Sökning: "emotional vulnerability"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade orden emotional vulnerability.
1. Utsatthetens röster
Sammanfattning : Den här avhandlingen handlar om ungdomar i samhäilsvård och deras livsberättelser, om erfarenheter av att växa upp under kaotiska livsvillkor som karaktäriseras av psykiska problem, trasiga relationer, och andra fotmer av social utsatthet. Syftet är att undersöka hur ungdomar som är placerade i samhällsvård använder sina erfarenheteter för att skapa mening och sammanhang kring sig själva och sina liv. LÄS MER
2. Does the way in which we perceive the world make us susceptible to anxiety?
Sammanfattning : One major focus of anxiety research in recent years has been the identification of cognitive factors that promote increased vulnerability to anxiety. Cognitive formulations propose that anxiety is characterised by an increased tendency to attend to negatively valenced emotional information, and that this bias may play a causal role in the development and maintenance of clinical anxiety. LÄS MER
3. Tjejers våld. Våldets tjejer. : en diskursanalytisk studie om våld, kön och femininitet
Sammanfattning : How is girls’ violence constructed and given meaning? In what ways are girls who use violence positioned? This thesis explores how girls’ violence is given meaning within different contexts, with a specific focus on the significance given to notions of gender and femininity. It is based on two studies. LÄS MER
4. Preferential Processing: a factor with implications : Personality traits as explanatory factors
Sammanfattning : Preferential processing favouring threatening information has received increased attention because cognitive formulations have placed increased emphasis on its role as a key cognitive factor underlying vulnerability to and maintenance of anxiety disorders. The present dissertation comprises four empirical studies within the area of preferential processing. LÄS MER
5. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. LÄS MER