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Perception of the meaning of life by middle-aged people, "middle-aged crisis"
PŘIBYLOVÁ, Dana
The thesis is focused on the issue of the perception of the meaning of life in the middle-aged generation, which tends to be characterised by a 'mid-life crisis'. The term is often associated with negative phenomena such as physical ageing, career stagnation, marriage boredom and the general stereotype of life. Here, the importance of logotherapy, which helps us to find meaning in life, helps us to communicate in social work, e.g. existential loneliness and loss of purpose in life, is precisely important. The work is drawn up interdisciplinarily on the basis of professional literature, mapping the concept of middle age from the point of view of various authors, the field of change, decision-making and the meaning of the so-called transition period, when one finds oneself between something that one was and something that one will be. From a philosophical and psychological point of view, the work is focused on the search for the meaning of life. Attention is also given to basic concepts and theoretical approaches relating to the meaning of life, with the aspect placed on human goals, life values, motivation, the value of health, the value of love, happiness, life as a calling. The aim of the thesis is to map how the period and meaning of life for the middle-aged generation (described as the "midlife crisis") is perceived from the perspective of the disciplines of science. Indicate options of solutions and promote personal satisfaction in the midlife crisis, hint at options to prevent the negative consequences associated with entering the second half of life. To show that, even at this stage in life, one can perceive and embrace the meaning of life in a positive way and live a happy and full life.
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Optimism at the time of fear and lack of freedom
Madlová, Ivana ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
The student attempts in her thesis to reveal the essential problem of the formation of public opinion, based on the example of the oppositional satirical magazine Der Simpl, that was published in Prague in the time of the expansion of nacism in Germany in the years 1934- 1935. The title of the thesis characterizes the effort the oppositional journalists in some kind of "emotional relief" in the time of intensified censorship and repression on one sinde, on the other side it is headed for the problem of creating media constucts with emotional aspect, on the side both system and opposition. The author tries to summarize the instruments of creation of the so called "optimistical illusion" in the society and the methods of their influencing the formation of public opinion. Based on the theoretical framework and the analysis of some caricatures, the student tries to demonstrate, in which way the oppositional journalist in Nazi era tried to balance the current issues. As the student summarizes in the final part of the thesis, satire and oppositional journalistics does not change very much in the human life. We are pleased to laugh about them, but we do not change our lives because of them. In spite of her own conviction about the fundamental importance of politics in the everyday life of democratic...
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Self-acceptance as one of the main factors of well-being
Hamrová, Kateřina ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on the topic self-acceptance in order to describe the contemporary place of this phenomenon in the context of well-being. The aim is to extent the knowledge of accepting relationship to the self thanks to comparison with other, relevant concepts. The theoretical part of this work introduces the actual conception of positive psychology, the latest aproaches to well- being and is also about the topic self-system. There are also describe concepts as self-acceptance, self-copassion, internalized shame a dispositional optimism. In the empirical part, there is examined the research hypotheses about existence the relationships between unconditional self- acceptance and other concepts, which are measured by czech translations of these questionnaire methods: Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (USAQ), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-CZ), Internalized Shame Scale (ISS) a Life Orientation Test - Revised (LOT-R). It was conducted on the sample of 215 respondents od czech population. Results show the statistically significant relationship between unconditional self-acceptance and all the other concepts. There was further found high correlation between self-compassion and internalized shame and middle correlation between self-compassion and dispositional optimism. Also statistically...
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Optimism at the time of fear and lack of freedom
Madlová, Ivana ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Březinová, Monika (referee)
The student attempts in her thesis to reveal the essential problem of the formation of public opinion, based on the example of the oppositional satirical magazine Der Simpl, that was published in Prague in the time of the expansion of nacism in Germany in the years 1934- 1935. The title of the thesis characterizes the effort the oppositional journalists in some kind of "emotional relief" in the time of intensified censorship and repression on one sinde, on the other side it is headed for the problem of creating media constucts with emotional aspect, on the side both system and opposition. The author tries to summarize the instruments of creation of the so called "optimistical illusion" in the society and the methods of their influencing the formation of public opinion. Based on the theoretical framework and the analysis of some caricatures, the student tries to demonstrate, in which way the oppositional journalist in Nazi era tried to balance the current issues. As the student summarizes in the final part of the thesis, satire and oppositional journalistics does not change very much in the human life. We are pleased to laugh about them, but we do not change our lives because of them. In spite of her own conviction about the fundamental importance of politics in the everyday life of democratic...
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Self-knowledge and Optimism as the Co-factors Determining a Successful Manager
Toman, Václav ; Franková, Emilie (advisor) ; Jarošová, Eva (referee)
n recent years, self-knowledge and optimism have been considered phenomena helping men succeed. The diploma thesis was aimed at investigating whether selected successful managers possess self-knowledge and optimism, and whether these phenomena might help them be successful. The subjects were the finalists of the competition Manager of the Year 2014. Semi-structured interviews were used as a method in the research. The diploma thesis concludes that the selected managers possess high levels of self-knowledge in certain areas. They use methods for raising self-knowledge such as experience, behavior reflections, or raising self-knowledge through other people. The managers find self-knowledge important for reasons such as: setting a direction in life, setting goals, managing people, or developing self-control. The data analysis included the comparison of the managers in areas of self-knowledge, optimism and mindset.
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The influence of positive thinking on the quality of life of people of working age people of working age
BLÁHOVÁ, Štěpánka
This work deals with positive thinking and its impact on quality of the life. The theoretical part describes positive thinking, what affects it, and if is the possibility to change the thinking. It further describes concept of quality of the life and with it the most associated term the Health. In following chapters, I deal with concepts of optimism, pessimism, and the conclusion of theoretical work form chapters about failure, success and goals.The practical part contains data obtained from the questionnaire, which is aimed on finding the quality of life. To determine the quality of life was used assessment method named SEIQoL (KŘIVOHLAVÝ, 2001). Another part of the research includes interviews with selected individuals and finding a way of thinking by using the scale of prevailing way of thinking (Slezáčková, 2012). In selected individuals are results of SEIQoL methods compared with the results of the scale prevailing way of thinking.
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Teachers and optimism
Řehulka, Evžen
The study deals with teacher personality, mainly relating to stress coping. Among so-called buffers is explored also optimism, either as an expression of personality characters, or as a life orientation in the continuum optimism pessimism. A theory is used of learned optimism of M. Seligman and so is his questionnaire by investigating teachers, when it was found that in the explanatory terms of optimism teachers dont show any especial values.
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