prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.

Professor, Department of Psychology

Office: 2.45
Joštova 218/10
602 00 Brno

Phone:	+420 549 49 4848
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Field of study: Developmental psychology

How does family environment influence adolescent subjective psychosomatic health? – graduate 2024
Career Development in the Emerging Adulthood Context – graduate 2021

Identity of young Vietnamese women and men of 2. generation living in the Czech republic – graduate 2017
Understanding citizenship and motivation for civic participation – graduate 2015
Identity formation through making commitments – graduate 2012
Attachment and social adaptation in early adolescence – graduate 2011
Risk Behaviour in Adolescence in Context of Peer and Family Relationships – graduate 2009

Mindfulness and spirituality in kontext of cognitive impairment in old age – graduate 2020

Analyzing the interplay of prejudice and system justification motives – ongoing study

Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ attitudes towards people living with HIV and AIDS and their risk perception of HIV – graduate 2017
Psychosocial antecedents of political beliefs in adolescence – graduate 2012
Emotional Expressivity of Adolescents: Connections with Perceived Relationship of Parents and Personality Characteristics – graduate 2012
Planned lesbian family: decision-making during transition to parenthood – graduate 2009
Communication with parents (View of emerging adults) – graduate 2007
School climate as a theoretical and empirical problem – graduate 2007
Representations and evaluation of gender categories – graduate 2007
Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky hráčů počítačových her v adolescenci – graduate 2000

Cultural parenting scripts and their impact on women's actual emotional experiences during motherhood: Analysis of differences between common ideas and expectations and their impact on emotional well-being and identity in the context of family and cultural norms in the Czech and Slovak Republics. – ongoing study
The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing: Agency within the Third and Fourth Ages – graduate 2020