This is a year-long ethnographic study of high-school student activists in the New England area that examines youth perceptions of climate change and climate change activism. Our society often devalues the opinions and experiences of young people because of the intersecting marginalized identities they inhabit, including age, race, and gender. Thus, discussions on how climate activism affects youth tend to lack the perspective of the young people themselves. Through a combination of participant-observation and semi-structured interviews, I sought to answer the following research questions: 1) How do young activists in the New England area understand climate change? 2) How does participating in a youth-centered climate justice organization impact their overall sense of well-being? About half-way through the planning of this research study, the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, which added another layer to this research study: 3) How does the COVID-19 pandemic impact youth perceptions and experiences of climate change activism? In this thesis, I argue that young people in this climate organization, through their shared experiences of cultivating social capital, expanding critical consciousness, and adaptive redefining of social relationships, develop a strong and sustained sense of community that motivates them to continue their activism. In a society that undervalues young people, these youth actively reclaim agency and use this to challenge the structures that continue to perpetuate environmental injustice. This in turn provides these young people with a heightened sense of well-being in the face of multiple existential threats that threaten their current and future existence, namely racial injustice, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential destruction of their planet. / 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z

Män i medelåldern begår flest självmord och söker i lägre utsträckning vård för psykiska ohälsa. Vistelse i naturen har visats ha positiva hälsoeffekter såsom förbättrad återhämtning och förmåga att reflektera. Studien syftade till att söka förståelse för Hur vistelse i skogen är relaterad till psykiskt och fysiskt välbefinnande bland män i medelåldern?”. En kvalitativ ansats användes med intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod. Resultaten visade att skogsvistelse var relaterad till välbefinnande på flera plan vilket formulerats genom flera huvudteman och tillhörande subteman. Studien bidrar med att undersöka de subjektiva upplevelserna gällande skogens betydelse för välbefinnande, men även med nya insikter gällande vad i skogsmiljön som är relaterat till välbefinnande i denna grupp där få söker hjälp för psykisk ohälsa.

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Happiness and the effects of happiness on individual level is an well established resarch topic. It is scientifically proven that happy individuals receives benefits regarding health and social life that unhappy individuals does not. This in combination with the average length of an individuals life has increased by 10 years since 1970 makes the relationship between happiness and age an interesting resarch topic. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the existance of a relationship between age and happiness in Sweden and in a selection of other european countries. The data is collected from the european social survey and analysed with multiple regression analysis in SPSS Statistics. The result is discussed in relation to Brüldes (2007) theory of hybrid happiness, Anderssons (2013) theory regarding the life course and Esping-Andersens (1990) theory about different welfare states. The main findings of this study is that there is no relationship between age and happiness in Sweden. There is however a relationship between age and happiness in a couple of european countries included in this study. The countries where the relationship is found belongs to the conservative welfare category. One explanation to why these countries reports a relationship is that conservative welfare gives the citizens individual conditions to care for their family and old ones.

Mobbning förekommer överallt på arbetsplatser runt om i världen. Det är ett ökande globalt problem som behöver belysas. Arbetsplatsmobbning kan leda till både psykiska och fysiska besvär som depression och hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar. Det finns inte mycket forskning kring HR: s roll i mobbningsärenden. Syftet med studien var därför att undersöka hur HR-personal på kommuner förebygger, hanterar och upplever arbetsplatsmobbning. Frågeställningarna belyste förebyggande mobbningsarbete, upplevelser och hantering samt hinder och svårigheter enligt HR personal. För att undersöka detta gjordes en kvalitativ studie, baserat på en intervjuguide, med åtta erfarna kvinnor med HR- roll från olika kommuner i Västsverige. Data är analyserade med en tematisk analys och resultaten presenterade på ett strukturerat sätt utifrån fyra huvudteman: Vad är arbetsplatsmobbning?, Förebyggande arbete, Hantering samt Hinder och svårigheter. Ordet mobbning har granskats noggrant och HR upplever att ordet mobbning endast används när det gäller barn i skolan. För vuxna väljer HR att använda ordet kränkning i sina ärenden. Olika hanteringssätt av utsatta personer som kommer till HR i förtroende diskuteras vidare och HR rollens objektivitet beskrivs och tolkas som en svårighet. / Bullying occurs everywhere in workplaces around the world. It is a growing global problem that needs to be addressed. Workplace bullying can lead to both mental and physical ailments such as depression and cardiovascular disease. There is not much research on HR's role in bullying cases. The purpose of the study was therefore to investigate how HR staff in municipalities prevent, handle and experience workplace bullying. The issues shed light on preventive bullying work, experiences and handling as well as obstacles and difficulties according to HR staff. To investigate this, a qualitative study was conducted, based on an interview guide, with eight experienced women with HR roles from different municipalities in West Sweden. Data was analyzed with a thematic analysis and the results presented in a structured way based on four main themes: What is workplace bullying?, Preventive work, Handling, and Obstacles and difficulties. The word bullying has been carefully examined and HR feels that the word bullying is only used when it comes to children in school. For adults, HR chooses to use the word violation in their cases. Different ways of dealing with vulnerable people who come to HR in trust are further discussed and the objectivity of the HR role is described and interpreted as a difficulty.

Magister Artium (Psychology) - MA(Psych) / Research on children’s well-being has increased over the past decade, largely driven by advancements in children’s rights legislation and the emergence of innovative theoretical and epistemological frameworks. While there has been a notable increase in empirical research on children’s objective standards of living, less data has been available in relation to their subjective perceptions and evaluations of their life. The measurement of children’s subjective well-being (SWB) has been a particular focus of empirical research especially as it relates to the development of valid scales for use with children across age groups and contexts. An area of concern is the lack of psychometrically sound measurement instruments for use with younger children and especially in low-to-middle income contexts.

There is a lack of research on the effects of racial discrimination on the mental health of emerging Polynesian American adults (ages 17-29). This study examines the effects of racial discrimination and the indirect effects of forgiveness on mental health among 423 Polynesian American emerging adults. Correlations were conducted in preliminary analysis then data was further analyzed through multiple regressions to determine if racial discrimination predicts psychological outcomes. A mediation analyses with Hayes PROCESS macro bootstrapping was conducted to examine the indirect effects of forgiveness. Lastly, a point-biserial correlation was conducted to examine the effects of education level on perception of racial discrimination. Elevated experiences of racial discrimination were linked to increase of negative psychological outcomes including depression, anxiety, stress. In addition, experiences of racial discrimination were inversely correlated with anger and self-esteem. Participants with a high school education or less were more likely to report experiences of racial discrimination. Forgiveness mediated the relationship between racial discrimination and depression, anxiety, stress, and satisfaction with life. Implications are included regarding the necessity of mental health professionals to be aware of the psychological impacts of racial discrimination among Polynesian emerging adults. Additional results are provided, and implications of these findings are outlined.

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Religious disaffiliation among Millennials has increased significantly in the past decade alongside rapidly changing social relationships amplified by social media applications. In the United States, many Millennials claim no religious identity with many leaving their religion for a variety of reasons. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of religiously disaffiliated Millennials regarding their psychological health and well-being. Self-determination theory fulfilled the theoretical framework for examining the lived experiences of young adults regarding their well-being after religious disaffiliation. A purposive sample of 12 male and female religiously disaffiliated Millennials was recruited for semistructured interviews. Content analysis was used to code interviews, identify themes, and explore the lived experiences of disaffiliated young adults. Six themes emerged from the data analysis that included religious disaffiliates inherited their childhood religion; contradictory experiences highlighted a need to disaffiliate; after disaffiliation, individuals stopped attending the church with no other actions; after disaffiliation, participants appeared to be able to connect with their authentic self; participants had negative connotations of religion after disaffiliating; and families accepted disaffiliation after it occurred. The implications for social change include providing better understanding of the psychological health and well-being of Millennials who have disaffiliated, as well as demonstrating a need for future research that focuses on future generational cohorts and how religious organizations and churches are accounting for disaffiliation within their congregations.

Recentemente è cresciuto l'interesse tra i ricercatori di psicologia applicata nel misurare l'associazione tra identità sociali multiple e adattamento psicologico. Attingendo dal Social Identity Approach, dall'Intersectionality Theory e dalle teorie sull'integrazione identitaria, in questa raccolta di studi viene analizzata la relazione tra identità multiple e adattamento psicologico adottando diversi metodi. / Recently, there has been increased interest among applied psychological researchers in measuring the associations between intersecting social identities and individual psychological adjustment. Drawing upon social identity approach, intersectionality, identity integration theories and research, in this collection of studies we analyze the relationship between multiple identities and psychological outcomes adopting different methods.