In this study, religiosity in prison is investigated. What opportunities are there for those detained to practice their religion and how did their religiosity change after they were detained? Six interviews were conducted to gain a better perspective of religiosity in prison. The focus is on Correctional Institution in Kalmar, where surveys have been conducted over a longer period but also the monastery at the Correctional facility in Kumla is discussed. Most interviews were conducted in the prison of Kalmar, in a room where religious conversations are conducted.

The way in which media discusses religion has changed over time. Due to the separation of state and church in 2000, the Swedish state to a lesser extent legitimizes its political ruling with references to religious concepts. As a result, a higher tolerance towards religious minorities can be said to have taken place. This is an ambiguous change however, where critique raised towards religious practices and expressions of minorities also occurs to a higher extent. The public debate is in large part conducted through the media, but is also seen to be produced and reproduced through the media?s discourse.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the role of religious beliefs, actions and practice in young people's own description of their identity. An additional goal was to examine how young people describe their identity in relation to their primary and secondary socialization. A qualitative method was used with semi - structured interviews and six young people between the ages of 18 and 23 were interviewed.            The interview results show that three out of the six young people think of themselves as religious while the remaining three emphasize that they are secularized Muslims. The results also show that the young people emphasize that the celebration of feasts in the family is the main focus.  Four out of the six young people point out that they are themselves among friends, their families and in the mosque, while the remaining two feel a communion with their Muslim friends and people in the mosque.       Three out of the six young people consume alcohol and eat pork, while the remaining three refrain from this. The young people emphasize that their beliefs are a personal matter between themselves and God, and that their actions don't define them as being Muslims or non-Muslims..

Patienter som lider av svår kronisk njursvikt behandlas ofta med hemodialys ett flertal gånger i veckan. Dessa patienter stöter ofta på en rad problem och får kämpa med att bemästra dessa. Sjuksköterskan har här en viktig roll att identifiera dessa problem för att kunna ge ett gott stöd åt denna patientgrupp. Syftet med denna litteraturöversikt är att undersöka vilka stressorer patienter som behandlas med hemodialys upplever samt vilka copingstrategier de använder sig av. Metoden som valdes var en litteraturstudie baserad på fyra kvalitativa och sex kvantitativa vetenskapliga artiklar som utfördes i enlighet med Friberg.

Långvarig smärta påverkade personernas fysiska, psykiska och sociala tillstånd vilket innebar att personer med långvarig smärta är i stort behov av god omvårdnad. Personer med långvarig smärta använde sig av copingstrategier för att hantera smärtproblematik.Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva hur personer upplever att leva med långvarig smärta och vilka copingstrategier som använts. Metod: Litteraturstudien har gjorts med deskriptiv design. Litteraturstudiens resultat baserades på 13 vetenskapliga artiklar som har söktes i databasen Cinahl.                                                  Huvudresultat: Huvudresultat visade att personer med långvarig smärta upplevde både stöd och begränsningar. Detta upplevdes även i mötet med vården och i behandlingar.

The study's aim was to increase knowledge about the resistance of the Muslim religious expressions in the public sphere and its emergence on the basis of the case around the opposition to call for prayer. The study was conducted through the use of the qualitative research approach through interviews with informants who have a pronounced aversion regarding the existence of the public call to prayer in Sweden. The study's questions have been answered by an analysis of the empirical material by using different theoretical points that illustrate how Western standards are valued higher than the other, in the various standard systems. The view of the Muslim religious practices depicted by informants through an interpretative framework that is characterized by Islamophobic arguments that are considered to be incompatible with Western culture and the principles of the secular state striving. Such discourses can create an uneven distribution of power between Muslims and non-Muslims on the basis of the West's representations of Orientalism explained based in ethnocentric knowledge.

Den ökande stressen är ett stort problem bland sjuksköterskor. Stor arbetsbelastning och höga krav leder till allt fler sjukskrivningar vilket är en negativ utveckling i en yrkesgrupp som är viktig för hela samhället. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa hur stress påverkar sjuksköterskor fysiskt och psykiskt samt att undersöka i sammanhanget betydelsefulla copingstrategier. Uppstatsen är en litteraturstudie som baseras på tretton vetenskapliga artiklar vilka behandlar ämnena stress, coping, mental och fysisk hälsa bland sjuksköterskor. Resultatet visar att vanliga stressorer bland sjuksköterskor är hög arbetsbelastning, patientnära arbete, administrativa och organisatoriska påfrestningar samt brist på stöd och uppskatting.

This master thesis is an ethnological study focusing members of a young, urban Jewishdiaspora in Sweden. The study's aim is to problematize and describe the relation between theJewish minority that is regarded as religious, and the secular normative majority societyregarded as non-religious. The study explores questions regarding social positioning,belonging and memory and how Jewish traditions are practiced in contemporary Sweden. Themethodological approaches are interviews and participation observations with a specific focuson food; its symbolic value and how food can materialize identities and communicatememories. The empirical data comprises 24 interviews in total, of which 11 interviews havebeen chosen and thus constitute the material on which the study's analysis is made upon.

The focus of this essay is to further investigate and describe psychological strains experienced by child welfare workers. The method used was qualitative interviews, two group interviews. The research aimed to understand how child welfare workers were affected and handled the psychological strains generated by work through theory of coping and symbolic interactionism where humans are viewed as pragmatic actors. The research showed, as previous studies shown, that the child welfare workers experience a great deal of psychological strains generated by high turnover in staff and pressuring work demands. The child welfare workers felt inadequate and alone in their work tasks and experienced stress and anxiety.

The fact that animals have feelings is something that is commonly agreed. Many authors showhow animals' views of their environment is quite similar with human views. Animals, whichare slaughtered without prior stunning, find the moment of slaughter unpleasant and stressing.This is shown in numerous of scientific studies. The cognitive ability of animals can becompared to how they experience feelings and scientists have shown how the structures in thebrain that involves feelings and cognitive behaviours in animals are very much the same asthe structures in human brains. Because of this, some scientists consider that behaviour inanimals can be directly interpreted into human feelings.Halal- and kosher slaughter comes from traditions.

Syftet med denna uppsats a?r att underso?ka vilka stressorer som fo?rekommer hos projektledare i interna fo?ra?ndringsprojekt. Vidare syftar uppsatsen till att beskriva vilka former av ka?nslo- och problemfokuserad coping som projektledare anva?nder i interna fo?ra?ndringsprojekt inom vinstdrivande organisationer.Utifra?n den teoretiska bakgrunden om att fo?ra?ndringsprojekt a?r komplexa, kra?ver prioriteringar av resurser och dessutom ofta mo?ter motsta?nd, identifierades fem olika problemomra?den inom interna fo?ra?ndringsprojekt. En kvalitativ metod anva?ndes fo?r att besvara uppsatsens syfte, da?rsemistrukturerade intervjuer med sex respondenter a?gde rum pa? olika vinstdrivande organisationer i Va?rmland.

Det finns personer som går till jobbet varje dag och alltid är vid god hälsa, även när deras arbete är krävande. Detta fenomen kan beskrivas som långtidsfriskhet. Syftet med denna kvalitaitva studie var att undersöka vad socialarbetare upplevde påverkade deras långtidsfriskhet. Vi har gjort intervjuer med åtta socialarbetare angående vilka friskfaktorer som hade störst påverkan på deras hälsa. Det empiriska materialet har sammanställts i tre kategorier, vilka är individen, organisationen och fritiden.

The purpose of this study is to examine whether religious behavior or religious identity changes when a person with Muslim background moves to a Christian country and also very secular such as Sweden. I have interviewed five people with Muslim background that have moved from Turkey to Sweden. In this study I have applied Anthony Giddens and Thomas Ziehe's theories about building up an identity but also Nader Ahmadis theory of migration and identity.The results of this study show that there is a change in the practice of religion but also that this differs between these five people who came from the same country. Nevertheless, a change in the practice of religion can on one hand be as a result of modernity and on the other hand, exclusion of family. It also proves that it is not possible to draw general conclusions on this issue instead it should be looked at from an individual perspective..

The purpose of this paper is to examine if there are any differences or similarities when it comes to teaching religion in a multicultural school versus teaching religion in a homogeneous school in Sweden. How do teachers describe religious education in schools and how do they justify their teaching strategies? What similarities or differences are there between teachers' approaches when teaching religion in homogeneous versus multicultural schools?The study is based on qualitative interviews which includes a total of four schools; two homogeneous and two multicultural. These schools have been selected with the help of the Migration Board's annual report from 2014 as well as from my own personal knowledge. One religious teacher from each of the schools was interviewed.The conclusion, among others, is that ethnic Swedish pupils do not have the same understanding of religion as students of different ethnicity.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka om optimism och val avcopingstrategier påverkar det subjektiva välbefinnandet hosuniversitetsstudenter, samt om graden av optimism har en betydelse.144 studenter deltog i en enkätundersökning via ettbekvämlighetsurval. De väletablerade mätinstrumenten Brief COPE,LOT-R samt SWLS användes. En stegvis multipel regressionsanalyssamt oberoende t-test utfördes i SPSS. Resultatet visade att optimismoch val av copingstrategier påverkade subjektivt välbefinnande, samtatt högre optimism associeras med högre välbefinnande ochemotionsfokuserade copingstrategier. Vidare visade resultatet attdysfunktionella copingstrategier användes i högre utsträckning avstudenter med låg optimism.