Search for dissertations about: "affective"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 359 swedish dissertations containing the word affective.
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1. Affective Borderscapes : Constructing, Enacting and Contesting Borders across the Southeastern Mediterranean
Abstract : In the wake of a sociopolitically volatile era, which is increasingly characterized by the intensive and extensive proliferation of borders, the management of borders and migration are considered as predominantly rational and dispassionate processes. Their functions and filtering mechanisms, however, are increasingly underpinned by the instrumental top-down exertion of affective power and by the cultivation of emotional dispositions among political communities. READ MORE
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2. Affective motivation : Studies of its importance for entrepreneurial activities
Abstract : Motivation is a significant concept within the entrepreneurial process, referring to everything from identifying opportunities and generating or articulating ideas to evaluating opportunities and planning steps to form or launch an enterprise and then grow and develop that enterprise. Motivational drivers can be classified as non-affective (i.e. READ MORE
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3. Affective Ludology : Scientific Measurement of User Experience in Interactive Entertainment
Abstract : Digital games provide the most engaging interactive experiences. Researching gameplay experience is done mainly in the science and technology (e.g., human-computer interaction, physiological and entertainment computing) and social science (e. READ MORE
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4. Affective personality expressed in psychiatric patients
Abstract : In Study I, the influence of an affective personality type upon psychological health was examined in 100 psychiatric patients. Factors predicting positive and negative affect were studied in a comparison of the patients with a healthy norm group of 1925 individuals. READ MORE
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5. Simulation in university chemistry education : cognitive and affective aspects
Abstract : This thesis undertakes two main tasks; to explore, within the authentic educational context, variables that influence the quality and outcomes of the knowledge-constructing activity during the simulation exercise; and to find appropriate instruments and methods to measure these variables, processes and outcomes. Closed-ended tasks that provided a high degree of structure, i. READ MORE