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The Third Sector and Civic Participation in the Czech Republic
Rakušanová, Petra
The paper aims to make a complex analysis of how the third sector and civic participation function in the CR. It describes the types and structures of Czech NGOs, introduces a new typology of NGOs based on selected criteria, evaluates how the Czech third sector functions in the CEE context, and further elaborates on notions of participation among Czech citizens. The paper summarises the strengths and weaknesses of Czech NGOs and points to future opportunities and possible risks in this context.
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Regional Reform in the Czech Republic
Illner, Michal
The reform of regional government in the Czech Republic was part of the stream of institutional changes that took place after the demise of the Communist regime. It has been implemented in two stages. The first stage took place in the early 1990s when the constitutional foundations of the sysrtem of subnational government were laid down and the municipal tier was put inti place. The second stage occurred in the second half of the 1990s and in the early 2000s when the reform embraced the intermediate tier of government. It is the reform of the regional (intermediate) government which is the main focus of the paper.
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Personality resources of coping with pain: gender differences
Blatný, Marek ; Černý, V. ; Hrdlička, M.
Study is aimed at gender differences in personality resources of coping with chronic pain. The research was done with the sample of patients, which were undergoing treatment of chronic pain (N=150, 50 male an 100 female). Respondents evaluated their capability to influence level of perceived pain on the seven-point rating scale, personality was measured by the means of Eysenck's Personality Inventory and Freiburg Personality Inventory. In male the capability to influence level of perceived pain is connected with low level of impulsive as well as reactive aggression and with low level of excitableness. In female the capability to influence level of perceived pain is related positively to moderateness, openness, and psychoticism and negatively to neuroticism.
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Health complaints, coping strategies and cognitive-emotional typology of personality: The analysis of mutual relations
Kohoutek, Tomáš ; Blatný, Marek ; Bréda, M.
The relations between personality and preferred coping strategies on the one hand and psychosomatical issues on the other come under traditional areas of interest in a range of psychological disciplines and schools. Our study adresses relations between partial coping strategies and subjectivelly referred health complaints in both somatical and psychical way and then verification of relations between these complaints and the typology of personality, which is based on Kuhl's PSI - theory. This theory suggests, that coping is one of the most important characteristics of one's personality and related typology (on different theoretical background) refers to older psychodynamical typologies, that enable the formulation of general and specific hypotheses about personality context of psychosomatic issues again.
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Judgment of Slovak national character by Czech university students
Hřebíčková, Martina
Five-factor model of personality is examined in relation to judgment of national character, in tis study. The Czech version of the National Character Survey corresponding to 30 facets of the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) was submited to 73 Czech university students. The students were to judge a typical Slovak and typical Czech using National Character Survey. The results showed significant differences between a typical Czech and typical Slovak in four personality characteristics. Czech university students judged Slovaks as more extravert, more open to new experiences, more agreeable, and less conscientious than Czechs.
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Teachers and Health 4
Řehulková, Oliva ; Řehulka, Evžen
The publication contains 23 special studies by psychologists, hygienists, pedagogues and physiologists; the studies were either presented in the international conference that took place on 20-21 September 2001 in Brno, or inspired by this conference.
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Thinking narratively: qualitative research "on the road"
Čermák, Ivo
The role of narrativity in the process of qualitative research is briefly described in the paper. In narrative research, mathodological canons of representativness, method, and expert position in research are abandoned, validity is replaced by concept of finding trustworthiness, and sharing, participative-dialogical interpretation and meaning re-construction are emphasized. The story is considered a basis and also an object of narrative research. Stories are interpretations of life and an individual became an autobiographic narrativity. Story is a tool of identity construction and also reflection and can be labelled as a narrative identity. The aim of narrative research lies in good-story construction, which has not to be contradictory to the searching of truth. Narrative research is a way toward narrative knowing. Continuous communication with different versions of human research is a basic principle of narrative methodology and protection against rigidity.
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