The content and experience of partnered sex may likely change as couples age, which can lead to sexual distress but also greater intimacy and sexual quality (Lodge & Umberson, 2012). The overall purpose of this thesis is ...

Avhandlingen omhandler TIB for barn i alderen 5-11 år og baserer seg på analyser av blant annet 108 terapisesjoner med barna. I fire kvalitative delstudier blir betydningen av felles fokus, sentrale tema i terapiprosessene ...

The present thesis gathers findings from three empirical studies in which we examined the cognitive basis of individual differences in phasic and tonic pupil cognitive responses. Some previous studies have reported a ...

Contemporary models of health development highlight the importance of understanding health as a developmental process that continues throughout life and can be modified during developmental windows or by crucial events. ...

Depression is a serious disorder with a high prevalence and recurrence rate. There is a need for preventive treatment, but there are limited treatment options available. This thesis is based on a Norwegian multisite clinical ...

This dissertation examines the effect and utility of implementing a systematic idiographic assessment approach, called Assert, in adolescent primary mental health services. Assert focuses primarily on administering one ...

In this thesis, predictors of early onset of drinking and excessive drinking, and the prospective relationship between early and excessive drinking and important life outcomes in young adulthood were examined. Data were ...

Illicit use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has become widespread and is considered a public health problem worldwide. Approximately 30% of AAS users develop a dependence syndrome characterized by a maladaptive pattern ...

With recent experiences of war, abuse and perilous journeys, unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors seek protection, safety and sustainable futures. Omland investigated the young persons' concerns, efforts and challenges to ...

The relationship between executive function (EF) and social difficulties in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is investigated in the current thesis. Executive dysfunction is one of the cognitive ...

Adolescence is a transitional period, recognized in virtually all human societies, that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood. Adolescents undergo substantial changes in psychological traits and behavior, and ...

The aim of this thesis is to inquire into the subjective experience of avoidant personality disorder. The approach is qualitative and interpretative phenomenological, with an ongoing focus on researcher reflexivity. A ...

The aim of this doctoral thesis was to expand our understanding of how men in treatment for violence against their female partner experience the relationship to their children. We were interested in how men who were in ...

Participating in a welcoming and creative community may mean the world to some. The musical project Kaleidoscope (Fargespill) gives children with minority backgrounds an arena for meaning-making, identity development and ...

All traffic safety work conducted in Norway is based on the goal that nobody should be killed or severely injured in a traffic crash. According to this philosophy, called “Vision Zero”, road authorities will work proactively ...

Pregnant women with bipolar disorder (BD) have a high risk of illness relapse postpartum, including psychosis. Postpartum mood episodes occur in a psychologically sensitive phase of life and present significant implications ...

Inhibition is one of the core concepts in cognitive neuroscience, referring to a higher-order control mechanism that can arrest or cancel the output of other functional systems. Inhibition of motor responses is assumed to ...

Adolescent violence is a considerable burden for society worldwide. The economic toll of adolescent violence is high, and violence-related injuries are a major cause of early death and disability among young people. ...

Schizophrenia has traditionally been regarded as a severe mental illness with limited prospects of full recovery. Research on first-episode schizophrenia (FES) has provided some new insights, although there is still much ...

The thesis examines developmental changes in fundamental neural and cognitive processes underlying attention and cognitive control across adolescence. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the results generally indicate that ...

Regarded as the product of prolonged and sustained efforts, creativity is still often associated with the rare moments when a solution to a problem suddenly bursts into consciousness: the hallmark of sudden insight. The ...

Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia and appear with increased severity in early-onset schizophrenia (EOS). EOS is defined as onset of symptoms before 18 years of age. Affected youths often experience ...

Contemporary cognitive models incorporate an information-processing approach in explaining the causes of depression. The common core in these models is that depression is caused by a vicious cycle of negative thoughts and ...

During the transitional age of adolescence, some – often girls – begin self-harming. A better understanding of their subjective experience of self-harm may reveal their sense of self and inform treatment adjustments. A ...

This dissertation is based on a prospective longitudinal study of fathers’ adverse childhood experiences, partner attachment style, anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy, and experience of parenting stress in ...

The state of the future world is uncertain. Will it rain tomorrow? Will Donald Trump still be president in 2019? Will the world’s average temperature rise by more than 2 ºC? These questions can only be answered probabilistically, ...

Investigating the impact of school-age children’s ToM (declarative knowledge) on the way they interact (procedural skills) with another child and their performance in cooperative problem-solving tasks is a valid way to ...

Depression is the worldwide leading burden of disease and one of the most prevalent psychological disorders. Causes and mechanisms of depression are insufficiently understood. The ability to regulate emotion is important, ...

Depression is a debilitating disorder with a high prevalence compared to most other mental disorders. It has become increasingly apparent that depression is clinically heterogenous, most notably in terms of the breadth and ...

Childhood and adolescence captures a remarkable period of change, and is the central period for major reorganization and optimization of the cerebral cortex. This maturation is mirrored by major cognitive improvements ...

Postpartum depression has been recognized as a serious condition by clinicians and researchers for decades, yet our understanding of the complexities of depressive symptomatology during the perinatal period is still in its ...

Previous research has revealed an association between early language difficulties and later internalizing problems, but less is known about the mechanisms behind this association; the timing, the direction of the associations ...

Anxiety and depression are among the most common mental disorders affecting youth. The two disorders often co-occur and can cause significant distress and impairment. Having elevated symptom levels but not fulfilling the ...

Hvordan tar foreldre vare på barn i alderen 0-3 år i dag, og hva slags dagligliv blir det for de små barna? Og hva kan vi lære om små barns omsorg og utvikling ved å snakke med foreldre og andre omsorgspersoner om dette ...

Attention is often considered a limited resource that we need to spend wisely, and accordingly resource regulation may play an important role in some attention pathologies. Unilateral spatial neglect is commonly considered ...

Bakgrunn: Depresjon og alkoholproblemer er to av de tre mest vanlige psykiske lidelsene i Norge. Pasienter med depresjon og kjente alkoholproblemer behandles vanligvis innenfor tverrfaglig spesialisert rusmiddelbehandling ...

The work presented contributes to the further understanding and establishment of decision-making deficits in adults with ADHD. The meta-analysis in article I clearly identifies deficits in decision-making as an important ...

This thesis explores and details neoliberal discourses through which individuals of contemporary societies of Norway and Turkey constitute themselves and are constituted as subjects. This overall aim is achieved in four ...

Avhandlingen presenterer en kvalitativ undersøkelse av obligatorisk mekling for foreldre etter samlivsbrudd. Materialet for undersøkelsen består av lydopptak og utskrifter av et representativt utvalg på 154 saker der det ...

In this thesis, I address people’s experiences of being born with a body that does not meet the normative definitions of male or female. The situation when sex characteristics develop in ways that do not conform to binary ...

Dette ph.d-prosjektet handler om barnevernssaker med foreldrekonflikter. Studiens overordnede mål har vært å utforske hvordan profesjonelle og foreldre forstår og beskriver et konfliktfylt foreldreskap på tvers av to hjem ...

The life of most individuals with early hearing loss is similar to that of other people. However, living life without typical hearing may pose additional challenges that may impact on the risk for developing mental disorders. ...

The assumption that the brain’s structure can be influenced by our own conscious effort is not only intriguing; it may have significant implications related to cognitive and brain health throughout the lifespan. The brain ...

Willful control of thoughts, emotions and behavior is an intrinsically human capacity and a prerequisite for adaptive functioning. This capacity relies on complex higherorder mental processes often denoted as executive ...

Peer Gynt, the main character in Ibsen’s dramatic poem from 1867, has fascinated scholars since its publication. For more than 100 years, Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt has been interpreted in the light of Søren Kierkegaard. A ...

Several studies have shown that when people are asked to estimate the probabilities for a set of exclusive and exhaustive events they often produce probabilities that add up to more than 1 or 100% (Robinson & Hastie, 1985; ...

This thesis investigates the implications of adverse childhood experiences, potentially traumatic experiences of war and human rights violations (HRVs), and personality factors for the mental health and wellbeing of adult ...

Traumatizing events such as domestic violence, severe accidents, and sexual abuse place youths at risk of developing mental health problems, and many will be in need of therapy. To date, a variety of treatment models have ...

Subsyndromal symptoms, or mild to moderate symptoms of depression, contribute more than any other health condition to absence from work. Mental illness is the leading cause of sickness absence and work incapacity in most ...

This study examines the specific kinds of interpersonal problems, including their associations with symptoms and self-image, characteristic of a general psychiatric outpatient population. The interpersonal perspective may ...

Background and aim: Violence is not uncommon and may have a range of negative consequences for victims. While mental health has received much research attention, other consequences are increasingly recognized, including ...

The ability to exert executive control over aspects of cognition, emotion and behaviour in children and adolescents with TS deviates from typically developing children (TDC), and represents a potential threat to their ...

This thesis presents the first study of the characteristics traits of caretaker perpetrated child homicide (filicide) in current day Norway, covering the years 1990–2009. Evolutionary psychological (EP) perspectives on ...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a mental disorder characterized by a relentless pursuit of thinness, severe food restriction, body image disturbances, and an extremely low body weight. The etiology of the disorder is not known. ...

In recent decades, the landscapes of work and organizations in developed economies have undergone dramatic changes, including the growth in service- and knowledge-oriented industries. Based on the rapid growth and increasing ...

The overarching goal of research presented in this thesis was to provide new knowledge about basic, self-regulatory skills- or executive function (EF)- in young preschool children with behavioral symptoms characteristic ...

There is considerable consensus that impairment in executive functions (EF) constitutes a central source of the disability in children and adolescents with ADHD. Recent studies, however, have reported that EF test results ...

The price of crime is enormous. In addition to the monetary costs of the investigative process and the criminal procedure, crime often leads to health and social problems for victims and perpetrators. Approximately 5% of ...

This thesis investigates emotional problems in preadolescents with immigrant background. Possible risk and protective factors for emotional problems across immigrant and non-immigrant background, as well as across specific ...

Child language development is a complex process. This process cannot be understood without considering its relationship to other developmental domains. Language development in preschool years is associated with development ...

Assessment of brain microstructure by way of magnetic resonance imaging-derived signal intensity putatively reflecting myelin i) increased detection accuracy of Alzheimer’s disease, ii) revealed age-related differences in ...

Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) is a novel treatment for individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN). The treatment focuses on the process of thought, and aims to raise awareness of how cognitions and behaviors ...

Musculoskeletal pain and headache represent substantial public health burdens. Often, no biomedical pathology can be identified. Research has shown that conditions at work may influence such complaints. Biomechanical work ...

In this thesis we applied various twin models on a population-based sample of young adult Norwegian twins to investigate genetic and environmental contributions to a selection of dimensional representations of DSM-IV ...

Worldwide, suicide among young men is a major public health concern in most countries. In Norway, as well as abroad, in spite of great efforts invested, we still have scarce scientific evidence of effective prevention ...

This dissertation investigates effects of network organization in military organizations. The last decades’ changes in the tasks and responsibilities of military organizations have prompted a need for organizational change. ...

The general focus of this thesis is on partner associations. Interdependence has been suggested as a defining feature of close relationships (Kelley et al., 1983). More specifically, in couples there are relationships ...

Aim of the study. ‘Individual plan’ (IP) is a master-plan intended to increase user-participation and provide better coordination of measures for patients in need of extensive and long-term health-care services. The aim ...

The goal of the present thesis was to study how memory training is related to structural characteristics of the adult aging brain. We studied two aspects of a novel memory training intervention: 1) is the training accompanied ...

BACKGROUND: The current study examined childhood predictors and adulthood consequences of adolescent depressive symptoms. Despite the amount of studies that have examined predictors and consequences of adolescent depressive ...

Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health problems among women, with various negative impacts both for the women concerned and their families. Greater understanding of developmental trajectories of maternal ...

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic and debilitating illness characterized by severe dysregulation of mood, energy, and activity that results in episodes of depression and (hypo)mania. Approximately 60% of patients with BD ...

This thesis explores how framing of communication about project progress can influence beliefs about satisfaction, motivation to invest effort, and investment preferences. It further investigates the strength of feelings ...

Executive functions (EF) ensure goal-directed behavior and flexible adaptation to changing environmental requirements. EF enable us to plan and anticipate future events, with the capacity to control and distribute attentional ...

The Norwegian gambling market grew tremendously in the period from the late 1980s until 2005. The negative consequences of gambling, especially among young people, have received increasing attention in our society. In 2006 ...

This thesis explores Norwegian majority members’ role in incorporating and integrating immigrant minorities from a broad social psychological perspective on intergroup relations. It consists of four studies which investigate ...

The dissertation deals with school psychology assessment of minority language children in a typical sample of Norwegian school psychology services, in a three-phase design with an embedded intervention, where statements ...

In this thesis, the developmental brain structure and development of memory functions are investigated, both separately and conjointly. First, the different developmental trajectories of cortical and subcortical brain ...

With the advances in congenital cardiac surgery and medical management in recent decades, mortality rates for congenital heart defects (CHD) have declined remarkably. As the number of CHD survivors has increased, there is ...

Mellom 15 og 20 % av alle ungdommer i Norge har psykiske problemer som går ut over deres fungeringsevne. Mellom 4 og 7 % har så alvorlige plager at de trenger behandling. Bare 15-20 % av ungdommer med betydelige psykiske ...

The overarching goal in the present project was to investigate memory processes in trauma-exposed individuals. In three studies, processes of remembering and forgetting were examined in trauma-exposed individuals who had ...

As many as 10-15% of new mothers experience severe emotional distress frequently labelled postpartum depression (PPD) (Brockington, 2004; O’Hara & Swain, 1996). The consequences of postpartum depressive symptoms can be ...

Denne avhandlingen omhandler hvordan samtaletilbudet til ungdom i skolehelsetjenesten kan formes på en måte som fremmer de unges aktive deltagelse i sine egne endringsprosesser. Studien er gjennomført innen en aksjonsfor ...

Every year, a large number of children are exposed to disasters of some sort. These experiences may profoundly affect the children’s lives, and knowledge about processes which may facilitate their coping and adaptation in ...