Blar i Faculty of Psychology på tittel
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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 ... -
Cannabis use in Parkinson’s disease—A nationwide online survey study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of use, attitudes toward, and experiences with cannabis and cannabis-related products among people with Parkinson's disease (PwP) living in Norway. Me ... -
Capacity Building for a Stronger Workforce in the Public Healthcare Sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In a more and more demanding sector, healthcare leaders are in need of relevant and up-to-date competencies. The paper describes the iComPAss-project that aimed to increase the quality of a Master’s programme for healthcare ... -
Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with selective attention and inhibitory control in healthy male high-school students
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06-28)Background: Previous studies have shown associations of physical fitness and cognition in children and in younger and older adults. However, knowledge about associations in high-school adolescents and young adults is sparse. ... -
Care Order Cases in the European Court of Human Rights. Parents vs. children's rights
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article aims to examine the intersection where parents’ rights meet children’s rights in care order cases forwarded to the European Court of Human Rights, and how the court balances such rights in their rulings. The ... -
Caregiver perceptions of children in their care and motivations for the care work in children's homes in Ghana: Children of God or children of white men?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-07)The perceptions and motivations that workers have in their work and work environment are important determinants of the quality of work they do. For people who work in residential institutions where children who have lost ... -
Caring Climate and Support, Mental Health, and Academic Adjustment: Effects from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Upper Secondary Schools in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) examined the effect of a three year follow up of a multi-tier intervention aiming at improving the psychosocial environment in upper secondary schools in Norway. Two intervention ... -
Caring for "parentless" children: An exploration of work-related experiences of caregivers in children's homes in Ghana
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-11-19)Background: Child caregiving work is an essential occupational activity that makes important contributions to the wellbeing of children in the global community. In residential institutions that provide care for children ... -
Case Report: No effect of electrical transcranial direct current stimulation adjunct treatment for epilepsia partialis continua in POLG disease
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We report a 15-year-old female with POLG-related mitochondrial disease who developed severe multifocal epilepsia partialis continua, unresponsive to standard anti seizure drug treatment and general anesthesia. Based on an ...