Search for dissertations about: "anxiety"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 1036 swedish dissertations containing the word anxiety.

  2. 21. Being in balance or stuck in time : exploring facets of time processing in relation to mental health

    Author : Elisabeth Åström; Maria Grazia Carelli; Britt Wiberg; Marc Wittmann; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Time perspective; Time estimation; Anxiety; Anxiety disorder; Balanced time perspective; Mental health; Subjective well-being; Clinical Psychology; klinisk psykologi;

    Abstract : Time is central in human functioning and crucial for adaptive behavior. The aim of the current thesis was to investigate aspects of people’s subjective experience of time and their relationship with mental health, specifically anxiety and subjective well-being. READ MORE

  4. 22. Diagnostic Aspects of Fear of Childbirth

    Author : Margareta Zar; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Fear of childbirth; W-DEQ; psychometrics; diagnostic test; anxiety; anxiety disorders; state fear; trait fear; delivery; mode of delivery; obsteric complications; riskfactor;

    Abstract : The first study presents the theoretical background of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) and an examination of this new instrument's construct validity and reliability. The W-DEQ has good reliability and measures the construct "fear of childbirth", when compared with other questionnaires. READ MORE

  5. 23. Moments of meaning – Towards an assessment of protective and risk factors for existential vulnerability among young women with mental ill-health concerns : A mixed methods project in clinical psychology of religion and existential health

    Author : Christina Lloyd; Valerie DeMarinis; Britt af Klinteberg; Wolfgang Rutz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Clinical population; depression; anxiety; existential anxiety; internalized symptoms; crisis of meaning; inhibition of aggression; identity; meaning-making; emotion regulation; sense of coherence; self-concept; disruption and repair; high affective moments; existential worldview function; ontological security; belonging; loneliness; sacredness; death; Religionspsykologi; Psychology of Religion;

    Abstract : The present sequential mixed-methods project was conducted in the area of clinical psychology of religion and existential health. The central aim of the project was to investigate clinically relevant areas for an assessment of protective and risk factors for existential vulnerability and dysfunctional existential meaning-making in a clinical sample of young women with mental ill-health concerns. READ MORE

  6. 24. Subjects of Feminism : The Production and Practice of Anxiety in a Swedish Activist Community

    Author : Kristian Sandbekk Norsted; Don Kulick; Fanny Ambjörnsson; Beverley Skeggs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anxiety; feminism; feminists; neoliberalism; political activism; Swedish culture; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Abstract : Anxiety is a zeitgeist of our time. The range of themes to which anxiety attaches today are truly vast, but anxiety arises and is cultivated in specific ways among different groups of people. READ MORE

  7. 25. Perspectives of anxiety in stressful environments : Prospective studies in real-life settings

    Author : Magnus Lindén; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Applied and experimental psychology; individual differences; executive control; prospective; anxiety; stress; Tillämpad och experimentell psykologi; stress;

    Abstract : The present thesis deals with perspectives of anxiety experienced in stressful environments. As such two major issues are addressed. The first issue is whether increased trait anxiety during work in a high-stress environment is related to impaired performance on executive control tasks. READ MORE