Theses Title: Cognitive construct of attachment by addicted people Autor: Ivana Křížová ABSTRACT This dissertation thesis aims to the theme of attachment as a cognitive construct. The purpose is to explore if is a relation between attachment style and the cognitive constructs that are associated with it by addicted people. The thesis is based on on the theory of personal constructs and personal meaning of events in the life of people. The theoretical part describes theory of attachment, cognitive constructs and addiction. The empirical part describes research design and data analysis. To the research was used a research battery that measured attachment style, early maladaptive schemas and cognitive constructs related to attachment. The research battery consisted of Adult Attachment Projective (AAP), Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR), Young Schemas Questionnaire (YSQ) and non-standardized Cognitive Construct Questionnaire (DKK). The research group consisted of 91 probands, probands with addicted disorder, probands with psychiatric disorder and non-clinical population. Results are partly confirmed relation between cognitive constructs and attachment style. It was confirmed that the consensus of measurement of the attachment styles is significantly higher in the safe style of attachment. Addicted...

Demartini, A. Psychometric analysis of the questionnaire of cultural values. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University in Brno. Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, 2016. Thesis supervisor Ing. Veronika Jadczaková, Ph.D. This thesis focuses on analysing the questionnaire measuring self-esteem on Czech sample (N = 468), which is represented by Czech citizens between 18 to 30 years of age, who have a high school or university degree of education. Independent and Interdependent Self Scale (Lu & Gilmour, 2007) was used for measuring the self. Thesis theoretically defines dimensional approaches to cross-cultural differences, paper related constructs of individualism and collectivism, the self-concept. Research part of the thesis validates the adaptability of used questionnaire for Czech culture and cultural values of research participants.

The aim of this work was to characterize a member of the Drosophila Idgf family. IDGF2 was expresed in Drosophila S2 cells and purified by affinity chromatography. Function of wild-type and mutant IDGF2 was compared.