Department of Psychosocial Science
Recent Submissions
-
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 ... -
Cross-country comparisons of trends in adolescent psychosomatic symptoms - A Rasch analysis of HBSC data from four Nordic countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: To analyse the psychometric properties of the HBSC Symptom Checklist (HBSC-SCL) on psychosomatic symptoms with a focus on the operating characteristics of the items, and on the impacts of measurement distortions ... -
Interprofessional education as a contributor to professional and interprofessional identities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)According to the World Health Organization interprofessional education (IPE) is a necessary step in preparing a collaborative practice-ready health work force. However, the processes of developing professional identity ... -
Interplay of subjective and objective economic well-being on the mental health of Norwegian adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) are important determinants of adolescent mental health problems, but we know less about how they interact. Research has demonstrated independent associations of both ... -
Active and passive forms of destructive leadership in a military context: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Since the turn of the millennium, a growing academic interest has emerged regarding the dark side of leadership, both in general and specific contexts. Characteristics of military organisations may either reduce or exaggerate ... -
Job Demands as Risk Factors of Exposure to Bullying at Work: The Moderating Role of Team-Level Conflict Management Climate
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Conflict management climate is an important organizational resource that is theorized to prevent interpersonal frustration from escalating into harsh interpersonal conflicts and even workplace bullying. The present study ... -
Manifesto for the future of work and organizational psychology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This manifesto presents 10 recommendations for a sustainable future for the field of Work and Organizational Psychology. The manifesto is the result of an emerging movement around the Future of WOP (see www.futureofwop.com), ... -
Language and thought
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)According to the principle of linguistic relativity, most prominently proposed by Whorf, the language we speak affects the way we think. Three theses are central to this account: that languages differ in how they describe ... -
Insomnia symptom trajectories among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with sleep disturbances in adulthood. However, longitudinal studies have yet to identify among CSA-survivors subgroups distinguished by the trajectory of their insomnia ... -
Metacognition in psychology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)How has the concept of metacognition been used within basic and applied psychological research? We begin our answer by presenting a broad definition of metacognition, a historical overview of its development and its presence ... -
Effort-reward imbalance: A risk factor for exposure to workplace bullying
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-25)Previous research shows that work environment factors are important antecedents of workplace bullying (WB), because of the stress they may induce. While previous studies have typically used Karasek’s Job Demand-Control ... -
Dietary diversity and child development in the far west of Nepal: A cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-03)Poverty adversely affects child development through multiple pathways in low- and middle-income countries. Relationships between diet and child development are poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to explore these ... -
The cultural fabric of human causal cognition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Causal cognition emerges early in development and confers an important advantage for survival. But does this mean that it is universal in humans? Our cross-disciplinary review suggests a broad evolutionary basis for core ... -
Dispositional affect as a moderator in the relationship between role conflict and exposure to bullying behaviors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-24)Stressors in the work environment and individual dispositions among targets have been established separately as antecedents and risk factors of workplace bullying. However, few studies have examined these stressors in ...
RSS 2.0