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Structure of personal goals and resilience of university students
ŠLAJSOVÁ, Eliška
The bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of a motivational structure in conjunction with resilience in university students. The theoretical part describes the concept of the motivational structure and the problematics of stress and resilience and also the basic characteristics of university students. The empirical part aims to find out if there are some statistically significant relationships between the level of resiliency and some of the elements of the motivational structure and the content level of personal goals is being examined as well. The research sample consists of a total number of 159 respondents aged between 19 and 29 years. The data were collected using the snowball method on social networks. Resilience was measured by the abriged CD-RISC questionnaire and the structure of personal goals was assessed by the Czech adjustment of PCI questionnaire. The results showed that there is a significant difference in cognitive evaluation and in the goal distance between high-resilience and low-resilience groups of students. We found a positive correlation between cognitive evaluation and the level of resilience and a negative correlation between goal distance and the level of resilience.
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Future teachers' drawings as a tool for finding their knowledge about human body constitution
NOVÁKOVÁ, Gabriela
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to analyze the general knowledge of human body composition among the students of Faculty of Education at University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. The questionnaire distributed among students of different specializations contained three drawings of silhouettes of human body and student's task was to draw the internal structure of human body. The drawings were analyzed by evaluation charts, which were inspired by similar researches, however they were adjusted to fit to the aim of this study. One hundred and ten drawings of different were chosen randomly. From the results of the analysis follows that the awareness of internal structure of human body is quite good. The students were able to draw most of the organs in the right place. When assessing internal connections within organ systems worse results were achieved. Although students could choose organ system of their own choice, only 49 % did not contain more significant mistakes. The drawings of students of different specialization differed only in number of drawn organs. Among students of Science branches only one student drew less than 6 organs, while among students of Humanities branches there were more than one fifth and students of combinations of specializations achieved 35 %. The final result was that 47 % students were able to draw organs which belongs to the same organ system, but they were not able to draw connections between them.
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Psychological counselling centre for students of Health and Social Studies at the University of South Bohemia. Preparation of specialized service
CHUDÁ, Lenka
The thesis consists of theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part defines basic problems which students have to deal with and which can be resolved through psychological help. Furthermore, there is the definition of counselling and its application in the university environment. I also bring a brief history of university psychological counselling both abroad and in our country. An important part of this work is qualitative research in three selected specialized departments of universities, dealing with university students and staff. I performed the research by using semi-structured interviews with representatives of counselling. The fundamental part of the whole work (practical part) presents quantitative research, in which I will focus on results of the analysis, which covered 20% of the students of Health and Social Studies University of South Bohemia in the České Budějovice. Hypotheses were as follows: half of the respondents will wish the emergence of University psychological counselling in our faculty and more than 50% of students want to discuss within the counselling study problems. The first hypothesis was confirmed - 71% of respondents were positive with regard to the establishment of a specialized institute. The second assumption was not filled only 18% of respondents declared to discuss within the counselling study problems. However, quantitative research also brings some other interesting findings. 99% of respondents consider psychological help to be useful, although only a small portion of them have direct or indirect experience with its use. With this finding diverges very weak awareness of particular knowledge of university psychological counselling in České Budějovice. An interesting result is the relatively high number of respondents who would be willing to financially participate in the payment of consultation in the university counselling. The whole work brings not only important findings concerning opinions and attitudes of students who were questioned but also incentives to fulfil their potential.
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Procrastination of university students in relation to the Big Five model of personality
KAPROVÁ, Aneta
This bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of academic procrastination in relation to selected personal characteristics of university students. The work is divided into two main parts - the theoretical and the empirical part. The theoretical part brings in the issue of general procrastination, which involves irrational but intentional postponing of our duties. This part focuses primarily on bringing current knowledge, description and characteristics of its specific form the academic procrastination. The main emphasis is placed on primary factors influencing its origin, especially on the context of personality psychology. The theoretical part is concluded with a chapter on the profile of a university student. Next, the empirical part deals with the research of procrastination in the academic field. The research is aimed at identifying the relationship between procrastinating behaviour and personality features of Big Five model. The research method involves a questionnaire battery, which includes three questionnaires: NEO Five - Factor Inventory, PSS -Procrastination Scale for Student Population, PASS - Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students. The research team was created from 155 university students. The results of this research show that the most prominent characteristic of the procrastinating individuals is considerably low conscientiousness. The empirical part also comes with the results from the evaluation of the degree of academic procrastination and other factors which can be considered as likely causes of procrastinating tendencies.
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Concept Maps and Their Use in Learning of University Students
Zůnová, Tereza ; Kasíková, Hana (advisor) ; Koťa, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis presents concept maps as an alternative tool for learning of adult university students. The theoretical part explains the changes in the ability to learn of these adult students. The thesis presents basic information about concept maps and describes specific examples for their use by university students. I describe the advantages and disadvantages which bring them this information recording graphical tool. The empirical part combines all topics of the theoretical part. Qualitative research presents the subjective views of adult university students on changes in their ability to learn. They try to create concept map and then they give their subjective views on this tool and their previous experience with it.
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The Issue of Psychosomatic Disease in Undergraduate Students
Dršková, Adéla ; Hošťálková, Monika (advisor) ; Podaná, Jana (referee)
Psychosomatic diseases represent an important (emerging) group of diseases. It is known that the main cause is the effect of prolonged stress. On the contrary, they can be positively influenced by a healthy lifestyle. They may manifest as different diseases, affecting nearly all parts of the body, e.g., asthma, migraine, back pain, gastric ulcer, skin diseases, depression and others. Therefore, it is important to pursue them and to think about their prevention. As the main goal of my work, I determined to find out whether college students are vulnerable to a possible psychosomatic illness. To achieve this, I have set a number of partial objectives, namely: whether and how has changed the lifestyle of university students, whether they have difficulties that could indicate psychosomatic illness, whether they have been diagnosed with psychosomatic illness, whether they have information about prevention, whether they comply with any preventative measures and whether the risk of psychosomatic illness depends on field of study. For quantitative measures, the data was collected using a web-based questionnaire. The questionnaire was anonymous and was distributed via web link. Data were collected using a method of "self-selection", in the period from 4th to 24th of January 2016. Respondents were present or...
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Sleep variability and sleep behavior of two selected homogeneous groups of aduls
Tomašovská, Jana ; Brůžek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Šonka, Karel (referee)
Nowadays, frequency of so called civilization diseases is raising and current life style of an industrial society brings increased number of sleep disorders. Various non-physiological and pathological phenomena, for which humans do not have and cannot have any adaptation mechanisms created, can be seen in our culture and society. The purpose of this thesis is to examine sleep habits of two groups of healthy adult persons (young adults and seniors) and determine factors having an influence on sleep quality. Three hypotheses were stated (Hypothesis No. 1: Sleep length and quality are changing throughout the life. Hypothesis No. 2: Sleep length has an influence on BMI. Hypothesis No. 3: Sleep length is dependent on a life style). Validity of these hypotheses was verified. The sample consisted of a group of young adults (76 women, 51 men) and of a group of active seniors (50 women, 40 men). Sleep behavior was investigated by a questionnaire form. Every person answered to 50 questions. Their answers were statistically processed. Basic somatic characteristics as body height, body weight and Body Mass Index were measured during the contact with respondents. Statistically significant difference (p < 0,05) in sleep behavior of young adults and seniors in weekdays and weekend was found out. Young adults were...
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Selected nutrition aspects of female students at chosen universities in the Czech Republic
Stuchlíková, Sandra ; Marádová, Eva (advisor) ; Hanušová, Jaroslava (referee)
Title Selected nutrition aspects of female students at chosen universities in the Czech Republic Abstract The objective of this Bachelor thesis is to focus on specific aspects of selected female university students in the Czech Republic. Initial chapter describes basic life-style facts of this group. Following chapters list and compare youth and adult nutrition habits. General nutrition issues are also presented in this project including family and school nutrition addition to public nutrition analyses. There is also chapter specifying sample of university student, nutrition habits and relevant research. The practical part presents own university student research. The output of this research did not prove any significant fluctuation in female student nutrition at selected universities. Key words University student, school nutrition, school cafeteria, nutrition, life-style
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Personal management of university students
Dejmalová, Lenka ; Starý, Karel (advisor) ; Šebková, Helena (referee) ; Matošková, Jana (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to explore the first-year undergraduates' strategies of self-management. The thesis contains the theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part deals with the transformation of higher education in Europe and in the Czech Republic followed by the changes in the university student career and lifestyle. Special attention is devoted to university socialization, the personality of the university student and their new roles. The next chapter of the theoretical part presents the concepts of personal management and academic self-management. Effective and successful university study and personal strategies of self-management then appear to be interdependent. The aim of the qualitative research is to explore and describe how the first-year students organize their study. Firstly, the content analysis of selected study plans was carried out and the orientation questionnaire survey was conducted among 165 first-year students at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Later, also other methods were applied: the diary of study week and electronic interviews. The data were analysed through open coding and thematic coding. Two basic types of students were distinguished based on the dominant out-of-class activities and the diversity of tendencies in independent...
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