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Client predictors of therapy dropout in a primary care setting: a prospective cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Therapy dropout poses a major challenge. Considerable research has been conducted on predictors of dropout, however none in the context of primary mental health services in Norway. The purpose of this study ... -
Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study explored the correlates of climate anxiety in a diverse range of national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 32 countries (N = 12,246). Our results show that climate anxiety is positively ... -
Climate change perceptions across Europe : From climate change beliefs to climate change mitigation behaviors
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-23)Det overordnede målet med dette prosjektet var å få en bedre forståelse av faktorer som påvirker klimarelatert risikooppfatning i Europa. Prosjektet fokuserte på forholdet mellom oppfatninger av klimaendringenes årsaker ... -
Clinical characteristics of patients seeking treatment for common mental disorders presenting with workplace bullying experiences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-05)Background: Targets of workplace bullying tend to develop severe mental health complaints, having increased risk of sick leave and expulsion from the workplace. Hence, these individuals are likely to be overrepresented ... -
A clinical study of musculoskeletal dysfunction in targets of workplace bullying
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Workers exposed to bullying often report musculoskeletal symptoms. In this study we have clinically evaluated the prevalence and nature of musculoskeletal dysfunction among a group of workers exposed to bullying ... -
A Cognitive examination of Top-down and Bottom-up Processes involved in the generation of False Auditory Perceptions: a Signal Detection analysis
(Master thesis, 2018-06-20)In a recent model, Waters and colleagues (2012) proposes that auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) arise in hallucination prone groups due to an interaction between cognitive top-down and bottom-up process. This interaction ... -
Collaborative Crisis Response : The influence of occupational backgrounds and phase transitions on the decision-making of police and military commanders in hybrid warfare
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-04)Denne avhandlingen utforsker beslutningsprosessene til norske politi- og militære ledere i konteksten av hybrid krigføring. Målet er å bruke Albert Banduras sosial kognitive teori for å forstå beslutningstaking i tvetydige ... -
The combined influence of hardiness and cohesion on mental health in a military peacekeeping mission: A prospective study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-16)A large number of studies have shown that hardiness and cohesion are associated with mental health in a military context. However, most of them are presented without controlling for baseline mental health symptoms, which ... -
Commonly reported negative experiences on social media are associated with poor mental health and well-being among adolescents: results from the “LifeOnSoMe”-study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Introduction: Cyberbullying has been extensively studied and is associated with adverse mental health outcomes in adolescents. However, adolescents may also experience a range of other negative experiences, such as ... -
Communal proactive coping strategies among Tamil refugees in Norway: A case study in a naturalistic setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-26)Background: An exclusive focus on individual or family coping strategies may be inadequate for people whose major point of concern may be collective healing on a more communal level. Methods: To our knowledge, the current ... -
Comparing the motivational underpinnings of sustainable consumption across contexts using a scenario-based approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A sample of tourists (N = 780) responded to a survey addressing purchasing intentions and consumption motives in relation to buying sustainable groceries at a local food market. These intentions and motives were contrasted ... -
Comparison between own and others’ travel motives: A research note
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This study examines the assumption that tendencies to dissociate oneself from other tourists relate to the desire to position own characteristics (using travel motives as an example) in a positive light. Results suggest ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Comparison of the inter-item correlations of the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10) between Western and non-Western contexts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10; Rammstedt & John, 2007) is one of many short versions of personality inventories that measure the Big Five trait dimensions. Short versions of scales often present methodological challenges ... -
Complex families and health complaints among adolescents: A population-based cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aims: The structure of adolescents’ families has become more complex over the last decades in several western countries. In parallel, health complaints among adolescents appear to have risen in the Nordic countries. This ... -
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 ... -
Connecting the dots? Entrepreneurial ecosystems and sustainable entrepreneurship as pathways to sustainability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)While the exponential growth of entrepreneurial ecosystem research has dramatically increased our understanding of the role of context in entrepreneurial outcomes, our knowledge of entrepreneurial ecosystems and environmentally ... -
Connection in Youth Development Key to the Mental Health Continuum in Ghana: A Structural Equation Model of Thriving and Flourishing Indicators
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Practitioners from sub-Saharan Africa are working to provide evidence-based intervention programs to address the mental health of established adults in poor rural communities in Ghana. However, institutions in Ghana also ... -
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 ...