Bakgrunn: Personer som har pedofili (PWP), men som ikke ønsker å begå seksuelle overgrep mot barn, har blitt en mer anerkjent gruppe. Likevel blir denne gruppen utsatt for stigmatisering og fordommer fra samfunnet, inkludert ...

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between organizational climate and individual readiness for change, and the mediating effects of perceived organizational support and employee participation. More ...

Det norske samfunnet er bygd opp rundt den binære kjønnsmodellen, og mennesker som varierer fra denne modellen opplever dermed å skulle utvikle og forstå sin egen identitet i et samfunn som ikke anerkjenner at kjønnsidentiteten ...

Scientists may utilise single bound probability estimates to convey the uncertainty around climate change. Such estimates employ a verbal moderating statement to describe the lower (e.g., more than 60% likely) and/or upper ...

Global climate changes increase the risk of extreme weather events, posing a threat to our society. To reduce the impact of such events, efficient emergency management is crucial. Extreme weather events are characterized ...

A significant proportion of parents in mediation present destructive and escalating conflicts. In a naturalistic study of sessions with high‐conflict couples, we observed dialogues with frequent interruptions, rapidly ...

Bakgrunn: Tidlig barndom er en tid av stor betydning for emosjonsutvikling og tilegnelse av emosjonell kompetanse. Utvikling av emosjonell kompetanse hos barn påvirkes blant annet av hvordan viktige personer rundt modellerer, ...

Tittel: “Det har egentlig vært en trygging”. Kompetanseløft rettet mot spiseforstyrrelsesproblematikk i barnevernet - En kvalitativ studie av miljøterapeuters erfaringer. Forskningsspørsmål: Hvordan opplever miljøterapeuter ...

Seminal human brain histology work has demonstrated developmental waves of myelination. Here, using a micro-structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) marker linked to myelin, we studied fine-grained age differences to ...

Organizational change has been a topic for debate in the Norwegian police organization recent years. The following thesis investigated potential facilitators of change readiness in the Norwegian police. Specifically, whether ...

A number of studies have demonstrated the significance of knowledge sharing behavior in organizations. However, limited research has examined knowledge sharing from a within- unit (i.e., internal) versus across unit (i.e., ...

Forfattere: Ida Berg Skjeseth og Thea Marie Hegge Sletten. Tittel: En kvalitativ intervjuanalyse av klienters forutseende tanker om utfall av terapi, samt deres bruk og forståelse av utfallsbegreper, i en kommunal psykisk ...

Bakgrunn og formål: Det etterspørres nye behandlingstilnærminger for bedre å kunne hjelpe mennesker ut av spiseforstyrrelser. Bruk av bevegelse er foreslått som innfallsvinkel med potensiell terapeutisk gevinst hos denne ...

Datamaterialet stammet fra Søskenprosjektet, et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Psykologisk Institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) og Frambu Kompetansesenter for sjeldne diagnoser. Prosjektet fokuserte på søsken til barn med ...

Forfatter: Elisabeth Robstad Tittel: "De lever med meg." Terapeuters erfaringer fra arbeid med unge som skader seg selv Veiledere: Hanne Haavind og Line Indrevoll Stänicke Det er kjent at å arbeide med klienter som skader ...

Bakgrunn: Å gi uttrykk for egne følelser kan på flere måte bidra til god psykisk helse. Barn har imidlertid ikke samme evne til å uttrykke sine følelser verbalt som voksne. Kunnskap om metoder som kan brukes for nonverbalt ...

Formål: Forskning på subjektivt velvære har økt betydelig i omfang de senere årene. Middelaldrende personer, herunder særlig kvinner, har imidlertid fått lite oppmerksomhet. Denne studien har for det første som formål å ...

Friske søsken til barn med kronisk helsetilstand har blitt identifisert som en gruppe som har økt risiko for psykososiale vansker. Kvaliteten i familiekommunikasjonen og foreldres psykiske helse har blitt identifisert som ...

Background: Social cognition is a burgeoning domain within the field of severe mental illness research. One central social cognitive concept is theory of mind (ToM), the capacity to infer and interpret the mental states ...

Bakgrunn: 22. juli 2011 ble Norge rammet av det dødeligste angrepet i fredstid. De fleste av terrorens ofre var ungdommer som deltok på politisk sommerleir på Utøya. Ungdommene og deres foreldre ble utsatt for en enorm ...

Bakgrunn: Depresjon i den perinatale fasen rammer omkring 10-15 % av alle barselkvinner og 10 % av fedre. Psykisk lidelse hos en av eller begge foreldrene i denne perioden, inkludert depresjon, er én av flere kjente ...

Background: Inadequate iodine intake has been identified in several population groups in the Nordic countries over the past years; however, studies of iodine status in infants and toddlers are scarce. Objective: The aim ...

We recruited patients with orbitofrontal lesion (OFC; n = 18), right lateral prefrontal cortex lesion (LPFC; n = 9), and healthy age-matched controls (CTR; n = 22) to perform a self-paced, two-choice random generation task ...

The following thesis assessed the relationship between perceived organisational support, readiness to change and integration within and between units of the Norwegian police after a major, impending change process was set ...

Det vedvarende skillet mellom forskning og praksis er en sentral problemstilling innen personellseleksjon. Hensikten med denne studien er å undersøke i hvilken grad virksomheter i den norske fiskeri- og sjømatindustrien ...

Violent aggression in humans may involve a modified response to stress, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Here we show that naturally present autoantibodies reactive to adrenocorticotropic hormone ...

Målet med denne masteroppgaven er å få mer kunnskap om hvordan terapeuter opplever å arbeide med traumatiserte barn i psykisk helsevern for barn og unge. Studien er knyttet opp til et større forskningsprosjekt i regi av ...

Bakgrunn: Behandling av depresjon hos eldre er utfordrende. Mange oppnår ikke remisjon, og for pasienter som oppnår remisjon er sannsynligheten stor for tilbakefall. Kunnskapen om deprimerte pasienters prognose og om hva ...

Affektintegrasjon beskriver hvordan individet reagerer på og forholder seg til følelser og sier noe om kapasiteten til å nyttiggjøre seg følelser til en hensiktsmessig tilpasning. I følge forskning på emosjonssosialisering ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med den foreliggende studien var å belyse sammenhengen mellom personlighet, perfeksjonisme og mental helse hos norske konkurranseryttere. Metode: Studien baserer seg på allerede innsamlet datamateriale ...

The current thesis aimed to investigate how attitudes and intentions towards climate change, refugees and climate refugees may be modified using the cognitive and affective components of attitudes. This is interesting due ...

Technology embodying artificial intelligence (AI) might be the solution to the complex challenges we face today, such as an increasing occurrence of extreme weather events. Chatbot technology paired with AI have the potential ...

Medarbeiderundersøkelser er en utbredt HR-aktivitet som mange norske virksomheter benytter for å kartlegge ansattes arbeidsmiljø. Internasjonal forskningslitteratur indikerer samtidig et økende gap mellom organisasjonsforskning ...

Det overordnede formålet med denne studien var å utvide kunnskapsnivået om og forståelsen for unge lesbiske, homofile, bifile, trans- og queer-personer (LHBTQ) med etnisk minoritetsbakgrunn i Oslo. Studien fokuserte på ...

Pain is regulated endogenously through both opioid and non-opioid mechanisms. We hypothesized that two novel pain modulation tasks, one drawing on context/expectations and one using voluntary reappraisal, would show differing ...

Background: There is a modest but consistent association between violence and schizophrenia. The consequences of serious violence could be catastrophic for the victims, as well as the patients themselves and the community. ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individual placement and support (IPS) for people struggling with work participation due to moderate-to-severe mental illness. The study was conducted ...

Objective: The Repetitive Eating Questionnaire, Rep(eat)‐Q, is a 12‐item self‐report measure of compulsive and noncompulsive forms of grazing behaviour (i.e., eating modest amounts of food in a repetitive and unplanned ...

Background: Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation improves motor symptoms and fluctuations in advanced Parkinson's disease, but the degree of clinical improvement depends on accurate anatomical electrode placement. ...

Purpose: Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that almost exclusively affects females. Epilepsy is a major clinical feature, but its long-term course in RTT has not been sufficiently explored. This study ...

Background: Basic self-disturbances (BSDs) are considered core features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and are present in the prodromal, early psychotic and chronic phases. Considerable levels of BSDs are also present ...

There is a need for standardized measures of infant temperament to strengthen current practices in prevention and early intervention. The present study provides Norwegian data on the Cameron‐Rice Infant Temperament ...

The μ-opioid system modulates responses to pain and psychosocial stress and mediates non-social and social reward. In humans, the μ-opioid agonist morphine can increase overt attention to the eye-region and visual exploration ...

Aims: To examine trajectories of employment probability up to 10 years following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and identify significant predictors from baseline socio-demographic and injury characterist ...

Human adolescence is a period of rapid changes in cognition and goal-directed behavior, and it constitutes a major transitional phase towards adulthood. One of the mechanisms suggested to underlie the protracted maturation ...

Background Computerized cognitive training is suggested to enhance attention and working memory functioning following stroke, but effects on brain and behavior are not sufficiently studied and longitudinal studies assessing ...

Background: Delirium is associated with new-onset dementia, suggesting that delirium pathophysiology involves neuronal injury. Neurofilament light (NFL) is a sensitive biomarker for neuroaxonal injury. Methods: ...

Traumatic events by young people can adversely affect their psychological and social well-being when left untreated. This can result in high costs for society. In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether trauma-focused ...

Background: The profile of cortical neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia is not fully understood, despite hundreds of published structural brain imaging studies. This study presents the first meta-analysis of ...

The regional distribution of white matter (WM) abnormalities in schizophrenia remains poorly understood, and reported disease effects on the brain vary widely between studies. In an effort to identify commonalities across ...

Objective: The objective of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a transdiagnostic program (EMOTION, Coping Kids Managing Anxiety and Depression) targeting symptoms of anxiety and depression in schoolchildren by ...

Background: Depression is a complex disorder with large interindividual variability in symptom profiles that often occur alongside symptoms of other psychiatric domains, such as anxiety. A dimensional and symptom-based ...

There is little research about making instruction at school meaningful. This is surprising given that ample research suggests that many students do not find school a meaningful place, as documented by decline in interest ...

Background: Normative and pathological personality traits have rarely been integrated into a joint large-scale structural analysis with psychiatric disorders, although a recent study suggested they entail a common individual ...

Formålet med studien har vært å undersøke om mennesker som har eller har hatt en personlighetsforstyrrelsesdiagnose opplever stigma knyttet til diagnosen i møte med behandlingssystemet, og i så fall på hvilken måte. Videre ...

Our integrative framework for explaining the enjoyment of sadness associated with music sparked a delightful number (13) of commentaries which challenge, stimulate, strengthen and shape the ideas we initially put forward. ...

Background. Maternal prenatal depression is a known risk factor for early-life psychopathology among offspring. However, it is necessary to distinguish between potential risk transmission mechanisms. We aimed to test the ...

As part of the Copenhagen workshop of the Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Inquiry Network, which took place from the 6th to 8th of April 2017, the organisers invited accordionist Andreas Borregaard to give a performance ...

In an internet-based, forced-choice, test of the ‘face race lightness illusion’, the majority of respondents, regardless of their ethnicity, reported perceiving the African face as darker in skin tone than the European ...

Sammendrag Forfatter: Frederike Naujokat Tittel: Sammenhengen mellom barns temperamentsstil og observert gruppekohesjon i gruppeterapi for barn med angstdiagnoser Veileder: Krister Westlye Fjermestad Bakgrunn: Angstlidelser ...

Der psychologische Vertrag bezieht sich auf Verpflichtungen, Versprechen und Erwartungen in Bezug auf die Beschäftigungsbeziehung. Die bestehende Forschung zeigt Zusammenhänge zwischen relationalen psychologischen Verträgen, ...

How do we rapidly process incoming streams of information in working memory, a cognitive mechanism central to human behavior? Dominant views of working memory focus on the prefrontal cortex (PFC), but human hippocampal ...

Organizational research has paid little attention to multiple jobholders. This study investigated the psychological contracts of multiple jobholders in relation to each employment contract and the nonstandard work arrangement ...

General cognitive function is a prominent and relatively stable human trait that is associated with many important life outcomes. We combine cognitive and genetic data from the CHARGE and COGENT consortia, and UK Biobank ...

Innledning: Svært mange barn utsettes for potensielt traumatiserende hendelser (PTE) som øker risikoen for en rekke vansker, deriblant posttraumatisk stresslidelse (PTSD). Traumefokusert kognitiv atferdsterapi (TF-CBT) er ...

It is well-established that experiences of discrimination influence immigrants’ acculturation. Yet, whereas a large body of research has demonstrated the role of discrimination by members of the dominant societal group, ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about how the integration of personal and professional experiences affects therapeutic work. Method: Therapists (N = 14) who had been recommended by their leaders at ...

This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners, Muslims in Western societies, and Muslims ...

Introduction: Eye movements and spatial attention are closely related, and eye‐tracking can provide valuable information in research on visual attention. We investigated the pathology of overt attention in right hemisphere ...

This article describes the development of a research procedure including a musical framework, to explore, describe and illuminate intersubjective exchanges in child psychotherapy. Applying a qualitative explorative approach, ...

Predictions of magnitudes (costs, durations, environmental events) are often given as uncertainty intervals (ranges). When are such forecasts judged to be correct? We report results of four experiments showing that forecasted ...

Forfattere: Karoline Grestad Spæren og Gro Ingvild Flø Røsberg Oppgavetittel: “Dette kommer nå, enten vi vil eller ikke!” En kvalitativ studie av terapeuters holdninger til veiledet internettbehandling for barn og unge med ...

Past research has revealed a trend effect when people are faced with a revised probabilistic forecast: A forecasted event that has become more (vs. less) certain is taken to signal a trend towards even stronger (weaker) ...

Mothers with a substance use disorder (SUD) are at risk for maladaptive parenting practices, and have heightened likelihood of having experienced childhood adversity themselves. In addition, parental reflective functioning ...

Akkulturasjon er prosessen av forandring som oppstår når ein kjem i kontakt med ei anna kulturell gruppe. Ulike grupper opplever akkulturasjon ulikt, og individ innan same gruppe kan oppleve akkulturasjon forskjellig. Det ...

Multimodal imaging enables sensitive measures of the architecture and integrity of the human brain, but the high-dimensional nature of advanced brain imaging features poses inherent challenges for the analyses and ...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the quality of social interaction between 60 foster parents and their foster children compared to a group of 55 non-foster families at 2 (T1) and again at 3 (T2) years of age. ...

Episodic memory can be trained in both early and late adulthood, but there is considerable variation in cognitive improvement across individuals. Which brain characteristics make some individuals benefit more than others? ...

Parenting stress can influence caregiving behavior negatively, which in turn may harm children’s development. Identifying precursors of parenting stress, preferably beginning during pregnancy and throughout the first year ...

We examined genetic and environmental contributions to the development of symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in preschool children. ADHD symptoms in siblings at 1.5, 3, and 5 years of age were ...

Background Studies investigating gestational influenza and child neurodevelopment are still scarce, particularly concerning timing of infection in pregnancy. This is the first study to investigate associations between ...

This essay is a contribution to ‘de-pathologizing’ anxiety, reaffirm it into organization studies, and cast light on some findings on anxiety among staff members in a psychiatric ward. I will endeavor to reveal how I as a ...

Previous research offers limited understanding as to why sickness absence is higher among women than among men, but attitudes and norms have been suggested as plausible explanations of this gender gap. The purpose of the ...

Previous research shows that there is a significant and positive relationship between being a victim of violence and experiencing high levels of psychological problems among young people. Conversely, resilience is negatively ...

Cognitive and socioemotional functioning at 4½ years of age were examined in children born to mothers with substance‐abuse problems (n = 22) recruited from residential treatment institutions while pregnant, and then compared ...

Neuroanatomical and cognitive differences have been documented during childhood between children with prenatal opioid- and poly-drug exposure and controls in small samples. We investigated whether these differences persisted ...