Background Anxiety and depressive symptoms are common in childhood, however problems in need of intervention may not be identified. Children at risk for developing more severe problems can be identified ...

The following study explored factors affecting acceptance and learning of Virtual Patient Simulation (VPS) in a mental health care context. The use of VPS is increasing in healthcare sector, as it is considered to have ...

Autistic traits can help people gain and sustain power, and has probably done so throughout history, says the present paper. A number of testable claims follow from this assumption. First, the powerful should have more ...

Background The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) was developed for schizophrenia patients, but is also being used to assess neurocognitive function in bipolar disorder. This study aims to describe ...

Migrasjon bringer på banen spørsmål om hvordan forskjellige etno-kulturelle grupper lever sammen i samfunnet. Akkulturasjon er kulturelle endringer som skjer på grunn av kontakt mellom etno-kulturelle grupper over tid. ...

Background Substance use disorders (SUDs) constitute a major health problem and are associated with an extensive psychiatric comorbidity. Personality disorders (PDs) and SUDs commonly co-occur. Comorbid ...

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 study aimed to investigate the role of work engagement in the relationship between ability-enhancing Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and employee performance. Questionnaires were distributed in 52 organisations ...

Background Self-efficacy may be an important factor in individuals’ recovery from posttraumatic stress reactions after a natural disaster. However, few longitudinal studies have investigated whether ...

I denne studien ble sammenhengen mellom fars barndomsbelastninger, foreldrestress og samspillskvalitet ved 6 måneder undersøkt. Det ble ikke funnet noen signifikant sammenheng mellom tidligere belastninger og kvalitet på ...

Background Mental health problems are a growing cause of sickness absence. There are programmes in many countries to facilitate return to work (RTW) after sickness absence. In Norway, there has been some ...

Fysisk aktivitet representerer en viktig side ved forebygging av livsstilsrelatert sykdom. Imidlertid er det kun en relativt begrenset andel av befolkningen som får tilstrekkelig med fysisk aktivitet i hverdagen. Spesielt ...

Studien undersøker et representativt utvalg på 151 dommeravhør foretatt i Norge mellom 2002 og 2012. Gjennom logistisk regresjon undersøker studien hvilke prediktorer som skiller hvorvidt barna kommer til å fortelle spontant ...

Background: In studies employing physiological measures such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it is often hard to distinguish what constitutes risk-resilience factors to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following ...

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 ...

Eksisterende internasjonal forskning på selvmord i veitrafikken indikerer at et betydelig antall dødsulykker kan ha vært skjulte selvmord. Det antas at det eksisterer mørketall i statistikken rundt selvvalgte ulykker i ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med denne studien har vært å utforske ungdoms opplevelser av egen endring i et mentaliseringsbasert behandlingskollektiv for unge rusavhengige. Forskningsspørsmålene som lå til grunn var: 1. Hvordan ...

Sammendrag Bakgrunn. Formålet med studien var å forklare ulikheter i grad av vektnedgang ved behandlingslutt etter 6 - 8 måneders konservativ fedmebehandling med periodevis innleggelse. For å oppnå et vellykket vekttap på ...

This study hypothesises that mental effort will be increase with increased difficulty, reflecting increased production of norepinephrine in the locus coeruleus. The aim was to confirm previous findings from other studies, ...

There is a large global need for rehabilitation, and not enough sufficient methods of delivering it. Gamification, and specifically the use of commercially available video gaming, is a potential solution. The current state ...

Background: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the recommended approach for anxiety disorders and successful exposure to feared stimuli is considered an essential part of treatment. Even though results from systematic ...

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 ...

Background Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) is a therapeutic framework that appears promising to reduce suicidal ideation and suicidal cognition. CAMS has not previously been ...

Background Research examining the effects of oxytocin (OT) interventions on psychiatric, social-behavioral, and social-cognitive outcomes regularly collect peripheral levels of OT as markers of central ...

Background Anxiety is associated with preterm deliveries in general (before week 37 of pregnancy), but is that also true for late preterm (weeks 34/0–36/6) and early term deliveries (weeks 37/0–38/6)? We aim to examine ...

A causal link between decreases in white matter (WM) integrity and cortical degeneration is assumed, but there is scarce knowledge on the relationship between these changes across the adult human lifespan. We investigated ...

Background Impulsive binge drinking is a serious public health issue, and to reveal predisposing factors to this consumption pattern is, therefore, required. Impulsivity-related traits are important predictors of alcohol ...

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 ...

Higher order speeded cognitive abilities depend on efficient coordination of activity across the brain, rendering them vulnerable to age reductions in structural and functional brain connectivity. The concept of “disconnected ...

Background Mood stabilizers like lithium and anticonvulsants are used in bipolar and related psychotic disorders. There is a lack of knowledge of the relationship of these medications and cognition in the ...

Extensive efforts are devoted to understand the functional (FC) and structural connections (SC) of the brain. FC is usually measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and conceptualized as degree of synchronicity ...

Background Neuroimaging allows for the identification of brain abnormalities and alterations that are associated with anorexia nervosa (AN). We performed a scoping review to map out the extent and nature ...

Background: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the recommended approach for anxiety disorders and successful exposure to feared stimuli is considered an essential part of treatment. Even though results from systematic ...

Background Little is known about the psychological prerequisites for weight loss maintenance after bariatric surgery. A first step in investigating whether existing knowledge of conservative weight loss ...

Body language reading is a social cognitive process with importance for successful maneuvering of social situations. In this study, we investigated body language reading as assessed with human point-light displays in ...

Denne oppgavens målsetning var å undersøke den subjektive erfaringen til deltakerne i en psykoedukativ gruppekomponent i et mentaliseringsbasert terapiprogram (MBT). Den psykoedukative gruppeterapien er en integrert del ...

The aim of the thesis was to further investigate the properties of the child Attentional Network Task (ANT), and its use with preschool children (4-5 years), as recent studies have struggled to find consistent results in ...

Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke hvilken innvirkning kvinneandel har for hvordan ledergrupper fungerer og presterer langs ulike dimensjoner. Studien undersøker om det er noen sammenheng mellom kvinneandel og ...

Background Converging evidence demonstrates the important role of the neuropeptide hormone oxytocin (OT) in human behaviour and cognition. Intranasal OT administration has been shown to improve several ...

Bakgrunn. Ungdommer med alvorlige atferdsproblemer kjennetegnes av store og komplekse vansker, og er en krevende gruppe å behandle. Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) er et tiltak som har vist seg virksomt for denne ...

Sammendrag Bakgrunn. Formålet med studien var å forklare ulikheter i grad av vektnedgang ved behandlingslutt etter 6 - 8 måneders konservativ fedmebehandling med periodevis innleggelse. For å oppnå et vellykket vekttap på ...

I all utviklingspsykologisk forskning har temperament vært viktig for å forstå barns sosiale utvikling. Ett sentralt forskningsspørsmål er om vanskelig temperament er negativt relatert til barns prososiale atferd. Tidligere ...

Background Mental disorders strongly influence work capability in young adults, but it is not clear which disorders that are most strongly associated with sick leave, and which diagnoses that are stated on the sick leave ...

Background: Little is known about the physical and mental health status among parents of boys with SCA. The term sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCA) refers to a condition where children are born with additional sex chromosomes. ...

Bakgrunn: Målkonsensus, eller enighet om mål mellom pasient og terapeut, som er ett av tre aspekter ved arbeidsalliansen, har vist en sterk sammenheng med senere utfall av psykoterapi (Tryon & Winograd, 2011). Effektstørrelsen ...

Gamification is an emerging field of research with a focus on motivation that is presenting promising results in many contexts. Submitting gamification into a rehabilitation setting could potentially be beneficial for ...

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 ...

Objective Mentalization is the capacity to understand behavior as the expression of various mental states and is assumed to be important in a range of psychopathologies, especially personality disorders (PDs). The first ...

Background Results from observational studies suggest that people who drink little or no alcohol are less healthy than medium drinkers. This has been demonstrated for many different measures of health, including sick leave. ...

The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) is associated with a plethora of social behaviors, and is a key topic at the intersection of psychology and biology. However, tools for measuring OT are still not fully developed. We describe ...

Det er store risikofaktorer knyttet til atferdsvansker i barndommen og foreldretrening er ofte det foretrukne behandlingsvalget. Etter avsluttet behandling har likevel ett av tre barn fortsatt store atferdsvansker og ulike ...

Forfatter: Malin Pedersen Kvaale Tittel: Vondt skal med vondt fordrives – en kvalitativ studie av ungdommers beskrivelse av egen selvskading Veileder: Svein Mossige ________________________________________ Forskningsspørsmål: ...

Bakgrunn En signifikant andel barn i verden opplever traumatiske hendelser og uten behandling kan traumeeksponering lede til en rekke mentale vansker. Effektive behandlinger vil kunne være nødvendig for å forhindre ...

Formålet med denne studien er å bidra til økt kunnskap om hvordan yoga kan bidra til bedre helse hos mennesker som strever med rusavhengighet. For å undersøke dette gjennomførte vi semistrukturerte intervjuer med deltakere ...

Formålet med denne studien er å bidra til økt kunnskap om hvordan yoga kan bidra til bedre helse hos mennesker som strever med rusavhengighet. For å undersøke dette gjennomførte vi semistrukturerte intervjuer med deltakere ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med studien var å undersøke om man hos et utvalg friske middelaldrende voksne ville finne varige endringer i hjernestruktur og kognisjon, som resultat av å ha mottatt hukommelsestrening fem år tidligere. ...

Background: Support groups represent a common preventive intervention for children in vulnerable situations, such as siblings of children with chronic disorders. Little research has been done on these interventions, and ...

The aim of this study was to explore how dimensions of organisational climate affect climate for quality in ØKOKRIM, and how the organisational climate for quality can be associated with their core task of investigation. ...

Betydningen av det psykososiale arbeidsmiljøet for individers helse, har fått mye oppmerksomhet og har lenge vært fokus i forskningen på arbeidshelse. Flere studier har vist at ulike faktorer knyttet til det psykososiale ...

Sammendrag Forfatter: Nantje Fischer Tittel: Medisinstudenters intensjon om å tematisere seksualitet i behandlingsrommet    Veileder: Bente Træen Bakgrunn: Menneskers helsetilstand og seksualliv er tett sammenvevd og begge ...

Denne studien bygger på strukturerte observasjoner av samspill mellom norske fedre og ettåringer og har et fokus på dyadiske kvaliteter i samspillet. To dyadiske mål er benyttet i studien. Dyadisk gjensidighet måler grad ...

The purpose of the present study is to explore how clinical psychologists work psychotherapeutically with gender variant youth. Gender variant refers to people who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at ...

Background. The main question of the present research was born from the intersection between two issues: the relevant feature behind our sense of facial beauty and two kinds of information carried within different spatial ...

Background Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a lifelong condition which carries great cost to society and has an extensive comorbidity. It has been assumed that ADHD is 2 to 5 times more frequent in boys ...

Studien har tatt et samfunnspsykologisk ståsted for å undersøke hvordan politistudenter har utviklet sin profesjonsidentitet som politi relatert til den midlertidige bevæpningen. Studien har fokusert på to områder, ...

The present study attempt to investigate if organizational climate could strengthen work engagement. The study is the first to investigate if the climate version of Competing Values Framework (CVF) and training climate ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ undersøkelse av opplevelsene til voksne informanter i behandling ved Kompasset, det eneste behandlingstilbudet i Norge spesielt rettet mot barn av foreldre med alkoholproblemer (COA). ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological contracts as a mediator in the relationship between organizational cultures and affective commitment. Two culture dimensions from the competing values ...

Depresjonssymptomer i svangerskap og barseltid rammer mellom 10 og 15% av alle mødre i Norge, og ansees som et folkehelseproblem med negative konsekvenser for både mor, far og partner. Denne studien har tatt sikte på å ...

Bakgrunn: Undersøkelser basert på brukererfaringer viser at noen mennesker opplever seg krenket under behandling i psykisk helsevern. Det finnes lite forskning på hva som krenker og hva slags konsekvenser denne type ...

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) er et ferdighetstreningprogram utviklet for å forebygge depressive tilbakefall hos individer som lider av tilbakevendende depresjon. Gruppeprogrammet kombinerer mindfulness-meditasjon, ...

Formålet med den aktuelle studien var å undersøke og utforske betringsprosessar frå klientperspektiv. Endring og betring er kjerneomgrep i psykologisk teori og praksis, som båe er konseptuelt uklare. Ei årsak til dette er ...

Background: Obesity surgery is increasingly and successfully applied in the treatment of morbid obesity. Nevertheless, long-term side effects are common and may affect patients’ eating behaviour and physical activity. The ...

Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is highly debilitating and one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders. Although there is evidence that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alleviates symptoms in GAD to some extent, GAD remains ...

It is unclear if and how exogenous oxytocin (OT) reaches the brain to improve social behavior and cognition and what is the optimal dose for OT response. To better understand the delivery routes of intranasal OT administration ...

Denne hovedoppgaven er en kvalitativ studie med formål å undersøke hvordan terapeutene etablerer allianse med ungdommen i en tidlig fase tilknytningsbasert familieterapi (ABFT). Datamateriale til hovedoppgaven er fra et ...

Name: Yngve Dahl Title: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for the Treatment of Depression – A Systematic Review. Supervisor: Stein Andersson Objective: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a relatively ...

Bakgrunn: Målet med studien var å undersøke symptomer på fatigue og psykologisk symptombelastning blant unge voksne behandlet for hjernesvulst i barne- og ungdomsalder. Metode: 71 deltakere fylte ut et utarbeidet spørreskjema ...

Hensikt: Formålet med denne studien var å undersøke sammenhenger mellom ulike kvalitetsindikatorer ved barnehagen, og barns sosioemosjonelle og kognitive utvikling over tid. Videre ble det undersøkt om barnehagekvalitet ...

Sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCA) are the most common chromosome irregularities, but phenotypes vary greatly, and SCA are underdiagnosed. Boys with SCA represent an understudied group. The temperament of boys with SCA has ...

The present thesis is a quantitative correlational study of 92 healthy siblings age 8 – 16, and parents of children with chronic health conditions (CHC) recruited at Frambu resource centre for rare disorders and collaborative ...

Background: Depression is one of the most common mental health problems among adults, but effective treatments are not widely accessible. The Internet holds promise as a cost-effective and convenient delivery platform of ...