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Subjective wellbeing of science gifted adolescents
Brožová, Barbora ; High, Radka (advisor) ; Topková, Petra (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on the subjective wellbeing of science-gifted adolescents. The goal of this thesis is to describe subjective wellbeing in the context of gifted adolescents and to determine when these individuals are happy. Participants of the summer science camp Běstvinka were selected as the sample of the gifted adolescents. The theoretical part focuses on different categories of wellbeing, including models and their comparisons, to better understand this complex phenomenon. The research part of the thesis presents the research questions and objectives of the thesis including the methodology used. The first goal of the thesis is to describe the subjective wellbeing of gifted adolescents. The research questions focus on exploring subjective wellbeing, examining the difference between genders and between the two camp groups. Other research questions aim to find out when gifted adolescents are happy and finding out how subjective wellbeing and self-efficacy are related in this research sample. The second goal of this study is to determine what promotes subjective wellbeing in science gifted adolescents. Through the research question, it was investigated which specific factors support the subjective wellbeing of these individuals. The PISA 2015 and 2018 questionnaires and the WHO-5...
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Wisdom and well-being
Šebestová, Tereza Eva ; Topková, Petra (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
This bachelor's thesis examines two psychological concepts, which are wisdom and well- being. One of the aims of the thesis was to adapt Jeffrey Webster's Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale to the Czech environment and to pilot it. The second aim was to test whether there is a relationship between wisdom and wellbeing. A total of 184 respondents between the ages of 18 and 79 participated in the study. Wisdom was measured using the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale, which consists of five subscales - these are critical life experiences, emotional regulation, reminiscence and reflection, humour, and openness. The Satisfaction with Life Scale was used to measure subjective well-being and the Flourishing Scale was used to measure psychological well-being. The Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale had high reliability in the Czech population. The factor structure of the wisdom questionnaire was validated using principal components analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. It turned out that the structure did not correspond to the expected five dimensions, so it was recommended to modify the items and to test them further on a new research sample. The Czech research sample scored the highest on the humour dimension and the openness dimension proved to be the weakest overall. In terms of well-being, our sample was...
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Relationship between attachment style and sociometric status in working group
Bříza, Daniel ; Heider, David (advisor) ; Topková, Petra (referee)
The content of this bachelor thesis is an insight into the topic of attachment in the workplace. It is examined wheter there is a statistical significant relationship between attachment style and sociometric status. The research set consists of 8 teams and 7 of them is from the commercial sphere. In this work was used quantitative design and the data was collected through a questionnaire. The basic premise of the study was that individuals with low avoidance and anxiousness scores higher in popularity and influence in the collective. This premise was confirmed by the data analasys KEYWORDS attachment, sociometry, working group, work and organizational psychology
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Implicit theories of wisdom in different career fields
Bauerová, Lucie ; Topková, Petra (advisor) ; Pánková, Barbora (referee)
This thesis focuses on implicit theories of wisdom, primarily in the context of the Czech working environment. The goal was to qualitatively verify whether there are differences in the concept of wisdom among people in different career fields, specifically among people in the helping sphere and those in the marketing sphere. For these needs, an online questionnaire with open-ended questions was developed, asking about the definition of wisdom, the characteristics of a wise person, examples of wise people, and a specific experience with wisdom. The questionnaire collected a total of 25 relevant responses, which were then assessed using the thematic analysis. Three themes were determined for evaluation based on Monika Ardelt's three-dimensional model of wisdom - the cognitive, reflective, and affective dimensions. The definitions of respondents from both spheres were further assessed concerning the importance of mentioned characteristics in their career field. Equally were analysed concrete situations and names mentioned in respondents' answers. The results indicate that although the individual dimensions often overlapped or partially complemented each other, people from the helping professions mentioned the affective component of wisdom much more often. Respondents from business fields considered...
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Self-efficacy and burnout syndrome among teachers in primary schools
Topková, Petra ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Trpišovská, Dobromila (referee)
Annotation: Teching is a profession burdened with high working stress that can in long term lead burnout syndrome. However, not all teachers suffer from burnout. They can be protected by factors as is for example teacher self-efficacy or social support. This bachelor theses is concerned with burnout syndrome among primary school teachers and also with the relationship between this phenomenon, teacher self-efficacy and social support. Theoretical part concludes theoretical ground according to authorities in the field and findings from previous research. The purpose of the empirical part is to develop an instrument for measuring teacher self-efficacy and to explore the relationship between burnout syndrome, teacher self-efficacy and social support. A questionnaire consisting of five parts was used: anamnestic part, Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure, teacher self-efficacy questionnaire, SVF 78 and ESSI. Negative correlation was found between burnout, teacher self-efficacy and social support. No differences were found between women and men. Differences in teacher self-efficacy and social support were found between teachers with high burnout scores and teachers with low burnout scores. Keywords: burnout syndrome, social support, primary school teachers, teacher self-efficacy
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Wisdom in the context of pandemic
Slížková, Markéta ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; Topková, Petra (referee)
This thesis aims to explore the topic of wisdom and its effect on coping in sample of young adults in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. First, the theoretical part provides an overview of important theories of wisdom, which are dominant in the contemporary psychological research. Afterwards, it introduces theories of coping and coping strategies, it presents existing research concerning the relationship between wisdom and coping and finally, it describes the situation of the COVID-19 outbreak as a potential source of stress. The practical part includes an exploratory and confirmatory part. The exploratory part presents results of detailed mapping of subjective experiences and responses of xoung adults to situation of pandemic. Results show that young adults perceive negative influence of the pandemic on different spheres of their lifes - the most commonly on finances, job and their psychological state. The level of fear of COVID-19 seems to be lower in the Czech samble than in the Iranian or Italian sample. Results of the confirmatory part present relationship between ways of coping and particular wisdom dimensions. Regression analysis revealed that wisdom, coping and perceived control are significant predictors of perceived stress during the pandemic. KEYWORDS Wisdom, Three-Dimensional Wisdom...
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Culture and climate of selected universities
Topková, Petra ; Šafránková, Jana Marie (advisor) ; Paulovčáková, Lucie (referee)
This thesis was focused on culture and climate of selected public universities in the Czech Republic in the form stated in strategic materials. The goal was to analyse and compare key aspects of strategic materials of selected universities that influence their culture and climate. Selected strategic materials included vision, mission, values, long-term intent of the university and educational faculty, annual activity report and code of ethics. The sample consisted of eight universities whose part was an educational faculty. The method of quantitative content analysis was selected for the analysis of the documents. There were six priority areas identified through the analysis of the documents of the Ministry of Education and key words related to these priority areas. The analysis of university documents showed that organizational culture and climate are not much explicitly covered in their strategic documents, the most frequently emerging feature of organizational culture were values, therefore mainly aspects determining culture and climate were tracked. The main focus of university strategic documents were the following three areas: quality, international aspect and research. Although universities shared a common ground stated by the Ministry of Education there was considerable diversity among...
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