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Conflicts in the workplace
Fabianová, Ivana ; Michalík, David (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
(in English) Bachelor thesis writes about conflict as a normal and natural part of a workplace. It discusses the conflicts in the workplace and in a human life as a helpful factor of changes, but also a source of dissatisfactions, depressions, despair in case of being unsolved. Thesis describes conflict division styles, conflict resolution styles and personal assumptions of conflict perception. In the work teams part I am writing about differences between work team and work group, then I am describing division of teams and I am presenting several developmental theories. Thesis also follows up socio- psychlogical aspects of team membership and team work. It focuses also on team relations mapping. Other element of thesis is a description of symmetrical and asymmetrical communication. Identification of relationship between communication style and conflict presence is a subject of experiment proposal.
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Psychological Aspects of Assisted Reproduction
Karel, David ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee) ; Hříbková, Lenka (referee)
This dissertation work aims to contribute to the understanding and explanation of individual psychological experience during the process of assisted reproduction. The research objective is to understand and describe infertile individual's experience during the process of assisted reproduction techniques treatment. The aim of the project is to immerse into the experience of infertile individuals and try to understand what the individual ascribes to himself, his infertility, reproductive medicine and how the individual perceives reality. The work helps to understand the experience of individual's perception of himself, his partner and his surroundings, in relation to his infertility and assisted reproduction techniques and what feelings and emotions he experiences. The dissertation project is answering four research questions: How do the participants feel about their child? How do the participants experience the process of assisted reproduction techniques? How do participants experience the emotions in the context of assisted reproduction? How do participants think about their partners and the social environments in the context of conception and ART? The nature of the adopted epistemological anthropomorphic attitude and theoretical models of the interaction symbolism and social constructivism, a...
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Social Psychological Aspects of Humor
Zemanovičová, Iva ; Slaměník, Ivan (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
The theoretical part of the thesis first outlines basic theories of humour. Further, it deals with the psychological functions of humour, specifically cognitive, social and psychohygienic. Since preference, content and sharing of humour are to an important extent influenced by the life period in which a person finds himself/herself, the thesis also focuses on the connection between humour and ontogenetic development of human. In her thesis, the author also pays attention to laughter, which represents the most common reaction to a humorous stimulus, and to sense of humour, being an important personality characteristic of people. The final chapter maps a role of humour in various themes of social psychology. It deals with its influence on social interaction, attitudes or relationships, with emphasis on close relationships. Gender differences and similarities in using, preferring and appreciating humour are covered too. Finally, it discusses humour in connection with communicating aggressive and hostile content. The empirical part contains research on the connection between satisfaction in a relationship and using humour in three types of close relationships - with a partner, parent and friend. The research further addresses the question whether there are differences in functions of humour between the...
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Attributional styles and their research on persons suffering from psychosomatic disorder
Nováková, Martina ; Slaměník, Ivan (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
The thesis deals with attributional styles and their research in patients with psychosomatic disorder. The text is divided into a theoretical part and an empirical part. The term psychosomatic disorder is defined in the theoretical part. The essential links between psychosomatic disorder, stress and cognitive processes are mentioned. Selected attribution theory and the concepts of attributional styles, then make up the majority theory. In the empirical part, there are hypotheses defined using three psychodiagnostic methods tested on a set of people with psychosomatic disorder and compared with the healthy population. Key words: attribution attribution theory attributional style psychosomatic disorder/psychosomatic illness somatoform disorders
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Psychological aspects of cyberbullying
Šmolka, Michal ; Štětovská, Iva (advisor) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
Diploma thesis "Psychological aspects of cyberbullying" deals with bullying, modern ways of communication and cyberbullying. It brings the main psychological knowledge connected to bullying, inquires into phenomena of communication using modern technologies and presents fundamental information about cyberbullying. The research part consists of qualitative and quantitative research. The purpose of qualitative research was to chart the phenomena connected to bullying and cyberbullying. The quantitative one informs then about the incidence of bullying and cyberbullying in the Czech Republic and conducts a survey of feelings, which are experienced by the victims of bullying and cyberbullying. The important part of the thesis is the statistical reliance analysis of those feelings according to various factors.
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Relationship of leadership and emotionality at individuals of different gender
Ševčíková, Juliana ; Uhlář, Pavel (referee) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
Emotionality as an inevitable part of psychic processes of a man is an important variable in everyday social interactions. Formal work environment and the context of leadership influence behavior of people in connection with specific features typical for individual social roles. Gender as a social and cultural construct belongs to person's characteristics and it is conditioned by a situation, and as well as social roles it has an impact on emotional manifestation of an individual.. The research on emotional expresivity specifics of individual groups in relation to their gender and work position was carried out on the sample of 259 leading and non-leading employees. The results confirmed a possible relation of various modality of emotional manifestation to gender and leadership, as well as persistent perception of leadership role as a masculine one. There is a question emerging whether a professional role impact is transferred into private areas of leaders' life and to what extent are the changes - which may this social role contribute to - permanent in time.
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Strategies for coping with stress and personal causality orientation in women undergoing infertility treatment
Kellnerová, Kristýna ; Niederlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This master thesis deals with infertility and its treatment. Both in the theoretical and empirical part, it focuses on the female aspects of the issue. The theoretical part summarizes the knowledge which is important to understand the presented problems. We define the terms; we describe the psychological and physiological causes of infertility, the process of treatment of infertility and aspects thereof. We focus on the role of stress and the strategies of coping with stress related to infertility and its treatment; furthermore, we deal with personal causality orientation related to the experienced level of stress as one of the determinants of coping with stress. Our aim in the empirical part is to describe the use of strategies of coping with stress within the sample of women acquired by us, the distribution of personal causality orientation of these women and to capture the possible connections. The sample is made of 57 women who are currently undergoing a treatment for infertility. To collect the data, we used the SVF 78 Inventory, the DOPO Questionnaire of the Personal Causality Orientation and a self-developed anamnestic questionnaire. Based on acquired data, we established some specificity in the use of strategies of coping with stress and the distribution of personal causality orientation...
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Role of senior in the family
Dukátová, Tereza ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This diploma work examines the family role of seniors in today's world. The theoretical part describes the phenomenon of the quality of life with an emphasis on the quality of life of seniors. Furthermore, the work focuses on old age, its definition and characteristics, on seniors in the Czech Republic and the description of the elderly in relation to the family. The last chapter deals with the care for the elderly. The empirical part is motivated by the main research question: What is the family role of seniors living in residential facilities of social services from their own perspective like? To answer this question I conducted a qualitative research using a test of family system - FAST and the interview. The whole research is focused on seniors living in residential facilities of social services. I worked especially with retirement homes. The empirical part includes the research objectives and questions, the detailed description of the methods I used, the research sample and the description of the whole process of research. The complete research, its process and its results are then subjected to a critical examination in the discussion.
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Work-family conflict and work-family reconciliation in czech and slovak organizations
Svianteková, Gabriela ; Rymeš, Milan (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
This work represents one of the first detailed views on psychological aspects of work-family relationship in our country. I was interested in the relationships between various factors from work and family domains and the part they have in predicting work-family and family-work conflict. The aim of the reseach was to investigate direct relations of variables representing objective engagement of the individual in work and family areas. From the variables influencing the individual on the work side of the work-family interface we focused on work load, work hours, frequency of business trips and work status of the employee as antecedents of WFC. On the family side of the border we were interested in the influence of factors of primary childcare and household resposibilites, family work hours, number and age of children on FWC. Besides, we also focused on direct and mediation role of family-friendly organizational culture, family-friendly benefits used, work/family salience and sense of control over one's work on the relationship between objective role engagement variables and WF interference. We tested for differences between groups of individuals according to sex, partner and parental status and also how work, family, demographic and family-friendly org. culture variables relate to the forms of WFC....
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Psychological and social aspects of foreing peacekeeping mission of the Czech republic armed forces
Hrstka, Zdeněk ; Štětovská, Iva (referee) ; Slaměník, Ivan (referee)
This rigorous thesis is based on my PhD thesis "Psychological and Social Aspects of Foreign Peacekeeping Missions", defended in 2009 at the Department of Military Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Military Health Sciences in Hradec Králové, University of Defence in Brno. The original PhD thesis was extended with the issue of the military environment in the Czech Armed Forces, with uniqueness and particularities of interpersonal relationships in the Czech Armed Forces, with the issue of combat stress and combat fatigue and with the burn-out syndrome. New objectives were added to the original ones and new hypotheses related to the topic were determined according to the supplemented research. The bibliography was extended as well. The main objective of the research was to judge the selected psychological and social aspects of foreign peacekeeping missions of the Czech Armed Forces Medical Service which can impact on changes of soldiers' quality of life and interpersonal relationships. The psychological and diagnostic methods of DZP, IES-R, DŽS, BM, SVF-78. EOD-A and ŠSA were used to find out partial objectives of the research. The Czech Armed Forces foreign peacekeeping mission is assessed in the thesis as a specific military activity which can impact on development of the...
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