Public attitude towards schizophrenic people is mainly influenced by what the media presents them. Especially in cases when the public has some personal experience with people with schizophrenia. This thesis tries to find out how Czech media present people with schizophrenia. The work is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. Beginning of the theoretical part focuses on historical context and the depiction of mental illnesses in the past. Then there follows a chapter which deals with the disease itself, therefore, the main symptoms of schizophrenia, diagnostic and classification, as well as treatment options of schizophrenia. Another chapter deals with the system of health care for people with mental illness. There are also described some possibilities of psychiatric rehabilitation and community care, as well as describing what is the state of mental health care in the Czech Republic and I try to present the information regarding very discussed question of the reform of psychiatric care. In the theoretical part the attention is focused on the society and its perception of people with schizophrenia, there are explained especially concepts as stigma, stigmatization, self-stigmatization. The last chapter covers mass media, their definition and the influence they have. In the final section of the theoretical part there are mentioned stereotypes and prejudices that appear in media in connection with people with schizophrenia and mental illness in general. The thesis main aim is to determine how the Czech media present people with schizophrenia. In the practical part I used a qualitative research strategy, which was implemented through content analysis of documents. The analysis works with articles found in newspapers "Blesk" and "Mladá fronta Dnes", these articles were observed in the period from January to December 2015. The choice of the above mentioned newspapers was not random, there are two most favourite newspapers in the Czech Republic. Articles were obtained through a database Anopress IT, in which I looked for key words "schizophrenia", "schizophrenic". On the basis of those keywords there have been 33 articles in Blesk found, but one of them was excluded from the research, it contained the keyword, but the article was out of topic. In the news Mlada fronta Dnes have been found 89 articles in total, but 32 of them were excluded because there were just a very little about our topic. In total I have found 122 articles, 33 articles were excluded and I used 89 articles in conclusion. In articles I looked for connections to sort them into appropriate categories. The data analysis is based on the method of clustering according to Miovsky. Based on the processed results there was confirmed that the information that appeared in Blesk and Mlada fronta Dnes are subject to stereotyping. In the reporting period, people with schizophrenia were presented mainly negative and related to violence, aggression and negative emotions in particular.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:251981 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | FANFULOVÁ, Iveta |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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