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Burnout Syndrome in conditions of performance-oriented society in the 21st century
Petrlíková, Adelheid ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hrachovinová, Tamara (referee)
The first part of this thesis is focused on the literature review that is concerned with Burnout syndrome. The work analyses the development of the burnout concept from the early start in 70th of the 20th century till present-day. It covers major topics that include the definition of the Burnout Syndrome, the difference among Burnout Syndrome and other mental states, signs, symptoms, diagnostics and phases of the Burnout Syndrome and last but least the analysis of the factors, that contribute to formation of the Burnout Syndrome. The factors are divided into two categories, the first are external and the other are internal. The second part of thesis consists of the empirical research. The research examines the difference in copying with Burnout Syndrome between the two groups, where the first group represents psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists who work with clients and the other group, that represents IT specialists, who minimally need to deal their job with people. The empirical part provides the differences between scores of these two groups in SMBM (Shirom-Melamed scale), LET (Life Engagement Test) and ICL (Interpersonal Check List). The goal of this part is to test assumption, that claims the relationship among Burnout Syndrome and intrapsychic or interpersonal context. Keywords:...
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Risk factors for suicidal behaviour among czech adolescent population
Nekolná, Hana ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee) ; Loneková, Katarína (referee)
The rigorous thesis "Risk Factors for Suicidal Behaviour among Czech Adolescent Population" deals with suicidality and suicidal behaviour among adolescents in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the basic terms of this topic, various approaches and understanding of this issue in the past and at present. This work also deals with the forms, methods and motives of suicidal behaviour. Furthermore, it describes the age of adolescence as an independent evolutionary period in the life of a man and analyses the risks of this life era. The theoretical part also contains a description of the epidemiology of this phenomenon and possible diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive approaches to suicidal behaviour. The empirical part of the thesis describes a research in which the goal was to determine a relation to the increase of suicidal risk and the basic dimension of the personality (using the Freiburg's Personality Inventory), social support (by the Perceived Social Support Scale) and life engagement (through the Life Engagement Test). The research sample contained 192 respondents from the senior years of grammar schools and vocational schools from Prague and Vysočina. The results of this research confirmed the connection between a lowered suicidal risk and a higher living...
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Coping of Stress and Life Events in Connection with Sense of Humor and Psychological Well-being
Fodorová, Dagmara ; Výrost, Jozef (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
The theoretical part of the thesis mainly deals with the definitions of sense of humor, humor, stress, life events and life satisfaction and presents an overview of the most basic theories related to these topics at the same time. The aim of the work is looking for connection between the three themes. Above all, it shows the positive impact of sense of humor to cope with stress and life events. What role play a sense of humor in psychotherapy? Can psychotherapy help to improve life satisfaction? As this work was created behind the ongoing systemic psychotherapy, corresponds to the mentioned questions also. The research seeks to establish relationships between sense of humor and life satisfaction and consequently their impact on coping stress and life events. The empirical part is based on quantitative data processing, which were obtained by using several questionnaire. The results of quantitative data analysis are supplemented by qualitative observations and insights that explain conclusions of study. Based on the processed data has shown that life satisfaction increases clients during psychotherapy. However the relationship between sense of humor and life satisfaction, as well as their impact on coping stress and life events has not been empirically confirmed. Keywords: humour, sense of humour,...
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Training and transfer effects of executive functions to regulation of emotions
Vlachynská, Kateřina ; Kulišťák, Petr (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis is focused on the effects of computerized executive functions training on emotion regulation and affective functioning. The theoretical part summarizes cognition-emotion integration and is based on cognitive neuroscience models suggesting that there are bidirectional links between cortical executive functions centers and cortical centers that regulate emotions. Based on process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) it's supposed that it is possible to make interventions of emotion dysregulation also through cognitive, antecedent-focused strategies. These assumptions are linked with computerized executive functions training. Such training might have positive consequences for emotion regulation and emotion functioning, as it generate frontal activation (Klinberg et al., 2005). The study measures the potential effect of executive functions training on regulation of negative emotions. The main intervention is a personalized, computer-based cognitive training program BrainTwister. This program is widely used for clinical and diagnostics praxis and rehabilitation. To ascertain the everyday ecological validity of the cognitive training intervention and the emotion regulatory and affective consequences, emotion regulatory experiment (IAPS) together with mood and emotion regulation...
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Executive functions-diagnostic and rehabilitation
Klucká, Jana ; Kulišťák, Petr (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
Executive function testing still appears to be very complicated for many reasons. In practice, we can meet the situations in which commonly used standardized neuropsychological tests do not reveal injury in executive functions, which is absolutely obvious in everyday life. The goal of the submitted research was to confirm a hypothesis whether getting the executive function testing closer to real life may contribute to their diagnosis specification. In the conducted research, the individual performance of the group comprising 29 persons with dysexecutive syndrome was compared with the individual performance of the control group of 29 healthy persons. The testees' performance was monitored in two test situations - at standstill (standard testing) and during noise load (real conditions simulation). In both test situations the identical tests of NEUROP-2 (KIQ, PAARE, GO/NO-GO, LISEQ, HANOI and NATE) were used. In compliance with the hypothesis, negative impact of noise on the performance of persons with dysexecutive syndrome was proved in the KIQ a HANOI tests. In both cases presented above, the testees with dysexecutive syndrome were characterized by statistically considerable performance degradation during the noise load. In the other utilized tests (PAARE, GO/NO-GO, LISEQ and NATE), the noise impact on the...
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Psychological aspects of pain management
Zahradníková, Tereza ; Niederlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
Bachelor's thesis deals with pain management from psychological perspective. It covers emotional, cognitive and behavioral factors, pain coping strategies and individual differences in pain management. This work focuses on the time dimension of pain. The aim is to describe psychological aspects of acute and chronic pain management - the differences between acute and chronic pain management and the role of psychological aspects in pain chronification. Psychological aspects of pain, especially pain coping strategies, are evaluated in terms of efficiency and adaptability. The research project is designed as a prospective study investigating if there are any pain coping strategies related to pain chronification and if the coping strategies change during pain chronifiaction. Keywords: pain management, coping strategies, acute and chronic pain, chronification of pain
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The Posttraumatic Growth of the Professional Firefighters
Ďurčeková, Eva ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This diploma thesis is focusing on the posttraumatic growth in professional fire fighters. The theoretical part deals with models of the posttraumatic growth and factors which affect this process. Another constituent of the work is a treatise about psychological aspects of the fire fighter job execution. One section of the work, the empirical section, is based on the Czech version of a questionnaire method called "Posttraumatic Growth Inventory ". It is a questionnaire that discovers the level of achieved posttraumatic growth in 5 areas; personal strength, new possibilities, relating to others, appreciation of life and spiritual change. The research sample that consisted of 100 professional firemen verified the relationship between the posttraumatic growth and other aspects of respondents' lives. The research showed following discovery. The marital status, the fact if the respondent has a family, the time which passed since experiencing a difficult incident, the subjectively perceived intensity of an event, the level of distress, psychological well-being, behaviour of type A, cognitive resilience of an individual, strategy of bearing the burden of "negative view", "the concentration on a problem" and "the mineralization of threats" is not connected with the grade of obtained posttraumatic growth....
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Suicidal behaviour and its develompent in Czech population (the epidemiology of suicidal behaviour)
Bláha, Pavel ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
The thesis "Suicidal Behaviour and its Development in Czech Population (The Epidemiology of Suicidal Behaviour)" deals with psychological aspects of suicide and suicidal behaviour. The theoretical part summarises information about suicides, defines basic terms, philosophical and psychological background and epidemiology of suicidal behaviour. This part not only further describes forms, ways, motivation and process of suicidal behaviour but it also features risk factors, diagnostics possibilities and therapeutic approaches to suicidal behaviour. The conclusion of the theoretical part tackles the theme of suicidal behaviour prevention. The empirical part of the thesis gives an account of the conducted research. The research aimed at revealing links between higher suicidal risk detected by FBS - Suicide Risk Evaluation Questionnaire and Rotter's I-E Scale, along with Freiburg Personality Inventory. The sample data comprised of 100 secondary school students in their final year of study in Prague and České Budějovice. The results of the research confirmed a link between higher suicidal risk and female sex, along with bad family relationships, Rotter's I-E Scale and some dimensions of Freiburg Personality Inventory.
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Quality of life in multiple sklerosis patients
Marečková, Martina ; Hrachovinová, Tamara (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
Roztrousemi skleroza je zavazne onemocneni, ktere postihuje predevsim mladsi lidi. Na samem zacatku produktivniho veku jsou tedy pacienti konfrontovani s moznou hrozbou invalidniho duchodu. Podobne je ohrozeno nebo ztizeno materstvi. RS ohrozuje nejenom schopnost pohybu, ale take brani seberealizaci pacientu a ztezuje jejich spolecenske kontakty, protoze musi resitjine problemy nezjejich vrstevnici. Onemocneni RS je take u velke casti pacientu spojeno s uzkosti z dalSiho vYvoje, ktery nelze nijak predvidat. Zvlaste pro pacienty, kteri se diagnozu dozvedeli teprve nedavno, znamena tato nemoc nejistotu, ohrozeni planu do budoucnosti a pocit vyclenenosti ze skupiny vrstevniku nebo pratel, znamych a kolegu. V prvnich letech od stanoveni diagnozy nezpusobuje RS u vetSiny pacientu zadne viditelne postizeni, 0 to vetSi pocit nepochopeni ze strany okoli vsak mohou zazivat. Pro vetSinu lidi totiz tato nemoc znamena hlavne pohybove omezeni, a nechapou problemy jako jsou neurologicke bolesti, tres, unava nebo potize s rovnovahou. Dopad na kvalitu zivota tedy muze byt u RS znacny i presto, ze pacient zatim nepocit'uje zadne nebo jen male fyzicke postizeni. V ranych stadiich nemoci jsou vetSim problemem obavy a uzkost z nejiste budoucnosti. Obecne jsou hlavnimi psychickYmi problemy pacienm s RS deprese, uzkost,...
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Burnout Syndrome in University Teachers - International Comparative Study
Černíková, Barbora ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of burnout in university teachers, who have been previously rather neglected in connection with this topic. The theoretical part provides an analysis of current knowledge regarding the development of the concept of burnout from the very early interest in this issue in the 1970s to the present, with emphasis being placed on the teaching profession, especially in the tertiary education sector. In the empirical part of the research, the assumption of different levels of burnout in university teachers in the former Eastern Bloc and Western European country was tested. This international study compares the burnout level in teachers from the philosophy faculties of Czech Charles University and German Universität Regensburg. In order to achieve a more holistic view of this topic, the levels of life engagement and depression have been studied as well. The data were collected with the help of Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, Life Engagement Test, Beck Depression Inventory and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Basic research assumption predicting differences in levels of burnout, life engagement and depression in Czech and German university teachers was confirmed in only one burnout subscale, namely the subscale of student-related burnout. Additionally, the...
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