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Old age is associated with a number of significant losses, the loss of spouse being regarded as the most important. Seniors respond to the death of their life partners in various ways. Even though the grieving process is a highly individual matter and the manifestations of grief are multi-determined, in accordance with the existing knowledge, it is possible to postulate a hypothesis that siblinghood in old age may be an important salutoprotective factor and a source of natural (informal) social support for widowed...

Leisure time activities pursued by children are influenced by many factors, and a specific role is played by parents. The paper deals with the outcomes of the research of the relationship between leisure activities pursued by todayВ’s children and leisure activities pursued by their parents in their childhood. The research was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017 and focused on children between the ages of 11 and 15. One of the key research questions was: In what way and to what extent the parentsВ’ ...

During our life, our values and value orientation are shaped by many factors. Values form a dynamic structure of beliefs which, in many ways and with varying intensity, influence our everyday decision making. In the research carried out in 2016, we asked if and how the value orientation is influenced by the economic situation of the family the person lives in. Since the economic situation of the family plays an important role in many areas of our life, we assumed it also had a significant role in the area of value...