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This article describes theological education at the University of Košice in the 17th and 18th century. The University existed there till 1777 with a break during Tököly uprising in the years 1682 to 1686. The Faculty of theology with the seminary, where the new priests were trained, was the most important part of the University.
Cultivation theory proposed that fear of crime is caused by heavy exposure to mass media. Presented study explores related hypothesis that fear of crime is product of media consumption. To test this and competing hypothesis, we analysed the results of European social survey data Round 5. The results indicate small additional value of media consumption variables to the increased fear of crime.
The main purpose of this paper is to present results of the project “European Social Survey”, which is focused on individual security according to the Slovak respondent perceptions by the means of two monitored indicators: the characteristic of security situation and the personal experiences with the criminality. There were compared results from two rounds realised in the Slovak Republic (the 2nd,...
This paper focuses on the perceived safety and gender differences in different countries. We analysed data from the 5th round of the European Social Survey. The sample consists of 52 437 respondents from 27 participating countries. The results indicate that in all countries, women have lower rates of perceived safety than men. Individual countries differ in size differences in the perceived safety...
In the article the impact of two groups of work risk factors on the perceived safety was analysed in the data of the EWCS 2010. The obtained results confirmed that presence of physical and also psycho social risk factors influence negatively the level of perceived work safety. For women to the most influential factors belong tiring and painful positions, exposure to the materials which can be infectious,...
This article discusses item analysis of three scales related to intimate relationships between partners: Relationship Quality Scale, Commitment Scale, and Relationship with Parents Scale. At the same time it research correlations between subscales of particular scales.
This study focuses on correlation of perceived safety and preference of types of values. For this purpose we used ESS data from Round 4, specifically Slovak sample consisting of 1810 respondents. The results showed only low levels of correlations in variables of interest, but still significant. We found out that the polarity of the dimensions shown in the Schwartz values model affects the perception...
The studies from recent years focused on perceived safety repeatedly showed, that women are more afraid. In our study we analysed the data from European Social Survey. In our analysis we chose only women and specifically two groups – mothers living with partner and living without partner. The comparisons showed that in general mothers living with partner are less worried than mothers living without...
The author analyses the treatise Praktikos of Evagrios Pontikos from the point of view of the history of psychology. The treatise is dated back to the 4th century. In Praktikos we can find a categorization of undesirable thoughts and elements of experimental approach in order to control mental processes. The context of the origin of the categorization shows that Evagrios systemized previous classifications...
Peculiarities of reforming the health system in Spain during the reign of the Spanish Socialist Worker Party (1982 – 1996)
The article deals with the Hungarian minority parties in Slovakia in the thirtieth years of 20th century. It describes their political activities, political orientation of these political parties and attitudes of Hungarian inhabitants toward Czechoslovak Republic.
Košice was the centre of culture and education not only in eastern Slovakia, but also in the whole territory of the Czechoslovak Republic in the interwar period. Every secondary or vocational school in Košice overcame a number of problems despite their own way of development since 1918 until dissolution of the Czechoslovak Republic. Their history has been processed in several monographs. They reported...
Educational system was completely transformed after formation of Czechoslovak Republic. The former Hungarian schools were closed and replaced by the new Czechoslovakia. In this way Šafárik Czechoslovak state real high school was established in Prešov on 17the March 1919. The first years of school existence were turbulent. In the city were groups that believed in the restoration of pre-war status and...
The article deals with the situation and with one of the problems in the Ukrainian minority educational system in Slovakia in the 50th of the 20th century. It focuses mainly on the issue of language in the Ukrainian national schools in northeasters Slovakia after the implementation of the administrative reform in 1952. A special attention is given to the reason of reducing number of the Ukrainian...
The paper analyse concisely a history of Hungarian community in Czechoslovak Republic after 1918. Similarly as the majority society – Slovaks, the Hungarians underwent a dramatic flow of changes – adaption to conditions of the First Republic (1945 – 1948), a period of communist dictate and democratic changes after November 1989. Each of these periods affected lives of Hungarians living in Slovakia...
This study characterises circumstances of annexation of northern Orava villages Suchá Hora and Hladovka to Poland in 1938. The inhabitants of the annexed area opposed their joining to Poland. The author follows the aspects of different point of view from Slovak and Polish sides in goral identity. The author shows problems which occurred during delimitation and the military conflict between Polish...
This article is a key work in the output characteristics and the numerical values of archival sources and statistical documents attaching to the inhabitants of Košice issue abundance. The work includes a course on statistical census of the territory of Hungary, as well as lists all the available statistical material needed to study the historical demographic development of Kosice.
On the national level the Constitutional Act No. 144/1968 which regulated the status of nationalities in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was certainly a unique legislative action in the field of minority rights. It guaranteed certain minority rights at least to four explicitly mentioned nationalities. The aim of this paper is to describe briefly the development of the protection of national minorities...
Historical development of the Roma population affected Czechoslovakia in the years of the communist regime interventions, leading to its urbanization. Representatives of the Communist regime prohibited by law No. 74/58 the free movement of Roma groups, especially nomadic. Following reform of the state administration meant the collapse of plans for the definitive establishment of the Roma population...
The article is devoted to the situation of the Hungarian minority in 1960s. It mainly deals with the situation in 1968, legislative activities towards ensuring minority rights by the Communist Party authorities, public bodies and proposals based on the initiative of the Hungarian minority institutions.