Blar i Faculty of Psychology på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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Cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease: profiles and implications for prognosis
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-01-25)Objectives: The main objective of the present thesis was to explore cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), focussing on non-demented patients and elucidating cognitive profile, the course and ... -
Collaborative Crisis Response : The influence of occupational backgrounds and phase transitions on the decision-making of police and military commanders in hybrid warfare
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-04)Denne avhandlingen utforsker beslutningsprosessene til norske politi- og militære ledere i konteksten av hybrid krigføring. Målet er å bruke Albert Banduras sosial kognitive teori for å forstå beslutningstaking i tvetydige ... -
Common Complaints – Common Cure? Psychiatric comorbidity and predictors of treatment outcome in low back pain and irritable bowel syndrome
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-09-01)The basic hypothesis of the thesis is that the variance in individuals’ tolerance and acceptance of subjective health complaints is explained by CATS, the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress. Sustained activation and ... -
Communication difficulties in children identified with psychiatric problems
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-09-27)Several studies have pointed to an overlap between different developmental psychopathological conditions and language impairments, and difficulties with communication have been identified in children of various diagnostic ... -
Conditionability and Reinforcement Sensitivity in Gambling Behaviour
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-12)Models of the antecedents of pathological gambling (PG) include the processes of classical and instrumental conditioning. After experiences with gambling, appetitive classical conditioning can lead to a learned relation ... -
Consequences of social defeat stress for behaviour and sleep. Short-term and long-term assessments in rats
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-04-08)Social stressors play a major role in the pathogenesis of affective disorders like anxiety and depression. These disorders are associated with altered behaviour (i.e. locomotor activity, harm avoidance, startle response, ... -
Contemporary discourses on children and parenting in Norway. An empirical study based on two cases
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-12-06)Background and overall aim: This dissertation aims to explore beliefs and contemporary discourses about children and parenting in Norway. It discusses the possible consequences of these beliefs and discourses for children’s ... -
Coping at Work. The role of knowledge and coping expectancies in health and sick leave
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-02-15)The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the effect of response outcome expectancies (coping) and knowledge on health and sick leave. The theoretical base of the thesis is the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress ... -
Coping strategies of mental health problems among refugee groups in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-17)Bakgrunn: Migrasjon er en stressende prosess som kan påvirke helsen til enkeltpersoner, spesielt når den involverer flukt fra krig, konflikt eller forfølgelse. Posttraumatisk stresslidelse og depresjon er psykiske problemer ... -
Creating Spaces for Formative Feedback in Lectures : Understanding how use of educational technology can support formative assessment in lectures in higher education
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-03-06)In this thesis, I examine how the use of educational technology has the potential to create moments of contingency and, through those moments, to transform the premises for formative assessment in lectures. The main research ... -
Dagliglivet i en psykiatrisk institusjon: En analyse av miljøterapeutiske praksiser
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-08-27)This thesis is a cross-disciplinary ethnographic study of milieu therapy and daily life in two closed psychiatric wards in a psychiatric hospital in Norway, where staff and patients were informants. The study is the result ... -
Den omsorgsfulle væremåte: En studie av voksnes væremåte i forhold til barn i barnehagen
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-01-29)In Norway, children who attend a kindergarten have a legal right to receive care. This legal right is the juridical context of the present study and I describe care as a legal “shall”-obligation for adults in kindergarten. ... -
Det tempererte nærvær: En teoretisk undersøkelse av psykoterapeutens subjektivitet i psykoanalyse og psykoanalytisk psykoterapi
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-04-28)This is a theoretical dissertation. The main topic has been to study the influence of the psychoanalyst’s or psychoanalytic psychotherapist’s subjectivity. The psychotherapist’s subjectivity is not defined precisely, because ... -
Detection of child maltreatment, the role of dental health personnel – A national cross-sectional study among public dental health personnel in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-04-27)Introduction: Research has revealed that child maltreatment is an extensive and global problem. It is argued that the known victims of child maltreatment represent only the tip of the iceberg. Child maltreatment has ... -
Development and evaluation of Be smokeFREE. A school-based smoking prevention program
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-10-03)In 1988, approximately 7500 persons in Norway died from smoking-related diseases like heart failure and cancer (Engeland, 1997). Evidence from epidemiology strongly indicates that smoking is the main cause of a number of ... -
Development of global self-esteem: The transition from adolescence to adulthood
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Dialogen som visker ut kategorier: En studie av hvilke erfaringer innvandrerungdommer og norskfødte med innvandrerforeldre har med videregående skole.Hva forteller ungdommenes erfaringer om videregående skoles håndtering av etniske ulikheter?
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-11-25)The aim of the thesis is immigrant youth and Norwegians born to immigrant parents in upper secondary school in Norway, and how this group of students experience their daily life in school. The thesis examines whether ... -
The Dramaturgy and Didactics of Computer Gaming. A Study of a Medium in the Educational Context of Kindergartens
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Dubito ergo sum? Ni jenter møter naturfaglig kunnskap
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-10-20)This thesis focuses on nine 16 – 17 year old Norwegian girls and their encounter with natural science in their transition from elementary school to upper secondary school. The main research question posed is: How can girls’ ... -
Early detection and intervention in psychosis: A long-term perspective.
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-02-03)