Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Psykologiska institutionen: Recent submissions
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You don’t have to love it - Exploring the mechanisms of exercise motivation using self-determination theory in a digital context
(2016-04-05)Most Western countries have developed guidelines and programs to inform and promote regular physical activity and exercise behaviours in order to gain desired health benefits for the population. Unfortunately, health ... -
Bio-behavioral inquiries regarding cognitive aging and distance to death: The role of gender, APOE, grip strength and subjective memory
(2016-03-17)To better understand the nature of cognitive functioning later in life, it is important to gain further knowledge regarding factors that contribute to cognitive aging. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis was to ... -
Eliciting human intelligence: A conceptualization and empirical testing of the Scharff technique
(2016-02-01)This thesis is on how to elicit intelligence from human sources with the principal aim being to examine the efficacy of the tactics employed by the renowned WWII interrogator Hanns Scharff. A novel experimental set-up (as ... -
An Inquiry into Satisfaction and Variations in User-Oriented Elderly Care
(2015-11-13)The foundation for this thesis is an ongoing discussion about quality in Swedish elderly care: Which are the most important factors that contribute to elderly care in terms of satisfaction among older persons, and what are ... -
Internet-based Treatment of Depression in Primary Care: Effectiveness and Feasibility
(2015-11-09)Internet-delivered psychological treatments emanate from a long tradition of psychological methods and should be seen as a natural effect of the evolution within psychology, society, and technology. Psychological treatments ... -
Child Psychiatric Patients Affected by Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse – Disclosure, Prevalence and Consequences
(2015-10-27)The overall aims of this thesis were (1) to document the prevalence of child abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) among child and adolescent mental health care (CAM) patients, (2) to study the clinicians’ ... -
The Role of Emotions in Judgments of Crime Victims
(2015-10-26)A growing body of evidence shows that crime victims’ emotional expressions can influence legal judgments, such as credibility assessments. However, the role of emotions in judgments of crime victims in interpersonal settings ... -
Competence, Styles, and Quality in Everyday Decision Making
(2015-09-21)This thesis had three aims. First, it explored the benefits of expanding the existing cognitively-oriented definition of individual differences in decision-making competence (i.e., measured by performance on traditional ... -
Children and Parents - Attributions, Attitudes and Agency
(2015-08-20)Children and parents are both part of children’s development and research on children and on parenting are both areas that, in some way, have changed in recent decades. These changes are related to the new way of seeing ... -
Discriminating Between True and False Intentions: Questions to Pose and Cues to Use
(2015-06-01)In many legal and intelligence settings it is necessary to evaluate whether a stated intention is true or false. This thesis proposes that use of strategic interviewing may successfully elicit cues that allow interviewers ... -
Trust as a strategy for handling uncertainty in private savings choices
(2015-05-11)This thesis examines trust in banks and financial expertise as a way of coping with the uncertainty involved in financial decision making. Trust is considered to be beneficial in general and uncertainty is assumed to induce ... -
Evolving identities: Contents and processes of identity development among people in their late twenties
(2015-05-11)The overall aim of this thesis was to study contents and processes of identity development among people in their late twenties. The studies are based on identity status interviews and surveys performed with participants ... -
The Affective Profile Model: ill-being and well-being
(2015-04-16)Positive and negative affect have emerged as significant independent dimensions in studies of affective structure. Seeing affect as composed of two systems that can be categorized in high and low enables the possibility ... -
Walk with me: Pastoral care for victims of sexual abuse viewed through existential psychology
(2015-01-09)Pastoral care can be described as a cleric’s presence with people in their time of need, to promote their well-being and strengthen them in their faith. One dimension of working through an overwhelming trauma, such as ... -
"Too much is never enough" Psychological studies of substance misuse and other excessive behaviors
(2014-11-07)Substance misuse (SM) as well as excessive food intake, sexual activities, exercise, and gambling is characterized by repeated use against one’s better judgment and despite negative consequences. Moreover, SM and excessive ... -
Measures, interventions, and outcomes: exploring inpatient psychiatric care
(2014-11-07)The general aim of this thesis was to investigate interventions and outcomes in psychiatric inpatient care through the use of assessment scales and database information. Another aim was to contribute to the knowledge of ... -
Adolescents in a Digital Everyday Environment
(2014-09-11)The overall aim of this thesis is to examine different aspects of Swedish adolescents’ everyday environment in a digital world. Drawing on ecological and psychosocial developmental theories I will discuss social, sexual, ... -
Cyberbullying in Childhood and Adolescence - Assessment, Coping, and the Role of Appearance
(2014-05-16)Cyberbullying is a relatively new form of bullying that is conducted through modern information and communication technology. This thesis examines different aspects of cyberbullying, and is comprised of three parts. The ... -
Alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses´ memory
(2014-05-12)Eyewitnesses are an important source of information in many criminal investigations. However, the memory of an eyewitness is not always accurate, and errors may occur that have serious consequences. Alcohol-related crimes ...