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Experiencing positive emotions in middle age
Halčáková, Bára ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva (advisor) ; Lindová, Jitka (referee)
When middle age is mentioned, most individuals immediately associate this period with the proverbial term: ,,midlife crisis." Mostly, this life phase is associated with a psychological crisis, which happens on the basis of acceptance of the irreversibility of the shortening of time, acceptance of the aging process, and the like. When experts deal with this concept, they mainly deal with the negative aspects that make this stage of life so famous. In this thesis, I look at middle age from the opposite angle. I aspire to find the positive aspects of middle age. I focus primarily on affective components reflecting the ongoing evaluation of an individual's moods and emotions. This diploma thesis looks at middle age from the point of view of emotional experience and its goal is to find out what is the most common source of positive emotions in individuals in the period of middle adulthood. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on professional literature and deals with basic knowledge about emotions, the definition of middle age and its psychology, and last but not least, the crisis of middle age and its emotional experience. The practical part is grasped as qualitative research. The data for the analysis were received and processed with the consent of the main researcher doc. PhDr. Bc. Iva...
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Transition and calibration elite athlete's identity at the end of a sports career
Jech, Miroslav ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva (advisor) ; Urban, Marek (referee)
Miroslav Jech: Transition and calibration elite athlete's identity at the end of a sports career "In a sporting career, the only certainty is its end. " A peak sporting career entails a long-term maximization of needs in many aspects of life, but especially in psychological, physical, social and financial aspects. Although the focus of psychology is currently on the origins and progression of a sporting career with the aim of maximising competitive performance, the subsequent exit of the individuals from this specific environment is still being neglected, despite the fact that it appears from existing research to be a determinant of the subsequent quality of life. In our thesis, the main aim is to identify the motivational factors that emerged and led top athletes to quit their sporting careers. How did they experience the end of their career, how did they cope with it and what are the genres of their identities. A qualitative design was used to better understand the motivational states that individuals experienced when they left the sporting environment, allowing us some flexibility as we assumed inconsistency in sporting career paths. Through semi-structured interviews, data were collected capturing the narratives of each participant. These data were then analysed and interpreted using reflexive...
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