The aim of this thesis was to investigate primary care counselors’ actions, reasoning, and available resources they utilize when meeting patients affected by domestic violence. The overall goal was also to explore different factors and patterns that arose related to the work and to assess how prepared counselors are in handling situations related to domestic violence. A qualitative methodology inv

Everyone feels worried from time to time, it is a natural reaction to events in life. On the other hand, being worried for long periods of time can affect your health. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the knowledge about children and youths' concerns, by studying high school students' perceived worry about the war in Ukraine. The study also examines a relationship between sex

The primary aim of this study has been to examine to what extent people with addiction experience feelings of loss and sorrow as they go from being active in their abuse, to being an addict in recovery. The study is based on life stories generated from semi-structured, qualitative interviews, meaning the results are built on the voices of 6 people who are all recovering addicts. The complex emotio

This Master’s thesis explores the inherent character traits of personal archival material such as diaries, letters, and photographs, as well as the motivations underlying the preservation of such material. The focus of this study is such personal archival material produced by, or connected to, people whose lives are not celebrated or considered to be of obvious interest to academia or the public.

The aim of the study is to investigate how doppelgänger marketplace sentiments about an iconic brand are shaped by cultural branding and anti-brand activism. The study adopts a sociocultural view on consumer emotions, hence it takes a CCT approach. Theories used consist of marketplace sentiments, cultural branding as well as consumer resistance. The study is a case study of a specific brand and ho

Traditionella binära könsstereotyper utmanas idag allt mer av könsöverskridande uttryck i ett pågående globalt samhällsskifte som i synnerhet märks av i Sverige. Parallellt med detta samhällsskifte utmanas även tidigare forskning i hur varumärken kommunicerar könsuttryck, vilket möjliggör för ett ökat antal varumärkesgenuspositioner. Trots att en androgyn genusposition beskrivs som mest gynnsam ärTraditional binary gender stereotypes are increasingly being challenged by gender fluid expressions in an ongoing global societal shift that is particularly noticeable in Sweden. Parallel with this societal change, previous research on how brands communicate gender expressions is also being challenged, which enables an increased number of brand gender positions. Although an androgynous brand gende

This thesis investigates the sustainability discourse present in two urban development projects in Malmö. The projects investigated are Sege Park in Kirseberg, and Culture Casbah in Rosengård. The City of Malmö has profiled itself as seriously invested in sustainable urban development, but it is evident that the sustainability focus is different when applied to different parts of the city. To unde

The aim of this study was to examine school counselors’ experiences of relationship building with students in online counseling during the covid-19 pandemic. The method chosen for this study was qualitative interviews with six school counselors from different municipalities. The empirical data was analyzed and discussed using past research, Carl Roger’s theory on client-centered therapy and Erving

Digitalisering, teknikutveckling och globalisering gör att Sverige tar stora steg från industrisamhälle till kunskapssamhälle. I takt med den förändringen ökar också kravet på arbetstagaren, arbetsgivaren – och på samhället. Arbetstagarnas kunskap utgör den viktigaste resursen i samhället, och det är en resurs som hela tiden måste återerövras. Det räcker inte att utbilda nya generationer – välfärdDigitization, technology development and globalization mean that Sweden is taking big steps from an industrial society to a knowledge society. In line with this change, the demands on the employee, the employer – and on society increase. Workers' knowledge is the most important resource in society, and it is a resource that is constantly being recaptured. It is not enough to educate new genera

The aim of this study was to explore care managers view on loneliness among elderly and to examine what interventions they proposed. Ten qualitative interviews were conducted with care managers from nine municipalities in the region of Skåne. The empirical material that has been collected was analyzed through Håkan Jönsons (2010) perspective analysis and Roine Johanssons (2007) theory of street-le

As internetusage increases the attendance at internetbased communicative forums and social networks creates a new arena where freedom of speech is practiced. The freedom of speech is one of the greatest democratic rights in the Swedish society. But sometimes this privilege enables violations of other human rights. The respond to this in Swedish law is restrictions concerning the freedom of speech

In this thesis, we investigate the Swedish police’s performance on Facebook using the honeycomb framework as a theoretical foundation on social media. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the national Swedish police and the Helsingborg police’s Facebook pages in order to answer what aspects will increase performance on Facebook. We have created a research framework that assesses the perception

Knowledge is an element considered by common consent as strategic for innovation but at the same time it is quite confusing and ambiguous. New approaches of management are less top-down orientated and more dialogical: they can enhance a successful transfer of tacit knowledge. Small companies interpret and transfer tacit knowledge in a “silent” way, namely the methodologies to transfer it are embe

The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding of the dynamics behind Chinese-Western buyer-supplier relationships. The study takes on a partially inductive approach by commencing with exploratory in-depth interviews. The main body of the study consists of a cross-sectional survey. Data has been collected through an on-line questionnaire. The theoretical review consists of industrial re

The primary objective of this study was to understand the rationality behind the decisions of smallholder farmers to volunteer as Farmer Trainers in the absence of direct financial incentives. Farmer Trainers are responsible for passing on agricultural extension knowledge to their peers as part of a participatory agricultural extension approach dubbed ‘Farmer-to-Farmer’ training programme. Using t

Based on the debate in the media following the SOU (2003:49)-reports different suggestions to strengthen the childs role in the adoption process, we started considering the adoptive parents reactions to all this. Has anyone asked them? What support would they want? The objective of our paper was to present the result of a number of interviews with adoptive parents regarding some of the questions f

The main purpose of this study is to form a picture of what happens in a child's life when their parents separate and how this event is seen through the child's eyes. This study is based on qualitative research methods in which eleven children from six families were interviewed. In addition, the parents were asked a few questions about their custody arrangements and the amount of the coop

Our purpose is to display the meaning of fan clubs and further reveal the potential value of fans. This study has an abductive approach with a qualitative data collection, where empirical material has been collected through a micro netnographic study along with qualitative interviews. IKEA and IKEA Family have been applied together with virtual fan clubs to study the fan club phenomenon. The study

Armenia is a small, land-locked, transitional economy in the region of South Caucasus with a huge potential of developing its solar energy system. The challenges that the country’s energy sector is facing, such as high dependence on imported natural gas and oil, energy dependence on a single market, high transport costs, old and inefficient infrastructure, as well as the risk of repetition of ener

The aim of this study was to investigate school counselors perspective and their view of the concept honour-related violence and oppression. We have explored how school counselors perspective are taken into consideration when they define the students who live under honour-related violence and oppression. Furthermore the study also aims to describe the school counselors comprehension on their work