Browsing Faculty of Psychology by Subject "Coping"
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Adolescents living with HIV in Botswana: What contributes to an HIV positive adolescent thriving?
(Master thesis, 2012-05-16)Background: HIV positive adolescents' well-being is becoming an increasingly important issue, as antiretroviral medications are contributing to more HIV positive children surviving into adolescence and adulthood. Sub-Saharan ... -
Expectancies, Socioeconomic Status, and Self-Rated Health: Use of the Simplified TOMCATS Questionnaire
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-06)Background: Coping has traditionally been measured with inventories containing many items meant to identify specific coping strategies. An alternative is to develop a shorter inventory that focusses on coping expectancies ... -
"Fight or Flight?" Norwegian Young Adult Cancer Survivors' Experiences of Coping with Cancer
(Master thesis, 2013-05-21)Background: Young adult cancer patients (YACPs) face unique challenges in coping with the disease, as they are in a life stage that encompasses several developmental challenges. While most research covers the lived experience ... -
Health-Related Quality of Life, Subjective Health Complaints, Psychological Distress and Coping in Pakistani Immigrant Women With and Without the Metabolic Syndrome : The InnvaDiab-DEPLAN Study on Pakistani Immigrant Women Living in Oslo, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)The increasingly high number of immigrants from South-East Asia with The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is an important challenge for the public health sector. Impaired glucose is essential in MetS. The blood glucose concentration ... -
Learning environment, students’ coping styles and emotional and behavioural problems
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-05-16)One of the main purposes of the present thesis was to investigate to what extent associations between learning environment factors and emotional and behavioural problems could be influenced or accounted for by variations ... -
Mestring, sosioøkonomisk status og subjektive helseplager hos pasienter med uspesifikke ryggplager
(Master thesis, 2011-05-20)Background: According to the cognitive activation theory of stress, sustained activation due to lack of positive response outcome expectancies, may lead to bad health and subjective health complaints. Sensitization mechanisms ... -
Psychological distress, coping and social support in the diagnostic and preoperative phase of breast cancer
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-10-11)Aims: The main aim of this thesis was to describe the psychological distress, coping and social support among women in the diagnostic and preoperative phase of breast cancer using quantitative and qualitative approaches ... -
Resources in raising a child with autism in Ethiopia: parents' perspectives
(Master thesis, 2016-05-20)Background: This thesis contributes to the topic of autism in an African context by studying the experiences of parents raising a child with autism in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The majority of publications that focus on autism ... -
Return to work in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: multidisciplinary intervention versus brief intervention: a randomized clinical trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02-24)Objective: This randomized clinical trial was performed to compare the effect of a new multidisciplinary intervention (MI) programme to a brief intervention (BI) programme on return to work (RTW), fully and partly, at a ... -
The role of religion in the work lives and coping strategies of Ugandan nurses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10)Nursing in Uganda is a highly stressful, underpaid profession, leading to worrisome attrition levels; yet some nurses do manage to stay on the job and thrive. This study explored the ways in which religion influences the ... -
Societal reintegration experiences of women with judicial sentences participating in a re-entry program in Norway - from wrongdoings to wellbeing
(Master thesis, 2012-05-12)Women offenders are among the most marginalized groups in Norway. Their situations are characterized by a cluster of difficulties, including substance use, physical and sexual abuse, psychological problems, along with ... -
Subjective health complaints and self-rated health: are expectancies more important than socioeconomic status and workload?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)Background The associations between socioeconomic status (SES), physical and psychosocial workload and health are well documented. According to The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), learned response outcome ... -
Utbrenthet og mestring i et norsk utvalg. En surveystudie av sammenhengen mellom jobbkrav, jobbressurser, mestring og utbrenthet (N=5022)
(Master thesis, 2012-05-14)The aim of this master thesis is to investigate the relationships between job demands (time pressure), job resources (autonomy), coping and burnout. A particular emphasis in this thesis is whether coping strategies moderate ... -
Work and mental complaints: are response outcome expectancies more important than work conditions and number of subjective health complaints?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-24)Purpose Investigate the relative effect of response outcome expectancies, work conditions, and number of subjective health complaints (SHC) on anxiety and depression in Norwegian employees. Learned response outcome ...