The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which emotion regulation and mood affects risk taking when it comes to decision making competence. Emotion regulation is an essential part of the attachment process, the development of an autonomous self and functional stress coping systems. Research indicates that there is a relation between a distorted emotion regulation and some psychological disorders like depression, PTSD, anxiety disorders and borderline (or instable emotional personality disorder). There is a definite need to analyze the relation between emotion regulation and decision making competence since it is relatively unexplored. A digital questionnaire was distributed amongst the participants.

Most of the stoma-operated persons must work themselves through difficult feelings. The task for the nurse is to deliver a care that promotes as much independence as possible. The aim of this literature review was to illuminate how the self-care agencies affect the well-being for the persons who are operated for stoma. A systematic literature study was done based on eleven scientific studies. Three categories, which describe how self-care agencies affect the physical, psychological and social well-being, are presented in the result.

Abstract : Under våren 2008 gjordes en utvärdering av en kvinnojour i en medelstor svensk stad. En uppföljning har nu genomförts för att ta reda på om de goda resultat som uppvisades håller i sig på lite längre sikt.Baserat på framförallt en feministisk förståelse av våldet i kombination med teorier om brottsoffer, empowerment och emotionssociologi undersöktes kvinnornas uppfattning av sin situation idag med hjälp av enkäter, fokusgrupper och enskilda intervjuer. Även dagboksanteckningar har studerats. I likhet med den inledande undersökningen visar uppföljningen att stödet från kvinnojouren är uppskattat och en ovärderlig hjälp för förståelsen av vad man varit med om och hur man kan gå vidare. Våldet har i stort sett upphört, och förbättringen gällande psykisk hälsa, självförtroende och rädsla håller i sig, även om en lätt tillbakagång antyds i vissa fall vid den andra uppföljningen.

Abstrakt/AbstractFör tio år sedan genomfördes en studiepå Astrid Lindgrens barnsjukhus i Stockholmdå 32 tonåringar med typ-1 diabetes fick genomgå en empowerment-baserad gruppundervisning i diabetes. Målet var att gruppmedlemmarna skulle bli medvetna om vad de behövdeförändrai sin egenvård, lägga upp en handlindsplan, och ta kontroll över sin sjukdom.Denna utbildning ledde dock inte till någon förbättring av Hba1c men en förbättring avungdomarnas förändringsbenägenhet.Som ett vårdutvecklingsprojekt av barndiabetesmottagningens verksamhet blev syftet med föreliggande studie att retrospektivt undersöka vad deltagarna upplevt som betydelsefullt efter att som tonåringar ha deltagit i denna grupputbildning.Efter att intervjuat 6 av deltagarna gjordes en kvalitativ innehållsanalys vilket resulterade i följande teman:Att uppleva kompetent stöd från diabetesmottagningen, att gemenskapi gruppen gav mod att konfrontera sjukdomen ochatt grupputbildningengav känslan att det var lättare att leva med diabetes.Resultatet skulle kunna utgöraendelav ett underlag för utformningen av framtida gruppundervisningar för tonåringar med diabetes..

This study is an institutional analysis of the firm both as it is theoretically conceptualized and how it takes shape and changes. The role of power relations between manage¬ment and employees is especially examined with the aim of evaluating pos¬sible connections between the firm as an institution and power relations within it. Based on a comparison of two cases (two selected periods of the same organization) it asks ?How closely does each case match the conceptual characteristics of the firm??; ?What are the power relations between management and employees in each case??; and finally ?What factors account for the resulting differences??. It is found that there is a negative correlation between employee power and proximity to the firm as a concept.

Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur pedagogerna samtalar om barns olika behov och vad det leder till i förskolans verksamhet. Hur identifieras barns olika behov? Vad leder det till i verksamheten, för alla barn men specifikt för barn i behov av särskilt stöd? När anses ett barn vara i behov av särskilt stöd? Vad beskriver pedagogerna som viktigt i mötet med barns olikheter? Teori: Studien har sin teoretiska förankring i det sociokulturella perspektivet. Barnets lärande och utveckling är beroende av den sociala kontext barnet ingår i. Utifrån studiens syfte är det sociokulturellt perspektiv en förutsättning för barnets lärande i förskolan.

The aim of this study was to investigate the emotions among the staff at the group housings when they observe the caretakers expressions of masturbation and how the staff handles these expressions in their daily and long-term work. The theoretical concepts that were used in this study are group housing as a public and private arena, occupational role, relation, humanistic effort, pedagogical effort, empowerment, care ethic and emotions. The concepts are related to each other and constitutes the foundation for the analysis of the empirical data used in this study. A qualitative study was carried out, in forms of half structured interviews with six informants, of which the majority was women. It came to light that the interviewees only had positive feelings for the caretaker?s expressions of masturbation.

This paper is intended to provide a picture of which associations water can wake in the human mind from the perspectives of garden history as well as from that of environmental psychology. I hope to paint a fairly broad picture of our perception of water that can serve as a basis for discussion and as a starting point for different forms of design work in landscape architecture. The historical perspective emphasizes the importance of water as a condition for the emergence of gardens and in a wider perspective the importance of water in early cultures. Also, I describe a picture of how water has been used throughout the history of gardens from early Egypt to the baroque era. The garden history analyzed from an art historical perspective gives a picture of human associations to water, and the history behind these associations is presented. As a compliment to the art history approach, I have chosen to highlight our associations with water from the perspectives of environmental psychology and evolutionary science.

This study aimed to describe children?s experience of living with overweight or obesity, by using a literature-review. The study includes eleven articles, data is from children between ages 5-15 year. The result occurring were in the areas; Quality of life and self-esteem, Social company, Body concept and weight reduction and Psychological unhealth. BMI above what is recommended gives a negative influence on quality of live and self-esteem.

In this examination paper I?m using the qualitative method: phenomenographic analysis to present twenty educated and working pre-school teachers opinions about being outdoors in Swedish pre-school. The purpose is to describe the variation between different pre-school teachers? opinions, not to focus on wrong or right.    The paper starts with a review over the opinions presented by the literature on the subject.

The purpose of the present quantitative study was to examine gender differences inperceived job satisfaction in two departments, with different work patterns, in a Swedishmanufacturing industry. The questionnaire contained 30 statements and five backgroundquestions. The questionnaire was designed in combination of Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS),Work demands, Social support, Control and Competence (ASK), Questionnaire forPsychological and Social factors at Work (QPS Nordic) and Minnesota SatisfactionQuestionnaire (MSQ). Job satisfaction was measured based on the categories influence atwork, leadership, employee influence, work requirements and the physical environment. Theresults of the present study showed an interaction of gender and department where the femaleindustrial workers, who worked with more monotonous and standardized work tasks, valuedall of the categories of job satisfaction the lowest, except for the category employee impact.The results are believed to depend on that the women in the department had greater demandsfor variety in the work..

This paper describes how teachers of media view and construct their subjects. Eight teachers have been interviewed about their views and opinions about the media environment, their goals for media education as well as their opinions about the different course plans used in media education. The term Media Literacy works as a theoretical starting point for the study, since Media Literacy is the goal for most media education. The teachers? answers have been analyzed by using three different approaches to media education: protection, promotion and empowerment.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which emotion regulation and mood affects risk taking when it comes to decision making competence. Emotion regulation is an essential part of the attachment process, the development of an autonomous self and functional stress coping systems. Research indicates that there is a relation between a distorted emotion regulation and some psychological disorders like depression, PTSD, anxiety disorders and borderline (or instable emotional personality disorder). There is a definite need to analyze the relation between emotion regulation and decision making competence since it is relatively unexplored. A digital questionnaire was distributed amongst the participants.

This study examines negative issues that cannabis users have experienced associated with cannabis use. The author made qualitative interviewsto unveil four cannabis users? life stories. These stories were analyzed through the discourse psychologicalperspective interpretive repertoirein order to explore and identify analogies among the users. The author found that the respondents, despite their seemingly diverse backgrounds and personalities, carry a collective repertoire of similar experience and reasoning around cannabis and society which can be defined as a cannabis discourse; a discourse grounded in facts as well as speculations, arguments which separately may seem reasonable but altogether often appear contradictory, and real-life anecdotes that sometimes reflect paradoxical conclusions.

Människans behov av fysisk aktivitet är lika stort idag som det alltid varit. Dock har människans genomsnittliga energiförbrukning minskat avsevärt i och med det mer moderna samhället. Enligt Fyss, (2008) är den åtgärd som skulle ha störst positiv effekt på folkhälsan ökad fysisk aktivitet. Fysisk aktivitet har visat sig ha positiva effekter på människors välmående, dock är verkningsmekanismerna okända. Idag använder samtliga landsting i Sverige sig av fysisk aktivitet som behandlingsform för olika sjukdomar.