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The oral history could be methodologically shaped and developing freely in the countries of Western Europe and especially in North America after the end of World War II. For political reasons the oral history could not assert itself in Czechoslovakia until 1989. After the fall of the Iron Curtain it began to expand into Eastern Bloc ́s countries including Czechoslovakia. At that time oral history...
The relationship between parental smoking and adolescent smoking behaviour has been well documented in previous studies. Less is known, however, about possible moderators of such relationship. The present study focuses on the relationship between parental smoking and adolescent smoking experience in early adolescence. This period has been so far neglected in research. Further, we study parental education...
On the basis of documents of Central state historical archive of Ukraine (Kyiv), Department of manuscripts and textual studies of T. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Manuscripts of V. Vernadskyi National library of Ukraine this article deals with the significance of Kharkov, St.Vladymyr (Kyiv), Novorossiya (Odessa) Universities’ scientists’...
The aim of the article is to show two possible aspects of the Carl Schmitt ́s political theology – the first in relation to man and his situation in the modern times and the second oriented toward the history. It seems that Schmitt ́s political theology has at least two aforementioned aspects, which deserves our attention. Political theology as a project is centred on man as an irreducible and incalculable...
The body dissatisfaction is important to examine as it is an essential evaluative part of the self-system and can have an impact on psychological and physical health. It is a complex phenomenon and seems to include more factors. The scale of body dissatisfaction for adolescents (EEICA) is a multidimensional verbal method measuring body dissatisfaction. However, its factor structure has been only identified...
The study deals with the nationalist activities of the Spiš inhabitants after the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The end of the First World War and the destruction of Hungary directly stimulated nationalist activities of the Slovak population in all its regions, even in the Spiš region. The nature and dimension of these activities in Spiš region, was determined by its multi-ethnicity. Therefore,...
The thesis deals with selected factors that were influencing the development of employees ́ number of Eastern Slovakia Steel factory. The company, today under the name United States Steel Corporation, is situated in Košice, the second largest city of Slovakia, with more than 240,000 citizens. However, during the 1950s the city had approximately 60,000 citizens only, but the census of 1980 recorded...
In the discussions about advertising, a significant place is taken up by the issues related to the attributes of its manipulative effects which are based on the cognitive evaluation of reality represented by the attributes such as rationality, wariness and coldness. The essence of manipulation is to promote personal goals at any cost and increase and maintain the power over others. Manipulation is...
The paper deals with the basic issues of political development of Hungarian opposition parties during the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic (CSR). Within the frame of a parliamentary democracy in CSR the whole array of political parties was active, including political associations based on the ethnic principle. Among the Hungarian community the primary role was played by the Provincial Christian...
The aim of this study was to analyse the direct and indirect effects of temperament personality characteristics on the resilience and the role of self-esteem in the indirect effect. The research sample consisted of 96 university students. The research sample consisted of 96 college students aged 19 to 30 years (M = 21.75, SD = 2.07). Adults Temperament Questionnaire, Resilience Scale for Adults, and...
The text provides a description as well as an analysis of mental disorders as socially constructed entities while focusing on the category of normality not only in its medical sense but also in social and cultural one. Our methodology has to be understood as rooted in social constructionism. We work with concepts created within social anthropology and semiotics but also existentialist psychotherapy...
The aim of the current research was to confirm the properties of one possible way how to measure the phenomenon of self-licensing in goal directed behaviour. As the name of variable suggests, we have connected two significant fields of self-regulation research – moral justification (specifically self-licensing) (Khan & Dhar, 2006; Kivetz & Zheng, 2006; Monin & Miller, 2001) and goal directed...
Justice judgments could depend on relatively stable individual differences in attitudes, beliefs, and personality factors. For example, individuals can differ consistently across time and situations in how easily they perceive procedures or distributions as unfair (Schmitt & Dörfel, 1999). In other words, people can differ in justice sensitivity. Many studies on justice sensitivity mentioned thus...
The article discusses the image of Ľudovít Štúr portrayed in history textbooks used in elementary and high schools in Slovakia during three different political regimes in the period of 1918 – 1989. Štúr was a prominent nineteenth century Slovak politician, journalist and a principle organizer of the Slovak national movement. He was also the initiator of the codification of the Slovak language and...
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia after ascent to power in February 1948 enacted radical changes in all spheres of political, economic and social life. Among these changes, the school system was an important area, because it provided conditions which were significant for existence of the regime. After February 1948 the management of all schools, including universities, was in hands of the Communist...
Work and family have traditionally been considered as two main domains of people’s lives. Research interest from different scientific fields, but mostly from the fields of psychology and sociology led to an extensive examination of work and family interactions. Taking into consideration the current state of theory, the aim of the present study was to provide a chronological overview focused on the...
The article is focuses on the German state reformed secondary school in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century from its inception to the completion of its activities. This example shows the development of the German education during the first Czechoslovak Republic. The focus is not only on teachers, pupils and the structure of curricula, but also on extra-curricular activities of students and the closely...
Technological changes taking place over the past decades which are to be fully reflected in the world of work in the coming years introduce new pressures on the labour force. The scope of current and newly anticipated skills and an individual’s responsibility to remain flexible over considerably longer periods of his/her working life is unprecedented. The young generation in Europe struggles with...
Ethno cultural processes belong to the most dynamic, most complicated and most important socio-cultural characteristics of each society. An ethnic definition of culture and society is at present, at a time of multiculturalism and de-ethnicity of culture, an effective and used means of description, genesis, and pursuance of political as well as economic management. The aim of the study is to characterize...
Based on the decision of the Czechoslovak government, on the 1st April 1959 the memorandum establishing the national company Východoslovenské železiarne – East Slovakian Ironworks – was signed. On the 4th January 1960, the construction of the metallurgical plant started in the administrative area of the villages Šaca, Veľká Ida, Sokoľany, Haniska and Bočiar. The city became a centre of heavy industry...
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