Search for dissertations about: "existential identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words existential identity.

2. 1. 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

4. 2. Like circles on the water : a study of adolescent identity

   Author : Lena Adamson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Identity; late adolescence; self-concept; existential questions; adult contacts; personal integration; social integration.;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the subject of identity development during late adolescence (16-20 years). Three questions were asked, each related to one domain of interest; a) how do adolescents perceive and describe themselves (adolescents' self-concept), b) what do they consider important in their lives (adolescents' existential questions), and, c) how do they describe their contacts with adult people (adolescents' contacts with adults)? The thesis includes three studies and uses a multimethodological approach, comprising interviews, a personality inventory, sentence-completion tasks and questionnaires. READ MORE

5. 3. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

   Author : Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

   Abstract : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. READ MORE

6. 4. Empire and identity. Biographies of Austrian identity in an age of imperial dissolution

   Author : Fredrik Lindström; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Friedrich Naumann; Mitteleuropa; Karl Renner; Leopold von Andrian; Heinrich Friedjung; Josef Redlich; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Ernest von Koerber; biography; Habsburg empire; Austrian identity; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

   Abstract : This study deals with the problem of Austrian identity in the late Habsburg empire. The investigation departs from an understanding of this problem as situated in the juncture between the historical Austrian imperial experience and the process of modern Austrian identity formation. READ MORE

7. 5. Identity construction and memory after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage : Patients' accounts and relatives' and patients' statements in relation to memory tests

   Author : Elisabeth Berggren; Albert Westergren; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAH; Stroke; Pain; Memory; Decisions; Meaning-making; Identity-construction; memory tests; interviews; Medical sciences; Medicin;

   Abstract : Background: A Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is a complex pathophysiological event and most patients have, before the onset, felt completely well. Being stricken by a SAH is a dramatic event, often followed by unconsciousness and memory problems. This may influence the adjustment to daily life. READ MORE