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Sambandet mellan emotionell empati, ångest och frontallobsfunktioner

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between emotional empathy, anxiety and frontal lobe functions. An experimental design was used in which two different groups; students (N = 54) studying law and medicine, participated by filling out two forms regarding state-trait anxiety (STAI, Y1 & Y2) and emotional empathy (QMEE) and executing five different neuropsychological test me

Arbetsterapeuten i en human serviceorganisation - Individ- och organisationsfaktorers påverkan på känsla av sammanhang och mening i arbetet.

I detta arbete undersöks empiriskt faktorers påverkan på känsla av sammanhang och mening i arbetet hos arbetsterapeuter, samt kvalitativt vilka fall som uppfattades som svåra i arbetet, och hur dessa kunde hanteras och bli meningsfulla. En enkät skickades ut till 225 slumpvis utvalda arbetsterapeuter, och besvarades av 139 personer. I enkäten ingick testen Stress, Feedbackskalan, Riktlinjer och vä

Stereotyper och falska minnen

What happens when people try to remember other, stereotype categorized, individuals based on fluency and familiarity? We examined this issue in our memory test of stereotypes and false memory. 19 males and 21 females participated in our test and the average age was 24.5 years. Each one did at first a few simple "yes-no" judgements for attractive-non attractive faces in combination with p

Är hjärnhalvorna selektivt specialiserade på positiva och negativa emotioner? En visuell halvfältsstudie

Thirty right-handed participants were presented with emotional pictures either to the left or to the right visual field. The pictures were shown for a duration of 150 ms to make sure that they were exclusively presented to one hemisphere only. Eye movements were recorded with electroocularogram for each participant throughout the test. A total of 30 pictures were chosen on the basis of their valen

Upplevelsen av att arbeta i storrum

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

Anknytningsstil i relation till symptomattribution, coping, stress och hälsa

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

Dialektisk beteendeterapi (DBT) i Sverige

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

Betydelsen av ledarskap och arbetsklimat samt stresshantering för känslan av sammanhang på arbetsplatsen

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

En studie av ledarskapets inverkan på organisationsklimatet på Landvetters flygplats

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

Sambandet mellan social kompetens och arbetsminne

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

Ledarskapsstil och organisatoriskt engagemang i relation till de anställdas välbefinnande

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

Regional cerebral blood flow as a diagnostic tool in frontal lobe dementia of non-Alzheimer type

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

Bakom det uppenbara... : en fenomenologisk studie om tankeprocesser bakom bedömningen av andra människor vid första intrycket

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

Påverkan på implicita attityder genom självinvolverings- och efterbeslutsprocesser

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

I riskzonen för ätstörningar II - visuo-perceptuell känslighet i relation till Weight Image

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

¨Föreställningsdiskrepans vid rekrytering¨

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

OM ÄLDRE En Grundad teori om tidsperspektivskifte som hanteringsstrategi av livets nedförsbacke efter 65 års ålder

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

Varför blev det så här? En studie av samband mellan attribution och personlighet respektive kön

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

How do negatively valenced pictures influenxe the episodic memory?

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