There comes a time in every persons life when it is time to leave childhood and step into the adult world by way of reaching puberty. Dramatic biological, social and emotional changes, typical of this period in life, may put the individual at greater risk for negative influences from internal as well as external sources. Weight and body image seems to be predominant issues in the adolescent years,

This study was performed to investigate the psychosocial work environment for priests in Malmö and Lund. The purpose of the study was to identify differences in psychosocial work environment for men and women, and to identify most important areas of problem within the psychosocial work environment. To measure the work environment Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire, COPSOQ, was distributed to 78

Gender categorization is something we are confronted with in our daily lives. The main purpose of this study is to see how children and pre school teachers "do gender" in interaction with each other. We did an observation in a Pre School in Southern Sweden. Our requirement was that there must be at least one male pre school teacher working there. We decided to study "doing gender&qu

This experiment was conducted to determine whether affect and substantive information processing moderate implicit and explicit attitude correspondence. 78 participants completed two implicit attitude measures, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Stereotype Explanation Bias (SEB) and three explicit attitude measures, a temperature scale, a self-report measure and one explicit question. Aff

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the origin of peoples view on ideal leadership. This was at first to be conducted by interviewing eight teachers at an elementary school who where split into four groups divided by gender and age. The intention of the separation was to attain differences of opinions to bring clarity to our main question. The aim with the interviews was to ob

The purpose of this study was to explore stereotypes of various races with four different measures. We used Greenwald's Implicit Association Test, a racism questionnaire and a picture test as well as a measure of willingness to show prejudice. An instruction was given prior to the test indicating that this research involved attitudes towards people with different ethnic origin. Our participant

The aim of this study was to evaluate athletics and employees in organizations based on projectstrategies attitude to a shared leadership. Our ambition was to see similarities and differences between the two groups. We used a qualitative approach based on semistructured interviews. The interview guide was designed after Multidimensional Model of Sport Leadership, which describes the complexity of

Gender differences are widely discussed in psychology study. Studies show that there are differences between men and women from early age up until adult age. Research by Pollak and Gilligan (1979) shows that women feel more fear in achievement situations and men feel more fear in affiliation situations. We have based our research on this previous study and our aim is to see if these results are va

The purpose of this study was to find out why people choose to be physically inactive when only thirty minutes of exercise a day is sufficient to have a positive effect on one's health. In order to find out the reasons why people do not exercise, we conducted semistructured interviews with twenty people from Malmoe. The participants were between 23 and 63 years of age with the group consisting

We have made an exploratory study on body language in a recruiting situation. Our material consists of a film, showing five persons during an employment interview, each of them having different non-verbal behaviour. Professional recruiters were asked to see the film and to freely give comments. These comments were later analysed using the phenomenological method Meaning Constitution Analysis (MCA)

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att undersöka några fäders upplevelser av anknytningen till sina barn, samt vad som kan tänkas påverka denna. Studien omfattar tio intervjuer med fäder till för tidigt födda barn samt fäder till fullgångna barn. Resultaten visar på intressanta tendenser. Fäder till nyfödda barn där amningen av någon anledning uteblir helt eller under en period, alternativt där stora

The main purpose of this study is to describe and increase the understanding, of female nurse's experiences of stresses in their specific context, as well as their use of coping strategies in handling possible stresses. My hope is to give focus to the gender dimension within the stress literature and to lay a foundation for further research. To achieve these purposes I use a phenomenological p

The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate how individual motivation to work is influenced by a given salary. This was done using a phenomenological approach, in which the participants were to freely reflect upon a statement formulated by the authors. The reflections of the participants were then analysed using the software Minerva, an application of Meaning Constitution Analysis (MCA) de

The purpose of this study is to describe, phenomenologically, the thoughts, feelings and ideas about the most suited applicant. Three vice-principals and five pupils at Komvux Kronborg in Malmö were asked to choose the most suited applicant from five fictive work applications. They were asked to answer an open phenomenological question and write a self-report about their choice of applicant. The m

Denna uppsats ger en bild av hur en grupp unga kvinnor i åldern 20-26 år tänker om och kring sin sexualitet. 13 informanter har genom "snöbollsmetoden" valts ut och i halvstrukturerade intervjuer talat om bl a varför de har sex, vilket samband de ser mellan sex och kärlek och vilka konsekvenser de anser att allt prat om sex får. Intervjuerna har spelats in på kassettband och därefter ord

A qualitative exploratory case study is presented to provide an understanding of Värkstaden, a self-help initiative for people with chronic pain. Two semi-structured interviews and an observation was conducted, both with participants of the group. Analysis of this data together with critical text analysis sought to answer the question: How is "empowerment" experienced from a user perspec

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived stress, copingstrategies, mental health and attributions in the unemployment situation, to study which copingstrategies that could predict mental health and whether any gender differences existed. Participants were 157 unemployed in the south of Sweden. Results from a questionnaire showed significant correlations betwe

Vi har undersökt om det fanns några skillnader mellan vuxna, internationellt adopterades psykiska välbefinnande hos två grupper individer, antingen med tidig (ett år eller yngre) eller med sen (fyra år eller äldre) ankomstålder. Dessutom undersökte vi om det fanns några skillnader mellan gruppernas kunskap, minnen och föreställningar om bakgrunden. Individer med olika mycket kunskap, minnen och fö

Denna kvalitativa studie handlar om en kroppsorienterad behandlingsmetod som kallas Frigörande andning (FA). Under ca tre månader utövade sex undersökningsdeltagare metoden regelbundet tillsammans. Resultaten bygger på deskriptiva intervjuer av deltagarnas erfarenheter. Det övergripande syftet var att studera om det förekommer terapeutiska processer när människor går in och påverkar sin andning ge

One possible symptom of deficiency of folic acid (folate) or vitamin B 12 (cobalamin) is impaired cognition. Status of these two B-vitamins have been linked to cognitive performance also in various populations of subjects with no evident clinical deficiency (for example in "healthy elderly"). The present study investigated 60 nondemented patients (mean age 58 years) presented with mild c