Młodzież środowisk patologicznych wobec cierpienia człowieka chorego

The purpose of the research: stating the signifi cance of knowledge and contact with suffering people as well as of personal experience and religiosity in the process of shaping the approved school youths’ attitudes towards suffering. The material under investigation and methods: 64 minors, their ages varying from 16 to 18, were subjected to prospective psychological investigation. It was conducted using an “attitude-toward-suffering questionnaire” prepared by the Religion Psychology Institute of the Pontifi cal University of John Paul II. The test consists of 30 independent questions, each one of them assessed separately. The results were compared with those of the control group of 50 non-pathological environment minors of similar ages. This part’s focus was only the questions resulting in answers different in each group – the one under investigation and the control group. The results and conclusions: The results indicate that the pathological environment youths are reluctant to talk about suffering – 79,6% of them have either hardly ever or never taken up such topics. 62,5% of the approved school minors were unable to state the factor with the most infl uence on their attitudes towards suffering. 75% of the borstal youths do not think about their suffering at all, with the opposition of 15,6% of them often thinking about their suffering. 59,4% of these borstal youths associate suffering with despair of depression, but 40,6% of them perceive suffering “somatically”. The conducted study has shown that approved schools youths’ attitudes toward suffering are discrepant from those of youths raised in normal families

Znaczenie aktywności fizycznej w przystosowaniu niepełnosprawnych do fizyczno-mentalnych obciążeń związanych z pracą

Cel badań: celem było ustalenie czy osoby niepełno-sprawne uprawiające sport przynajmniej raz w tygodniu uzyskują lepsze wyniki w kwestionariuszu Indeksu Zdolności do Pracy niż pozostali. Materiał i metody: Badania przeprowadzono w grupie 127 osób niepełnosprawnych w wieku 28 – 49 lat oraz wśród 128 (wiek 29 – 53 lat) pełnosprawnych studentów i kadry dydaktycznej dwóch wyż-szych uczelni. Wszystkich przepytano techniką wywiadu kwestionariuszowego stosując Indeks Zdolności do Pracy oraz Ankieta dotycząca aktywności fizycznej – sportowej. Wyniki i wnioski: Dzięki regularnemu treningowi osoby niepełnosprawne osiągają lepszą sprawność fizyczna, nabierają wiary we własne siły, staja się bardziej aktywne społecznie i zawodowo. W grupie osób niepełnosprawnych osoby uprawiające sport uzyskały wyższe wynik zarówno w skali ogólnej zdolności do pracy jak i w skali zdolności do pracy odniesionej do jej wymogów, niż osoby nie uprawiające sportu. Aktywność fizyczna osób niepełnosprawnych może więc być choć dla części z nich „przepustką do lepszego jutra”..The purpose of the research: the purpose was to determine whether the disabled who do sports at least once a week get better score in the Work Ability Index questionnaire than others. The material and the methods: The research was conducted among 127 disabled people aged between 28 and 49 and 128 ablebodied students and academic staff of two higher education facilities, aged between 29 and 53). All of them were interviewed with reference to a questionnaire based on the Work Ability Index and a survey on physical and sport activity. The results and conclusions: Thanks to regular training, disabled people are in better physical condition, gain self-confidence and become more active in social and professional terms. The disabled people doing sports scored better on the general work ability scale as well as on the ability scale that pertains to particular requirements than people who are not involved in sports. Physical activity of the disabled can, if only for some of them, mean hopes for “better tomorrow”

Poziom poczucia koherencji u narciarzy niepełnosprawnych i pełnosprawnych w Polsce i w USA

In the last few years, adaptive sport and adaptive physical education as forms of physiotherapy have gained increasing interest around the world and also in Poland. This thesis discusses application of alpine skiing in social rehabilitation for the persons with disabilities.It describes how skiing can help overcoming problems with personal and social behavior and influence on looking at once life, in order to compare the sense of coherence of skiers with and without disabilities.The research involved 31 Polish (16 disabled and 15 without disabilities) and 27 American (12 disabled and 15 without disabilities) responders. It was based on a Sense of Coherence Questionnaire SOC-13 by Aaron Antonovsky.Conclusions: The level of coherence among disabled skiers is comparable to those without disabilities