Publications by authors named "Zuzana Puzova"
Background: The main objective of the study is to analyse the changes in the prevalence of obesity among Czech adolescents between 2002 and 2018 with regard to the socioeconomic status (SES) of adolescents' families and to find SES-separated correlates of adolescents' obesity in 2018.
Methods: A nationally representative sample of 29,879 adolescents (49.6% of them boys) aged 10.
Spirituality and spiritual well-being are connected with many areas of human life. Thus, especially in secular countries, there is a need for reliable validated instruments for measuring spirituality. The Spiritual Well-Being Scale is among the world's most often used tools; therefore, the aim of this study was its psychometrical evaluation in the secular environment of the Czech Republic on a nationally representative sample (n = 1797, mean age: 45.
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- The study investigates trends in parent-adolescent communication in the Czech Republic between 2002 and 2014, highlighting the differences between biological and stepparents.
- An analysis of 16,160 adolescents revealed improved communication with biological parents over time, while communication with stepparents remained static.
- Boys reported easier communication with fathers than girls, and ease of talking to biological mothers increased mainly among boys as adolescents aged.
The aim of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the shortened version of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) in Czech adolescents. A nationally representative sample of 4217 adolescents participated in the 2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey. The internal consistency of the SWBS was assessed using Cronbach's alpha (α) and Mean Inter-Item Correlation (MIIC) values.
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