Sökning: "Coping and adaptation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 53 avhandlingar innehållade orden Coping and adaptation.
1. Living and Coping with Cancer : Specific Challenges and Adaptation
Sammanfattning : The overall aims of this thesis were to prospectively investigate how specific challenges among patients with commonly occurring cancers are related to adaptation and well-being, to predict later well-being using a range of psychosocial aspects and to compare two ways of measuring coping with cancer. This was studied at diagnosis in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and their spouses and at termination of cancer treatment and during follow-up in a heterogeneous group of cancers. LÄS MER
2. When pain remains : Appraisals and adaptation
Sammanfattning : As the number one cause of sick absenteeism and disability pension, musculoskeletal pain is considered a major health problem in Sweden and many other industrialized countries. Medical findings are often insufficient to explain the pain’s intensity or duration, and psychological factors are known to be important in understanding the aetiology and maintenance of pain. LÄS MER
3. Low social support and disturbed sleep : epidemiological and psychological perspectives
Sammanfattning : The Swedish work force underwent dramatic changes during an economic crisis in the 1990s. In the aftermath, sick leave increased at an unprecedented rate and stress-related disorders, such as burnout, depression, and sleep disturbances replaced earlier work-related diagnoses. LÄS MER
4. Adaptation and ability in daily occupations in people with poliomyelitis sequelae
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5. Human Adaptation to Danger
Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of the thesis was to increase knowledge concerning how people adapt psychologically when faced with a real danger incident, and what implications these reactions and adaptation mechanisms have upon immediate performance. The thesis is based on three empirical studies concerning people with personal experience of dangerous incidents. LÄS MER