Title: Intergenerational differences in attitudes towards the sport and its popularity. Objectives: The aim is to identify differences of opinions between two different generations, which are divided by age- group 18-25 years and group 60 years and more. Methods: In developing this thesis research was used written and electronic polling. Results: The result should be a diversity of groups in views on sports nowadays and in the past. Keywords: Differences, intergenerational, sport, popularity

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It is well documented that friends influence adaptive behaviors (Brechwald & Prinstein, 2011). However, it remains unclear how influence manifests itself. The current study investigated the role of likeability and popularity in determining the relative influence that a child exercises on his or her friend’s prosocial behavior and academic achievement in a sample of elementary schooled children (N=679). The results suggest that more liked friends have more influence over their less liked friends’ prosocial behavior and academic achievement. Both more- and less-popular friends influenced each other’s academic achievement. Residualized analyses, however, which take into account the shared overlap between likeability and popularity, suggest that the more-liked friend continued to influence the prosocial behavior and academic achievement of the less-liked friend, whereas more-popular children had no influence over their less-popular counterparts. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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The novelty and urgency of this work is dictated by the fact that there are not much research work dedicated to the Lithuanian pre-school and primary school children popularity and self-esteem comparative analysis. The purpose of the work was to establish find the connections (relationships) between the popularity and stimulation of self-esteem in the children of same age of pre-school groups and primary school classes. The following methods were used in the study: scientific literature analysis; method of sociometric (two-steps social priority estimation methods, by B.T.R. Williams and J.D. Gilmour, 1994); questionnaire for the inquiry on self-esteem, psychological well-being, and orientation towards moral values, developed by D. Beresnevičienė (1995), and adopted to the children of the appropriate age; computer data processing (SPSS software package); descriptive statistics. Samplings use in the study was as follows: 208 children under the research, among which 91 children were chosen from the pre-school group (average age of 6 years) and 117 children (average age of 9 years) from the third-grade class of the schools of Kaunas town. Conclusions: the study has proven a hypothesis that in judging about the self-esteem, according to two parameters, namely that of “nice” (r = -0,162, p < 0,05) and that of “industrious” (the learning criterions) (r = -0,165, p < 0,05), the role of the self-esteem manifests itself in the following manner: the higher the self-esteem, the less is... [to full text]

Today educators are faced with the task of shifting the aim of education from that of teaching subject matter to that of providing experiences that are effective in stimulating wholesome personality development. With this in mind the writer was interested in providing opportunities and experiences for the development of efficient, balanced, harmonious, dynamic personalities, and in observing the relationship existing between these factors, social acceptance, home environment or socio-economic status, and the intelligence quotient, and the effects of these relationships upon the child's school success or academic status.

The aim of this Master´s thesis is to find out whether there is a relation (mainly) between economic factors and government popularity in Slovakia, based on data from the period 2004-2016. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part describes theoretical aspects of government popularity function and historical overview of past government cabinets in Slovakia. The second part is practical, that explains a methodology used in modelling and results of modelling itself. At the end of this thesis, there is final summary of attained results.

The aim of this study was to find a relation between the popularity of a Czech government and the state of the national economy. Popularity functions were established and econometrically tested for governments led by Prime ministers Zeman, Špidla, Topolánek and Nečas. It was discovered that the popularity indeed depends on the state of national economy; in case of left oriented governments the main factor is unemployment while in the case of right oriented governments the main factor is inflation. It was also proven, beside the main goal, that the Phillips curve theorem is valid in conditions of the Czech Republic. Besides the economic factors, political factors as corruption affairs and similar were proven to affect popularity of the government even more than the economic factors. Therefore it is essential to make sure that media is really independent from politicians, which in the czech reality is far from the truth.

Title: Sport popularity among the high-school students in Hradec Králové. Goals: The main goal of the Thesis is to determine an extent and a measure of sport and dynamic activities among students from chosen high-schools in Hradec Králové and to surfy a popularity of individual sports among those students. Methodology: The quantitative method wasused in this Thesis. Mainly the questionnaires. These were assembled direct for the surfy purposes and was given to the students of chosen high-schools in Hradec Králové. Results: It has been uncovered that 76% of high-school students in Hradec Králové do sport in their free time. Students do sport mainly because of thein health. Parents are the ones who have a great impact on their children doing sport. The most favourite sport of girl is modern dance, The most favourtie sport of boys is football. Klíčová slova: sport, adolescence, free time, motivation

Title: Popularity of floorball among elementary pupils and high school students in Czech Republic. Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is determite popularity of floorball among elementary pupils and high school students. Secondary aims include an overview awareness of public about floorball and transcribe evolution of this sport in Czech republic. Methods: It was use the method of quantitative marketing research. The electronic polling was used for acquaring primary data. The work also includes an analysis of secondary data using linear regression. Results: It was found through research current situation floorball at Czech school children. Data are for better orientation in tables and graphs and then data are commented. Overall we can say that floorball is popular among students and floorball is included into the lessons of physical education. A large number of young athletes involved in school competitions of they are registrad player of floorball. The bigges impact comes from the elementary schoool. Keywords: floorball, students, popularity of sport