Tidigare forskning har visat att en ra?dsla och oro o?ver att missa tillfa?llen fo?r social interaktion eller va?rdefulla och allma?nt tillfredssta?llande upplevelser a?r ett utbrett fenomen, och att detta a?r direkt kopplad till det o?kade anva?ndandet av modern teknologi sa? som den smarta telefonen och sociala na?tverk som Facebook, Twitter och Instagram. Da? de fo?rser anva?ndare med konstanta interaktionsmo?jligheter och alternativ till ens tillfa?lliga livssituation upplevs en blandning av positiva och negativa ka?nslor vilket go?r att anva?ndaren upplever ambivalens info?r sitt anva?ndarskap. I denna studie intervjuas unga vuxna i a?ldrarna 21-27 i Sverige i fokusgrupper.

This study examines the connection between social capital and involvement within voluntary associations; involvement is defined either as being a member in an association or a member who has some kind of assignment in an association. The study also examines if there is a difference between two social economic groups regarding the attainment and transformation of social capital through being involved in a voluntary association.Social capital is defined as social trust and the willingness of collective action.The result of the research shows there is a slight connection between the involvement in voluntary associations and social capital. It shows that people who are members of a voluntary association often have higher social capital than those who are not members of any voluntary association at all. The study also shows that there is a difference in attainment of social capital between those who have some kind of assignment in a voluntary association and general members.When studying social capital and involvement in voluntary associations it is also of interest to take social class into the analysis, because the study shows that people with a lower education had increased social capital when they were members in an association compared to the members with a higher education..

The purpose of our study is to describe and understand whether, and if so, how social workers in school and in social services construct computer gaming adolescents as a social problem. We chose social workers who encounter adolescents with different problems. We have conducted qualitative interviews with vignettes to capture the social workers' reasoning about computer gaming adolescents and how they handle this in their work. The study shows that all social workers we interviewed had encountered adolescents with troubling computer gaming habits. In the study, all agree that computer gaming becomes a problem when it leads to deviant behaviour such as not going to school, staying up all night and so on.

På några sekunder förändras livet när någon i ens närhet drabbas av hjärtinfarkt. Sjuksköterskor möter i sitt arbete närstående till drabbade. Studier visar att sjuksköterskor upplever svårigheter att möta närstående och det saknas kunskap om deras upplevelser, vilka behov de har och vilket bemötande de önskar få. Syftet är att beskriva närståendes upplevelser av att leva med en person som drabbats av hjärtinfarkt. Metoden är en litteraturstudie med kvalitativ ansats.

Sociala konstruktivister menar att lärandet består av sociala interaktiva processer mellan eleven och dess omgivning (Palinscar, 1998). Det betyder att lärarna har en viktig och unik roll i klassrummet eftersom de medvetet eller omedvetet skapar förutsättningarna för de sociala interaktionerna i lärandemiljön ? mellan läraren och eleverna men även den sociala interaktionen eleverna sinsemellan (Todorovich, 2009). Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur skapandet av ett bra socialt klimat i klassrummet tar sig form i dagens skolor. Med hänsyn till studiens syfte valdes att göra en empirisk, kvalitativ studie med ett fenomenologiskt synsätt. Sex lärare inom idrott och hälsa i grundskolans senare skolår och gymnasieskola intervjuades om deras upplevelser av sociala interaktioner i skolan.

Extern validitet hos personlighetstest kan studeras genom att testet ställs motvariabler som mäter arbetsprestation. Syftet med studien var att undersökavaliditeten hos det arbetslivspsykologiska personlighetstestet UPP (Sjöberg,2008). Ett hundra anställda inom polisen, varav 50 kvinnor, tog testet via enInternetplatform. Som externa kriterier användes i studie 1 (N = 100)polisens lönekriterier och i studie 2 (N = 46) ett objektivt kriterium i form avantal förhör för utredare. Resultaten indikerar att vissa variabler i UPPtestetvisade tillfredsställande validitet mot de externa kriterierna.Emotionell stabilitet uppvisade tillfredsställande validitet mot kriterierna ienlighet med tidigare forskning.

HOW DO SOCIAL WORKERS WORK WITH PROSTITUTION? A case study on social work in the work with prostitution and perspectives on the sex purchase law from social workers. PERNILLA ELOFSSON MARIA AHLQVIST Elofsson, P. & Ahlqvist, M. How do social workers work with prostitution? A case study on social work in the work with prostitution and perspectives on the sex purchase law from social workers.

AbstractWe are interested in group meetings of the self-help group Alcoholic Anonymous and the emotional energy created therein. We examine which impact self-help group AA has on its group participants regarding: group meetings, dealing with alcoholism and identity. Group membership has great value for individuals; it provides social identity and possibility to self-value. Previous research shows that group members of self-help groups who have been sober for a period of time experience higher self-esteem and less anxiety compared to non-members. Our thesis is based on a hermeneutic approach.

I den här studien studeras skolans fostrande roll av eleven i allmänhet och inom livskunskap i synnerhet. På en del skolor runt om i Sverige finns sedan ett antal år ett tämligen nytt ämne som heter just livskunskap. Initiativet kommer från skolorna själva och är vad man kallar en bottom-up rörelse. Plattformen för vår studie har varit olika läromedel i livskunskap och framförallt att närgranska ett läromedel som heter Livsviktigt. Livskunskap har ingen nationell kursplan och därför kan innehållet skifta från olika skolor och likaså omfattningen.

The aim of this study is to examine social workers' and social work students' attitudes towards people living with hiv in Sweden. I will also examine if there is a connection between knowledge and attitudes. The questions at issue are how social workers' and social work students' attitudes can assume to influence on their professional practice and what causes can affect their attitudes towards people living with hiv. The study is based on a qualitative method. The methods have been: conversational interviews with five social workers, who work with family issues and integration, and a focused group interview with four social work students.

The aim of this study was to understand the contact between foster homes and social workers, by doing a comparison of the social workers and the foster homes experiences of the cooperation that is between them. We started from three main questions to get an answer to our aim, how the foster homes and the social workers experience the organization of the foster care in the Social Service as an impact of the cooperation, what does the foster homes and the social workers experience as a important fact of a successful placement and finally, how does the foster homes and the social workers experience the supporting and controlling contact that is between them. To get our results we based our study on interviews whit four foster homes and whit four social workers. The analysis was based on one theoretical perspective, Skaus (2007) analytical approach for power and help. As a conclusion we have found out, that the organization of the Social Service has significance for the contact between social workers and foster homes.

The study aims to gain insight into how social workers perceive their psychosocial work environment and examine whether this effects the performance of their duties. The study mainly addresses the shortcomings of the psychosocial work environment of Social Services and the implications it entails for social workers health and wellbeing. The psychosocial work environment includes physical and psychological factors therefore the study's interpretive framework consists of organizational theoretical and social psychological concepts and previous research on the subject. We examined the organizational and social psychological connections to social workers perception of their work environment with a qualitative approach. The empirical data was collected through interviews with four social workers in a municipality in central Sweden using a semi-structured interview guide.

Viewer interaction is a common part of live broadcasts on the web and enables production and viewer to communicate with each other. The possibilities in viewer interaction make it easier for productions to create viewer engagement by involving them in the live broadcast through chats and social media. In creating a bond between production and viewer the interaction must be carefully managed to suit both the shows and the viewer?s needs.  A qualitative study has been used to analyze the viewer interaction in two Swedish live broadcasts on the web.

The purpose of doing this research except for educational reasons is to show significant effects that make motivational work successful. The choice of subject we decided out of experience from the term of practise. The description of the subject is from the social workers angle of approach. The method we used is a qualitative study with semi structured interviews. We have looked at three different fields of social work from the view of six social workers, two from each field.

Under de senaste åren har levnadsåldern ökat i Sverige och medellivslängden antas öka ännu mer. Antalet människor med demenssjukdom kommer att öka och fler patienter med demens kommer att vårdas inom akutsjukvården framöver. Stora krav kommer ställas på vårdpersonalen för att tillgodose denna patientgrupps vårdbehov. Kunskap som vi menar inte finns idag. Ungefär 140 000 personer i Sverige har någon form av demenssjukdom och risken att drabbas ökar med åldern.