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SOURCES OF MEANING IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LEAVING WAR ZONES IN UKRAINE

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Kovaříková M., Kupka M.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2024
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vol. 27
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issue 2
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine forced a large number of people to leave their homes and seek safety abroad, leading to many challenges and hardships. The objective of this research is to empirically examine and describe the sources of meaning in the lives of people who have left Ukraine as a result of the military conflict. The research focuses on the difficulties experienced by people leaving the war zones in Ukraine and the sources of support that have helped them cope with these challenges whilst in Czechia. The study has a qualitative design and uses semi-structured interviews with ten respondents who have left Ukraine due to the war. The interviews were then analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The results show that most respondents suffered from sleep disturbances and anxiety in the first few months after arrival. Children demonstrated physiological distress in the form of asthma attacks. The most pressing difficulty for the participants was the longing and fear for their loved ones who had remained behind in Ukraine. Man respondents experienced difficulties finding a suitable job and faced discrimination. On a positive note however, the people interviewed encountered a great deal of human assistance which was a significant source of support for them. Social support and the role of informal networks such as friends, neighbours and volunteers, are among the crucial factors for adaptation and coping with difficult situations. The present research identifies the main sources of support that have helped Ukrainians manage the hardships associated with migration.
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Prožívaná životní smysluplnost, všímavost a sebehodnocení v kontextu omezené zevní stimulace

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Malůš M., Kupka M., Dostál D.
Psychologie a její kontexty
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2016
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vol. 7
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issue 2
59-72
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The aim of the study was to assess the influence of the overall context of a modified version of chamber restricted environmental stimulation (chamber REST; in a variation also known as “Darkness Therapy” - „DT“) on the meaning in life, mindfulness and self-esteem. The research sample consisted of 37 clients of the Beskydy Rehabilitation Centre in Čeladná who, based on their own decision, underwent a week-long stay under chamber REST conditions, between 15th March, 2012 and 14th November, 2013. The age ranged between 25 and 84 (M = 45.86; SD = 13.16). The sample consisted of 17 women and 20 men. The youngest woman was 25 years old and the oldest one was 71 years old. The youngest man was 25 years old and the oldest man was 84 years old. The respondents were selected by purposive voluntary sampling. Considering the education, 14 subjects completed secondary-school education, 23 of them completed university education. Considering the occupation, 3 respondents were retired, the remaining 34 were employed. All subjects, who participated in the research voluntarily and at their own expense, underwent technically the same process. It was a seven-day stay in a REST environment (absolute darkness, quiet and solitude). The participants stated and confirmed by their signature that they did not show any psychopathological reactions at that time, they did not take any psychopharmaceutical drugs and did not experience any significant physical ailments (acute illness, bleeding etc.) and they entered the experimental environment voluntarily. During the week the participants/clients were daily visited by a therapist with whom they could talk about any current issues. The duration of the interviews depended on their current needs, thirty to forty-five minutes on average. A week before the DT stay, each of the subjects filled in the following diagnostic questionnaires: Existence Scale (ES), Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Three weeks after they completed the procedure they received the same measures again. The data obtained were evaluated by the SPSS software. Normal distribution of data was verified by Shapiro-Wilk test. The effect of the experimental conditions was assessed by a pairedsample t-test or Wilcoxon paired-sample test. The distortion emerging as a result of multiple testing was eliminated by Bonferroni correction. Comparing the values measured prior to and after the stay in the researched modification of chamber REST environment (DT), we found a significant difference on all scales. Most of them remained significant even after applying the Bonferroni correction. Therefore, we concluded that the overall framework of the effect of the researched modification of chamber restricted environmental stimulation applied for a week has a positive influence on the respondents regarding the meaning in life (evaluated by ES), mindfulness (measured by FFMQ) and self-esteem (measured by RSES). No statistically significant differences were found as a function of gender or educational level.
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