According to traditional research in subjective well-being, the more pleasant emotions we experience, the more satisfied with life we are. But according to newer research, our physical and mental health, including satisfaction with life, also depends on the emotional diversity between the positive and negative emotions we experience, and the difference between the emotions we desire and those we a

The aim of this study was to explore how first line managers in municipal elderly care describes the personnel situation when it comes to sick leave and staff turnover, and how first line managers work to create well-being among employees in the workplace. To collect data, seven qualitative interviews were made with first line managers who worked within municipal elderly care. The analysis of the

As social desirability has not received enough focus when estimating the predictive power of personality in explaining well-being variance, recent accounts of the relationship between ratings of personality and well-being might be overestimated. The current study investigated the influence of social desirability, operationalized as the evaluative factor of personality (i.e., the tendency to react

Dividends effect on stock prices and shareholders return is a disputed subject in finance. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on the existing research both the effect of dividends in general and on stocks on the Swedish market in particular. This thesis establishes an index of stocks with 5 or more years of dividend growth for at least the last 5 years on the Swedish market, by comparing this

The scope of this thesis was to examine how members of the Swedish Parliament construct the Swedish Activity Compensation scheme in contemporary legislative debate. This study sought to fulfil this scope by applying Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse analytical approach to fifteen records of proceedings portraying debate in the Swedish Parliament, ranging from the parliamentary year 2015/16 to 2019/20.

Bakgrund: Ångest är ett stort hälsoproblem i dagens samhälle. Patienter upplever att de många gånger enbart blir erbjudna medicinsk behandling, trots att de önskar andra behandlingsalternativ. Syfte: Att beskriva patienters upplevelser av komplementära och alternativa behandlingsmetoder vid ångest. Metod: En litteraturstudie har genomförts där resultatet är baserat på åtta vetenskapliga artiklar.

Den här studien undersöker betydelsen av högre bildkonstnärlig utbildning och social bakgrund för yrkeskarriärer inom det konstnärliga fält som informanterna verkar inom. Utgångspunkten är att professionella banor inom fältet präglas av osäkerhet och studien har som avsikt att diskutera den betydelse skolgången har för deras nuvarande och framtida position som konstnärer och vilka sociala, kulture

I uppsatsen studeras auktoritet i en jämförande semiotisk analys av fotografier av den amerikanska ursprungsbefolkningen mellan tidigt 1900-tal och 1930-talet. Analysen görs utifrån teorierna postkolonialism och representation. Studien tar även upp ackulturation och genom att studera fotografier av den amerikanska ursprungsbefolkningen försöker skribenten ta reda på hur förändringen till följd av The author studies authority in photographs of Native Americans between 1900 and 1930's and compares them using a semiotic analysis. The theories that are applied on the analysis is post colonialism and repesentation. The author studies the photos of the Native Americans to see how the changes brought on them by the acculturation is shown in the photos.

Denna uppsats behandlar företrädesrätt till återanställning och hur den påverkas av möjligheten att hyra in arbetskraft. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur företrädesrätten regleras, huruvida inhyrning av arbetskraft kan vara ett kringgående av lagen samt hur företrädesrätten påverkas av inhyrning av arbetskraft. För att uppnå detta används en rättsdogmatisk metod. Företrädesrätt till återaThis paper examines the priority right to re-employment and how it is affected by the possibility to hire temporary workers. The purpose is to investigate the regulation of the priority right to re-employment; whether hiring of temporary workers can be considered a circumvention of the law; and how the practice of hiring temporary workers impacts the priority right. This is achieved by using a leg

The aim of this study was to understand how the Swedish district court makes decisions concerning transfer of custody based on the best interest of the child, child’s will and parents rights of their child. The method for this study was a qualitative content analysis of 17 verdicts from the Swedish district courts when a child has been placed in a family home and the child custody case begins. The

Loneliness as a social issue has been gaining extensive interest in recent years, but the subject has lacked results stemming from qualitative research and the link between loneliness and low income has been understudied. This thesis is one minor part in covering these both gaps. I have aimed at using previous quantitative findings on loneliness among low income earners in order to expand on the l

In the emerging trend of smartphone use and a rising demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) power worldwide, this master thesis project explores the potential to utilize commercially available fisheye lens optics in combination with a smartphone camera to capture and analyze local shading conditions. Photogrammetric studies involving hemispherical sky photos have since long been used for environmental

This thesis analyzes how digitalization in elderly care affects cost-efficiency and quality of care. More specifically, digitalization in elderly care is divided into welfare technologies and E-services. The study goes into how well digitalization meets its promises of solving many of our society's future problems regarding elderly care, such as an aging population. In order to analyze this, I

Mäns våld mot kvinnor har på senaste tiden uppmärksammats, men har sedan lång tid tillbaka varit ett stort problem. Tidigare sågs det som en privat angelägenhet inom familjen medan det idag förstås som ett offentligt problem som berör flera i samhället samt flera samhällsområden. Avvikelseförklaringar till våldet har tidigare präglat förståelsen kring mäns våld mot kvinnor och frågan om våld har sMen's violence against women has recently attracted a lot of attention but has been a major problem for a long time. Previously, it was seen as a private matter within the family, while today it is understood as a public problem that affects many and several areas of society. Explanations of deviations in individuals to violence have previously characterized the understanding of men's viol

Danish migration policy became extremely restrictive after the 2015 migration crisis, with the most striking measure being the amendment of the Aliens Act in June 2021. This law allows the Danish government to negotiate a deal with a third country to process asylum applications outside of Denmark. During the 1980s, migration policy in Europe was securitised, portraying migration as a threat to the

The Swedish public sector has experienced an extensive change towards a more market-oriented structure since the latter part of the 20th century. This essay examines how ideas regarding welfare production in modern day Sweden can be linked to three different principles: a communitarian principle, an autonomous principle and an economic principle . By applying a theoretical framework in a descripti

In the Church of Sweden, priests do not have a specific vow concerning their personal prayer life, which some other church traditions in the world do have. Concerning this, the purpose of this paper is to give a picture of how newly ordained priests in the Church of Sweden, more specifically the diocese of Lund, describes their personal prayer and whether the priests feel that they have received t

The aim of this study was to explore social workers’ experiences with the assessment tool UngDOK at Maria clinics in Skane. The past 30 years has seen a rise in popularity of evidence based practices and increased requirements for scientific evidence of the effects of various treatments. Several manual based evaluation and assessment instruments have been implemented in the field of social work in

In contemporary tourism, technology enables travelers to make travel arrangements in various ways, for example they can reserve tickets directly from airlines company’s website or purchase products from online travel agencies. Considering that travelers have many alternatives but insist in making transactions with traditional travel agencies, there must be something that makes traditional travel a

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva personers upplevelse av att genomgå elektrokonvulsiv terapi i samband med djup depression. Metod: En litteraturstudie där relevanta artiklar inom området söktes i databaserna PsycInfo, PubMed samt CINAHL. Elva artiklar analyserades och lades till grund för litteraturstudiens resultatdel. Artiklarna analyserades med hjälp av integrerad analys och två huvud