Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur det emotionella arbetet upplevs, hanteras och inverkar på den psykosociala arbetsmiljön i polisarbetet under arbetstid hos två kategorier poliser i yttre tjänst. Den första kategorin är de som har mellan 0–5 års erfarenhet. Den andra kategorin har mer än fem års erfarenhet. Första frågeställningen undersöker hur respektive kategori poliser i yttre tjänst beskriver att de upplever och hanterar det emotionella arbetet i tjänsten. Den andra frågeställningen undersöker i vilken mån individuella egenskaper som surface acting, deep acting och rollspel är viktiga i ett riskfyllt yrke. Studien har utgått ifrån en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi med en abduktiv ansats. Urvalet är en blandning av subjektivt urval och snöbollsurval. Empirin inhämtades genom tio semistrukturerade telefonintervjuer. Poliserna hanterar emotioner i arbetet enligt Hochschilds (1983/2012) begrepp surface acting och deep acting. Detta genom att gå in i rollen och anpassa sina känslor utifrån situationen. Kollegialt stöd och mental förberedelse visade sig vara ett vedertaget sätt att hantera känslorna, men även humor. Generellt upplevde poliserna att deras tid i yrket har betydelse för hur de hanterar de emotionella arbetet. Slutligen visar denna studie att upplevda och möjliga konsekvenser av arbetet kan vara obalans i den emotionella dissonansen och avtrubbning. / The purpose of the study is to investigate how the emotional work is experienced, handled and affects the psychosocial work environment in police work during working hours with two categories of police officers in field service. Those between 0-5 years and more than five years of experience. The first question investigates how each category of police officers in field service describe that they experience and handle the emotional work in the service. The second question investigates in what extent are individual characteristics such as surface acting, deep acting and role-playing are important in a risky profession. The study has been based on a qualitative research strategy with an abductive approach. The sample is a mixture of subjective selection and snowball selection. The empirical data was obtained through ten semi-structured telephone interviews. The police handle emotions at work according to Hochschild's (1983/2012) concept of surface acting and deep acting. This by going into the role and adapting their feelings based on the situation. Collegial support and mental preparation proved to be an accepted way of dealing with emotions, but also humour. In general, the police felt that their time in the profession was important for how they handle the emotional work. Finally, this study shows that perceived and possible consequences of the work can be an imbalance in the emotional dissonance and blunting.

The study aims to investigate the differences between Taliesin Jaffe and Matthew Mercer’s portrayals of a standard Irish English accent in Critical Role in their respective performances of the character Mollymauk/Lucien. Using previous studies on Irish English pronunciation, the presence of each established feature was investigated to find how authentically the actors succeed to produce the accent. The main features investigated were the rhoticity, plosivization of /θ/ and /ð/, lenition of /t/ and /d/, yod-dropping, diphthongs, and some monophthongs. Using transcripts to locate the instances of said features, the audio of the footage was studied to discover whether the phonemes were produced in accordance with the proposed realizations within Irish English. Both actors were found to excel and struggle with different features, with plosivization of /θ/ and /ð/, lenition of /t/ and /d/, and aspects of yod-dropping proving especially difficult to consistently produce in accordance with supraregional Irish English. The study concluded that neither accent comes close to achieving an authentic Irish English accent and that both portrayals share many similarities with each other, as well as overlapping with the actors’ native General American accent, especially in cases where Irish English and General American shared potential realizations of phonemes.

Players of an open-world video game are more than merely audience members watching a narrative play out--they actively participate and perform in the world. Drawing from scholars like Edmund Husserl, Konstantin Stanislavski, Ossy Wulansari, and PJ Manney, this paper explores principles of performance, phenomenology, and empathy to examine how open-world role-playing games, specifically Red Dead Redemption II, help players experience empathy. Constructing this experience through character attachment, length of play, and identification in a safe experimental space, these games become a bridge leading to greater empathy for people who are different from the player. The immersive nature of these games provides a suitable area for studying the effects of this media on a player's development of empathy for the character they play, others in the game world, and beyond. This paper focuses on this phenomenon through the player's performance of the main character, Arthur Morgan, and attempts to connect how this experience applies to the real-world building of player empathy.

This is a master thesis in the discipline of psychology of religion, with a focus on the psychological and psychosocial functions of rites/ritualization and myths/narration in our lives. The main aim was to investigate adolescent male live acting role-players rites/ritualization and myths/narration, generally in their personal life and specifically in the world of the role-playing phenomenon, to see how they used the rites/ritualization and myths/narration in the role-playing world to create and maintain their sense of coherence and meaning in life. Theoretically were Erikson’s theories about ritualization, Stern’s theories about narration and Antonovsky’s theories about our sense of coherence (SOC) and general resistance resources (GRRs) used. The results point to that the six male informants, anyway when it comes to worldviews, ideologies and religions, lacked significant ritualization and narration outside the role-playing world, and that the role-playing interest in some ways could be a response by the informants to the lack of coherent and significant ritualization and narration in the family as well as in the Swedish society. In the world of role-playing was it specifically significant ritualization and narration that were related to having a place geographically-historically in a (age-)hierarchical network that seemed to be positively correlated with the informants sense of coherence and meaning in life. However, an important aspect was also that they could enter different episodic narratives together in game where they were able to express and explore personality traits and feelings they could not normally express or explore. This outlet seemed also to be used to unconsciously communicate and come to terms with intra- and interpsychical conflicts as well as existential questions. This scientific paper is a partial requirement of the European Union (EU) Diploma Program in Psychology of Religion. This paper has been administered through the Nordic Profile Program: Meaning-making, Culture, and Health, at Uppsala University, Sweden. Included in this program is the granting of a Masters Degree in Meaning-making, Culture, and Health through Uppsala University. The Diploma Program is a first research level program that can be integrated into doctoral or other advanced study programs in Europe and internationally.

Objective: State medicaid programs provide access to effective contraception for people with lower incomes. This study examined contraception use and pregnancy among reproductive-age women enrolled in the South Carolina Medicaid, by eligibility program and socio-demographic sub-groups. Methods: A retrospective cohort of women aged 15–45 who were newly eligible for South Carolina Medicaid from 2012 to 2016 was examined. Log-binomial regression and average marginal effects assessed relationships between contraception use and pregnancies ending in live and non-live births. Contraception was categorized as permanent, long acting reversible contraception (LARC), short-acting hormonal contraception (SAC), or no contraceptive claims. Women with family planning or full-benefit medicaid coverage were included. Results: Approximately 11% of women used LARC methods, 41% used SAC methods, and 46% had no evidence of contraceptive claims. Method utilization varied by eligibility program, race/ethnicity and age. The likelihood of pregnancy was lower among SAC users and lowest among LARC users compared to women with no evidence of contraception across all three programs (family planning APR = 0.44; 95% CI 0.41–0.49 and APR = 0.13, 95% CI 0.10–0.17; Low income families APR = 0.82; 95% CI 0.77–0.88 and APR = 0.33, 95% CI 0.28–0.38; Partners for Healthy Children APR = 0.72; 95% CI 0.68–0.77 and APR = 0.35, 95% CI 0.30–0.43, respectively). Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic teens were less likely to experience a pregnancy than non-Hispanic white teens. Conclusions for Practice: The likelihood of pregnancy was lower among women using SAC methods and markedly lower among women using LARC. Variation in contraceptive use among racial/ethnic groups was noted despite Medicaid coverage. As new policies and initiatives emerge, these findings provide important context for understanding the role of Medicaid programs in reducing financial barriers to contraceptive services and ensuring access to effective contraception, while fostering reproductive health autonomy among women.

Patient-centered contraceptive care is key for ensuring that individuals achieve their personal reproductive goals. Despite public health efforts, preventing undesired pregnancies and improving maternal and child health outcomes remains unresolved in the United States (US). In Tennessee (TN), the rate of unintended pregnancies remains higher than the national rate (32.4% vs. 30.3%). Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are 99% effective in preventing undesired pregnancies; however, uptake remains low in rural and underserved communities. Previous research has provided some insight into women’s perceptions of LARCs; however, those guided by conceptual frameworks to understand the multiple influences that impact perceptions towards LARCs, especially among rural regions, are scarce. This multimethod qualitative study explored multiple influences that impact northeast Tennessee women’s perceptions and attitudes toward LARCs using the Socio-ecological Model (SEM) as a guiding framework. The qualitative study comprised six focus groups and seven individual interviews of women aged 18-44, not pregnant, and current residents of five Counties in Northeast TN. Participants’ demographics were captured through an anonymous survey administered through REDCap. Qualitative data from these sessions were recorded via Zoom, an online audio/video conferencing platform. Each interview and focus group lasted 60 to 90 minutes. Focus group and interview data were combined, transcribed, and uploaded into NVivo for thematic analysis. A priori list of codes identified from the constructs of the SEM was initially used to deductively code the data. Subsequently, the data were analyzed inductively for new codes and themes that did not apply to the a priori categories. Quotations that were representative of or inconsistent with the codes of interest were identified. Fifteen themes and 20 sub-themes were identified using the SEM; On the intrapersonal level of the SEM, participants’ attitudes towards a method, perception of method features, and perceived side effects were identified as themes that delineate influences on their LARC utilization. On the interpersonal level, perception of partner support, perceived support from peer/social networks, and provider trust were themes that describe influences on participants’ LARC utilization. On the community level, the cost of the method, access to information, perceived accessibility to a method, social services, and cultural norms themes were identified as influences on participants’ use of LARCs. On the organizational level, the availability of preferred methods in a clinic, the need for multiple clinic visits to enable the use of a method, and provider counseling practices were salient themes impacting LARC utilization. On the policy level, insurance, and billing policies, sex education policies were identified as impacting LARC utilization. The study presents multi-layered influences on LARC utilization among Northeast TN women, highlighting the utility of the SEM in understanding factors that influence contraceptive use. Findings are critical for programming as they highlight the areas of influence that can be addressed to increase LARC uptake and enable women in rural and underserved regions of the US to achieve personal reproductive goals.

abstract: This dissertation uses constructivist pedagogy to teach acting via Practical Aesthetics, a system of actor training created in the mid/&ndash1980s; by David Mamet and his college acting students. Primarily taught at the Atlantic Theatre Acting School in New York City, Practical Aesthetics has been the focus of little academic research. The same lack of research regarding constructivist pedagogy exists in academic theatre scholarship. The author takes a step toward rectifying this situation. Using an action research methodology, based on approximately thirteen years of teaching experience, the author suggests that Practical Aesthetics and his accompanying voice and movement exercises can be effective in training novice actors. The author melds theory and practice into the educational approach called Praxis to create specific detailed lesson plans which can be used to implement Practical Aesthetics. These lessons constitute primary research on this topic. Compatible voice and movement exercises are also included to provide a comprehensive semester length digest. The first chapter is an introduction, the second outlines Practical Aesthetics, the third focuses on constructivism, the fourth discusses teaching acting using Constructivist Learning Design, the fifth provides narrative lessons that can be used in the classroom, and the closure provides a review as well as suggestions for further research. An intriguing point made in the closure is a call for studies that might determine Practical Aesthetics' applicability and usability in other fields such as law, business, politics, public speaking, and even non-profit work. Although the primary audience for this dissertation is secondary school and college acting instructors, any scholar studying acting theory or constructivist pedagogy may find value in its contents. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Theatre 2014

This study has examined how young queer people are using SNS for exploring, buildingand communicating their identities and how this may differ in the different stages ofcoming out. The aim of the study has been to broaden the field with and obtain a deeperunderstanding of how a marginalized group in society can use social media as a part inexploring and building an identity. The study was conducted with a method of semistructuredpersonal in-depth interviews with a sample of five Swedish queer people in theage span of 23-27. The result was analyzed along previous research within the field andwith a theoretical perspective of culture, representation, performative acting and selfpresentation.The result showed that young queer people are exploring, building andcommunicating their identities in different ways that varies depending on where in theprocess of coming out they are. The result showed that it was common for the queerpeople in this study to use SNS while exploring and building their queer identities, but notas common when communicating it. There were both similarities and differences in thesefindings compared to previous research.

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In this visual essay and accompanying text, Henry Moore Selder delves into his research and work in fiction film, examining it through the lens of Sergei Eisenstein's concept of Expressive Movement. Selder's exploration aim to break free from the prevailing realism in contemporary cinema, seeking to expand the boundaries of actorly expression. The essay was made in 2023 as a part of Selders MA studies in fiction film directing at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH). / <p>Includes Visual Essay and accompanying text.</p>