Forskning tyder på att 200 000 personer i Sverige drabbas av en ätstörning någon gång under livet. Studiens syfte var att utforska behandlingen mot ätstörningar och de erfarenheter som patienter och deras anhöriga upplevt genom bemötande och delaktighet i vården och den inverkan de fått på deras tillfrisknad. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fem tidigare ätstörningspatienter och två anhöriga. Data analyserades med hjälp av tematisk analys. Av resultatet framkom ett övergripande tema: Se hela mig - kropp och själ hör ihop samt sex underteman: styrande stereotypa föreställningar, den stereotypa bildens följder, tillit och misstro, kompetens påverkan relationella band, medbestämmande och samverkan, maktobalans. Deltagarna saknade behandling för de tankar och känslor som upprätthåller ätstörningen. Auktoritära tillvägagångsätt främjade inte arbetsallians eller delaktighet. Deltagarna upplevde att utebliven psykologisk behandling orsakat att de fortsatt levt med negativa tankar och beteenden som mer eller mindre vidmakthållit ätstörda beteenden. Utifrån deltagarnas önskemål och beskrivningar av brister förefaller det behövas kompetenshöjande insatser kring bemötande i behandlingen av ätstörningar.

Att känna sig bevakad är mänskligt, det kan dock vara så att personen ifråga inte är så bevakad som den tror, detta kallas för spotlight-effekt. Åttioåtta högskolestudenter på en högskola i Mellansverige fyllde i en enkät som mätte syskonplacering (om de var äldsta barnet, yngsta barnet, mellanbarn, eller ensambarn), graden de känner sig bevakade samt tillit till andra. Hypotesen till denna studie var att det finns skillnader mellan individer med olika födelseordning beträffande spotlight-effekt och tillit till andra. För att mäta det användes envägs variansanalyser och Pearsons korrelation. Resultaten visade att ensambarn tenderade ha en högre nivå av spotlight-effekt än individer med syskon men skillnaden var inte signifikant. Mellanbarnen erhöll högsta nivån av tillit till andra men skillnaden var inte signifikant. Ett icke-signifikant negativt samband visades mellan spotlight-effekt och tillit. Uppföljande studier torde undersöka spotlight-effekten ur ett positivt/negativt perspektiv, samt eventuell förändring av familjehemmet då små skillnader visades gällande födelseordning.

Trender som globalisering och digitalisering har gjort det möjligt för organisationer att sammankoppla specialister globalt utspridda. Detta för att samarbeta mot ett gemensamt mål med hjälp av information-och kommunikationsteknologi. Organisationer med denna struktur kallas för virtuella organisationer. Filmbranschen har lång erfarenhet av att jobba som en virtuell organisation. Genom att intervjua tre aktiva filmproducenter om kultur och tillit undersöker jag med denna studie om det finns kunskap att hämta från hur filmbranschen arbetar med kultur och tillit som kan användas på andra virtuella organisationer. Resultatet visar vikten av att virtuella organisationer rekryterar medarbetare som delar dess värderingar därtill visar studien vilken betydelse en gemensam målbild har för organisationens förmåga att skapa tillit.

abstract: The current study aims to explore factors affecting trust in human-drone collaboration. A current gap exists in research surrounding civilian drone use and the role of trust in human-drone interaction and collaboration. Specifically, existing research lacks an explanation of the relationship between drone pilot experience, trust, and trust-related behaviors as well as other factors. Using two dimensions of trust in human-automation team—purpose and performance—the effects of experience on drone design and trust is studied to explore factors that may contribute to such a model. An online survey was conducted to examine civilian drone operators’ experience, familiarity, expertise, and trust in commercially available drones. It was predicted that factors of prior experience (familiarity, self-reported expertise) would have a significant effect on trust in drones. The choice to use or exclude the drone propellers in a search-and-identify scenario, paired with the pilots’ experience with drones, would further confirm the relevance of the trust dimensions of purpose versus performance in the human-drone relationship. If the pilot has a positive sense of purpose and benevolence with the drone, the pilot trusts the drone has a positive intent towards them and the task. If the pilot has trust in the performance of the drone, they ascertain that the drone has the skill to do the task. The researcher found no significant differences between mean trust scores across levels of familiarity, but did find some interaction between self-report expertise, familiarity, and trust. Future research should further explore more concrete measures of situational participant factors such as self-confidence and expertise to understand their role in civilian pilots’ trust in their drone. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Human Systems Engineering 2019

abstract: Large organizations have multiple networks that are subject to attacks, which can be detected by continuous monitoring and analyzing the network traffic by Intrusion Detection Systems. Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems (CIDS) are used for efficient detection of distributed attacks by having a global view of the traffic events in large networks. However, CIDS are vulnerable to internal attacks, and these internal attacks decrease the mutual trust among the nodes in CIDS required for sharing of critical and sensitive alert data in CIDS. Without the data sharing, the nodes of CIDS cannot collaborate efficiently to form a comprehensive view of events in the networks monitored to detect distributed attacks. The compromised nodes will further decrease the accuracy of CIDS by generating false positives and false negatives of the traffic event classifications. In this thesis, an approach based on a trust score system is presented to detect and suspend the compromised nodes in CIDS to improve the trust among the nodes for efficient collaboration. This trust score-based approach is implemented as a consensus model on a private blockchain because private blockchain has the features to address the accountability, integrity and privacy requirements of CIDS. In this approach, the trust scores of malicious nodes are decreased with every reported false negative or false positive of the traffic event classifications. When the trust scores of any node falls below a threshold, the node is identified as compromised and suspended. The approach is evaluated for the accuracy of identifying malicious nodes in CIDS. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2020

In active portfolio management, fund managers seek to follow an investment strategy with the objective of outperforming an investment benchmark index. Opportunities to outperform a benchmark in active fund management is made possible through crosssectional dispersion of returns in the market. It is cross-sectional volatility of returns that allows fund managers to identify changing trends in market relationships and to take advantage of market opportunities.Quarterly active share and active return data of Domestic General Equity funds was used to determine whether the level of active share and active return has a correlation with volatility measures such as cross-sectional variance of returns or the South African Volatility Index (SAVI). The actively-managed funds’ outperformance of the benchmark index during periods of differing cross-sectional variance was also looked at. Lastly, the possibility of whether market volatility can be used to inform fund investment decisions was also examined.The findings in this study are that there is no significant relationship between the crosssectional variance of returns, active share and active returns. In measuring fund performance in times of differing cross-sectional dispersion and breaking the analysis period into such intervals rather than as a continuous time series, active funds outperform the benchmark index during periods of low and moderate cross-sectional variance. The SAVI can be used as a fairly accurate and readily available approximation of cross-sectional variance. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Research questions: What different factors impact trust in sharing economy platforms and sharing economy service providers? Purpose:     The study aims to explore which factors create trust towards the sharing economy platforms and actors providing the service, and mainly the potential relationships between the trust factors Method:      The study was conducted with a quantitative approach. A survey was used for data collection. The data gathered from the survey was analyzed using regression to test 7 predefined hypotheses Conclusion:     Trust towards the platform is influenced by two main factors, perceived security, and perceived risk. There are four factors of trust influencing the trust towards actors providing the service. These factors are personality-based trust, experience-based trust, cognitive-based trust, and lastly the trust towards the platform where the service provider operates.

This dissertation explores how journalists in the United States and Germany have been addressing declining levels of trust and attacks on their credibility. I comparatively examine how journalists interpret the trust crisis, and consequently, the strategies they have developed for addressing it. This study is based on multi-site ethnography: I interviewed 87 journalists, conducted observations in 15 local and national newsrooms, and examined metajournalism from the United States and Germany. Findings show that U.S. and German journalists interpret declining trust and anti-media sentiments differently: U.S. journalists believe they stem from information gaps and lacking media literacy, while German journalists believe they reflect a sense of alienation. And so, in their efforts to gain credibility, U.S. journalists focus on increasing transparency and showcasing their professionalism, while German journalists focus on increasing reciprocity and showing that they listen to criticism from outside the profession. As this dissertation shows, both U.S. and German news media are thoroughly professionalized, but their different relationships to their audiences and communities shape different perceptions on — and strategies for — trust building.

A large number of empirical studies have illustrated the benefits of adopting and implementing a relational or relationship marketing strategy. However, there is an emergent stream of literature that suggests that despite the recognized benefits associated with this strategy there may also be a dark side that manifests itself between firms as a result of adopting a relationship marketing strategy. However, though this stream of literature recognizes the presence of the dark side, causal antecedents mediating the dark side constructs, or consequences of the dark side have yet to be theoretically derived, explained or empirically tested. This dissertation constructs theoretical relationships between common relational constructs, such as trust and commitment and dark side symptoms such as relational myopia, complacency, vulnerability and suspicion. This dissertation also examines how these dark side symptoms, upon their onset, can yield negative consequences for the firms that have adopted the relationship marketing strategy. Data from a diverse set of business to business (B2B) relationships (N=305) was gathered to test the structural model implicit in the theoretical propositions presented in this dissertation. The results support the hypothesized notion of a dark side to B2B relationships as the relational constructs of shared values, commitment, trust, and satisfaction were all found to have a positive, significant relationship with elements of the dark side. These results are discussed in detail within the chapters of this dissertation.

The efficacy of leadership coaching to improve leader and organizational outcomes cannot be overstated. However, a thorough understanding of some of the inputs and process variables involved in coaching has not been empirically established to date. To address this issue in the leader development and coaching literature, I examined the characteristics of the coaches and the coachees and their relationships with two relational variables potentially involved in coaching relationships (i.e., leader-member exchange and trust). The importance of leadership to work outcomes and leader development is highlighted, followed by a discussion of the specific leader development technique of coaching. The discussion then moves to the relational variables of interest involved in coaching, namely leader-member exchange (LMX) and trust, drawing from research on team and leadership phenomena. Specific inputs (e.g., coach and coachee characteristics) and their impacts on the relationships of interest are discussed. This work focuses on hypotheses in three streams of research: characteristics of coaches and coachees, LMX, and trust. The findings from this research indicate that a coach's experience, specifically operationalized as the activities he or she has experience in, positively predicts LMX, and self-efficacy positively predicts LMX and trust in the coaching relationships. The theoretical and practical implications of this project are noted.