Diskuze v psychologii, 2021 (vol. 3), issue 1

Editorial

Michal Bártek

Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1)  

Academic stress - review study

Eva Sedláková

Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):1-8 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.005  

Academic stress is a relatively new term. This term follows from the mechanical device of the general stress, but this term (academic stress) be connected to specific surroundings. Academic stress is related to the specific group of people. The main goal of this summarizing study is introduce the term academic stress and explain its importance in relation with education and company. This contribution will be described the instruments of measuring of academic stress and we focused this term with the group of students of university, not to the group of academic worker. The sources of stress seemed like the same for both of groups (time stress, pressure...

Experiences of anxiety, stress, loneliness and well-being of parents during the first and second wave of coronavirus pandemic in Slovakia

Robert Tomšik, Eva Rajčániová, Petra Ferenčíková

Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):9-21 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.002  

The aim of the study was to explore the level of well-being, stress, anxiety and loneliness experienced by parents in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Slovakia (April-May 2020) and compare it with the onset of the second wave in October 2020. In the first research phase, 457 respondents took part; 125 of them participated in the second phase. The online form included measures of well-being (WHO-5), anxiety (GAD-7), loneliness (DJGLS-6) and perceived stress (PSS-10). During the first wave of the pandemic, slightly reduced well-being and moderate levels of stress, anxiety and loneliness were reported on average. Using TSCA, 4 clusters of parents...

Internal and external resilience factors differences between elementary and high school students

Lenka Abrinková, Marcela Štefaňáková

Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):22-28 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.004  

Resilience and its factors are key determinants of the positive youth development, thus the aim of this paper was to examine the differences in internal factors of resilience (IFR) and perceived external factors of resilience (EFF) according to school type and gender. Research sample consisted of 515 students: 58% of 9th grade elementary school (ES) students (mean age = 14.49) and 42% of 1th grade high school (HS) students (mean age = 15.21). The two-way MANOVA of IFR showed significant differences in self-control and self-esteem in favor of ES students. Girls showed lower levels of self-esteem and self-control. Regarding EFR, differences were found...

The ticking bomb scenario

Pavlína Košťálová, Olga Pechová

Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):29-35 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.003  

The goal of this research was to explore the attitudes towards the ticking bomb scenario and the influence of the chosen fields of study, gender, faith and the extent of certainty the culprit has about being given the relevant information. This study was undertaken using quantitative methodology and a part of a questionnaire done by WordPublicOpinion.org was included in the collection of data along with an original construction. University students were the main subjects of the study, chosen by random sampling. From 519 respondents 167 were men and 352 women. They were further divided to 203 students of helping professions and 203 of other professions....

Validation study of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Czech version

Zuzana Dvořáková, Lenka Krámská, Julie Žalmanová

Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):36-42 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.001  

Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB) is a complex battery assessing cognitive functions. Its psychometric characteristics have been confirmed. The aim of the study is to introduce the Czech version of NAB and to verify its psychometric characteristics. NAB was administered to 116 healthy volunteers, some of them (N = 40) were tested by the Czech version of Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) in order to verify the criterion validity. The Czech and the American sample differ in 34 out of the 51 T-scores (p < 0,05), which can be due to the differences in demographic characteristics. The correlations between...