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Sleep in the Context of Quality of LIfe
Prokeš, Michaela ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Kreidl, Martin (referee) ; Manková, Denisa (referee)
The central focus of my dissertation thesis is sleep in the context of quality of life. The significance and value of a good night's sleep to our well-being is often underestimated. Although partially determined by genetics, sleep is also strongly determined by environmental and social factors. Much of the research in this area, however, limits itself to studies with biomedical approaches, and the sociological aspects of sleep are rarely investigated. The dissertation aims to bridge this knowledge gap, discussing sleep in the context of quality of life and applying a variety of analytical methods on data collected from a Czech population sample to study how sleep affects and is affected by quality of life. Motivated by a lack of research on the longitudinal effects of sleep and well-being, the dissertation includes a research article (Chapter 3) on the long-term effects of changes in sleep duration, sleep quality and social jetlag (the discrepancy between biological time and social times) on quality of life (satisfaction with life, happiness, work stress, subjective health and well-being). A second article investigates social jetlag and its links to work and family (Chapter 4). A third article studies sleep in the context of family types and the effect of parenthood on sleep duration and social...
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Online Dating: Impact of Online Dating Sites on Mate Selection
Mazáková Šetinová, Markéta ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Katrňák, Tomáš (referee) ; Fafejta, Martin (referee)
Markéta Mazáková Šetinová 13 Feb 2024 Online Dating: The Impact of the Internet on Mate Selection Dating has changed significantly over the last generation, both globally and in the Czech Republic. Perhaps the most significant change has been the influence of the internet and technology on the way people meet. This dissertation explores the evolving landscape of mate selection in the digital age, focusing on the impact of online dating platforms. Drawing on Czech and international research, the study investigates assortative mating patterns, age preferences, cognitive influences, and societal attitudes towards online dating. Employing a mixed-methods approach including data analysis from dating sites, surveys, and qualitative interviews, the research reveals a consistent trend towards assortative mating across various demographics from the first stages of mate selection. Findings suggest that while online dating expands opportunities for meeting potential partners, it also reinforces preferences for similarity and introduces new dynamics in mate selection. The study sheds light on the complexities of modern dating behavior, highlighting the interplay between individual preferences, societal norms, and technological affordances in shaping relationship dynamics.
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Způsoby seznamování v současné společnosti
Topinková, Renáta ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Katrňák, Tomáš (referee) ; Nešporová, Olga (referee)
In the past decade, online dating has been displacing other ways of meeting partners. In the US, online dating has surpassed meeting through friends and family around the 2013 for heterosexual couples. Despite the widespread popularity of online dating, relatively little is known about its prevalence, user perceptions, and behavioral dynamics in online dating platforms within the context of Czechia. This dissertation aims to fill this gap in empirical insights into Czech online dating market by utilizing two main data sources: 1) a survey of adult Czech internet users, 2) digital trace data from a Czech mobile dating app. The study starts with the historical overview of matchmaking, transitioning from newspaper ads in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the flourishing of online platforms in the modern era, reflecting societal norms and demands of different eras. The survey of Czech internet users reveals that online dating is a prevalent mode of finding romantic partners among surveyed Czechs, resonating with trends observed in the US and other Western countries. The fast emergence and widespread popularity of online dating begs the question of how it is related to one of the most persistent patterns in the research on partnerships and families - homogamy. The remainder of the thesis therefore...
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Using mixed modes to address nonresponse bias in surveys
Röschová, Michaela ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Remr, Jiří (referee) ; Hruška, Lubor (referee)
Declining response affecting population surveys in the past decades led to a shift of focus from response rate to nonresponse bias. From a theoretical perspective on nonresponse, reducing nonresponse bias requires altering the differential response propensities of sampled units through the application of unequal intensity or type of effort across the units. At the same time, it is acknowledged that implementing nonresponse bias reduction strategies is more challenging than focusing solely on response maximisation because these two may constitute conflicting objectives, especially in the context of increasing fieldwork costs. This dissertation aims to contribute to the discussion on strategies to address nonresponse bias in the conditions of decreasing response rates and under less favourable survey conditions in general. It explores the barriers to a more widespread application of nonresponse bias strategies and formulates criteria for a more feasible nonresponse bias strategy that would be accessible to a wider range of survey entities. It argues that mixed methods are particularly suitable for offering a solution. The empirical part assesses whether the application of a CAWI conversion attempt in a random probability face-to-face survey may serve as a feasible nonresponse bias reduction strategy....
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20 years of research in social stratification in the Czech Republic
Karnet, Martin ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This bachelor thesis summarizes the most important personalities who devoted to the topic social stratification in the last twenty years. In the first chapter, the term social stratification is explained and other important terms are defined. The next part of the work analyses stratification researches in the period of the dominance of the communistic regime in the Czechoslovakia. This period is mainly connected with Pavel Machonin who executed an important sociological research in 1967. The most extensive part of this thesis is devoted to the period after the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic. In this chapter are compared themes that authors devoted to the topic social stratification during several years after the Velvet revolution with the contemporary reflection of social stratification. Key words: social stratification, Czech Republic, Czech society, research
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Contemporary reflection on the relationship of social stratification and consumption
Podsedníková, Klára ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This bachelor thesis summarizes theories that deal with the relationship between social stratification and cultural consumption. In the first chapter, basic theories of social stratification are briefly summarized. Then the author introduces Pierre Bourdieu's distinction theory and his follower's and critic's contributions. The second part of the work deal with the contemporary theories of social stratification and cultural consumption relationship, focusing especially on the cultural omnivores concept. However, two other basic concepts of the relationship - the homology concept and the concept of individualism - are presented as well in this part.
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Educational differences in family behavior and attitudes
Kubincová, Michaela ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Markéta (referee)
The aims of this work are to determine how the education affects attitude to parenthood, real behavior and the way how affects the attitude to parenthood and real behavior in the context of education in last two decades. The theoretical part summarizes knowledge of Czech sociologists. Answers questions how and why the parenthood in Czech society has been changed and influenced by accomplishments of individuals. According to Czech scientists since 1989 the economical change of society, the change of personal values and combinations of this two factors are causing differences in parenthood. The first analytical part is description of real development in birthrate complemented by diagrams. Second analytical part takes a look on female education according to family behavior.The analysis explains that the different family behavior of women is divided according to their education, resulting to the number of children, and in some extent, to their marital status. The third analytical part is based on a quantitive data analysis and is focused on attitudes of different education groups. In this analysis were used data from the ISSP Family (1994, 2002, 2012). It use the percent chance frequency and contingency tables, factor analysis and multivariate regression. The main topic investigates the development of...
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The link between work conditions and subjective health in the Czech Republic
Krátká, Tereza ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
The relationship between health and working conditions represents an important topic of sociologic research. Still, in the Czech context this theme has not been sufficiently dealt with. This work's aim is to contribute to the research in the branch, to offer a detail study of the relationship between subjective health and working conditions. Firstly, the theoretical part of the text offers definitions of the concepts subjective health and working conditions. Secondly, there are defined three hypotheses about the relationship between the categories subjective health and working conditions. Then, the hypotheses are tested using contingency tables and regression analysis. Afterwards, there is offered a comparison between the study's conclusions and outputs of similar foreign works. The results of the analysis correspond with those reached in foreign context - in comparison with unemployed, economically active people feel them healthier. Using the regression model, significant influence of education on this relationship was proved. Other testing brought a conclusion that people working in difficult conditions evaluate their health worse than people who do not have to cope with hard working conditions. There was not proved a significant difference between men and women in evaluation of subjective health...
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Factors underlying parental decisions about childood vaccination
Kočišová, Eva ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
The presented thesis deals with the issue of mothers' decision-making in relation to their child's vaccination against pneumococcal infections. An on-line survey of mothers was conducted (n = 180) in order to obtain data for the theoretical model based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB). A hierarchical logistic regression was then performed in order to analyze the model with the intention to vaccinate as the dependent variable. The results of the regression analyses were supplemented by results of correlation analyses and non-parametric tests. The theory proved itself as a strong predictive instrument and the results suggest that the attitude is the main predictor of the decision in this non-representative sample of mothers. The subjective norm, as the second construct of the TPB, contributes only in certain case and the perceived behavioral control was not found influential at all. The perception of thread of contraindications of the vaccine proves also influential next to the attitude. The beliefs that mothers hold about the vaccine were analyzed according to mothers intentions to vaccinate (n = 70) or not to (n = 110). These results support the idea that mothers, especially those who do not want to vaccinate their children against pneumococcal infections, decide particularly according to...
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