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Problem mobile gaming: The role of mobile gaming habits, context, and platform
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Aims: Mobile gaming is a dominant form of gaming, known for its portability and for game characteristics that motivate continuous play and spending. Such involvement may also turn problematic, but research on problem gaming ... -
Problematic Gaming and Sleep: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Problematic gaming has been linked to poor sleep outcomes; however, these associations have not yet been synthesized quantitatively. This review employed a meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between problematic ... -
Problematic gaming and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Master thesis, 2020-07-01)Problematisk bruk av dataspill kan defineres som et mønster av spillatferd som kan negativt påvirke fysisk og mental helse og/eller forstyrre daglige aktiviteter og gjøremål. Et stigende antall studier har pekt på at ... -
Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver’s Processing Experience?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004-12-01)We propose that aesthetic pleasure is a function of the perceiver’s processing dynamics: The more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic response. We review variables known to influence ... -
Profiles of resilient psychosocial function during three isolated ski expeditions in the High Arctic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)To successfully complete a Polar expedition individuals and teams must respond resiliently to the environmental, psychological, and social demands they face. In this study we examined profiles of resilient function in seven ... -
Promoting academic achievement within a positive youth development framework
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-09)School dropout has both individual and economic implications. Current statistics reveal higher dropout rates among boys. Schools have a unique position to address youth development. Research from the US on positive youth ... -
Prospective associations between adolescent risky substance use and school dropout and the role of externalising and internalising problems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: The aim of the present study was to assess to what extent risky substance use (RSU) acts as an important risk factor for school dropout from upper secondary school in a prospective study of Norwegian adolescents, ... -
Prospective associations between childhood externalising and internalising problems and adolescent alcohol and drug use: The Bergen Child Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Aims: The literature on associations between internalising problems and subsequent alcohol/drug use and problems shows mixed results, and it is important to consider different aspects of internalising problems along with ... -
Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of research on the associations between workplace bullying and sleep
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-12-13)Background: Existing evidence on the association between exposure to bullying and sleep is limited and inconclusive. The aims of this planned systematic review and meta-analysis are therefore (1) to determine whether ... -
Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis on the associations between shift work and sickness absence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Shift work, i.e., non-standard work hours, has been associated with both short- and long-term sickness absence. However, findings are inconsistent and inconclusive. Thus far, no comprehensive meta-analytic ... -
Protocol for the effect evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS): a randomized controlled multicenter trial of IPS versus treatment as usual for patients with moderate to severe mental illness in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-18)Background: Roughly one third of disability pensions in Norway are issued for mental and behavioral disorders, and vocational rehabilitation offered to this group has traditionally been dominated by train-and-place approaches ... -
Psychiatric Diagnoses Differ Considerably in Their Associations With Alcohol/Drug-Related Problems Among Adolescents. A Norwegian Population-Based Survey Linked With National Patient Registry Data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-08)The aim of this study was to examine alcohol/drug use and problems across psychiatric diagnoses and to what extent associations between each psychiatric diagnosis and alcohol/drug use and problems were independent from the ... -
Psychological distress among Afghan refugees in Norway as a function of their integration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Often, refugees are susceptible to mental health problems due to adversities experienced before, during, and after the flight. Through a cross-sectional study, the present study examines the relationship between ... -
Psychological hibernation in Antarctica
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-20)Human activity in Antarctica has increased sharply in recent years. In particular during the winter months, people are exposed to long periods of isolation and confinement and an extreme physical environment that poses ... -
Psychometric properties of the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Norwegian nursing homes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-27)Background: Developing a culture where staff are actively aware of how to prevent adverse events is a challenge. The use of survey tools to assess the status of patient safety culture seems to be acceptable as an early ... -
Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The aim was to develop and test a brief revised version of the family affluence scale. A total of 7120 students from Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland and Slovakia reported on a list of 16 potential ... -
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, ... -
Psychopathy and the ability to read the “language of the eyes”: Divergence in the psychopathy construct
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The capacity to interpret others people’s behavior and mental states is a vital part of human social communication. This ability, also called mentalizing or Theory of Mind (ToM), may also serve as a protective factor against ... -
Psychopathy, anxiety, and resiliency – Psychological hardiness as a mediator of the psychopathy–anxiety relationship in a prison setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-14)The literature on the association between psychopathy and anxiety is somewhat mixed, but it has been proposed that one possible advantage of psychopathy might be resiliency against anxiety. Another construct related to ... -
Psychosocial functioning after losing a close friend in an extreme terror incident
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Do candidate risk factors for complicated grief, and associations with other problems after traumatic deaths (e.g., homicide, suicide, disaster, or accident), also apply to bereaved friends? In this article we present ...