Browsing by Subject "resilience"
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(2017)This qualitative research addresses a three-week pioneering intervention which is based on positive pedagogy and was conducted in a day-care centre in Eastern Finland. A pre-school group of nine children took part to the intervention but four of them attended as research participants and were given pen names. Adam and Bella were studying according to the general education plan, Carrie had intensified support and David received special support. During the intervention, the pre-schoolers were taught about the character strengths of self-regulation and honesty via various stories, poems and pictures which transitioned to reciprocal conversations among the child group. Through different kinds of child plays the pre-schoolers had the opportunity to train those skills in action and in touch with creative documentation exercises they built perceptions of the terms themselves. The material was collected through semi-structured interviews and a concentration questionnaire called pikkuKESKY. As a result of analyses each participant got personal profiles which illustrate their skills and development. The results indicate that the students who needed the most support in learning about self-regulation and honesty showed individual improvement during and after the intervention. Many themes in the teachers last interview often came back to the feeling of success which seemed to be widely in a key role when strengthening the pre-schoolers self-esteem.
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(2021)Abstract: Aims and objectives: Resilience is linked to better health, mental health and coping at work. Thus, there is use for a high-quality resilience assessment method, as better ways of assessing resilience and a better understanding of the phenomenon could help people to identify their strengths and to develop their weaknesses. This master’s thesis aimed to examine the relationships between the developed Sisu-resilience questionnaire and its subcategories, the psychophysiological variables measured during the laboratory study designed for perseverance assessment, performance in six tasks used in the laboratory study and overall performance in the laboratory study. Due to the novelty of the experimental design, precisely directed hypotheses were not at the epicentre of the thesis. This thesis is part of the Sisu-questionnaire validation project and in the general part of resilience research. Methods: There were 54 test subjects (47 women) in the laboratory phase of the study. The subjects were university students with a mean age of 26.0 years. The experiment consisted of six different tasks for measuring perseverance, which the subjects performed using the instructions given. Of all the psychophysiological variables measured during the experiment, measures of electrodermal activity and facial electromyography were used in this thesis. Electrodermal activity is considered to reflect sympathetic activation. Measures of facial electromyography are connected to emotional valence. Subjects had completed various personality and health assessment questionnaires and the Sisu-questionnaire before to the laboratory study. Results: During the laboratory study, tonic skin conductance of those with more beneficial sisu was lower vis-à-vis those with less beneficial sisu. Beneficial sisu was also associated with better performance in the handgrip endurance task. Tonic and phasic skin conductance of those with more harmful sisu were lower compared to those with less harmful sisu, but the links between harmful sisu and skin conductance were focused only around its “harm to others” subcategory. Beneficial sisu was not associated with positive emotion during the laboratory study. Positive emotion was assessed by orbicularis oculi -activation. Conclusion: The association between higher beneficial sisu and lower sympathetic activation indicates that the questionnaire reaches some property of the nervous system, and it is in line with previous research. Unlike harmful sisu, none of the subcategories of beneficial sisu were associated with phasic skin conductance, which can be interpreted to tell about the independent explanatory power of harmful sisu. The link between better performance in the handgrip task and more beneficial sisu could indicate more beneficial sisu leading to adaptive stress management. Given the widely-known connection between positive emotion and resilience, it is surprising that beneficial sisu was not associated with positive emotion during any subtasks.
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(2021)Abstract: Aims and objectives: Resilience is linked to better health, mental health and coping at work. Thus, there is use for a high-quality resilience assessment method, as better ways of assessing resilience and a better understanding of the phenomenon could help people to identify their strengths and to develop their weaknesses. This master’s thesis aimed to examine the relationships between the developed Sisu-resilience questionnaire and its subcategories, the psychophysiological variables measured during the laboratory study designed for perseverance assessment, performance in six tasks used in the laboratory study and overall performance in the laboratory study. Due to the novelty of the experimental design, precisely directed hypotheses were not at the epicentre of the thesis. This thesis is part of the Sisu-questionnaire validation project and in the general part of resilience research. Methods: There were 54 test subjects (47 women) in the laboratory phase of the study. The subjects were university students with a mean age of 26.0 years. The experiment consisted of six different tasks for measuring perseverance, which the subjects performed using the instructions given. Of all the psychophysiological variables measured during the experiment, measures of electrodermal activity and facial electromyography were used in this thesis. Electrodermal activity is considered to reflect sympathetic activation. Measures of facial electromyography are connected to emotional valence. Subjects had completed various personality and health assessment questionnaires and the Sisu-questionnaire before to the laboratory study. Results: During the laboratory study, tonic skin conductance of those with more beneficial sisu was lower vis-à-vis those with less beneficial sisu. Beneficial sisu was also associated with better performance in the handgrip endurance task. Tonic and phasic skin conductance of those with more harmful sisu were lower compared to those with less harmful sisu, but the links between harmful sisu and skin conductance were focused only around its “harm to others” subcategory. Beneficial sisu was not associated with positive emotion during the laboratory study. Positive emotion was assessed by orbicularis oculi -activation. Conclusion: The association between higher beneficial sisu and lower sympathetic activation indicates that the questionnaire reaches some property of the nervous system, and it is in line with previous research. Unlike harmful sisu, none of the subcategories of beneficial sisu were associated with phasic skin conductance, which can be interpreted to tell about the independent explanatory power of harmful sisu. The link between better performance in the handgrip task and more beneficial sisu could indicate more beneficial sisu leading to adaptive stress management. Given the widely-known connection between positive emotion and resilience, it is surprising that beneficial sisu was not associated with positive emotion during any subtasks.
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