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The meaning of life in the context of internet addiciton
Blažková, Nikola ; Loneková, Katarína (advisor) ; Kuchař, Jakub (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between life meaningfulness and internet addiction. In the theoretical part the thesis deals with the psychological view of the meaning of life, presents important theories, selected correlates and methods of its measurement. It defines the concept of addiction and also the view of substance and non- substance addictions. It provides the current view of Internet addiction, the possibilities of diagnosis, prevalence, risk factors and also treatment. The conclusion of the theoretical part presents studies that deal with the meaning of life in the context of Internet addiction, where the meaning of life can be a tool for treatment, but also a protective factor against the emergence of addiction. The objective of the empirical part of the work is to find out whether there is a correlation between Internet addiction and meaning in life, while socio-demographic data were also analyzed. On a sample of 196 adult respondents, socio-demographic data, level of meaning in life and level of internet addiction were determined using an online questionnaire. Based on the performed analyses, a significant correlation was found between the level of meaning in life and the level of Internet addiction (rSp = - .368, p < .001). Furthermore, a negative...
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Use of psychedelic substances and well-being
Blažková, Nikola ; Kočárová, Rita (advisor) ; Riedl Černíková, Barbora (referee)
The main goal of this Bachelor's thesis is to map the context of psychedelic substance use and well-being. The theoretical part defines the concept of well-being including its basic predictors. It also defines classical psychedelics, presents the history and the present of psychedelic research, and describes the mechanism of the effect of these substances on humans including the risks associated with their use. The main part of this work summarizes the existing studies focused on examining the relationship between psychedelic substances and well-being, both in clinical studies on patients and healthy volunteers, and in observational studies dealing with the use of psychedelics in an uncontrolled environment. The empirical part contains a research proposal, which aims to compare the average values of well-being of users of these substances and non-users and to find out how users themselves evaluate psychedelic experience in relation to well-being and how important the safety of using these substances is for them. Keywords Well-being, psychedelics, psychedelic research, life satisfaction
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