Blar i Department of Psychosocial Science på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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Intellectual Disability among in-patients with Substance Use Disorders
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-10-26)Background: Knowledge about the comorbidity of substance use disorder (SUD) and intellectual disabilities (ID) or borderline intellectual functioning is growing. However, most of the knowledge about the comorbidity of ID ... -
Learning environment, students’ coping styles and emotional and behavioural problems
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-05-16)One of the main purposes of the present thesis was to investigate to what extent associations between learning environment factors and emotional and behavioural problems could be influenced or accounted for by variations ... -
Light exposure and stress in pregnancy: Effects of blue-blocking glasses on sleep, mood and melatonin
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-26)Background and Objective: Sleep disturbances are common during pregnancy, with an increasing prevalence in the third trimester. Insomnia is the most frequent sleep disorder reported by 62% of pregnant women. Poor sleep ... -
Meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care: A participatory and community psychological inquiry
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-17)This Ph.D.-dissertation revolves around meeting places in community mental health care. Norwegian meeting places often entail local easy-access daytime services that offer people who have experienced psychosocial hardships ... -
Meining som medisin. Ein analyse av placebofenomenet og implikasjonar for terapi og terapeutiske teoriar
(Doctoral thesis, 1999-06-11)Arbeidet har bakgrunn i eiga røynsle frå terapeutisk arbeid og refleksjonar over fenomenet placebo. Det blir stilt spørsmål om kva placebofenomenet gjeld, og korleis det skal forklarast. Dersom dette er eit reelt lækjefenomen ... -
Mental health encounters between general practitioners and individuals with a refugee background : Help seeking and provision in the resettlement context
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-04-22)Background: Research suggests that individuals with a refugee background have higher rates of certain mental health problems and unmet mental healthcare needs than non-refugee populations in resettlement countries. The ... -
Når barn plasseres utenfor hjemmet: beslutninger, forløp og relasjoner. Under barnevernets (ved)tak
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-07)The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge about out-of-home care for children under the auspices of the Child Welfare authorities. Removing children and placing them in care constitutes one of the strongest ... -
Nonmedical Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use: Prevalence, Attitudes, and Social Perception
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05-27)It is important that trends in the prevalence of illicit anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use are monitored and understood globally in order to avert this public health problem. This necessitates the extension of research ... -
“Only a friend” – The bereavement process of young adults who have lost a friend to a traumatic death. A mixed methods study
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-09-07)The present study was part of a larger longitudinal project, “Bereaved parents, siblings and friends after Utøya July 22nd 2011”, which was conducted at Center for Crisis Psychology between 2013 and 2016. ... -
Opioid maintenance treatment and social aspects of quality of life for first-time enrolled patients. A quantitative study. : A quantitative study.
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-15)Opioid dependence is a chronic lifelong disease, and opioid maintenance treatment is a well-documented effective treatment for this disease. A vast research exists on opioid maintenance treatment; however, research has ... -
Psychopathy - the heterogeneity of the construct
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-09-01)Background Hervey Cleckley’s description of psychopathic personality detailed in his book, The Mask of Sanity (1941/1976), has strongly influenced the last seven decades of empirical research on psychopathy. Nevertheless, ... -
Safety Climate perceptions in High Reliability Organizations - the role of Psychological Capital
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-12-06)Over recent decades, research on antecedents of safety in High Reliability Organizations (HROs) has shifted from focusing mostly on technical issues to placing greater emphasis on human factors. Although an abundance of ... -
Safety on board offshore vessels: A study of shipboard factors and situation awareness
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-10-19)The overall aim of this thesis is to shed new light on how shipboard factors may influence the ability to achieve and maintain situation awareness (SA) in day-to-day operations on offshore vessels. The term, ‘shipboard ... -
Sleep and health in shift working nurses
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-02-22)In this thesis, the prevalence of Shift Work Disorder (SWD) in a sample of nurses, and the association between SWD and work characteristics, health outcome and personality (paper 1) have been investigated. Next, the ... -
Sleep and naval performance. The impact of personality and leadership
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-08-30)Adult life consists of work, non-work, and sleep. All individuals experience a relationship between how well and how much they sleep and subsequent functioning the next day, and the amount and quality of sleep is determined ... -
Social relationships, stress and infection risk in mother and child
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-09-06)This thesis draws on theoretical orientations and conceptual models of how social networks, the quality of social relationships and stressful conditions, are linked to physiological responses which can influence health and ... -
Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Risky and Disordered Gambling – Investigations through Registry Data
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-11)Alder, kjønn, og sivilstatus er robuste prediktorer for problematisk pengespilling. Menn og yngre rapporterer generelt mer problematisk pengespilling, mens kvinner virker å utvikle problematisk pengespilling raskere (såkalt ... -
Structural Characteristics in Gambling
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-01-10)Although structural characteristics may be important moderators of behaviour and cognition in gambling, empirical investigations of such characteristics are still needed. Through three laboratory based studies, this thesis ... -
Supported Employment and preventing Early Disability (SEED)
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-09-13)Young adults who are not in education, training or employment (NEET) represent an international challenge that causes worry due to the potentially harmful health-effects of unemployment, and the economic costs for society. ... -
To know or not to know? Attitudes towards receiving genetic information among patients and the general public.
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-11-16)Progress in the field of molecular genetics has made it possible to identify individuals with an increased risk for a variety of hereditary diseases. To ensure successful implementation of genetic testing and counselling ...