Professional characteristics

She has been working at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica since 2005. Since 2013, she has been the Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology, and since November 2020 she has been the Head of the Department. Since 2016, she has been a guarantor of a bachelor's degree in psychology. At the department, she teaches compulsory, compulsory elective and elective classes in the field of psychology, in the field of teaching psychology, as well as in the social-scientific classes for teachers. She is also a member of the Commission for Foreign Relations and coordinates Erasmus incoming and outcoming mobility for students and teachers at the department. She is a member of the Faculty Working Group for the Implementation of Human Resource Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R). In her scientific-research, pedagogical and publishing activities, she focuses on the determinants of individual experience, behavior and performance in the school environment. She researched student and adult learning styles. Since 2008, she has focused her attention on the "diversity" of the intelligence construct, where she has explored the concept of multiple, moral and social intelligence, which was financially supported by two VEGA projects. For more than 10 years, the construct of trait emotional intelligence has been verified in collaboration with K.V. Petridesom, University College London, UK. She successfully led 7 scientific-research, resp. application projects in the position of project manager or deputy project leader, she participated in the solution of a total of 12 projects. She is the author and co-author of 10 book publications (5 scientific monographs, 1 university textbook and 4 professional publications), 77 scientific and professional works (of which 38 foreign and 7 registered in CCC, WOS or SCOPUS databases).
She records 160 citations for her works, of which 72 are foreign (19 are registered in the foreign citation indices WOS and SCOPUS).
She has currently published a collective monograph in the renowned foreign publishing house Routledge Francis & Taylor Group https://www.routledge.com/Eastern-European-Perspectives-on-Emotional-Intelligence-Current-developments/Kaliska-Pellitteri/p/book/9780367673208.
She currently works as a national coordinator for the foreign company International Society of Emotional Intelligence (ISEI) and is also a regional guarantor at ISEI for Central and Eastern Europe (http://www.emotionalintelligencesociety.org/boards-committees/), she is a member of the Psychology in Education section within the European Federation of Psychology Associations (EFPA); a member of the professional organization Slovak Psychological Society (SPS) based at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and vice-chairman of the Association of School Psychology (AŠP). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Current Trends in Educational Science and Practice published by PF UKF in Nitra, SR, the journal Školský psychológ / Školní psycholog, Brno: AŠP SR a ČR, Gramotnost, pregramotnost a vzdělávání is published by PF UKF in Prague, ČR; Annales psychologici is published by the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, The New Educational Review, published by the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice (Poland), Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovak Republic) and the University of Ostrava (Czech Republic).