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Responsibility as an aspect of individual's well-being: comparison of young Czechs and Scots

MACEK, Petr

Basic information

Original name

Responsibility as an aspect of individual's well-being: comparison of young Czechs and Scots

Name in Czech

Zodpovědnost jako aspekt osobního pocitu pohody: srovnání mladých Čechů a Skotů

Authors

MACEK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

2007. vyd. Praha, 2007

Publisher

Xth European Congress of Psychology, 3 - 6.7.2007. Oral presentation

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Audiovizuální tvorba

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/07:00022347

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

adolescents; cross-national comparison; social changes; responsibility

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 30/7/2007 14:21, prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.

Abstract

V originále

The reported study is part of an international project on language and social representations of responsibilities and entitlements. It was designed to investigate the importance and meaning of responsibility as an important attribute of well-being of the individual. We analyzed data of respondents from the Czech Republic and Scotland. Both these countries represent developed European industrial societies, however, each of them has different history and specific cultural background. Furthermore, we study individual well-being and responsibility from developmental point of view. We supose, že importance and meaning of responsibility se může výrazněji měnit v souvislosti se změnou statusu z adolescenta na dospělého. The total sample included 200 Czechs and 196 Scots. Both national samples were selected from two age-groups, 16-18 and 19-21 years old, 50 % of males and 50 % of females in each sample. Different aspects of responsibility (self-responsibility, responsibility for others, commitment, legal responsibility) were among 34 terms, which were evaluated with respect to well-being of the individual. Respondents were asked to indicate their importance. At first, the subjective importance of different aspects of responsibility is compared. There were found multivariate significant effects of culture and interaction of age and culture. In particular, it means that the significance of commitments, self-responsibility and responsibility to others grows among Scots with age; however, this trend is not evident among Czechs. Secondly, we looked for specific relations between responsibility and other concepts under examination. Here, too, considerable differences between the two countries were found.

In Czech

Výzkum zjišťoval, jak důležité jsou různé aspekty zodpovědnosti v běžném uvažování mladých Čechů a Skotů. Přihlíželi jsme rovněž k pohlaví a k věku respondentů (dvě věkové skupiny: 16-18 let, 20-22). Kromě důležitosti byly zjišťovány významové souvislosti jednotlivých aspektů identity (sebe-zodpovědnost, závazek, zodpovědnost vůči druhým, právní zodpovědnost). Skotové a skupina starších adolescentů mají diferencovanější pojetí zodpovědnosti.

Links

MSM0021622406, plan (intention)
Name: Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky dětí, mládeže a rodiny, vývoj osobnosti v době proměn moderní společnosti
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Psychological and social characteristics of children, youth and families, development of the personality in the time of changes of modern society