Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Psykologiska institutionen by Title
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Managers in Human Service Organizations and their interaction with the Media - the managers´ experiences
(2019-01-07)The combination of three forces; the Human Service Organizations’ (HSOs) desire for visibility, the citizens’ interest in the HSOs and the increasing pressure upon media actors to attract the interest of the audiences have ... -
Maternal separation in the rat : long-term effects of early life events on emotionality, drug response and neurobiology
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2005)Exposure to early stress and emotional trauma in humans are associated with an increased risk to develop psychiatric disorders, for example, anxiety, depression and drug abuse. Furthermore, disruptions in stress hormone ... -
The Measurement of Subjective Well-Being: Item Response Theory, Classical Test Theory, and Multidimensional Item Response Theory
(2022-04-25)For over 35 years, modern science has conceptualized happiness as subjective well-being, which has until recently been understood as a dual construct consisting of an affective component (positive and negative affect) and ... -
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 ... -
Memory, attention and interaction in early development : exploring individual differences among typical children and children with autism
(2007)This thesis aimed to study differences in early memory ability, social attention and interaction and how these different areas affect language and cognitive development. This was done using a longitudinal approach where a ... -
Memory-Based Approaches to the Examination of Alibis Provided by Innocent Suspects
(2019-02-07)The aim of the current thesis was to extend research on suspect alibis by exploring how the process of providing alibis may be improved for innocent suspects, for whom the provision of inaccurate and incomplete alibis may ... -
Memory-based Lie Detection in Repeated Interviews: The Importance of Early Use of Mnemonics
(2019-01-23)The aim of this thesis was to examine how memory-enhancing (mnemonic) techniques used in an interview carried out immediately after an event affected truth tellers’ and liars’ responses in both an immediate interview and ... -
Mental health aspects of paranormal and psi related experiences
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2004)This thesis aimed to investigate if paranormal beliefs and experiences represent signs of psychological ill-health or if they are neutral regarding psychological health. A further aim was to validate subjective paranormal ... -
Mental representation and language access. Evidence from deaf children with different language backgrounds
(2007)The present work investigated the relationship between mentalizing skills on the one hand and different language experiences and cognitive characteristics on the other hand. The aim of study I was to determine whether ... -
Meta-metakognition : The regulation of confidence realism in episodic and semantic memory
(2013-05-24)The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether people have the ability to make their confidence judgments for episodic and semantic memory tasks more realistic. How realistic a person’s confidence judgments are reflects ... -
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Primary Care
(2016-10-06)The overall objective of this thesis is to analyse the concept of mindfulness as measured by the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and its clinical usefulness in primary care through group Mindfulness-Based ... -
Mindfulness: Relations to attention regulation, decentering and psychological well-being
(2013-05-14)The current research project consists of three separate studies. The general aim of this project was to contribute to previous mindfulness research by exploring fundamental aspects of mindfulness in an effort to increase ... -
Mothers and fathers of children with developmental disabilities: Co-parenting, well-being and empowerment
(2017-10-18)Parents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) generally experience more stress and poorer well-being than other parents. However, there is considerable individual variation in parental adaptation. The general ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Nandrolone decanoate, behaviour and brain : animal experimental studies
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2004)Abstract: Abuse of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) has been linked to psychiatric and physiological complications in humans. Studies have further found a relationship between AAS abuse and abuse of alcohol and other ... -
Navigating Emerging Adulthood with the Experience of Being Bullied in School
(2023-03-08)The overall aim of this thesis is to broaden the understanding of long-term outcomes of experiencing bullying victimization in school, related to the developmental period of emerging adulthood as well as how it can be ... -
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 ... -
Noise and Music - A Matter of Risk Perception?
(2006-10-05)The prevalence of tinnitus and hearing impairments among adolescents seems to increase as a consequence of exposure to loud noise. Several studies have highlighted the negative auditory effects of exposure to loud music ... -
On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective
(2021-11-24)Retirement is a major life event potentially affecting domains such as cognitive functioning and well-being. The main aim of this thesis was to assess whether retirement influences cognitive functioning and how inter- ...