Department of Psychosocial Science
Recent Submissions
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General Practitioners’ Experiences of Clinical Consultations With Refugees Suffering From Mental Health Problems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Refugees suffer from higher rates of certain mental health problems than non-refugee migrants and the native population of their host country. General practitioners (GPs) in Norway and many other European countries are the ... -
COVID-19 and psychological distress in Norway: The role of trust in the healthcare system
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aim: The study aims to examine groups at risk for psychological distress in connection with the COVID-19 outbreak, and the role of trust in the healthcare system as a possible moderator. Methods: Data were collected ... -
Stressors, social support and military performance in a modern war scenario
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The present study examined differences in stressors, coping strategies, and military performance in two groups deployed in the same war scenario, but with operative and psychologically different challenges. -
Omfang av penge- og dataspillproblemer i Norge 2019
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The illusion of absence in magic tricks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Recently, a curious illusion of absence has been described, where the space behind an occluder is compellingly experienced as empty. This illusion is similar to illusions based on amodal completion in the sense that it ... -
Being in front is good—but where is in front? Preferences for spatial referencing affect evaluation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Speakers of English frequently associate location in space with valence, as in moving up and down the “social ladder.” If such an association also holds for the sagittal axis, an object “in front of” another object would ... -
General and alcohol-related social media use and mental health: A large-sample longitudinal study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)The current study aimed to investigate if general and alcohol-related social media use predicts symptoms of depression and anxiety. Students in Bergen, Norway, participated in a Web-based survey during fall 2015 (T1) and ... -
Direct Marketing Experiences Among Individuals With Current and Lifetime Gambling Disorder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Gambling providers use varied and complex marketing techniques, including marketing that targets the individual directly. Previous research indicates that individuals with gambling disorder are disproportionately influenced ... -
Predictors of employment in people with moderate to severe mental illness participating in a randomized controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background: Many people with moderate to severe mental illness have a desire to obtain ordinary employment. To aid further development of health and social services for this group, the aim of this study was to examine ... -
Barriers and facilitators to increasing work participation among people with moderate to severe mental illness
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-04-23)This thesis seeks to identify facilitators and barriers to obtaining employment for people in treatment for moderate to severe mental illness. Many people with mental illness wish to pursue life goals such as ordinary ... -
Divorce and adolescent academic achievement: Heterogeneity in the associations by parental education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background The link between parental divorce and adolescents’ academic achievement may depend on parental educational levels. However, findings have been inconsistent regarding whether the negative associations between ... -
The New Patterns study: coordinated measures to combat child poverty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Child poverty rates are rising in Norway with potential negative consequences for children. Services for families with low income are often fragmented and poorly integrated, and few coordinated initiatives have ... -
Person-Organization Fit in a military selection context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The goal of personnel selection is to find predictors that, together, maximize the explained variance in important job outcomes such as Task Performance or Work Engagement. Common predictors include Intelligence and Big ... -
Friends, Lovers or Nothing: Men and Women Differ in Their Perceptions of Sex Robots and Platonic Love Robots
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Physical and emotional intimacy between humans and robots may become commonplace over the next decades, as technology improves at a rapid rate. This development provides new questions pertaining to how people perceive ... -
Behavioral reasoning perspectives on organic food purchase
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Consumers' rising interest in organic food has drawn the attention of the academic community. The literature on the topic is growing, but it mostly focuses either on the acceptance of or resistance toward organic food. ... -
Lay Explanatory Models of Depression and Preferred Coping Strategies among Somali Refugees in Norway. A Mixed-Method Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Objective: Refugees are at high risk of experiencing mental health problems due to trauma in their pasts and to acculturation stress as they settle in a new country. To develop efficient health services that meet the needs ... -
Does the number of perpetrators matter? An extension and re-analysis of workplace bullying as a risk factor for exclusion from working life
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Based on a nationally representative sample (N = 1,613) and a true prospective design, we show that the link between self‐labelled workplace bullying and exclusion from working life (i.e., becoming a non‐participant in ... -
Heterosexual women rate perceived anabolic steroid-using men as less attractive for long-term romantic relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Physical attractiveness is a major motive for anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use. Since majority of AAS users are men, we investigated heterosexual women’s ratings of the physical, sexual and romantic ... -
Outcomes of a proximal workplace intervention against workplace bullying and harassment: A protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial among Norwegian industrial workers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-31)Background: Workplace bullying is an important and prevalent risk factors for health impairment, reduced workability and lowered efficiency among both targets and observers. Development and tests of effective organizational ... -
Is it meaningful to distinguish between Facebook addictionand social networking sites addiction? Psychometric analysisof Facebook addiction and social networking sites addiction scales
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Studies conducted on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) addiction have to a large extent focused on Facebook as a prototypical example of SNS. Nonetheless, the evolution of SNSs has spawn conceptual and methodological controversies ...
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