Changes in acceptance and suppression of negative and positive emotions in patients with depressive disorders : a longitudinal study

Background: Difficulties with emotion regulation are present in most mental disorders. However, we know little about changes in negative and positive emotions during the treatment process. The present longitudinal study, therefore, focuses on such changes and investigates acceptance and suppression, separately for negative and positive emotions during the treatment process. Aims: The goals were to investigate whether there is a measurable change of acceptance and suppression of negative and positive emotions during the course of treatment of depressive patients and to investigate how such patients compare at the end of their treatment with healthy controls. Method: The sample comprised 40 patients with a depressive disorder and 29 healthy controls. The Beck Depression Inventory and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory were used to assess symptoms. The Emotion Acceptance Questionnaire - assessing acceptance and suppression of negative and positive emotions - was used twice: once at the beginning and once at the end of treatment. Results: Depressive patients reported a reduced acceptance of positive and negative emotions compared with controls, but they suppressed emotions more intensively. Suppression of negative and positive emotions throughout the study was related to the level of depression and anxiety symptoms. Conclusions: Analysis showed a significant improvement in emotion regulation strategies towards the end of treatment. However, patients did not reach the same level of capability as healthy controls. For future research, we suggest extending the study by observing the specifics of emotion regulation changes over a longer period of time

The literary model of the family relationships in Czech socialist realistic poetry : an attempt at reconstruction

The main aim of the paper is to present a literary model of the family in the Czech poetry of the 1950s. The author explains the way the socialistic ideology determined and changed the character of intimate family relationships showed in literature. Another aspect of the problem is also undertaken: the author describes the way how the socialistic literature was using family relationships as a metaphor of the communistic state and party. The traditional attributes of the family was used in literature and propaganda to depict the relations between the individual and society and to create the vision of the socialistic state

The structural bohemistics of Professor Jacek Baluch (1940-2019)

The paper describes the scientific profile of Jacek Baluch, Polish scholar and scientist in the field of Czech studies, Professor of the Jagiellonian University, democratic opposition activist in the communistic period in Poland, Polish ambassador in Pargue. The study emphasizes the structural aspects of Jacek Baluch’s scientific work and its meaning for the development of Polish literary knowledge in the second half of 20th century