Jana Plichtová

Comenius University Bratislava · Department of Psychology

Objectives The aim of the present study is to test the network analysis method on a corpus of media texts with the aim of systematically analysing media representations of dementia in the Slovak media. Methods A word-network was modelled from the corpus of media documents using social network analysis. 244 text-documents (web, print, TV and radio)...

The aim of our research is to explore how Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are represented in the Slovak media. Data consisted of text documents from the Newton media database. Search criteria included TV, radio, print and web sources that mentioned the words “Alzheimer” and “dementia” between 2015 and 2018. A thematic discourse analysis was applie...

In her groundbreaking work, Elinor Ostrom suggested that communities are able to self-organize and develop rules which allow them to effectively manage common-pool resources while avoiding the “tragedy of the commons”, as proposed by Hardin. Based on empirical case studies of how forests, irrigation, grazing land and fisheries are organized all ove...

Etablovanie z nás nesníma zodpovednosť: prísľuby a súčasnosť kvalitatívneho výskumu v Čechách a na Slovensku. Československá psychologie, 61, 4, 401-414. Táto verzia je rukopis zadaný do tlače. Tlačené vydanie neobsahuje predstavenie diskutujúcich. Pri citovaní prosím konzultujte tlačené vydanie. Etablovanie z nás nesníma zodpovednosť: prísľuby a s...

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the evolution of the legislative process concerning ART (especially PGD) in the specific cultural, societal and political contexts of two countries- Slovakia and Germany. Our analysis is based on 1. mapping the variety of discourses on ART in order to gain an understanding of the perspectives of the main...

The study deals critically with discursive activities of politics and newspapermen which serve as models for imitation of confirmation or on the contrary of opposing the negative stereotypes against Roma. The thesis that the media marketing of political parties misuses the discriminated and marginalized groups for achieving the party goals is empir...

The paper compares discussions in 12 groups of university students (6 Slovak and 6 Scottish) equal in sex and age. The participants discussed the same problem-how to control the spread of HIV/AIDS and respect medical confidentiality (MC). Systematic comparisons revealed striking differences between the two national groups. The Scottish discussants...

The paper describes the analysis of the part of the representative research that monitors dis/agreement with the basic goals and presumptions of civic deliberative democracy. The statistical analysis indicates that the support for deliberative democracy is generally widespread among Slovak population; however, the respondents with higher cultural c...

Critical discourse analysis is presented namely from the viewpoint of set of theoretical presumptions that conceptualize the relations among discourse, knowledge, ideology, and social subject. The author points to variety of supposed connections between subject and discourse, namely in the context of displacement the structuralist paradigm by the p...

The aim of this volume was to investigate Slovak national identity in its societal, political and ideological context, i.e. in a space where it is constituted, transformed and strategically used. The analysis focused on the linguistic means used in these processes. Slovak national identity constructions were studied in the context of two major soci...

Freedom of Religion, Institution of Conscientious Objection and Political Practice in Post-Communist Slovakia The example of Slovakia is used to show how one of the post-socialist countries failed in fulfilling the demanding task of securing freedom of religious belief (including the right to conscientious objection) and, at the same time, securing...

Introductory: Civil Society, Participation, and Religion

This article tells the story of the journey made by an international research group of social psychologists in their collaborative projects carried out over a number of years after the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989. The article explores some relations between the aims of research conducted during a period of rapid political, social and ec...

The explanation of human nature exclusively from the perspective of biological evolution (as for example in sociobiology) faces two paradoxes. The core of the first one can be summarized as follows: The characteristics of the specifically human behavior, such as symbolic thinking, intentional and planned activity, cooperative work distribution, cre...

On the background of the dispute of liberalism and communitarism, the study formulates the basic sociological and social psychological questions connected with realization of individual freedom in the civic, political, and social sense, both in the context of contemporary western post-materialistic culture and in the context of post-communist socie...

The paper gives a comparison of Durkheim's sociogenetic approach, according to which the specific character of human knowledge consists in its being commonly created, culturally transmitted and transgeneratively communicated, with the biological approach, which considers the culture to be a continuation of biological nature. As an example the autho...

On the basis of quantitative and qualitative analysis of questionnaire data, free associations, and incomplete sentences, all exploring values and personal goals of university students of humanities, it was stated that values supporting the individual autonomy in realization of both professional and personal goals are prevailing. The university stu...

The paper's argumentation is for the conception of mind as an open, although internally structured system. Mind, however, is not just an actualization of dispositions, but also the accommodation and cultivation of the latter in the process of a continuous interaction with the intelligible structures of the other minds as well as with the products o...

The results of the qualitative research in cultural comparative perspective are presented. The corpus of data consists of transcribed discussions in 16 focus groups Is Slovak and 8 Scottish, per 5 adolescents in each) on the problem how to contain spreading HIV/AIDS and to preserve medical confidentiality simultaneously. The analysis describes (1)...

The results of a qualitative analysis of transcribed discussions in 8 focus groups of adolescents (per 5 in each) on the problem how to contein spreading HIV/AIDS and to preserve medical confidentiality simultaneously are presented. It was analysed how the discussants use the terms rights/obligations, responsibility/irresponsibility, how they alloc...

The author outlines the basic sources of argumentation giving reasons why psychology joined, although later, the linguistic reversal that happened in all social sciences. She studies what is the meaning of this turn to discourse in psychology, what is the form of psychology leaving the ontological and epistemological framework shared by behaviouris...

The analysis of statements of 296 respondents with university education showed that the majority of Slovak intelligentsia is ideologically non-crystallized. Only minority from minority of intelligentsia is liberally oriented and accepts consistently the different set of values than the majority population. The liberal intelligentsia not only evalua...

Social representations of the individual are examined in three post-Communist Central European nations, i.e. the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and in three West European nations, i.e. Scotland, England and France. All six nations share a common European history since the Renaissance and Humanism, based on such values as freedom, agency, ind...

Hoffmann and Ziessler's theory of primary concepts was tested in two experiments with bilingual students, in which two languages (Hungarian, Slovak) were used to verify or falsify correspondence between concept and picture. The order of languages was balanced across respondents. In accordance with main hypothesis the mean shortest latency was found...

Social representations are presented as an alternative research direction in social psychology which - in contrast to the majority stream - opens the way to studying the influence of society, culture and language on the thinking of individuals. It introduces the topic of layman knowledge (common sense) and the relation between scientific and layman...

Essays of respondents written on the topic "national identity" were analysed in the framework of broader research project. The students were asked to think about the following questions: (1) What does create the content of national identity in Slovakia today? (2) What does it mean for them to be Slovak? (3) What did the independence of the country...

Three methods (1. Free associations to political terms, 2. The evaluation of the importance of the same terms with respect to the individual and/or to the community and 3. Questionnaire covering individual reflections of societal changes in the course of the past three years) were used to explore the commonalities and differences in political think...

Two generations of Slovaks and of Hungarians responded to a short questionnaire sampling their opinions about recent political and economic changes in their respective countries. The younger generation were aged 18–23 and the older generation 40–45. In general, Slovaks expressed a higher degree of freedom of choice compared to Hungarians in various...

The purpose of this paper was to examine meanings of the terms ‘individual’, ‘the community’ and ‘local community’ in Slovakia and Scotland. The social, cultural, political and economic histories of these two small European nations are quite different. Slovakia is one of the post-communist countries in which rapid changes have recently taken place....

The study deals with the method of content analysis as a qualitative method, and that in the context of broader methodological problems (Cartestian vs. Hegelian paradigms, positivism vs. phenomenological approach). It refers to the possibilities of its using in psychology, especially in the sphere of the research into communication. From the resear...

The study presents a survey of computer programs supporting the content analysis of texts from the viewpoint of their users' comprehensibility, demands on the capacity of the computer, and procedures they have at their disposal. In a more detail, the authors inform about the TEXTBASE ALPHA program that has got the lowest demands on the capacity of...

While the term 'democracy' has existed in political a and philosophical vocabularies since classical Athens, representations of democracy by laypeople are relatively more recent. Lay representations of democracy are likely to be formed, maintained and changed by both implicit and explicit processes. Some features of lay representations are deeply s...

Four groups of Ss (fourth-form pupils and adults, of above average and average intelligence) were trained in categorical strategy at learning a categorized list. Their reproduction protocols were compared in quantitative and several qualitative indicators with the reproduction protocols of four equal groups who had reproduced the same list, but wit...

The author presents a review of the most current contemporary conceptions concerning positive attitudes toward oneself, in an attempt at pointing up their mutual contradictoriness. A classification is given of the individual methods established for measuring self acceptation according to the applied psychometric model and problems and inadequacies...

The project HOTEL takes a starting point in a heuristic approach that focuses on different disciplines' practice in connection with the assessment and consideration of quality of life and underlying mobility and transport preconditions. The core concept is to find out, how aspects of life quality are taken care of in practice in the field of transp...

Goals of Civic Deliberative Democracy and its Support in Slovakia. The paper describes the analysis of the part of the representative research that monitors dis/agreement with the basic goals and presumptions of civic deliberative democracy. The statistical analysis indicates that the support for deliberative democracy is generally widespread among...

RESUMEN En esta investigación transcultural hemos intentado poner de manifiesto los marcos de referencia de ciertos conceptos políti-cos en países con diferentes niveles de democracia y en diferentes estadios de economía de libre mercado. Las entrevis-tas se han realizado en Hungría, Eslova-quia, Eslovenia, Galicia y Murcia, y en Suecia. Se trataba...

In this paper we analyse the legislation and arguments concerning bioethics and reproductive rights (on the examples of abortion and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis – PGD), as well as the power of different actors’ voices in Slovakia and Germany. Our comparative analysis revealed a paradox: In the abortion case study we found a restrictive princ...

In this paper we analyse how Italy and Slovakia have dealt in practice with the idea of religious pluralism and what legal instruments they have used to ensure it. The history of state-church relationships in Slovakia has been full of abrupt changes due to political changes; in Italy the development has been more straightforward, but in both countr...