Blar i Department of Psychosocial Science på tidsskrift "Frontiers in Psychology"
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Developing local crisis leadership – A research and training agenda
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The crisis triggered by Covid-19 has exposed the interdependencies of modern society and sparked interest in local response to protracted and complex crisis situations. There has been a growing awareness and interest in ... -
Development and validation of the AI attitude scale (AIAS-4): a brief measure of general attitude toward artificial intelligence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has generated an increasing demand for tools that can assess public attitudes toward AI. This study proposes the development and the validation of the AI Attitude Scale ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Do online privacy concerns predict selfie behavior among adolescents, young adults and adults?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-23)Selfies, or self-portraits, are often taken and shared on social media for online self-presentation reasons, which are considered essential for the psychosocial development and well-being of people in today’s culture. ... -
Do We Stand Together? The Role of Perceived Personal and Group Threats in Predicting the Majority’s (Un)willingness to Confront Injustice on Behalf of a Minority
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-19)Purpose: By utilizing data from Estonia, Finland, and Norway, this study explores how the perceptions of personal and group realistic threats, namely perceived ethnic discrimination and economic insecurity among national ... -
Does ability to defend moderate the association between exposure to bullying and symptoms of anxiety?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11-07)In the context of workplace bullying, the ability to defend refers to whether or not a target feels able to deal with those negative behaviors that typically constitute bullying. The aim of this study was to determine ... -
Economic Circumstances in Childhood and Subsequent Substance Use in Adolescence – A Latent Class Analysis: The youth@hordaland Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-14)The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between longitudinal registry-based data on family income during childhood and self-reported substance use in adolescence, including potential alcohol- or ... -
The effectiveness of internal cohesion psychotherapy in treating young clients with depression and anxiety disorders: The role of developmental assets in Kosovo context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The positive youth development approach (PYD) is widely used as a meaningful framework to guide research, policy, and intervention, to support young people to develop their full potential. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, ... -
Effects of sleep fragmentation and induced mood on pain tolerance and pain sensitivity in young healthy adults
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10-31)Background: Experimental research exploring the sleep/pain-relationship has typically focused on total or partial sleep deprivation, hereby failing to reproduce the mere fragmented sleep pattern typically observed in ... -
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 ... -
Emotional reactions to climate change: A comparison across France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We present a study of emotional reactions to climate change utilizing representative samples from France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK). Drawing on appraisal theories of emotion, we examine relations between ... -
Environmental Attitudes, Behaviors, and Responsibility Perceptions Among Norwegian Youth: Associations With Positive Youth Development Indicators
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Young people’s environmental attitudes and behaviors are essential for environmental conservation, hence the need to identify facilitating factors. Promoting positive development among young people may empower them to ... -
The Epidemiology of Insomnia and Sleep Duration Across Mental and Physical Health: The SHoT Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: Numerous epidemiological studies have been conducted to examine the prevalence and comorbidities of insomnia and document sleep duration, but a common limitation in many studies is the lack of use of agreed-upon ... -
An experimental study on the attribution of personality traits to bullies and targets in a workplace setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06-22)Previous studies on the personality of bullies and targets have exclusively been based on self-report. Against this backdrop we conducted a between group experimental vignette study with three conditions, describing a ... -
Exposure to workplace bullying, distress, and insomnia. The moderating role of the miR-146a genotype
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-24)Several lines of evidence show that systematic exposure to negative social acts at the workplace i.e., workplace bullying, results in symptoms of depression and anxiety among those targeted. However, little is known about ... -
External Developmental Assets and Positive Identity Among Emerging Adults in Norway, Romania, Slovenia, and Turkey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study adopts The Developmental Assets and Positive Youth Development (PYD) perspectives which (in contrast to the deficit-based approaches which highlight risks and deficit in youth development) claim that young ... -
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 ... -
Functionality of the Crosswise Model for Assessing Sensitive or Transgressive Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Tools for reliable assessment of socially sensitive or transgressive behavior warrant constant development. Among them, the Crosswise Model (CM) has gained considerable attention. We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed ...