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Persistence of gamers when faced with failure
KYSLÍK, Filip
Alongside gaming topic recently emerges a so-called gaming paradox, which describes a situation when players persist in gaming even though they are facing failures. This work then assumes, that the reason lays in players themselves, who are persistent in first place, and thus this persistence could be observed even outside the videogame environment. The aim of this thesis is to present a research design and thus all the necessarily instruments, that can be used to measure such possible persistence. The first part of the thesis introduces existing concepts of persistence, and also presents several gaming situations, where persistence is required. The second part presents a detailed research design, that allows measuring persistence among different groups of participants. For this purpose, a special instrument (computer-administrated application called ART) was created in order to measure persistence in it's performance-based form, and of which Czech version had not existed up to this point. The main outcome of this thesis is thus not only the pretty much complete research design but also a unique Czech version of ART application for measuring persistence and whose possible future utilization is not even solely bind just to this specific work.
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Expressions of negative time perspective in adolescence
Svobodová, Lucie ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
The Bachelor thesis tries to look at the problem of time perspective from the point of view of qualitative research and to find out how time perspective will be manifested in the testimonies of individuals about their own life or the life of strangers. The theoretical part focuses on the introduction of time perspective and its research. It also describes the reason for researching time perspective in adolescence and describes several influential theories about time perspective. They are the personality-motivational concept by J. Nuttin, the theory of the future perspective by T. Gjesme and the theory of perspective orientation by I. Pavelková. Most attention is devoted to P. Zimbardo's theory, which is also the basis for the carried-out research. The empirical part focuses mainly on the presentation of results from the research. It was done in several grammar schools in Prague, where students filled out a time perspective questionnaire (ZTPI) and two other questionnaires that were not used in this work. Several selected students were then interviewed using the Thematic-apperception test (TAT) and the Lifeline test. The results were processed in the program ⹂Interact" The aim of the research was to find differences and abnormalities in the testimonies of individuals. Thus, we tried to reveal how...
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Negative Time Perspective in Adolescents and its relationship with the attachement
Kocourek, David ; Lukavská, Kateřina (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
This thesis deals with the phenomenon of negative time perspective in adolescent age in connection with attachment style. In the theoretical introduction, both concepts are presented: (1) Zimbard's concept of time perspective, (2) Bowlby's and Ainsworth's attachment theory. The empirical part deals with the statistical analysis of the possible connection between the negative time perspective and the anxiety / evasive type of attachment bond. On the data found in the S-ZTPI and ECR questionnaires on two sets of respondents: (1) graduate students and (2) university students, I conducted a descriptive statistical analysis, the t-tests to compare two files and calculated the Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed a strong relationship between the anxiety attachment style and the overall negative time perspective. Another finding was that women score more prominently on the scale of anxiety than men. Given that collections of graduates and undergraduates were not gender balanced, I could not make any conclusions about the differences in the negative time perspective between groups of undergraduates and graduates. Keywords: Time Perspective, Negative Time Perspective, ZTPI, adolescence, attachment, ECR
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What makes a reasonable player: self-regulation, time perspective and habits in online gaming
Lukavská, Kateřina ; Chrz, Vladimír (advisor) ; Klusák, Miroslav (referee) ; Urbánek, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis concerns factors that affect the intensity of MMORPG playing and the gaming addiction symptoms. In the theoretical part, I discuss approaches to the excessive and problematic gaming. I argue for the shift of perspective from gaming addiction disorder toward self-regulation, time perspective, activity theory and habitual regulation. Two inventory-based studies were conducted in order to empirically verify the effect of proposed variables on MMORPG usage. First, the significant role of Time Perspective (TP), measured by Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), has been confirmed. Second, the habitual regulation had been identified to significantly affect the usage. The habits related to usage were measured by the new psychometrical tool - Cues Sensitivity Scale (CSS). TP and habits influence the usage together - the effect of TP is partially mediated through Cues Sensitivity as well as through the players' deliberate regulation of playing time. All measured variables showed stability in time (measured after three years in subset of respondents). Data was analyzed with statistical methods, mainly with Partial-Least-Squares Path- Modelling (PLS-PM). The part of the data - respondents' strategies of playing time regulation - were analyzed qualitatively.
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Distinction in the break up adjustment in people with different time orientation.
Krejčová, Monika ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Vranka, Marek (referee)
The thesis deals with the relationship between one's time perspective and their ability to cope with the termination of the relationship. The time perspective is composed of five temporal orientations - past positive, past negative, present hedonistic, present fatalistic and future - which differ from each other in personality characteristics and their influence on human behavior. Our aim was to explore the differences among them in the choice of coping strategies in dealing with a breakup and verify the hypothesis. The following methods were used in the research: Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), questions concerning respondent's breakup and Brief COPE, which measured a total of 14 coping strategies on a sample of 237 respondents. The results confirmed the different choices of coping strategies among five time orientations. Although it was not proved that some temporal orientations (past negative) would cope with the breakup more problematically, it seems, however, that these ones mostly use maladaptive coping strategies which can make their breakup adjustment harder. In the conclusion, therefore, are also considered the possibilities of application of our results in psychological counseling practice. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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