Browsing Publikasjoner fra CRIStin by Journals "Frontiers in Psychology"
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Aging engineers’ occupational self-efficacy—a mixed methods study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: Engineers’ work has become more complex with increased demands in today’s changing working life. Self-efficacy is essential to successfully adapt to work-related changes and to cope with adverse job demands. ... -
The Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration at Work Scale: A Validation Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of the present study was to adapt and validate the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale within self-determination theory (SDT) within the work domain. Confirmatory factor analyses of three ... -
Benefits of Psychological Detachment from Work: Does Autonomous Work Motivation Play a Role?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Research has shown that psychological detachment from work during non-work time is beneficial for various aspects of employee well-being and job performance. However, it is uncertain whether psychological detachment is ... -
Big Five Personality Profiles in the Norwegian Special Operations Forces
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study is the first to report on Big Five personality traits of employees in the Norwegian military Special Operations Forces (NORSOF). Three research questions were formulated for this study, aiming to investigate (1) ... -
Body figure idealization and body appearance pressure in fitness instructors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: The fitness centers are settings for health promotion, yet may serve as a stage for counterproductive figure idealization. Such idealization may take the form of a drive toward the thin, the muscular, or lean body ... -
Crafting work-nonwork balance involving life domain boundaries: Development and validation of a novel scale across five countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Ongoing developments, such as digitalization, increased the interference of the work and nonwork life domains, urging many to continuously manage engagement in respective domains. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent ... -
Does the Norwegian Police Force need a well-functioning combat mindset?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article discusses the apparent lack of a well-functioning combat mindset evident in the Norwegian Police Force during the terrorist attacks in Norway on July 22, 2011. We describe what a well-functioning combat mindset ... -
Effects of organizational support and organizational justice on police officers’ work engagement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The impact of organizational support and organizational justice on work engagement was investigated in a group of police officers. A review of the literature revealed that studies reporting differences between the influence ... -
Employees Perception of Organizational Crises and Their Reactions to Them – A Norwegian Organizational Case Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Organizational sensemaking is crucial for resource planning and crisis management since facing complex strategic problems that exceed their capacity and ability, such as crises, forces organizations to engage in ... -
Exercise Dependence and Body Image Concerns Amongst Group Fitness Instructors: A Self-Determination Theory Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Introduction: Despite the fact that group fitness instructors serve as significant role models with potentially great impact on class participants' motivation for exercise, they are a very under-researched group. The aim ... -
Exercise obsession and compulsion in adults with longstanding eating disorders: Validation of the Norwegian version of the compulsive exercise test
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objectives: The objectives of this study were to (1) validate the Norwegian version of the Compulsive Exercise Test (CET) in adults with longstanding eating disorders, and (2) explore predictors of high CET-score. Methods: ... -
The Forgotten Ones: Crafting for Meaning and for Affiliation in the Context of Finnish and Japanese Employees' Off-Job Lives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In an intensifying working life, it is important for employees to proactively shape their lives beyond work to create opportunities for satisfying personal needs. These efforts can be beneficial for creating and sustaining ... -
The Healthy Body Image intervention and reduction in eating disorder symptomatology and muscle building supplement use in high school students: a study of mediating factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Mediation analysis is important to test the theoretical framework underpinning an intervention. We therefore aimed to investigate if the healthy body image (HBI) intervention’s effect on eating disorder (ED) ... -
An “in vivo” analysis of crafts practices and creativity—Why affordances provide a productive lens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Scholars are increasingly recognizing that creativity is grounded in the active sensorimotor engagement with the environment and materiality. Affordances—recognizable pointers to action opportunities in the ecology—provide ... -
Intonational production as a window into children’s early pragmatic competence: The case of the Norwegian polarity focus and two jo particles
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The use of the Norwegian intonation pattern Polarity Focus highlights the polarity of a contextually given thought and enables the speaker to signal whether she believes it to be a true or false description of some state ... -
Lost in Transition: The Dissemination of Digitization and the Challenges of Leading in the Military Educational Organization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Leading change in adult educational organizations is not frequently described in the leadership literature. The education sector in the Norwegian Armed Forces (NAF) is in the middle of an educational reform that requires ... -
Narrative Tensions in Strained Junior Elite Performers’ Experiences of Becoming Elite Performers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Contextualized within narrative theory and the field of talent identification and development systems (TIDS), this interview study examined strained junior elite performers’ experiences of becoming elite performers while ... -
Needs-based Off-job Crafting Across Different Life Domains and Contexts: Testing a Novel Conceptual and Measurement Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Shaping off-job life is becoming increasingly important for workers to increase and maintain their optimal functioning (i.e., feeling and performing well). Proactively shaping the job domain (referred to as job crafting) ... -
Oxytocin levels and self-reported anxiety during interactions between humans and cows
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: Positive social interactions with farm animals may have therapeutic benefits on humans by increasing brain oxytocin secretion, as inferred from circulating oxytocin levels. The aim of this observational study ... -
Palestinian and Norwegian Kindergarten Teachers' Perspectives on Psychosocial Support: A Qualitative Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The current qualitative case study aims to explore and map the concepts and the conditions for providing psychosocial support in kindergarten across two vastly different countries, Palestine and Norway. The global challenge ...