Insufficient suppression and connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) is a potential mediator of cognitive dysfunctions across various disorders, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: Impairments in executive functions (EFs) are related to binge drinking in young adulthood, but research on how EFs influence future binge drinking is lacking. The aim of the current report is therefore to ...

Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy constructs). In other contexts, when people suddenly feel ...

As findings on the neuropathological and behavioral components of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) continue to accrue, converging evidence suggests that macroscale brain functional disruptions may mediate their association. Recent ...

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 ...

Background This study examined the outcomes of a vocational rehabilitation program (The Job Management Program, JUMP) for persons with psychotic disorders based on close collaboration between health and ...

Background Individuals with bipolar disorder present with moderate impairments in social cognition during the euthymic state. The impairment extends to theory of mind and to the perception of emotion in ...

The emotion commonly labeled in English as being moved or touched is widely experienced but only tacitly defined, and has received little systematic attention. Based on a review of conceptualizations from various disciplines, ...

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 ...

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. ...

Aims: Low socioeconomic status (SES) characterizes smoking and nicotine dependence in adult samples. However, less is known about how parental SES is linked to smoking in offspring and potential mechanisms at work. Methods: ...

Aims: Recent research suggests that early onset of intoxication (EOI) may be of greater importance for a wide range of subsequent adverse outcomes than early drinking experiences without intoxication. However, research on ...

Background Outcomes from studies on season of birth bias in eating disorders have been inconsistent. This inconsistency has been explained by differences in methodologies resulting in different types of ...

Although the concept of inclusion of the other in the self (IOS) has been successfully assessed with explicit self-report measures implicit procedures have been neglected in past literature. The present article explores ...

Both worry and metacognitive beliefs have been found to be related to the development of anxiety, but metacognitive theory (Wells and Matthews, 1994; Wells, 2009) suggest that metacognitive beliefs may play a more prominent ...

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 ...

Self-efficacy is assumed to promote posttraumatic adaption, and several cross-sectional studies support this notion. However, there is a lack of prospective longitudinal studies to further illuminate the temporal relationship ...

Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe mental illness, with an unknown etiology. Magnetic resonance imaging studies show reduced brain volumes and cortical thickness in patients compared to healthy ...

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: 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Målet med denne studien var å undersøke sårbarhet for og stabilitet i utviklingen av depressive symptomer hos ungdom med leppe-, kjeve-, ganespalte (LKG) fra 10- til 16- års alder. Utseendevurderinger og sosiale faktorers ...

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. ...

Forfattere: Siri Tormodsdatter Hylland og Kolbjørn Finckenhagen Campbell Irgens. Oppgavetittel: Jeg måtte innse at jeg ikke var ødelagt, jeg trengte bare litt oppussing – en kvalitativ studie av bedringsforståelse hos ...

Forfattere: Siri Tormodsdatter Hylland og Kolbjørn Finckenhagen Campbell Irgens. Oppgavetittel: Jeg måtte innse at jeg ikke var ødelagt, jeg trengte bare litt oppussing – en kvalitativ studie av bedringsforståelse hos ...

During the last decades, numerous studies in organizational psychology have focused on different forms of communication and their impact on performance. The literature concerning communication and its effects in management ...

Forskningsspørsmål: Hvordan opplever pasienter som er innlagt med anoreksi måltidsituasjonen på avdelingen? Bakgrunn og formål: Anorexia nervosa (anoreksi) er en alvorlig psykisk lidelse med omfattende konsekvenser for ...

Forskningsspørsmål: «Hva er terapeutens refleksjoner om hva de gjør i første time med barn som har opplevd traumer?» Bakgrunn og formål: Terapeuters erfaring kan være viktig å studere fordi empirisk forskning bekrefter at ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 purpose of the present study was to create a better understanding of the processes and emergent states that can explain the relationship between team size (number of members) and team performance in management teams. ...

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. ...

Sammendrag Bakgrunn: Irritabel tarm syndrom (IBS) er en hyppig forekommende, kronisk og hemmende gastrointestinal lidelse. Lidelsen er assosiert med høye kostnader for helsevesenet, redusert livskvalitet, somatisk og psykisk ...

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 ...

Forfatter: Andrea Varga Weme Tittel: Grønn lykke - En kvalitativ undersøkelse av bærekraftige livsvalg Veileder: Ole Jacob Madsen Klimaendringene er anerkjent som en av vår tids største globale kriser, men oppfattes som ...

Både myndigheter og organisasjoner viser tiltagende interesser for hvordan ulike intervensjoner kan fremme miljøatferd. I tillegg til å fremme den relevante atferden som hver enkelt intervensjon er rettet mot, er det et ...

Etter flere tiår med forskning ble overspisingslidelse (Binge Eating Disorder) i 2013 tatt i bruk som en formell diagnose i USA. Selv om diagnosen ikke offisielt er i bruk i Norge, vil den komme med i den planlagte reviderte ...

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. ...

Tittel: «Like a bridge over troubled water»: En observasjonsstudie av mekling i høykonflikt. Forfatter: Hege Røyset Fjell Veileder: Odd Arne Tjersland I denne studien har jeg valgt å følge to foreldrepar i store konflikter. ...

Tre spørsmål ble undersøkt: 1) Er det diskrepans mellom foreldre og læreres oppfatning av barns sosiale og emosjonelle fungering ved 18 måneders alder? 2) Er det sammenheng mellom informantdiskrepans i foreldre og læreres ...

Oppgavens formål har vært å undersøke aleksitymibegrepets kliniske relevans. Problemstillingen blir belyst gjennom empiriske studier og teoretiske betraktninger knyttet til det psykodynamiske rammeverket. Oppgaven kan anses ...

Jeg ønsket å undersøke diagnostisk nøyaktighet for predikasjon av barnepsykiatrisk diagnose ved bruk av SDQ-algoritmen i Skandinavia. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) er et sett spørreskjema for vurdering av ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bakgrunn: Hovedmålet med denne oppgaven har vært å undersøke depressive symptomer hos 12-13-åringer i et forebyggende perspektiv. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i to kjente fenomen i denne alderen: en generell økning i ...

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 ...

Formålet med studien var å undersøke om det forelå noen eksplisitte og implisitte tolkningsrammer (vedrørende kjønn) som preger hvordan den sakkyndige vurderer og posisjonerer foreldre i barnesakkyndige erklæringer. ...

Hensikten med denne studien var å undersøke om dissosiative lidelser kjennetegnes av en egen type dissosiasjon. Dette ble gjort ved å sammenlikne dissosiasjon i en gruppe diagnostisert med dissosiative lidelser (CDD) og ...

Hensikten med denne studien var å undersøke om dissosiative lidelser kjennetegnes av en egen type dissosiasjon. Dette ble gjort ved å sammenlikne dissosiasjon i en gruppe diagnostisert med dissosiative lidelser (CDD) og ...

C-tactile (CT) afferents are activated by caress-like pleasant touch. This type of social interaction is associated with increased β-endorphin release and social bonding in non-human animals. Studies in non-human primates ...

Bakgrunn: Flere studier tyder på at angstsymptomer predikerer depresjonssymptomer i ungdomsårene. Det er videre funnet indikasjoner på at ulike angstrelaterte, depresjonsgenererende mekanismer kan bidra til en temporal ...

Bakgrunn: Flere studier tyder på at angstsymptomer predikerer depresjonssymptomer i ungdomsårene. Det er videre funnet indikasjoner på at ulike angstrelaterte, depresjonsgenererende mekanismer kan bidra til en temporal ...

Age-related differences in white matter (WM) integrity are substantial, but it is unknown whether between-subject variability in WM integrity influences the capacity for cognitive improvement. We investigated the effects ...

On the basis of social exchange theory, this study examines the impact of two Human Resources Management (HRM) practices, communication and participation, on employees’ perception of psychological contract fulfillment (PCF) ...

Background The study investigated the impact of psychiatric disorders on Quality of Life (QOL) cross-sectionally and longitudinally in a group of Norwegian tourists severely exposed to the 2004 tsunami. Methods Sixty-two ...

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 ...

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. ...

This study is a response to the research and request presented by Bang and Midelfart (2010), to further investigate the effect dialogue can have on management team s effectiveness. The purpose of the study was to investigate ...

Background: Fatigue is a common symptom following neurological illnesses and injuries, and is rated as one of the most debilitating sequela in conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and multiple sclerosis ...

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 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 ...

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 ...