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The emotion-paradox in schizophrenia spectrum disporders
Keřková, Barbora ; Raboch, Jiří (advisor) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee) ; Timmers, Renee (referee)
THE EMOTION-PARADOX 1 Abstract The emotion-paradox in schizophrenia describes a dissociation between the grossly impaired perception of emotion and relatively preserved experience thereof. Most posit that the emotion-paradox arises from a generalized emotion perception impairment. Others counter that it represents an artefact of methodological restrictions or a separate dissociation between explicit and implicit emotion. This thesis aimed to explain the emotion-paradox in schizophrenia and resolve the competing interpretations of its root. Two studies were conducted to this end. The studies drew from the same sample, including 45 persons with schizophrenia of various symptomatology, and 45 controls with no psychiatric anamnesis or familial history of schizophrenia. The groups did not differ in age, gender, education or music education. In Study 1, the participants listened to musical stimuli and rated their perception and experience of the valence and arousal that these stimuli relayed. In Study 2, the participants completed a newly developed emotional Stroop task, in which they identified the colour of a series of neutral and negative descriptors of positive, negative, or no symptoms of schizophrenia. Findings of Study 1 indicated: a) that persons with schizophrenia recognize musical emotions as accurately...
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Monitoring of reaction abilities in different age categories of judo athletes.
Buriánek, Adam ; Heller, Jan (advisor) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee)
Title: Monitoring of reaction abilities in different age categories of judo athletes Objectives: The aim of the thesis was to assess the influence of judo on the reaction abilities among different age groups of judo athletes. This finding should help to develop a view of necessity of focusing on reaction abilities during exercise unit. Methods: During the research a reactometer was used to capture simple and complex reaction time to visual stimulus and tactile response. Overall 166 individuals (100 men, 66 women) took part of the monitoring from which 3 were excluded. Every proband has undergone one test measurement (5 stimuls at least) and two evaluated ones (20 seconds each). The shorter - reaction time score was consider as a result for the particular test. The outcomes were utilized via Kruskal - Wallis test, Pearsons's and Spearman's correlation coefficient, Mann - Whitney's test and others. Results: The biggest difference between reaction period was observed between the age group of 8-10 and older groups. This category has also significantly differed in reaction period and the highest median. Statistically any notable difference was not confirmed among judo athletes and our control group in contrary with the situation between individual age categories. The hypothesis of judo athletes training...
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Mental concentration of florball players
Novotný, Tomáš ; Harsa, Pavel (advisor) ; Dragounová, Zuzana (referee)
- english Abstract The aim of this bachelor thesis is to highlight the importance of mental concentration of floorball players during training and before a match and to highlight the importance of concentration during sports preparation. In the theoretical part of the thesis, based on the available literature sources, the thesis first discusses the topic of the sport and describes floorball in general - e.g. its history, rules, or important players. It focuses in detail on the mental concentration of players, which is related to concentration, fatigue and depression, for example, and explains what influences all of them, why they are important in sport, and which factors can affect it negatively. The practical part is based on a questionnaire survey among selected respondents. The results of the survey will be used to evaluate the influence of the players' mental concentration on their performance. Keywords sport, floorball, concentration, mental concentration, psyche, mental states, mental states, attention, attention disorders, fatigue, conflict, stress, motivation short and long term memory, survey, factors
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Motivation factors in prevalence of doping in fitnes centres visitors
Macho, Juraj ; Slepička, Pavel (advisor) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee) ; Krejčí, Milada (referee)
This thesis aims to specify the role of motivation in tendency to dope in a fitness environment. The aim reflects research questions focused on external and internal motivational factors and their influence on doping tendencies. We combine quantitative and qualitative research strategies to achieve this aim. The quantitative approach is based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) and the Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985; Ryan & Deci, 2017). A total of 142 fitness center members (81 men and 61 women, age 30,2 ± 9,39 years) participated in this part of the study. In regression models, we observed some significant effects of the independent variables on variables stemming from the Theory of Planned Behavior. Specifically, we found a significant positive effect of external regulation (ß = ,195; p < ,05; R2 = ,324) and a significant negative effect of intrinsic motivation (ß = -,288; p < 0,001; R2 = ,324) in the model of attitudes toward doping. Furthermore, we found a significant positive effects of attitudes toward doping (ß = ,646; p < 0,001; R2 = 563) and doping offer in the fitness center (ß = 341; p < 0,001; R2 = 563) in the model of intention to dope. In the qualitative approach, we implemented a methodological framework of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)...
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Burnout syndrom, Stress and Depression of High-Level Trainer
Kuba, Kryštof ; Harsa, Pavel (advisor) ; Ptáček, Radek (referee) ; Šafář, Michal (referee)
Title of the thesis Burnout Syndrome and Depressive Symptomatology Among Sport Coaches and Trainers in the Czech Republic (2020) Thesis aim The aim of this dissertation is to determine the metrics of total burnout and its subdimensions using the standardized questionnaire method SMBM with the simultaneous determination of the score of depressive symptoms using the questionnaire scale BDI-II. Methods The dissertation is a non-experimental empirical descriptive study with a questionnaire survey. Data collection took place in November 2020. A total of 1151 questionnaires were obtained. Questionnaires from 1083 respondents were relevant. They created the primary sample. "Professional" trainers who are financially rewarded for the profession were selected for a subset of 776 respondents. A demographic questionnaire on the basic data of the respondents, a lifestyle questionnaire, the Shirom - Melamed burnout scale (SMBM) and the Beck depressive symptomatology scale (BDI-II) were used to collect data. IBM SPSS 27 statistical software was used for data processing. Using statistical inference methods, groups were compared, which were created on the basis of selected categorization variables - gender, length of practice, sports discipline. With respect to the distribution of data, the individual groups were...
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Physical profile of judo athletes and its changes due to body weight reduction
Coufalová, Klára ; Heller, Jan (advisor) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee) ; Vomela, Jindřich (referee)
Title: Physical profile of judo athletes and its changes due to body weight reduction Aim of work: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of intensive pre-competitive body weight reduction on body composition, anthropometric parameters, postural stability, reaction time, maximal isometric muscle strength and biochemical parameters in the blood of elite judo athletes. Methods: The work compares the results of laboratory testing at the beginning and at the end of body weight reduction. Nine male judo athletes (age 22.3 ± 2.4 years) from the Czech national team participated in the research. For laboratory testing we used bioelectrical impedance analyser InBody 720, anthropometric equipment, pressure plate FootScan, dynamometer and apparatus for measuring reaction times of Biomedical laboratory UK FTVS and equipment for the collection of capillary and venous blood. We created a survey to gather more information about pre-competitive weight loss, attended by 53 competitors (37 men and 16 women, mean age 23.7 ± 3.2 years) who practise judo, wrestling Greco-Roman and freestyle, boxing, kickboxing, thaibox, taekwondo or karate. Results: We found a statistically significant (p<0.01) reduction of body weight, average weight loss was 4.6 % (on average 3.4 ± 1.6 kg). This reduction was reflected in...
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Moving therapy as a part in long term drug users treatment - case studies serie and focus group of the clients in therapeutic community
Musílková, Eva ; Slepička, Pavel (advisor) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee)
Rigorous work deals with the importance of physical activities as a part of rigorous regiments of therapeutic communities. Thesis with the empirical- qualitative research character has the ambition of trying to offer the benefits of therapy by movement and sport through the eyes of clients. The processes of finding individual boundaries and physical limits, self-motivation, interaction, and the influence of group dynamics on their own physical performance depend on the progress of the client's convalescence, throughout the stabilization of his mental and physical health at the time of abstinence. Long-term use of addictive substances has a key effect on the physical fitness of users, frequent (and often not non-complicated) psychomotor and somatic comorbidity play a big role in finding and finding their own physical and mental limits. Research part of the thesis is conceived as a serie of case studies and one focus group with clients in particular therapeutic community for drug abusers. Research data was collected through semi-structured interviews, during the interview also situation curve was created by each respondent and following inquiry was performed. The research team consisted of 6 clients. The focus group was realized with complete staff of the therapeutic community. All - clients find...
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Cross-Cultural Validiation of the Czech Version of the Group Environment Questionnaire
Prokešová, Eva ; Rychtecký, Antonín (advisor) ; Válková, Hana (referee) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee)
-i- Abstract The aim of this study was to conduct a cross-cultural validation of the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) (Carron, Widmeyer, & Brawley, 1985), internationally recognized as useful and contemporary measurement approach to cohesion. The GEQ was originally validated for a sample of North American athletes. In total, the sample consisted of 1 410 adult athletes and trainers (1 019 male and 391 female). A modified direct translation method with protocol analysis was utilised to translate the GEQ from English into Czech. Content validity was analysed and confirmed by content validity ratio method for individual indicators of the questionnaire. The factor structure of the Czech version of the questionnaire, verified by structural equation modelling, did not differ from the original version. The predictive validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by its ability to differentiate between groups of athletes (with diverse levels of perceived successfulness) on the basis of their team cohesion scores. Reliability, measured by the Cronbach's coefficient α, was 0,59-0,69 (for version with positively/negatively worded items) and 0,63-0,79 (for version with positively worded items). The results are discussed in the context of possible cultural differences. For population of the Czech athletes from team...
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The Influence of age, gender and movement activity on the reaction abilities of lower limbs by pubescents
Brychta, Petr ; Heller, Jan (advisor) ; Havel, Zdeněk (referee) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee)
Title: The influence of age, gender and movement activity on the reaction abilities of lower limbs. Objectives: The main objective of this dissertation was to find the reaction abilities of pubescent's (aged 10 - 15years) lower limbs on the basis of age, gender and movement activity. The further aim was to determine the pubescence period (age) when the most noticeable decrease of the visual disjunctive motor response time of lower limbs occurs. Methods: 214 boys and girls aged 10-15 years (157.8 ± 10.8 cm; 47.2 ± 10.7 kg) participated in this research. Simple, choice and disjunctive reaction time of lower limbs was measured through the Fitro Agility Check test. The results processing, including statistical procedures, was carried out using the Matlab (MathWorks, Inc.) programming environment, an IBM SPSS Statistics 22. Three-way ANOVA and Tukey post-hoc tests (α=0.05) were used to determine the individual parameters connection. Results: With increasing age, year over year, we found important differences and reaction time decreases of all types of reaction speeds. Testing brings to light the fact that the most noticeable decrease of both selection and disjunctive reaction time of lower limbs are between groups of 11 year olds (11.00-11.99) and 12 year olds (12.00-12.99). The most noticeable decrease...
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diagnostics of personality characteristics of selected sport main coaches
Patráš, František ; Janák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Harsa, Pavel (referee)
Title: Diagnosis of personality characteristics in head coaches of a selected sport Objectives: The aim of this work is to diagnosed and interpreted selected personal characteristics of head coaches (sport managers) of selected sports. The second aim is to identify significant testing differences between the head coaches of selected sports: sports managers and "other " managers Methods: To achieve the objectives, in the empirical part of master thesis was used quantitative research in the form of standardized tests to dynamics-aspiration- TDA and Eyseneck's personality questionnaire. In the dynamics of aspirations were evaluated and interpreted these personal dimensions: psychomotor pace aspirations and values of mental resilience. In Eyseneck's personality questionnaire two main dimensions of personality: neuroticism and extraversion were evaluated and interpreted.Furthermore, the value of the "lie score "was evaluated and the type of personality temperament was determined. The statistical method T-test was used to identify significant differences among the research groups. The results were interpreted by using graphs and verbally. Results: The average values of personality characteristics of the research group differed with the average values of personality characteristics of the thesis test...
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