PhDr. Lenka Kollerová, Ph.D.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143/4
182 00 Prague 8
Phone: +420 266 053 855
E-mail: kollerova@praha.psu.cas.cz
Web: Social and emotional development lab

Research Interests

Aggressive and prosocial behavior
Peer relations and moral development at school
Depressive symptoms and school achievement

Education

2011 Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 PhDr., Department of Psychology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 MA, Department of Psychology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 Graduate exchange student in Psychology, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA

Professional Experience

2004 - now Researcher (since 2016 Senior Researcher), Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences

Research Projects and Awards

2023 - 2025 Consequences of bullying: How classroom characteristics weaken the psychological problems (PI: Lenka Kollerová). Czech Science Foundation (n. 23-06289S)
2018 - 2020 Teachers’ perspectives on peer exclusion among adolescents (PI: Lenka Kollerová). Czech Science Foundation (n. GA18-09443S)
2018 - 2019 Teachers’ evaluations of peer exclusion among adolescents: The role of morality and bias (visiting scholar: Lenka Kollerová, host: Melanie Killen). Fulbright-Masaryk grant awarded to L. Kollerová by the J. W. Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic for an 11-month research visit at the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
2017 - 2018 Coordinator of the Czech side of a mobility project Bullying in schools: When do peers defend their bullied classmates? conducted with Austrian team of prof. Dagmar Strohmeier from University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (n. 7AMB17AT034)
2015 - 2017 Research leader of the grant Defending victims of bullying: The longitudinal role of individual and group factors supported by the Czech Science Foundation (n. GA15-00682S)
2012 - 2014 Collaborator on the grant School bullying as a process - a social-cognitive analysis of classroom bullying supported by the Czech Science Foundation (n. P 407/12/2325)
2008 - 2010 Collaborator on the grant Ethical psychological factors of bullying and coping with it in the primary school supported by the Grant Agency of the AS CR (n. IAA 700250801)
2005 - 2007 Research leader of the grant School underachievement within context of depressive symptoms in children aged 9-11 supported by the Czech Science Foundation (n. 406/05/0915)
2015 Most Read article throughout 2014 in the Journal of Moral Education
2006 Best Poster Award at the 6th International Neuropsychiatry Congress: Sydney, 10. - 14. 2006
2003 Professor Matějček Foundation Prize for Excellent Diploma Thesis

Membership in professional associations

EADP – European Association for Developmental Psychology
ČMPS – Českomoravská psychologická společnost

Selected publications

Vorlíček, R. & Kollerová, L. (2024). Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying. Children and Society, 38(2), 419-435. http://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12712
Kollerová, L., Květon, P., Zábrodská, K., & Janošová, P. (2023). Teacher exhaustion: The effects of disruptive student behaviors, victimization by workplace bullying, and social support from colleagues. Social Psychology of Education, 26(4), 885-902. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-023-09779-x
Janošová, P., Kollerová, L., Cakirpaloglu, P., & Vorlíček, R. (2023). Empatie žáků vůči šikanovaným spolužákům [Empathy toward bullied classmates]. Československá Psychologie, 67(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.67.1.1
Burger, C., Strohmeier, D., & Kollerová, L. (2022). Teachers can make a difference in bullying: Effects of teacher interventions on students’ adoption of bully, victim, bully-victim or defender roles across time. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(12), 2312-2327. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-022-01674-6
Vorlíček, R., Kollerová, L., Janošová, P., & Jungwirthová, R. (2022). Stresory ve škole z pohledu učitelů a jejich souvislosti s Individuálními charakteristikami a vyhořením [Stressors at school from the teachers’ perspective and their associations with individual characteristics and burnout]. Ceskoslovenska Psychologie, 66(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.66.1.1
Kollerová, L., Soukup, P., Strohmeier, D., & Caravita, S. C. S. (2021). Teachers’ active responses to bullying: Does the school collegial climate make a difference? European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18(6), 912–927. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2020.1865145
Kollerová, L., & Killen, M. (2021). An experimental study of teachers’ evaluations regarding peer exclusion in the classroom. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(1), 463–481. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12373
Mazzone, A., Kollerová, L., & O’Higgins Norman, J. (2021). Teachers’ attitudes toward bullying: What do we know, and where do we go from here? In P. K. Smith & J. O. Norman (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell handbook of bullying: A comprehensive and international review of research and intervention, Vol. 1. (pp. 139–157). Wiley Blackwell.
Kollerová, L., Pospíšilová, A., Janošová, P. (2020). Šikanování na školách [Bullying in the schools]. Prague: Středisko společných činností AV ČR, v.v.i., 2020. ISSN 2464-6245. Download from here.

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