In her master's thesis, the author researched the quality of relationships in the primary family, life in accordance with values, as well as satisfaction with life. In the theoretical part, she defined and presented the importance of relations and relationships in the family and defined important concepts that shape and influence quality of family relationships. She presented the development of values and morality, as well as the related categories of values and also displayed the problem of crisis of values. In the last part of the theoretical part, she described the satisfaction with life and related psychological well-being and models. To that she also linked the meaning of life, as one of the most important tasks of an individual's life. In the empirical work, the author researched how the quality of relationships in the primary family, life in accordance with values and life satisfaction are connected. Furthermore, she tried to find out whether there are differences in the quality of relationships in the primary family and life in accordance with values between gender. She conducted research on a sample of 212 participants, of which 148 (69.8 %) were women and 64 (30.2 %) were men. The mean age of women was 42.03 years (SD = 13.39) and of men 41.98 years (SD = 13.9). Three questionnaires were used in the research: the Family of Origin Scale (FOS), the Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). Based on the obtained results, the first two hypotheses, which predicted gender differences in the quality of family relationships and life in accordance with values, were refuted. In the case of the next three hypotheses, which related to the connection between the researched categories, the results showed statistically significant correlations, so the hypotheses were confirmed. Based on the analysis, the author concluded that there is a connection between relationships in the primary family, as well as life in accordance with values, and satisfaction with life. The results show that there is a trend that the higher the rating of the quality of relationships in the family of origin, the more life is according to values and there is more satisfaction with life. There is also a trend that the more life is according to values, the more one is satisfied with life. However, no significant differences between the genders were confirmed.
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