Sökning: "gender and mindfulness"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden gender and mindfulness.
1. Mindfullness and meditation experience in relation to attention performance and psychological well-being among meditators and non-meditators
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this research project was to study mindfulness and its relation to attention and psychological well-being. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the construct of mindfulness and the mental health benefits associated with mindfulness based programmes, the relation between mindfulness and its proposed core component, self-regulation of attention, was studied. LÄS MER
2. Mind and body exercises : associations with mental health, antidepressant medication, autonomic functioning and inflammatory biomarkers
Sammanfattning : Stress, depression and stress-related mental ill-health are common in societies all over the world, and people tend to use both conventional care within the health care system and complementary treatment methods to handle the related symptoms. Still, there is sparse information on whether, how and when to combine these different treatment modalities, in spite of their relatively widespread use. LÄS MER
3. Analyzing self-report data : assessing basic psychological needs in education and at work
Sammanfattning : The overall aims of this thesis were 1) to investigate how to measure and model basic psychological needs in higher education and work contexts, specifically in Swedish-speaking populations, and 2) to analyze the psychometric properties of basic psychological needs self-report instruments.The thesis consists of four studies and a summary. LÄS MER
4. Empowering Women in the Middle East by Psychosocial Interventions : Can provision of learning spaces in individual and group sessions and teaching of coping strategies improve women’s quality of life?
Sammanfattning : Background: This study set out to construct a conceptual framework that can be used in social work with women in the Middle East and other settings where women have limited access to resources, which, as a result, limits their decision-making capacity. The framework has both an empirical and a theoretical base. LÄS MER