1. The relationship between compassion and burnout among employees in social care institutionsNađa Antonić, Mirko Prosen, Erza Berisha Zyba, Sabina Ličen, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between compassion and burnout among employees in social care institutions. A quantitative non-experimental research design was employed. Data were collected between October and December 2025 in five nursing homes for older adults in the North Primorska region. 158 nursing employees were recruited using the snowball sampling method. The results showed that employees had a moderate level of burnout and high levels of compassion. Spearman’s correlation analysis indicated that higher overall compassion was significantly associated with lower emotional exhaustion (ρ = −0.271, p-value 0.001) and depersonalisation (ρ = −0.318, p-value 0.001), and with higher personal accomplishment (ρ = 0.644, p-value 0.001). However, multiple regression analysis showed that compassion was not a significant predictor of emotional exhaustion or depersonalisation, while it significantly predicted personal accomplishment. Work experience and gender emerged as significant predictors of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation. The study’s findings indicate that compassion supports employee well-being, particularly by enhancing personal accomplishment; however, burnout is also influenced by demographic and organisational factors. Therefore, preventing burnout requires both strengthening individual compassion and improving organisational conditions such as staffing, workload, and support.
Keywords: compassion, nurses, professional burnout, social care institutions
Published in RUP: 14.08.2026; Views: 83; Downloads: 3
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2. Factors influencing sustainability attitudes in higher educationAjda Fošner, 2026, original scientific article Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse sustainability attitudes among university students in Slovenia and how two different academic variables influence these attitudes. Using the Sustainability Attitudes Scale (SAS), we investigate the effects of students’ field and level of study on their attitudes towards sustainability. ANOVA results show that the field of study significantly impacts sustainability attitudes, while we can not say the same for the level of study. Moreover, findings from Spearman’s rank correlation tests indicate a positive correlation between students’ sustainability knowledge and their attitudes, highlighting the potential of targeted educational programs to foster more positive attitudes towards sustainable practices. This study contributes valuable insights for developing more effective sustainability education strategies within similar contexts.
Keywords: sustainability attitude, Sustainability Attitudes Scale (SAS), higher educational institutions
Published in RUP: 10.07.2026; Views: 230; Downloads: 6
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4. Between Music and Politics : The Role of Composers in Musical Societies in Continental Croatia in the 19th CenturyPetra Babić, 2026, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The 19th century in Croatia was the time of the first institutionalisation of musical culture – the first music institutes were organised, as well as the first music schools (independent of the “main schools”), and somewhat later numerous music societies (singing, instrumental, mixed). The dynamics of their emergence is closely linked to the contemporary political situation, and the activity within a particular society itself – in terms of public engagement – meant more than just enjoying desirable entertainment, finding solace in music making or the possibility of making musical education more accessible to wider social strata. This paper will present different types of music societies/associations founded throughout the 19th century in continental Croatia, examine the dependence of their establishment in relation to the then ruling political authorities, and in particular examine the perception and role of composers in those societies. The research for this paper was financed by the Croatian Science Foundation with project IP-2020-02- 4277 “Institutionalization of modern bourgeois musical culture in the 19th century in civil Croatia and Military Border – MusInst19”.
Keywords: 19th century music in Croatia, music institutions, music and politics, Croatian composers
Published in RUP: 10.03.2026; Views: 451; Downloads: 15
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5. Institutional work in total institutions and the perspective of the persons that have lived in residential treatment institutionsMitja Krajnčan, Boštjan Bajželj, 2015, professional article Abstract: Institutional work includes all kinds of psychosocial assistance that offers, to people that need them, living environments and immediate environments adapted to their age, problems, disorders, and state. The diversity and dilemmas of institutional work represent the central theoretical discourse that the authors are researching in the explanations of the total institution, the exact answers regarding the help the youth that involuntarily find themselves in such institutions receive. The continued development of the discourse logically proceeds into deinstitutionalisation. Semi-structured interviews of adults that have spent their youth in such institutions represent the empirical part of the research. Extreme psychosocial pressures make the youth deviate away from goal orientation and the purpose of the institutions% operations. So, additionally, the authors have gathered a collection of good and bad experiences to bring attention to the many imperfections that should not be self-evident. The key problems that people that have stayed in such institutions a decade ago would like to give light to are the non-existence of logic and specific learning and practical competences that would benefit them in the life outside of the institution. They also stressed the lack of using the quality relations that had been established in the institution as support in post-treatment.
Keywords: vzgojni zavodi, vzgojne ustanove, delo v zavodih, zdravljenje, institutional work, total institutions, residential, treatment, institutions
Published in RUP: 08.08.2016; Views: 5338; Downloads: 122
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6. Institutional work in total institutions and the perspective of the persons that have lived in residential treatment institutionsMitja Krajnčan, Boštjan Bajželj, 2015, published scientific conference contribution (invited lecture) Abstract: Institutional work includes all kinds of psychosocial assistance that offers, to people that need them, living environments and immediate environments adapted to their age, problems, disorders, and state. The diversity and dilemmas of institutional work represent the central theoretical discourse that the authors are researching in the explanations of the total institution, the exact answers regarding the help the youth that involuntarily find themselves in such institutions receive. The continued development of the discourse logically proceeds into deinstitutionalisation. Semi-structured interviews of adults that have spent their youth in such institutions represent the empirical part of the research. Extreme psychosocial pressures make the youth deviate away from goal orientation and the purpose of the institutions' operations. So, additionally, the authors have gathered a collection of good and bad experiences to bring attention to the many imperfections that should not be self-evident. The key problems that people that have stayed in such institutions a decade ago would like to give light to are the non-existence of logic and specific learning and practical competences that would benefit them in the life outside of the institution. They also stressed the lack of using the quality relations that had been established in the institution as support in post-treatment.
Keywords: vzgojne ustanove, vzgojni zavodi, delo v zavodih, zdravljenej, institutional work, total institution, residential, treatment, institutions
Published in RUP: 08.08.2016; Views: 4953; Downloads: 100
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10. The great divide revisitedValentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, 2007, original scientific article Abstract: The former socialist countries of South East and Central Europe exhibit great variation in institutional quality. Unlike the sparse existing literature, I claim that the variation can be explained by the legacies of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires. I identify historical legacies of the Empires, which have affected the current institutional quality of the successor states. I show empirically that the Empires' legacies are key determinants of institutional quality, and that the Habsburg successors have institutions that are more efficient in a market economy than the Ottoman successors. In contrast, I findan insignificant effect of socialism on institutional quality.
Keywords: transition, institutions, path dependence, Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire
Published in RUP: 15.10.2013; Views: 6203; Downloads: 29
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