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Sociomapping pupils' social relationships and adaptation in a school class
Rábek, Tomáš ; Šípová, Ivana (advisor) ; Wirthová, Jitka (referee)
Sociometric methods can provide early identification of problems within the social realm of a classroom and therefore contribute to a faster and more efficient solution. One of the most used sociometric tools in the Czech Republic is the Sociometric rating questionnaire (SO-RA-D; Slavíková et al., 2007). Yet it was never examined to what extent this tool can predict the risk of ongoing bullying or pupils' social maladaptation (defined here as a subjective feeling of threat, hostility, indifference/apathy, distrust, and intolerance). Moreover, it is not clear if a circular sociogram which is commonly used for visualization of results in SO-RA-D can capture elements of class structure which are important for the following intervention. For these reasons, the following work quantitatively tests out on the sample of 6 classrooms at Prague's private secondary school (n=113) the extent to which the questions used in SO-RA-D can predict social maladaptation (measured by a questionnaire B-3; Braun, 1998) and the risk of ongoing bullying (measured by questionnaire Guess who?; Kolář, 2011). At the same time, this work is testing the relative effectiveness of newly formed relational questions relative to the ones used in SO-RA-D. This work also tests the effectiveness of newly formed questions focusing on...
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