Basic informations

Investigator: doc. PhDr. Marek Preiss, Ph.D.
Main recipient: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Research period: 1/1/2019 - 30/6/2022
Total budget:4 282 000 CZK
Supported by: Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)

Annotation

This project is concerned with the attitude toward otherness, while taking into account the personality functioning and the attitudes toward foreigners, minorities, and migrants. It enhances the sociological and anthropological concept of otherness by examining the psychodynamic interpretation of various differences, while putting the emphasis on the unfamiliarity of our own differentness/otherness. Furthermore, it accentuates the explanation of the attitudes toward otherness in terms of fear of losing the center core of one´s identity – the psychic home. Likewise, it builds upon the previous work and enhances the knowledge of otherness by an in-depth recognition of the personality and by measuring the variability of one´s daily attitudes “here and now.” In the first part of the project, participant´s personality is subjected to an in-depth assessment of personality functioning. The second part of the project monitors 5 different groups of participants (xenophobic, xenophilic, personality disorders, high levels of neuroticism, and general population) using experience sampling.