Diskuze v psychologii, 2020 (vol. 2), issue 1

Editorial

Michal Bártek

Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1)  

The personality of the patient as a determinant in the recovery after stroke

Katarína Dančová, Tomáš Sollár

Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1):1-6 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2020.002  

As a result of vascular diseases of the brain, we can prove the most common hospital care for adults who have also the highest mortality rate of all diseases and the disease incidence is on the increase even amongst younger people. The presented research project provides information of relationships of personality characteristics and quality of life of patients after stroke, where the indicator of recovery will be the quality of life of the patient. Recent studies have shown that objective health indicators are not critical to the successful recovery after stroke, but psychological variables are important because they relate to the patient's functional...

Comparing neurotypical adults differing in their position on the autism spectrum – a qualitative analysis of eye movements

Daniela Halámková

Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1):7-12 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2020.004  

Recent research has brought mixed results about differences in attention allocation measured by eye tracking between autistic and neurotypical individuals. There are several reasons that might be at the core of this confusion, including the given task. We tested 10 neurotypical adults in our experiment: they filled out a questionnaire based on self-evaluation assessing their position on the autistic spectrum. Their eye movements were recorded while viewing several complex visual scenes in two conditions: free viewing and completing a task. We qualitatively compared the visual strategies of two participants scoring on extreme poles of the spectrum in...

The use of biofeedback in the treatment of ADHD in children

Mária Jančiarová

Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1):13-17 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2020.003  

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is currently a frequently occurring neurodevelopmental disorder in children. Biofeedback trainings reduce stress, anxiety, induce relaxation and positive emotions, improve attention, learning and academic performance (McCraty, 2003). The paper follows basic psychophysiological modalities in children with ADHD and their changes in the process of biofeedback training. The study sample consists of 26 children diagnosed with ADHD without comorbid disorder, aged 7 to 10 years. Respondents attended biofeedback training every week for 45 minutes, for 15 weeks.

Prediction power of sense of coherence on loneliness among high-school students

Robert Tomšik, Eva Rajčániová

Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1):18-22 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2020.001  

The paper deals with the relationship between Sense of Coherence and loneliness among adolescents. The research focuses on the correlation between Sense of Coherence and loneliness, and the prediction power between these variables. In the present study, high school students (N = 800) completed the UCLA Scale of Loneliness and Sense of Coherence scale that consists of three components: Comprehensibility, Manageability and Meaningfulness. As the results show, all the components of Sense of Coherence correlate with loneliness on the level of statistical significance < 0,01. LRA analysis shows that Sense of Coherence significantly predicts loneliness...

Can we study emotion regulation via qualitative analysis? Current status and future prospects

Branislav Uhrecký

Diskuze v psychologii 2020, 2(1):23-32 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2020.005  

The research of emotion regulation is one of the most advanced areas of academic psychology. It has been influenced by the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) so greatly that this model might be considered a research paradigm. Large number of experimental and correlational studies was inspired by it, but in the course of time, limits of the emotion regulation study under strictly controlled conditions were pointed out. Critical voices have been raising regarding the adequacy of knowledge that is brought by research under the process model paradigm, especially with concerns to implicit and spontaneous forms of emotion regulation, and social...