Interethnic relationships are increasingly common in society, yet interethnic couples also have a higher divorce rate compared to intraethnic couples. Given these facts, it is important that researchers identify factors that contribute to couples commitment in interethnic relationships, but to date, such research is rare. This thesis investigated the factors that contribute to the commitment of Chinese interethnic relationships. In order to do that, a qualitative study and a quantitative study were conducted. Johnson s commitment framework was found suitable in the qualitative study. Thus a cultural model that incorporated Johnson s personal commitment and a new construct couple cultural identity was established for the quantitative study to find whether love, satisfaction (i.e. dyadic adjustment) and couple cultural identity (i.e. acculturation to the partner and similarity of couple s individualism/collectivism) would predict personal commitment and whether each variable would account for unique variance in personal commitment of the participants. The quantitative study found significant relationships between love and personal commitment, satisfaction and personal commitment of Chinese interethnic couples. Also, couple cultural identity was important for women s personal commitment. These findings suggest that partners in interethnic relationships may define personal commitment in different ways with men emphasising love and satisfaction, and women emphasising love and acculturation to their partner.

No / In this article, we explore what we perceive to be a gap between agency as articulated in practice theories and agency as personally experienced. The gap is not created by a turn to practice in theorizing, but by the tendency to produce theoretical representations that silence the particularity of experience and the diversity of voices in experience. In exploring the gap, we identify aspects of practice theories that explicitly commit to theoretical representation over personal experience and describe Bakhtin's commitment to action and personal experience as an alternative. In order to exemplify Bakhtin's approach in practice, we then present an analysis of one artist-teacher's experience of her own agency in making art and in teaching. Finally, we comment on what a commitment to representational theorizing does to accounts of an artist's activities and personal experience.

Uppsatsen är till formen en reflekterande vetenskaplig essä som undersöker akutsjuksköterskans yrkespraktik. Den egna erfarenheten gestaltad i form av en berättelse från ett arbetspass på sjukhuset är i fokus och undersökningen tar sitt avstamp i den. Det som belyses är de olika kunskapsformer som akutsjuksköterskan lutar sig mot när hon använder sin "kliniska blick"och hur de samverkar och är beroende av varandra. Kunskapsformerna är hämtade från Aristoteles kunskapsbegrepp och stort utrymme ges till den praktiska kunskapen och den praktiska klokheten, som av Aristoteles benämndes fronesis. Texten undersöker också det för sjuksköterskan centrala begreppet omvårdnad utifrån den egna erfarenheten. Omvårdnadsbegreppet diskuteras ur ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv. Det är tolkandet, omsorgstiden, det etiska medvetandet och känslornas kunskap och dess påverkan på omvårdnaden som belyses. Undersökningen visar att det är det är det personliga engagemanget, nyfikenheten och motivationen som är den kraft som kan och lotsa sjuksköterskan genom vårdens svåra utmaningar och som kan hjälpa sjuksköterskan att stå upp för den goda omsorgen och omvårdnaden i en allt mer slimmad och pressad vårdorganisation. / This reflective scientific essay examines emergency-care nurse's professional practice. The nurse's personal experience is in focus and is portrayed in a narrative from an evening shift at the emergency hospital. The narrative serves as a foundation from where the reflective process forms it's content. The subjects explored are the different forms of knowledge that emergency-care nurse's uses when she uses her "clinical gaze" and how they interact and are interdependent. The theories of knowledge are taken from Aristotle's philosophy and great space are given to the practical knowledge and skill and practical wisdom, phronesis. The essay also examines the emergency-care nurse's central concept of nursing and caring. Nursing concept is discussed from a phenomenological perspective. The ability to interpret, the experience of time in nursing care, ethical awareness and emotional knowledge and its impact on the care are investigated. The essay shows that it is the personal commitment, curiosity and motivation, that can guide the emergency-care nurse through the challenges of everyday work and help the nurse to ensure that human dignity in nursing care stays as a main value and quality in the discipline despite increasingly lean and tight healthcare organizations.