Snježana Dobrota works as full professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, where she teaches courses in Didactics of Music. She obtained her PhD in pedagogy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia in 2008. She published scientific articles and participated with presentations in international scientific conferences. Her main research interests are in the area of didactics of music, intercultural music education and psychology of music.
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7130-0199
RESEARCHER ID: G-9714-2017
Snježana Dobrota, PhD, full professor – music pedagogy, psychology of music
Ina Reić Ercegovac, PhD, associate professor – psychology (psychology of music)
Marijo Krnić, – MA, music pedagogy, choral singing
Daniela Petrušić, PhD student – music pedagogy (preschool education)
Main topics: music preferences and music appreciation in the context of music pedagogy
Methods: experiment, survey
Scope of influence: To explore development of musical preferences; to explore intrapersonal, musical and socio-cultural determinants of music preferences/music taste
Expected outcomes: to offer a comprehensive model of musical preferences; to propose guidelines for improving music education practices.
Dobrota, S., Reić Ercegovac, I., & Habe K. (2019). Gender differences in musical taste: The mediating role of functions of music. Društvena istraživanja: časopis za opća društvena pitanja, 28 (4), 567-586. doi: 10.5559/di.28.4.01
Habe, K., Dobrota, S., & Reić Ercegovac, I. (2018). The structure of musical preferences of youth: cross-cultural perspective. Musicological Annual, 54 (1), 141-156. doi: 10.4312/mz.54.1.14l-156
Dobrota, S., & Reić Ercegovac, I. (2017). Music preferences with regard to music education, informal influences and familiarity of music. British Journal of Music Education, 34 (1), 41-55. doi: 10.1017/S0265051716000358
Dobrota, S., & Reić Ercegovac, I. (2016). Zašto volimo ono što slušamo: Glazbeno pedagoški i psihologijski aspekti glazbenih preferencija. Split: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Reić Ercegovac, I., Dobrota, S., & Kuščević, D. (2015). Relationship between music and visual art preferences and some personality traits. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 33 (2), 207-227. doi: 10.1177/0276237415597390