Search for dissertations about: "personal satisfaction"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 101 swedish dissertations containing the words personal satisfaction.
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1. Quality of personal assistance: Shaped by governments, markets and corporations
Abstract : Background: Swedish personal assistance for people with severe disabilities became a legal right in 1994. The support is completely financed by the government and with a few exceptions transferred to External assistance providers (EAPs). There are three types of EAP; the municipality (i.e. READ MORE
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2. Spouses of Stroke Patients: Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction
Abstract : Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes in spouses' psychological well-being and life satisfaction between the first weeks, four months and one year after their partners' stroke and to study the associations between spouses' psychological well-being and life satisfaction and characteristics of the spouses and stroke patients at these three points in time.Method: Eighty-three consecutively recruited spouses of first-ever stroke patients < 75 years participated. READ MORE
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3. LIFE SATISFACTION AND FEELING HINDERED BY HEALTH PROBLEMS AT 60 YEARS AND ABOVE
Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to investigate how older people's capacity to perform activities of daily living (ADL), health, social and financial resources, and self-esteem can be related to their life satisfaction. The aim was also to investigate how people feel hindered by health problems in relation to their ADL capacity, health problems, social and financial resources, self-esteem, sense of coherence, and life satisfaction. READ MORE
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4. Nursing-Related Qualities, Personality and Work Satisfaction : Assistant Nurses in a Ten-Year Perspective
Abstract : The personalities and qualities of nursing personnel are considered to be of great importance for their interactions with patients and may also influence work satisfaction. The aim of the thesis was to explore the extent to which different personal qualities and personality factors, with a possible effect on motivation, professional conduct, and coping with anxiety, are represented in a group of assistant nurses (in Swedish undersköterskor), and how these qualities are related to nursing competence and long-range work satisfaction. READ MORE
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5. Life satisfaction in late life: Markers and predictors of level and change among 80+ year olds
Abstract : The overall aim of the thesis was to examine within-individual and between-individual changes in life satisfaction in the oldest-old using different time metrics and to study life satisfaction within the context of psychosocial and health-related variables. Data were obtained from the Swedish OCTO-Twin Study of individuals aged 80 and older who were able to complete the Life Satisfaction Index-Z (LSI-Z). READ MORE