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- Ahmed, Ali M., Professor, 1977-
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Don’t be first! An empirical test of the first-mover disadvantage hypothesis in a culinary game show
- 2019
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - : Elsevier. - 2590-2911. ; 1:1, s. 1-4
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to evaluate the first-mover disadvantage hypothesis. Data from a Swedish television cooking game show was used to test the hypothesis. Each week four contestants on the game show take turns hosting each other at a dinner. Contestants rate each other’s performance and compete for a considerable cash prize. The contestant receiving the highest rating wins the cash prize at the end of the week. The results show that being the first contestant to host the dinner during a week remarkably reduced the chances of winning the cash prize in the end of that week. The results imply that being the first does not always pay off in some circumstances.
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- Björn, Boman
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Why has Sweden risen in the IFPI league tables but been surpassed by South Korea? A comparative case study
- 2021
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - : Elsevier BV. - 2590-2911. ; 4:1, s. 1-8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sweden has risen in the global music market charts since the early 2000s and has a substantial pool of music companies, songwriters, and artists. Nevertheless, over the last decade it has lost ground relative to South Korea in particular. By analyzing the factors associated with global music market strength among 20–50 countries and comparing Sweden and South Korea's comparative advantages and disadvantages, the current article underscores that intellectual property rights (e.g., r = 0.842), GDP per capita, (e.g., r = 0.754), and piracy rates (e.g., r = −0.699) correlate with music market size. Thus, South Korea (and China) has benefitted from overall economic growth whereas Sweden's growth rates are comparatively lower. Moreover, at the local level, South Korea has a more dominating market niche signified by both big and small K-pop companies that compete for demand and supply at the local (South Korea), regional (greater East Asia), and global levels of the music industries.
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- Boman, Björn, 1984-
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The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning
- 2021
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - : Elsevier BV. - 2590-2911. ; 3:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The study focuses on how the South Korean drama/mystery film Burning (2018) intertextually draws from William Faulkner’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and Haruki Murakami’s short story ‘Barn burning’ and related sociohistorical contexts. Burning does quite impressionistically and freely draw from these two short stories as well as adding new features, while simultaneously removing much of the core of Faulkner’s work and some of Murakami’s counterpart. By means of intertextual borrowing and re-contextualization, it has used the global discursive field and consequently hybridized and localized elements and themes from American-Western and Japanese works and discourses to perhaps make them better suited for the South Korean context. Burning has included and excluded various elements from both short stories but emphasized class and gender issues. These two major elements reflect upon the structural inequalities in the contemporary South Korean society.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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Didactics in school-age educare centres : An unexplored field but with distinctive views
- 2022
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - : Elsevier. - 2590-2911. ; 6:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The background for this study is the lack of well-defined and distinct theories on didactics in school-age educare centres (SAECs). Therefore, in this study, we investigated and compared perceptions among nine professional groups employed in the field. The participants included 390 females and 102 males in Sweden, and their beliefs about didactics in SAECs were measured through a questionnaire consisting of 24 items on a 4-point Likert scale, which researchers and those related to the didactics in SAECs proposed. Descriptive statistics presented an overall picture of the various claims on a group level. The Mann–Whitney test investigated the distinctions between occupational categories. The results indicated that most of the items were relevant. Furthermore, the pupils' orientation was not taken into account enough. Didactics should be translated into SAEC practices but the transfer into practice remains unclear. Many respondents appeared to agree with all of the items to varying degrees, but least that SAEC didactics should not be related to school activities. An important result was that principals' perceptions diverged largely from those of other groups, especially regarding the relationship of didactics to the school's activities. The results partly explain that different professions the SAECs affect see the role of didactics differently.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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Student conceptions of motivation to study revealed through phenomenography: Differences and similarities among primary school students
- 2023
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - 2590-2911. ; 8:1, s. 100505-100505
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examined a group of primary Swedish students' conceptions of their own motivation for learning. Altogether, 68 students in Grades 3, 6, and 8 participated in the study, in which similarities and differences among students in the three grades were considered. Theoretical and methodological aspects were guided by the phenomenographical approach. For most students, positive and negative influences on motivation emerged in seven distinct categories: feelings, teachers, teaching, subjects, learning environment, classmates, and well-being. The apparent importance of good teachers, structured and varied lessons, practical aesthetic subjects and more group-rooms was similar across the three different grades. Differences that emerged were students' reduced joy in learning, decreased interest in mathematics, higher levels of stress and pressure, more worry and anxiety, higher degree of preparation for the future, and a greater need for individualisation for the older students. The study's results confirm previous research but also provide new knowledge about variations across the grades and more specific factors that promote or inhibit students' motivation to study.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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Students’ experience of Uncertain times : Learning and well-being inSwedish upper secondary schools during the pandemic
- 2023
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - : Elsevier BV. - 2590-2911. ; 7:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study aims to explore how students in upper secondary schools in Sweden perceived changes to their prepandemicstudy habits and well-being that took place during the pandemic. Because our study is based ontheoretical perspectives relevant to learning and well-being, our framing loosely follows concepts from the workof Antonovsky. For this purpose, we have analyzed the responses of 209 students who completed a web survey.The study adopts mixed methods, combining analyses of data gathered via the Holistic Student Assessment(HSA), questionnaire surveys, and open-ended questions focusing on students’ perceptions of learning and wellbeingduring and before the pandemic. Results show that most students perceived significant differences betweentheir situations before and during the pandemic, which in turn significantly affected their school performanceand well-being. Although many of the students described poorer management of their studies and deteriorationof their study strategies, no difference was shown in self-regulated learning. From this, it can be concluded thatthe students previously had a low awareness of self-regulated learning. The study’s contribution is that the resultsare based on students’ perceptions during the pandemic which preventing an ex post facto design. Implications ofthis study both for practice and policy is to address a salutogenic process and curricula to strengthen academicperformance and health and give young people readiness for action for unexpected situations and for coping withlife.
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- Boström, Lena, 1960-, et al.
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University students’ study strategies before and during the pandemic : Experiences from Swedish students
- 2023
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - 2590-2911. ; 8:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The pandemic has affected students’ studying methods. The purpose of the article is to gain insight into the waysstudents’ study strategies have changed after transitioning from on-campus to full-distance education. An in-depth understanding is important for designing learning activities and teaching regarding distance educationand flexible learning. The study is based on a survey administered to 347 students via strategical sampling, andthe empirical material is analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The results show that many studentsdisplayed difficulties in addressing and explaining both their former and present study strategies, something thatcan be linked to the lower degree of concentration and attention they described during the pandemic. This resultindicates that the framework of the courses provided should pay more attention to study strategies. Havingawareness of one’s learning strategies can also be linked to the ability to set goals and plan for the studies, self-regulated learning, which is altogether an important component for studying success. Based on these results, wealso discuss the ways to develop students’ study strategies that favor academic success. Furthermore, we drawconclusions about how students can conduct their studies in the best way to improve their own conditions andcreate a basis for meta-learning that assists them in lifelong learning.
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- Carlander, Anders, 1979, et al.
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The ever gap: The relationship between self-rated health and socio-economic inequalities in Sweden between 1999 and 2021
- 2023
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - 2590-2911. ; 8:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Health inequality linked to socioeconomic status (SES) has increased in many parts of the world. Since economic inequality also has been reported to be on the rise, it is pivotal to investigate how socioeconomic inequality affects health disparities annually. The present study is based on a yearly repeated cross-sectional probability sample of Swedish citizens (N = 141 619) collected between 1999 and 2021. We show that the relative level of SES has increased significantly in Sweden. In addition, the level of economic inequality has also increased. Based on self-rated health (SRH), we report a clear disparity between low and high SES and subjective social class (SSS), where higher SES and SSS are associated with better SRH. We observe a stronger association between SRH and reported present SSS (i.e., subjective social class aimed at capturing current situation) than between SRH and reported childhood SSS (i.e., subjective social class focusing on the situation when growing up). We show that the annual marginal effect of SES is not increasing but instead contributes with a stable annual contribution on SRH. Interestingly, the annual effect of education on SRH was substantially attenuated when adjusting for income, whereas the effect of income on SRH was only moderately different when adjusting for education. Potential mechanisms and remedies are discussed.
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- Damber, Ulla, 1957-
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A local study of Swedish university students’ perceptions of study strategies before and during the pandemic : A phenomenographical approach
- 2024
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In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open. - 2590-2911. ; 9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The present study targets students' perceptions of study strategies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic's transition to full distance education at a small Swedish university, with the purpose to study how students perceive and form their study strategies. Our inquiries targeted study strategies including various learning strategies such as surface-learning, deep-learning and long-term goal-oriented strategies. Theories of study strategies and self-regulated learning guided our analyses of 15 in-depth interviews with students from different programs, including students with varied experiences of academia. To analyze the dimensions of the phenomenon study strategies, phenomenography was used to explore students' perceptions of their study strategies and conceptualizations of themselves as learners. Students' perceptions of study strategies fell into different categories including also self-perception and goal orientation. We conclude that the pandemic amplified differences between students with deep-learning strategies and satisfactory results and students without distinct study strategies, mainly surface-learning strategies. Students who already before the pandemic applied self-regulated learning, developed their study strategies further during the pandemic experiencing more control, whereas struggling students experienced increased helplessness during full distance education. We call for teachers' increased attention to study strategies in planning and conducting courses, to equalize conditions for groups of diverse students.
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- de Fine Licht, Karl, 1979, et al.
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Exploring the measurement of political trust: A multilevel observational analysis of six Swedish public agencies
- 2024
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In: Social Sciences and Humanities Open. - 2590-2911. ; 10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Political trust is a well-used construct and serves both as an explanation and an outcome in the social sciences. Considering the importance of the construct,relatively little attention has been allocated to its measurement. While the existing literature on the measurement of political trust focuses on either developing and validating new scales, or scaling and equivalence assessment of the more general measures, this article contributes by analysing the contents of the widely used survey items of political trust. Put differently, what is in a typical political trust measure? The analysis uses relevant observational data from Sweden (n = 1760)with repeated questions over six public agencies, where the typically used trust measurement is regressed on theoretically motivated psychological antecedents of trust using a hierarchical heteroskedastic ordered probit model. Results imply that the typical trust measurement contains traces of perceived competence and less so perceived motivation. The results also suggest that political actor sdo carry meaning beyond the trust construct, influencing both the location and scale of the response distribution.
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