Thesis (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-156).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C., 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-220).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-156).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C., 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-220).

Thesis (M.A. Screen and Media Studies)--University of Waikato, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-179)

p. 1-99 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-03-26T18:36:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 222222.pdf: 687494 bytes, checksum: 574241abaa05bdd65887c7a7774684cb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lima(tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2013-04-09T18:27:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 222222.pdf: 687494 bytes, checksum: 574241abaa05bdd65887c7a7774684cb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-09T18:27:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 222222.pdf: 687494 bytes, checksum: 574241abaa05bdd65887c7a7774684cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Esta dissertação buscou apresentar a percepção dos empregados de uma empresa petroquímica sobre o humor e seu papel no ambiente organizacional. Os elementos teóricos apresentados mostram que o humor, na história do pensamento, apresentase predominantemente como comportamento menor e inadequado. No ambiente organizacional, ele tem sido pouco estudado, e a sua pouca exploração mostra que ele não é considerado importante, mesmo que haja controvérsias sobre o assunto. Essas observações são confirmadas no estudo realizado para esta dissertação. Utilizando-se da metodologia da Teoria das Representações Sociais, o estudo mostra que o humor é percebido como pouco importante no ambiente de trabalho, pelo grupo pesquisado, embora este tenha uma visão positiva do mesmo e reconheça que ele impacta esse ambiente de forma positiva e negativa. A empresa pesquisada comporta-se em relação ao humor de forma indiferente, visto que não o estimula nem o cerceia. / Salvador

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The present thesis will provide an overview of how the four humor styles, affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating humor, are connected to different brain areas. The thesis will also include an overview of how humor in general, and especially three factors of humor including, processing, appreciation, and comprehension is connected to different brain areas. The present study found a connection between these three factors of humor and activation in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). The four humor styles were all connected to activity in the midbrain and nucleus accumbens (NAc), though they were found to differ in other parts of the brain. Affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor are humor styles found to share activation of similar brain areas, whereas self-enhancing and aggressive humor was found to the least extent share activation of the same brain areas. No neural differences in relation to the four humor styles have been found between men and woman, or between cultures.

Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskan förväntas arbeta med patientens bästa i fokus och hon möter många allvarliga situationer där själva existensen står på spel och där sjuksköterskan behöver härbärgera starka känslor hos patienter och deras närstående, men också upprätthålla sin egen integritet och känslomässiga balans. Humor har visats vara ett kraftfullt men tveeggat verktyg i kommunikation och relationsbyggande. Inom psykiatrin kan detta verktyg förmodas behöva hanteras med särskilt kunskap och omsorg. Syfte: Att beskriva hur sjuksköterskan i psykiatrisk omvårdnad ser på humor som företeelse och hennes upplevelse av positiva respektive negativa effekter av att använda humor. Metod: Undersökningen utfördes med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av halvstrukturerade intervjuer med fem sjuksköterskor verksamma inom psykiatrisk omvårdnad. Resultat: Humor sågs som ett viktigt verktyg inom psykiatrisk omvårdnad som det krävdes lyhördhet, respekt, fingertoppskänsla och timing för att kunna använda. Den huvudsakliga strategin för att använda humor var öppenhet för spontant humor i mötet men det gavs även exempel på medvetna interventioner. Humor öppnade möjligheter att få se verkligheten från nya perspektiv vilket var verksamt för att förändra negativa tankar samt lätta på ångest och negativa känslor. Humor underlättade kommunikation och kunde användas för att jämna ut maktbalanser. Det fanns risk för negativa effekter om humor användes för att trycka ner andra eller som verklighetsflykt. Psykiatriska patienter uppfattades som mer sårbara och medvetenhet om hur svåra psykiska sjukdomar påverkar förmågan att uppfatta och uppskatta humor var viktig även om ett allmänt bra bemötande ansågs vara grundläggande. Slutsats: Positiva former av humor som används på ett respektfullt och inkännande sätt kan vara är ett viktigt verktyg i omvårdnaden för att möjliggöra nya perspektiv på tillvaron, ge lättnad i ångest, minska negativa känslor och tankar samt höja livskvaliteten för både patienter och personal i en verksamhet med mycket allvar. / Background: In nursing focus should be on the patient´s well-being: Nurses meet many serious situations where the very existence is at stake and nurses need to accommodate stark feelings of patients and their relatives as well as maintaining their own integrity och emotional balance. Humor can be a powerful yet doubleedged tool in communication and building of relationships which in in psychiatric nursing must be handled with extra care and special knowledge. Objective: To describe how nurses in psychiatric care look at humor as a phenomena and how they experience positive and negative effects of using humor. Methods: In this study semi-structured interviews with five nurses within different branches of psychiatric care were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. Results: Humor was seen as an important tool in psychiatric care. Responsiveness, respect, intuition and timing was required to be able to achieve a good alliance. The main strategy was openness to spontaneous humor in the dialogue on the initiative of the patient or the nurse herself, but conscious interventions where also made. Humor could open opportunities to discover new perspectives of reality. This was effective in changing negative thoughts and relief from anxiety and negative emotions. Humor facilitated communication and could be used to even out the balance of power. There was a risk of negative humor used to put others down, or as an escape from reality. Psychiatric patients were perceived as more vulnerable and awareness of how severe mental illness affects the ability to recognize and appreciate humor was important even if a general good encounter was considered essential. Conclusion: Positive forms of humor used in a respectful and empathetic manner can be an important tool in nursing to enable new perspectives of life, relieve anxiety, lighten negative thoughts and feelings and raise quality of life for both patients and staff in an environment with a lot of severity.