Search results for "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260"
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Skolefravær – slik elever opplever og erfarer det : En kvalitativ studie om fire ungdommers erfaringer med skolefravær, og deres meninger om hva som …
2020
Master's thesis in Psychosocial health (ME504) The subject of this study is school refusal. The purpose is to gain greater insight and knowledge on the topic of school refusal from the students' own experiences, based on the research question: "How do students with school refusal experience their own situation, and what do they think can contribute to increase attendance?".A qualitative method with an inductive design has been used, and data collection has been done using semi-structured interviews. The findings show that school refusal is not experienced as a choice, but as an avoidance of unpleasant situations. The findings also show that young people relate school absence both to conditi…
Using Course Movie Trailers to Affect Intrinsic Motivation
2019
Master's thesis Multimedia and Educational Technology MM500 - University of Agder 2019 This master’s thesis investigates the connection between movie trailer emotions, suchas curiosity, inspiration, interest, and excitement and motivation in order to examine ifa course movie trailer can be utilized to affect students’ intrinsic motivation. Based onexisting theory and research in the field we hypothesised that: "Students who watch acourse movie trailer as a course introduction, will maintain their intrinsic motivationbetter over time, compared to students who attend a traditional course introduction." Totest this hypothesis, we created a course movie trailer in collaboration with the teacher…
The nature of existential anxiety in stage performance
2019
Master's Thesis Music Performance, Western Classical Music MUK501 - University of Agder 2019 The master’s thesis explores the nature of existential anxiety in stage performance. The term ‘stage fright’ is being questioned in relations to existential anxiety being a phenomenon that is suggested as being more grounded in the human condition. The nature of anxiety can manifest itself in different forms in connection with stage performances. A suggestion for musicians is to try not to fight or conquer stage fright, but instead try to surrender to existential anxiety that has the potency to lead the performer forward. The seemingly intertwining between the personal and artistic level of a musici…
Prestasjonspress : om angst og nervøsitet i konsertsituasjoner
2018
Masteroppgave utøvende musikk, klassisk MUK501 - Universitetet i Agder 2018
The Norwegian healthy body image intervention promotes positive embodiment through improved self-esteem
2020
We examined both direct and indirect effects of the Healthy Body Image (HBI) intervention on positive embodiment among Norwegian high school students. In total, 2446 12th grade boys (43 %) and girls (mean age 16.8 years) from 30 schools participated in a cluster-randomized controlled study with the HBI intervention and a control condition as the study arms. We tested mediation models using path analysis and found that among several hypothesized mediators, only self-esteem mediated a positive intervention effect on positive embodiment for both boys and girls. A direct effect of the intervention on positive embodiment was only found in girls. The study provides novel findings indicating that …
The Norwegian healthy body image programme: study protocol for a randomized controlled school-based intervention to promote positive body image and p…
2018
Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating raise the risk for eating disorders. In the prevention of eating disorders, many programmes have proved partly successful in using cognitive techniques to combat such risk factors. However, specific strategies to actively promote a positive body image are rarely used. The present paper outlines a protocol for a programme integrating the promotion of a positive body image and the prevention of disordered eating. Using a cluster randomized controlled mixed methods design, 30 high schools and 2481 12th grade students were allocated to the Healthy Body Image programme or to a control condition. The intervention comprised three workshops, each of 90 min…
The psychophysiological influence of exertion and affect on sport-specific cognitive and physical performance
2022
Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine differences in cognitive and physical performance, affective states, perceived exertion, and physiological responses between trials with cognitive, physical, or combined cognitive and physical load. Design: Randomised cross-over trial. Methods: Highly trained competitive orienteers (n = 15 men; n = 10 women) completed three randomised trials comprised of: (1) sport-specific cognitive tests; (2) 35-minute cycling time trial; and (3) combined sport-specific cognitive tests and 35-minute cycling time trial. Measures taken during the trials recorded affective states, perceived exertion, heart rate, blood lactate, cycling watts, as well…
From stress to resistance: Challenging the capitalist underpinnings of mental unhealth in work and organizations
2022
The worldwide spread of work-related mental unhealth suggests that this is amajor problem affecting organizations and employees on a global scale. In thispaper, we therefore provide a thematic review of the literatures that address thisissue in management and organization studies (MOS) and related fields. Whilethese literatures examine how employee mental health is affected by organiza-tional and occupational structures and managed by organizations and employ-ees, they have paid relatively little attention to the capitalist labour relationswhich underpin the unhealthy conditions of contemporary working life. Theyhave paid even less attention to how these conditions may be resisted. To helpf…
Why retail investors traded equity during the pandemic? An application of artificial neural networks to examine behavioral biases
2021
Behavioral biases are known to influence the investment decisions of retail investors. Indeed, extant research has revealed interesting findings in this regard. However, the literature on the impact of these biases on millennials' trading activity, particularly during a health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the equity recommendation intentions of such investors, is limited. The present study addressed these gaps by investigating the influence of eight behavioral biases: overconfidence and self-attribution, over-optimism, hindsight, representativeness, anchoring, loss aversion, mental accounting, and herding on the trading activity and recommendation intentions of millennials …
«Sover mamma der hun er nå?» : En studie av hvordan barns sorg framstilles i et utvalg norske, moderne bildebøker
2019
Masteroppgave grunnskolelærerutdanning trinn 1-7 NO502 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 In this master`s thesis I analyze the two modern, norwegian picture books Annas Himmel (2013) by Stian Hole and Eg kan ikkje sove no (2008) by Stein Erik Lunde and Øyvind Torseter. In this thesis I study how childrens grief appear in modern picture books. It`s espesially interesting to look at Annas Himmel and Eg kan ikkje sove no, as both of them is about the death of a mother, and where the father and child are left behind. The content and structure in thesebooks are in many ways similar, even though the verbal and visual expression are quite different. This shows how grief is subjective, just as in real l…