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Built Environment Accessibility and Disability as Predictors of Well-Being among Older Adults: A Norwegian Cross-Sectional Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-20)Knowledge about the influence environmental factors have on well-being is important to deliver policies supporting healthy ageing and sustainable health equity. An under-researched question is whether and how the built ... -
Bullying at work Antecedents and outcomes
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-05-30)The synopsis: The present thesis is titled "Workplace bullying. Antecedents and outcomes". Hence, it focuses on work place bullying, which is a relatively new research topic within psychology. The synopsis part of the ... -
Bullying Involvement in Adolescence: Implications for Sleep, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Adolescents’ involvement in bullying is associated with both sleep and mental health problems, but the nature of this association remains unclear; further, its association with academic outcomes has received little attention. ... -
Bullying Victimization and Trauma
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Bullying victimization and trauma research traditions operate quite separately. Hence, it is unclear from the literature whether bullying victimization should be considered as a form of interpersonal trauma. We review ... -
The Burden of Care: A National Survey on the Prevalence, Demographic Characteristics and Health Problems Among Young Adult Carers Attending Higher Education in Norway
(Journal article, 2020-01)Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine prevalence, characteristics and health outcomes among young adults (18 to 25 years) who provide informal care to family members or others with physical or mental ... -
The burden of mental disorders, substance use disorders and self-harm among young people in Europe, 1990−2019: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Mental health is a public health issue for European young people, with great heterogeneity in resource allocation. Representative population-based studies are needed. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study ... -
Burdened parents sharing their concerns for their children with the doctor. The impact of trust in general practice: a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-16)Objective: The aim of this study was to recognise the preconditions experienced by general practitioners (GPs) in addressing the children’s needs when ill and substance abusing parents consult for their own health problems. ... -
The call of the unlived life: On the psychology of existential guilt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper examines the psychology of existential guilt with Martin Heidegger and Rollo May’s conceptualizations as the point of departure. The concept of existential guilt describes preconditions for responsibility and ... -
Can a Questionnaire Be Useful for Assessing Reading Skills in Adults? Experiences with the Adult Reading Questionnaire among Incarcerated and Young Adults in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Good screening tools can be of immense value in educational counselling for adults. We report two studies where we explored the factor structure and discriminative power of the Adult Reading Questionnaire (ARQ) ... -
Can Conceptual Engineering Reduce Implicit Bias?
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Can I Make a Difference? The Role of General and Domain-specific Self-efficacy in Sustainable Consumption Decisions
(Journal article, 2010)We report a study which explored sustainable development self-efficacy (SDSE) beliefs, that is, domain-specific self-efficacy beliefs concerning one’s ability to foster sustainable development. We propose that the following ... -
Can Social Comparison Feedback Affect Indicators of Eco-Friendly Travel Choices? Insights from Two Online Experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01-29)Two online experiments explored the effects of social comparison feedback on indicators of eco-friendly travel choices. It was tested whether the chosen indicators are sensitive to the information conveyed, and if this ... -
Can Survey Measures Predict Key Performance Indicators of Safety? Confirmatory and Exploratory Analyses of the Association Between Self-Report and Safety Outcomes in the Maritime Industry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Safety management may be improved if managers implement measures based on reliable empirical knowledge about how psychological factors cause or prevent accidents. While such factors are often investigated with self-report ... -
Can sustained arousal explain the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-02-23)We present an integrative model of disease mechanisms in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), unifying empirical findings from different research traditions. Based upon the Cognitive activation theory of stress (CATS), we ... -
Can the Covid-19 Pandemic Function as a "Moment of Change” for Vacation Air-Travel? – The Influence of Past Behaviour, Social Norms, and Efficacy Beliefs
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)Reduksjon av flyreiser har høy innvirkning på den individuelles bidrag til å begrense klimaforandringene, og under Covid-19-pandemien var det restriksjoner på flyreiser. «The habit-discontinuity hypothesis» foreslår at når ... -
Can visiting the site of death be beneficial for bereaved families after terror? A qualitative study of parents’ and siblings’ experiences of visiting Utøya Island after the 2011 Norway terror attack
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Background. After the 2011 terror attack on Utøya Island, a collective visit was organized for bereaved families. There is limited knowledge whether bereaved families can benefit from such visits after terror. ... -
Can vitamin D status influence the effect of stress on planning and problem-solving? A randomized control trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Nutritional interventions may serve as a stress resilience strategy with important implications for human health. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of vitamin D supplementation ... -
Can we increase children’s rights endorsement and knowledge?: A pilot study based on the reference framework of competences for democratic culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This pilot study is the first to examine whether a novel curriculum based on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) could increase children’s endorsement and knowledge of children’s rights. ... -
Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Neurofeedback training has been shown to influence behavior in healthy participants as well as to alleviate clinical symptoms in neurological, psychosomatic, and psychiatric patient populations. However, many real-time ... -
"The cancer treatment was only half the work!". A mixed-method study of rehabilitation among young adult cancer survivors
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-01-06)Young adults (18-35 years of age) are a small and understudied group of cancer survivors. Increasingly, research demonstrates that this population is at higher risk of physical and psychosocial late-effects and morbidity ...