Mastergradsoppgaver i psykologi: Nye registreringer

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    • Work Life and Mental Health, Employees’ Perspective 

      Leifson, Anita Krüger (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-04)
      Abstract Minor mental disorders are widespread and may have significant consequences for the individual, their family and colleagues, as well as for the society (Mykletun & Knudsen, 2009). The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges and experiences employees with mental health problems have with maintaining employment. Hopefully, this will provide an increased understanding of how ...

    • Wandering body, wandering mind? The relationship between bodily movement, creativity and mind wandering 

      Opdal, Ida Marie (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-04)
      It has long been hypothesized that creativity may be related to mind wandering. Recent work has shown that bodily movement is related to both creativity and mind wandering. In the current experiment, we examined the question as to whether mind wandering and creativity would be simultaneously enhanced during an active walking condition relative to an inactive control condition. The experiment included ...

    • Morningness-Eveningness and Flextime Possibilities: Connections Between Circadian Rhythm, Work Day Schedule, Well-Being and Productivity 

      Stenvold, Linda Catrine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-02)
      The current study aimed to investigate earlier reported connections to the morningness- eveningness dimension or flextime, and to offer an explanatory model linking these variables to well-being and productivity. Earlier findings gave the impression that it could be beneficial for both organizations and employees to have work schedules allowing employees to take their own circadian rhythm into ...

    • Å tenke eller ikke å tenke? Bevisst eller ubevisst tenkning ved beslutningstaking. 

      Kirkeby, Mona (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-06-02)
      I følge Dijksterhuis og Nordgren´s teori om ubevisst tenkning blir det hevdet at avgjørelser tatt etter en tid med distraksjon fører til bedre beslutninger, enn hvis man tenker bevisst over oppgaven i fokus. Denne studien tar for seg en utvidet replikasjonsstudie for å undersøke om ubevisst tenkning bedrer kvaliteten på komplekse beslutninger og belyse hvordan sosial påvirkning kan ha en betydning ...

    • Sosial persepsjonstrening (SPT): Et forebyggende intervensjonstiltak for utvikling av sosial kompetanse hos barn og ungdom. 

      Solstad, Heidi; Varhaug, Lise (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-02)
      Sosial persepsjonstrening (SPT) er et intervensjonsprogram der målet er å fremme sosial kompetanse og å forebygge problematferd hos barn og ungdom. Hovedmålet i SPT er å lære deltakerne hvordan man tolker en sosial situasjon, og å lære dem å bruke sosialt akseptert atferd, ved å trene på sosiale ferdigheter, sosial utøvelse og empatisk forståelse. Det foreligger til nå ingen publisert forskning på ...

    • Verbal Measure, or Graphic Measure, or Both? Psychometric Study of Organizational Identification 

      Moksness, Lars (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-04-25)
      For å måle organisasjonsidentitet undersøkte dette forskningsprosjektet vitenskapelige ansatte ved et norsk universitet (N = 74), og ansatte i et norsk multinasjonalt selskap (N = 244). Tidligere forskning, rollen til sosial identitetsteori i organisasjonsidentitet, og en gjennomgang av målemetoder ble presentert. Data ble samlet inn med Identification with a Psychological Group Scale (IDPG) som ...

    • Are there Gender Differences in Pain and Placebo Analgesia? 

      Harviken, Ida Elisabeth (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-02)
      Abstrakt Formål: Å undersøke om menn viser høyere placebo responser enn kvinner, og om dette kan forklares av kjønnsforskjeller i smertefrykt. Høyere grad av smertefrykt ble foreslått å være høyest blant kvinner, noe som antas å redusere deres placebo respons. Videre ble det undersøkt om kjønnet på eksperimentator kunne påvirke deltagernes smerterapport. Metode:96 friske deltagere (51 kvinner) ble ...

    • Quantitative measure of evaluative labeling in news reports: Psychology of communication bias studied by content analysis and semantic differential 

      Stefansson, Jon Karl (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-06-02)
      Two studies examined partisan word-connotations in news reports. They focused on what, if any, normative judgements were conveyed through the choice of referent terms of key agents and examined if the usage of terms differed systematically in emotional connotations according to which agents they were applied to. Study 1 used content analysis of every article posted on the Norwegian state news media’s ...

    • “They did not kill the seeds”: The struggle for cultural survival and gendered growth among Guatemalan war widows 

      Normann, Susanne (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05)
      Abstract This study explores the relationship between the socio-political context in Guatemala and women’s chosen strategies to struggle for recovery in the aftermath of the war related violence and state terrorism (1960-1996). It examines how the widows in the grassroots organization National Coordinator for Guatemalan Widows (CONAVIGUA) have struggled to “defend life” after surviving the extreme ...

    • Thinking success, behaving successfully: The relation between hypothetical thinking strategies, effort towards goal attainment and grit 

      Sending, Vibeke (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-05)
      This thesis examined the relation between hypothetical thinking strategies and grit defined as the “perseverance and passion for long-term goals” (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007, p. 1087). The scale measuring grit was translated using parallel blind technique, in order to examine grit in a Norwegian population, and administered to 143 participants at UiT recruited online (study 1). Two ...

    • Evaluering av Familie-ART: En multimodal, familiebasert metode for utvikling av sosial kompetanse og forebygging av problematferd 

      Lie, Ane Eivor With (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-04-30)
      Family Aggression Replacement Training (Familie-ART) er en multimodal metode som har til hensikt å bedre sosial kompetanse og redusere problematferd. Den foreliggende studien har målt og evaluert effekten av en Familie-ART intervensjon gitt til 12 barn og deres familier. Sosial kompetanse og problematferd ble målt med Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) i et pre-test – posttest-design. SSRS sub-skalaer ...

    • Let´s talk about your childhood! Measures of parental rearing,alcohol use, anxiety and depression in young adults: A cross-cultural study. 

      Busuioc, Lacramioara (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-06-04)
      There is a vast literature describing the importance of child rearing aspects as vulnerability factors predisposing to depression, anxiety and alcohol use in adulthood. Much of the research in the field uses a variety of methods and theoretical bases, making conclusions difficult to draw. Nevertheless, retrospective studies based on data from adults (either clinical or nonclinical) seem to ...

    • Ironic effects of suppressing specific and non-specific demography-related thoughts in job candidate evaluations. 

      Babaii, Aida (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-15)
      This present work explored the suppression instructions conveyed during an applicant evaluation process. The following experiment predicted that the participants in the specific suppression condition would evaluate the stereotypical applicants less favorably compared to participants in the other conditions. The participants received one of three suppression instructions: one instructed them to ...

    • Delayed sleep phase syndrome and melatonin treatment: A meta-analysis 

      Engebråten, Carina Femoen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-02)
      Delayed sleep phase syndrome er en søvnforstyrrelse som oppstår blant barn og unge voksne, som forårsaker vanskeligheter med å fungere normalt på dagtid når søvn-våken rytmen er forskjøvet. Diagnosen er vanlig, men det er allikevel ingen standardiserte rettningslinjer for behandling. Forskning de siste årene har funnet ut at hormonet melatonin påvirker søvn og endring av søvn-våken syklusen hos ...

    • Hedonic and eudaimonic well-being: an intervention study 

      Wenneberg, Cathrine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-02)
      Most people want to be happy. But if happiness, or well-being, comes in different forms, which one should they pursue? Some researchers do argue that the traditional hedonic view of life satisfaction and pleasant feelings are necessary but not sufficient constituents of a good life. This alternative viewpoint contains both hedonia and eudaimonia which emphasizes personal growth and engagement. With ...

    • A matter of competence, integrity or (dis)honesty? How academic faculty understand and manage student cheating 

      Pedersen, Tony (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-02)
      Academic plagiarism and cheating have received increasing attention in recent years, but the schools traditional rules and regulations on how to punish this type of infraction has not been updated in relation to how society treats other types of foul play. Previous research has traditionally studied cheating from two perspectives: moral and legal. The aim of this study was to document a third ...

    • How does contextual information affect our understanding of numerical probabilities 

      Nerva, Erik Yngvar (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-02)
      Numerical probabilities representing health risks or treatment benefits are constantly communicated to the general public. These probabilities are often embedded in contextual information in the form of a personal patient narrative or newscasts. Previous research suggest that people’s perceptions of risk will be greater when probability information is communicated along with contextual information. ...

    • "Friends with benefits": En fenomenologisk studie over seksuelle relasjoner mellom venner 

      Karlsen, Monica (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-11-01)
      ”Friends with benefits” (FWB) betegner venner som har sex med hverandre uten å ha romantiske følelser eller forpliktelser ovenfor hverandre. Med utgangspunkt i seksuell skriptteori, var formålet med denne undersøkelsen å utforske FWB-fenomenet i en norsk, heteroseksuell kontekst. Forskningsmetoden som ble brukt var transendental fenomenologi. Det ble utført semistrukturelle intervjuer av tolv ...

    • The association between dexterity and cognitive functioning in healthy elderly: A kinematic analysis 

      Eriksen, Mari Lise (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-08)
      Aging has a degenerative effect on hand function and cognition. After the age of 65, most healthy elders experience sensorimotor changes and cognitive declines of various kinds which can make activities of everyday life a challenge. To our knowledge, few studies have investigated the possible interplay between cognitive function and dexterity in the elderly. The purpose of the present study was to ...

    • Does experiencing nature and poetry separately or together affect our emotions and feelings of interest and restorativeness differently? 

      Norberg, Sigrid Schøning (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-14)
      This study explored how presence of art in a natural environment is experienced, and if combining these elements would improve or impair the experience compared to experiencing the elements separately. Quantitative methods with an experimental between groups design were used, with three conditions (Pure Nature, Pure Poetry, Combined Nature+Poetry). Of the participants, 65% were women. In the Pure ...