Magda Petrjánošová

Slovak Academy of Sciences | SAV · Institute for Research in Social Communication

Príbehmi proti predsudkom 2:využitie literárnej fikcie vo vzdelávaní. Vydavateľ: Ústav výskumu sociálnej komunikácie Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava 2023. ISBN 978-80-974522-0-9 (tlačená verzia) 978-80-974522-1-6 (elektronická verzia).

We report the process of adapting and validating the BIAS Map (Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes) used to measure perceived stereotypes and related social-structure, emotions, and behavioral tendencies toward the Roma – Slovakia’s most stigmatized ethnic minority group. In two surveys (Studies 1 and 4, n = 705) and group-based (Study...

Príbehmi proti predsudkom: využitie autentických výpovedí mladých ľudí vo vzdelávaní. Vydavateľ: Ústav výskumu sociálnej komunikácie Slovenskej akadémie vied v spolupráci s Fakulta sociálnych a ekonomických vied Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave, Bratislava 2019. ISBN 978-80-973370-0-1

In this article, we explore how social, cultural, and institutional contexts have influenced methodological choices in psychology research in the Czech and Slovak republics (C&SR). Thirty years since the collapse of communism in 1989, many qualitative psychologists are disappointed, feeling their hopes have not been fulfilled. In the current perfor...

This paper is partly a theoretical and analytical exploration of different ways to do research about stereotypes and prejudice, and partly a confessional tale of my journey. It is a journey that has been about looking for a meaningful and useful way of approaching empirical material collected in different research projects over more than 15 years,...

The paper deals with cognitive interview, a method for pre-testing survey questions that is used in pilot testing to develop new measures and/or adapt ones in foreign languages. The aim is to explore the usefulness of the method by looking at two questionnaires measuring anti-Roma prejudice. The first, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM), contains q...

The paper addresses the question of how to explore Slovak NGO use of new media to foster civic engagement. We argue that it is not possible to focus solely on the NGOs' online communication; that would make sense only in the context of the overall communication. Hence, this paper deals with the borderlands between online and offline communication....

The book " Czech and their neighbors: Intergroup attitudes and contact in Central Europe " introduces outcomes of a long-term research project dealing with intergroup relations between five Central European countries – the Czech Republic , Austria, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia. The monograph is divided into six chapters covering various aspects of...

The paper presents the results of two studies concerning two different contexts of community building in Slovak migrants. In the first study, we investigated whether and how the organizations of Slovak migrants in Dublin create off/online spaces for (national) identities practicing and community constructing. The data suggest that these organizatio...

The so called new media are, in comparison to traditional mass media, based on multidirectional information flows and interactivity. This is considered to be the important precondition of their potential for strengthening democracy and stimulating civic participation. How are the new media used by civic activists and associations? What communicatio...

The so-called new media are, in comparison to traditional mass media, based on multidirectional information flows and interactivity, this being a pre-condition of their potential for democracy strengthening and civic participation enhancement. Today, they are used by approximately 60% of Slovak citizens, but those are younger, more educated people...

The chapter investigates the relations between cross-border mobility, national categorization and intergroup relations in a changing Europe, from the perspective of social identity and social categorization theories. The empirical material consists of semi-structured interviews, focus groups and drawings of the border region, completed by 32 young...

In this article we present a qualitative analysis of empirical findings from an international project on intergroup attitudes and contact in five Central European countries specifically concerning language use. The project concentrated on the interplay of intergroup contact and perception between the members of national groups in the borderlands be...

The aim of this study is to investigate the role of social innovations in the process of community building in Slovak migrants in Dublin. Social innovations are defined as ideas that help individual actors to coordinate their activities and interactions in order to achieve common goals, including creation of new social institutions (Mumford, 2002)....

Írska republika bola po roku 2004, spolu s Veľkou Britániou, jednou z najobľúbenejších pracovných destinácií slovenských migrantov a migrantiek. Hoci mnohí z nich sa po vypuknutí finančnej krízy v roku 2007 vrátili na Slovensko, v poslednom sčítaní obyvateľstva v roku 2011 až 10 801 Slovákov a Sloveniek oficiálne deklarovalo, že dlhodobo žijú v Írs...

Respondents from Austria (N = 146) and the Czech Republic (N = 165) noted down their experiences with people from their neighbouring country and their attitudes to their own country and the neighbouring nation on feeling thermometers. The quantitative content analysis and qualitative critical discourse-inspired analysis of the open statements focus...

The text is engaged in the whole spectrum of literal as well as transferred meanings of different forms of „kinship“, declared in the descriptions of Czech-Polish and Czech-Slovak contacts. The respondents´ statements are from a research project oriented towards relationships between Czechs and their neighbours. The authors apply qualitative conten...

The aim of this paper is to outline how media and legislation texts about reproduction and parenting interact with participants´ accounts around these topics through the discourses they draw from. Because of their power to form the public discourse, the media can influence how people “see” the world, what issues they think about, what is controve...

Challenging the stereotypes about fathers and family planning Analysis of parents’ roles may be derived from diverse theoretical approaches operating in the field of human reproduction. They can be categorized as the evolutionary-biological, theory of rational choice, social norms and value of the child approaches. Our own stance is mainly drawin...

The aim of this article is to present empirical findings about language use and attitudes in intergroup contact from one of the European borderlands along the former Iron Curtain more than twenty years after it fell. The data was collected as part of an international research project Intergroup attitudes and intergroup contact in five Central Europ...

Cieľom prehľadovej štúdie je priblížiť rozhodovanie v kontextoch zdravia so zameraním na oblasť manažmentu zdravia. Autori zohľadňujú hlavne otázku, ako sa individuálne psychické pri rozhodovaní v oblasti zdravia prelína so sociálnym, kultúrnym a dokonca aj politickým. Text pojednáva o teóriách aj o konkrétnych výskumoch rozhodovacích procesov a pô...

This paper is concerned with monumental art in Slovakia before and after the fall of Communism in 1989. Generally, art in public spaces is important, because it influences the knowledge and feelings the people who use this space have about the past and the present, and thus influences the shared social construction of who we are as a social group....

In this paper we investigate the relations between cross-border mobility, national categorization and intergroup relations in a changing Europe. It focuses on young adults (N=34) commuting on a regular basis between the city of Bratislava (the capital of Slovakia) and the city of Vienna (the capital of Austria). Our study draws on the social identi...

In this paper, three stories are presented, in which we deal with experimental forms of writing research reports, mainly using fiction. With a story of our own research and of our participants - students commuting between Bratislava and Vienna - we open the story of experimentally writing researchers. We think of possibilities and limits of experim...

The chapter deals with motivations and forms of participation of Slovak migrants in the Republic of Ireland and with relations between transnational migration, civic participation and social identity. We focus on (discursive) constructions of migrant community and on the role of active individuals in this process. It is assumed that social identity...

The aim of this text is to present specificity of press analysis as a research method. We briefly describe the critical discourse analysis as a possible approach in this type of research. We focus in more detail on the analysis of headlines. The latter is presented through the examples of three studies. The first focuses on representations of the I...

The aim of this text is to present specificities of press analysis as a research method. The critical discourse analysis as a possible approach in this type of research is briefly described. The focus is given on the analysis of headlines. The latter is presented through the examples of three studies. The first focuses on representations of the Ira...

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...

Východiskom tohto textu je projekt, ktorý skúmal vnímaný potenciál pre vznik „cezhraničného regiónu“ medzi Bratislavou a Viedňou, v ktorom by štátna hranica nehrala už nijakú úlohu. Zrealizovali sme pološtruktúrované kvalitatívne interview so 64 mladými dospelými (18-24) z rakúsko-slovenského pohraničia, Bratislavy a Viedne. Interview boli doplnené...

Im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden in Europa Grenzen immer wieder neu gezogen und umdefiniert. Mit dem Beitritt der östlichen Nachbarn Österreichs zur EU ist hat sich die letzte große Transformation vollzogen, die eine Öffnung der Grenzen und damit die Entwicklung neuer Beziehungen zwischen lange Zeit durch den Eisernen Vorhang getrennten Gebie...

Východiskom tohto textu je projekt, ktorý skúma možnosti vzniku európskej a “cezhraničnej” regionálnej identity u mladých ľudí (18-24) v rakúsko-slovenskom pohraničí formou pološtruktúrovaného kvalitatívneho interview, doplneného kresbou pohraničného priestoru. Text sa zameriava na to, ako v pološtruktúrovanom interview participanti konštruujú svoj...

The paper presents selected conclusions from qualitative research in representation of erectile function conducted by authors in April - May 2003, continuing the study from 2000. The group discussions (focus groups) completed by the questionnaire represented the basic research method. The authors focus on the question how the term and the whole con...

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...