Orhideja Shurbanovska (Macedonia)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, Saints Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Orhideja Shurbanovska, PhD., Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She teaches family psychology and educational psychology. Her research focus in general is in psychology of parenting, interpersonal peer interaction (friendship), and child behavior in school. Orhideja and her colleagues adapted the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) for use with the Macedonian population. She is interested in conducting research regarding parental alienation, parental and peer influence on child behavior, influence of parenting in intimate relationships and the influence of teachers’ acceptance in the behavior of school going children.