Zdeňka Pechačová
Biographic Data
| ID | 104741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zdeňka Pechačová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zdeňka |
| FAMILY NAME | Pechačová |
| SIGNATURE | PECHAČOVÁ Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6292-9814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Effects of Spouse Support and Hostility on Trajectories of Czech Couples' Marital Satisfaction and Instability
This article examines differences in the role of spouses' hostile and supportive behaviors in predicting level and change in marital satisfaction and marital instability. We propose 2 competing hypotheses. The first hypothesis proposes that hostility is relatively volatile and support is relatively stable, and that change in hostility affects change in marital outcomes over the course of the study, whereas the overall level of support functions t…
Czech Families Ten Years after the Velvet Revolution
The authors report on the experiences of sixteen Czech families ten years after the Velvet Revolution. The families were selected from a four-year panel of 740 households and were interviewed in 1997-98. They talked about their lives during communism and since the reform. They recalled their initial high expectations, followed by facing new challenges and their later reassessment of the reform. Their stories show that the transition toward a mark…
Family Stress During the Czech Transformation
Using three waves of data (1994-1996) from Czech households, we examined the mediating role of family interactions on the relation between 1994 family economic pressure and increased marital instability 1994-1996. The models demonstrate that economic pressure made both husbands and wives irritable, and their tension exacerbated problem behaviors (e.g., drinking and fighting) and depression. Husbands' problem behaviors generated hostility toward t…
Privatization and Income Change in the Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic, the privatization of property and the emergence of a market economy after the fall of communism created a unique 'experiment in nature.' Before 1989, there was virtually no private sector and salary differences between rural and urban workers were relatively small. By the end of 1993, a substantial portion of both the rural and urban labor force had moved into the private sector. Using data from a sample of 443 men who were…
The Perceived Risk of Crime in the Czech Republic
The perceived risk of crime is now an issue in the Czech Republic in connection with its political, economic and social transformation after 1989. People believe that crime has increased and society is less able to control it with the collapse of the former police state. The perceived risk of crime is examined in the Czech Republic with predictors identified by criminologists and suggested by researchers on perceived risk in the United States. Th…
Education and Health in the Czech Republic
Researchers in the United States have found that education and health are related. This relation may be due to the better market position of the educated, their greater store of personal and social resources, and/or their healthier lifestyle. These three connections between education and health are tested in the Czech Republic with three waves of panel data. We regress self-reports of health and physical functioning in 1994 on multiple indicators…
Gender and well-being in the Czech Republic
Economic Change and Change in Well-being in the Czech Republic, with Comparisons to Married Women in the United States
This paper examines the effects of economic change on change in indi-vidual well-being for a panel of Czech respondents during a time of rapid social and economic transformation (1990-91), and compares married Czech women with a sample of married women in the United States. In examining five specific hypothe-ses from the stress-distress tradition in the United States, data from a panel of 192 Czech men and women showed that respondents who were f…
Gender differences in health
Economic Change, Inequality and Distress in the Czech Republic
Social scientists predict that inequality will surely grow during the economic and political restructuring of East Europe. This inequality will result in uneven distress in these societies, according to stress-distress researchers. Furthermore, the relations between inequality of position and distress (depression and anxiety) are mediated by mastery and appraisal; these two elaborated models were tested in this study. The results generally suppor…
Economic Reform in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is changing rapidly and its current economic transformation is a strain on Czech families. In this study, the connection between economic strain and individual well-being is investigated via mailed questionnaires from 234 households in the Czech Republic. For Czech women, depression rises more with economic strain than does hostility, while Czech men become more hostile than depressed in the face of economic strain. For women, …
Gender differences in health
Family Stress During the Czech Transformation
Using three waves of data (1994-1996) from Czech households, we examined the mediating role of family interactions on the relation between 1994 family economic pressure and increased marital instability 1994-1996. The models demonstrate that economic pressure made both husbands and wives irritable, and their tension exacerbated problem behaviors (e.g., drinking and fighting) and depression. Husbands' problem behaviors generated hostility toward t…
Education and Health in the Czech Republic
Researchers in the United States have found that education and health are related. This relation may be due to the better market position of the educated, their greater store of personal and social resources, and/or their healthier lifestyle. These three connections between education and health are tested in the Czech Republic with three waves of panel data. We regress self-reports of health and physical functioning in 1994 on multiple indicators…
Economic Change, Inequality and Distress in the Czech Republic
Social scientists predict that inequality will surely grow during the economic and political restructuring of East Europe. This inequality will result in uneven distress in these societies, according to stress-distress researchers. Furthermore, the relations between inequality of position and distress (depression and anxiety) are mediated by mastery and appraisal; these two elaborated models were tested in this study. The results generally suppor…
Czech Families Ten Years after the Velvet Revolution
The authors report on the experiences of sixteen Czech families ten years after the Velvet Revolution. The families were selected from a four-year panel of 740 households and were interviewed in 1997-98. They talked about their lives during communism and since the reform. They recalled their initial high expectations, followed by facing new challenges and their later reassessment of the reform. Their stories show that the transition toward a mark…
Privatization and Income Change in the Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic, the privatization of property and the emergence of a market economy after the fall of communism created a unique 'experiment in nature.' Before 1989, there was virtually no private sector and salary differences between rural and urban workers were relatively small. By the end of 1993, a substantial portion of both the rural and urban labor force had moved into the private sector. Using data from a sample of 443 men who were…
Gender and well-being in the Czech Republic
Economic Reform in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is changing rapidly and its current economic transformation is a strain on Czech families. In this study, the connection between economic strain and individual well-being is investigated via mailed questionnaires from 234 households in the Czech Republic. For Czech women, depression rises more with economic strain than does hostility, while Czech men become more hostile than depressed in the face of economic strain. For women, …
Effects of Spouse Support and Hostility on Trajectories of Czech Couples' Marital Satisfaction and Instability
This article examines differences in the role of spouses' hostile and supportive behaviors in predicting level and change in marital satisfaction and marital instability. We propose 2 competing hypotheses. The first hypothesis proposes that hostility is relatively volatile and support is relatively stable, and that change in hostility affects change in marital outcomes over the course of the study, whereas the overall level of support functions t…
Economic Change, Inequality and Distress in the Czech Republic
Social scientists predict that inequality will surely grow during the economic and political restructuring of East Europe. This inequality will result in uneven distress in these societies, according to stress-distress researchers. Furthermore, the relations between inequality of position and distress (depression and anxiety) are mediated by mastery and appraisal; these two elaborated models were tested in this study. The results generally suppor…
Economic Reform in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is changing rapidly and its current economic transformation is a strain on Czech families. In this study, the connection between economic strain and individual well-being is investigated via mailed questionnaires from 234 households in the Czech Republic. For Czech women, depression rises more with economic strain than does hostility, while Czech men become more hostile than depressed in the face of economic strain. For women, …
Gender and well-being in the Czech Republic
Economic Change and Change in Well-being in the Czech Republic, with Comparisons to Married Women in the United States
This paper examines the effects of economic change on change in indi-vidual well-being for a panel of Czech respondents during a time of rapid social and economic transformation (1990-91), and compares married Czech women with a sample of married women in the United States. In examining five specific hypothe-ses from the stress-distress tradition in the United States, data from a panel of 192 Czech men and women showed that respondents who were f…
Gender differences in health
The Perceived Risk of Crime in the Czech Republic
The perceived risk of crime is now an issue in the Czech Republic in connection with its political, economic and social transformation after 1989. People believe that crime has increased and society is less able to control it with the collapse of the former police state. The perceived risk of crime is examined in the Czech Republic with predictors identified by criminologists and suggested by researchers on perceived risk in the United States. Th…
Education and Health in the Czech Republic
Researchers in the United States have found that education and health are related. This relation may be due to the better market position of the educated, their greater store of personal and social resources, and/or their healthier lifestyle. These three connections between education and health are tested in the Czech Republic with three waves of panel data. We regress self-reports of health and physical functioning in 1994 on multiple indicators…
Privatization and Income Change in the Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic, the privatization of property and the emergence of a market economy after the fall of communism created a unique 'experiment in nature.' Before 1989, there was virtually no private sector and salary differences between rural and urban workers were relatively small. By the end of 1993, a substantial portion of both the rural and urban labor force had moved into the private sector. Using data from a sample of 443 men who were…
Czech Families Ten Years after the Velvet Revolution
The authors report on the experiences of sixteen Czech families ten years after the Velvet Revolution. The families were selected from a four-year panel of 740 households and were interviewed in 1997-98. They talked about their lives during communism and since the reform. They recalled their initial high expectations, followed by facing new challenges and their later reassessment of the reform. Their stories show that the transition toward a mark…
Family Stress During the Czech Transformation
Using three waves of data (1994-1996) from Czech households, we examined the mediating role of family interactions on the relation between 1994 family economic pressure and increased marital instability 1994-1996. The models demonstrate that economic pressure made both husbands and wives irritable, and their tension exacerbated problem behaviors (e.g., drinking and fighting) and depression. Husbands' problem behaviors generated hostility toward t…
Effects of Spouse Support and Hostility on Trajectories of Czech Couples' Marital Satisfaction and Instability
This article examines differences in the role of spouses' hostile and supportive behaviors in predicting level and change in marital satisfaction and marital instability. We propose 2 competing hypotheses. The first hypothesis proposes that hostility is relatively volatile and support is relatively stable, and that change in hostility affects change in marital outcomes over the course of the study, whereas the overall level of support functions t…
Czech (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works) · Hostility (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works)