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Transition and calibration elite athlete's identity at the end of a sports career
Jech, Miroslav ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva (advisor) ; Urban, Marek (referee)
Miroslav Jech: Transition and calibration elite athlete's identity at the end of a sports career "In a sporting career, the only certainty is its end. " A peak sporting career entails a long-term maximization of needs in many aspects of life, but especially in psychological, physical, social and financial aspects. Although the focus of psychology is currently on the origins and progression of a sporting career with the aim of maximising competitive performance, the subsequent exit of the individuals from this specific environment is still being neglected, despite the fact that it appears from existing research to be a determinant of the subsequent quality of life. In our thesis, the main aim is to identify the motivational factors that emerged and led top athletes to quit their sporting careers. How did they experience the end of their career, how did they cope with it and what are the genres of their identities. A qualitative design was used to better understand the motivational states that individuals experienced when they left the sporting environment, allowing us some flexibility as we assumed inconsistency in sporting career paths. Through semi-structured interviews, data were collected capturing the narratives of each participant. These data were then analysed and interpreted using reflexive...
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Works stress and coping strategies in relations to human immune system
Pospíchal, Martin ; Rymeš, Milan (advisor) ; Šolcová, Iva (referee) ; Letovancová, Eva (referee)
Úvod ABSTRACT Work stress and coping strategies in relation to the state of the human immune system Research in recent decades has shown that not only purely biological factors have an effect on the immune system and the possible development of disease. It is becoming increasingly clear that psychological factors must also be taken into account. The topic of our research is to try to clarify, at least partly, how coping with work and life worries (or mental stress) affects a person's health, mainly the activity of immune system, especially in relation to the possible progression of cancer. In the presented research we focus on three basic research areas, being the possible connection between the experienced number of demanding life and work events and the increased chance for the development of oncological disease. Furthermore, we look to identifying the possible difference in the use of strategies for overcoming stress in sick people and those who do not get sick. In the last part of the research, the possible connection between the experience of cancer and the perceived positive benefits of this challenging life experience. We try to answer these (first two) research areas by comparing the two researched groups: groups of people without cancer and groups of people after cancer treatment and then a...
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