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Energy as a term of natural and scientific langugage
Hronová, Veronika ; Bahbouh, Radvan (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
This master thesis is dealing with the term "energy" in relation to interpersonal perception in the context of natural language. The main research question is, how we perceive the level of energy in humans and if there is a general agreement about that. The theoretical part starts with an etymological explanation of the word energy, which follows an overview of scientific disciplines and their explanation of energy. The emphasis in this chapter is put on energy in psychology, in which the concept is first grasped in terms of psychometry and personality psychology. Psychological theories, which work with the concept of energy in the clinical field, are then described. The last chapter of the theoretical part is about non-verbal communication and social cognition. The research part is divided into a quantitative and a qualitative part. The quantitative part, using a correlation study, verifies to what degree the word energy in relation to humans is reliable and valid. The participants saw 8 short videos, where they observed interviews with different person. After that they rated the level of energy of the observed person on the Likert scale from 1 to 10. The judgers' agreement calculated with Kendall's W is 0,3. This value is not high enough to conclude, that the word energy is a valid and reliable...
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