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The main topic of this diploma thesis is Motional activity and Personality structure of czech adult population with focus of men. Research examined 40 men from the ages 20 to 60 years. The theoretical part is dealing with personality structure, five-factor model of personality, motional activity of adults and gait. In the research part the motional activity was measured using the pedometer Yamax Digiwalker SW-700. The personality structure was taken with the help of a fivefactor questionaire called NEO personality inventory. The research results confirmed a relationship between the personality trait and volume of motional activity.

The personality approach to entrepreneurship has often been criticized and disproved due to inconsistencies in findings and heterogeneity of concepts used to describe entrepreneurs.With  the vast amount of data created by individuals on social media day by day, along with technology advancements, one can look into personality more objectively. In this paper, the authors propose a quantitative method to analyse the Big 5 personality traits, values and needs by using IBM Watson to examine tweets from twitter accounts of 99 successful techentrepreneurs and 99 non-entrepreneurs. It is further argued that through statistical methods, tech entrepreneurs show a common set of distinctive characteristics when compared to non-entrepreneurs. Among the results, 9 Big 5 personality traits, 2 needs and 7 values are shown to be statistically different between both sample groups and therefore, tech entrepreneurs tend to evince a certain personality.

Dans la présente thèse en cotutelle qui a pour titre: «La réalisation du type linguoculturel « héros combattant» dans le discours littéraire» nous abordons les domaines de la linguistique théorique actuelle: le langage et la société, le langage et la culture, études cognitives et axiologiques. La linguoculturologie est une nouvelle branche de la linguistique qui traite le type linguoculturel comme une variété de concept, dont le contenu est une personnalité linguistique typifiée. L’actualité de l’étude du type linguoculturel « héros combattant » est conditionnée par la nécessité d’étudier les particularités du raisonnement et du comportement de la personnalité héroïque comme reflet du caractère national et de valeurs propres à telle ou telle linguoculture, mais également comme personnalité modèle fixant les orientations les valeurs de comportement pour les représentants de la nation. La compréhension de la symbolisation de l’image du héros combattant est importante pour comprendre la mentalité française. Les caractéristiques générales du type étudié et les outils linguistiques, l’objectivant dans le discours littéraire servent de matière de l’étude. L’objectif de la thèse est de réaliser une analyse complexe de la réalisation du discours du type linguoculturel « héros combattant ». Nous nous sommes servi pour notre matériel d’études de fragments de textes de cinq œuvres littéraires... [...] / The PhD dissertation accomplished under the joint guidance and entitled «The Realization of the Linguocultural Type «HERO FIGHTER» in Literary Discourse» discusses a number of issues relevant to current theoretical linguistics: language and society, language and culture, cognitive and axiological studies. Linguocultural studies is a relatively new branch of linguistics which describes the linguocultural type as a variety of the concept whose content is a typified linguistic personality. The topicality and importance of studying the linguocultural type «hero fighter» is conditioned by the necessity to explore the motivation and behaviour peculiarities of a heroic personality both as a reflection of the national character and the values accepted by a particular linguoculture, and as a model personality who establishes the value guidelines of demeanour for the nation. To better understand the French mentality it seems significant to describe the specific character of symbolization of the hero fighter’s image. Various characteristics of the discussed type and the linguistic means objectifying it in literary discourse serve as the subject of the presented research. The aim of the thesis consists in a complex analysis of discourse realization of the linguocultural type «hero fighter». The sources for the language material are the texts of five literary works of the 20th... [...]

Curtin Universitys Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) combine an MPEG-4 compliant Facial Animation Engine (FAE), a Text To Emotional Speech Synthesiser (TTES), and a multi-modal Dialogue Manager (DM), that accesses a Knowledge Base (KB) and outputs Virtual Human Markup Language (VHML) text which drives the TTES and FAE. A user enters a question and an animated ECA responds with a believable and affective voice and actions. However, this response to the user is normally marked up in VHML by the KB developer to produce the required facial gestures and emotional display. A real person does not react by fixed rules but on personality, beliefs, previous experiences, and training. This thesis details the design, implementation and pilot study evaluation of an Affective Personality Model for an ECA. The thesis discusses the Email Agent system that informs a user when they have email. The system, built in Curtins ECA environment, has personality traits of Friendliness, Extraversion and Neuroticism. A small group of participants evaluated the Email Agent system to determine the effectiveness of the implemented personality system. An analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results from questionnaires is presented.

When looking for a future partner, both attractiveness and personality play a part. The purpose of this study was to expand previous findings and investigate the difference between face and body choice and the ratings of body parts importance depending on if a person is considering a long- or short-term relationship. The similarity between self and an ideal partner’s extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness personality traits was also investigated. An additional question researched associations between the choice of body part for women and men and the two types of relationship (short- and long-term). The method was an online survey in two versions: one which asked questions about participant considering a long- and the other short- term relationship. Seventy-seven university students took a part and were randomly assigned to one of the two surveys. After exclusion of three participants, 38 participants were included in the long-term group (18 women and 20 men, mean age 22.66) and 36 in the short-term survey (17 women and 19 men, mean age 21.86). The results revealed that although face was more frequently chosen than body overall there was no significant association between choice of body part and relationship type. This association was not significant either for males or females when gender was analyzed separately. In addition, individuals rated face higher than body in both the long- and short-term relationship groups, and the ratings of face and body did not differ between the two groups. For the long-term relationships, positive and significant correlations between self and ideal partner personality were found for the three traits (agreeableness, extraversion, and conscientiousness), suggesting a similarity between a person and their ideal partner’s personality for these factors. For the short-term the traits agreeableness and conscientiousness were positive and significantly correlated between self and ideal personality, while extraversion was positive, but it did not reach statistical significance. The traits that survived correction for multiple comparisons in this study were long- and short-term agreeableness and long-term extraversion. In sum, the choice of face or body did not depend on the relationship considered (long- or short- term partner). The personality traits between self and ideal partner were similar and significant besides short-term extraversion. / När man letar efter sin framtida partner spelar både attraktion och personlighet roll. Syftet med denna studie var att utöka tidigare forskning och undersöka skillnaden mellan ansikts- och kroppsval samt hur stor betydelse olika kroppsdelar har beroende på om en person överväger en lång- eller kortvarig relation. Likheten mellan själv och en ideal partners extraversion, behaglighet och samvetsgrannhet undersöktes också. En ytterligare fråga utredde samband mellan val av kroppsdel för kvinnor och män med anseende på de två typerna av relationer (kort- och långvarig). Metoden var en webbenkät i två versioner: den ena ställde frågor om hur deltagaren valde sin partner i en långvarig relation och den andra kortvarig relation. Sjuttio-sju universitetsstudenter deltog och de tilldelades slumpmässigt till en av de två enkäter. Efter uteslutning av tre deltagare, 38 deltagare i långtidsgruppen (18 kvinnor och 20 män, medelåldern 22,66) och 36 i korttidsundersökningen (17 kvinnor och 19 män, medelålder 21,86) deltog i studien. Resultaten avslöjade att även om ansikte valdes oftare än kroppen, fanns det inget signifikant samband mellan val av kroppsdel och relationstyp. Detta samband var inte heller signifikant vare sig för män eller kvinnor när kön analyserades separat. Dessutom bedömde individer ansikte högre än kropp i både lång- och kortsiktiga relationsgrupper, och betygen av ansikte och kropp skilde sig inte mellan de två grupperna. För de långtidrelationerna fann man positiva och signifikanta korrelationer mellan själv och den ideala partners personlighet för de tre egenskaperna (behaglighet, extraversion och samvetsgrannhet). Detta tyder på en likhet mellan en person och deras ideala partners personlighet för dessa faktorer. För korttidsförhållanden var egenskaperna behaglighet och samvetsgrannhet positiva och signifikant korrelerade mellan själv och den ideala personligheten, medan extraversion var positiv, men detta nådde inte statistisk signifikans. De egenskaper som har överlevt korrigering för flera jämförelser i denna studie var lång- och kortvarig behaglighet och långvarig extraversion. Valet av ansikte eller kropp berodde inte på vilken relation som ansågs (lång- eller korttidspartner). Personlighetsdragen för sig själv och ideal partner var lika och signifikanta förutom kortvarig extraversion.

Ian Fleming’s debut novel Casino Royale (2015) introduces the iconic character James Bond. The savvy British spy who must save the world from Soviet villain is a cultural icon the world over. Yet not much is known of his personal political leanings. Fleming once claimed that James Bond’s politics lies just left of center. In this essay I analyze where James Bond lies on the left-right political scale by using Cichoka & Dhont’s (2018) “Big-five personality model”.Research has been made about the contextual, historical and political settings of the Bond novels such as Jeremy Black’s (2001) “The politics of James Bond: from Fleming's novels to the big screen” which serves as a complement to this research. Black’s (2001)claims suggest that Britain struggled for dominance after The Second World War as they were financially in ruin and although Britain lost some of its colonies, they still had many territories under their control. However, with the rising power of the Soviet Union, the nationalistic feeling in Britain grew as their reputation as a powerful empire needed to be upheld. Therefore, a need for a strong British symbol grew, which also acted as a reason for why Fleming created James Bond.The essay concludes that James Bond represents a specific part of Great Britain. The analysis has shown James Bond is a product of his time by symbolizing the longing for the return of the great British empire. This is supported by the fact of him scoring low on categories such as Agreeableness and Openness combined with the fact that he harbors anti-Communist beliefs. The analysis show that he acts in a manner that would highlight the colonial days of Britain where their strength had not yet diminished as opposed to the times after the Second World War. As such, the actions of James Bond, together with his explicit views suggest that he lies slightly more towards the right on the political scale and thus, disputesthe claim of Ian Fleming.

The thesis is focused on a preschool-aged children and on possibilities of their personality and social development through the educational project in preschool education. The first, theoretical part, deals with the process of socialization which is broadly developing after the start of preschool education. It also presents pieces of information about educational process in pre-primary school related to the importance of the process of socialization in educational practice as well as in relation to contemporary personality approach and comprehensive integrated approach in preschool education. The main focus remains on the possibilities of educational projects in this area. The second, practical part, explores via observation and questionaire methods the personality expressions of children in social interaction and relationships between children. But first and foremost it verifies the benefits of educational projecting for the possibility of intentional work on personality and social development of children in pre-primary school. KEY WORDS socialization, personality of a preschool child, pre-primary school, preschool education, personality model of preschool education, pre-primary school teacher, educational project

In the thesis on the pro-social traits of workers in helping (assistance-providing) professions I dedicate myself to pro-social behavior, empathy and the basic characteristics of personality issuing from the five-factor personality model {--} The Big Five. Most professionals agree that pro-social behavior and empathy belong among the basic characteristics that assistance-providing professionals should have. An important role is also the personality of the care provider. The listed constructs and connections among them however remain the home environment of empirical research and thereby represent the phenomena regarding which there exist few verified findings. The goal of the paper rests in fining the level of empathy and personal dispositions in accordance with the Big Five model that could influence pro-social behavior in selected groups of assistance-giving professionals. The factors in question are neuroticism, extroversion, and openness to experience, graciousness and conscientiousness. Data collection took place with the help of two psychodiagnostic questionnaires. The IRI questionnaire measures level of empathy and the NEO-FFI questionnaire was used for diagnosing the five personality dimensions. The study was quantitative. The monitored set included respondents from three assistance-giving professions {--} nurses, members of the Czech Republic Fire Rescue Corps, and elementary-school teachers. The results confirmed the hypothesis that care providing workers show higher levels of empathy in comparison to the population average, and the hypothesis that these professionals show a higher level of personality traits that, in an interpersonal context, display positive orientation towards others, that is that they are more extroverted and gracious in comparison with the population average, was refuted. These results make it possible to consider that the relationship between the basic personality dimensions and pro-social tendencies may be mediated by the level of empathy with regard to other psychological constructs and the results of social learning. Conclusions cannot be generalized, due to a relatively small sample group. For this purpose it would be interesting to carry out a professional study, which would exceed, in its scope and possibilities, the usual requirements of a thesis paper.