The Effect of Gender Differences and Cognitive Empathy on the Encouragement of Social Competence for the Next Generation : Evidence from Chinese Parents

Background: In the western cultural context, parents emphasize female children’s social-behavioral development more heavily. Likewise, mothers are more supportive of children's social development compared to fathers. However, whether the same behavior can be observed in eastern culture remains unclear. Besides the unchangeable factors (e.g., gender), it is also worth investigating whether the parents' improvable factors influence the emphasis on a child's socialization. Methods: This study aimed to investigate the effects of a child’s gender, parent’s gender, and parent’s cognitive empathy on parental encouragement of a child’s social competence in Chinese culture. Conclusions: Contrary to the western findings, this research suggested that in China, parents emphasize more social competence of the male child. Analogically, compared to mother, father underscores a child’s social competence more heavily. Additionally, a parent’s cognitive empathy explained the variance in parents’ encouragement of a child’s social competence even after controlling for the gender variables of parents and childre

Music lexicographer Jiří Fukač and the Brno School of Music Lexicography

The study summarizes the activity in the field of music lexicography of Jiří Fukač (1936–2002), professor of musicology at the Brno-based Masaryk University, who successfully resumed the activities of the Brno School of Music Lexicography, constituted chiefly by efforts of Gracian Černušák, Vladimír Helfert and Bohumír Štědroň. Already as a student Fukač collaborated as both author and organizer on the two-volume Československý hudební slovník osob a institucí (Czechoslovak Music Dictionary of Persons and Institutions, 1963, 1965). In 1966 he and Jiří Vysloužil initiated foundation of Kabinet hudební lexikografie (Office of Music Lexicography) and preparations for the new subject-focused dictionary project, later called Slovník české hudební kultury (Dictionary of Czech Music Culture) started. Fukač’s contribution was crucial and it was his tireless effort including writing texts of individual entries, editing texts by others and effecting his organizational skills, that finally lead to the successful completion of the project in 1997. The result undoubtedly presents a fundament in Czech music lexicography in both conception and extent. Then Jiří Fukač started to work on further projects of music lexicography: he actively participated in preparations and realization of the big lexicographical project of the Sudeten German Music Institute in Regensburg titled Lexikon zur deutschen Musikkultur (Böhmen, Mähren, Sudetenschlesien) published in Munich in 2000, where he was member of the scholarly board of the project and contributed to the conceptual and methodological preparations. In 2000 Fukač together with Petr Macek and Mikuláš Bek started preparations for the new web-based project of the Czech Music Dictionary of Persons and Institutions. A fatal illness didn't allow him to proceed further

Introduction : Theorizing Digital Peripheries

The global reach of online platforms and services as well as the globally synchronized flows of audiovisual content might suggest that the global media market is now fully integrated. This book argues contrariwise that the global digital market is far from united and that national borders, center-periphery hierarchies and differences in scale still matter, and perhaps they matter even more than in the analog broadcast era

Vladimír Helfert a jeho působení na Masarykově univerzitě

The study summarizes the activities of the founder of university musicology in Brno Vladimír Helfert (1886–1945) at the Masaryk University where he lectured and made research between 1921 and 1939, in 1935–1936 also as dean of the Faculty of Arts. He raised a whole generation of musicologists and his pupils became involved significantly in the Brno and Moravian music scene and cultural life as early as the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s Helfert's Brno Musicological School acquired prestige as a progressive social, cultural and scholarly phenomenon. His legacy has been recognized by several further generations of musicologists until present

Populární hudba a jazz v české poválečné hudební publicistice

This treatise tries to analyse the changes of perception of the sphere of popular music and jazz. These changes took place in relation to the development of Czech society and politics after 1948. The analyse uses selected published exemples from the music press in the specified period of time. The remarkable phenomenon to observe is the development of frequently used terms that are characteristic of the period, especially the gradual evolutionary fluctuation of views, attitudes and opinions expressed by these terms. After the changes in society in 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia took power, the problematics of popular music and jazz became a special matter of interest from the side of music media. First of all, there was the opinion, a right one by the way, that the given sphere touches huge masses of population and people can easily be influenced by it, thus the importance of popular music and jazz for the power and ideology in the light of their possible propaganda use. Further on, there was a negative feeling towards the "Western" or even "American" provenance of most of the production of successful modern popular music, so this production was soon heavily criticised and became one of the typical features in depiction of the vivid portrayal of the enemy. Last but not least, it was considered a topical task in this musical sphere to apply the ideologized aesthetic normative standards of "universal socialist" validity

Jiří Vysloužil a hudební lexikografie

The treatise follows Jiří Vysloužil's activity in the field of music lexicography from his early beginnings until present. His interest in this activity was first aroused by his university teacher Bohumír Štědroň who engaged him immediately in his project of the Czechoslovak Music Dictionary of Persons and Institutions (Československý hudební slovník osob a institucí). Already in 1966 Vysloužil, together with Jiří Fukač, founded the project of the Dictionary of Czech Music Culture (Slovník české hudební kultury). As the head of the Cabinet for Music Lexicography, he and his team directed the editorial activities until 1990, when he was succeeded by his long-term collaborator Jiří Fukač. This dictionary was published in 1997. Vysloužil also participated in most significant international musicolexicographical projects (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London 1980; Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musiktheaters. Oper. Operette. Musical. Balett, Munchen - Zurich 1986 - 1997; Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Kassel 1995; The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London 2001; Lexikon zur deutschen Musikkultur Böhmen, Mähren, Sudetenschlesien, München 2002). Vysloužil is also author of the two-volume Music Dictionary for Everyone (Hudební slovník pro každého): I. factual volume, Vizovice 1995, 350 p.; II. nominal volume, composers and writers on music, Vizovice 1999, 650 p. Vysloužil also published several expert studies dedicated to the problems of music lexicography (especially the study K tradicím a současným úkolům naší hudební lexikografie, Opus musicum 2, 1970, No. 2, pp 33-36; No. 3, pp 65-6; German version: Über die Traditionen und die gegenwärtigen Aufgaben der tschechischen Musiklexikographie, SPFFBU 20, 1971, H6, pp 7-23)

On the project of Czech Music Dictionary of Persons and Institutions

The study recapitulates the results of activities of the Centre for Music Lexicography under the patronage of Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, and especially its key project, the Czech Music Dictionary of Persons and Institutions. Initial works started in 2000 and next year is the 20th anniversary

Hudební věda v Brně po roce 1989

The paper examines the situation and scholarly activities of Brno musicology in the last 25 years, follows musicological institutions at universities, especially the Institute od Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, but also the Faculty of Music at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and the Faculty of Education at the Masaryk University and summarizes the activities of other significant scholarly, research and documentary institutions (the Brno branch of the The Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of the History of Music of the Moravian Museum). Based on the presented facts, the paper attempts to incorporate the Brno musicology into wider context of present musicology and specifies the possible prospects for future development

Romantic attachment and motivation for sex in emerging adulthood: Do gender and self-esteem matter?

The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between attachment and sexual motivation taking into account the roles of global self-esteem and gender in emerging adults. Sample comprised 581 Czech emerging adults (96 male, mean age=22.72; SD=1.29) who are currently in a relationship and participate in a 5-years longitudinal study Paths to adulthood. Five structurally equivalent multigroup models (by gender) were estimated in Mplus 7 – one model for each sex motivation.Both attachment dimensions and global self-esteem were weakly associated with different motivations to have sex with different pattern of relationships for males and females. Males’ motivations to have sex did not seem to be related to their self-esteem. In females, higher self-esteem slightly increased intrinsic motivations and decreased extrinsic motivation. Attachment dimensions seem to affect males’ motivation to have sex more than females’ motivation