Czech and Slovak life scripts: the rare case of two countries that used to be one

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00124626

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476" target="_blank" >10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech and Slovak life scripts: the rare case of two countries that used to be one

Original language description

In this study, we examined cultural life scripts in two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cultural life script is semantic knowledge about culturally shared expectations regarding the order and timing of important life events during an idealised life course. For many decades, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were one country: Czechoslovakia. After a regime change in 1989 and the separation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, their two cultures have been evolving and changing independently from one another, making these countries interesting for examining life scripts. We found that the cultural life scripts provided by Slovak and Czech participants shared 25 event categories, representing 89.3% of event categories in the Czech sample and 80.6% of event categories in the Slovak sample (including the category Other). However, participants also reported unique event categories to each culture (10.7% of unique event categories in the Czech sample and 19.4% in the Slovak sample), reflecting the specific cultural characteristics of these two separate countries. Reported events were listed in the same order they are expected to happen during the life span, were mostly positive, and showed a lifespan distribution consistent with the reminiscence bump. Participants showed higher agreement in the age estimates of positive events, compared to neutral and negative ones. Events were mostly social, in contrast to biological events. All these findings are consistent with the life script literature.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Memory

ISSN

0965-8211

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1204-1218

UT code for WoS article

000575589000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85092139026