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The survey presents foundations and definitions of the new psychological disciplines – financial psychology or psychology of money. Questions of personal finances related to financial literacy mental accounting and household finance ae addressed. The final part emphasizes the role of intuitive and critical thinking in this area.
Previous research findings have shown positive relationships between: (a) descriptive normative beliefs (DNB) and different types of risk behaviour (RB) and (b) the overestimation of the prevalence of peers’ RB and one’s RB. The aim of intervention programmes which provide an individualized feedback regarding DNB is to reduce RB by correcting students’ perception of the prevalence of peers’ RB. Objective:...
Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) is currently experiencing a strong wave of interest and attention. In our study, we focused on a MMORPG World of Warcraft. Our sample was 270 respondents, from which 82% were men and 18% were women; moreover 135 from our sample were players and 135 were non-players. For each player we assigned an equivalent non-player. Our goal was to recognize...
The current study examines three structural equation models concerning work-to-family conflict. The predictors and outcomes of work-to-family conflict pertained to family domain, represented by family stressors such as partnership disagreements; to work domain, represented by work stressors such as work demands; and to affective domain, represented by subjective well-being perception. We focus on...
The objective of the research was to verify the relationship between the degree of depression and subjective assessment of the quality of life by means of the Subjective assessment of quality of life questionnaire (SAQL; Džuka, 2014) and WHQOL-BREF (WHOQOL Group, 1998) in a research sample of depressive patients. It consisted of 101 depressive patients, 31 males and 70 females, aged 24-76 years (M...
The safety perception is defined as a control of potential threats in the form of crime, economic, social, or health risks. The present study deals with the development of perception of safety and preventive behaviour questionnaire, which was carried out on a representative sample of 1,843 respondents. Extracted factors fear of crime and preventive behaviour explained 67% of variance. The significant...
The following theoretical study focuses on a current topic of enhancing self-regulation through the executive functions training. We are building upon the ideas of recent findings (e.g. Hofmann, Schmeichel, Baddeley, 2012) suggesting that the training of executive functions has significant potential to improve the level of self-regulation. Our goal is to look at this issue from a theoretical point...
The main objective of the presented study was to determine whether there is a relationship between selected variables of perceived safety /fear of crime/ (perceived risk, perceived sense of security and preventive behaviour), 3 types of retrospective parental behaviour and self-efficacy. We were interested also whether there are differences in remembered parental behaviour by the respondents who have...
The paper is analysing causes and character of irredentist activities of Hungarian governments in relation to Czechoslovakia during the monitored period. Principal aim of irredenta was to establish an alternative to the direct annexation of Slovakia, or at least of part of the Slovak territory inhabited by the Hungarian minority. The goal of irredenta, besides other, was also to reinforce ethnic awareness...
The year 1989 marked a new stage in the Slovak historiography which allowed a new reinterpretation of the previous research and opened up topics which were considered taboo until then. This article discusses the results of scientific research in the field of Rusyn´s history in the twenties of the last century. This later research showed that it was a crucial period for them. On the one hand, in this...
The main aim of this study was to focus specifically on the area of self-care and identify correlation between self-regulation and performed activities in the sphere of self-care. In this study, self-care is conceptualized as a much broader phenomenon. Instead of focusing only on health, physical well-being, psychological well-being and personal development are seen as important parts of self-care...
The article deals with the image of celebrations of Slovak National Uprising in the daily Pravda in the years 1945 – 1948. It deals with the analysis of propaganda in post war Czechoslovakia on the example of commemorating important historical event in Slovak history – Slovak National Uprising. It provides an overview and concept of celebration of the Slovak National Uprising in the early post war...
An effort to fully understand the interface of work-family conflict and social support can be observed in the psychological research for more than three decades. This study explored relationship between different sources of social support and work-family conflict in its both directions and three forms. Work-family conflict was measured by the Work-family conflict scale (Carlson, Kacmar, Williams,...
Way of life of Slovaks in the Low Land was and remains a continually evolving socio-cultural system which is very vividly and naturally responsive to the surrounding environment and circumstances that have been brought about in different historical periods. The important question is not just which elements of their way of life are typically "Slovak" , but rather to what extent and how can...
The article presents two internationally orientated scientific projects. The projects, which refer to each other, are focused on language-communication behaviour of Slovak youth in the situational context of the intra-ethnic use of spoken Slovak in Hungary, Croatia and Serbia. It offers a general as well as a detailed view of the issue of socio-ethnic and linguistic situation of the Slovaks living...
The authors of the text provide information about Slovaks in Croatia in the censuses between 1880 and 2011 with regard to the Slovak language as a native language of Slovaks in Croatia. In the first part authors bring information about the arrival of Slovaks in Croatia, and then deal with their number, religious and gender structure as well as their literacy. The text is the result of research in...
The beginning of 1950s in Czechoslovakia was a period of political processes, among which the Rudolf Slánsky et al. trial had possibly the largest impact on the society. It was accompanied by a massive media campaign, characterized by a strong anti-cosmopolitan, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel spirit. Articles in newspapers that tried to accuse, inter alia, the Zionists, cosmopolitans (thus people of...
The Slovaks living in Serbia, Croatia and Romania are not just a result of historical development from the perspective of assimilation, but they create ethnic communities which are active, purposeful and coordinated. This situation is not a matter of course, automatic or inertia. It is the result of sophisticated and conscious continuous stimulation of ethnicity. Specifics of environments of these...
The article describes the Slovak language enclave and diaspora in Croatia and Serbia. It briefly describes the history of the Slovak settlement process and the recent demographic development of the Slovak minority in Croatia and Serbia. The central attention of the article focuses on the communication vectors, the language situation and linguistic characteristics of the Slovak language enclave and...
In this contribution we develop ecolinguistic and language-political comments referring to majority and minority societies. In general, the article focuses on the development of languages in the time of globalization. It also studies the language development in the context of foreign varieties of the Slovak language. At the same time it confronts language legislation with the language situation and...