Department of Psychology / Psykologiska institutionen: Recent submissions
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The Damage Done - Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence and their Mothers: Towards empirically based interventions in order to reduce negative health effects in children
(2012-09-17)Violence in intimate relationships occurs in all societies, and intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent and serious social problem. Mothers of young children are particularly often victims of IPV, the consequences ... -
Psychological factors associated with substance use in adolescents
(2012-05-18)This thesis examines possible factors related to use of substances, with specific focus on psychological factors associated with increased risk of using illicit drugs. Thus, factors such as gender, personality traits, ... -
Everyday music listening: The importance of individual and situational factors for musical emotions and stress reduction
(2012-01-27)Music listening primarily evokes positive emotions in listeners. Research has shown that positive emotions may be fundamental for improving both psychological and physical aspects of well-being. Besides from the music ... -
Aeronautical decision-making in context: Influence of affect and experience on procedure violations
(2011-11-25)Although pilots are well trained and there are rules, models and standard operating procedures to use in decision-making situations, aviation accidents do occur. One reason why accidents may occur is because pilots ... -
Psychological Influences on Adoption of Socially Responsible Investment
(2011-09-28)Abstract This dissertation examines psychological factors that motivate and impede different types of investors to integrate social and environmental considerations when investing. Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) ... -
Neurocognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
(2011-09-23)The general purpose of this dissertation was to explore and describe the global and specific aspects of neurocognition and cognitive functioning in a cross-sectional, clinically representative group of outpatients with ... -
Human Value Structure and Emotions
(2011-08-19)In this dissertation Shalom Schwartz’ theory of the structure of basic human values is developed. A partially new structure is proposed consisting of pairs of contrastive values (Security – Courage, Manage by yourself – ... -
Asperger Syndrome: Social functioning in relation to behavioural and cognitive traits from infancy to young adulthood
(2011-05-26)Abstract Dewrang, P. (2011). Asperger syndrome: Social functioning in relation to behavioural and cognitive traits from infancy to young adulthood. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Asperger ... -
Value Orientation, Awareness of Consequences, and Environmental Concern
(2011-05-20)The tenets of the value-basis approach to environmental concern are (i) that environmental concern is motivated by beliefs about adverse egoistic (e.g., own health), social-altruistic (e.g., peoples’ health), and biospheric ... -
Music and Risk in an existential and gendered world
(2011-05-06)Adolescents in Western society often expose themselves to high levels of sound at gyms, rock concerts, discotheques etc. These behaviours are as threatening to young people’s health as more traditional risk behaviours. ... -
Adolescents' Happiness: The Role of the Affective Temperament Model on Memory and Apprehension of Events, Subjective Well-Being, and Psychological Well-Being
(2011-02-22)Positive Psychology research suggests personality as a major determinant in adults and adolescents’ happiness and well-being. Personality is probable a key element due to its relationship to individual differences in ... -
Motivation requested - Work motivation and the work environment of IT consultants
(2011-02-02)The aim of the thesis is to examine the psychosocial work environment, with a focus on the work motivation, of Information Technology (IT) consultants. The thesis is based on five empirical studies. Study I (N=167) and ... -
Therapists and their patients: Similarities and differences in attitudes between four psychotherapy orientations in Sweden
(2010-04-30)The aim of this thesis was to illuminate the possibilities and obstacles for therapists of different orientations to communicate and cooperate better with each other. Data was collected by a questionnaire named VEP-Q. ... -
Children's memory reports: The effect of co-witness influence
(2010-04-30)Co-witness discussion is relatively frequent, but misinformation in the form of information provided by other witnesses is an under-researched topic. The present thesis investigated how and to what extent children’s ... -
Literacy and comprehension in school-aged children: Studies on autism and other developmental disabilities
(2009-10-15)The present thesis consists of five studies and addresses literacy and comprehension skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD, including Asperger’s disorder) and, to a lesser extent, attention disorders (eg. ... -
Social influence in stock markets
(2009-08-11)Influences by others when making investments and predictions in stock markets, referred to as herding, is a widely discussed phenomenon in financial economics. This thesis aims to understand herding by applying theories ... -
Partnership Relation Quality modulates the effects of Work-stress on health
(2009-05-15)The present studies included 884 participants in total, in five different studies referred to in the four articles. All five studies observed participants from different types of occupation in order to obtain a distribution ... -
Quality of personal assistance: Shaped by governments, markets and corporations
(2009-02-20)Background: Swedish personal assistance for people with severe disabilities became a legal right in 1994. The support is completely financed by the government and with a few exceptions transferred to External assistance ... -
"What people tell you gets to you". Body satisfaction and peer victimization in early adolescence.
(2009-02-20)Satisfaction with one’s appearance and peer relationships, respectively, are salient components of adolescents’ everyday lives. Difficulties in either of these domains may be detrimental to individuals’ psychological ... -
Socially stable alcoholics: What characterises them? Drinking patterns, personality and health aspects of psychosocial and clinical importance
(2008-12-12)People who misuse alcohol are a heterogeneous group with different etiology, social and clinical characteristics. This thesis includes four studies whose aim was to characterise so called socially stable alcoholics (i.e. ...