Šis kūrinys yra apie tikslą, jo siekimą, vertę jo siekti bei apie pritapimą, vertę pritapti. Pateikti video darbai kalba apie vidinę būseną, kai kažkas daroma tik todėl, kad taip reikia daryti, todėl, kad tiesiog tai – tavo rutina. Kalbama apie nuolatinį „užsisukimą“ – nuolatinį absurdišką kartojimąsi, diena iš dienos. Taip pat apie siekimą padaryti kažką, kai tas kažkas yra kintantis dalykas, o darymas – ne. / This piece is about the purpose of the pursuit of the value of his reach, and about fitting into the value of adapt. The video works on the internal state of the language, when something is done just because you need to do so, because it is simply - your routine. This is a permanent "twisted" - constant repetition of absurd, day-to-day. It's also about striving to do something when that something is a dynamic thing, and doing - not.

Šis kūrinys yra apie tikslą, jo siekimą, vertę jo siekti bei apie pritapimą, vertę pritapti. Kalbama apie vidinę būseną, kai kažkas daroma tik todėl, kad taip reikia daryti, todėl, kad tiesiog tai – tavo rutina. Kalbama apie nuolatinį „užsisukimą“ – nuolatinį absurdišką kartojimąsi, diena iš dienos. Taip pat apie siekimą padaryti kažką, kai tas kažkas yra kintantis dalykas, o darymas – ne. Teorinis darbas „[Ne]pritapimas. Pasirinkimo beieškant“ yra skirtas žmogui, mąstančiam apie savo galimybes. Žmogui, kuris nenori plaukti pasroviui, o bando ieškoti savo sprendimų. Taip darbas kalba apie tikslo siekimo, pasirinkimo galimybes. Jame analizuojama praktinio darbo „Rinktis nesirinkti“ dalys, tokiu būdu tiriant, kiek yra tikslinga rinktis, ar verta rinktis ir ar apskritai yra tokia galimybė rinktis. Taip pat ir su pritapimu – darbas analizuoja svarbą pritapti prie visuomenės ir jausmą pritapus ar ne. Darbais skatinama susimąstyti, ką pats žiūrovas yra pasirinikęs ir kaip su tuo susigyveno, jaučiasi. / This piece is about the purpose of the pursuit of the value of his reach , and about fitting into the value of adapt . Jobs talks about the internal state of doing something just because you need to do so , because it is simply - your routine. This is a permanent " twisted " - constant repetition of absurd , day -to-day . It's also about striving to do something when that something is a dynamic thing , and doing - not. Work " choose not to choose " is created for a man who was thinking , what he seeks in his life. Is aware that since the birth of human life starts to follow, and not just settle . A person who seeks to create your own life choices and doubts . This is for the man who was thinking about his options. For someone who does not want to swim downstream while trying to search for their solutions. This work speaks about goal achievement , choice . It analyzes the practical work " Choose not to choose " parts, thus investigating the extent it is appropriate to choose whether or not to choose , and whether there is a choice . Also with fitting in - work examines the importance of fit in to society and a sense of fit in or not. Given incentives to wonder what the viewer is chosen and how that has settled feel .

Qualitative observational research, interviews, and student samples explain the complex social structure in my math classroom and my effectiveness as a teacher. The ethnographic narrative will be divided into four major sections. The major sections are Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D. Part A discusses how my personal and professional identity affect my performance in the classroom. Part B highlights action plans that support an English learner, a student with an IEP, and a student with a significant life experience. Part C explores how the demographics of the community and school site affect my classroom environment. Lastly, Part D presents my professional reflections and professional development plan. Together, these studies suggest skills needed to be an effective teacher involve more than expertise in mathematics. Effective teachers use critical self-analysis and their students’ funds of knowledge to create an inclusive and purposeful classroom. Keywords: identity, educator, social capital, purpose, effective

The proposed study will investigate the effects of animal companionship on the acculturative stress of international students at American universities and colleges. Language constraint will be examined as a possible moderator, and sense of belonging will be examined as a possible mediator in the effects of animal companionship on acculturative stress. Participants will be international students at the Claremont Colleges. They will first fill out demographic information, a sense of belonging scale, and an acculturative stress scale online. They will then come to the lab weekly, and be randomly assigned to either hang out with their peers, or engage in animal-assisted activities with dogs for one hour. The study will last four weeks, and at the end of the study, participants will fill out the sense of belonging scale and the acculturative stress scale again online. Participants in the animal condition are expected to report greater decreases in acculturative stress than participants in the game condition. Participants who are non-native English speakers will experience greater decreases in their acculturative stress than participants who are native English speakers in the animal group. Sense of belonging will mediate the effect of interaction with animals/people on acculturative stress. The results would then suggest that animal companionship helps alleviate international students’ acculturative stress, and future college counseling programs designed for international students should consider animal-assisted activities or therapy.

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The Child Welfare System is faced with an increasing number of children in foster care with a decreasing number of foster homes available for placement. By interviewing adults who were former foster children, this study examines the significance of one caring adult in the life of a foster child. Erik Erikson states that in the first stage of psychosocial development a child learns trust vs. mistrust. For many children entering foster care, this first stage of development has not been achieved, given their experiences in their biological families. In order to protect themselves during this time of mistrust, children exhibit behaviors designed to keep adults at a distance. This poses a problem for foster parents who must try to develop trust with their foster children in an effort to change their behavior. What if anything can be done to help these children learn to trust? The participants were asked to focus on specific behaviors at least one caring adult demonstrated that helped them as foster children, move through their past experiences of mistrust to a place of trusting that caring adult. The concept of attachment theory provided a foundation for the study. / Master of Science

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur lagerarbetare i ett svenskt grossistföretag uppfattar arbetsplatsidentitet och hur betydelsen av det påverkar upplevelsen av arbetet och välbefinnandet på arbetsplatsen. Vidare är syftet i studien att undersöka hur arbetsplatsidentitet påverkas av hur arbete och arbetsuppgifter är organiserade. Uppsatsens övergripande frågeställning är Hur påverkas arbetsplatsidentitet av hur arbete och arbetsuppgifter är organiserade? Social identity theory och Need to belong theory har använts i studien för att få en djupare förståelse om begreppet arbetsplatsidentitet. I studien tillämpas kvalitativ forskning genom sju semistrukturerade intervjuer för att samla in empiriskt material. Respondenterna i studien är lagerarbetare som har arbetat i minst ett år på grossistföretaget och har hunnit skapa en uppfattning om arbetsplatsen. Resultatet i studien visar att arbetsplatsidentitet är förknippad med känsla av tillhörighet till andra individer och till arbetsuppgifter. Ytterligare visar resultatet att arbetsplatsidentitet är betydelsefull för lagerarbetarnas välmående och inställning till arbetet. Vidare visar resultatet att arbetsplatsidentitet är kontextberoende och har större betydelse i arbeten som utförs i grupp. / The purpose of this study is to explore how workplace identity is perceived by warehouse workers in a Swedish wholesale company and how it affects their experience of work and wellbeing in the workplace. Furthermore, the purpose of this study is to explore how organizing work and work tasks affects workplace identity. This study's general issue is How is workplace identity affected by how work and tasks are organized? To gain a deeper understanding of the concept of workplace identity we have applied Social Identity Theory and Need to belong theory. To collect empirical material a qualitative research was applied in the study by doing seven semi-structured interviews. The respondents in our study consists of people working as warehouse workers, who had at least one year of experience in the company and developed an opinion about the workplace. The study results show that workplace identity is associated with a sense of belonging with other individuals and a sense of belonging to work tasks. Furthermore, the results show that workplace identity is of importance to warehouse employees wellbeing and work attitudes. Finally, the result shows that workplace identity is specific to the context and of greater importance in work that is performed in groups.

The world has been transformed through the internet into a "global village",and social media platforms have possibly transformed the world into a larger neighborhood covering many regions of the world. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter came into people’s lives through the Internet, growing daily at a large rate, and it has been proven that they are very popular. This study examines links between different phenomena through social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.). It is discusses cohesiveness, desire to belong, sense of community, beliefs and opinions about different forms of these phenomena in popular virtual platforms in correlation with trust in social media, criticism of information that is spread by these virtual platforms, and if people are influenced in consumer decision making. A questionnaire has been distributed to a convenient sample of 159 international and Swedish students in Sweden in October-November 2012 in both English and Swedish versions. According to the peoples’ answers, tendencies were observed such as to not trust the platforms, and also the information received, beliefs such that social media are "controlled", negative critique, but also an expression for a need for ‘membership’.

Both physiological and emotional arousal can increase romantic attraction towards a desirable potential partner. Such attraction reflects relationship-initiation motivation, a connection motivation directed at a new partner, because attraction increases the drive to pursue a social interaction or relationship with another person. Therefore, arousal appears to influence the need to belong, the inherent motivation for positive social interactions. A large body of research also reveals that self-esteem influences people’s pursuit of belongingness, especially during relationship initiation. Yet the literature linking arousal and attraction and the research linking self-esteem and attraction have never been connected. The present research shows that self-esteem moderates how arousal influences relationship-initiation motivation. To examine the moderating effect of self-esteem on the relation between arousal and relationship-initiation motivation, I conducted three studies. Study 1 involved manipulating women’s physiological arousal in an anticipated social interaction. Results showed that arousal directly increased relationship-initiation motivation for higher self-esteem individuals (HSEs) but not lower self-esteem individuals (LSEs). Study 2 replicated Study 1 with men, showing that arousal increased relationship-initiation motivation for HSEs but not LSEs, but in this case, the effect wholly depended on men applying a positive emotional label to their arousal. Study 3 involved manipulating both men’s and women’s arousal in an imagined social interaction. For women, arousal directly decreased HSEs’ but increased LSEs’ relationship-initiation motivation, the opposite result to Study 1. For men, arousal directly increased HSEs’ but decreased LSEs’ relationship-initiation motivation, replicating the results of Study 2. My package of studies connects self-esteem and arousal research, unifying two formerly separate subject areas. These findings provide an underlying mechanism (i.e., arousal) that explains how social risk interacts with self-esteem to influence relationship-initiation motivation. Consequently, my research increases the breadth and depth of current self-esteem theories. / Graduate