Differ from previous research which mainly focus on the organizational climate and social influence in the work environment, this study examined the effects of physical workspace; also we incorporated mood and habituation to the model. Regression analyses indicated that positive moods (relaxation and enthusiasm) mediates the relationship between physical workspace and creative performance. Habituation effects were found insignificant in this study. Results suggest that the physical workspace can best lead to creative performance by fostering positive relaxed and enthusiastic moods, we also concluded that the stimuli provided by immobile settings like physical workspace may be limited.

The content and understanding of student life has changed noticeably since the 1980s, and during this it also had to adapt the media and digital spaces into its existence as well. This can also be argued as having led to a change in how students perceive that they can create and maintain specific use of spaces within a work life balance for the student life. Under such terms, student life thus becomes focused on acquiring knowledge and skills through studies, identity creation, socialization and media literacy in present day context. It thus raises the question of how student work life balance can be different between male and female students, as while earlier research has mapped out the effect of student life during the pandemic, one also needs to explore how use of space, gender workload, social capital in a post pandemic setting. This has been done from a faculty perspective, where phenomenon such as gender norms, social capital and academic housework have shown that the workload between male and female professors are perceived differently as well as changing their view on work life balance and use of space. Thus, this thesis aims to explore how students use spaces in a manner that creates hybrid/third spaces that allows for creation of social capital and identity creation alongside being able to study in various places due to digitalization being present at the university, in their social media and their home. How the media presence has affected the student ability to plan a work life balance thorough use of hybrid spaces, and how use and space perception can differ between gender will be explored and analyzed through a thematic analysis and interviews with students. In the analysis it will then be explored with how perception of aspects such as workload, spatial use, normative expectation, media literacy and similarity themes to understand how they as factors create a normative growing ground for gendered expectations on male and female students. / <p>En masteruppsats från masterprogrammet i Geomedia vid Karlstad Universitet. Valde de nationella ämneskategorier som fångade in programmets inriktning.</p>