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The Social Insurance Office (FK) is responsible for the rehabilitation among long-term sick citizens. Two studies were performed with the aim to study the relation between the employees of FK and their clients. A further aim was to describe factors that the employees can bring into the relation with the client. In the first study a questionnaire was distributed to 302 employees. The Change-, produ
Syftet med genomförd studie var att beskriva en grupp kvinnor med endometrios (N=47) utifrån deras sjukdomssituation, psykiska hälsa och livssituation samt att söka samband mellan detta och anpassningsförmåga till sjukdomen. Copingresurser, självuppfattning, känsla av sammanhang (kasam) och psykiskt hälsotillstånd mättes med CRI, S-R Q, KASAM och SCL-90. Tre av kvinnorna deltog även i Affektinterv
The purpose of this study has been to reach a deeper understanding about female entrepreneurs at growing companies. The study portraits specific attention towards their families, their entrepreneur skills, and their level of spare time. The theoretical foundation is based on: society, organisation, and individual. 15 female entrepreneurs at growing companies within Skåne area were all interviewed
Syftet med denna uppsats var att studera hur universitetsstudenter med dyslexi upplever sin studiesituation vid Lunds universitet. Dessutom undersöktes vilken inverkan och betydelse faktorer tidigare i livet hade för valet och motivationen att studera på universitetet. De faktorer som betonades var lärares och klasskamraters reaktioner på läs- och skrivsvårigheterna under grund- och gymnasieskolan
A study was conducted to see which impact children's emotionality has on encoding social information. Earlier studies have focused on the whole process of social information processing (Crick and Dodge, 1994), especially the cognitive aspects. Lemerise and Arsenio (2000) brought in hypothesis to integrate emotions to this model. Though, there are no previous studies about how emotionality affe
This is a follow-up to a study concerning priming with "scrambled sentences" containing men expressing anger, contempt and disgust, and its effects on modern and classical racial prejudice and homonegativity. It showed that males lowered their prejudice after priming, whilst the opposite occurred for females. This triggered the main hypothesis in the current study: if female names are us
Följande studie ger inblick i ett stycke av den verklighet som svenska industriföreträdare lever i. Deras verklighet är, i likhet med alla andra människors, en verklighet som tolkas och uppfattas på unika och egenartade sätt. I studien beskrivs hur ett antal industriföreträdare vid f d Industriförbundet uppfattar den komplexa och politiskt brännande frågan om klimatförändring och koldioxidutsläpp.
The aim of the study was to examine how creative the employees in a company experience their work climate. We were interested to examine factors that inhibit and stimulate creativity at the workplace. We also wanted to investigate the effects of leadership on a creative work climate. A total of 5 employees were interviewed. The interview questions were based on the models' of Amabile, Ekvall a
This thesis is an inductive study of how collective memory in dyadic i.e. two-party negotiation is affected by the negotiating group's experience of negotiation. The primary question is: do similarities in negotiators' collective experiences i.e. their knowledge base and expertise about negotiation affect the conformity of the group's collective memory of a negotiation situation? In ot
The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop a questionnaire, which can be used to examine prevailing assumptions about the human nature in different organisations. The questionnaire comprised 15 questions, each answered by one of five alternatives related to respectively economic-rational, bureaucratic, social, self-actualisation or complex assumptions about the human nature. The question
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the personality questionnaire 30 aspects, which is based on the five-factor model. Our aim was to investigate the properties of the questionnaire through explorative factor analysis and reliability ratings. We also set out to explore the factor structure of the test to decide whether the instrument agreed with the five-factor model or not. The ques
The intensity of contact with foreigners and its influence on the degree of stereotyping in foreign judgments was tested with a procedure developed by Dr. Bert Westerlundh (2001). This is the first time that Dr. Westerlundh's procedure is used. It consists of a questionnaire with (1) 12 racially-ethnically explicit pictures, in this work classified as White, Black and Yellow; (2) six cartoon i
The aim of the study was to determine whether, parenting styles of child - rearing impacted the children's self-concept. The hypothesis was tested from two questionnaires. The inquiry measuring parenting styles, was investigated by the authors, using "To be a parent" from Maccoby and Martins' schedule of different parenting styles. The children's self - consept were measured
This study examined if humanists are less prejudiced than normativists, and if normativists are more socially controlled than humanists. Can social dominance and right-wing authoritarianism predict prejudices? Is there a correlation between racism, and homophobia in explicit questionnaire measures of prejudice? How does a new test based on association between liked and disliked categories function
The aim of this study is to explore how people during their working day experience role shifts if they on the whole experience or are aware of any role shift. Do they need time to adjust themselves to different roles? To find out about this a pilot study with a phenomenological approach was performed by having 4 participants write short diaries about their thoughts, feelings and ideas when they ex
Facial expressions reveal emotion, and imitation of these expressions gives the imitator and understanding of how others feel. Are there gender differences in imitation of facial expressions? 61 male and female students participated in this study, where facial imitation was measured. The smiling (zygomatic) and frowning (corrugator) muscle was measured with EMG, as the participants viewed happy an
Godbiten Konditori AB is a company within the provision industry that has embarked upon a great organizational change. Organizational changes usually face great resistance. We have reviewed literature on this subject. The organizational development team at Godbiten AB has used an action-research approach, to minimize the problem of resistance and to improve the quality of the process. Our research
The experiment in this study was conducted to see whether counter stereotypic mental imagery effects individuals stereotyping, concerning their partners. The Sex-Role Inventory, constructed by Sandra Bem, was used. All together, 120 students at Lund University and Campus Helsingborg participated. The students answered the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) measuring themselves. 30 male participants wer
Studied the impact of accountability and mental load on judgments of morally wrong, disgusting, harmful events. 85 participants (32 male, 53 female) were randomly assigned into four groups in a 2 (accountability: y/n) x 2 (load: y/n) design. Participants read stories with vivid but morally irrelevant disgusting features and judged how morally wrong the actions were. It was predicted that participa
The aim of the study was to examine the importance of different sources of social support and self efficacy for work demands, concern for changes in the workplace and concern of loss of employment. A further aim was to investigate the meaning of information for self efficacy and job insecurity, and the relationship between social support and self efficacy. Questionnaires were collected from 70 emp
