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The attitudes of public to mentally disabled people
PROKOPCOVÁ, Kateřina
The bachelor thesis deals with the topic of Public attitudes towards people with mental disorder. The primary goal of the thesis is to find out what kind of positions the public takes towards people with mental disorder. Beside this main target the thesis replies either the confirmation or the refutation of the given hypotheses. The theoretical part of the bachelor thesis deals with the definition and classification of the mental disability, its causes and characteristics of each person with some mental retardation and it involves the attitude and prejudices to the disabled people from the historical point of view. I focus even on the possibilities of care for these people and their leisure time activities, social organizations and civil associations. People of different age groups in the town of Strakonice are addressed in the research part of the thesis. Quantitative research is used to reach the above mentioned goals. Survey is the method used to collect data. Univariate and bivariate analysis was chosen to process the surveys and the gained data are processed in the program IBM SPSS statistics. The results are collected from the questionaire which contains 17 questions, answered by 207 respondents. The first four questions are concerned with the sociodemographic data as sex, age, education and occupation. In the next part of the questionaire there are given some questions, which all the hypotheses are processed from. The result of the thesis is the finding of the public positive attitude towards the mentally disabled people irrespective of their age and sex. The public often meets these people in their daily life and they do not mind the direct contact. The research confirmed the influence of education towards the attitude to the disabled people.

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1 Prokopcová, Karolína
2 Prokopcová, Kristýna
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