The present study attempts to investigate the co-workers experience of working in an open-plan office at the Swedish Tax Agency in four cities in Scania. Differences in the experience of working in an open-plan office together with factors behind these differences were sought by using both a questionnaire and interviews. To collect data the short version of Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (C

The purpose of this study was to investigated care-giving staff within the psychiatric sector and determine if there is any relationship between attachment style, symptom attribution, coping strategies, perceived stress and health. A further purpose of the study was to determine if social support predict perceived stress and health. Participants were 79 nursing staff working in a psychiatric hospi

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been developed in the USA by Marsha M Linehan, during the last two decades. Linehan elaborated this method for self-destructive women and in continuous cooperation with those women in treatment throughout her research. Randomised controlled studies have showed good results for self-destructive women with a borderline personality disorder. This group of patien

The study was performed to investigate, from a salutogenetic perspective, what influences peoples perception of well-being and their work related sense of coherence. In the study a questionnaire was distributed to 120 employees in a hospital. The questionnaire consisted of The work related sense of coherence (WSOC), The Change-, production- and employee-centered ledership (CPE), The Organisational

The aim of this study is to investigate how different leadership styles affect the organizational climate at Landvetter Airport. Material used for measuring the organizational climate is the GEFA questionnaire and for the leadership styles the MLQ questionnaire. The number of participants is 48. Our results indicate an overall transactional leadership style among the leaders at the airport and als

The purpose of this study was to observe if social competence is dependent on working memory-capacity, in particular the capacity of the working memory to handle emotionally significant information. A working memory test was used that places demands on the participant to both work with and store the given information. Social competence was measured by a questionnaire (SCI) that includes two dimens

The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about leadership style and its relation to coworker's wellbeing. Of special interest was to find the best predictor variable of wellbeing. A further aim was to study differences between males and females in organizational commitment and wellbeing. A questionnaire was distributed to 100 employees in Telia, a Swedish telecom company. 62 questionnaires

This paper concerns about regional cerebral blood flow measurements in patients suffering from frontal lobe dementia. The purpose of the study was to contribute of drawing a picture of a diagnostic asset, help making an early contribution to distinguish different kinds of dementia. The 25 female and 18 male patients are a part of The Longitudinal Dementia Study in Lund. Their rCBF measurements hav

The purpose of this study is to examine the thought processes behind judgements, based on the first impression, which people do about others. As these judgements can have a profound effect, our aim is to increase awareness about what influences them. We have used the phenomenological method, which proceeds from "self-reports". Our 10 participants were asked, through open questions, to wr

The purpose of this study was to examine if results on the Implicit Association Test (IAT) could be affected by self-involvment and post-decision processes. 74 participants (mainly students) completed a self-esteem and a self-involvement questionnaire and two IATs. Self-involvement was manipulated by distributing two tasks assumed to be of different difficulty level. Post-decision processes was in

Weight and body image seem to be predominant issues in the adolescent years, especially for girls, and obsessions with these may sometimes manifest in extreme ways as eating disorders. One symptom in these disorders is that the size of the body is grossly overestimated. This study hypothesizes that this may be linked to a neuropsychological component in the development of the individual Body Schem

The aim of this study is to examine how students perceive and value their prior merits. We will also study whether there is a discrepancy in how employers and applicants perceive and value their images and representations of applicants prior merits. In addition we will try to suggest that discrepancy may harm the possibility to carry out a successful recruiting; in that effect incongruity may lead

The theory about the elderly has been formulated based upon the analysis of 14 one-hour interviews with self-sufficient urban pensioners from 67 to 87 years of age. The main goal of this study was to explore the subjective experience of aging and reproduce this experience as a verifiable, Grounded theory. Our theory is compared and linked to the Theories of Gerotranscendence, Mindfulness, Socioemo

Attributions help us to explain events in our social world, that otherwise would seem disorganized and confusing. Once we make attributions, the flow of impressions become understandable and make our lives more predictable and meaningful. The purpose of this study was to find out if there were any relations between attribution style and personality and attribution style in relation to sex. With th

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of emotionally negative valenced pictures on the memory process. Appraisal theory of emotions was included as a framework for the understanding of how the emotional process functions with supplementation from evolutionary theory in order to develop the view. The memory process was understood in the frame of especially Tulving's (1986) distinct

In the present study, our aim was to investigate how emotional valence influences the recollective experience and confidence judgements of memory. We also investigated if subliminal manipulation can have a valence dependent effect on the realism in confidence judgements. In Experiment 1, the first phase involved participants being shown pictures and asked to select the pictures that had either neg

The purpose of this study was to evaluate what the employees of Luftfartsverket (Swedish Civil Aviation Administration) think is important for a socially and economically sustainable development. A qualitative questionnaire was designed and handed out to a random sample of the employees by email. The results showed that all the questionnaire's statements within the social dimension of sustaina

The present article deals with the risk perception of students within the field of HIV and AIDS. A questionnaire study with a 2 x 2 x 2 experimental design was conducted in order to assess the perceived risk of contracting HIV. The goal of the questionnaires was to measure the possible influence with regard to the texts (HIV prevention versus HIV causes economical problems in Africa), the optimist

This project has been carried out on behalf of ALMI Företagspartner and the regional council in south Sweden (Region Skåne). Its aim has been to look for eventual differences between, from a strict economical criterion, growing and non-growing female entrepreneurs. The study also investigates eventual differences between younger and older women leading companies successfully. Data collection was o

This report aims to investigate and increase the understanding for the recruitement process, and how recruiters create meaning. Within this area the focus is on recruiters implicit thoughts about applicants clothing and grooming, and how they evaluate these criteria in a CV. Five recruiters at different national companies where asked to answer questions about six candidate´s CV:s. Each CV had a ph