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Adolescent's attitudes in public opinion research, data quality and reliability
Šlégrová, Petra ; Vinopal, Jiří (advisor) ; Podaná, Zuzana (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the youngest age cathegory of respondents in public opinion polls. The main goal is to examine character and quality of information about adolescent's attitudes and opinions obtained in public opinion polls that are held by The Public Opinion Research Centre. To achieve the main goal nonattitude is examined. The thesis will be divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part stands on the basis of public opinion sociology and developmental psychology and the issue of attitude measurement is introduced along with adolescents developmental theory and characteristics. Practical part reflects the information summoned in theoretical part and test them on data collected by The Public Opinion Research Centre which were obtained in continuous research within project Our society. Analysis focuses on examination of nonresponse, don't know answers and neutral attitudes. Results are compared among all age groups.
Female marijuana users
Šlégrová, Petra ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This thesis focuses on specifics of marijuana use among teenage girls. Marijuana use is widely spread among young people and still considered deliquent. In the first part of thesis theories of girl's delinquency are summarized, followed by social control theory by Travis Hirschi on which the analytical part of thesis is based on. The last part completes the information obtained with new findings from qualitative research. The aim of this thesis is to study social situation of girl users, their family background, leisure time, motivation in using marijuana with interpretation of benefits and negatives of marijuana use. Obtained findings are compared with findings about marijuana boy users and non-users.

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