Search for dissertations about: "cognitive resilience"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words cognitive resilience.

2. 1. Growing up with Dyslexia : Cognitive and Psychosocial Impact, and Salutogenic Factors

   Author : Gunnel Ingesson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Development psychology; neurophysiology; neuropsychology; Neurology; Resilience; Salutogenic Factors; Socio-emotional Outcome; Cognitive Stability; Developmental Dyslexia; Utvecklingspsykologi; Neurologi; neuropsykologi; neurofysiologi;

   Abstract : The studies in this doctoral thesis report aspects of cognitive and socio emotional development in a group of teenagers and young adults with dyslexia. The 75 subjects, between 14 and 25 years of age, had been diagnosed in the latter half of the 1990s, and the collection of quantitative and qualitative data was performed in 2003-04. READ MORE

4. 2. Mind over matter : Non-cognitive assessments for the selection of the Swedish voluntary soldier of peace

   Author : Charlotte Bäccman; Kjerstin Almkvist; Erik Wästlund; Lennart Sjöberg; Per-Olov Michel; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; personnel selection; personality; resilience; validation; military; international operations; Psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was firstly, to investigate if the current selection system mirrors the task of international deployment and voluntariness. Secondly, to investigate if and how non-cognitive assessments of personality and resilience, individual aspects that seem underrepresented in the current selection system, may increment validity to the current selection system. READ MORE

5. 3. Resilience and Religion in a Forced Migration Context : A narrative study of religiousness as a resilience factor in dealing with refugee experiences from a post-migration perspective of Bosnian refugees in Sweden

   Author : Selma Porobic; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; psychology of religion; positive psychology; religious meaning-making; religiousness; resilience; conflict-induced displacement; refugee experiences; forced migration; narrative; refugee-centred research; post-migration perspective; Bosnian war refugees in Sweden;

   Abstract : Until recently studies regarding the pathological aspects of refugee experiences have led the psychology field of forced migration, giving little space to positive factors like the resilience and well-being of individuals faced with these adversities. This doctoral thesis emphasizes good health rather than disease and aims at deepening the understanding of resilience and health as opposed to the dysfunction and disorder paradigm in the context of stressful forced migration experiences. READ MORE

6. 4. Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) : a maritime information service or traffic control system? : understanding everyday performance and resilience in a socio-technical system under change

   Author : Gesa Praetorius; Erik Hollnagel; Joakim Dahlman; Chalmers University of Technology; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Vessel Traffic Service; Traffic Management; Cognitive Systems Engineering; Resilience Engineering; Performance Variability; Functional Resonance Analysis Method FRAM ; Technology byts ev till Engineering ; Teknik;

   Abstract : Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) is a shore-side maritime assistance service that supports bridge teams in their safe navigation of port approaches and other areas that present navigational difficulties. The VTS is implemented in national waters and provides vessels with information through transmissions and broadcasts on Very High Frequency (VHF) radio. READ MORE

7. 5. Escalation: Explorative studies of high-risk situations from the theoretical perspectives of complexity and joint cognitive systems

   Author : Johan Bergström; Lunds universitets centrum för riskanalys och riskhantering (LUCRAM); []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; escalation; resilience engineering; crisis; emergency; patient safety; simulation; complexity; joint cognitive systems;

   Abstract : The main aim of the research is to explore different aspects of organisational resilience in escalating situations, with an investigation of both theoretical and practical implications. From the platform of an explorative approach, this study makes use of naturalistic research in the domain of health care and experimental simulation studies, in order to establish a broad theoretical framework vis-à-vis the processes of escalation. READ MORE