Search for dissertations about: "self-conscious emotions"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words self-conscious emotions.

  2. 1. More or less than human : the influence of shame on psychological distress

    Author : Lotta Strömsten; Elisabet Sundbom; Mikael Henningsson; Martin Bäckström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Shame; shame-proneness; guilt; self-conscious emotions; psychological distress; coping; attachment styles; Compass of Shame;

    Abstract : Background Shame is a powerful emotion involved in a wide variety of phenomena including psychopathology. The propensity to react with shame to situations of transgression is formed early in life, but the processes by which elevated shame-proneness causes higher levels of psychological distress and functional impairment in some people rather than in others is as yet poorly understood. READ MORE

  4. 2. Distress after criminal victimization : quantitative and qualitative aspects in a two-year perspective

    Author : Olof Semb; Elisabet Sundbom; Mikael Henningsson; Dan Stiwne; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; criminal victimization; posttraumatic distress; risk factors; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : This thesis explores distress and reactions after crime by a previously unknown perpetrator in a two-year perspective. Distress was investigated at eight months and two years, using quantitative and qualitative methods. READ MORE