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Psychology in the context of progaming
STANĚK, Jakub
The aim of dissertation thesis is to map the challenging situations that professional, and semi-professional digital game players may encounter and which create psychological pressure on them, and at the same time to reveal whether there are any psychological specificities in performance gamers, i.e. to try to map their psychological profile. Closely linked to both of these themes are the psychological needs of gamers and psychological support. Data were collected using a battery of psychodiagnostic methods, a self-constructed questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with players and coaches from Czech professional organizations. In total, the research sample consisted of 45 professional and semi-professional players and 5 coaches. The comparison group was composed of 183 leisure players. The results showed that professional players are mostly introverted with a high orientation towards the outcome of their efforts and a high-performance orientation. At the same time, they showed lower levels of social interactions outside their team. It was also possible to identify challenging situations that stem from training, matches, the team and the player's career. To cope with these, the skills of managing stress, communicating effectively, controlling emotions and acting in a disciplined manner are crucial for players. Psychologists can help players with these aspects, and their work in progaming should consist of individual consultations with players and coaches, group work with the team, and education and skills training. A comparison of studying and nonstudying progamers showed that full-time study supports the social component of players' lives, but the current parameters of schooling and the conditions for obtaining an individual study plan are not suitable for a combination of study and professional gaming.
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The impact of Covid-19 pandemy on the sport motivation in para swimmers
Míčková, Dominika ; Daďová, Klára (advisor) ; Kotlík, Kamil (referee)
Title: The impact of Covid-19 pandemy on the sport motivation in para swimmers Objectives: The aim of the study is to search for the existence of changes in the level of sport motivation in a group of para swimmers as a result of the pandemic crisis in the Czech Republic. Methods: The object of the research is to evaluate the data of a repeatedly submitted standardised Sport Motivation Scale questionnaire to a research cohort of 22 disabled para swimmers aged 19 to 48 years (as of 2021). Then a comparison of this assessment with the responses obtained through a structured interview conducted at the end of the research survey in August 2021 has been developed. Graphical processing and an appropriate form of t-test is used to investigate differences in motivation levels. Results: Although the statistical analysis of the data of the whole group did not show a significant difference between the two studied time periods, nor between men and women, a change in the level of intrinsic motivation to know was observed in the group of men studied separately. Furthermore, a correlation of intrinsic motivation to experience with age was found. When comparing these results with a set of descriptions of the respondent's subjective feelings, the answers to the scientific research questions are not entirely clear....
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Authentic experiences and recommendations from Olympic champions to build mental resilience and manage the psychological consequences of health problems.
Svoboda, David ; Suchý, Jiří (advisor) ; Harbichová, Ivana (referee)
Author: Bc. David Svoboda Title: Authentic experiences and recommendations from Olympic champions to build mental resilience and manage the psychological consequences of health problems Objectives: As there are not many surveys and publications dealing with psychological consequences caused by health problems in top- athletes' career, the main purpose of the research was to analyse authentic experience and recommendations, how the selected Olympic winners lived through these periods, what experience they have and what they would recommend to other athletes in this context from the viewpoint of their mental resistance. Furthermore, we will attempt to reveal possible consequences between the athletes' health and mental health. The following aim is to summarise this information into valid recommendations for other sportsmen. Methods: To obtain detailed information, a qualitative method through a structured interview with open questions (Hendl, 2005) was selected. The structured interview was conducted with nine Olympic winners and it contained 12 basic questions that were divided into three main sectors for clarity - a sector of athlete's mental resistance, a sector of athletes' health problems and their consequent reaction and the respondents' ideas and recommendations. The results were subjected to...
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Temperament characteristics of competitors in flatwater racing
Pfoff, Michal ; Bílý, Milan (advisor) ; Harbichová, Ivana (referee)
Title: Temperament characteristics of competitors in flatwater racing Objectives: Goal of this work was to determine the temperament characteristic of competitors in flatwater racing and try to find a relationship between temperament and different race distance in watched population. Methods: Use was Eysenck's questionnaire of temperament (EPI) in research. Observe population was a group of flatwater racing competitors from czech army sports club Dukla Praha and USK Praha, competitors in national czech team. Results: The dominate type of temperament in the monitored group was sanguineosus with low degree of extroversion and the low degree of stability. Dependence between temperament and specialization for different distances was confirmed only for marathon competitors. For competitors group of sprint 200m didn't results significantly different from the observe average. In the marathon group was dominated to introverted behavior. The dominant temperament profile in marathon group was phlegmatic with a low level of introvesion and low level of stability. Key words: Temperament, flatwater racing, Eysenck's questionnaire of temperament (EPI), sport psychology.
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Coach behaviour in training process
Vachuta, Lukáš ; Buzek, Mario (advisor) ; Frýbort, Pavel (referee)
Name:Coach Behaviour in Training The Aim of the Thesis: Observation of the trainer's attitude to the supervision of the youth football team. The observed object will be the trainer Martin from the club Bohemians 1905. I will focus my attention on his behaviour to players, on the ways how he explains individual exercises, in particular on his way of communication with children, understandability and clearness of the demonstration. I will also watch the ways used for motivating the trainees. Methodology: To reach my result I will use two basic methods. The first method deals with observing and making video recordings which will be consequently analysed and evaluated. The second method will be based on questioning both the trainer and the chosen players using a short questionnaire. Results: My thesis will serve as positive and negative feedback for the observed trainer who can use the provided material with particular recommendations in order to improve his work. Further, the mentioned recommendations can be used by all trainers involved in youth categories as it is material which can help them with the procedure of explaining and supervising exercises. Key Words: children, adults, junior school age, behaviour, sport psychology, respect to rules
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Motivation for practicing Judo for children in age between 11 and 15 years.
Úbl, Václav ; Pavelka, Radim (advisor) ; Smolík, Petr (referee)
Title: Motivation for Practicing Judo for Children in age between 11 and 15 years. The Aim of The Thesis: The aim of this thesis was to find out which motivation factors are the most importatnt for the judo athletes in age between 11-15 years. We studied all the necessary literature, collected informations about this topic, and established quantitative questionnaire. The result of this thesis is suggestion for coaches based on received information about which motivation factors are important for children and which are not. Method: Experiment will be provided by using quantitative questionnaires established for judo athletes in age between 11 and 15. Key Words: Motivation, Achievment Motivation, Sport Psychology, Judo, Judo training
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Comparison of psychological hardiness in para swimmers with different training intensities
Míčková, Dominika ; Harbichová, Ivana (advisor) ; Čichoň, Rostislav (referee)
Title: Comparison of psychological hardiness in para swimmers with different training intensities Objectives: The aim of the thesis is to compare psychological hardiness level among impaired para swimmers and non-sporting impaired individuals. The goal is to find out if the impaired para swimmers achieve higher hardiness level in comparison with their non-sporting counterparts. Methods: We measured and evaluated the hardiness level of all participants as well as their selected subgroups. The Personal Views Survey created by Kobasa in 1985 was used in Google Forms to get the data. In total 117 respondents were asked to complete the survey, however only 45 took part in the end. All the participants accepted an informed consent beforehand. We used the two-samples-unpaired T-test with unequal variance. Results: Neither of the two proposed hypothesis was confirmed and we did not find any significant difference in targeted subgroups either. Keywords: Physical impairment, adapted physical activities, swimming, stress, sport psychology, hardiness, self-knowledge
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Inclusion of mental coach in the sports preparation of the Czech Republic A-Team in cross-country skiing
Sováková, Nikol ; Gnad, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jindra, Matouš (referee)
Title: Inclusion of mental mental coach in the sports preparation of the Czech Republic A- Team in cross country skiing Objectives: The aim of this work in to find out the justification of the need to include a mental coach in the sports preparation of the national team of cross-country skiing Methods: The research was carried out in the research design of grounded theory. As a method of data collection was used semi-structured interview, data were evaluated using open, axial and selected coding. Results: Basedon interviews conducted with twelve respondents (6 men and 6 woman), members of the czech republic national team of cross-country skiing, the inclusion of a mental coach in the preparation of the national team is desirable. Key words: cross-country skiing, psychological preparation, mental coach, sport performance
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Dynamics and structure of interpersonal relations in FbŠ Bohemians
Jarešová, Kristýna ; Janák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Pecinová, Markéta (referee)
Title: Dynamics and structure of interpersonal relationships of FbŠ Bohemians Objectives: The main goal of this thesis is to chart out the relationships and social ties in the women's extra-lique team of FbŠ Bohemians. To create a player profile, find out how communication works, whether there is enough morale, presence of disparate groups and what are the causes of problems inside the team. Subsequent processing of information should provide a suggestion of how to improve the team situation and help to improve results in the highest female floorball competition. Methods: The main part of this thesis is done by using the quantitative method, which is a questionnaire survey. The qualitative method used in this thesis is semi-structured interview. Results: Results of the thesis clearly point to lack of communication. There is also a problem with disparate groups even though the team's cohesiveness is high. We managed to find 5 players, which are being seen as informal leaders and the couch should be working with them. There are also many factors that distort morality and it will be necessary to eliminate them in the future. In the present time the coach is considered as "just a coach" and for most of players his personality is not major essential. This marks that in the future he should work to...
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