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Peer nomination and peer rating which are used in standard text sociometric questionnaires can be also used in graphical form of sociometric questionnaires. Children may consider the graphical questionnaire more interesting and more playful. We created the graphical sociometric questionnaire which is based on peer rating. We aimed to verify its validity by comparing it with text sociometric questionnaire...
Nowadays the research of cohabitation as the way of heterosexual partnership includes various areas. In this review I would like to present some of them. They are the conditions for extension of the cohabitation occurrence, typology and characteristics of cohabitation or cohabiting partners, difference between marriage and cohabitation, consequences of cohabitation on the relationship in marriage,...
Environmental preference is generally defined as the inverse function, which causes conflict and insecurity in some surroundings. In the environmental psychology, environmental preference is defined as a complex process influenced by both personality factors and objective characteristics of the environment that could be examined as a function of different levels of environmental quality across its...
Personal safety and security in society are questions which are in the long term of interest to specialist and laymen alike. To this broad area belongs the study of objective conditions of work safety and perceived safety in the workplace. In this article we direct attention to the analysis of selected social (e.g. education, age, gender) and personal (e.g. work satisfaction, well-being) factors relating...
The main purpose of this article is an assembly of knowledge in order to offer an overview about relevant findings obtained during individual phases of the research project titled “Lingual-Communication Behaviour of the Slovak Youth in Hungary and Slovakia in a Situational Context of Intra-Ethnical Using of the Spoken Slovak Language”, presented in a form of the research knowledge compendium. This...
The focus of the present analysis is to examine if the different stages of family life cycle have any influence on life and family satisfaction and family stress. The family life cycle consists of different stages, for example: a newly married person without children, a parent with child in preschool age or a parent with adult children. Data which we analysed were from ESS (European Social Survey),...
In the presented study we focus on the research on the work-family conflict using ESS data from Round 2. We deal with the group of Slovak working respondents with family responsibilities (N=193). In the introduction we briefly define work-family conflict and its predictors, then values, particularly human values according to the Schwartz theory and their relationship to work-family conflict. Results...
In the presented study we analyse subjective and objective perception of safety. The research was carried out on the sample of 35 6250 respondents from 19 European countries of European Social Survey. The results show positive perception of safety by respondents from Scandinavia and negative evaluation by respondents from Eastern European countries. Low correlations were found between perceived safety...
Paper focuses on perception of work-family enrichment and work-family conflict by employed men and women. We analysed differences in perception of positive and negative work-family spill-over between males (N=52) and females (N=55) on the sample of 107 Slovak respondents. Groups do not differ in age, in number of children at home. All respondents are full-time employed, married and live in the eastern...
This article describes the main developments in trading activities in the Spiš region. This region was a major trading area, which boasted important international trading routes from prehistoric times. Settlements were built on and near these trading routes, later giving rise to the markets. The settlements engaged in international trade in the Spiš region as early as in the thirteenth century. Besides...
As presented in the title, the article is focused on the problems of Ukrainian national school system in Slovakia in the year 1945 – 1970 from the perspective of Slovak historiography. The purpose of the article is the analysis and interpretation of monographs, studies and articles about school system of the Ruthenians and Ukrainians in Slovakia which were published from mid-1950 to present.
The Roman Empire found itself in a long-lasting socio-political and economic crisis in the middle of the 3rd century. In 249, on the military acclamation, Decius succeeded to the Imperial throne, who tried to stabilize conditions by means of a handful of reforms in the socio-political, economic, and primarily in the religious area. He tried to renew the authority of the Emperor based on the Roman...
The main motive of this article is an analysis of the primary problems of transformation of secondary and vocational schools in Košice in the interwar period. The work systematizes knowledge of the Slovak history and the history of education and pedagogy and, through them, exploring in detail the problems of building of Slovak schools, which were crucial for the establishment of Czechoslovakia.
This article focuses on the state of knowledge of the Czechoslovak automotive history in the years 1918 – 1948 in the Czech and Slovak historiography. The author analyses in addition to specific automotive historiography, also the reflection of the subject in work of the Economic and Social history.
The paper monitors the political situation of German communities in Slovakia, mainly in the area of Spiš. It focuses on activities of Karpathendeutsche Partei, mainly in period 1935 – 1938 and its rivalry with Zipserdeutsche Partei. From 1930’s Karpathendeutsche Partei criticised Zipserdeutsche Partei for its co-operation with Hungarian parties. Zipserdeutsche Partei fell in crisis in the middle of...
Noting that the significant risks and adverse conditions of public policy do not encourage foreign direct investment, the article argues that regions are deprived of opportunities to introduce modern technologies in the development of industrial complexes. It also suggests directions how to attract investment resources for the development of regional industrial complexes.
The article describes some of the important events of the years 1945 – 1947 which led to the conviction and death of Jozef Tiso – a former Slovak President of the Slovak state during the World War II and who cooperated with Nazi Germany. In particular, the article focuses on the role of Edvard Beneš - the President of Czechoslovakia in this process, and the defendant's private political rival in the...
The paper analyses the situation of Carpathian Germans in Slovakia, in the year 1945, when, on pretence of the so called collective guilt, Germans were interned in concentration camps. The paper is describing conditions in camps in which, at that time, the basic heath, hygienic and material conditions were not secured.
The paper focuses on the perceived safety and expected terrorism threat in Slovakia and its neighbouring countries. Data from the ESS integrated data file 1-5 were analysed. The results indicate that the level of perceived safety is almost similar across the neighbouring countries except the decreased level of safety in Ukraine. The Slovak respondents worry most about the criminal acts as burglary...
The main threat, in view of Czechoslovak political representation during inter-war period, was a policy of Hungary aimed at revision of Trianon Peace Treaty. This issue was also permanently analysed, judged and evaluated in contemporary Czechoslovak press. The Czech and Slovak periodicals commented on measures taken by Hungarian politicians in regard to strategy which should led to achieve a status...
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