Ankica Kosic's Publications List

Promoting Reconciliation Through Community Relations Work: A Comparison Among Young People in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Vukovar, Croatia.

2009-11-18T18:27:53Z

This chapter provides a conceptual framework for mapping cross-community work and projects that have been designed in more recent years to assist the process of reconciliation among young people in Northern Ireland (Belfast) and Croatia (Vukovar), and to analyze underlying sociopsychological assumptions of these interventions. The first part of the chapter briefly describes the historical backgrou...

Kosic, A. & Senehi, J. (2009) Peace education in conflict and post-conflict societies: comparative perspectives

What motivates civic participation of immigrants? Antecedents and experiences.

2009-11-18T18:31:19Z

Kosic, A. (2007) Highly Active Immigrants - A Resource for European Civil Societies

Immigrants in Italy

2009-11-18T18:29:14Z

Kosic, A. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2007) European Immigration: A sourcebook

Self-monitoring: a moderating role between acculturation strategies and adaptation of immigrants.

2009-11-18T18:10:27Z

The study examines the relationship between immigrants’ adaptation, acculturation strategies and self-monitoring. One-hundred-and-sixty-two Polish immigrants (mean age = 31.3 years, sd = 7.28) living in Rome participated in the study. The majority of the participants (66.0%) were females. A Questionnaire containing scales for assessing Sociocultural adaptation, Psychological adaptation, Attitude...

Kosic, A., Mannetti, L. & Sam, D.L. (2006) International Journal of Intercultural Relations 30: 2 141-157

Ethnic categorization of immigrants: the role of prejudice, perceived acculturation strategies and group size.

2009-11-18T18:07:32Z

People usually perceive immigrants from different national origins as similar to each other, and thus as belonging to a limited number of ethnic out-groups (Linville & Fischer, 1993; Park & Judd, 1990). In this study we examine how host nationals (i.e., Italians) categorize immigrants and how prejudice and perceived acculturation strategies influence this process. In our research, photographs of m...

Kosic, A. & Phalet, K. (2006) International Journal of Intercultural Relations: Special Issue: Attitudes towards Immigrants and Immigration 30: 6 769-782

Personality and individual factors in acculturation.

2009-11-18T18:32:31Z

Kosic, A. (2006) Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology

Migrant identities.

2009-11-18T18:35:17Z

Kosic, A. (2006) Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe: Complex Patterns of Movement and Settlement

Urban cultural policy and immigrants in Rome: multiculturalism or simply “paternalism”?

2009-11-18T18:34:17Z

Kosic, A. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2006) Transcultural Europe Cultural Policy in the Changing European Space

Acculturation in an enlarged European context.

2009-11-18T18:33:19Z

Phalet, K. & Kosic, A. (2006) Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology

The role of majority attitudes towards out-group in the perception of the acculturation strategies of immigrants.

2009-11-18T18:12:00Z

The aim of this study was to examine host group members' towards immigrants' acculturation strategy preferences and the relationship between these attitudes and the level of prejudice towards immigrants. A questionnaire containing different prejudice scales was administered to 160 Italian participants living in Rome. In addition respondents were presented with vignettes depicting different accultu...

Kosic, A., Mannetti, L., & Sam, D.L. (2005) International Journal of Intercultural Relations 29: 273-288

Polish and Albanian Workers in Italy: Between Legality and Undocumented Status.

2009-11-18T18:36:04Z

Triandafyllidou, A. & Kosic, A. (2005) Illegal immigration in Europe

Representations of the European Union and the Nation(-state) in Italian Party Discourse. A Critical Analysis of Electoral Platforms and Parliamentary Debates.

2009-11-18T18:17:07Z

Research on party attitudes towards European integration has concentrated on the relationship between party ideology and positions related to European integration as an economic and/or political process, ignoring the representational aspect of party discourse. This study aims to contribute towards filling this gap by examining how Italian parties represent the European Union, the nation(-stat...

Kosic, A. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2004) Journal of Language and Politics 3: 1 53-80

Acculturation strategies, coping process and immigrants’ adaptation.

2009-11-18T18:19:03Z

Using structural equation modeling, this study examines the influences of motivational factors (Need for Cognitive Closure – NCC – and Decisiveness), coping strategies and acculturation strategies on levels of acculturative stress. Two groups of immigrants in Rome (Croatians n = 156 and Poles n = 179) completed a questionnaire that included scales for the various factors. Although our initial ...

Kosic, A. (2004) Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 45: 269-278

Albanian and Polish Migration to Italy: The Micro-Processes of Policy, Implementation and Immigrant Survival Strategies.

2009-11-18T18:14:08Z

This paper examines how undocumented immigrants take advantage or react to the windows of opportunity opened to them by immigration policy design and implementation practices in the country of destination. The study concentrates on the case of Albanian and Polish immigrants in Italy. Looking into the policy provisions regarding entry, stay and immigrant employment in Italy as well as the practices...

Kosic, A. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2004) International Migration Review 38: 4 1413-1446

The Social Cognition of Immigrants’ Acculturation: Effects of the Need for Closure and the Reference Group at Entry.

2009-11-18T18:15:47Z

Three studies found support for the notion that immigrants’ acculturation to the host culture is interactively determined by their need for cognitive closure (A. W. Kruglanski & D. M. Webster, 1996) and the reference group they forge on their arrival. If such reference group is fashioned by close social relations with coethnics, the higher the immigrants’ need for closure, the weaker their ...

Kosic, A., Kruglanski, A. W., Pierro, A., & Mannetti, L. (2004) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 86: 6 796-813

Where is “development” in acculturation theories?

2009-11-18T18:21:46Z

Sam, D.L., Kosic, A. & Oppedal, B. (2003) International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development 2: 4-7

Ideologia, personalità e Bisogno di Chiusura Cognitiva [Ideology, Personality and Need for Cognitive Closure].

2009-11-18T18:23:03Z

Chirumbolo, A., Sensales, G. & Kosic, A. (2003) Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 1: 567 - 590

Albanian Immigrants in Italy: Migration Plans, Coping Strategies and Identity Issues.

2009-11-18T18:20:23Z

This paper studies the adaptation and survival strategies that Albanian immigrants develop from the beginning of their migration project through to their establishment in the host country, Italy. We are particularly interested in how immigrants make sense of the host country’s social and institutional environment and the related immigration policy measures and implementation practices, and t...

Kosic, A. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2003) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 29: 997-1014

Need for Cognitive Closure and Coping Strategies.

2009-11-18T18:24:18Z

This study investigates the hypothesis that the process of coping may be motivated by an interaction of directional motivational factors represented by job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and by non-directional or epistemological motivational factors represented by the level of Need for Cognitive Closure. Need for Cognitive Closure is based on two general tendencies: the urgency tendency (“to seize...

Kosic, A. (2002) International Journal of Psychology, 37: 1 35-43

Acculturation attitudes, Need for Cognitive Closure and Adaptation of Immigrants.

2009-11-18T18:25:41Z

The author validated Berry’s model of acculturation (Berry, 1990a, 1990b, 1991; Berry, Kim, Power, Young, & Bujaki, 1989) and examined the relation between acculturation attitudes and sociocultural and psychological adaptation among Croatian and Polish immigrants to Italy, 2 groups whose cultures are not very different from the Italian culture. Moreover, the author investigated the relation betw...

Kosic, A. (2002) The Journal of Social Psychology 2: 142 179-201