Nikol Kvardová

Masaryk University Faculty of Social Studies · Department of Psychology

Background Adolescents can benefit from engagement with health-related content on social media (e.g., viewing, commenting, or sharing content related to diseases, prevention, or healthy lifestyle). Nevertheless, such content may be distressing or exaggerated and present a challenge to mental well-being, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rumi...

Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2; Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015) is a routinely used measure of body appreciation, which is a concept that encompasses positive feelings and attitudes towards the body regardless of its perceived “flaws”. The present study provides evidence for the validity of the BAS-2 among Czech adolescents. Specifically, the study...

Physical appearance and, specifically, weight are common reasons for cyberhate attacks among adolescents. Using a between-subject experimental design, this study focuses on the bystanders of such attacks on Instagram. We investigate bystanders' assessments in the form of two moral disengagement (MD) mechanisms-victim blaming and minimizing conseque...

Body-positive online content (BPOC) has recently become widespread, yet the factors that explain its association with body satisfaction have scarcely been studied. The current study investigates the indirect association between the self-reported frequency of viewing BPOC and body satisfaction through body appreciation and the moderating roles of bo...

Online health information seeking (OHIS) behaviors are prevalent among adolescents, which might guide their behaviors in the health domain, and therefore substantially impact their overall health. This study examined adolescent and parental factors in the disease- and fitness-related OHIS behaviors of adolescents. Trust in online health information...

Although adolescents’ exposure to harmful online content has been linked to decreased subjective well-being and offline risky behaviors, there is limited research on the factors that underlie such problematic online behavior. Using the conceptual framework of Problem Behavior Theory, this study examined the role of risk (i.e., emotional problems, s...

One of the debates about media usage is the potential harmful effect that it has on body image and related eating disturbances because of its representations of the “ideal body”. This study focuses on the drive for thinness among the visitors of various health-oriented websites and online platforms because neither has yet been sufficiently studied...

This research report is based on empirical data collected from April to June 2019 at 32 schools in South Moravia. The report summarizes the basic findings regarding the links between the permission or prohibition of mobile devices to adolescents' activities during breaks, their Internet use, and some of the difficulties that are presented in the me...

Předkládaná studie se zabývala ověřením vybraných psychometrických charakteristik metody Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS), která zjišťuje partnerskou spokojenost. V rámci ověření byla zjišťována reliabilita metody v podobě vnitřní konzistence a konstruktová validita prostřednictvím souvislosti metody RAS s dimenzemi partnerské spokojenosti, part...