Jumping to conclusions (JTC) is the best established cognitive bias in schizophrenia and is increasingly targeted in interventions aimed to improve positive symptoms. To address shortcomings of the standard measure to capture JTC, the beads task, we developed a new variant—the box task—which was subsequently validated in people with elevated psychotic-like experiences. For the first time, the box ...

<i>Background</i> - The prevailing Western ideal of ageing in place, with the option to stay at home as one ages, has led to the development of physical activity guidelines for people of advanced age to increase their quality of life and promote their functional abilities. This study investigates the effect of self-reported health and physical activity on mortality and examines how levels of ...

Animals that are moderately protein restricted respond to this dietary stress by increasing consumption of protein-containing foods. This is true in many species, including rodents. Rodent models of protein restriction have typically relied on only male subjects, and there are plausible reasons why female rodents may respond differently to dietary protein restriction. To address this gap in ...

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a prevalent disorder. Studying the factors related to PPD will help to identify families at risk and provide preventive interventions. This can in turn improve the developmental trajectories for the children. Several previous studies have investigated risk factors for PPD. However, few studies have focused on cognitive vulnerability factors. The first aim of the ...

The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) is an international collaborative network of psychological scientists that facilitates rigorous and generalizable research. In this chapter, we describe how the PSA can help clinical psychologists and clinical psychological science more broadly. We first describe the PSA and outline how individual clinical psychologists can use the PSA as a helpful resource ...

This thesis explored the nature of liminality and experiences, by collecting responses from a sample of 155 Norwegians who partook in the leisure activities friluftsliv or video gaming, by responding to an online questionnaire consisting of various scales measuring liminality, and variables we believed to be more, or less, related to liminality. The variables included, in addition to liminality, ...

Background: The Coronary Revascularisation Outcome Questionnaire (CROQ) measures health-related quality of life and outcome of invasive revascularization procedures such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The CROQ has not been properly validated in Norwegian patient populations. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties ...

The Social Skills Improvement System-Rating Scales (SSIS-RS: Gresham & Elliott, 2008) assesses social skills and problem behavior in children and adolescents from three perspectives (teacher, parent, and student). The SSIS-RS is a revised version of the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS: Gresham & Elliott, 1990). Both instruments have been validated in the US. In Norway, a Norwegian translation of ...

Denne hovedoppgaven er et forsøk på å finne ut hvilke faktorer som kan påvirke psykologfaglig attribusjon av årsak i saker der en skadelidt søker erstatning for psykisk helseskade. 92 psykologistudenter ble bedt om å vurdere 4 vignetter med skadelidte som søkte erstatning for psykisk helseskade. De fire vignettene var laget med forskjellig grad av sannsynlighet, fra lite - til overveiende, for at ...

Temaet for denne litteraturoppgaven er kritisk psykologi. Man kan definere kritikk som en metode for å rette oppmerksomhet mot forutsetninger som skjuler seg i vårt vanlige handle- og tenkesett (Madsen, 2012a, s.742). Kritisk psykologi innebærer å ta et metaperspektiv på de faglige forutsetningene som ligger til grunn for det perspektivet faget anlegger på virkeligheten. Disiplinen «kritisk psykologi» ...