Jana Marie Havigerová

University of Hradec Králové · Department of Primary Preprimary and Special Pedagogy

Graphomotor and handwriting disabilities (GD and HD, respectively) could significantly reduce children's quality of life. Effective remediation depends on proper diagnosis; however, current approaches to diagnosis and assessment of GD and HD have several limitations and knowledge gaps, e.g. they are subjective, they do not facilitate identification...

Children’s drawings provide valuable insights into their mind, their development. The study aimed to compare children’s drawings revealing age and sex differences. A total of 204 children aged 5-8 years participated, drawing pictures based on a content-neutral instruction (Draw what’s in your mind.). Theme and frequency analysis were conducted. Res...

Studying medicine makes significant demands both cognitively, emotionally and personally. In the subject Stress and stress management, students get to know the concept of stress, its manifestations and various stress management techniques, some of which are practiced practically. This subject ends with a seminar paper in which students consider how...

Even though the computerised assessment of developmental dysgraphia (DD) based on online handwriting processing has increasing popularity, most of the solutions are based on a setup, where a child writes on a paper fixed to a digitizing tablet that is connected to a computer. Although this approach enables the standard way of writing using an inkin...

The study deals with the graphomotor difficulties of children at the beginning and the end of primary school. The aim is to describe and analyze the occurrence of two manifestations of graphomotor problems: tremor and line continuity. The results of the redrawing of seven graphics were compared. Fifty-one (51) preschoolers and 22 nine graders parti...

Successful acquisition of handwriting skills as a child can have important consequences for later education. Possible graphomotor or handwriting disabilities (GD and HD, respectively) could reduce quality of life but effective remediation depends on proper diagnosis. However, current approaches to Graphomotor and Handwriting Disabilities Rating Sca...

Cílem studie je ověřit vliv inovované výuky na změny emoční inteligence studentek předškolního a elementárního vzdělávání. Sekundárním cílem je předsta­vit čtenáři postupy a přidanou hodnotu používaných vzdělávacích aktivit u studen­tek. Jedná se o intervenční studii za využití kvantitativního přístupu. Intervence spo­čívaly v aktivitách rozvojovéh...

The study is a follow-up to three published anglophone researches examining the relation between the use of linguistic categories and personality characteristics as outlined in the Big Five model, with the purpose of replicating these and elaborating for the Czech language. The comparative research study in Czech focuses on analysis of both grammat...

Cílem studie je zachycení průběžných změn ve vnímání jevů vázaných na pandemickou situaci a distanční vzdělávání učiteli 1. stupně ZŠ. Bylo provedeno opakované CAWI šetření (4 vlny sběru dat od 03/20 do 10/20). Analýzy odpovědí (n = 43) potvrdily, že došlo ke změnám v prožívání učitelů od negativní valence k neutrální či pozitivní (viz např. asocia...

The preschool age is called the golden age of drawing; drawing is a “golden” mediator of literacy development. In this article, we focus on the content the preschool children put into their drawings. The goal of study has been the comparison of preschool children’s drawings with respect to the thematic categories of drawn object, and to identify di...

The paper focuses on the possibilities of quantitative linguistic method application in the context of psychological disciplines, especially psychodiagnostics. It presents the theoretical basis for this approach, as well as documentation and selected results of the Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Formal Parameters of the Text (QPA-FPT...

School-aged children spend 31–60%of their time at school performing handwriting, which is a complex perceptual-motor skill composed of a coordinated combination of fine graphomotor movements. As up to 30% of them experience graphomotor difficulties (GD), timely diagnosis of these difficulties and therapeutic intervention are of great importance. At...

Dysgraphia (D) is a complex specific learning disorder with a prevalence of up to 30%, which is linked with handwriting issues. The factors recognized for assessing these issues are legibility and performance time. Two questionnaires, the Handwriting Proficiency Screening Questionnaire (HPSQ) for teachers and its modification for children (HPSQ-C),...

Graphomotor disabilities (GD) are present in up to 30% of school-aged children and are associated with several symptoms in the field of kinematics. Although the basic kinematic features such as velocity, acceleration, and jerk were proved to effectively quantify these symptoms, a recent body of research identified that the theory of fractional calc...

Graphomotor skills (handwriting) are obviously required for full participation in school activities since students spend up to half of their classroom time engaged in paper and pencil tasks daily. The objective of the presented paper is to quantify the prevalence of graphomotor problems of early adolescent pupils, based on their graphomotor skills...

The study monitors two phenomena of graphomotor problems among children at the beginning and the end of primary education. The study has a character of piloting. A series of seven graphomotor tasks were submited to preschoolers (n = 51) and in the ninth grade (n = 22). For each task, tremor and number of hand move interruptions were considered as i...

This study examines the relationship between language use and psychological characteristics of the communicator. The aim of the study was to find models predicting the depressivity of the writer based on the computational linguistic markers of his/her written text. Respondents’ linguistic fingerprints were traced in four texts of different genres....

Objective Of the many existing health models, models of health behavior are considered optimal for research and application as they focus on concrete forms of behavior that support, maintain, or undermine one’s health, and they accentuate the individual as the initiator of this behavior. Research in this area follows a broad range of concrete parti...

Early fine graphomotor skills are recognized as an important school readiness skill associated with later academic success, and secondarily graphomotor difficulties at school interfere with the entire pupil's personality (in extreme cases, they may lead to serious psychological disorders). Well-timed diagnostics and specialized programs for develop...

Prezentace popisuje fenomén negativních instrukcí (pokyny obsahující ve své formulaci sloveso s prefixem ne-) a jejich potenciální nežádoucí dopady na příjemce těchto instrukcí.

The article deals with the methodology of Mood Induction Procedures (MIPs), and presents the results of a research which employed MIPs to evaluate the influence of four different emotionally demanding situations on emotional self-reflection of 41 university students (men and female, average age 21). The primary aim of the given research (EH-IPCH; 2...

The article deals with the use and description of quantitative analysis of texts for the processing of Czech verbal communication within psycholinguistic disciplines. It focuses on the application of a computer-assisted procedure, which aims to classify and quantify formal characteristics (FPT) of recorded texts. This system enables the analysis of...

Abstrakt This paper analyses the relationship between giftedness and two types of creativity (figural and verbal) in preschool age children. The paper aims to describe and analyze the relationship between the two types of creativity, their relationship to the overall level of giftedness, and to explore the predictive model for the overall level of...

The ways in which instructions are formulated to pupils often fundamentally affect their reactions. The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of negativity on observable manifestations of students. Respondents (N = 20) were exposed to a set of visual stimuli (sets of four images), which were preceded by the command instruction "look at" o...

Monografie shrnuje hlavní výstupy výzkumu podporovaného agenturou GAČR s názvem Chování zdraví podporující a chování zdraví ohrožující: determinanty, modely, konsekvence. Integruje pět studií rozdělených do jednotlivých kapitol, které řeší problematiku vztahů komponent chování souvisejícího se zdravím s vybranými osobnostními charakteristikami, kon...

V posledních letech můžeme pozorovat, jak v naší společnosti téma nadání nabývá na popularitě – přibývá televizních a internetových pořadů zabývajících se otázkami nadání a nadaných, otevírají se třídy a školy pro nadané, množí se publikace (knihy a články) o nadání a nadaných. Ústřední pojem „nadání“ je v hovorové řeči – na rozdíl od odborných stu...

This article deals with applied psychology of handwriting, in particular with the use of graphology. In addition to a basic summary of contemporary approaches in the area, selected researches and foreign studies are evaluated. The article also presents results of the PORP research (Projection of Personality Traits in Handwriting, University of Sout...

The paper deals with the issue of computational psycholinguistic analysis (CPA) and its experimental application in basic psychological and pedagogical assessment. CPA is a new method which may potentially provide interesting, psychologically relevant information about the author of a particular text, regardless of the text's factual (semantic) con...

The paper deals with the theme of common activities of parents with children of preschool age. Attention is focused on activities strengthening the relationship between adult and children. The text presents the results of research. Research questions: What activities do parents together with their preschool children? What activities from the perspe...

The paper deal with the quality of the cooperation between families and school. The aim of the research was to find out how parents evaluate the cooperation between them and a school and how they see their children are prepared for the further studies. Method: non-standardized questionnaire, research sample: (N=176) the parents of children aged 10...

The family as a topic is an essential part of primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic. The present study describes the expressions used by teachers (N=219) to define the term family and the possible implicit theories behind the definitions. A total of 513 expressions were used by the respondents to define family, the ten most frequent ones...

Purpose of study is to verify that the type of teacher's instruction (affirmative or negative induction) affects pupils’ active vocabulary (incidence of negative verbs, i.e. verbs with the prefix ne-). Participants: 24 pupils, 9th grade (age 14-15). Procedure: during standard EDC/HRE lesson all students had the instruction to write essay on charity...

The study focused on differences in information behaviour between intellectually gifted and average children in the pre-literate age. The main objective of the study was to examine how information behaviour, especially in the form of asking questions, is expressed in gifted children in the pre-literate age, and how it differs from information behav...

Interpersonální charakteristiky komunikátora z pohledu kvantitativní psycholingvistické analýzy (předběžné sdělení z výzkumné studie) Abstrakt Příspěvek je zaměřen na zhodnocení možností využití kvantitativní psycholingvistické analýzy v rámci assessmentu interpersonálních (sociálních) a osobnostních charakteristik komunikátora, který je realizován...

Abstrakt: Příspěvek se věnuje experimentální aplikaci počítačové grafometrie, tj. výpočetní optometrické analýzy ru-kopisu, za účelem zjištění základních osobnostních charakteristik jeho pisatele, konkrétně jeho interpersonálních cha-rakteristik. Text představuje výzkum EH-IPCH (2009–2013), který byl realizován v rámci disertační práce autora na Ps...

The curriculum of primary and nursery schools in the Czech Republic includes the subject of family as one of the main themes. Teachers' subjective theories about the family can affect this issue; therefore, this article's attention is focused on the detection of these implicit theories of teachers. This paper describes the results obtained on the b...

The purpose of this paper is to uncover some of the psychological context of information literacy. It focuses on the connection between cognitive dispositions (IQ) and information behavior of preliterate children. The results show that pre-school children are able to extract information on subjects which are interesting for them from all available...

The study deal with the theme of lexical negation - operationalized as the use of verbs with prefix ne- (no-, un- in English). The aim is to verify that the teacher's active dictionary affects pupils’ vocabulary. Research is carried out in the natural conditions of primary school practice. There were created two new research tools: Q-sort of negati...

The aim of this research purpose is to gain information about how the teachers understand the term family. The aim of this contribution is to document inventory descriptors which are used by teachers for description and explanation of this term. he research was participated by teachers from practice of studying a combined study of pre-primary and p...

Lexical track of the family concept. The use of network analysis, frequency analysis and open coding for implicit theories of family research. The publication focuses attention on the topic of implicit understanding of the term "family". Theoretical background is based on an etymological analysis of the concept of family, the George Lakoff´s theory...

One of the priorities of university education within the EU is the preparation of experts for meeting the demands of practice. The level of the acquired knowledge and skills required by practice serves as the chief indicator in these demands. Looking at training of social workers at Czech universities, we perceive an effort to connect the so-called...

The research purpose is to gain information about how the teachers understand the term family. The aim of this contribution is to document the main ideas underlying the teacher's subjective definition of term family. The research was attended by 45 students of a combined form of pre-primary and primary education studies (age: 20 to 52). There were...

Studie je zaměřena na ověření vztahu mezi pohotovostí ke kladení otázek a mírou rozumového nadání a dále je ověřován vztah pohotovosti ke kladení otázek a tvořivosti. Zabýváme se také otázkou, zda jsou rozdíly v pohotovosti ke kladení otázek mezi chlapci a dívkami a mezi žáky 1. a 5. tříd. Výzkumný soubor je tvořen 66 dětmi ve věku od 5,2 do 11,8 l...

The paper deals with the possibility of using a screening method for the assessment of intellectual giftedness at preschool age by two groups of persons-nursery teachers and parents. It presents The Characteristics of Giftedness Scale (CGS) for preschool children from Linda Silverman and its Czech translation that was verified from the aspect of pa...

The focus of this paper is the ability of children to ask questions. Originally a natural manifestation of children's inquisitiveness, this paper focuses on how this ability can be grown and developed at school. The study deals with the ability to question at preschool and early school age (children 5 to 7, N=161). The Ready2ask method had been cre...

Positive psychology is a field of science which offers a wealth of application possibilities in education. It deals with the study and supporting of positive emotions, positive aspects of human personality and the conditions of effective functioning of organizations. Great attention is paid to the identification of character strengths of an individ...

The study focused on differences in information behaviour between intellectually gifted and average children in the pre-literate age. The main objective of the study was to examine how information behaviour, especially in the form of asking questions, is expressed in gifted children in the pre-literate age, and how it differs from information behav...

The paper concerns the results of the pilot study where the aim was to survey opinions, needs and attitudes of parents to primary education. This is a quantitative research, for which purposes a custom designated questionnaire was chosen. The research sample consisted of parents of pupils from the first year of two primary schools, an innovative pr...

The cognitive psychology research state the direct relationship between thinking and other cognitive processes. Change to positive thinking influences change toward experiencing positive emotions, positive interpretation of events, evocation of positive memories. External manifestation of thinking is speech. We start from the position of positive p...

In everyday social contact we commonly use terms like "normal" or "not normal" or "abnormal" to describe another person. What is actually meant by "normal person" that is a question to which we are trying to find the answer in our paper. We present a view of university students (department of teaching and special education, N = 99). The descriptors...

The world of computer games has shown a very rapid progress in the course of the last decade, and computer gaming in adolescents has often (without any sufficient evidence of causality) been associated with socially undesirable phenomena such as violence or various types of addiction (Nešpor and Csémy, 2007; Gentile et al., 2004). Hence, the main r...

The paper deals with the topic of questions and questioning as important components of information behaviour. It describes the basic starting points (the ability to ask questions is innate to man, appearing already in the 18th month, asking questions is associated with other mental functions, especially with thought processes). By analyzing the Cor...

Monografie shrnuje současné poznatky o nadání. Popsáno je pět hledisek: nadání z teoretického hlediska (definice a teorie nadání), z neuropsychologického hlediska (současné poznatky o vztahu mezi nadáním a strukturou a činností mozku), z hlediska genderových studií (současné poznatky o vztahu mezi nadáním a pohlavím), z pedagogického hlediska (souč...

Abstakt: Příspěvek se zabývá aktuálním přístupem v psychologické diagnostice, počítačovou komparační grafometrií a její aplikací. Tato metoda je založená na získávání klíčových dat pomocí opticko-metrické analýzy grafi c-kého materiálu. Mimo obecných parametrů metody je pozornost věnována zejména jejímu diagnostickému potenciálu, resp. studiu souvz...

Abstrakt: Příspěvek je zaměřen na problematiku využití grafometrie jako diagnostické metody. Jedná se zejména o představení možností a limitů její aplikace při hodnocení rukopisu, resp. hodnocení objektivně měřitelných charakteristik rukopisu za pomoci počítačového zpracování komparační obrazovou analýzou, a zařazení získaných poznatků do psychodia...

The article is focused on selected aspects of use of handwritten record in diagnosis of personality traits of its writer. In particular it presents parameters and results of the POPR Research (Projection of Personality Traits in Handwriting), which examined the original methodology of handwriting analysis, so called PORP-GRAF. The “Big Five” person...

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