The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether Suzanne Retzinger?s linguistic cues for shame and verbal behaviors for hiding shame could be used to measure shame in surveys based on Thomas Scheff?s theory of shame. I created a measurement instrument consisting of 30 statements, which were all meant to measure general shame.The instrument was administrated to 180 respondents studying at Karlstad University, of whom 4 respondents were removed from the data set due to lack of standardization. With the polytomous rasch model used for the analysis, data from 176 respondents were analyzed, of whom 124 respondents were female and 52 were male.The result showed that the measurement instrument?s statements should not be used together because the analysis indicated multidimensionality.

I den här uppsatsen har jag försökt att konstruera ett mätinstrument för att mäta skam utifrån Thomas Scheffs forskning. De 14 påståenden som ingår i mätinstrumentet är baserade på Suzanne Retzingers forskning om kroppsliga markörer för skam och de resulterande utmanande beteendena. Flera forskare har lyft fram vikten av att någon tar fram ett mätinstrument för att kvantitativt mäta skam och syftet med min uppsats är att försöka att ta reda på om det är möjligt att göra det eller ej.180 Studenter vid Karlstads universitet fick besvara ett frågeformulär, som totalt besvarades av 176 studenter, 124 kvinnor och 52 män. Data analyserades med den polytoma raschmodellen i datorprogrammet RUMM 2030.Resultatet visar att mätinstrumentet inte enbart mäter skam (flerdimensionalitet), eller i bästa fall åtminstone flera olika typer av skam, och att påståenden i mätinstrumentet inte fungerar likadant för alla respondenter (DIF-effekter) samt att mätinstrumentet som helhet hade dålig passform gentemot raschmodellen. Min slutsats är att det är möjligt att konstruera mätinstrument för att mäta skam utifrån Scheffs teoretiska ramverk men att det kräver mer arbete och fler revideringar än vad som har varit möjligt möjligt att genomföra inom ramen för detta uppsatsarbete..

The purpose of this study is to explain how shame can be experienced by women with the stigmatizing illness of alcoholism. Another aim is to illustrate how this shame can be affected in social interaction with others and by other circumstances. The following questions will be highlighted in this essay: How can shame be experienced by female alcoholics? What can affect shame in interaction with other people, from the view of female alcoholics? What other circumstances can affect the shame, from the view of female alcoholics?This study features interviews with women who have successfully gone through the process of rehabilitation from the illness of alcoholism, have a long going and stable sobriety and arecurrently part of the work force. The study also features interviews with therapists specializing in the field of addiction recovery and have considerable experience in their fieldof working with women suffering from alcoholism.The subject matters shame and stigma form the theoretical/analytical tools for this research.

The purpose of this study is to explain how shame can be experienced by women with the stigmatizing illness of alcoholism. Another aim is to illustrate how this shame can be affected in social interaction with others and by other circumstances. The following questions will be highlighted in this essay: How can shame be experienced by female alcoholics? What can affect shame in interaction with other people, from the view of female alcoholics? What other circumstances can affect the shame, from the view of female alcoholics?This study features interviews with women who have successfully gone through the process of rehabilitation from the illness of alcoholism, have a long going and stable sobriety and arecurrently part of the work force. The study also features interviews with therapists specializing in the field of addiction recovery and have considerable experience in their fieldof working with women suffering from alcoholism.The subject matters shame and stigma form the theoretical/analytical tools for this research.