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Social skills of auxiliary professions workers
Dobiášová, Šárka ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This thesis deals with the social skills of helping professions. The aim was to capture the level of social skills of selected professions - a psychologist, social worker and clergyman. The research was focused on the social skills as a whole and tries to accommodate the multidimensionality of this researched issue. In the theoretical section, there are outlined the theoretical growing points related to the researched issue. In the empirical part, by means of the SSI R.E. Riggio questionnaire, there are mapped the individual dimensions of social skills in both the social (verbal) and emotional (nonverbal) dimensions while for each dimension it was dealt with the field of expression, sensitivity and control. The findings of this research show that the social skills of helping workers are lower than these expected with the common population. These findings, however, point at a certain uniformity and thus at the balance of various dimensions which are, in particular, verbal and nonverbal. As it regards the selected professions, the best results were achieved with the clergy while the lowest results were achieved with the profession of social workers.
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Cultural identity of migrants in France
Sudová, Hana ; Štětovská, Iva (advisor) ; Slaměník, Ivan (referee)
This master thesis investigates adaptation and cultural identity of migrants living in France. The sample consisted of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa and French overseas departments who went to France for their studies. The research contains a qualitative and a quantitative part. The qualitative study was realized through semi-structural interwiev, in which partici- pated 19 students in age from 21-33 years. Results indicate that the migrants identify in their country of origin mostly with solidarity and warmth of the people, which contrasts with impersonal relationships of an individualistic french society. In spite of occasional experience with discrimination in France, most of migrants seem to adapt quite well. In France, they appretiate mostly the opportunity to succeed in life, which is given to everybody, something that is far from the case in their country of origin. In the quantitative study, 40 migrants in age from 18-45 years completed a questionnaire survey on internet. Due to a small number of participants the research have rather orientatio- nal character. Results indicated, unexpectedly, that the strenght of ethnic identity diminishes over time, which is in contradiction with several previous studies. Another result reveal that African women show better social and psychological...
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Psychological aspects of the profession of social worker
Kotterbová, Alena ; Štětovská, Iva (advisor) ; Rymeš, Milan (referee)
This dissertation is focusing on the psychological expectations associated to the job of social worker working in the Czech Republic, specifically those working for social services based in Ostrava, and those who provide support for population of people, who are in danger of social exclusion. The theoretical part defines the psychological workload put upon a social worker, their motivation, or work motivation for working in personal contact with clients, and also their potential psychological gains and the structure of their social support. The method of evaluation is discussed in the empirical part of this dissertation. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is used to determine the psychological aspects mentioned above and how these influence the job of social worker. The aim of this dissertation is to accumulate theoretical information and practical findings based on the methods used in this work to establish the pre-determinants of the job of social worker in such a way that they can be further utilised by these in real world. Keywords: psychological expectations associated to the job of social work, psychological workload, work motivation, social support
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Is there a relation between arts and quality of life?
Krutská, Simona ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This work discusses the potential of art to influence quality of life. The theoretical part introduces general aesthetic-psychological principles, thanks to which art work can appeal to us, having the goal of expressing what is typical and essential for art as a whole, and introduce art work as a place of meeting and a challenge for personal growth with the goal to distinguish it, through this characteristic, from other ways of spending free time. Furthermore, the theoretical part briefly introduces the development of the concept of quality of life including the definition of its overlapping to the philosophical anchoring in the conception of humanistic, phenomenological and positive psychology, and it presents research, which, at least indirectly, deals with the topic of art and quality of life. The actual research part compares the subjectively perceived quality of life of people interested in art (conservatory students, n = 73) with a comparative group (high school students, n = 66), with a focus on the present situation as well as future expectations. The research results show that the conservatory students attain higher values attesting higher perceived quality of life. However, in order to deduce the chain of causation it is necessary to conduct further research in this area.
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Forms of mental hygiene and their application to crisis hotline workers
Fabíková, Lenka ; Loneková, Katarína (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This thesis deals with the forms of mental hygiene and their application to crisis hotline workers. In the theoretical part the work focuses on the characteristics and specificities of telephonic crisis intervention. Methods of mental hygiene suitable for crisis hotline workers are presented too. The empirical part focuses on mapping of the forms of mental hygiene, which are provided by crisis hotlines to their workers in the Czech Republic. Individual forms of mental hygiene of crisis hotline workers were also mapped. Crisis hotline workers burnout was investigated in the empirical part of the thesis by the means of CBI - Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. It was also confirmed that greater degree of compliance with selected principles of mental hygiene by cisis hotline workers has the relationship with burnout lower incidence. Hypotheses concerning the relationship between sociodemographic data (sex, age, educational attainment, length of praktice, type of employment in the workplace and beyond) and the rate of burnout were not confirmed. The aim of the thesis was to offer possible ways of how to deal with the stress to crisis hotline workers and how they can optimally use the methods of mental hygiene, which can in practice preventively work against burnout.
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Psychological aspects of membership in online communities
Janda, Marek ; Štětovská, Iva (advisor) ; Slaměník, Ivan (referee)
This thesis focuses on online communities - both their historic and current form. Various forms of communications are described, main focus is then given to identity online and self-presentation - various forms it can take, which expressive devices are used, how trustworthy is it and how is it perceived by other others. Influence of anonymity is mentioned. Empirical part of this work explores online friendship relations, cornerstone of the current wave of social networking services. It asks several questions about ways in which they affect communication between users. Relation between several factors (reciprocity, direction of initiation of said relation) and both quantity and frequency of communication between those users before and after that friendship is established.
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The efficiency of memory and physical training of the elderly
Waidingerová, Iveta ; Štětovská, Iva (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
The thesis discusses the training of cognitive functions and physical exercise in the elderly population. It concerns the issue of active ageing, which is a very topical one. The theoretical part describes the findings and results of the latest studies mainly in seniors of good cognitive health. The practical part presents the research in how the seniors of good cognitive health respond to the combination of cognitive training, in other words memory training, and physical exercise. Keywords: ageing, active ageing, cognitive function training, memory training, physical exercise
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Psychological aspects of reentry from LLP-Erasmus
Kučerová, Eliška ; Štětovská, Iva (referee) ; Morgensternová, Monika (referee)
This rigorous thesis focuses on the psychological questions of reentry from the foreign studying programme LLP - Erasmus. The theoretical part of the thesis deal with psychological aspects of intercultural adaptation and mainly readaptation which consists of cognitive, affective and behavioral dimension. The attention is especially give to the reverse culture shock: to its definition, readaptation strategies and survey of its research. At the theoretical part, the factors which influence process of intercultural adaptation/readaptation are also introduced. From the introduced factors, this paper mostly focuses on the influence of the five - factor structure of personality because this concept of personality is seen as crucial at the questions of intercultural adaptation/readaptation. This thesis also analyses design of reentry training which returning students could take part in. At the empirical part, there were tested variables which influence reentry from LLP - Erasmus. 81 students who study at Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague and who attended LLP - Erasmus in the academic years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 participated on the research. Two studies were executed. The first study (the validation study) focused on a validisation of results of the quantitative study at my master thesis (Kučerová,...
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Motivation to Mountain Climbing and Mountaineering
Gável, Luboš ; Vomáčko, Ladislav (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
The Motivation to Mountain Climbing and Mountaineering The aim of the thesis was to investigate motivational aspects of mountaineering the most successful Czech mountainners today, and compare these results with international research, undertaken in the past. Furthermore, we focused on Measuring motivation to exercise and its comparison with the kinds of motives. Methods: In our work we chose the method of controlled polostrukturovaného interview together with a standardized questionnaire survey questionnaire LMI (motivation to power). The results were statistically processed in Microsoft Excel Results: We found that the motivation for climbing affects five factors, which are partially carbonated external incentives and partly by internal motives. These factors are called "Experience," "attractiveness," "Quality of climbing activities," "rivalry" and "Social recognition". These factors include your own motivational categories that have been more specific. Furthermore, we found that climbing activity shows signs of volitional processes, the state of "flow" while we measured a high degree of motivation to perform. Key words: Mountaineering, Performance, Motivation, Will, Risk
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Fairy tale and its meaning in a modern family
Šeligová, Janka ; Štětovská, Iva (advisor) ; Gillernová, Ilona (referee)
5 Abstract This thesis deals with fairy tale and its meaning and using in a modern family. The theoretical part focuses on definition of terms fairy tale and family and points on their characteristic signs and functions, briefly mentions development of fairy tale and family throughout history, points at fairy tale in a context of children's thinking and feeling and offers a psychological characteristics of four selected fairy tales. The empirical part applies both quantitative and qualitative methods of processing the data, which were obtained from a questionnaire that was answered by 135 people. Its purpose is to find out the most frequent form of contact of a child with fairy tales, to learn which person reads or tells fairy tales to a child the most often and to show which versions of fairy tales are most common among children. This thesis also analyses opinions of parents on meaning of fairy tales in a life of a child and family and defines the reasons which parents have for reading or nonreading of fairy tales. Using statistics methods, there were shown some significant differences between audiovisual and read/told form of a contact of children with fairy tales, differences were also shown between the groups of mothers and fathers in a frequencies of reading fairy tales to their children and it was...
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