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The culture of violence of youth attending youth clubs
Prokopová, Johana ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Voldřich, Michal (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the contexts of aggression occuring in the lives of youth attending the youth clubs. This group of adolescents is considered to be at the risk of high-risk behaviour. The theoretical part describes the principles of youth clubs (NZDM) and the specifics of their target group and previous research. In the theoretical part selected developmental changes taking place in adolescence are described and last but not least this part focuses on aggression - theories of its origin, forms and functions. The empirical part of the thesis describes a research conducted in 8 youth clubs (NZDM). The first part of the research dealt primarily with the question of the level of aggression among youth attending youth clubs and the data collection was carried out through use of The Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ-SF). The second part of the research consisted of conducting semi- structured interviews also with youth attending these facilities. The thesis then describes findings that emerged from both parts of the research. In particular, the higher average scores of target group in the administered questionnaires are discussed, and thus the assumed higher tendency to behave hostile towards their surroundings. The findings are seen in the context of high rate of aggression taking place...

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