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PSYCHOLOGIA A PATOPSYCHOLOGIA DIETATA
PSYCHOLOGY AND PATOPSYCHOLOGY OF A CHILD



Volume 33 / No. 1 / 1998





THE INFLUENCE OF TESTOSTERONE ON CHILDREN'S SPACE IMAGINATION

VPLYV TESTOSTERÓNU NA PRIESTOROVÚ PREDSTAVIVOSŤ DETÍ

JOLANA LAZNIBATOVÁ, DANIELA OSTATNÍKOVÁ, MONIKA DOHNÁNYIOVÁ
Výskumný ústav detskej psychológie a patopsychológie, Bratislava
Fyziologický ústav LF UK, Bratislava

Testosterone, with its influence, ranges beyond the limits of reproductive organs. Several studies point at its task in organizing the structures during the intra-uterine development. The basis for cognitive abilities in individuals of both sexes is formed here. Testosterone mostly influences space orientation and its effect can be already manifested in childhood. We studied the relationship between the levels of free testosterone (examined from saliva) and space-area imagination in children of younger school age. The group of gifted children was compared with the control group of children of both sexes. From the results are significant mostly the lower levels of testosterone in the followed group of gifted children. Gifted children achieved significantly better results in solving psychological tests for space-area imagination. The testosterone levels in gifted children negatively correlated with cognitive abilities, however, this was not confirmed in the control group of children.

Key words: testosterone, space-area orientation, pre-pubescent children, gifted children
pp. 3 - 12.


CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOGENIC DISORDERS IN FOOD INTAKE IN FEMALE STUDENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

CHARAKTERISTIKY PSYCHOGÉNNYCH PORÚCH PRÍJMU POTRAVY ŠTUDENTIEK STREDNÝCH A VYSOKÝCH ŠKÔL

ANTÓNIA PAVLIŠÍNOVÁ
Výskumný ústav detskej psychológie a patopsychológie, Bratislava

The author presents the results of the research of female students of Bratislava's secondary schools and universities (N = 327). In the research was used a screening questionnaire EAT and own questionnaire focused on finding eating habits, attitudes toward food and bodily weight. It was found out that 67 % of girls are not satisfied with their figure; 76 % is not satisfied with their weight; and almost 60 % experience fear of getting overweighted. The respondents wished to be, in the average, significantly slimmer in the future; the least up-to-date and ideal weight was reported by students of dance conservatory. In the EAT questionnaire, 14,1 % of students achieved critical and higher scores. Disturbed attitudes toward eating and bodily weight exhibited these girls by discontent with their figure, desire to get thinner, frequent use of fasting and keeping diets, feeling of guilt after overeating, and preferring more extreme ways of eating (vegetarianism, uncombined food). One secondary-school female student fulfilled the criteria of mental anorexia (0,31 %), 5 girls (1,5 %) fulfilled almost all criteria, but amenorrhea in them persisted less than 3 months. A number of 3,7 % of girls (1,8 % purgative type; 1,8 % nonpurgative type) fulfilled the criteria of mental bulimia.

Key words: psychogenic disorders of food intake, mental anorexia, mental bulimia, attitudes toward eating and bodily weight, Eating Attitude Test
pp. 13-22.


EVALUATING THE INTEGRATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INTO REGULAR SCHOOLS BY CHILD AND ADULT POPULATION

HODNOTENIE INTEGRÁCIE ZDRAVOTNE POSTIHNUTÝCH DETÍ DO BEŽNÝCH ŠKÔL DETSKOU A DOSPELOU POPULÁCIOU

IVAN UČEŇ
Výskumný ústav detskej psychológie a patopsychológie, Bratislava

The integration of handicapped children into regular schools advanced to the extent that it is realized globally, secured by unified pedagogic documents. In spite of this fact, psychological issues do not disappear and new problems are still being identified.
While the issue of attitudes toward integration appeared to have been very simple, it gradually got complicated by a larger number of intervening teachers who entered into this sensitive process.
The study presents pupils of basic school as a minority which, apart from other minorities in the research of analyzed minorities, is more critical and more vehement toward disabled children. In the evaluation of concrete situations of social and school integration of disabled children, a unique nonuniformity appears probably due to absorbing of a variety of information and experience in this area of education and upbringing.

Key words: minority, semantic differential, social and school integration, handicapped child
pp. 23-34.


WAYS OF UPBRINGING IN THE FAMILY, AND CHILD PERSONALITY

ZPŮSOB VÝCHOVY V RODINĚ A OSOBNOST DÍTĚTE

JAN ČÁP, PETR BOSCHEK
Katedra psychologie Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, Praha

The authors proposed the analytical-synthetic model of a way of upbringing in the family, which includes a pattern of 9 fields and which also enables to differentiate the forms of upbringing with discrepant management and with a negative-positive emotional relationship toward the child.
The forms of upbringing (model field) - optimal for the development of character and stableness-unstableness - show relations also to some less favorable aspects of adolescent personality. Contrary to this, the forms of upbringing associated with unfavorable development of character and with unstableness correlate with some personality factors which are welcoming in many areas of practice (independence, dominance).
Some differences in a manner of boys' and girls' responses were found with respect to a way of upbringing in the family, especially to particular components of father and mother upbringing, or different parents' responding to behavior of children of various gender.

Key words: upbringing in the family, family, personality, personality factors, character, temperament, stability-lability
pp. 35-44.


SCHOOL COUNSELING SERVICE IN THE CONCEPT OF CURRICULUM RECONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL AND SCHOOL SYSTEM IN SLOVENIA

ŠKOLSKÁ PORADENSKÁ SLUŽBA V KONCEPCII KURIKULÁRNEJ OBNOVY ŠKOLY A ŠKOLSTVA V SLOVINSKU

METOD RESMAN
Filozofická fakulta, Ľubľanská univerzita, Slovinsko

This contribution mirrors some theoretical-conceptual, organization-operative questions and to date practical experience from the realization of the original model of school counseling service in Slovenia.
The outcome basis for this reflection are needs and tasks of curriculum reconstruction of school, democratization of educational system, and strengthening of autonomy position of schools. In this context, the school should development a whole pupil personality.
The subject of the analysis is a) conceptual notion of school counseling service and its profiling (the author describes and evaluates a couple of alternatives: personal versus school, crisis-curative versus developing-preventive counseling); b) a organization-operative model of school counselling; c) a profile of counseling worker, his/her position at school and d) his/her contribution to the development of school and school system.

Key words: Curriculum, school counseling, school counseling service, personal/crisis-curative and developing-preventive counseling, organization-operative model of school counseling, external counseling institutions, school counseling worker
pp. 45-54.


THE OCCURRENCE OF PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIOR IN THE UPBRINGING OF YOUTH APPRENTICE GROUPS

VÝSKYT VÝCHOVNE PROBLÉMOVÉHO SPRÁVANIA V SKUPINÁCH UČŇOVSKEJ MLÁDEŽE

ANDREA GECKOVÁ
Ústav sociálnej medicíny Lekárskej fakulty UPJŠ, Košice

In the first part of the contribution, the author tries to arrange various theoretical concepts of problematic behavior with respect to upbringing and to propose a summarizing definition of the analyzed term. In the second part of the contribution, the author brings the results of the survey of forms, significance and intersexual differences of problematic behavior with respect to upbringing. In the classes of apprentices' schools, the most frequent problems were: unconcentratedness, inadvertency, unperseverance, lies, excuses, cheating; in girls - vividness, restlessness, overchatting, stage-fever, fear; and in boys - irresponsibility, violation of promises and commands, smoking. The education of problematic behavior differed according to sex. In girl classes, the class teachers met most often with vividness, restlessness, overchatting, disinterest in studies, and with scrupulousness and stage-fever. In boy classes, this was rather smoking, irresponsibility, violation of promises and commands, conflictedness, irritability, tantrums of anger and school absence. The class teachers more negatively assessed the forms of behavior that contained a breach of social norms; less negatively were assessed those forms of problematic behavior, with respect to upbringing, which rather manifested emotional disturbance.

Key words: problematic behavior with respect to upbringing, apprentice youth
pp. 55-65.


MENTAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN IN DEPENDENCE ON HEMISPHERIC LOCALIZATION AND LATERALIZATION OF EPILEPTIC FOCUS

PSYCHICKÉ PORUCHY DĚTÍ V ZÁVISLOSTI NA HEMISFERÁLNÍ LOKALIZACI A LATERALIZACI EPILEPTICKÉHO FOKUSU

ZUZANA MAKOVSKÁ
Klinika dětské neurologie LF MU a FDN JGM, Brno

The presented study deals with the evaluation of mental disorders in children with focal epilepsy without evident grosser cerebral lesion in dependence on hemispheric localization and lateralization of epileptic focus. With respect to this fact, the psychological screening is not only a valuable part of diagnostics but it also enables, within a dynamic follow-up, the assessment of the effect of the therapy and prognosis.

Key words: mental disorders, focal epilepsy, functional prevalence of brain hemispheres
pp. 66-71.


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