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Intergenerational solidarity in the time of coronavirus pandemic
Vondrová, Vanesa ; Jeřábek, Hynek (advisor) ; Remr, Jiří (referee)
The diploma thesis examines the changes in intergenerational solidarity and the form of care provided by informal caregivers to elderly individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 was captured through a planned but ultimately unrealized longitudinal panel design, which would have allowed capturing its dynamic nature. The method of data collection for the research was a questionnaire survey. In-depth interviews were conducted with a selected sample of participants, including caregivers and elderly recipients of care. These interviews took the form of semi-structured interviews, allowing flexibility in exploring relevant aspects. The collected qualitative data were analysed using content analysis. Despite the unrealized plan, the thesis provides a comprehensive view of the changing intergenerational solidarity during the pandemic. Findings revealed that the pandemic influenced intergenerational solidarity among caregivers and elderly recipients. Shared perceptions and concerns led to higher levels of solidarity. Isolation did not necessarily weaken solidarity, as many families used digital technologies to maintain connections and support. Additionally, intensive care contributed to higher intergenerational solidarity and engagement. Respondents...
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The impact of AI tools on higher education students
Lacina, Ondřej ; Soukup, Petr (advisor) ; Remr, Jiří (referee)
In the world of rapidly evolving technologies, the last two years have seen a massive expansion of artificial intelligence. We are therefore all encountering emerging AI tools in our everyday lives. The thesis titled The Impact of AI Tools on Higher Education Students focuses on the ways in which students of Czech universities approach these new emerging technologies. After explaining the notion of artificial intelligence, the fundamental breakdown of the tools is outlined. The possible good and negative elements of these new instruments are also discussed. For the research, a mixed research design is adopted, which separates the analysis into two sections using the explanatory sequential design's processes. In the first step, a quantitative questionnaire survey was undertaken, with respondents divided proportionally into ten quotas based on the ISCED-F 2013 category. Semi-structured interviews were used in the second stage to augment the questionnaire survey. The analysis resulted in the key trends in the use of AI tools among students of Czech universities. High focus is given on the frequency of use, preferred tools, usual purposes of usage in academic, private, and professional life, faith in the generated information, and worries about potential negative consequences. The usual user groups for...
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Social interactions of online game players
Nováková, Anežka ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Petrúšek, Ivan (referee)
The thesis is focused on the social interactions of online game players. The aim of the work is to map the social interactions that occur among players of online games, along with the factors that can influence the nature of these interactions. Part of the work focuses on whether, and in what way, the experiences of men and women differ in the online gaming environment, and how women are perceived and accepted in this environment. The last part is focused on establishing relationships within online games. The goal was to find out whether it is possible to establish long-term and meaningful relationships in this environment, what these relationships look like, and whether they can be compared to relationships formed in the real world. To achieve these goals, quantitative research was conducted using an online questionnaire. The results were then processed and interpreted using graphs and tables. The findings showed that interactions within online games have a diverse nature, which depends on many factors - the most significant in my research turned out to be the genre of games. Many women tend to hide their true identity within online games, even though the number of women who have experienced negative interactions does not differ much from the number of men who have also experienced them. The...
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Survey of the validity of personality questionnaires in the prediction of work performance
Červený, Daniel ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Hynek (referee)
The main goal of the rigorous work is to find key personality dimensions for predicting work performance in selected job positions. In the introduction, the author focuses on placing the subject of rigorous work in the context of the sociological disciplines of sociology of work and sociology of business. In the next part, the author focuses on the development of individual industrial revolutions and organization approaches. We currently live in Industry 4.0, which is associated with digitization, robotization, implementation of automated process in work activities and growing demand for new skills and competences. In addition to new expertise, soft skills are increasingly in demand. In the next part, research into the validity of BIG-5, 15FQ1 and CPAI-2 personality questionnaires in predicting work performance is analyzed, ways of working with soft competences within the Czech Republic are identified, and links of these competences to the individual scales of the Bochum Personality Questionnaire (BIP) and the Performance Motivation Questionnaire (LMI) are found. In the final part, the author deals with the conducted surveys. The aim of the survey among HR professionals was to identify the required values of the BIP and LMI questionnaire scales for selected job positions in terms of the success of...
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Measuring the burden of caring for the elderly
Mezenský, Štěpán ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
This thesis focuses on informal care and the burden of informal care. The aim is to explore the current form of informal care and to reflect on it with existing knowledge. In its first part, the thesis focuses on a description of the demographic development of the seniors, a description of informal care and the problems associated with it, solidarity, caregiving burden, and the possibilities of assistance and support for informal caregivers. Furthermore, the thesis sets out to describe what assistive technologies are, how informal carers use them and how they relieve them of the caring burden. Peripherally, the thesis also touches on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the caregiving burden. Through quantitative measurement using my own modification of the ZBI-4 questionnaire, I describe caregiving burden, taking into account basic sociodemographic data. The results show no statistically significant differences either across genders or across generations, apart from a significantly lower perceived caregiving burden for Generation X. I follow the quantitative part of the research with the qualitative part, based on semi-structured interviews. In the qualitative part, I describe the reasons for the decision for informal caregiving, its form and consequences, potential generational differences,...
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Intergenerational solidarity in the time of coronavirus pandemia
Vondrová, Vanesa ; Jeřábek, Hynek (advisor) ; Remr, Jiří (referee)
The diploma thesis examines the changes in intergenerational solidarity and the form of care provided by informal caregivers to elderly individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapidly changing situation around COVID-19 was captured through a planned but ultimately unrealized longitudinal panel design, which would have allowed capturing its dynamic nature. The method of data collection for the research was a questionnaire survey. In-depth interviews were conducted with a selected sample of participants, including caregivers and elderly recipients of care. These interviews took the form of semi-structured interviews, allowing flexibility in exploring relevant aspects. The collected qualitative data were analysed using content analysis. Despite the unrealized plan, the thesis provides a comprehensive view of the changing intergenerational solidarity during the pandemic. Findings revealed that the pandemic influenced intergenerational solidarity among caregivers and elderly recipients. Shared perceptions and concerns led to higher levels of solidarity. Isolation did not necessarily weaken solidarity, as many families used digital technologies to maintain connections and support. Additionally, intensive care contributed to higher intergenerational solidarity and engagement. Respondents...
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Changes in leisure activities caused by the pandemic Covid - 19
Dorčeva, Emilie ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Urban, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis titled "Changes in leisure activities caused by the pandemic Covid - 19" deals with the topic of the impact of the pandemic on activation in homes for the elderly. The thesis aims to identify and describe how the pandemic has affected the leisure activities of the elderly. The sub-objectives seek to determine which activities have succumbed to the changes and whether the needs of seniors have been met. Finally, the thesis examines whether new activities have been invented as part of the activation. The theoretical part of the bachelor thesis starts with an introduction of the research already conducted and then includes an explanation of basic concepts. The methodological part serves to introduce the qualitative method of data collection, which is a semi-structured interview. The practical part is devoted to the actual research and tries to find answers to the predetermined questions and at the end of the thesis a discussion is presented. Keywords leisure activities, seniors, retirement home, service providers, pandemic Covid - 19 Title Changes in leisure activities caused by the pandemic Covid - 19
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How hospice workers perceive death and dying
Voldřichová, Johana ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Vokřálová, Eliška (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the topic of how hospice care workers perceive and talk about death and dying. Much of the work that discusses this topic views it from the perspective of patients or relatives or loved ones. This paper aims to describe how hospice care workers work with the everyday presence of death. In the first part, the thesis discusses theoretical concepts that are applicable to hospice care and hospice work. Primarily, the thesis focuses on the topics of coping with death, tabooing death, and working with the body. It is qualitative research based on key informant techniques. Purposeful sampling was used to obtain informants. Ten semi- structured in-depth interviews were conducted with hospice and palliative care workers. In the practical part, the findings from the interviews obtained in a hospice in the Central Bohemia region are elaborated. Thematic analysis helped me to identify three main themes, which are, coping, working with the body and the forms and concepts of death. The thesis attempts to develop the existing research existing on this topic. It is important to understand how workers work with death and how they perceive it due to how stressful this work is, but also because the current society is aging and there will be a need for more workers and overall hospice care.
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