Search for dissertations about: "PEER GROUP INTERACTION"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words PEER GROUP INTERACTION.

2. 21. Social Relations and Health : How do the associations vary across contexts and subgroups of individuals?

   Author : Daniel Bergh; Curt Hagquist; Bengt Starrin; Viveca Östberg; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Relations; Social Capital; Health; Health Behaviours; School; Adolescents; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to study the association between social relations and health in different social spheres, and to examine possible interaction effects. Material and Methods: In Paper I, the link between measures of the psychosocial neighbourhood environment, the psychosocial working environment, and psychosomatic health is analyzed by using a subset of data from the survey Life and Health 2000. READ MORE

4. 22. Syntactic Variation in the Swedish of Adolescents in Multilingual Urban Settings : Subject-verb Order in Declaratives, Questions and Subordinate Clauses

   Author : Natalia Ganuza; Kari Fraurud; Paul Kerswill; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; syntactic variation; subject-verb inversion; non-inversion; language use in multilingual urban settings; multilingual youths; standard non-standard; Swedish; SLA; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism Research;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the use of word order variation, in particular the variable use of subject-verb inversion and non-inversion in main declarative clauses, among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Sweden. The use of non-inversion in contexts that in standard Swedish require inversion is sometimes claimed to be characteristic of varieties of Swedish spoken among adolescents in multilingual urban areas. READ MORE

5. 23. Social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents : assessment, maintaining factors, and treatment

   Author : Rio Cederlund; Lars-Göran Öst; Samantha Cartwright-Hatton; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anxiety disorder; youth; behavior therapy; parent involvement; assessment; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : The present dissertation consists of three empirical studies on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in a sample of Swedish children and adolescents. Based on findings made in a large behavior treatment study, the thesis contributes to the field of research on childhood SAD by investigating a factor that maintains the disorder, ways to measure and screen for diagnosis, and the treatment of the disorder. READ MORE

6. 24. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden

   Author : Lasse Vuorsola; Jarmo Lainio; Päivi Juvonen; Sari Pietikäinen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; applied linguistics; language policy; linguistic landscape; spatial orientation; dialectal change; minority language; shortened infinitives in Finnish; orientations to language policy; finska; Finnish;

   Abstract : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. READ MORE

7. 25. Targeting toddlers’ communication difficulties at the Swedish child health services – a public health perspective

   Author : Anna Fäldt; Steven Lucas; Helena Fabian; Natalie Durbeej; Gunilla Thunberg; Carmela Miniscalco; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Child; Child Health; Screening; Child Health Service; Augmentative and Alternative Communication; Pediatrik; Pediatrics;

   Abstract : Communication is fundamental for human interaction. Communication difficulties have a negative impact on children’s learning, relations, and quality of life and are regarded as a public health problem. READ MORE