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Title: Expressions of grief - a social psychological study Authors: Christel Hagdahl, Linn Bengtsson Supervisor: Anders Östnäs The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze human grief via social media from a social psychological perspective. We found it interesting to study blogs to illustrate the diversity in expressions of grief and to analyze which social norms that influence the proce
By studying various theories about civil disobedience, five requirements have been developed for civil disobedience to be considered legitimate. The purpose with this paper is to see if the two networks Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) and the Revolutionary Front (RF) lives up to these criteria and therefore are legitimate in their actions. The study is done with ideology analysis of AFA:s and RF:s own w
The purpose of this study was to examine parents’ grief after the loss of a child. To be more specifically the aim of the study was to find out how the parents experienced the bereavement and how they manage to keep on with their lives without their child. We also examined their experience of professional help and the help of self - help groups. We decided to use crisis theory according to Johan C
The aim of the study is to examine what kind of help the elderly get, if the elderly get the help they want, how the staff treat them and how much contact they have with others than the home-help staff. Further the study looks on how the well-being of the elderly was affected by the relationship with the home-help staff and contact with other people than the home-help staff. To conduct the study i
Abstract Author: Annika Johansson, Anette Elmbert Title: The importance of attachment and the development of emotional bonds between child and drug abusing parents Keywords: attachment bond, abusive parents, treatment and health Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Assessor: Carina Tigervall The aim of this study was to examine the attachment bond between mother and child in treatment of abuse, at the
Track switches are vital parts in the railway construction. They meet an important feature when planing and stearing the traffic flow through them to increase capacity. To ensure functionality during winter they have since the 50- century systematically installed switch heating with different technical solutions but with the same objective, to keep the moving parts on the switch free from snow and
Volatility smile arising from the Black-Scholes model is a long studied subject in option pricing theory. By analysing higher order derivatives of the model, I hope to put another perspective to the problem. Accoridng to a study on the American S&P 500 future options, about 90% of the risks of holding an option in five days can be removed by using higher order derivatives of Black-Scholes. The
The debate over Corporate Social Responsibility is present in many parts of society. The business sector’s engagement in CSR has increased rapidly during the last decades. One important question this brings out is how CSR should be governed. The debate consists in large of two views – CSR should be regulated by law or forced regulation or CSR should be managed through private and civil regulation
Denna explorativa studie syftade till att undersöka eventuella samband mellan självkänsla och upplevelse av omvärlden hos individer med psoriasis. Utgångspunkten har varit Maarit Johnsons teori för inre och yttre självkänsla, Aaron Antonovskys teori om känslan av sammanhang samt Gilbert och Miles modell över upplevelse av skam. I undersökningen användes ett egenkonstruerat frågeformulär byggt på sThe purpose of this explorative study was to investigate any connections between self-esteem of individuals with psoriasis and their experience of their social environment. The basis of the study was Maarit Johnson's theory of inner and outer self-esteem, Aaron Antonovsky's theory of the sense of coherence and Gilbert's and Miles' model of shame. In the study a self constructed que
Expatriater är viktiga men också dyra tillgångar i multinationella företag. Expatriering innebär en stor utmaning i form av ett nytt arbete i ett nytt land, allt inbäddat i en ny kultur, ofta med ett främmande språk, vilket kräver nya sätt att hantera tillvaron. Då de flesta expatriater har familj, gäller det i högsta grad även den medföljande. Genom en kvalitativ studie med fenomenologiskt angrepExpatriates are important but also expensive assets in multinational companies. A new employment and a new country, all embedded in a new culture, often with a foreign language, makes expatriation a big challenge. This also highly affects accompanying partners, since most expatriates bring their families on the assignment. The process of expatriation was examined by a qualitative study with a phen
The purpose of the study was to examine how mothers from 30 to 35 years living in a big city felt that stress and status affects their everyday lives and health. My questions was how mothers feel and handling requirements in relation to family life and parenting versus career, the demands on the mothers themselves, and how mothers look at the link between stress and status? I wanted to explore the
