Essays about: "Psychological theory"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 335 essays containing the words Psychological theory.

  1. 21. The Voice of Nature : Ecological Personification in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Zayna Halis; [2023]
    Keywords : Conceptual Metaphor Theory; ecolinguistics; ecological personification; ecosophy; ecological identities; eco-resistance; embodied metaphors;

    Abstract : This study delves into the ways in which the displaced Palestinian characters in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name (2008) connect to their homeland through embodied metaphors, particularly through the personification of their native lands, which will be read with recourse to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). By utilizing ecolinguistics as an analytical lens and applying CMT, this study illuminates how both literary works significantly underscore the urgency and cruciality of the human-nature interconnection and interdependence amid tragedy and dispossession. READ MORE

  3. 22. Living in an Immaterial World: An exploratory study on consumer value perceptions in metaverse settings

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Linn Henriksson; Ellen Svärdh; [2023]
    Keywords : metaverse; consumption-value theory; value perceptions; virtual consumption;

    Abstract : As sung by Madonna, "we are living in a material world" underscored by the consumption of physical goods. Beyond the glitz of materialism lies the grand problem of overconsumption, and correspondingly overproduction, of the world's finite resources. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on Firm Capital Structure: A Quantitative Study on S&P 500 firms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Erik Mittag-Leffler; Kabir Sehgal; [2023]
    Keywords : board gender diversity; capital structure; critical mass; female risk aversion; leverage; debt-to-capital; trade-off theory; pecking order theory; agency theory.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Purpose: The objective of this study is to determine whether or not board gender diversity influences the capital structures of S&P 500 firms. This is done based on the premise of female risk aversion and conventional capital structure and agency issues theories. READ MORE

  5. 24. Det gröna andrummet i staden : små offentliga urbana grönytors betydelse för psykiskt välbefinnande

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Ellinor Svensson; Linnéa Thorstensson; [2023]
    Keywords : psykisk välbefinnande; restorativ; vardagsgrönska; stress; återhämtning; social hållbarhet och fickpark;

    Abstract : Syftet med denna uppsats var att få förståelse för vilka kvaliteter Petriplatsen i Lund och Rundelsparken i Malmö har samt om dessa små offentliga urbana grönytor utgör restorativa miljöer i den täta staden. Metoden som använts var platsanalyser med utgångspunkt i två olika observationstillfällen. READ MORE

  6. 25. A Jungian Reading of The Midnight Library : Individuation Theory and Literary Criticism

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : HANA MIKAEILI; [2023]
    Keywords : Jung; Matt Haig; Jungian literary criticism; individuation; mother archetype; animus; complex; shadow; library; mental health;

    Abstract : The essay is a Jungian reading of the novel The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, using Jung’s individuation theory. The author attends to the psychological journey of Nora, the protagonist on a quest of finding her identity. She struggles with anxiety and depression and commits suicide. READ MORE