Petr Macek
Biographic Data
| ID | 168356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petr Macek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petr |
| FAMILY NAME | Macek |
| SIGNATURE | MACEK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6977-5811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Volunteering in three cohorts of Czech adolescents: The socialization roles of family, school, and associations
This study aims to identify the proximal socialization processes that are consistently related to adolescents’ volunteering across changing macrosocial conditions. We focused on three groups of Czech adolescents: one living in an early post-communist society (1995) and two living in developed democratic conditions (2010 and 2019). Using structural equation modeling, we analyzed survey-based data from 14-year to 17-year-olds (Ns = 833, 893, and 2,…
Heritage conservation and colour of buildings
Rituals of the Last Farewell in Contemporary Czech Society
Trinitarian Ontology of Freedom: David C. Schindler's Philosophy and Theology of Freedom and Its Political Implications
Trinitarian ontology represents a dynamic and fast-evolving field of research in the scope of philosophical theology with a focus on the influence of Trinitarian doctrine on the development of the Western philosophical tradition. Within this framework, this article aims to make a probe into the specific question of freedom within the Christian tradition and Trinitarian teaching. For this purpose, it examines the notion of freedom as it is present…
That's how the trust began: Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood
Adolescence represents a sensitive period for embarking on trust-based friendships, which lay the foundation for successful close relationships later in life. The recent trust sequence model assumes that the trust process is universal regardless of the developmental stage. However, how the trust process may vary has been under-researched, especially during the critical period of adolescence and in the context of friendships. Therefore, this study…
Time Spent on Daily Activities and Its Association with Life Satisfaction among Czech Adolescents from 1992 to 2019
Life satisfaction, an important precursor of adolescents' well-being, is linked to daily activities. Substantial changes have been noted in adolescents' daily activities over the years, raising the question of possible consequences for life satisfaction. This study aimed to explore changes in adolescents' life satisfaction and their time spent on daily activities (sleeping, engaging in sports, online gaming, school commuting, time spent at school…
Adolescents’ Patterns of Citizenship Orientations and Correlated Contextual Variables: Results From a Two-Wave Study in Five European Countries
Studies on youth participation tend to characterize youth as either active and trustful or as passive and alienated. This cross-national and longitudinal study examines patterns of citizenship orientations characterized by both manifest and latent involvement differentiated by one’s position toward institutional politics (trustful or distrustful) among 1,914 adolescents from five European countries (53.5% female; M age = 16.27). Demographic and p…
Personal Goals and Identity of Czech University Students
This study aimed to examine personal goal setting and identity processes in Czech university students. A total of 1,347 Czech emerging adults completed the questionnaires on goal setting, identity commitment, and identity exploration in various life domains (romantic relationship, education, and work). First, our study showed that in our sample, goals related to education were the most prominent. Second, higher identity commitment or exploration …
Bek, Mikuláš
Is Emerging Adults’ Attachment Preference for the Romantic Partner Transferred From Their Attachment Preferences for Their Mother, Father, and Friends
This study examined whether emerging adults’ attachment preference for their romantic partner is complementary to their attachment preferences for their mother, father, and friends using a cross-sectional research design. Participants were 1,021 emerging adults recruited in the Czech Republic (mean age = 21.46, SD = 1.55) who filled out questionnaires. The attachment preference for the romantic partner correlated inversely with the attachment pre…
Twenty Years After the Velvet Revolution: Shifts in Czech Adolescents’ Perceptions of Family, School, and Society
Families and schools are traditionally seen as substantial socialization agents forming adolescents’ social values and their views of society. Special attention is paid to the question whether the relative importance of these influences remains stable in times of major social changes. In this study, two different generations of Czech middle adolescents are compared: (a) the “post-totalitarian” generation that grew up in the last decade of the com…
Stress With Parents and Peers: How Adolescents From Six Nations Cope With Relationship Stress
This study investigated how 2000 adolescents from middle‐class families in six countries perceived and coped with parent‐related and peer‐related stress. Adolescents from C osta R ica, K orea, and T urkey perceived parent‐related stress to be greater than peer‐related stress, whereas stress levels in both relationship types were similar in the C zech R epublic, G ermany, and P akistan. Female adolescents predominantly reported higher levels of pe…
Adolescents During and After Times of Social Change: The Case of the Czech Republic
The paper introduces a set of four studies focused on adolescents in the Czech Republic. In the first part, authors reflect on the cultural background, the political, social, and psychological factors that have had influence on several generations of adolescents in the period of the communist totalitarian regime. They also describe the social changes brought by the democratization of Czech society since the early 1990s. Second part of the paper r…
Citizenship as given or taken? Meanings and practices among majority and minority youth
Present study sheds more light on the conceptualization of citizenship and civic engagement among majority and minority youth. In order to understand the meanings of citizenship, fourteen focus groups were conducted with young people aged 16–26, with both civically engaged and disengaged young ethnic Czechs, Roma, and Ukrainians. Results suggest that young people understand the citizenship as having multiple dimensions (legal and personal, and in…
Contemporary Czech Emerging Adults: Generation Growing Up in the Period of Social Changes
Similarly to other European countries, in the Czech Republic scholars can identify a developmental stage of emerging adulthood. There has been a lack of studies describing subjective feelings and personal everyday experiences of young Czechs at this age. Results of the quantitative Study 1 indicate that two thirds of respondents experience the present time as the age of feeling in-between. Demographic and social characteristics are related to the…
Adolescent Self-Esteem in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Testing Measurement Equivalence and a Mediation Model
Theorists and researchers have raised the question of whether self-esteem has similar meanings and correlates in individualistic and collectivist cultures. This study examined the cross-cultural equivalence of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in four countries and compared its association with parental warmth and acceptance and depressed mood. Participants were 11th graders in the United States ( n = 422), the Czech Republic ( n = 490), China ( n …
Interrelationships Among Identity Process, Content, and Structure: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
This study was designed to investigate hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth living in three different cultural contexts: the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Results indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities that were rooted in personal self-elements. Youth who used a normative processing style also had well-consolidated id…
Social Class and Adolescents' Beliefs about Justice in Different Social Orders
We report on the justice beliefs of 4508 adolescents from 4 security societies in transition to market economies (i.e., Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia) and from 2 opportunity societies (Australia and the United States). Using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), justice beliefs were examined as a function of type of society, social class, and gender. In the security societies, working‐class teens wanted the state and s…
Postcommunist Societies in Times of Transition: Perceptions of Change Among Adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe
This article examines adolescents' perceptions of the economic changes and the justice of the new “social contract” in Eastern/Central Europe. Focusing on three countries, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, it explores the social, political, and economic environments in which adolescents came of age in 1990. Surveys conducted among high school students in each country during 1995 tapped their perceptions of the economy, the local communit…
Social Representations of Human Rights Amongst Czech University Students
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a general legislative framework for democratic societies. Studying the social representations of these basic human rights helps to explain how people understand and assess the basic rights and how these rights relate to everyday life. Over 400 Czech university students rated the 30 articles of the Declaration of Human Rights on various scales (degree of understanding, personal relevance, consequences f…
Czech Adolescents at the Beginning of the 90s: How they use their time
This report includes some results of Czech part of the ‘Euronet Pilot Study’. The sample consisted of 257 subjects, 114 girls and 143 boys, 13–18 years of age. At first, socio-historical background of Czech adolescents is briefly described. The adolescents were asked to describe their activities during a regular school day. Descriptive results for the complete Czech sample are presented and gender and age difference are described. An average Czec…
Adolescent Self-Esteem in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Testing Measurement Equivalence and a Mediation Model
Theorists and researchers have raised the question of whether self-esteem has similar meanings and correlates in individualistic and collectivist cultures. This study examined the cross-cultural equivalence of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in four countries and compared its association with parental warmth and acceptance and depressed mood. Participants were 11th graders in the United States ( n = 422), the Czech Republic ( n = 490), China ( n …
Contemporary Czech Emerging Adults: Generation Growing Up in the Period of Social Changes
Similarly to other European countries, in the Czech Republic scholars can identify a developmental stage of emerging adulthood. There has been a lack of studies describing subjective feelings and personal everyday experiences of young Czechs at this age. Results of the quantitative Study 1 indicate that two thirds of respondents experience the present time as the age of feeling in-between. Demographic and social characteristics are related to the…
Interrelationships Among Identity Process, Content, and Structure: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
This study was designed to investigate hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth living in three different cultural contexts: the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Results indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities that were rooted in personal self-elements. Youth who used a normative processing style also had well-consolidated id…
Social Class and Adolescents' Beliefs about Justice in Different Social Orders
We report on the justice beliefs of 4508 adolescents from 4 security societies in transition to market economies (i.e., Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia) and from 2 opportunity societies (Australia and the United States). Using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), justice beliefs were examined as a function of type of society, social class, and gender. In the security societies, working‐class teens wanted the state and s…
Adolescents’ Patterns of Citizenship Orientations and Correlated Contextual Variables: Results From a Two-Wave Study in Five European Countries
Studies on youth participation tend to characterize youth as either active and trustful or as passive and alienated. This cross-national and longitudinal study examines patterns of citizenship orientations characterized by both manifest and latent involvement differentiated by one’s position toward institutional politics (trustful or distrustful) among 1,914 adolescents from five European countries (53.5% female; M age = 16.27). Demographic and p…
Postcommunist Societies in Times of Transition: Perceptions of Change Among Adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe
This article examines adolescents' perceptions of the economic changes and the justice of the new “social contract” in Eastern/Central Europe. Focusing on three countries, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, it explores the social, political, and economic environments in which adolescents came of age in 1990. Surveys conducted among high school students in each country during 1995 tapped their perceptions of the economy, the local communit…
That's how the trust began: Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood
Adolescence represents a sensitive period for embarking on trust-based friendships, which lay the foundation for successful close relationships later in life. The recent trust sequence model assumes that the trust process is universal regardless of the developmental stage. However, how the trust process may vary has been under-researched, especially during the critical period of adolescence and in the context of friendships. Therefore, this study…
Twenty Years After the Velvet Revolution: Shifts in Czech Adolescents’ Perceptions of Family, School, and Society
Families and schools are traditionally seen as substantial socialization agents forming adolescents’ social values and their views of society. Special attention is paid to the question whether the relative importance of these influences remains stable in times of major social changes. In this study, two different generations of Czech middle adolescents are compared: (a) the “post-totalitarian” generation that grew up in the last decade of the com…
Stress With Parents and Peers: How Adolescents From Six Nations Cope With Relationship Stress
This study investigated how 2000 adolescents from middle‐class families in six countries perceived and coped with parent‐related and peer‐related stress. Adolescents from C osta R ica, K orea, and T urkey perceived parent‐related stress to be greater than peer‐related stress, whereas stress levels in both relationship types were similar in the C zech R epublic, G ermany, and P akistan. Female adolescents predominantly reported higher levels of pe…
Adolescents During and After Times of Social Change: The Case of the Czech Republic
The paper introduces a set of four studies focused on adolescents in the Czech Republic. In the first part, authors reflect on the cultural background, the political, social, and psychological factors that have had influence on several generations of adolescents in the period of the communist totalitarian regime. They also describe the social changes brought by the democratization of Czech society since the early 1990s. Second part of the paper r…
Czech Adolescents at the Beginning of the 90s: How they use their time
This report includes some results of Czech part of the ‘Euronet Pilot Study’. The sample consisted of 257 subjects, 114 girls and 143 boys, 13–18 years of age. At first, socio-historical background of Czech adolescents is briefly described. The adolescents were asked to describe their activities during a regular school day. Descriptive results for the complete Czech sample are presented and gender and age difference are described. An average Czec…
Social Representations of Human Rights Amongst Czech University Students
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a general legislative framework for democratic societies. Studying the social representations of these basic human rights helps to explain how people understand and assess the basic rights and how these rights relate to everyday life. Over 400 Czech university students rated the 30 articles of the Declaration of Human Rights on various scales (degree of understanding, personal relevance, consequences f…
Postcommunist Societies in Times of Transition: Perceptions of Change Among Adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe
This article examines adolescents' perceptions of the economic changes and the justice of the new “social contract” in Eastern/Central Europe. Focusing on three countries, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, it explores the social, political, and economic environments in which adolescents came of age in 1990. Surveys conducted among high school students in each country during 1995 tapped their perceptions of the economy, the local communit…
Interrelationships Among Identity Process, Content, and Structure: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
This study was designed to investigate hypothesized relationships among identity process, content, and structure with youth living in three different cultural contexts: the United States, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Results indicated that youth who used an informational identity processing style had well-structured identities that were rooted in personal self-elements. Youth who used a normative processing style also had well-consolidated id…
Social Class and Adolescents' Beliefs about Justice in Different Social Orders
We report on the justice beliefs of 4508 adolescents from 4 security societies in transition to market economies (i.e., Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia) and from 2 opportunity societies (Australia and the United States). Using a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), justice beliefs were examined as a function of type of society, social class, and gender. In the security societies, working‐class teens wanted the state and s…
Adolescent Self-Esteem in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Testing Measurement Equivalence and a Mediation Model
Theorists and researchers have raised the question of whether self-esteem has similar meanings and correlates in individualistic and collectivist cultures. This study examined the cross-cultural equivalence of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in four countries and compared its association with parental warmth and acceptance and depressed mood. Participants were 11th graders in the United States ( n = 422), the Czech Republic ( n = 490), China ( n …
Contemporary Czech Emerging Adults: Generation Growing Up in the Period of Social Changes
Similarly to other European countries, in the Czech Republic scholars can identify a developmental stage of emerging adulthood. There has been a lack of studies describing subjective feelings and personal everyday experiences of young Czechs at this age. Results of the quantitative Study 1 indicate that two thirds of respondents experience the present time as the age of feeling in-between. Demographic and social characteristics are related to the…
Citizenship as given or taken? Meanings and practices among majority and minority youth
Present study sheds more light on the conceptualization of citizenship and civic engagement among majority and minority youth. In order to understand the meanings of citizenship, fourteen focus groups were conducted with young people aged 16–26, with both civically engaged and disengaged young ethnic Czechs, Roma, and Ukrainians. Results suggest that young people understand the citizenship as having multiple dimensions (legal and personal, and in…
Stress With Parents and Peers: How Adolescents From Six Nations Cope With Relationship Stress
This study investigated how 2000 adolescents from middle‐class families in six countries perceived and coped with parent‐related and peer‐related stress. Adolescents from C osta R ica, K orea, and T urkey perceived parent‐related stress to be greater than peer‐related stress, whereas stress levels in both relationship types were similar in the C zech R epublic, G ermany, and P akistan. Female adolescents predominantly reported higher levels of pe…
Adolescents During and After Times of Social Change: The Case of the Czech Republic
The paper introduces a set of four studies focused on adolescents in the Czech Republic. In the first part, authors reflect on the cultural background, the political, social, and psychological factors that have had influence on several generations of adolescents in the period of the communist totalitarian regime. They also describe the social changes brought by the democratization of Czech society since the early 1990s. Second part of the paper r…
Is Emerging Adults’ Attachment Preference for the Romantic Partner Transferred From Their Attachment Preferences for Their Mother, Father, and Friends
This study examined whether emerging adults’ attachment preference for their romantic partner is complementary to their attachment preferences for their mother, father, and friends using a cross-sectional research design. Participants were 1,021 emerging adults recruited in the Czech Republic (mean age = 21.46, SD = 1.55) who filled out questionnaires. The attachment preference for the romantic partner correlated inversely with the attachment pre…
Twenty Years After the Velvet Revolution: Shifts in Czech Adolescents’ Perceptions of Family, School, and Society
Families and schools are traditionally seen as substantial socialization agents forming adolescents’ social values and their views of society. Special attention is paid to the question whether the relative importance of these influences remains stable in times of major social changes. In this study, two different generations of Czech middle adolescents are compared: (a) the “post-totalitarian” generation that grew up in the last decade of the com…
Bek, Mikuláš
Personal Goals and Identity of Czech University Students
This study aimed to examine personal goal setting and identity processes in Czech university students. A total of 1,347 Czech emerging adults completed the questionnaires on goal setting, identity commitment, and identity exploration in various life domains (romantic relationship, education, and work). First, our study showed that in our sample, goals related to education were the most prominent. Second, higher identity commitment or exploration …
Adolescents’ Patterns of Citizenship Orientations and Correlated Contextual Variables: Results From a Two-Wave Study in Five European Countries
Studies on youth participation tend to characterize youth as either active and trustful or as passive and alienated. This cross-national and longitudinal study examines patterns of citizenship orientations characterized by both manifest and latent involvement differentiated by one’s position toward institutional politics (trustful or distrustful) among 1,914 adolescents from five European countries (53.5% female; M age = 16.27). Demographic and p…
Time Spent on Daily Activities and Its Association with Life Satisfaction among Czech Adolescents from 1992 to 2019
Life satisfaction, an important precursor of adolescents' well-being, is linked to daily activities. Substantial changes have been noted in adolescents' daily activities over the years, raising the question of possible consequences for life satisfaction. This study aimed to explore changes in adolescents' life satisfaction and their time spent on daily activities (sleeping, engaging in sports, online gaming, school commuting, time spent at school…
Volunteering in three cohorts of Czech adolescents: The socialization roles of family, school, and associations
This study aims to identify the proximal socialization processes that are consistently related to adolescents’ volunteering across changing macrosocial conditions. We focused on three groups of Czech adolescents: one living in an early post-communist society (1995) and two living in developed democratic conditions (2010 and 2019). Using structural equation modeling, we analyzed survey-based data from 14-year to 17-year-olds (Ns = 833, 893, and 2,…
Heritage conservation and colour of buildings
Rituals of the Last Farewell in Contemporary Czech Society
Trinitarian Ontology of Freedom: David C. Schindler's Philosophy and Theology of Freedom and Its Political Implications
Trinitarian ontology represents a dynamic and fast-evolving field of research in the scope of philosophical theology with a focus on the influence of Trinitarian doctrine on the development of the Western philosophical tradition. Within this framework, this article aims to make a probe into the specific question of freedom within the Christian tradition and Trinitarian teaching. For this purpose, it examines the notion of freedom as it is present…
That's how the trust began: Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood
Adolescence represents a sensitive period for embarking on trust-based friendships, which lay the foundation for successful close relationships later in life. The recent trust sequence model assumes that the trust process is universal regardless of the developmental stage. However, how the trust process may vary has been under-researched, especially during the critical period of adolescence and in the context of friendships. Therefore, this study…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Czech (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (5 works)