Department of Psychosocial Science
Recent Submissions
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Comparison of magnitude-sensitive sequential sampling models in a simulation-based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Modelling plays a key role in explaining data in psychology and neuroscience and helps elucidate neural computations. Recent observations of magnitude-sensitivity (i.e. sensitivity to overall magnitudes and magnitude ... -
Opioid and Polydrug Use Among Patients in Opioid Maintenance Treatment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose: Opioid maintenance treatment reduces a person’s use of heroin. However, frequent substance use in treatment is a problem. Aim: To examine the association between opioid maintenance treatment and opioid/polydrug ... -
Organizational prevention and management strategies for workplace aggression among child protection workers: A Project Protocol for the Oslo Workplace Aggression Survey (OWAS)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-30)Background: Previous research has established exposure to workplace aggression as a significant risk factor for employee functioning, well-being, and health. However, less is known about effective prevention and management ... -
Consumers’ resistance to digital innovations: A systematic review and framework development
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Consumer resistance is one of the major causes of failure of any innovation. Despite rising academic interest, the non-adoption of digital innovation or consumer resistance has received less scholarly attention as compared ... -
Workplace bullying and sleep - A systematic review and meta-analysis of the research literature
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This systematic review and meta-analysis 1) clarifies and quantifies existing results on the association between exposure to workplace bullying and sleep, 2) evaluates the methodological quality of existing studies, 3) ... -
The dimensionality of the 12-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12): Comparisons of factor structures and invariance across samples and time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-11)Because of its brevity, the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) has become one of the most popular and used measure for detecting psychological distress. Originally intended as a unidimensional measure, the ... -
Person-environment fit as a parsimonious framework to explain workplace bullying
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose: This study tested whether person-job fit (PJ-fit), person-group fit (PG-fit) and person-organization fit (PO-fit) relate to exposure to and enactment of workplace bullying (WB), mediated by strain and conflict. ... -
Comparison between the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality in a representative sample of Spanish prison inmates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the field of psychopathy, there is an ongoing debate about the core traits that define the disorder, and that therefore must be present to some extent in all psychopaths. The main controversy of this debate concerns ... -
Citizenship and Socio-Political Integration: A Person-Oriented Analysis Among Russian-Speaking Minorities in Estonia, Finland and Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This survey study utilized a person-oriented approach to explore the patterns of socio-political integration among Russian-speaking minority group members in three neighboring countries in the Baltic area: Estonia (n = ... -
Prisoners’ academic motivation, viewed from the perspective of self‑determination theory: Evidence from a population of Norwegian prisoners
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The study presented in this article explores prisoners’ academic motivation structure from the theoretical perspective of self-determination theory, using the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS). Analysing survey responses ... -
Killing two birds with one stone: how intervening when witnessing bullying at the workplace may help both target and the acting observer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective This study examines under which conditions being an observer of bullying can be detrimental to health and well-being. It was hypothesized that health-related problems following observations of bullying are ... -
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 ... -
Repeated social defeat promotes persistent inflammatory changes in splenic myeloid cells; decreased expression of β-arrestin-2 (ARRB2) and increased expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Previous studies suggest that persistent exposure to social stress in mammals may be associated with multiple physiological effects. Here, we examine the effects of social stress in rats, i.e. repeated social ... -
Decreased Job Security Without Change in Safety During Hydrocarbon Industry Recession
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Economic recessions may decrease an organization’s investment in maintenance, training and safety management, and may thus have a negative impact on safety. The present study examines how job security and safety changed ... -
Financial Difficulties and Student Health: Results from a National Cross-Sectional Survey of Norwegian College and University students
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)To examine financial circumstances among Norwegian higher education students and investigate associations between financial difficulties and health, academic outcomes and self-destructive behaviours, we used data from a ... -
Friend or foe? The impact of high-performance work practices on workplace bullying
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between high-performance work practices (HPWPs) and workplace bullying and identify possible mediators. The study presents hypotheses based on two competing perspectives: ... -
Associations between exposure to workplace bullying and insomnia: a cross-lagged prospective study of causal directions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective Workplace bullying has been established as a significant correlate of sleep problems. However, little is known regarding the causal direction between bullying and sleep. The aim of this study was to examine ... -
Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The inclusion of gaming disorder (GD) as an official diagnosis in the ICD-11 was a significant milestone for the field. However, the optimal measurement approaches for GD are currently unclear. This comprehensive systematic ... -
The Importance of Intra-Organizational Networking for Younger Versus Older Workers: Examining a Multi-Group Mediation Model of Individual Task Performance Enhancement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of intra-organizational networking on individual task performance, via employability. Moreover, this study also examines whether this relationship differs for younger ... -
The association between symptoms of depression and school absence in a population-based study of late adolescents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Objective: School attendance is an important functional marker in adolescence, and knowledge of the correlates of school absence is important to inform preventive efforts. The main aim of the present study was to investigate ...
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