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Internet social networks as a part of the system social relations among school age children
Knapová, Jana ; Krykorková, Hana (advisor) ; Strouhal, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the social networks, especially on social network Facebook. It surveys the basic principles of Facebook and points to the risks arising from the use of social networks and disruptive behavior on the Internet. The work is a treatise on the prevention of cyberbullying and safe behavior on the Internet. In the empirical part, through a questionnaire survey, it examines the risk behavior of students at the second stage of two primary schools in Prague, in relation to life satisfaction. The empirical part also determines life satisfaction associated with the object and method of communication on Facebook. Keywords Internet social networks, Facebook, risk behaviors, life satisfaction, prevention
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Risks of being on diet for middle - aged women
Plachá, Barbora ; Marádová, Eva (advisor) ; Hanušová, Jaroslava (referee)
The bachelor work focuses on the risks of women's diets in middle age (45 - 60 years of age). The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part characterises generally the period of menopause which just emerges in the women's middle age. It refers to the basic principles of rational eating. It regards the issues of overweight and obesity and related reduction diets and their impact on health conditions of women. Based on the technical findings, the work makes recommendations how to adjust a diet in a suitable way. Practical part includes the questionnaire inquiry which is aimed at women's eating habits and their experience with reduction diets. The individual results are evaluated and discussed in the conclusion of the study. The results of the questionnaire survey indicate apparent lack of information of middle - aged women especially in terms of health risks related to reduction diets.
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Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: Comparison of Developed and Developing Countries
Halamka, Radek ; Bajgar, Matej (advisor) ; Jašová, Martina (referee)
Recent studies concerning subjective wellbeing have not taken different conditions in developed and developing countries into consideration. Also, different types of factors affecting subjective wellbeing have rarely been researched together. This bachelor thesis seeks to fill the gap. Its main aim is to compare individual, economic, political and institutional determinants of life satisfaction within groups of states divided according to their level of economic development. Data from last three waves of World Values Survey are used here. I analyse dependence of life satisfaction on various determinants by ordered probit model. Results show substantial differences between the groups of states. Main results of the thesis show diminishing effect of both national and individual income with rising national income; a large difference between high and low income countries in perception of quality of government and of a concept of personal unemployment; highly appreciated democracy among high income countries; insignificance of attained education in the lower income groups; a positive effect of quality of education and health care among countries with lower national income; and a high effect of freedom of choice across all groups. The thesis points out high importance of taking levels of development into...
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Relationship Between Perfectionism, Achievement Motivation, Subjective Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem of Gifted and Non-Gifted Secondary School Students
Jirásková, Lucie ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Zvírotský, Michal (referee)
(in English): The thesis called "The Relationship between perfectionism, achievement motivation, subjective life satisfaction and self-esteem among gifted and non-gifted high school students' aims to explore the differences between gifted high school students in natural sciences and their perrs in school achievement motivation, level of self-esteem, subjective life satisfaction and perfectionism. The thesis is divided into three parts: theoretical, methodological and empirical. The theoretical part deals with variables examined in the context of the giftedness and also outlines the results of previous studies in this field. The thesis focuses on intellectually gifted high school students in a field of natural sciences, especially in biology and chemistry. Research in tis thesis is quantitative. To detect self-esteem was used Rosenberg self-esteem scale, for detecting a level of global life satisfaction we used life satisfaction scale recommended by the OECD and the manual by The New Economics Foundation, school achievement motivation was measured by evaluation tool according to Hrabal and Pavelková (2011). For measuring of perfectionism, we used a modified questionnaire to measure perfectionism in sport according to Stoeber and Rambow (2007). The empirical part is devoted to statistical data...
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The relation between child's temperament and mother's satisfaction on maternity leave
BLAŽKOVÁ, Iveta
This thesis is dealing with the relationship between temperament and satisfaction of mothers staying on maternity and parental leave. In the theoretical part there are summarized basic knowledge about maternity, temperament (especially child temperament) and life satisfaction. In the empiric part there was studied if the child temperament is connected with the mother's life satisfaction. Next issues to follow were the relationships between temperament and general psychological situation or perceived parental competence. A quantitative research was taken with women on maternity and parental leave. The Questionnaire of life satisfaction, considering scale SUPOS 7 PC, Parenting Sense of Competence Scale, Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised and Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire were used to collect the data. Eight major and complementary hypotheses were defined; a discussion deals with their results and possible limits of the research.
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Perception of life and job satisfaction among secondary school teachers
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Kristýna
This thesis deals with life and job satisfaction of the teachers at secondary schools. The theoretical part focuses on the definitions of life and job satisfaction. It describes their definitions, dimensions and determinants affecting life and job satisfaction. It also reports the characteristics of the teaching profession, the teacher´s personality and his/her typology. The thesis refers about the demands that are placed on their position, then about the risks that threaten. The practical part is conceived as a research of life and job satisfaction using a standardized questionnaire of life satisfaction by J. Fahrenberg et al.(2001). The main task of this thesis is to measure or find out how much are the secondary school teachers satisfied not only in their jobs but also within their lives. These points are very important and motivating.
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Evaluation of life satisfaction of pensioners (healthcare institutions,homecare agencies, retirement houses)
FUJDLOVÁ, Radka
Theoretical concepts: The central topic of my thesis is the life satisfaction of the elderly, although this concept is perceived very subjectively. Moreover, it varies even in one person at different life stages and it depends on various circumstances and events that accompany people on their life journeys. However, experiencing satisfaction always requires the saturation of one's needs, physical ones as well as mental, social and spiritual ones. Most of the times, one is able to provide for their needs, or at least affect them, through their activities and their will, but the older ones grows, the more one becomes dependent on others in this respect. This task is usually taken in part by one's family members who are willing to help and take care of their close relative, but there also arise situations where one has to entrust themselves into the hands of health professionals, especially nurses. The nurses' tasks do not just include staffing surgeries, but it is necessary for them to pay attention to the individual needs of their clients. Importance of both these components of care is entirely equivalent, because treatment success depends largely on the psychological state, defined by the satisfaction of the clients' life needs, and, on the other hand, the measure a patients' well-being is strongly influenced by the state of their health depending on successful treatment. Professional care that their clients receive is often linked to the placement of the elderly in some health institutions; possibly there may be a situation when an elderly person stays in their home and receives care from field medical staff for only a few hours a day. In any case, the objective of such care, through whatever methods it is provided, should be to achieve the highest possible degree of satisfaction of elderly individuals. Objectives of the thesis: To find out about subjective evaluation of life satisfaction of the elderly depending on their age To find out about subjective evaluation of life satisfaction of the elderly depending on their sex To find out about subjective evaluation of life satisfaction of the elderly depending on institution type Hypotheses: H1: Men are more satisfied than women H2: Satisfaction of the elderly decreases as they grow older H3: The most satisfied are the elderly who use the services of ADP Methods: The method of quantitative research was used in the practical part. For this purpose, the reduced SQUALA standardized questionnaire was used. It had been transferred to interview form due to the age of the target group of the elderly. The obtained data was processed with Microsoft Office Excel and some calculations were made with the Statistica programme. Answers from one hundred respondents were obtained as part of the survey; the respondents came from South Bohemia, particularly from the Český Krumlov and České Budějovice regions. Three types of health care institutions were contacted: a home care agency, retirement homes and hospital aftercare wards. Fifteen elderly persons were obtained for cooperation in the home care agency, 39 persons in retirement homes and 46 persons in hospitals. Results: The results of the survey show that satisfaction of the elderly is most affected by the type of health institution used, i.e. by the environment in which they are provided with health care. Definitely the most satisfied are the people who use the services of the home care agency. On the other hand, age or sex did not play a significant role when evaluating life satisfaction. Conclusion: The importance of this thesis may lie mostly in the opportunity to use the acquired knowledge, regarding the satisfaction of the elderly and the factors that influence this satisfaction, to improve the quality of care provided by nurses and other health staff.
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Life (dis)satisfaction and the decision to migrate: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Otrachshenko, V. ; Popova, Olga
This paper provides the first evidence regarding the impact of life satisfaction on the individual intention to migrate. The impact of individual characteristics and country macroeconomic variables on the decision to migrate is analyzed in one framework. Differently from other studies, we allow for life satisfaction to serve as a mediator between macroeconomic variables and the intention to migrate. Using the Eurobarometer Survey for 27 Central Eastern (CEE) and Western European (non-CEE) countries, we test the predictions of our theoretical model and …find that dissatisfi…ed with life, people have a higher intention to migrate. The macroeconomic conditions have an effect on the intention to migrate indirectly through life satisfaction. At all levels of life satisfaction, unemployed, middle-aged individuals with a low or average income from urban areas at all levels of education are found to have higher intentions to migrate from CEE countries than from non-CEE countries.
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Psychosocial situation of parents with the handicapped child.
TOMANOVÁ, Růžena
Bachelor thesis psychosocial situation of parents of a child with disabilities is concerned with the families who care for a disabled child. Theoretical section outlines bio-psycho-social factors that affect the life of a family with a disabled child. This section also deals with the family of the affected child, the changes that family is going through, due to the different members of the family and extended family. Finally there is the possibility of dealing with difficult family situations. The practical part contains eight case studies of families with a disabled child and my research examines how families manage child care and specifically how the birth of an affected child affected the lives of families. Further investigation shows the preference of parents in communicating information about the child's disability.
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The impact of income and employer on happines in the Czech Republic
Valentová, Adela ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Brožová, Dagmar (referee)
This thesis identified the impact of income and reference income on happiness or life satisfaction. The impact of type of employer for which was identified the impact of firm size, the difference between private and public sector and the entrepreneur and the employee. For the analysis for the Czech Republic were used data from 1st, 4th and 5th wave of European Social Survey from years 2002, 2008 and 2010. The analysis found only a small positive impact of absolute income on happiness, a positive impact of reference income which suggests the possibility of "tunnel effect" which means that the positive impact of reference income can be explained as a signal of possible future prosperity. On average a higher happiness for entrepreneurs and employees in public sector was found. The significant impact of firm size on happiness was not found. The highest impact on happiness have health and living with partner. The increase in health has the same effect on happiness as tripling of income; living with partner has even bigger impact on happiness, about 3, 5 times of income.
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