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Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The aim was to develop and test a brief revised version of the family affluence scale. A total of 7120 students from Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland and Slovakia reported on a list of 16 potential ... -
Psychopathic traits in children and adolescents – a systematic review of treatment studies
(Master thesis, 2021-12-15)Ingen omfattende oversikt over tilgjengelig forskning spesifikt relatert til behandling av psykopatiske trekk hos barn og ungdom har hittil eksistert hvor fokus har vært på hele konstruktet. For å fylle kunnskapshullet i ... -
Psychopathy - the heterogeneity of the construct
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-09-01)Background Hervey Cleckley’s description of psychopathic personality detailed in his book, The Mask of Sanity (1941/1976), has strongly influenced the last seven decades of empirical research on psychopathy. Nevertheless, ... -
Psychopathy and the ability to read the “language of the eyes”: Divergence in the psychopathy construct
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The capacity to interpret others people’s behavior and mental states is a vital part of human social communication. This ability, also called mentalizing or Theory of Mind (ToM), may also serve as a protective factor against ... -
Psychopathy, anxiety, and resiliency – Psychological hardiness as a mediator of the psychopathy–anxiety relationship in a prison setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-14)The literature on the association between psychopathy and anxiety is somewhat mixed, but it has been proposed that one possible advantage of psychopathy might be resiliency against anxiety. Another construct related to ... -
A psychophysiological investigation of the interplay between orienting and executive control during stimulus conflict: A heart rate variability study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11)Background It has been hypothesized that resting state cardiac vagal activity (CVA) - an indicator of parasympathetic nervous system activity - is a specific psychophysiological marker of executive control function. Here, ... -
Psychophysiology, task complexity, and team factors determine emergency response teams' shared beliefs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-02)In field settings where the objective truth is not known, the extent to which you have the same understanding of the situation as your team leader may be used as an indicator for a team’s situation awareness. Two experiments ... -
Psychosis symptoms in nursing home residents with and without dementia?Cross-sectional analyses from the COSMOS study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objective: To investigate the characteristics of nursing home residents with psychosis and the association with potential underlying factors, such as pain, sleep disturbances, and antipsychotic medication. Method: Five ... -
Psychosocial and environmental determinants of child cognitive development in rural south africa and tanzania: findings from the mal-ed cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Approximately 66% of children under the age of 5 in Sub-Saharan African countries do not reach their full cognitive potential, the highest percentage in the world. Because the majority of studies investigating ... -
Psychosocial Challenges Related to Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder
(Journal article, 2012)Delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD) is a disorder where the circadian rhythm is delayed according to the conventional norms, often resulting in school- and work related difficulties as well as emotional challenges. Research ... -
Psychosocial characteristics differentiate non-distressing and distressing voices in 10,346 adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Adolescents hearing non-existent voices may be at risk for psychosis, but the prevalence of voice-hearing (VH) in the general population complicates clinical interpretations. Differentiating between VH with and without ... -
Psychosocial Factors Associated with Memory Complaints during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Country Survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-31)This study assessed the associations between psychosocial factors (social isolation, social support, financial support and emotional distress) and memory complaints during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a secondary analysis ... -
Psychosocial family factors and glycemic control among children aged 1-15 years with type 1 diabetes: a population-based survey
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-12-20)Background: Being the parents of children with diabetes is demanding. Jay Belsky’s determinants of parenting model emphasizes both the personal psychological resources, the characteristics of the child and contextual sources ... -
Psychosocial functioning after losing a close friend in an extreme terror incident
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Do candidate risk factors for complicated grief, and associations with other problems after traumatic deaths (e.g., homicide, suicide, disaster, or accident), also apply to bereaved friends? In this article we present ... -
Psychosocial functioning before and after surgical treatment for morbid obesity: reliability and validation of the Norwegian version of obesity-related problem scale
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-29)Background. The aims of this study were to translate the Obesity-Related Problem scale (OP scale) into the Norwegian language and test its reliability, validity and responsiveness in a Norwegian sample. Method. The ... -
Psychosocial resources predict frequent pain differently for men and women: A prospective cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-17)Introduction: Psychosocial resources, psychological and social factors like self-efficacy and social support have been suggested as important assets for individuals with chronic pain, but the importance of psychosocial ... -
Psychosocial Support and Emergency Education: An Explorative Study of Perceptions among Adult Stakeholders in Sudan and South Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The link between education and psychosocial wellbeing is important, but complex. This study seeks to explore stakeholder’s views on the role of school education in the psychosocial support and wellbeing of children in the ... -
Psychosocial work factors and sick leave risk after a terrorist bomb attack: a survey and registry-based longitudinal study of governmental employees in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives Studies show that social support may reduce the negative psychological effects of terror. The aim was to explore the effects of the psychosocial work environment on sick leave risk among governmental employees ... -
Psychotherapy in psychosis: Experiences of fully recovered service users
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-04)Background: Despite the evidence of the importance of including service users’ views on psychotherapy after psychosis, there is a paucity of research investigating impact on full recovery. Objectives: To explore what ... -
Psykiatriens bilete i det digitale rom: Ei kritisk undersøking av digitalisering av historiske pasientfotografi, med utgangspunkt i arkivet etter Valen sjukehus, frå perioden 1910-1955
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)A large amount of the historical photographs from the Norwegian psychiatry are already made public and are freely available on various digital platforms. But since the digitization process of the Norwegian archives today ...