Search for dissertations about: "self-identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the word self-identity.

  2. 1. Women's entrepreneurial identities: a typology based on Insights from Entrepreneurship programs in two different contexts

    Author : Beldina Owalla; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Entrepreneurship provides a venue for individuals to (re)define their identities through their activities and vice versa. The overall aim of this dissertation is to understand women’s perceptions of their entrepreneurial identities in two different socio-cultural contexts. READ MORE

  4. 2. Approaching the future : a study of Swedish school leavers' information related activities

    Author : Frances Hultgren; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; information seeking; career guidance; young people; transition;

    Abstract : The focus of the thesis is on how school leavers deal with the flood of information, advice and expectations that are directed towards them at a structurally induced turning point in their lives. With a departure point in Giddens’ claim that people select and interpret information on their own terms as a means of preserving coherent narratives of self-identity, stories of information seeking were examined as a means of gaining insight into how young people living in late modernity face its tensions and dilemmas in the ways in which they seek and use information. READ MORE

  5. 3. Engagement in occupations in persons with Multiple Sclerosis

    Author : Eva Månsson Lexell; Hållbar vardag och hälsa i ett livsperspektiv; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; social environment; adaptation; identity; self; ADL; rehabilitation; occupational therapy; engagement in occupations; Multiple Sclerosis;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to increase our knowledge of engagement in occupations in persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in order to develop client-centred occupational therapy and rehabilitation. In study I, observations of the performance of self-care and household occupations were pursued in 44 participants, and study II identified self-perceived problems in performance of occupations in 47 participants. READ MORE

  6. 4. Socially Integrated Drug Users : Between Deviance and Normality

    Author : Sharon Rødner Sznitman; Robin Room; Adrienne Sörbom; Geoffrey Hunt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Socially integrated drug users; Sweden; Switzerland; drug normalization; mixed methods; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to improve our knowledge of substance users in the normal population. The main concern is with how the meaning of drug use is constructed. To answer this, the thesis draws on different theoretical principles and mixed methods design. The thesis is made up of four sub-studies, with interconnected foci. READ MORE

  7. 5. Migration, mental health and suicide : an epidemiological, psychiatric and cross-cultural study

    Author : Leena Maria Johansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : ethnicity suicide Finns psychiatric admissions self-reportedhealth meaning making systems.;

    Abstract : Background: In spite of restrictions in Swedish immigration policy during the 1990s, the foreign-born population (10.7% in 1996) is steadily increasing because of immigration of relatives of refugees and labor migrants. READ MORE