Migration of humans have always existed and therefore people have changed their standard of living over the years. Because of immigration the lack of residences has always been more or less a problem. The solutions through the decades have been Barnrikehus, Folkhem and Miljonprogrammet. Today people are emigrating from their countries because of conflicts and natural disasters due to the climate changes. This leads to immigration and the population of Sweden is rising. At the same time the need for new residences increases. Recently, in 2016, Boverket came out with a new prognosis that there is a need of 150 000 new residences until year 2025. At the same time the useful areas in bigger cities starts to fade. A new solution is to build floating homes on watermirrors. The aim of this study was to get an understanding if floating homes are a modern solution to the lack of residences or just a small-scale type of living. The conclusions are based on a mapping of planed and performed floating projects in Sweden. Further, there was an aim to find out if floating homes are something for the northern part of Sweden in Lycksele, Västerbotten.   The first part of this study contained a literature study were waterproperties, permanent floating homes and restricted access to the shore was defined.  The second part was a case study were a qualitative study was implemented with interviews of the inhabitants. The selections of inhabitants were based on gener and age. Interviews was also performed with the Building Department and with community planer. Finally, the case study ended up in a proposal with floating homes located on Hawaiiudden, Lycksele. Hawaiiudden was the most appropriate location due to an inventory of 6 watermirrors with different benefits and disadvantages. The proposal was a two storey house with an open design and possibility to affect the number of bedrooms from 2 to 4. The exterior was a discreet and curious architecture inspired from classic  boathouses in the southern part of Sweden but with characteristics from north.  The result of the interviews showed that the inhabitants have an interest in floating homes but many holds back by the fear of waterdamages, risk of children drowning and economical perspectives. Many fears can be reduces by knowledge. When it comes to the location of these homes, almost half thinks that Lycksele is not the right place. It stays a riddle where the hesitant people think these homes should be placed. Summery, you can say that floating homes is something new-thinking and innovative that has not reached all parts of Sweden yet. There is a lot of missing knowledge and the law has some catching up to do. If Sweden in the future will have floating homes as a natural element in detail plans and city planning remains to see.

Emerging adulthood is a term coined to recognize 18 to 25 year-olds who engage in self-exploration while not yet fully identifying as adults. Many emerging adult college students experience stress, anxiety, and depression. Although many colleges provide affordable and available mental health resources for students, many students who need help appear to not utilize these services. Gaining greater understanding of underlying processes that influence psychological treatment-seeking behavior is imperative. The current study sought to explore the role experiential avoidance (EA) plays as a treatment-seeking barrier in the context of emerging adulthood. Undergraduate students completed online measures of emerging adulthood dimensions, psychological symptoms, EA, self-stigma of, perceived public stigma of, intentions to, and attitudes and beliefs towards seeking treatment, treatment seeking behavior, and a demographics questionnaire. Binomial hierarchical logistic regressions and correlational analyses examined the relationship of EA and treatment-seeking behaviors, accounting for known barriers and emerging adult characteristics. After controlling for demographic variables, results indicated that EA was significantly positively correlated with self-stigma (r = .187), p < .001), perceived public stigma (r = .178, p < .001), intentions (r - .207, p < .001), psychological symptoms (r = .713, p < .001), and attitudes and beliefs (r = .009, p = .003). These and other findings are discussed further, along with the study limitations and implications, as well as possible future directions for work in this area.

Urininkontinens är inte en sjukdom i sig utan ett symtom på bakomliggande orsaker. Att bli inkontinent kan ha flera olika förklaringar, men ofta är behandlingsmöjligheterna goda. Att vara urininkontinent kan bland annat innebära en stor negativ påverkan på livskvaliteten, utgöra en form av begränsning, vara en stor skam samt innebära att inte ha kontroll över sin kropp. Urininkontinensen är ett vanligt problem där många personer förblir obehandlade. Vi söker en bättre förståelse för bakomliggande hinder som påverkar personers val att söka vård. Med bättre förståelse för varför dessa personer inte söker hjälp kan sjuksköterskan bättre nå ut och möta deras behov. Detta arbete skall belysa hinder till att personer väljer att inte söka vård vid urininkontinens och bygger på den forskningsmodell som kallas att bidra till evidensbaserad omvårdnad med grund i analys av kvalitativ forskning. Till denna modell valdes en kvalitativ analysmetod, där analysmaterialet utgjordes av åtta artiklar.Ur analysen framkom sex teman som utgör hinder för personer att söka vård; ”Attityder till urininkontinens”, ”Skam och genans”, ”Ej vara till besvär”, ”Rädsla för behandling/undersökning”, ”Kommunikationsbrister” samt ”Kulturkrock”. Vissa teman byggs upp av subteman. Diskussionen utgörs av reflektioner kring personers attityder till sin kropp med stigande ålder, personers upplevelser av skam som hinder, kunskapsbrister som hinder samt att ej vara till besvär. / Program: Sjuksköterskeutbildning

<p>In everyday life we perform motor behaviours that have no apparent instrumental function. Are these correlated to sensation seeking and do they differ depending on what situations we are in? University students in Örebro (N=108), participated in the study. The participants were asked to fill out a double questionnaire containing the sensation seeking scale and another one for measuring non-productive motor behaviours. The non-productive motor behaviours were not correlated to the sensation seeking scale. The behaviours where reported in a way that suggest that they are more than just random occurrences. We tend to perform more of these behaviours if we need to make an effort to stay concentrated.</p> / <p>Vi utför i vårt vardagliga liv motoriska beteenden som inte har någon uppenbar instrumentell funktion. Är dessa korrelerade till sensation seeking och skiljer de sig beroende på i vilken situation vi är i? Universitetsstudenter i Örebro (N=108) deltog i studien. Deltagarna ombads att fylla i ett dubbelt frågeformulär innehållande sensation seeking skalan samt ytterligare ett formulär för att mäta icke-produktiva motoriska beteenden. De icke-produktiva beteendena visade sig inte vara korrelerade till sensation seeking. Beteendena rapporterades på ett sätt som tyder på att de är mer än slumpmässiga företeelser. Vi tenderar att utföra fler av dessa beteende ju mer vi behöver anstränga oss för att koncentrera oss.</p>

This study investigated computer users’ help-seeking behaviors within the context of accomplishing a novel and challenging computer task. In addition, this study examined how different help-seeking behavioral variables relate to both personal factors and outcome measures in an exploratory manner. Finally, a structural model examined the effect of personal factors on task performance through the mediating function of help-seeking effectiveness. A total of 67 undergraduate students participated in the study. Participants were asked to perform a challenging task in Microsoft Word. The usability software MORAE was used to record the interactions between participants and computer systems. Participants had access to five help sources: “F1 help,” “reference book,” “the Web,” “video tutorial,” and “lab assistant,” which differ in media type (electronic vs. non-electronic) and interactivity levels (high vs. low). This study found that participants showed a wide range of help-seeking behaviors. Some participants were more active in seeking help than others. Participants also engaged in different help-seeking patterns when using different help sources. A dominant help-seeking strategy was to stay with the same source used in the previous help-seeking episode. Help-seeking behavior affected task performances, but personal factors had no significant effect on help seeking or task performances. Based on the findings, the research value of this study, its practical implications, its limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

In everyday life we perform motor behaviours that have no apparent instrumental function. Are these correlated to sensation seeking and do they differ depending on what situations we are in? University students in Örebro (N=108), participated in the study. The participants were asked to fill out a double questionnaire containing the sensation seeking scale and another one for measuring non-productive motor behaviours. The non-productive motor behaviours were not correlated to the sensation seeking scale. The behaviours where reported in a way that suggest that they are more than just random occurrences. We tend to perform more of these behaviours if we need to make an effort to stay concentrated. / Vi utför i vårt vardagliga liv motoriska beteenden som inte har någon uppenbar instrumentell funktion. Är dessa korrelerade till sensation seeking och skiljer de sig beroende på i vilken situation vi är i? Universitetsstudenter i Örebro (N=108) deltog i studien. Deltagarna ombads att fylla i ett dubbelt frågeformulär innehållande sensation seeking skalan samt ytterligare ett formulär för att mäta icke-produktiva motoriska beteenden. De icke-produktiva beteendena visade sig inte vara korrelerade till sensation seeking. Beteendena rapporterades på ett sätt som tyder på att de är mer än slumpmässiga företeelser. Vi tenderar att utföra fler av dessa beteende ju mer vi behöver anstränga oss för att koncentrera oss.

Är dykare spänningssökare? Är män mer spänningssökande än kvinnor? 51 dykare, 27 män och 24 kvinnor, läts fylla i enkäten Sensation seeking scale version 5 (SSS-V). Sensation seeking scale har utvecklats av Marvin Zuckerman med kollegor sedan 1960-talet och mäter graden av spänningssökande personlighetsdrag, på engelska: sensation seeking. Enkäten har visat sig valid på flera hundra studier men har bara testats på dykare ett fåtal gånger. Hypoteserna är att dykare är mer spänningssökande än normalpopulationen (H1) och att dykande män är mer spänningssökande än dykande kvinnor (H2). Kontrollgruppen består av psykologistudenter från Delware University mellan år 1986 och 1992, 410 män och 807 kvinnor. Resultatet visar med statistisk signifikant säkerhet att dykare är mer spänningssökande än normalpopulationen och att dykande män är mer spänningssökande än dykande kvinnor. Validitet och alternativ till Sensation seeking scale m.m. tas upp i diskussionsdelen.

Help-seeking has been studied for over 20 years, but much is yet to be known about what variables influence parental help-seeking. In the present studies, participants were recruited from Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Study 1, included 260 caregivers recruited from local school districts and a church. Using confirmatory factor analysis, results supported the hypothesized 3-factor structure of the Parental Attitudes Toward Psychological Services Inventory (PATPSI) and internal consistency ranged from moderate to high. Study 2 conducted subsequent analyses on the data from Study 1. Correlation analyses supported the relationships among parental attitudes, stigma, and help-seeking. Secondly, parents with previous use of child mental health services reported more positive attitudes and less stigma than parents with no previous use. Thirdly, no significant gender differences were found, but there was a trend toward parents reporting higher intentions for boys than girls. Additionally, African Americans reported less positive attitudes and more stigma than the other ethnic groups. Finally, moderation analyses suggested that attitudes are more likely to influence help-seeking for European Americans but not for African Americans, and stigma appeared to influence helpseeking for Hispanic Americans but not for European Americans; no moderation effects were found for child gender. Finally, analyses indicated that only stigma and attitudes were significant independent predictors of help-seeking. Study 3 was a sub-sample from Study 1 (N = 118) who completed additional measures. The purpose was to replicate findings from Study 2 and examine test-retest reliability of the PATPSI. Test-retest reliability for the PATPSI was low in this sample. Overall, results were consistent with Study 2. Results indicated that parents with previous service use reported higher externalizing symptoms (not internalizing) than those with no previous use. Inconsistent with Study 2, Asian Americans reported less positive attitudes, and African Americans reported less stigma than European Americans and Asian Americans. Additionally, stigma tolerance was found to have a stronger influence on European Americans likelihood of future service use than for African Americans. Furthermore, the interaction between problem type and gender was not a significant predictor of likelihood of future use. Finally, only previous service use and attitudes (not stigma) were independent predictors of likelihood of future use. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-40).