ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ, Lenka, Dita KADLČÍKOVÁ and Scherman Alejandra ZARAGOZA. Czech and Slovak life scripts: the rare case of two countries that used to be one. MEMORY. 2020, vol. 28, No 10, p. 1204-1218. ISSN 0965-8211. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476.
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Original name Czech and Slovak life scripts: the rare case of two countries that used to be one
Authors ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ, Lenka (703 Slovakia), Dita KADLČÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Scherman Alejandra ZARAGOZA (208 Denmark).
Edition MEMORY, 2020, 0965-8211.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50101 Psychology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.090
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/20:00124626
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476
UT WoS 000575589000001
Keywords in English Cultural life scripts; positivity bias in reminiscence bump; Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic; Slovakia
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
In this study, we examined cultural life scripts in two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cultural life script is semantic knowledge about culturally shared expectations regarding the order and timing of important life events during an idealised life course. For many decades, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were one country: Czechoslovakia. After a regime change in 1989 and the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, their two cultures have been evolving and changing independently from one another, making these countries interesting for examining life scripts. We found that the cultural life scripts provided by Slovak and Czech participants shared 25 event categories, representing 89.3% of event categories in the Czech sample and 80.6% of event categories in the Slovak sample (including the categoryOther). However, participants also reported unique event categories to each culture (10.7% of unique event categories in the Czech sample and 19.4% in the Slovak sample), reflecting the specific cultural characteristics of these two separate countries. Reported events were listed in the same order they are expected to happen during the life span, were mostly positive, and showed a lifespan distribution consistent with the reminiscence bump. Participants showed higher agreement in the age estimates of positive events, compared to neutral and negative ones. Events were mostly social, in contrast to biological events. All these findings are consistent with the life script literature.
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