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Waiting Areas of Airports as Restorative Environments for Travelers
(Master thesis, 2012)The main goal of the present study is to investigate if physical attributes in waiting areas of airports can influence their perceived restorativeness for travelers. This study employed a pre-survey to select the physical ... -
Warm-hearted businessmen, competitive housewives? Effects of gender-fair language on adolescents’ perceptions of occupations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Recent studies from countries with grammatical gender languages (e.g., French) found both children and adults to more frequently think of female jobholders and to consider women's success in male dominated occupations more ... -
"We know where to go and where not to go, what to do and what not to do online.": A qualitative study of Norwegian children's activities, risk assessment, and coping strategies on the Internet
(Master thesis, 2013)This article documents a study of 51 Norwegian children and adolescents, aged 10, 13 and 16 years. Qualitative focus group interviews were conducted to investigate the informants’ patterns of Internet use, risk assessment ... -
Well-being of working parents with chronically ill children: A literature study on family interaction and work resources
(Master thesis, 2010)Child’s health has hardly received attention within the literature investigating work-family interference. This theoretical oriented thesis focuses on how chronically ill, including asthma, interact with family’s emotional ... -
What enhances the development of emotion understanding in young children? A longitudinal study of interpersonal predictors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)We studied potential determinants of the development of children's emotion understanding (EU) from age 4 to 6 in a Norwegian community sample (N = 974) using the Test of Emotion Comprehension. Interpersonal predictors ... -
What influences tourists' overall holiday experience? Tourism company products versus destination products
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)There are as yet to our knowledge no systematic investigations comparing the effects of specific tourism company product and total destination product components on tourists’ experience. The current study addressed this ... -
What is community to you?: A critical discourse analytical and indigenous psychological exploration of the contemporary discourses of community and psychological sense of community among elderly people in Mumbai
(Master thesis, 2011)Seymour Sarason (1974) argued that the lack of psychological sense of community (PSOC) is a destructive force in living, and dealing with its consequences and its prevention should be the overarching concern of community ... -
What is More Important for Positive Outcome - The Degree of Insight or the Intensity of Emotional Activation for Patients With Cluster C Personality Disorders?
(Master thesis, 2010)Common factors as insight and emotional activation have proven to be of importance in the process of change in therapy (Greenberg & Watson, 2006; Wampold et al., 2007). But which of them are closest associated to positive ... -
What is trained develops! Perspective on skill learning.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Knowledge about developmental theories is important for experts or specialists working with children following normal development and children who have various kinds of dysfunction, in order to better understand what happens ... -
What lies beneath trait-anxiety? Testing the Self-regulatory Executive Function Model of Vulnerability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Vulnerability to psychological disorder can be assessed with constructs such as trait anxiety and neuroticism which among others are transdiagnostic risk factors. However, trait-anxiety and related concepts have been ... -
“What should I do when I get home?” treatment plan discussion at discharge between specialist physicians and older in-patients: mixed method study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background During discharge from hospital, older patients and physicians discuss the plan for managing patients’ health at home. If not followed at home, it can result in poor medication management, readmissions, or ... -
When culture meets culture, psychosocial effects on migrants' well-being : a case study of Ghanian migrants living in Britain
(Master thesis, 2015)There has been great mobility due to the advances in technology, and migration takes the center stage. Achieving an optimal level of wellbeing is paramount to most people, and migrants are not different. Whereas existing ... -
When less is more: Psychometric properties of Norwegian short-forms of the Ambivalent Sexism Scales (ASI and AMI) and the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance (IRMA) Scale
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper reports on the development and the psychometric properties of short forms of Ambivalent Sexism Scales toward women (ASI; Glick & Fiske, 1996) and men (AMI; Glick & Fiske, 1999), and a scale measuring rape ... -
When you think you can go no further, you are only halfway to where you can truly go: Manipulating speed-accuracy trade-off in task instructions affect ERP amplitudes in a visual cued Go/NoGo task
(Master thesis, 2013)Assessments of attentional processes through traditional neuropsychological tests or electrophysiological methods seldom control for the possible effects of nuances in the instructions given. The present study documents ... -
Where did my OCD come from? A qualitative exploratory study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)There is a lack of empirical studies investigating patients’ understanding of why they developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In this article, we explore patients’ conceptualization of why they developed OCD and ... -
White matter alterations and their associations with motor function in young adults born preterm with very low birth weight.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Very low birth weight (VLBW: ≤ 1500 g) individuals have an increased risk of white matter alterations and neurodevelopmental problems, including fine and gross motor problems. In this hospital-based follow-up study, the ... -
White Matter Matters: Unraveling Violence in Psychosis and Psychopathy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Individuals with psychotic disorders have an increased risk of committing acts of violence. Neurobiological support for the extent to which violence in psychosis is driven by psychotic symptoms and/or antisocial traits ... -
Who Decides Matters: En sosialpsykologisk studie av Hamas-regjeringens og Bush-administrasjonens beslutninger etter valget i de okkuperte palestinske områder i 2006.
(Master thesis, 2010)Dette studiet anvender operasjonell kode analyse for å avdekke rasjonale bak Bush-administrasjonens og Hamas sin beslutningstagning. Analysen viser at Bush-administrasjonen oppfattet Hamas som ekstremt fiendtlig, og at en ... -
Who Returns to Work? - Exploring the Role of Interpersonal Problems in Occupational Rehabilitation
(Master thesis, 2020)Background: Current interventions to facilitate return to work (RTW) after long-term sick leave show weak effects, indicating the need for new approaches to the RTW process. The importance of social relationships in the ...