Search for dissertations about: "emotional resilience"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words emotional 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. 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

  5. 3. Being a Pediatric Oncologist: A Nationwide Study of Personal Resources and Difficulties When Working with Children with Cancer

    Author : Margaretha Stenmarker; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; physician; pediatric oncology; nationwide study; well-being; stress-resilience; life satisfaction; motivational factors; breaking bad news; emotional distress; instrument development;

    Abstract : Being a pediatric oncologist involves facing medical challenges, life-threatening conditions, psychosocial issues and existential provocation. The first nationwide study of 90 Swedish pediatric oncologists focuses on the psychological aspects for physicians meeting children with cancer, as well as physician-related factors promoting health and well-being. READ MORE

  6. 4. From exclusion to inclusion : Young people’s trajectories from home to street to reintegration in the Kagera region, Tanzania

    Author : Jeanette Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reintegration; children on the streets; child domestic workers; orphans; agency; resilience; social capital; life course perspective; Tanzania;

    Abstract : This thesis examines what causes children and young people to leave their homes, how they experience their situation on the streets and as domestic workers, and what facilitates them to reintegrate into their local community. A mixed methods approach was used, combining both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. READ MORE

  7. 5. Schooling Emotional Intelligence Through Narrative and Dialogue. Implications for the education of children and adolescents

    Author : Martina Campart; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arbetspsykologi; Industrial psychology; epistemic analysis; narrative modes of knowing; narrative modes of thought; modes of learning; conversation; applied psychoanalysis; Emotions; emotional intelligence; industripsykologi; Pedagogy and didactics; Pedagogik; didaktik;

    Abstract : Abstract The point of departure for this study is the author's experience as educator in a residential home for children (age 6-14) with social-emotional problems, in Italy, between 1980 and 1989. One important element of the pedagogical approach was the use of narratives (personal, of others, of fiction) to prompt children's interest/ motivation to reflect about issues of personal concern. READ MORE