Not everyone can understand the regular news reports that are broadcast on television. The Swedish public service television company (SVT) therefore produces the newscast News in easy Swedish (Nyheter på lätt svenska), where the language is simplified. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the comprehensibility of the audiovisual language in News in easy Swedish. Another purpose is to compare the level of comprehension in the audiovisual language in News in easy Swedish with that in SVT's regular newscast Aktuellt and Rapport. The foundation point is what content can be considered understandable for an audience who needs more time and more straightforward information than others in order to understand. The target audience could be, for example, people with cognitive disabilities. No individuals from the target group have been interviewed. Instead, knowledge of what is understandable to them has been obtained from projects where the target group is represented: Inclusion Europe (no date), Comprehensive text (Begriplig text) (2019) and EASIT (2021).  A total of seven news units have been transcribed, analyzed and compared. Five of these come from News in easy Swedish, one from Rapport and one from Aktuellt. The analytical methods utilized have been both quantitative and qualitative. The verbal auditory language has been analyzed using traditional readability methods, such as LIX and nominal ratio. Speech rate has been considered, but not inflection. The exposure time of images has been estimated and the presence of environmental noise has been noted. Subsequently, a qualitative analysis was made of how different semiotic resources interact. Finally, the results from the different news items were compared with each other.  The readability analysis illustrates that in the analyzed material there are no major differences in the level of verbal difficulty between News in easy Swedish, Rapport and Aktuellt. One of the news items on News in easy Swedish has the highest LIX and nominal ratio results, which indicates that it is the most difficult. At the same time, another news item from News in easy Swedish results in the lowest values, indicating that it is the easiest to comprehend.  No example was found in the material regarding how the semiotic resources counteract each other and thus affect information to becoming more difficult to understand. On the other hand, there are examples of news items where an improved collaboration between the semiotic elements could enable enhanced comprehension, for example through a more concise description of what is seen and heard. News in easy Swedish does not have its own film team but reworks material produced for other news programs. The program News in easy Swedish is just under five minutes long and is broadcast five days a week. The lack of own material and the short duration of newscasts are two factors that limit the prospect of creating comprehensible news for an audience who requires more time to be able to understand.

The key objective of this study was to determine the relationship between burnout (measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory – Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)), work engagement (measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale), and sense of coherence (measured by the Orientation of Life Questionnaire developed by Antonovsky (1987)). A quantitative study using a cross-sectional survey research design was conducted on a randomly selected sample (N = 178) of nurses at a central hospital in Kwa-Zulu Natal. A theoretical relationship was established between the variables. The empirical relationship revealed statistically significant negative relationship between burnout and work engagement. A statistically significant negative relationship was also established between burnout and SOC. The findings add valuable knowledge to industrial and organisational psychology and can be applied to promote employee and organisational wellness. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

För att främja hälsa och välbefinnande på arbetsplatser börjar ett perspektiv på arbetsmiljöarbete gå från att fokusera på vad som gör människor sjuka, till att fokusera på vad som gör människor friska. Ett hälsofrämjande arbetsmiljöarbete har därmed börjat att växa fram som innebär att utveckla, möjliggöra och bevara det som fungerar bra på arbetsplatsen. Känsla av sammanhang (KASAM), är en teori som myntades av Aaron Antonovsky (2005). Teorin kan användas i ett hälsofrämjande arbetsmiljöarbete då den kan ge en förståelse över vilka faktorer som kan främja hälsa. Begriplighet, hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet är teorins tre komponenter. Genom att stärka komponenterna kan hälsa främjas. Syftet med föreliggande studie är att skapa en förståelse för vilka faktorer som kan stärka känslan av sammanhang i arbetet och vidare beskriva hur känslan av sammanhang upplevs av de anställda på ett detaljhandelsföretag. Genom en abduktiv tematisk analys av åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer, studeras vilka förutsättningar arbetsgivaren ger de anställda för att stärka KASAM. Vidare studeras hur upplevelsen av känslan av sammanhang är ur ett medarbetarperspektiv. Studiens teoretiska referensram utgörs av Antonovskys teori känsla av sammanhang och dess tre komponenter. Utifrån intervjuerna visade det sig att det är ett öppet och familjärt klimat på företaget. Det visade sig även att de anställda stöttar varandra och är engagerade i sitt arbete. Av resultatet framkom att företaget har flera värderingar, varav en är tillsammans, vilket genomsyrar det mesta på företaget. Samtliga av de anställda tar fasta på värderingen tillsammans vilket präglar deras sätt att vara och agera. Genom värderingen tillsammans skapas en gemenskap på det undersökta detaljhandelsföretaget som är av betydelse för att stärka känslan av sammanhang. / To promote health and well-being at workplaces, a perspective on work environment management has shifted from mainly focusing on what makes people sick, to another perspective, what makes them healthy and causes well-being. Health-promoting work environment management has thus begun to emerge, which means developing, enabling and preserving what works well in the workplace. Aaron Antonovsky (2005), founded a theory: Sense of coherence (SOC), which can be used in health-promoting work environment management as it can provide an understanding of which factors that can promote health. The SOC theory's components are comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness and by strengthening the components, health can be promoted. The purpose of this study is to create an understanding of which factors that can strengthen the sense of coherence at work and also describe how the sense of coherence is experienced by the employees at a retail company. Through an abductive thematic analysis of eight semi-structured interviews, the prerequisites the employer gives the employees to strengthen SOC are studied. Furthermore, the experience on how the SOC is from the perspective of an employee are studied. The theoretical framework of the study is based on Antonovsky's theory sense of coherence and the three components. Based on the interviews, it turned out that there is an open and familiar atmosphere within the company. It also turned out that the employees support each other and are committed to their work. The results indicate that the company has several values, one of which is togetherness,which permeates most of the company. All employees adhere to the value togetherness, which characterizes their way of being and acting. Through the value togetherness, a fellowship is created within the retail company, which is important for strengthening the sense of coherence.