Being engaged can look different for each individual. So what does it mean to be a committed pedagogue at the after-school center today and how are students given a meaningful leisure time? The purpose of this study is to investigate how the student is affected by the pedagogue's commitment to the after-school center and what the reason may be to why the commitment is lacking. Our study is qualitative and the methods we have used are both structured and participatory observations together with subsequent group discussions with students. Our conclusion is that the pedagogue's commitment affects the student and has a great importance for motivation and the student's further desire to learn. It is the pedagogue who should be the confident, supportive, inspiring and motivating adult role model who gives the student the right conditions for further development and learning with regard to each student's individual characteristics. However, we see that the commitment can be difficult to maintain due to the framework factors that often set limits in leisure activities. Therefore, we hope, with our study, to highlight the importance of being engaged as an pedagogue and to give an eye-opener to what should be changed for the after-school centers to be of the best quality. / Att vara engagerad kan se olika ut för varje individ. Så vad innebär det att vara en engagerad pedagog på fritidshemmet idag och hur ges eleverna en meningsfull fritid? Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur eleven påverkas av pedagogens engagemang på fritidshemmet samt vad det är som kan vara anledningen till att engagemanget brister. Vår studie är kvalitativ och de metoder vi har använt oss av är både strukturerade samt deltagande observationer tillsammans med efterföljande gruppsamtal med elever. Vår slutsats är att pedagogens engagemang påverkar eleven och har en stor betydelse för motivationen och elevens vidare lust att lära. Det är pedagogen som ska vara den trygga, stöttande, inspirerande och motiverande vuxna förebilden som ger eleven de rätta förutsättningarna till vidare utveckling och lärande med hänsyn till varje elevs individuella egenskaper. Dock ser vi att engagemanget kan vara svårt att hålla vid liv på grund av de ramfaktorer som ofta sätter begränsningar i fritidsverksamheten. Därför hoppas vi, med vår studie, belysa vikten av att vara engagerad som pedagog samt att ge en ögonöppnare till vad som bör förändras för att verksamheten ska bli av bästa kvalitet.

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Problem: Det ställs allt högre krav på vårdpersonal och sjukfrånvaron är hög bland undersköterskor. Inom vård och omsorg förkommer psykosociala arbetsbelastningar. Detta har väckt intresse att undersöka undersköterskors psykosociala arbetsmiljö. Syfte: Denna studie undersöker om yrkeslivserfarenhet har en påverkan på de psykosociala faktorerna meningsfullhet och socialt stöd för undersköterskor inom hemtjänsten. Teori: Studiens teoretiska ramverk utgår ifrån Herzbergs hygien- och motivationsteori, kravkontroll-stödmodellen samt känsla av sammanhang (KASAM). Metod: Studien utgick från en kvantitativ metodologi. Urvalsmetoden var ett bekvämlighetsurval och bestod av undersköterskor som arbetade i tre kommuner (Skövde, Skara & Tibro). Totalt besvarade 71 respondenter enkätundersökningen. För att analysera data genomfördes två regressionsanalyser. Resultat: Resultatet kunde inte påvisa att den beroende variabeln yrkeslivserfarenhet påverkar de två oberoende variablerna meningsfullhet och socialt stöd. I analysen kontrollerades också effekterna av kön, ålder och kommun. Det är intressant att notera att faktorerna kön och kommun undersköterskorna arbetade i påverkar (p <0,05) socialt stöd. / Problem: There are increasingly high demands on nursing staff and sickness absence is high among assistant nurses. In care and socialcare, psychosocial workloads occur. This has sparked interest in investigating the psychosocial work environment of assistant nurses. Purpose: This study investigates whether professional experience has an impact on the psychosocial factors, meaningfulness and social support for assistant nurses in home care. Theory: The study's theoretical framework is based on Herzberg's hygiene and motivation theory, the demand-control-support model and sense of coherense (KASAM). Method: The study was based on a quantitative methodology. The study's selection method was based on convenience sampling. The sample consisted of assistant nurses who worked in three municipalities (Skövde, Skara & Tibro). A total of 71 respondents answered the survey. To analyze the data, two regression analyzes were carried out. Results: The result could not demonstrate that the dependent variable professional experience affects the two independent variables meaningfulness and social support. The analysis also checked the effects of gender, age and municipality. It is interesting to note that the factors gender and municipality the assistant nurses worked in affect (p <0.05) social support.

Vår studie är inom det fritidspedagogiska området och syftet är att undersöka fritidshemslärares syn på om det finns ett samband mellan sina relationer till eleverna och deras välbefinnande. Tidigare forskning visar på att det finns ett samband mellan goda relationer och elevernas välbefinnande. För att få svar på våra frågeställningar har vi intervjuat sex behöriga lärare i fritidshem från tre olika skolor i Stockholmsområdet för att ta reda på hur de konkret arbetar med elevernas välbefinnande och deras syn på relationer. Intervjuerna har varit kvalitativa med hög grad av strukturering. Undersökningen visade att fritidshemslärarna ser ett samband mellan det relationsskapande arbetet och elevernas välbefinnande men att de upplever elevgruppernas storlek som en utmaning, som påverkar arbetet med relationerna. Därefter har resultatet analyserats utifrån Antonovskys teori KASAM, känsla av sammanhang, som innehåller tre komponenter; begriplighet, hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet. Avslutningsvis diskuteras studien i förhållande till tidigare forskning, vald metod, förslag till fortsatt forskning samt hur studien kan bidra till professionsutvecklingen. / Our study is within the field of leisure education and the purpose of our study is to investigate educare centre teachers' views on whether there is a connection between their relationships with the students and students’ wellbeing. Previous research shows that there is a connection between good teacher-student relationships and students' wellbeing. To collect answers to our inquiries we have interviewed six certificated teachers in Swedish School age educare centre from three different schools in the Stockholm area, and examine how they concretely work with the students' wellbeing and educare centre teachers’ views on relationships. The study isqualitative and based on structured interviews. The research showed that the educare centreteachers see a connection between the work in relationship-building and the students' wellbeing. However, the results casted, challenges for large student groups and how it affects the work in relationship buildings. Subsequently, the result has been analyzed based on Antonovsky's theory SoC, sense of coherence, which includes three components; comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness. Finally, the study is discussed in relation to previous research, chosen method, proposals for continued research and how the study can contribute to professional development.

This research explores the relationship between sense of coherence, work engagement and organisational commitment in an automotive development institution in South Africa. The study was conducted through quantitative research. The study used the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ) to measure sense of coherence, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) to measure work engagement and the Organisational Commitment Scale (OCS) to measure organisational commitment. A biographical questionnaire was also used. The questionnaires were administered to a sample of 46 employees, 37 of whom were based in the company’s Pretoria office and nine at their Eastern Cape office. In view of the fact that the sample was small, 100 % of the population was included in the study. A theoretical relationship between the constructs was determined and an empirical study provided evidence of the degree of relationship that existed between them. The results reveal significant relationships to exist between some sub-scales, however, statistical significance could not be reached for some correlations. / Psychology / M. Admin. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

This philosophical, anthropological study within a fundamental agogic perspective, employed an existential phenomenological approach to find out what adulthood is, fundamentally. Adulthood as being-ethical, is a more adequate description than chronological, biological, psychological and sociological descriptions of adulthood. Finding out what being-ethical is, required investigating what it means to be human. Only humans exist, and must participate effectively in agogic-dialogic relationships to alleviate existential yearning and experience dignifiedness. A code of effective agogy is presented. This code is the basis for a universal, fundamental code of ethics which transcends particular moral codes and professional codes of ethics. The words "ethicals", "ethicalness" and "ethicality" are employed to name, respectively, individual requirements in the code; acting according to the code; and the inescapable interrelatedness of experiencing dignifiedness and adhering to ethicals. Detailed explanations are given of what it means to respond fundamentally ethically. Adultness, humanness and ethicalness are different perceptions of the same continuum. All humans, whether aware of it or not, have an unattainable ideal of perfect humanness, to which they must perennially progress in order to experience dignifiedness, and humanness entails perennially becoming more human. Since no human can become perfectly human, the ideal of perfect humanness can be called "God". This means that the code of humanness is also the code of Godliness and the word "spiritual" is used to distinguish fundamental God from religious Gods. Spiritual responsibility is the interrelatedness of being-questioning and being-questioned. Ultimately, a person's humanness is assessed against the ideal of perfect humanness, by his or her own spiritual conscience. Humanity is the interrelatedness of the realities of existentiality, agogicality, ethicality, and spirituality and humanness is the inseparability of the continua of existentialness, ethicalness, agogicalness and spiritualness. A detailed existential-ethical description of education is given. The thesis ends with a post-scientific view of what essentially agogic orientated (educative) teaching is, and four recommendations are offered to enhance the effectiveness of agogy in teaching and learning institutions. Despite an extensive and radical study, it is acknowledged that the mystery that is humanity, can never be totally revealed. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Philosophy of Education)

Die studie foku.s op die verwantskap tussen sin vir koherensie as 'n intrinsieke hanteringsbron aan die een kant, en elk van streshantering, algemene gesondheid en sielkundige uitbranding aan die antler kant. Vraelyste wat hierdie veranderlikes meet is aan 200 bestuurders gegee om te voltooi. Die bevindinge van hierdie studie toon aan dat bestuurders met 'n hoi! sin vir koherensie goeie algemene gesondheid geniet. Die bestuurder met 'n hoi! sin vir koherensie behoon dus meer e.ffektief te junksioneer in die werksiruasie as die bestuurder met 'n lae sin vir koherensie. Voons is ook bevind dar 'n hoi! sin vir koherensie nie noodwendig aanleiding gee tot lae vlakke van stres of van sielkundige uitbranding nie. Aanbevelings word gedoen oor hoe om die negatiewe gevolge van stres en sielkundige uitbranding te venninder en algemene gesondheid te bevorder, ten einde die bestuurder se potensiaal optimaal benut. / This study focuses on the relationship between sense of coherence as an intrinsic coping mechanism. and work stress, general health and psychological burnout. To measure these variables, questionnaires were completed by 200 managers. The findings of this study indicate that managers with a high sense of coherence experience good general health. The manager with a high sense of coherence should therefore junction more efficiently in a work situation·than the manager with a low sense of coherence. It was also found that a high sense of coherence does not necessarily lead to low levels of stress nor of psychological burnout. Recommentfations are made on how to reduce the negative effects of stress and psychological burnout and how to improve general health in order to make optimal use of the manager's potential. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / MCom (Bedryfsielkunde)

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)

Die studie foku.s op die verwantskap tussen sin vir koherensie as 'n intrinsieke hanteringsbron aan die een kant, en elk van streshantering, algemene gesondheid en sielkundige uitbranding aan die antler kant. Vraelyste wat hierdie veranderlikes meet is aan 200 bestuurders gegee om te voltooi. Die bevindinge van hierdie studie toon aan dat bestuurders met 'n hoi! sin vir koherensie goeie algemene gesondheid geniet. Die bestuurder met 'n hoi! sin vir koherensie behoon dus meer e.ffektief te junksioneer in die werksiruasie as die bestuurder met 'n lae sin vir koherensie. Voons is ook bevind dar 'n hoi! sin vir koherensie nie noodwendig aanleiding gee tot lae vlakke van stres of van sielkundige uitbranding nie. Aanbevelings word gedoen oor hoe om die negatiewe gevolge van stres en sielkundige uitbranding te venninder en algemene gesondheid te bevorder, ten einde die bestuurder se potensiaal optimaal benut. / This study focuses on the relationship between sense of coherence as an intrinsic coping mechanism. and work stress, general health and psychological burnout. To measure these variables, questionnaires were completed by 200 managers. The findings of this study indicate that managers with a high sense of coherence experience good general health. The manager with a high sense of coherence should therefore junction more efficiently in a work situation·than the manager with a low sense of coherence. It was also found that a high sense of coherence does not necessarily lead to low levels of stress nor of psychological burnout. Recommentfations are made on how to reduce the negative effects of stress and psychological burnout and how to improve general health in order to make optimal use of the manager's potential. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / MCom (Bedryfsielkunde)

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