Browsing Department of Psychosocial Science by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Intuitive feelings of warmth and confidence in insight and noninsight problem solving of magic tricks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-31)The focus of the current study is on intuitive feelings of insight during problem solving and the extent to which such feelings are predictive of successful problem solving. We report the results from an experiment (N = ... -
Investigation of gender bias in the mental imagery of faces
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)People tend to think of the prototypical person as a man more than as a woman, but this bias has primarily been observed in language-based tasks. Here, we investigated whether this bias is also present in the mental imagery ... -
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 ... -
Is Perceived Discrimination Associated With Mental Health Problems and Low Job Satisfaction? A study of Polish Migrants at Norwegian Workplaces
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Norge mottar substansielle tall av migranter, og statistikken viser at arbeidsmuligheter er en av hovedgrunnene til migrasjon. Innvandrere fra Polen utgjør den største gruppen blant migranter i Norge, og statistikken viser ... -
Is there a blast radius of workplace bullying? Ripple effects on witnesses and non-witnesses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Substantial evidence points to detrimental effects of workplace bullying on the health, well-being and job attitudes among those exposed. What is less known is how bullying affects their non-exposed colleagues. In this ... -
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 ... -
Jobbengasjement i fremtidens hybride arbeidshverdag: En studie om betydningen av arbeidspress, rolleuklarhet og emosjonell stabilitet blant norske arbeidstakere
(Master thesis, 2023-03-24)Jobbengasjement har fått økt fokus innenfor både forskningsfeltet og arbeidslivet, hvilket blant annet kan tilskrives faktorens positive effekter på arbeidstakeres helse og velvære, samt for organisasjoners konkurransedyktighet. ... -
Jobbkarakteristikkers påvirkning på innovativ arbeidsinvolvering moderert av engasjert ledelse
(Master thesis, 2021-04-03)Målet med denne studien var å undersøke hvorvidt de kontekstuelle jobbkarakteristikkene autonomi, deltakelse, oppgavevariasjon og læringsmuligheter hadde en direkte effekt på innovativ arbeidsinvolvering, og om dette ... -
Jobbusikkerhet og helse i olje- og gassindustrien - Betydningen av hardførhet som moderator
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)Hardiness has been associated with health, but it does not seem like previous studies have investigated the effect of hardiness on the association between job insecurity and health. The purpose of this study was to investigate ... -
Journalister i fyr og flamme? Utbrenhet psykososiale arbeidsmiljøforhold, negativ og positiv affektivitet, arbeidsnarkomani og flyterfaring i et utvalg av journalister
(Master thesis, 2001)The aim of this study was to examine burnout in a population of journalists (n = 209). Burnout was measured by The Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach et al., 1996). Ten percent of the journalists could be characterized as ... -
Kan en sliten leder fremdeles fungere som en ressurs for sine medarbeidere? En flernivåanalyse av sammenhengen mellom arbeidskrav og Need for Recovery hos medarbeidere og leder
(Master thesis, 2019-05-07)The purpose of this study was to examine whether high job demands lead to a very high Need for Recovery and broaden the Need for Recovery literature. Research has shown that high job demands can lead to strain, but that ... -
Kan restitusjonsopplevelser gjøre arbeidspress utfordrende?
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)Modern work contexts are becoming increasingly dynamic and labor-intensive. This can affect employees’ work engagement and exhaustion. The central aim of this quantitative diary study is to investigate the role of daily ... -
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 ... -
Knowledge is belief – and shaped by culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Phillips and colleagues claim that the representation of knowledge is more basic than the representation of belief, presupposing them to be categorically distinct mental states with distinct evolutionary purposes. We argue ... -
Kort hviletid mellom vakter og arbeidsrelaterte hendelser blant norske sykepleiere – hvilken betydning har kronotype?
(Master thesis, 2019-04-26)It is not uncommon for shift workers to experience short periods of time (less than 11 hours) between shifts, often referred to as “quick returns” (QR). Previous studies have found that QR causes the sleep length to be of ... -
Kulturell tilpasning og karriereoppnåelse. En studie om sammenhengen mellom psykologiske faktorer og høyt utdannede innvandrere sin karriereoppnåelse
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)Statistics and research indicates that immigrants experience more challenges advancing their careers than Norwegian-born in work life. The purpose of this study was to investigate predictors for career advancement amongst ...