Search for dissertations about: "dissertation about anger"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words dissertation about anger.

2. 1. Hope and worry : exploring young people's values, emotions, and behavior regarding global environmental problems

   Author : Maria Ojala; Håkan Stattin; Birgitta Höijer; Anders Biel; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Psykologi; Psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores young people’s engagement concerning global environmental problems. To be able to reverse these problems, it is vital to involve the public in the strivings for a sustainable society. However, environmental problems are complex, imbued with uncertainties and ambivalence. READ MORE

4. 2. The Prometheus Complex : Striving for competence

   Author : Renée Perrin-Wallqvist; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Childhood; Fire setting; Adolescence; Psychology; Development psychology; Psykologi; Utvecklingspsykologi; Psykologi;

   Abstract : The purpose of the present investigations was to obtain a more comprehensive view of fire setting by children and adolescents; to explore the prevalence of the phenomenon; whether or not it experimentally may be related to frustration or boredom and to examine the role of personality traits such as optimism, pessimism and creativity. This dissertation consists of two experimental and two interview studies. READ MORE

5. 3. Sentiments of Segregation : The Emotional Politics of Apartheid in South Africa, c. 1948-1990

   Author : Jagger Kirkby; Forskarskolan i historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; apartheid; history of emotions; South Africa; race and racism; cultural history; Segregation;

   Abstract : This dissertation studies the relationship between emotions and the everday application of apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1990. Histories of apartheid have long been politics-driven, focusing on the rise and fall of the regime with its reception being studied primarily through the lens of the popular struggle that, in part, led to apartheid’s downfall. READ MORE

6. 4. Perplexities of the personal and the political : how women's liberation became women's human rights

   Author : Valgerdur Palmadottir; Sara Edenheim; Lena Eskilsson; Clare Hemmings; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Feminist theory; Women’s liberation; Human rights; Women’s rights; People’s tribunals; Consciousness raising; the personal is political; International feminist activism; Feminism; politisk teori; personligt och politiskt; privat och offentligt; politiska subjekt; mänskliga rättigheter; medvetandehöjande; folkliga tribunaler; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : In this dissertation, I analyze understandings and employment of the idea that ‘the personal is political’ and how it appears in feminist politico-theoretical thought and activism in the period from the late 1960s until the middle of 1990s. My focus is primarily on the uses of personal stories in activism at the intersections of politics and legal discourse. READ MORE