazi. ISBN 978-86-7379-601-7. https://www.psihologijanis.rs/dpp/Zbornik%20radova%202021.pdf.

 

MUSEK, Janek, KOBAL GRUM, Darja. The bright side of personality. Heliyon. 2021, 6. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06370.

BARANSKI, Erica, MUSEK, Janek, et al. Who in the world is trying to change their personality traits? : volitional personality change among college students in six continents. Journal of personality and social psychology. 2021, vol. 121, no. 5, str. 1140–1156, ilustr., tabele. ISSN 0022-3514. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000389.

BARANSKI, Erica, MUSEK, Janek, et al. International optimism : correlates and consequences of dispositional optimism across 61 countries. Journal of personality. 2021, vol. 89, iss. 2, 39 str., tabele, graf. prikazi. ISSN 0022-3506. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12582.

 

LEE, Daniel I., GARDINER, Gwendolyn, BARANSKI, Erica, MUSEK, Janek, et al. Situational experience around the world : a replication and extension in 62 countries. Journal of personality. 2020, vol. 88, iss. 6, str. 1091-1110, tabele. ISSN 0022-3506. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopy.12558, DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12558.

GARDINER, Gwendolyn, MUSEK, Janek, et al. Happiness around the world : a combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries. PloS one. 2021, vol. 15, iss. 12, 31 str., tabele, graf. prikazi. ISSN 1932-6203. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242718, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242718.

BÜRGER-LAZAR, Martina, MUSEK, Janek. Well-being in parents of children with cancer : the impact of parental personality, coping, and the child's quality of life. Scandinavian journal of psychology. Oct. 2020, vol. 61, no. 5, str. 652-662, tabele, ilustr. ISSN 0036-5564. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sjop.12653, DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12653.

The general factor of personality : ten years after.

Values related to the religious adherence.

Self-discrepancies in agentic and communal personality traits as predictirs of well-being.

The Rokeach Value Survey in comparative study of Japanese and Slovenian students: Towards the underlying structure.

A general factor of personality: Evidence for the Big One in the Five-Factor model.

Self-concept and academic achievement: Slovenia and France.

Injury proneness and personality.

Genes and personality

The universality of the basic structure of value categories.

Balance model of orientation toward self and toward others: Implications for self-esteem.

Self-Concept and Academic Achievement of Central and Western European Groups of Adolescents.

The changes of value-system during the transition period in Post- communist Europe.

The Universe of Human Values: A Structural and Developmental Hierarchy.

The relationship between personality and value dimensions: Towards a comprehensive personality paradigm.

Presentations 

Toward the best structural model of personality : classical hierarchy or bifactor structure?

The relationship between basic personality and value dimensions: Towards a comprehensive personality paradigm.

Balance model of orientation toward self and toward others: Implications for self-esteem.

The impact of transitional changes on value systems in Postcommunist Europe : the implications for the higer education reform processes.

The psychological basis of multiple identity.

Abstracts

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