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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 ... -
Watching Nature Videos Promotes Physiological Restoration: Evidence From the Modulation of Alpha Waves in Electroencephalography
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“We All Held Our Own”: Job Demands and Resources at Individual, Leader, Group, and Organizational Levels During COVID-19 Outbreak in Health Care. A Multi-Source Qualitative Study.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract: Background: Interventions tackling COVID-19 impact on health care workers’ mental health would benefit from being informed by validated and integrated assessment frameworks. This study aimed to explore the fitness ... -
"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 and Perceived Competence in School Children from 1 to 9 Class
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Motivational aspects in reading, math, science and physical education are often studied on whole samples and not grouped into different classes. In our study we wish to investigate cross-sectional data across classes. Our ... -
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 are Romantic Relationships Good for? An Explorative Analysis of the Perceived Benefits of Being in a Relationship
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Forming long-term intimate relationships is a human universal, with most people across different times and cultures doing so. Such relationships should be associated with important benefits otherwise individuals would not ... -
What Does It Take To Invest In Protective Actions Against Flooding?
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Floods are one of the most destructive natural hazards in Europe and are predicted to be more severe than before in Norway. Lack of effective communication is pointed out to be one of the barriers to protective behavior ... -
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 passion? An investigation of the relationships between passion, personality and humour in athletes
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Rollen til menneskelig atferd er alltid interessert forskere. Viktige aspekter ved å forstå atferd er lidenskap, personlighetstrekk og humor. Forskere har lenge brukt disse temaene for å prøve å forklare deler av atferd. ... -
What is the role of “degree of worry” and “coping appraisal” in intentions for protective behaviour? Testing components of the protective motivation theory.
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Protection motivation theory (PMT) has become a leading theory to explain the cognitive processes for risk management. The PMT suggest that cognitive likelihood evaluations predict protective behaviour. Consequently, several ... -
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 Psychological Factors Make Individuals Believe They Are Infected by Coronavirus 2019?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: We previously showed, by means of an online-based survey, that the belief of being infected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) acted as a nocebo and predicted higher perception of symptoms similar to COVID-19 ... -
“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 ... -
Wheels of fortune: A study of psychological factors determining riding an e-scooter while intoxicated
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)A quantitative analysis of intention to ride a shared electric scooter under the influence of alcohol in a representative sample of people in Trondheim, Norway. The data collection primarily happened at two shopping centres, ...