Search for dissertations about: "Enjoyment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the word Enjoyment.

2. 1. Paradoxical consumer enjoyment : A cultural perspective on cigarette consumption

   Author : Anna Felicia Ehnhage; Jacob Östberg; Carl Cederström; Andreas Chatzidakis; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Paradoxical enjoyment; cigarette consumption; consumer culture theory; consumer enjoyment; pleasure; psychoanalytically informed theories; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

   Abstract : In a time when health is seen as an important personal achievement, it is difficult to understand why people consume cigarettes. The explanations for cigarette consumption tend to be one-sided and the most common explanation are addiction and compulsive personality. READ MORE

4. 2. Feeling by Doing : The Social Organization of Everyday Emotions in Academic Talk-in-Interaction

   Author : Erica Sandlund; Moira Linnarud; Birgitta Johansson-Hidén; Anssi Peräkylä; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conversation analysis; emotions; social interaction; talk-in-interaction; institutional; embarrassment; frustration; enjoyment; academic seminars; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : The present dissertation is concerned with the social organization of emotions in talk-in-interaction. Conversation analytic procedures were used to uncover the practices through which participants in social interaction convey, understand, enact, and utilize emotions that are made relevant to the interaction. READ MORE

5. 3. Designing Activity and Creating Experience : On People’s Play in Public places

   Author : Jon Back; Annika Waern; Barry Brown; Oskar Juhlin; Staffan Björk; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; game design; play; activity; experience; enjoyment; fun; människa-datorinteraktion; Human-machine interaction; Mobile Life; Mobile Life;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with the design of play in public places; this can mean both pervasive games and other freer play activities. In these activities (as well as in many other game activities) the same game can spur many different ways to play it, and the same activity can be experienced differently by different players, and even differently on different occasions for the same player. READ MORE

6. 4. Dance Intervention for Adolescent Girls with Internalizing Problems : Effects and Experiences

   Author : Anna Duberg; Margareta Möller; Lars Hagberg; Helena Sunvisson; Töres Theorell; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescent Health; Body Awareness; Cost Effectiveness; Dance; Enjoyment; Physical Activity; Randomized Controlled Trial; Self-rated Health; Nursing Science; Vårdvetenskap;

   Abstract : Globally, psychological health problems are currently among the most serious public health challenges. Adolescent girls suffer from internalizing problems, such as somatic symptoms and mental health problems, at higher rates than in decades. READ MORE

7. 5. You Bet! : An Investigation of Market Positioning by Online Gambling Firms and Drivers of their Customers’ Gambling Intention

   Author : Jirka Konietzny; Esmail Salehi-Sangari; Albert Caruana; John B. Ford; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gambling; UTAUT; PLS-SEM; anticipated enjoyment; perceived fairness; DICTION; lexical analysis; hierarchical clustering; Industrial Marketing; Industriell marknadsföring;

   Abstract : Online gambling is a global multibillion dollar business that dwarfs all other forms of entertainment, and yet business and marketing research about it is scarce (Mizerski, 2013). The focus of gambling research has been on problem gamblers who ultimately represent a rather small, albeit important percentage of the gambling population. READ MORE