Divorce is a potentially destructive reality in society. According to the bio-ecological model of Bronfenbrenner, the development of the child takes place within two micro family systems when a family is reconstituted following divorce: the primary micro family system, where the child resides permanently with his/her biological parent who has parental rights and responsibilities, as well as the secondary micro family system of the other biological parent who also has parental rights and responsibilities, where the child visits periodically. Challenges that the child faces in the context of the reconstituted family thus include shared membership of the two micro family systems and the complexity of the mesosystem. Resilience can be defined as a process of the inborn ability to achieve positive outcomes and to adjust successfully despite challenges and adverse living conditions. The purpose of the study was twofold: firstly, to achieve understanding of the way in which middle-adolescents of divorced parents, in moving between the two micro family systems of their reconstituted families, utilise their resilience to develop optimally in spite of a probably dysfunctional relationship between their biological parents at the mesosystemic level and secondly, to contribute to the fields of knowledge on resilience and bio-ecological theory in order to enhance educational psychology praxis with regard to the adaptation of adolescents of divorced parents in reconstituted families. The study was qualitative, and conducted in the interpretive paradigm. A multiple case study with a purposeful sampling of four participants was used. Unstructured narrative conversations were conducted, which included a resilience-based therapeutic intervention to facilitate sensitisation regarding personal strengths and assets in accordance with the assetbased approach. The format of the data description and analysis was defined by the narrative way of working. The participants’ utilisation of resilience qualities was evaluated in accordance with a definition of resilience which had been newly constructed by means of a synthesis of the bio-ecological model, positive psychology and the focuses of the first three waves of resilience research. The findings of the study indicated that the way in which middle-adolescents utilise their resilience depends on a therapeutic process (a personal, controlled process) as well as the nature of the mesosystem in their developmental context (a factor that can only be controlled by the divorced biological parents). In respect of a therapeutic process, the utilisation of the middle-adolescents’ resilience depends on their emotional security to make conscious choices to mobilise their resilience and consequently change their behaviour in order to cope effectively with difficult family circumstances in both their micro-family systems. In respect of the nature of the mesosystem, the utilisation of the middle-adolescents’ resilience depends on the effectiveness of the relationship between their divorced biological parents at the mesosystemic level. The utilisation of resilience per se is apparently dependent on some consistent systemic foundation in the developmental context of the child, which is, in the case of divorce, the mesosystem. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

Vi har valt att titta på den fysiska aktivitet som räknas till den friskvård som arbetsplatsen erbjuder. Det handlar om att hjälpa sina medarbetare till en god personlig hälsa, samtidigt som arbetsgivaren själv vinner på hälsosamma medarbetare. Studiens hälsopedagogiska idé innebar att belysa vad som möjliggör till fysisk aktivitet och hur arbetsplatsen kan bidra till personlig utveckling gällande den fysiska hälsan. Syftet med studien var att belysa hur medarbetare och arbetsgivare beskriver aspekter som påverkar möjligheten till att utföra fysisk aktivitet i arbetsgivarens regi. För att analysera och tolka studien har vi använt oss av en teori och ett perspektiv, Bronfenbrenners utvecklingsekologiska modell och ett salutogent perspektiv. Studien utgick från en kvalitativ ansats där enskilda intervjuer använts som datainsamlingsmetod. Urvalet bestod av åtta respondenter varav fyra var arbetsgivare och fyra var medarbetare. Studien kunde av resultatet konstatera att det är viktigt för arbetsgivaren att involvera medarbetarna i det utbud som erbjuds för att så många som möjligt ska nyttja friskvården på företaget. Det är även viktigt för arbetsgivaren att ta tillvara på den sociala tillhörigheten som uttalats vara en stor motiverande faktor och bibehålla denne som en positiv aspekt i medarbetarnas vardag. / In this study, we have chosen to look at the physical activity that counts as the wellness that the workplace offers. It is about helping your employees to good personal health, at the same time as the employer itself benefits from healthy employees. The study's health pedagogical idea meant to shed light on what enables physical activity and how the workplace can contribute to personal development regarding physical health. The purpose of the study was to shed light on how employees and employers describe aspects that affect the possibility of performing physical activity under the auspices of the employer. To analyze and interpret the study, we have used a theory and a perspective, Bronfenbrenner's developmental ecological model and a salutogenic perspective. The study was based on a qualitative approach where individual interviews were used as a data collection method. The sample consisted of eight respondents, four of whom were employers and four were employees. The study was able to establish from the results that it is important for the employer to involve the employees in the range offered so that as many as possible will use the wellness at the company. It is also important for the employer to take advantage of the social affiliation that has been stated to be a major motivating factor and maintain it as a positive aspect in the employees' everyday lives.

Övervikt och fetma är ett växande problem i samhället. Med hjälp av fysiskaktivitet kan man arbeta för att förhindra detta. Förskolan är en viktig del iarbetet, eftersom en stor del av alla barn mellan 1-5 år är inskrivna i förskolanoch spenderar mycket av sin vakna tid där. Forskning visar att det råder delademeningar om hur upplevelsen av att bo och växa upp på landsbygden ser ut.Syftet med den här studien är att utifrån ett utvecklingsekologiskt perspektivstudera hur verksamma förskollärare på landsbygden beskriver hur arbetet medfysisk aktivitet formas. Kvalitativa intervjuer med förskollärare verksamma pålandsbygden har genomförts för att försöka svara på syftet och frågeställningen. Resultatet i studien presenterar utifrån de olika nivåerna i den utvecklingsekologiska modellen informanternas svar. Dessa visar att för att kunnaskapa förståelse för hur olika instanser i samhället samverkar för barnet sombefinner sig i mitten av modellen. Slutsatsen av studien visar att utifrån Bronfenbrenners modell formas platsen, barnens närmiljö, genom olika nivåer isamhället. De nivåer som presenterats i studien visar på hur viktig interaktionen mellan dessa är för att förstå och kunna skapa förutsättningar för barn iförskolan att utvecklas inom fysisk aktivitet. / Overweight and obesity are a growing problem in society. With the help ofphysical activity, one can work to prevent this. Preschool is an important partof the work, as a large proportion of all children between 1-5 years old areenrolled in preschool and spend much of their waking time there. Researchshows that there are divided opinions about what the experience of living andgrowing up in rural areas looks like. The purpose of this study is to studyfrom a developmental ecological perspective how active preschool teachersin rural areas describe how work with physical activity is formed. Qualitativeinterviews with preschool teachers working in rural areas have been conducted to try to answer the purpose and the question. The results of the studypresent the respondents' responses based on the different levels of the developmental ecological model. These show that in order to create an understanding of how different instances in society interact for the child who is in themiddle of the model. The conclusion of this study shows that based on Bronfenbrenner's model the place, the children's local environment, is formedthrough different levels of society. The different levels presented in this studyshows how important the interaction between these are. By understandingand being able to create the conditions for children in preschool to develop inphysical activity.

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Sustainable and equitable fisheries are central for addressing the challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. International trade, once presented by Walrasian economists as a panacea for fisheries development, has not markedly decreased poverty and has been related to the overexploitation of marine species. In this light the consequences of a continued expansion of seafood trade are highly uncertain and problematic. Two competing theoretical hypotheses predict either overexploitation or recovery of marine species when connected to international trade, respectively. The empirical literature finds trade relationships and connections of local fisheries to a large-volume market critical factors for social-ecological outcomes. Here, I combine these insights to show that multi-level links, between fishers & different markets (market manuscript) and marine species & trade relationships (squid manuscript), are critical to explain diverging social-ecological outcomes. In the market manuscript we model the transition from local, to multi-level (both local and global), to global markets in a two species fishery. We find this transition is non-linear, leading to fluctuations in species abundance as a result of abrupt switches between target species. Critical fluctuations of species abundance driven by new market connections are a result of large shifts in prices for one species and high asymmetries in expected income between the two species. The squid manuscript provides empirical and modeling evidence that cyclical changes in the ocean can drive social-ecological systems outcomes through changing interactions at multiple levels. The interactions between squid population and fishers and squid distribution and trading structures determines benefit distributions in the fishery. The lack of consideration of multi-level interactions related to trade in models for fisheries management is likely associated with a lack of processes for integrating the empirical and theoretical insights of two disciplines at the core of fisheries science. Social-ecological system scholars study more often empirical and fishery economics the theoretical aspects of interactions between trade and fisheries. One process suggested in this thesis to bridge insights from both disciplines in fishery models is the careful study of the important interactions in the empirical case. Comparison of these interactions with observed empirical interactions in other systems informs the model conceptualization that is then embedded in a theoretical framework. This leads to the development of models of intermediate complexity  that integrate insights on regular structures and patterns observed in real social-ecological systems. The squid manuscript exemplifies this integration. We integrate observed multi-level links in a standard fishery model between the squid population fishers and traders, and thus better represent the empirical system.  A continuous dialogue between empirics and theorycan help build models of intermediate complexity. To capture the complex elements of these social-ecological systems, in this young field of study, next to a continuous dialogue priority observed empirical dynamics can help question theoretical assumptions. This study seeks to contribute to the development of fisheries management models more suitable to face contemporary challenges of fisheries management by focusing on how multi-level interactions between fisheries and trade shape sustainable and equitable outcomes.

Background Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic presented major difficulties for many self-employed people because it caused pressures such as decreased customer demand, production stagnation, disruptions in supply chains and increased uncertainty. The vast amount of the studies of self-employed people during the pandemic have focused on traditional pathogenic effects. Hence, overall aim of this thesis is to explore how self-employed people experienced and used internal and external salutogenic resources to navigate the pandemic, from a business challenge and an individual well-being perspective.  Methods Different methods of data collection and analysis were employed in the thesis. For study I, a qualitative design was used to explore whether a sense of coherence was experienced, and any general resistance resources were used by small business managers in Sweden and Norway during the pandemic. For study II, a cross-sectional quantitative design was employed to investigate the well-being of self-employed people in Europe during the pandemic and whether their well-being was influenced by factors representing four socio-ecological levels. Lastly, study III applied a mixed-method design including comparative policy analysis and interviews to gain an understanding of how different governmental financial support measures aimed to aid the resilience of Swedish and Canadian self-employed people and improve their ability to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Study I was analysed through a deductive content analysis, study II was analysed using independent sample t-tests, correlations and linear regression, and study III used comparative policy analysis and inductive content analysis.  Results Findings from the interviews in study I demonstrated that it was important for the participants to comprehend and manage challenges during the pandemic in a resourceful manner, and to see meaningfulness in their situations. In study II, the findings highlight that the socio-ecological factors of resilience, social support, doing useful work and experiencing rules as clear affected the self-employed people’s well-being, and that these factors may be even more important for those who had difficulties running their business. Study III found that self-employed people in both Sweden and Canada who 10 were unable to telework were relatively less resilient during the pandemic. The interviews revealed that many self-employed people in hard-hit industries were dissatisfied with government financial support measures and found them to be unfairly distributed. In addition, the self-employed people who experienced difficulties running their businesses reported reduced well-being, which had a negative effect on their business survival.  Conclusion  While the three studies in this thesis had different foci, they collectively provide insights into the internal and external salutogenic resources that influenced how self-employed people navigated the pandemic. A sense of coherence, resilience and well-being were deemed important for handling the pandemic well, for both the individuals and their businesses. The research also indicated the interconnectedness between self-employed people and their businesses. For instance, financial difficulties may lead to increased stress and pressure to make decisions to sustain the business. Reduced well-being, in turn, made it harder to adapt and adjust positively to adversity. The importance of supporting factors at multiple socio-ecological levels was also highlighted, and these may be particularly important to those who had difficulties running their businesses.

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Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur våld i ungas parrelationer konstrueras och hur ansvaret för våld i ungas parrelationer konstrueras i svenska nyhetsartiklar. Studiens syfte har besvarats genom en kritisk diskursanalys, utifrån Faircloughs tredimensionella modell, av svenska nyhetsartiklar från fyra rikstäckande mediehus. Studiens vetenskapsfilosofiska utgångspunkt är socialkonstruktionismen och det teoretiska ramverket utgörs av ett ekologiskt förhållningssätt. Materialet består av tryckta källor under en treårsperiod, från början av 2021 till och med 2023. Studiens resultat visar två diskursiva teman, episodisk inramning av våldet och att våldet förmedlas informativt. Det förstnämnda innebär att våldet konstrueras som enskilda händelser, ofta med dödlig utgång, utan strukturella förklaringar. I detta tema finns det även ett fokus på rättsväsendets hantering av brottet och rapportering om följande rättsprocesser. I motsats utgör det andra temat att våldet förmedlas informativt, i syfte att belysa våld i ungas parrelationer som ett socialt problem. Den senare kan anses förmedla ett budskap om att våldet kan förklaras strukturellt samtidigt som det skapar ett kollektivt och samhälleligt ansvar för våldet i ungas parrelationer. Ytterligare framträder det att unga själva inte kommer till tals i nyhetsartiklarna, vilket kan vara en förutsättning för att målgruppen själva ska få makt över att konstruera ett socialt problem som främst berör dem själva. Avslutningsvis visar denna studie på att våld i ungas parrelationer är ett socialt problem som i svenska nyhetsmedier rapporteras om på ett diversifierat vis. För att våldet ska uppfattas som ett socialt problem och att socialt ansvar behövs för att hantera det, krävs det att rapporteringen om våld i ungas parrelationer inkluderar sociokulturella och strukturella aspekter.

The purpose of this study is to deepen the knowledge of guardians experiences of coordination between the various support measures for their children with intellectual disabilities in special schools. My research questions are to find out how the guardians describe the contact with LSS administrators, child and youth habilitation personnel and specialist teachers in schools for children with special needs as well as the experiences of the guardians based on their contacts with LSS administrators, child and youth habilitation personnel and specialist teachers in special schools. To find this out, a qualitative study is conducted in the form of interviews with guardians of children with intellectual disability. Informants in the study were nine guardians from three different municipalities. The results have been analyzed using Bronfenbrenners developing ecological model. The results show amongst other things that the guardians want more coordinated meetings to facilitate everyday life for the family. Another result was that the contact between the different instancesvary greatly both in quantity and quality and it is up to the guardians if contact occurs. It commonly emerged that the guardians experiences are that there is a good competence in general within different personnel groups. Another finding was that there are shortcomings regarding documentation and monitoring. Finally, it also emerged that it differs regarding how agencies act in preparing guardians for the future in different instances. One conclusion is that variation seems to be bound to whom the guardians have as an administrator and it becomes clear that the role of the special education teacher as a qualified conversation partner is important both in special schools but also in meeting with other professionals. It cannot be stressed enough how important the role is as a special education teacher and coordinator to simplify everyday life for parents or guardians. In addition, monitoring and evaluations fill an important function in professional practice as necessary for improving mutual understanding between home and special schools. / Syftet med denna studie är att fördjupa kunskapen om vårdnadshavares erfarenheter av samordning mellan olika stödinsatser för deras barn med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning i grundsärskolan. Mina forskningsfrågor utifrån syftet är att dels att ta reda på hur vårdnadshavarna beskriver kontakten med LSS-handläggare, barn-och ungdomshabiliteringens personal samt speciallärare i grundsärskolan, dels att ta reda på vilka erfarenheter av stöd vårdnadshavare har utifrån sina kontakter med LSS-handläggare, barn- och ungdomshabiliteringens personal samt speciallärare i särskolan.   För att ta reda på detta har en kvalitativ undersökning genomförts i form av intervjuer med vårdnadshavare till barn med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning. Antalet informanter i intervjun var nio stycken personer från tre olika kommuner. Resultatet har analyserats med hjälp av Bronfenbrenners utvecklingsekologiska modell. Resultatet visar bland annat att vårdnadshavare önskar mer samordnade möten för att underlätta vardagen för familjen. Ett annat resultat var att kontakten mellan olika instanser varierar mycket i både antal och kvalitetoch det är upp till vårdnadshavarna om kontakten sker. Gemensamt framkom det att vårdnadshavarnas upplevelser är att det finns en god kompetens över lag hos olika personalgrupper. Ytterligare ett resultat var att det finns brister gällande dokumentation och uppföljning. Till sist framkom det också att det är ojämnt hur myndigheteragerar föratt förbereda vårdnadshavare inför framtiden inom de olika instanserna. En slutsats är att det verkar vara mycket bundet till vem vårdnadshavarna har som handläggare om stödet fungerar och det blir tydligt att speciallärarens roll som kvalificerad samtalspartner är viktig både i grundsärskolan men även i mötet med andra yrkesgrupper. Det kan inte nog betonas hur viktig rollen är som speciallärare samt samordnare för att förenkla vardagen för vårdnadshavarna. Dessutom fyller uppföljningar och utvärderingar en viktig funktion i yrkespraktiken då detta krävs för att öka samförståndet mellan hemmet och grundsärskolan.