Jelisaveta Belic is a PhD Fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), a school of doctoral education jointly run by Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Bremen, Germany. She holds bachelor and master degrees in Educational and Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology from the University of Belgrade, and the University of Leiden. She is a psychotherapist in training, specialized in constructivist psychotherapy, as well as in BT, CBT, and Solution-focused psychotherapy. Coming from Serbia, her interests focus mainly around societal outliers —Roma children and families, LGBTIQ adolescents, and gifted underachieving pupils. Her current work focuses on the well-being outcomes of the interplay of individuals’ values and values of their social contexts.

Project description

The Schwartz theory of basic values suggests that ten personal value priorities are positioned in a circumplex indicating relationships among them. However, recent studies suggest contextual and age-based differences in construing of value priorities. This project will position the meaning behind the construct of personal values in a historical and social context by examining the replicability of the theory of basic values in different countries. The study will be conducted on the sample of emerging adults using a mix-methodology framework.

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