Search for dissertations about: "psychological adjustment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words psychological adjustment.

  2. 1. Surviving Cancer in Childhood : psychological and long-term adjustment

    Author : Krister Boman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Paediatric oncology; long-term cancer survival; long-term coping; mental health; Rorschach test; psychosocial late-effects; social adjustment; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : Psychological long-term coping, mental health, social adjustment, and memories of illness and experiences of medical care were investigated in 30 young adult childhood cancer survivors. Coping with illness and treatment was studied with reference to a theoretical model based on psychodynamic theory of the integration of a psychological trauma. READ MORE

  4. 2. Studies on children’s psychological adjustment to diabetes

    Author : Barbro Lernmark; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : insulin-dependent diabetes; depression; adaptation; adjustment; prospective; longterm; metabolic control;

    Abstract : Type I diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the daily life of the individual from diagnosis and for the rest of life. The patient is constantly reminded of the diabetes because of a daily, self-managed and demanding treatment. READ MORE

  5. 3. Individual differences in the reaction and adaptation to retirement - A psychological perspective on well-being in the retirement transition

    Author : Georg Henning; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Retirement transition; Well-being; adaptation; adjustment; personality;

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  6. 4. Change and Continuity in Psychological Health Across the Retirement Transition: Interindividual Differences and Post-Retirement Adjustment

    Author : Georg Henning; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adaptation; leisure activity; personality; retirement adjustment; self-determination theory; well-being; work motivation;

    Abstract : Retirement is an important life event. Individuals leave their place of work, which often played a vital part in their daily lives, and enter a new phase of life with new opportunities, new challenges and new roles. The overarching aim of the present thesis is to shed light on changes in psychological health across the transition to retirement. READ MORE

  7. 5. Childhood sexual abuse. Women's Mental and Social Health Before and After Group Therapy

    Author : Gunilla Lundqvist; Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; psychological symptoms; childhood sexual abuse; group therapy; Medicin människa och djur ; Medicine human and vertebrates ; social adjustment; social interaction;

    Abstract : The aim of the study was to evaluate changes in psychological and social variables before and after group therapy for adult women who were sexually abused in childhood. Other aims were to describe and evaluate the traumafocused group therapy by consumer satisfaction, to describe the women's health before group therapy start and to evaluate the impact of single childhood sexual abuse variables on mental and social health. READ MORE