Radek Trnka
Biographic Data
| ID | 6181991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radek Trnka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radek |
| FAMILY NAME | Trnka |
| SIGNATURE | TRNKA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prague College of Psychosocial Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3731-468X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Midlife physical activity as a link to better mental health, functional status, and episodic memory in old-old women
Midlife physical activity (PA) has been established as one of the modifiable lifestyle factors decreasing the risk of developing dementia. It is unclear whether it also helps with maintaining youthful episodic memory until very old age or becoming a SuperAger. SuperAger (SA) is a person aged 80+ with the episodic memory ability of 60-years old and age-appropriate performance in other cognitive domains. This study examined the association between …
Informal Collaborative Engagement Supports Professional Preparedness in Clinical Child Psychologists
This study explored how prepared clinical child psychologists feel they are to support children with mental health issues, given the global increasing prevalence of these disorders and the need for skilled, empathetic and evidence-based care. Semi-structured interviews with ten clinical child psychologists were analysed using thematic analysis, following the DIPEx methodology, to explore their professional preparedness in working with children wi…
Unveiling the Social Life of SuperAgers
SuperAging deserves special attention from researchers in the field of the psychology of aging, because it denotes the preservation of multiple cognitive abilities in very old age. Currently, very little is known about lifestyle factors that could be related to SuperAging. The main goal of the present narrative review was to bring together available evidence involving social factors related to SuperAging and to target avenues for future research.…
Subjective perception of life stress events affects long-term pain
The subjective meaning of stress events on one's life has an impact on the trajectory between childhood trauma and health and acts as a moderator. Resilience may buffer the negative effect of trauma on later long-term pain
Age-related differences in valence and arousal of emotion concepts
Emotion concepts are representations that enable people to make sense of their own and others’ emotions. The present study, theoretically driven by the conceptual act theory, explores the overall spectrum of emotion concepts in older adults and compares them with the emotion concepts of younger adults. Data from 178 older adults (⩾55 years) and 176 younger adults (20–30 years) were collected using the Semantic Emotion Space Assessment task. The a…
New materialism and postmodern subject models fail to explain human memory and self-awareness
Tobias-Renstrøm and Køppe (2020) show the several conceptual limits that new materialism and postmodern subject models have for psychological theory and research. The present study continues this discussion and argues that the applicability of the ideas of quantum-inspired new materialism depends on the theoretical perspectives that we consider for analysis: be it the first-person perspective referring to the subjective experience of a human subj…
Sensory Processing Sensitivity Questionnaire
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a common human neurobiological trait that is related to many areas of human life. This trait has recently received increased public interest. However, solid scientific research on SPS is lagging behind. Progress in this area is also hindered by a lack of comprehensive research tools suitable for a rapid assessment of SPS. Thus, the aim of this study was to offer a newly developed tool, the Sensory Processin…
Emotional Creativity
Emotional creativity (EC) is a pattern of cognitive abilities and personality traits related to originality and appropriateness in emotional experience. EC has been found to be related to various constructs across different fields of psychology during the past 30 years, but a comprehensive examination of previous research is still lacking. The goal of this review is to explore the reliability of use of the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) acr…
Fear, anger, and media-induced trauma during the outbreak of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic
Fear, anger and hopelessness were the most frequent traumatic emotional responses in the general public during the first stage of outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Czech Republic ( N = 1,000). The four most frequent categories of fear were determined: (a) fear of the negative impact on household finances, (b) fear of the negative impact on the household finances of significant others, (c) fear of the unavailability of health care, and (d) …
Provision of Psychotherapy during the Covid-19 Pandemic among Czech, German and Slovak Psychotherapists
Psychotherapists around the world are facing an unprecedented situation with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). To combat the rapid spread of the virus, direct contact with others has to be avoided when possible. Therefore, remote psychotherapy provides a valuable option to continue mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study investigated the fear of psychotherapists to become infected with COVID-19 d…
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Guilt and Shame Experience Scale (GSES) on a Representative Adolescent Sample
The Guilt and Shame Experience Scale (GSES) is a new, brief self-report instrument for assessing experiences of guilt and shame. It includes two distinct scales: feelings of shame and feelings of guilt. The present report focuses on results from a final validation study using a nationally representative sample of 7899 adolescents (M age = 14.5 ± 1.1 years, 50.7% boys) who participated in the 2014 Health Behavior in School-aged Children study. For…
Are Adolescent Religious Attendance/Spirituality Associated with Family Characteristics
The family environment is associated with religiosity and spirituality as well as many aspects of adolescent lives, including their health behaviour. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess family environment associations with adolescent religious attendance (RA), i.e., weekly participation in religious services, and spirituality in a highly secular country. A nationally representative sample ( n = 4182, 14.4 ± 1.1 years, 48.6% boys) of Cz…
Social work leaders’ authenticity positively influences their dispositions toward ethical decision-making
The personality traits of social work leaders are important factors influencing ethical decision-making in organisations. The lack of empirical evidence with regard to the relationship between personal authenticity and ethical decision-making in social work stimulated the present study. Two hundred and thirty-eight leaders (81.9% female) from organisations working in various fields of social work were given the Authenticity Scale, Managerial Ethi…
Understanding death, suicide and self-injury among adherents of the emo youth subculture
Emo youth subculture bases its subcultural identification mostly on symbols of death, dying, suicide, and other kinds of morbid content. The main goal of the present study was to explore attitudes toward suicidal behavior and self-injury in emo adolescents. Semistructured in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 emo adherents, accompanied by the analysis of emo Web discussion forums. Participants reported attitudes including high ac…
Neuroticism and Valence of Negative Emotional Concepts
This study explored the relationships of neuroticism with subjective assessments of 10 discrete negative emotions. One hundred eighty seven university students from 19 to 34 years (males = 85, females = 102) completed the Eysenck Personality Scales. Further, they evaluated the valence of 10 given negative emotions - disgust, anger, sadness, fear, contempt, hate, disappointment, jealousy, envy and guilt. Highly neurotic individuals evaluated negat…
Social work leaders’ authenticity positively influences their dispositions toward ethical decision-making
The personality traits of social work leaders are important factors influencing ethical decision-making in organisations. The lack of empirical evidence with regard to the relationship between personal authenticity and ethical decision-making in social work stimulated the present study. Two hundred and thirty-eight leaders (81.9% female) from organisations working in various fields of social work were given the Authenticity Scale, Managerial Ethi…
Understanding death, suicide and self-injury among adherents of the emo youth subculture
Emo youth subculture bases its subcultural identification mostly on symbols of death, dying, suicide, and other kinds of morbid content. The main goal of the present study was to explore attitudes toward suicidal behavior and self-injury in emo adolescents. Semistructured in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 emo adherents, accompanied by the analysis of emo Web discussion forums. Participants reported attitudes including high ac…
Neuroticism and Valence of Negative Emotional Concepts
This study explored the relationships of neuroticism with subjective assessments of 10 discrete negative emotions. One hundred eighty seven university students from 19 to 34 years (males = 85, females = 102) completed the Eysenck Personality Scales. Further, they evaluated the valence of 10 given negative emotions - disgust, anger, sadness, fear, contempt, hate, disappointment, jealousy, envy and guilt. Highly neurotic individuals evaluated negat…
Understanding death, suicide and self-injury among adherents of the emo youth subculture
Emo youth subculture bases its subcultural identification mostly on symbols of death, dying, suicide, and other kinds of morbid content. The main goal of the present study was to explore attitudes toward suicidal behavior and self-injury in emo adolescents. Semistructured in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 emo adherents, accompanied by the analysis of emo Web discussion forums. Participants reported attitudes including high ac…
Are Adolescent Religious Attendance/Spirituality Associated with Family Characteristics
The family environment is associated with religiosity and spirituality as well as many aspects of adolescent lives, including their health behaviour. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess family environment associations with adolescent religious attendance (RA), i.e., weekly participation in religious services, and spirituality in a highly secular country. A nationally representative sample ( n = 4182, 14.4 ± 1.1 years, 48.6% boys) of Cz…
Social work leaders’ authenticity positively influences their dispositions toward ethical decision-making
The personality traits of social work leaders are important factors influencing ethical decision-making in organisations. The lack of empirical evidence with regard to the relationship between personal authenticity and ethical decision-making in social work stimulated the present study. Two hundred and thirty-eight leaders (81.9% female) from organisations working in various fields of social work were given the Authenticity Scale, Managerial Ethi…
Emotional Creativity
Emotional creativity (EC) is a pattern of cognitive abilities and personality traits related to originality and appropriateness in emotional experience. EC has been found to be related to various constructs across different fields of psychology during the past 30 years, but a comprehensive examination of previous research is still lacking. The goal of this review is to explore the reliability of use of the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) acr…
Fear, anger, and media-induced trauma during the outbreak of Covid-19 in the Czech Republic
Fear, anger and hopelessness were the most frequent traumatic emotional responses in the general public during the first stage of outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in the Czech Republic ( N = 1,000). The four most frequent categories of fear were determined: (a) fear of the negative impact on household finances, (b) fear of the negative impact on the household finances of significant others, (c) fear of the unavailability of health care, and (d) …
Provision of Psychotherapy during the Covid-19 Pandemic among Czech, German and Slovak Psychotherapists
Psychotherapists around the world are facing an unprecedented situation with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). To combat the rapid spread of the virus, direct contact with others has to be avoided when possible. Therefore, remote psychotherapy provides a valuable option to continue mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study investigated the fear of psychotherapists to become infected with COVID-19 d…
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Guilt and Shame Experience Scale (GSES) on a Representative Adolescent Sample
The Guilt and Shame Experience Scale (GSES) is a new, brief self-report instrument for assessing experiences of guilt and shame. It includes two distinct scales: feelings of shame and feelings of guilt. The present report focuses on results from a final validation study using a nationally representative sample of 7899 adolescents (M age = 14.5 ± 1.1 years, 50.7% boys) who participated in the 2014 Health Behavior in School-aged Children study. For…
New materialism and postmodern subject models fail to explain human memory and self-awareness
Tobias-Renstrøm and Køppe (2020) show the several conceptual limits that new materialism and postmodern subject models have for psychological theory and research. The present study continues this discussion and argues that the applicability of the ideas of quantum-inspired new materialism depends on the theoretical perspectives that we consider for analysis: be it the first-person perspective referring to the subjective experience of a human subj…
Sensory Processing Sensitivity Questionnaire
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a common human neurobiological trait that is related to many areas of human life. This trait has recently received increased public interest. However, solid scientific research on SPS is lagging behind. Progress in this area is also hindered by a lack of comprehensive research tools suitable for a rapid assessment of SPS. Thus, the aim of this study was to offer a newly developed tool, the Sensory Processin…
Subjective perception of life stress events affects long-term pain
The subjective meaning of stress events on one's life has an impact on the trajectory between childhood trauma and health and acts as a moderator. Resilience may buffer the negative effect of trauma on later long-term pain
Age-related differences in valence and arousal of emotion concepts
Emotion concepts are representations that enable people to make sense of their own and others’ emotions. The present study, theoretically driven by the conceptual act theory, explores the overall spectrum of emotion concepts in older adults and compares them with the emotion concepts of younger adults. Data from 178 older adults (⩾55 years) and 176 younger adults (20–30 years) were collected using the Semantic Emotion Space Assessment task. The a…
Unveiling the Social Life of SuperAgers
SuperAging deserves special attention from researchers in the field of the psychology of aging, because it denotes the preservation of multiple cognitive abilities in very old age. Currently, very little is known about lifestyle factors that could be related to SuperAging. The main goal of the present narrative review was to bring together available evidence involving social factors related to SuperAging and to target avenues for future research.…
Informal Collaborative Engagement Supports Professional Preparedness in Clinical Child Psychologists
This study explored how prepared clinical child psychologists feel they are to support children with mental health issues, given the global increasing prevalence of these disorders and the need for skilled, empathetic and evidence-based care. Semi-structured interviews with ten clinical child psychologists were analysed using thematic analysis, following the DIPEx methodology, to explore their professional preparedness in working with children wi…
Midlife physical activity as a link to better mental health, functional status, and episodic memory in old-old women
Midlife physical activity (PA) has been established as one of the modifiable lifestyle factors decreasing the risk of developing dementia. It is unclear whether it also helps with maintaining youthful episodic memory until very old age or becoming a SuperAger. SuperAger (SA) is a person aged 80+ with the episodic memory ability of 60-years old and age-appropriate performance in other cognitive domains. This study examined the association between …
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works)