Department of Psychosocial Science
Recent Submissions
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Daily work pressure and exposure to bullying-related negative acts: The role of daily transformational and laissez-faire leadership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-18)The present study integrates the work environment hypothesis and the effort-reward imbalance model to argue that work-related antecedents of workplace bullying are moderated by the day-to-day leadership practices of one’s ... -
Political Orientation Moderates the Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Worry About Climate Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Public perceptions are well established as a key factor in support for climate change mitigation policies, and they tend to vary both within and between countries. Based on data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (N ... -
What Early Sapiens Cognition Can Teach Us: Untangling Cultural Influences on Human Cognition Across Time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Evidence of cultural influences on cognition is accumulating, but untangling these cultural influences from one another or from non-cultural influences has remained a challenging task. As between-group differences are ... -
What Is Causal Cognition?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)While gaining an understanding of cause-effect relations is the key goal of causal cognition, its components are less clearly delineated. Standard approaches in the field focus on how individuals detect, learn, and reason ... -
What Do Immigrants From Various Cultures Think Is the Best Way to Cope With Depression? Introducing the Cross-Cultural Coping Inventory
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The aim of this study is to introduce a domain-specific instrument, the Cross-Cultural Depression Coping Inventory (CCD-CI), to assess ways in which people from different cultures prefer to cope with depression. Part 1 of ... -
Immigration, acculturation, and preferred help-seeking sources for depression: comparison of five ethnic groups
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Immigrants are more likely than the majority population to have unmet needs for public mental health services. This study aims to understand potential ethnic differences in preferred help-seeking sources for ... -
Prevalence and stability of insomnia from preschool to early adolescence: a prospective cohort study in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background There is limited knowledge about the prevalence and stability of insomnia defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). We therefore provide such estimates from preschool to early ... -
How Visual Perception of the Inside of Things Creates the Impossible Dovetail
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Here, we consider a well-known wooden puzzle known as the impossible dovetail. We argue that an intriguing form of amodal completion, dealing with spontaneous interpretations of the inside of objects is the key to understanding ... -
Alcohol‐attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries between 2000 and 2017: Are the gender gap s narrowing? A comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factor 2017 study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Introduction and Aims The gender difference in alcohol use seems to have narrowed in the Nordic countries, but it is not clear to what extent this may have affected differences in levels of harm. We compared gender ... -
Vitamin D supplementation during winter: Effects on stress resilience in a randomized control trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Vitamin D status may be important for stress resilience. This study investigated the effects of vitamin D supplements during winter on biological markers of stress resilience such as psychophysiological activity, serotonin, ... -
Sleepless due to social media? Investigating problematic sleep due to social media and social media sleep hygiene
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Emergent research suggests that “fear of missing out” (FoMO)-driven nocturnal use of social media may result in sleep disturbances and adversely influence quality of sleep. Previous research in this area primarily focused ... -
The influence of online professional social media in human resource management: A systematic literature review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11)Professional social media platforms (PSMs), including LinkedIn, have created better opportunities for students and employees to advance their career aspirations. Though PSMs seem to be an effective human resource management ... -
Life satisfaction and mental health among transgender students in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01)Background Social attitudes to transgender persons and other gender minorities vary around the world, and in many cultures, prejudices and social stigma are common. Consequently, transgender persons face challenges related ... -
The impact of workplace bullying and repeated social defeat on health and behavioral outcomes: A biopsychosocial perspective
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-09)Workplace bullying is a severe problem that needs further investigation from a range of disciplines. Yet, during more than twenty years of research on workplace bullying, few studies have addressed the bullying phenomenon ... -
En kvalitativ studie av seks leders refleksjoner omkring det sosiale aspektet ved lederrollen. Hvordan opplever ledere det sosiale aspektet ved lederrollen
(Master thesis, 2020-11-17)Hensikten med denne studien er å øke forståelsen og kunnskapen om hvordan lederne opplever det sosiale aspektet ved lederrollen. Studien baserer seg på dybdeintervju med seks ledere i ulike lederstillinger fra både offentlig ... -
How do immigrants in Norway interpret, view, and prefer to cope with symptoms of depression? : A mixed method study
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)Background. Depression is a common mental health problem worldwide. Delays in seeking treatment, misdiagnosis, and non-specific treatments are barriers to receiving appropriate care for people with depression. People with ... -
Editors’ Review and Introduction: The Cultural Evolution of Cognition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This topic addresses a question of key interest to cognitive science, namely which factors may have triggered, constrained, or shaped the course of cognitive evolution. It highlights the relevance of culture as a driving ... -
Association Between Objectively Measured Sleep Duration and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders in Middle Childhood
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-27)Importance: The long-term association between sleep duration and mental health in children is currently unknown. Objective: To investigate the prospective associations between sleep duration and symptoms of emotional and ... -
Complexity and Simplification in Understanding Travel Preferences Among Tourists
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Travel preferences are complex phenomena, and thus cumbersome to deal with in full width in diagnostic and strategic planning processes. The aim of the present investigation was to explore to what extent individual preferences ... -
Cutoff scores for workplace bullying: The Spanish Short-Negative Acts Questionnaire (S-NAQ)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Workplace bullying is considered a major social stressor at work. However, in the Spanish context, there is a lack of measures that allow researchers and practitioners to distinguish between non-targets and ...
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