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School and mental health as peceived by future teachers who identify themselves as LGBTQ+
Nekvasilová, Sára ; Machovcová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Smetáčková, Irena (referee)
The master thesis explores the topic of school and mental health of LGBTQ+ people. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the topic of LGBTG+ mental health of adolescents in the context of school. The aim of the empirical part of the study was to find out how is the issue viewed by future teachers who self-identify as LGBTG+. The research is composed of three questions: 1) what experiences do the respondents as LGBTG+ students have had in high school and find significant, 2) how they view these experiences and in what way they reflect their influence on their mental health and future direction, 3) how they view their future role as teachers in the context of mental health issues for LGBTQ+ people in schools. Data were collected in the form of individual semi-structured interviews, with the structure of the interview based on focus groups on a related topic. Interviews were conducted with 11 respondents of various gender and sexual identifications. The data were subsequently analysed by reflexive thematic analysis. The results of the research are presented in a thematic map depicting 9 themes and 9 sub-themes, including: School doesn't let LGBTQ+ people know sufficiently that they belong there; the impossibility of sharing, the impossibility of not knowing; even small comments have a big...
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Effect of relaxation creative activity on the level of perceived stress
Nekvasilová, Sára ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; Pavelková, Isabella (referee)
The main goal of this thesis was to determine the effect of relaxing creative activity on reducing perceived levels of stress. Relaxing creative activities are simple forms of fine art and drawing method called Zentangle was used. This thesis is based on 2 main hypotheses: the first being that Zentangle method has the potential to favorably affect the human psyche and can reduce level of stress, the second being that the effect of this method will increase with higher levels of experineced flow. The theoretical part of this thesis is focused on clarifying fundamental concepts, important for the research. These concepts are stress, methods for decreasing stress and the concept of flow. In the empiric part of the thesis, the stated hypotheses were tested by a quantitative design. The research was carried out with 55 participants, divided into 3 groups - the first was practicing creative art activity, the second was used as an active-control group and was practicing hand yoga, and the last group represented passive-control group. Levels of stress and flow were measured by questionnaires. The influence of relaxing creative activity and hand yoga on reduction of perceived levels of stress was verified by statistical methods. The second hypothesis, stating that higher levels of flow will increase influence of...
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