She was born in Zagreb where she graduated from high school. In 2007 she graduated from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, with a degree in Psychology. After graduation, she worked for a year at the University Clinic for Psychological Medicine (Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb) in psychodiagnostics, worked with oncology patients and participated in research in the field of psycho-oncology and chronic pain. From May 2008 until June 2009 she worked at Consulting Center Sirius on professional orientation, professional selection and current employee potentials assessment. In that time she also worked at the Centre for counselling, education and research Sirius as an assistant expert working on educational guidance, counselling and addiction prevention projects among adolescents.
From June 2009 she works as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. The same year she has enrolled in the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of Psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and in 2015 she received PhD degree. She is a member of the project team "Educational aspirartions of pupils at transitional periods of Croatian elementary education: nature, determinants and change (COBRAS)" (Croatian Science Foundation).
She has participated in several national and international scientific conferences and is a member of the Croatian Psychological Chamber and Croatian Psychological Association. She completed a number of training and educational courses, as well as the second level in behavioural-cognitive therapies organised by Croatian Association for Behavioural-Cognitive Therapies.
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The main area of her current research interests are biological and sociocultural factors in the development and maintenance of body dissatisfaction in adolescence in girls and boys, such as age and pubertal timing, as well as parental and peer influences. She is also interested in age and gender differences in various body change strategies. In previous research she has focused on test anxiety, positive and negative perfectionism in students and did the research in the field of psycho-oncology and chronic pain.
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Inja Erceg, Ph.D.
Senior Research Assistant
Room: C-315, Tel. 4092-346
E-mail: inerceg@ffzg.hr
At the University Clinic for Psychological Medicine (Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb) during her internship in 2008 and 2009 she worked in psychodiagnostics (clinical interview with patients, psychological testing, interpretation of test results and psychological reports writing) and worked with oncology patients. At Consulting Center Sirius she worked on professional orientation, professional selection and current employee potentials assessment and at the Centre for counselling, education and research Sirius as an assistant expert, on educational guidance, counselling and addiction prevention projects among adolescents. She also worked as professional assistant for project evaluation at Ministry of the Family, Veterans' Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity, as well as with multiple sclerosis patients in Zagreb County Multiple Sclerosis Society. Since 2009 she works as counselling psychologist at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Students Counselling Center. From 2012 she is a member of the Steering Committee of Centre for counselling, education and research Sirius.