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Issues of meaning of life and selected aspects of existential anxiety
Krátká, Eva ; Junková, Vendula (advisor) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
KRÁTKÁ, Eva. The Issues of Meaning of Life and Selected Aspects of Existential Anxiety. Prague, 2012. Dissertation. Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty, Department of Psychology. This dissertation explores issues of experiencing the meaningfulness of life and of selected aspects of existential anxiety, and it verifies whether there is some connection between some measure of meaninglessness of life being experienced and some measure of knowingly experienced existential anxiety and some selected factors which can influence our awareness of our anxiety. The research is focused mainly on adolescents and young and middle-aged adults of different genders, degrees of education and residences in the Czech republic. The survey included 170 respondents and was done with use of quantitative method. Obtained data were processed using the SPSS statistical program, and they are presented in the form of tables, graphs and commentaries. This study confirms an importance and frequency of existential beliefs and experiences and it shows that they are closely connected to an experienced meaningfulness of life and to some personality traits and circumstances of life. Therefore, a deeper research of this area seems to be beneficial and helpful not only from the therapeutic point of view alone.
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Psychological and spiritual aspects of the crisis of ageing
Tupá, Marie ; Lachmanová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Bartůšková, Ludmila (referee)
Psychological and spiritual aspects of ageing crisis. This Bachelor's thesis focuses on the psychological and spiritual aspects of ageing crisis. The aim of this thesis is to identify ageing crisis difficulties and what potential does the ageing have in terms of personal growth. In the first part research by compilation method is presented. The attention is focused on the psychological aspects, including an acceptance of the physical and psychological changes, new family relations and career changes. The spiritual aspects of ageing crisis involves a path of spiritual growth, looking for the meaning of life, crisis of faith, conversion to faith and hope. In the second part, the thesis analyses the results of questionnaire survey among the people of faith for ages between forty to sixty-four. The respondents had been given a chance to express their opinion via free text to questions regarding ageing, meaning of life and the role of Church Community in helping the ageing people. The important outcome of this survey could provide valuable incentives for parish pastoral care. Keywords Ageing, crisis, psychological aspects of ageing, spiritual aspects of ageing, meaning of life, crisis of faith, parish pastoral care
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Life Goals - An Intergenerational Comparison
Morávková, Kateřina ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This thesis deals with the subject of life goals. It presents selected life goal theories and possible life goal classifications. Attention is also paid to developmental characteristics of life goals in the context of Theories of life-span development. Another related subject is meaningfulness of life - which is closely related to life goals. It outlines philosophical roots of this concept and some psychological theories. The last subject of the theoretical part is psychological construct of well-being, which is presented by selected theories. Empirical part of this thesis is trying to verify the hypothesis that there is a significant difference between the content of important goals of younger and older adults. It also examines the connexion between intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations and Life satisfaction. In order to attain this aim, we used two methods trough two different questionnaires - Satisfaction with Life Scale and Aspiration Index (AI). Samples were made by assessing answers of 962 Czech adult respondents, and the survey packet was distributed to participants online. We found significant differences between younger and older adults in the importance attributed to different goals which concerned: Affiliation, Sense of community, Physical health, Financial Success, Image, Popularity,...
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Faith and moral values of social workers in the helping professions
Fiedlerová, Michaela ; Stretti, Sylvie (advisor) ; Cimrmannová, Tereza (referee)
Víra a morální hodnoty sociálního pracovníka v pomáhajících profesích Faith and moral values of social workers in the helping professions Michaela Fiedlerová This bachelor's thesis focuses on the role of faith and values in social work, highlights areas where religion and spirituality are already firmly in place and also reveals the dark side of religiosity and crisis situations arising trough involvement ones worldview into the relationship between social worker - whatever party worker or client is believer. The paper endeavors to answer the question whether and, if so, to what extent can social worker affect the service to his religious beliefs. Pitfall of religiosity in social work lies in the fact that the social worker can access to his task as a religious mission, more or less consciously can put pressure on the client (or colleagues) to accept his understanding of the world, to profess the s ame values and even in the same manner. The social worker has considerable power over the client, legitimate one, arising from his position, expert power and especially power resulting from source control. In order to set limits to the social workers power in favor in clients, codes of ethics have been created, such as the Code of Ethics of Social Workers of the Czech Republic. These define, inter alia,...
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Purpose at work. Motivations of Workers of Selected Low-threshold Facilities for Children and Youth
Valentová, Michaela ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Košák Felcmanová, Alena (referee)
Purpose at work. Motivations of Workers of Selected Low-threshold Facilities for Children and Youth Bc. Michaela Valentová Abstract Diploma thesis focuses on the experience of purposefulness of employees of low- threshold facilities for children and youth. In theoretical part low-threshold facilities are firstly conceptualized as a part of Czech organized civil society. Secondly, relevant theories of purpose are introduced. In empirical part, qualitative research is conducted by in-depth interviews with nine employees of two typical civil society organizations. Workers of low-threshold facilities for children and youth construct their purpose around four categories: helping clients, professionality, work ethics and self-development. Each of these categories brings specific consequences for their organizations. The theory expects purpose to be inspirational for others, however research participants do not reflect on the possibility to inspire their clients that way. This work suggests it is caused by workers' strong emphasis on professionality which creates borders in relationships between clients and workers and also limits the possibility to inspire one another with purpose. Keywords low-threshold facility for children and youth, civil society organization, CSO, non-profit organization, mission, meaning of...
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Meaning of life of old aged adults
Malá, Sára ; Janečková, Hana (advisor) ; Křížová, Eva (referee)
This bachelor work deals with the question of life meaning in theelderly period ofhumanlife. The work is divided in theoretical and practical part. Thetheoretical part give san overview of oldage concept, itsperiodization and charakteristics of concret paging periods, changes in oldage and theprocessofadaptation to oldage.Furthermore, in this part ofthework, there are chapters dealing with topicscloselyrelated to the mening oflife, such as qualityoflife, the koncept of aktive oldage, values, goals, needs and autonomy. The ideas of V. E. Frankl on the mening of life are presented in details as the key authority in the field of life meaning study and the founder of existentialanalysis and logotherapy. Ideas of other important figures in this field of study are mentioned as well, including F. Nietzsche, C.G.Jung, E.H.Erikson and A. Adler. Thepractical part isdevoted to theanalysisof case reportsof very oldclientsof a homefortheelderly. The case reports are based on a one year-long participatoryobservation and my workexperience as anactivatingworkerwithsix elderly aged 90 to 107 years. The observation process focused on theperceptionofthe mening oflife by seniorsthemselves, thefactorsthataffectit, thespecificsoflife in a homefortheelderly, lifechanges and the influence oftheattitude to death on...
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Death in literature versus the face of death in current society
POLÁČKOVÁ, Ludmila
This diploma thesis looks into the issues of death and dying. Based on a chosen work of fiction, it endeavours to remit the topic of fear of dying and concerns on the possibilities of how to deal with it from points of view of a dying person as well as that of an accompanying one. By using and connecting approaches used in sociology of literature and social work, it aims to appraise the benefit of reading fiction on the given topic for social workers in their professional as well as personal life. The work of fiction therefore serves as an alternative receptive material. By its interpretation, a social worker or layman can gain a more profound knowledge of current social issues, which the last matters of a human unquestionably belong to.
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Concept of meaning of life in work of Irvin Yalom as a way how to overcome (post)modern nihilism
Landa, Jindřich ; Drozenová, Wendy (advisor) ; Blažková, Miloslava (referee)
This work is about the way we understand the concept of meaning of life. We particularly dwell upon existential analysis of American psychologist Irvin Yalom. We focus on his work as opposition to pessimism and nihilistic moods in nowadays society. In the other part of this work we have described basic concepts connected with the topic meaning of life and philosophical context with emphasis on Fridrich Nietszche's and Albert Camus's work and psychology of Viktor Frankl. The main goal of this work is to find if there is a way out in Yalom's existential analysis in confrontation with postmodern nihilism and feeling of meaningless of human life. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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