Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Psykologiska institutionen by Title
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Child maltreatment among young adolescents: Effects on mental health, academic functioning and substance use
(2019-12-11)The main aim of this doctoral thesis was to investigate how experiences of childhood maltreatment affected three developmentally salient areas of functioning in adolescent development. Participants were recruited through ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
Children with Congenital Heart Defects. Intellectual Functioning and Family Impact
(2019-05-13)The purpose of the present doctoral thesis was to investigate intellectual functioning and the influence of the children with congenital heart defects in their families. We analyzed how the severity of the heart defect, ... -
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 ... -
Clinical Perspectives on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Long-term, Naturalistic Follow-ups in Childhood and in Adulthood
(2022-04-21)The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate the long-term outcome of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in childhood and in adulthood, as it is presented in typical patients in real-world settings. Study ... -
Come lie with me: On deception by groups and the concept of statement consistency
(2022-10-13)Research on the topic of group deception has primarily focused on cooffenders. The aim of this thesis was to further our understanding of group deception by examining the context of honest and deceptive alibis corroborated by ... -
Communicating Your Way to a Theory of Mind. The development of mentalizing skills in children with atypical language development
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2005)This thesis aimed to study the development of theory of mind (ToM) in two groups of children with atypical language development, using a longitudinal design. The two groups were children with cerebral palsy and severe ... -
Community stress exposure: Youth externalizing behavior and parenting in cultural context
(2021-09-28)The aim of this thesis was to examine the process by which families respond to community-wide stressors in different cultural contexts. Each quantitative study within this thesis investigated the role of parenting behaviors ... -
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 ... -
Counting on the details: Inquiring into past events of cooperative interviewees
(2016-05-13)Amount and quality of detail in recollections of past events are often studied in legal psychology. What, how much, and how accurate does a witness typically recall? How can we facilitate witnesses' recollections in police ... -
Criminal investigation : motivation, emotion and cognition in the processing of evidence
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2006)This thesis examines biases in judgments made in the context of criminal investigation, drawing theoretically on frameworks developed in social and cognitive psychology. Study I investigated the existence of confirmation ... -
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 ... -
Dealing with Intergenerational Disagreements. Parental Authority in Swedish Families
(Göteborgs universitet. Psykologiska institutionen, 2004)This thesis examined two key aspects of intergenerational disagreements. The first aspect dealt with Swedish parents' preferences for discipline with respect to the national emphasis on child democracy. Parents of preschool ... -
Depression and distress in Swedish fathers in the postnatal period - prevalence, correlates, identification, and support
(2013-03-27)The general aim of this thesis was to examine how fathers, and to some extent mothers, with postnatal depression and distress were identified and supported by nurses in Swedish child health care (CHC), and to learn more ... -
Detecting lies about past and future actions: The Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) technique and suspects’ strategies
(2013-05-06)In legal settings, it is of paramount importance to correctly discriminate between truthful and deceptive statements. Research has however shown that people generally only obtain accuracy rates around the level of chance. ... -
Determinants of Guilty Suspects’ Behavior in Investigative Interviews: Evidence-Disclosure Tactics and Question Content
(2019-09-18)Research in the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) paradigm has shown that guilty suspect’s verbal behavior is a product of the counter-interrogation strategies suspects employ based on the prior knowledge they believe ... -
Developing into early adulthood: The role of identity and personality
(2020-11-05)The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the development into early adulthood, focusing on identity and personality. The aim of Study I was to explore the developmental course and implications of the two meta-traits ... -
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 ... -
Distributive Preferences in Social Dilemmas
(2006)In research on social dilemmas and in game theoretic research, it was for a long time assumed that the rational decision is to choose an option with the most beneficial economic outcome to oneself. Yet, in group situations, ...