Who is Normal? Alias Teacher's Personal Constructs of Normality

AbstractIn everyday social contact we commonly use terms like “normal” or “not normal” or “abnormal” to describe another person. What is actually meant by”normal person” that is a question to which we are trying to find the answer in our paper. We present a view of university students (department of teaching and special education, N = 99). The descriptors are obtained by Kelly REP test method

Text-Based Detection of the Risk of Depression

This study examines the relationship between language use and psychological characteristics of the communicator. The aim of the study was to find models predicting the depressivity of the writer based on the computational linguistic markers of his/her written text. Respondents’ linguistic fingerprints were traced in four texts of different genres. Depressivity was measured using the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The research sample (N = 172, 83 men, 89 women) was created by quota sampling an adult Czech population. Morphological variables of the texts showing differences (M-W test) between the non-depressive and depressive groups were incorporated into predictive models. Results: Across all participants, the data best fit predictive models of depressivity using morphological characteristics from the informal text “letter from holidays” (Nagelkerke r2 = 0.526 for men and 0.670 for women). For men, models for the formal texts “cover letter” and “complaint” showed moderate fit with the data (r2 = 0.479 and 0.435). The constructed models show weak to substantial recall (0.235 – 0.800) and moderate to substantial precision (0.571 – 0.889). Morphological variables appearing in the final models vary. There are no key morphological characteristics suitable for all models or for all genres. The resulting models’ properties demonstrate that they should be suitable for screening individuals at risk of depression and the most suitable genre is informal text (“letter from holidays”)

Analýza trhu a dostupnost biopotravin v regionu Brno-město - Jihomoravský kraj

The Bachelor thesis "The Analysis of the market and the availability of organic products in region Brno centre South Moravian region " extends and describes the aims, principles and benefits of organic farming, the main categories of maden food and also production, control and certification of the organic products. The experimental part contains the brief overview of producers in South Moravian region and it process the review of the organic's food producers in the Brno centre region. The main task was to find out the availability of the organic food, its price comparison from conventional and bioproduction. At the end the results of price comparison from selected shops are summarized

Marketingová analýza trhu biopotravin v regionu Brno-město

The diploma thesis „Marketing Analysis of the Organic Food Market in the Brno-centre region“ describes marketing definitions, tools of the marketing mix, the current situation of organic farming in the Czech Republic and the world, import and export of organic food, the main category of produced organic food and further characterizes their distribution process. The experimental part includes the current status of organic entities in the Czech Republic and a detailed list of organic food producers in the Brno-centre region. The main part was monitoring the availability of organic food, analyzing the selected company using the tools of marketing mix and further monitoring the availability and prices of teas in organic quality in selected stores. In conclusion, the results of monitoring availability and prices are summarized

Educators, IT specialists and implicit descriptors for normality

Studie popisuje dílčí výsledky výzkumného projektu Implicitní teorie normality u pomáhajících profesí (GA406/07/1397). Je zaměřen na specifickou skupinu pomáhajících profesí, totiž skupinu studentů a pracovníků pedagogických oborů, a porovnáván je s kontrolní skupinou studentů a pracovníků v oboru informačních technologií. Jsou uvedeny poznatky o implicitních konceptech normality získané na základě analýz metody repertoárových mřížek, volné výpovědi a fokusních skupin, a to jak z pohledu obsahu, tak z pohledu struktury. Identifikovány byly čtyři typy implicitního pojetí normality, které byly označeny jako typ neporušený, typ zakotvený, typ nevybočující a typ na budoucnost orientovaný. První dva jsou specifické pro muže a IT pracovníky, druhé dva pro ženy a pedagogické pracovníky. Specifikum v pojetí normality u skupiny studentů a pracovníků pedagogických oborů je důraz na vzdělání (normální člověk má alespoň maturitu a vzdělává se po celý život).The paper presents information on the results of research into implicit theories of normality developed by teachers. This research was carried out within the project of implicit theory of normality among helping professions (GA406/07/1397). The paper presents findings on implicit concepts of normality obtained from the analyses of repertory grid method and the focus group. We found and analysed both the structure and content of implicit theories developed by teachers and compared them with a group of IT specialists

DATA for research on children's drawing: free drawing, preschool children and first graders (N=204)

Here are the data:- about child respondents: class, gender, administrator code;- about the drawings: the number of objects in the drawing, the presence of defined themes in the drawing, the name of the drawing (given by the child), a verbal description of the drawing (including information about the repetition of the object).</p

One health behaviour or many health-related behaviors?

Jana Marie Havigerov&aacute;, Jaroslava Dosedlov&aacute;, Iva Bure&scaron;ov&aacute; Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk Univeristy, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic Objective: Of the many existing health models, models of health behavior are considered optimal for research and application as they focus on concrete forms of behavior that support, maintain, or undermine one&rsquo;s health, and they accentuate the individual as the initiator of this behavior. Research in this area follows a broad range of concrete partial manifestations of health behavior. Is it necessary to differentiate between various types of health behavior or could these partial manifestations be combined under one common scale? Methods: Data acquisition tool: Health-Related Behavior Scale (HRBS, 42 items). Data processing methods: principal component analysis (the internal structure of HRBS), confirmatory factor analysis (the latent factor structure of four tested models). Sample: N=1,664 adult respondents. Results: The HRBS described ten areas of health-related behavior (ten extracted factors). All tested models of latent structure showed almost identical mathematical and statistical values of the model. Conclusion: Health-related behavior includes a set of partial behaviors (behavior related to nutrition, addictive substances, movement, and physical exercises). An unambiguous latent factor structure has not been revealed. An open question remains whether there is one latent factor behind all health-related behaviors or whether there are multiple latent factors. The use of one or the other model should be deduced from the underlying theory and research objectives. To find a reliable model of health behavior, it is necessary to include moderators and mediators such as personality, attitude, or economic status. Keywords: health-related behavior, model, latent variable analysi

When Parents and Teachers Assess Intellectual Giftedness of Preschool Children

The paper deals with the possibility of using a screening method for the assessment of intellectual giftedness at preschool age by two groups of persons – nursery teachers and parents. It presents The Characteristics of Giftedness Scale (CGS) for preschool children from Linda Silverman and its Czech translation that was verified from the aspect of parallel validity with a standardized IQ test. The CGS was filled in by experienced nursery teachers and by parents of preschool children and their assessments were analysed from the aspect of similarity and diversity. The results show that teacher assessment is closer to the IQ test results compared with parents who tend to overestimate their children. Eight items with low agreement between the two groups of respondents were identified and their expected sources discussed