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A look to the future through the eyes of adolescent boys placed in institutional education facilities
Trundová, Jorika ; Novotná, Hana (advisor) ; Pernicová, Kristina (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the future of adolescent boys who are placed in a diagnostic institute for youth. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the current concept of adolescence together with some changes that occur during this developmental period. Furthermore, the future is introduced as a concept in the field of psychology. The core of this chapter is the introduction of the concept of future orientation and its context. The following is an explanation of the concepts of risky behavior and conduct disorders and the system of educational care in the Czech Republic is introduced. The empirical part describes qualitative research, which was conducted on the basis of semi-structured interviews with boys placed in the diagnostic institute. Six boys aged 15-18 were included in the research. The aim of the research was to map the view of the future of the mentioned adolescent boys. The results show that boys attach great importance to their career focus, regardless of whether they have an idea of their specific future profession. Furthermore, the importance of the current family in starting their own family is shown. Life experience influences future images, especially in the area of lifestyle and family relationships. KEYWORDS Adolescence, youth, future orientation, conduct disorders
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Future Through the Eyes of High School Students
Hanzlíková, Tereza ; High, Radka (advisor) ; Lukavská, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis with the future through the eyes of senior high school students, especially with its contents and time location of these contents. The theoretical part presents the most famous time perspective theories and the relationship between adolescents and their future. The emhasis is on introducing czech and also foreign research on a similar topic. The empirical part has four goals: find out which future contents senior high school students are dealing with, 2. where these contents are located in time, 3. how important are the contents and 4. what is the relationship between the future contents and student's past and present. They were done semi-structured interviews within the first and the second goal, then these interviews were coded and interpreted by using elements of grounded theory. To answer the other two goals students filled out questionnaire Ten most important life events by Cottle. The discussion part presents results of the research and comparison with the results of other research. The most senior high school students deal (in the context of the future) with university study, profession, travelling, independence and making their own family. Key words: time perspective, future time perspective, future orientation, late adolescence, senior high school students
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Family in Future-Oriented Ideas of Adolescents Living in Institutional Care
Henyšová, Žaneta ; Myšková, Lucie (advisor) ; Presslerová, Pavla (referee)
Reflections of an adolescent's own future may contribute to its future direction. The concept of one's own family occupies an important position in these reflections and, to a certain extent, determines their form. Individuals from institutional care have disrupted original family ties, which are supposed to negatively affect their own family concepts. The diploma thesis is based on a qualitative methodological approach. The family concepts of individuals both from institutional care and regular family environment are investigated under the light of individuals' future orientations. The semi-structured interview and projective graphical methods were assigned to six individuals from institutional care and six individuals from regular family environment. A qualitative analysis of the data gathered confirmed that the concepts of a planned family of adolescents from institutional care differ from those of teens from the regular family environment. Adolescents from institutional care lack the emotional aspect of the family, and the family is perceived primarily as an institution serving to protect its members. Moreover, gender aspects are more pronounced in their family concepts, especially in parental roles, than in adolescents from the control group. Differences between groups are also found in other...
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