Residential reasoning is a complex process that includes decisions on whether to age in place or to relocate. Ageing in the Right Place (ARP), a web-based housing counselling service was created to support older adults in this process. The study’s aim was to evaluate the usability of the ARP as regards content, design, specific functions, and self-administration as a mode of delivery and to lay th

The objectives were to translate the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate psychometric properties for use among persons 55 years and older in Sweden. The UJACAS contains 17 items to be self-assessed regarding goals, abilities, opportunity, and activity. Psychometric properties content validity, data quality including floor a

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the use of creative techniques in documentary: Dear Zachary through visual storytelling. As well as analyze how the use of visual storytelling in Dear Zachary relates to theoretical boundaries within documentary filmmaking and the concerns from the journalistic field. The documentary: Dear Zachary is an inspiring story about grief, love and perseverance. This c

Denna studie undersöker hur ålder påverkar stödet för välfärdsstaten som ett mått på ideologiska förändringar bland unga medborgare i Sverige. Denna studie bygger på data från European Social Survey från 2020 med vilken studien utför en statistisk tvärsnittsanalys för att undersöka stödet för välfärden bland unga i jämförelse med andra åldersgrupper vid en viss tidpunkt. Tidigare forskning indiker

Today’s media form an essential part of how we understand the world around us. The purpose of the study is to investigate in which negative ways immigrants are presented in news articles Aftonbladet, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter during the period 2016-2023. This survey is based on a qualitative content analysis of twenty articles from Sweden’s most famous mass media. The results indicate that Swed

From the perspective of discourse analysis, this paper analyzes how homosexuals are portrayed in the Swedish daily press during the year of 1944 when homosexuality became legal. This is done by qualitatively analyzing 12 news articles from three major national Swedish newspapers; Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. The analysis revealed three recurring themes in the portrayal of hom

I denna fallstudie kommer det virala sociala mediefenomenet “Get Ready With Me” (GRWM) att utforskas. Genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys har vi analyserat detta fenomen, för att kunna redogöra för hur Get Ready With Me-videor främjar ett inkluderat flickskap samt formar unga tjejers identiteter. Vårt analyserade material består av olika kreatörers Get Ready With Me-videor från plattformen TikTok.

Denna studie undersöker digital feminism med utgångspunkt i TikTok-trenden “girlhood”. Studiens syfte är att belysa hur tjejer och unga kvinnor genom deltagande i trenden gör uttryck för en digital feministisk aktivism. Därtill har vi studerat hur “girlhood”-trenden kan betraktas som ett forum där tjejer och unga kvinnor ges utrymme att samlas kring upplevelsen av vad det innebär att vara tjej ell

Denna studie undersöker vad som driver kriminalitet hos människor. Studiens syfte är att, genom kvalitativa intervjuer, analysera vilka emotioner som aktualiseras i kriminaliteten, på vilket sätt de brottsliga handlingarna neutraliseras och hur vägen bort från kriminalitet gestaltas. Det empiriska materialet består av livsberättelser från fyra kvalitativa intervjuer med människor som påbörjade s

De flesta organisationer strävar efter en låg personalomsättning då uppsägningar kan kosta både pengar och kompetens. För att få personal att stanna på en arbetsplats krävs ett arbete med strategier och andra initiativ. Genom att utgå ifrån en personalvetares perspektiv är syftet med uppsatsen att öka förståelsen kring vilka strategier som används för att behålla personal. Tre frågeställningar har

Distansavtalslagen har genomgått flera lagändringar och utvecklats i samband med digitaliseringens utbredning. Det har medfört en ökad användning av digitala tjänster och varor med digitalt innehåll. Utformningen av distansavtalslagens konsumentskyddande bestämmelser har även påverkats av moderniserade EU-rättsakter, som införts i syfte att harmonisera bestämmelserna för den gränsöverskridande hanThe Act on Distance Contracts and Off-Premises Contracts has undergone several changes to the law and developed in connection with the spread of digitalisation. This has led to increased use of digital services and goods with digital content. The design of the Distance Contracts Act's consumer protection provisions has also been influenced by modernized EU legislation, which was introduced wit

ABSTRACT In 2021, we were designing a research study in Sweden in which we planned to use newspaper articles focusing on children and adolescents under the age of eighteen during the Covid-19 pandemic as empirical material. As we developed this study, an ethical question arose: do studies using journalistic articles that may contain health information about individuals as empirical material have t

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has in its safety survey from 2023 determined that 53% of Sweden's population are concerned about the criminal activity occurring in the society. Furthermore, studies also found that half of the students in grade 9 participated in at least one criminal activity within the last 12 months. Therefore, this study aimed to get a better understanding

The matters of economic growth and climate change are both widely subjected to discussions and policymakers are under immense pressure to make decisions that enhance economic growth and stop climate change. Policies that ensure economic growth have traditionally had a negative impact on climate change and vice versa. It is therefore important to study how various policies can address the connectio

This paper aims to investigate the topic of education and economic growth in 38 OECD member states in eight five-year periods between 1975–2015. The main focus is to study the relationship of two aspects of education, quantity and quality, to see if there is a relationship to growth. As a quantitative measure, education is measured as the school enrollment rates on a primary- and secondary level.

This paper examines the effect of the covid-19 pandemic as well as the Russia-Ukraine wars’ implications on 6 larger stock markets in Europe and North America using the Markowitz mean-variance theorem to test for changes in the minimum variance portfolios, efficient frontiers and portfolio composition. I could draw several conclusions from governments responses during both crises. Both shocks led