The article is dedicated to reflecting the links between the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the context of Czech social media, specifically on several blogging platforms. The ...processes leading to the climate and pandemic crises are highly intertwined, based in the way humans interact with the environment on a global scale. However, the circumstances and consequences of both crises, as well as the ways they are dealt with, also share common features. The authors identify such contexts as reflected on blogging platforms by undertaking a qualitative analysis of texts from an interpretative phenomenological perspective. Climate scepticism is connected to pandemic scepticism, on the one hand, and to acceptance of the pandemic as a real threat, on the other hand. Conversely, acceptance of the climate crisis can be associated with both acceptance of the pandemic and pandemic scepticism.
Photovoltaics (PV) are an integral part of the climate neutrality transition; aside from reducing fossil fuel consumption, they provide additional and impactful private and societal benefits. When ...purchasing PV, the decision-making of small investors is a complex process. We investigate how households decide to invest in PV on rooftops. From a sample of over 2500 respondents, we found that while personal financial benefits are the primary motivation for acquiring PV plants, other variables, such as production independence and ecological benefits were almost equally important. The factor analysis revealed four latent motivation factors that drive the decision-making: economic, technical, ecological, and surroundings. Additionally, households are not fully homogenous in their decision-making. Education, income, and age influenced the attribution of importance the respondents gave to the specific factors. Conversely, the settlement size was not a strong predictor of the decision-making. The results imply the need for diversified policy design across different groups of investors.
•Decision-making of small investors on photovoltaics is a complex process.•Households find the non-financial benefits almost equally important as financial ones.•Households decide based on economic, technical, ecological and surroundings factors.•Education, income, and age impact the importance respondents give to factors.
•The research on mental health problems and related help seeking among Ukrainian war refugees is almost non-existent.•This study provides insights into the prevalence of depression and anxiety in ...this population group, and it helps to understand their self-recognition and help seeking behaviour.•High prevalence of moderate or more severe depression and anxiety symptoms points to a significant mental health crisis among Ukrainian war refugees.•The lack of recognition of these problems and the alarmingly low rates of seeking mental health support demonstrate a need for mental health literacy programs targeted specifically towards this population.•Such programs should promote awareness, destigmatize mental health issues, equip individuals with knowledge and skills for increasing their mental health wellbeing and resilience, and empower them to seek the adequate support when necessary.
We aimed to screen Ukrainian war refugees (UWR) in Czechia for depression and anxiety, and to assess their recognition of personal mental health problems and related help-seeking.
We conducted a cross-sectional study on a sample of UWR in Czechia. We used PHQ-8 and GAD-7 to screen for depression and anxiety, SELF-I to assess the recognition of respondents' own mental health problems, and a set of questions regarding mental health-related help-seeking.
Our sample consisted of 1,347 UWR. More than 41 % of respondents screened positively for moderate or severe depression and more than 23 % for moderate or severe anxiety. Self-recognition of mental health as well as help-seeking was very low among those who screened positively for moderate or severe depression or anxiety.
Even those UWR who report severe symptoms do not identify themselves as potentially having mental health issues and are not seeking help.
This thesis has an aim to bring theoretical and empirical knowledge, which can be used to improve quality of multi-agent based modelling of public opinion. In the theoretical part is introduced the ...analytical sociology as methodological basis and the theory of the public opinion process as substantive basis. Based on these theories is defined the aim of the empirical work: explore the stability of communication structures leading to emergence of mutual awareness of actors in the public debate. For the research are used news comments and its rating by other users from the news server iDNES.cz. The data are analyzed using social network analysis. It is revealed that a number of characteristics is applicable to multi-agent model. At the same time work brings interesting findings about the internet discussion and public communication. The main empirical finding is that despite large turn-over of discussing individuals, communication structures remain stable over time.
Trust is considered an essential part of a democratic society. That is why it is important to pay attention to it, especially in times of crisis. Some recent studies have introduced a new approach to ...examining attitudes and trust using social network analysis. The aim of our study is to examine the relationship between different types of trust during the coronavirus crisis. Using a sample representative of the adult population of the Czech Republic, our text discusses what the network structure of trust is like during the current pandemic. We find that the institutions or actors that are directly involved in resolving the crisis, such as security institutions and medical professionals, are located at the centre of the network of trust.
The accuracy of pre-election polls has been a hot issue in public discourse for decades. The most visible examples of escalated debates in recent years are the U.S. presidential elections in 2016, ...the Brexit referendum, and the U.K. and Israeli elections in 2015. Public distrust of opinion polls can have far-reaching consequences, as opinion on pre-election surveys can affect the perception of surveys as a whole (Martin, Traugott, & Kennedy, 2005, p. 343).
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