The Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Family is a specialized research institute at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University. Our research focus stems from a long-lasting interest in the topics of developmental, social and educational psychology, psychology of personality and psychology in the media. Strong methodological and statistical background allows us to perform quality basic and applied research and develop new psychodiagnostic methods.

We cooperate with the Department of Psychology at the FSS, Masaryk University. We participate in the teaching of students and at the same time, create conditions and opportunities for their involvement in existing research projects.

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Video instead of text? The authors tested a new way of asking questions in online questionnaires

Online questionnaires are now a standard part of research in psychology, sociology and other social sciences. Yet their design has not changed much over the past decade - most still rely on text-based items that the participant reads and completes. But in an era when the vast majority of content on the internet consists of short videos, it begs the question: what if, instead of reading the items, the participant watched a video where the question was read by a person on the screen? However, such a format has not yet been thoroughly tested in the field of psychological scales. A new study by Adam Stroil and Hynek Cígler addresses this research gap.

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