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The perception of food products in adolescents, lay adults, and experts:A psychometric approach
2022
Almost 40% of global mortality is attributable to an unhealthy diet, and adolescents and young adults are particularly affected by growing obesity rates. How do (young) people conceptualize and judge the healthiness of foods and how are the judgments embedded in people’s mental representations of the food ecology? We asked respondents to rate a large range of common food products on a diverse set of characteristics and then applied the psychometric paradigm to identify the dimensions structuring people’s mental representations of the foods. Respondents were also asked to rate each food in terms of its healthiness, and we used the foods’ scores on the extracted dimensions to predict the heal…
Qualitative variations in delay discounting: A brief review and future directions.
2022
The discounting paradigm has been challenged by an increasing number of studies presenting qualitative variations in the individual discount function. Particularly, the subjective value of a loss does not necessarily systematically decrease with delay to the outcome. Qualitative variation refers to variations in shape rather than steepness of the discount function, such as positive discounting, zero discounting, unsystematic discounting, and negative discounting. Data from three previous studies were analysed in terms of qualitative variations observed in delay discounting patterns. Attention was also given to methods used and to the relationship between the results from the various levels …
Is a female physical empowerment campaign effective in improving positive body image, motivation for physical activity, and physical activity behavio…
2022
This Girl Can is a campaign designed to empower women to increase physical activity. The campaign uses images/videos of women of diverse body weights/shapes, ages and ethnicities being physically active, emphasizing body functionality. First, we examined the effects of multi-session (N = 3) exposures to This Girl Can on body functionality, body appreciation and self-compassion (Study 1). Second, we explored if autonomous motivation for physical activity mediated effects of This Girl Can on physical activity (Study 2). Women (Study 1: N = 186, M (SD) age = 27.55 (14.01); Study 2: N = 153, M (SD) age = 28.31 (11.70)) were randomized to This Girl Can, or control videos/images depicting idealiz…
A mediational analysis of adverse experiences in childhood and quality of life in adulthood
2022
Objectives: This study examined associations of three prevalent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - parents' problematic alcohol use (PPAU), parental separation/divorce, and lack of support from a trusted adult-with adult quality of life (QoL), and potential mediators of associations. Methods: Data were from a representative survey (N = 28,047) in Norway that assessed ACEs, QoL, and potential mediators: enduring perceptions of childhood hardships (Difficult Childhood Questionnaire; DCQ), current mental distress, and current social isolation. Latent regression analyses examined potential mediators. Results: Each ACE was positively associated with perceptions of childhood as difficult (hig…
Great Minds Think Alike? Spatial Search Processes Can Be More Idiosyncratic When Guided by More Accurate Information.
2022
Existing research demonstrates that pre-decisional information sampling strategies are often stablewithin a given person while varying greatly across people. However, it remains largely unknown whatdrives these individual differences, that is, why in some circumstances we collect information moreidiosyncratically. In this brief report, we present a pre-registered online study of spatial search. Usinga novel technique that combines machine-learning dimension reduction and sequence alignment algo-rithms, we quantify the extent to which the shape and temporal properties of a search trajectory areidiosyncratic. We show that this metric increases (trajectories become more idiosyncratic) when a p…
Revisors holdning til digitalisering i revisjon : En studie om revisors holdninger til digitaliseringen, og hvordan disse påvirker implementeringen a…
2020
Master's thesis in Accounting and auditing (BE508) Temaet for masteroppgaven er revisors holdning til digitalisering i revisjon. Revisjonsbransjen har tradisjonelt vært preget av manuelle arbeidsoppgaver, som gjør bransjen perfekt posisjonert for digitalisering. De fire store revisjonsselskapene er allerede godt i gang med innføringen av nye verktøy som for eksempel RPA og SAF-T. På grunnlag av at digitalisering ikke er et nytt fenomen, fokuserte studien på hvilke faktorer som påvirker revisors holdninger til innføringen av digitaliserte verktøy og arbeidsmetoder. Formålet med masterutredningen var derfor å belyse hvordan revisor stiller seg til økt bruk av teknologiske nyvinninger, og hvor…
Det vanskelige foreldreskapet : en studie av foreldre som har deltatt på kurs til foreldre med barn i fosterhjem : deres egenopplevelse av sitt forel…
2007
Regionalt Fosterhjemsarbeid avd. Kristiansand, Barne-, ungdoms- og familieetaten i region Sør arrangerte et kurs til foreldre med barn i fosterhjem vinteren 2006. Studien Det vanskelige foreldreskapet er blitt til ved at Regionalt fosterhjemsarbeid i Bufetat, avd. Kristiansand henvendte seg til PRAXIS – Sør/ Høgskolen i Agder v/ Institutt for sosiologi, sosialt arbeid og velferdsfag og ba om bistand til en oppsummering av foreldrenes opplevelse av egensituasjon og hvordan de har opplevd å delta på kurset. Studiens problemstillinger er, Hvordan presenterer foreldre som har deltatt på kurs til foreldre med barn i fosterhjem sin situasjon? Hvordan presenterer foreldre med barn i fosterhjem sit…
The relationship of dental students’ characteristics to social support, psychosocial factors, lifestyle, and quality of life
2022
To examine the relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, student academic information, social support, sense of coherence, anxiety, lifestyle, and quality of life among dental students.A cross-sectional study among 233 dental students in Brazil. We captured data on sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics, social support through Social Support Appraisal, psychosocial factors (sense of coherence and anxiety based on SOC-13 and Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 - anxiety subscale, respectively), lifestyle as per individual Lifestyle Profile and quality of life based on VERAS-Q. Data was analysed through Structural Equation Modelling.Greater social support, higher…
Utenfor og innenfor : En kvalitativ studie av skolen som sosial arena – og dens betydning for ungdoms psykiske helse
2017
Masteroppgave psykisk helsearbeid ME504 - Universitetet i Agder 2017 Background Exclusion still have good conditions in school today. In this study, mental health and quality of life are seen in relation to school as a social arena and from the youth's perspective. Aim and research question I want to contribute to creating opportunities for new practices in school, in the way they work with mental health and quality of life. Research question: What importance has school as a social arena, when youth who have sought mental health care and the people in the network describe the difficulties - and change for the better? Method The study has a hermeneutical phenomenological approach. The main m…
Digitalization and sustainability: virtual reality tourism in a post pandemic world
2022
The government-imposed COVID-19 pandemic control measures brought the tourism sector to a complete halt. However, virtual reality (VR) tourism offered people a way to escape the isolation. Media reports and research have noted heightened activity in VR tourism, which has been touted as “alternative tourism” and “eco-tourism”. However, scholars have yet to determine whether this shift is temporary or will persist after the pandemic is over. Questions also remain regarding the factors driving this behaviour. The present study uses stimulus-organism-response theory (SOR) to propose a sequential mechanism of the interplay of antecedents and outcomes, theorising VR tourism as a sustainable touri…