Blar i Faculty of Arts and Education på tidsskrift "Frontiers in Psychology"
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A Bayesian Mixed-Methods Analysis of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction through Outdoor Learning and its Influence on Motivational Behavior in Science Class
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12)Research has shown that outdoor educational interventions can lead to students' increased self-regulated motivational behavior. In this study, we searched into the satisfaction of basic psychological needs (BPN), i.e., ... -
Active Learning Norwegian Preschool(er)s (ACTNOW) – Design of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Staff Professional Development to Promote Physical Activity, Motor Skills, and Cognition in Preschoolers [Study protocol]
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction: There is a dearth of high-quality evidence on effective, sustainable, and scalable interventions to increase physical activity (PA) and concomitant outcomes in preschoolers. Specifically, there is a need to ... -
Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Digital media availability has surged over the past decade. Because of a lack of comprehensive measurement tools, this rapid growth in access to digital media is accompanied by a scarcity of research examining the family ... -
Children`s Self-regulation in Norway and the United States: The Role of Mother`s education and Child Gender across Cultural Contexts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)Self-regulation develops rapidly during the years before formal schooling, and it helps lay the foundation for children’s later social, academic, and educational outcomes. However, children’s self-regulation may be influenced ... -
Comparing comprehension of a long text read in print book and on Kindle: Where in the text and when in the story?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02)Digital reading devices such as Kindle differ from paper books with respect to the kinesthetic and tactile feedback provided to the reader, but the role of these features in reading is rarely studied empirically. This ... -
The Distance between the 'Self' and the 'Other' in Children's Digital Books
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)This conceptual paper contributes towards our understanding of the underlying mechanisms in children’s understanding of self and the other with media. We synthesise diverse bodies of literature, concerned with children’s ... -
Editorial: From “modern” to “postmodern” psychology: Is there a way past?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Contemporary psychology is facing profound problems and various obstacles to advancing its research, as reflected in its continued crises in replicability, confidence, generalizability, and validity. “Modern” paradigms–involving ... -
Faulty screen time measures hamper national policies: here is a way to address it
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Following widespread reliance on online interactions during COVID-19, Western governments are strategizing and launching new plans for children's use of screens. It is healthy to debate, for example, the ethics of artificial ... -
How could children’s storybooks promote empathy? A conceptual framework based on developmental psychology and literary theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This conceptual paper proposes a framework for understanding the developmental mechanisms and literary characteristics that bind children’s storybooks with empathy. The article begins with a taxonomy of empathy composed ... -
Learning Handwriting: Factors Affecting Pen-Movement Fluency in Beginning Writers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Skilled handwriting of single letters is associated not only with a neat final product but also with fluent pen-movement, characterized by a smooth pen-tip velocity profile. Our study explored fluency when writing single ... -
Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1–9
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)This study focuses on parental reading and mathematical difficulties, the home literacy environment, and the home numeracy environment as well as their predictive role in Finnish children’s reading and mathematical development ... -
Profiles of Work Engagement and Work-Related Effort and Reward Among Teachers: Associations to Occupational Well-Being and Leader–Follower Relationship During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-12)This study examined teachers’ occupational well-being by identifying profiles based on teachers’ self-ratings of work engagement as well as work-related effort and reward. It also did so by examining whether the identified ... -
The Rationality of Science and the Inevitability of Defining Prior Beliefs in Empirical Research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The recent “campaign” in Nature against the concept of “significance testing” (Amrhein et al., 2019), with more than 800 supporting signatories of leading scientists, can be considered as an important milestone and somewhat ... -
Regaining autonomy, competence, and relatedness: Experiences from two Shared Reading groups for people diagnosed with cancer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study explored 12 cancer patients’ experiences from participating in an online and on-site Shared Reading group for 16 weeks in Norway. Shared Reading is a practice in which prose and poetry are read aloud in small ... -
Social-Ecological Resilience Moderates the Effectiveness of Avoidant Coping in Children Exposed to Adversity: An Exploratory Study in Lithuania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)Background: Against the high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in Lithuania, the government testified a lack of effective ways to address the problem. A crucial endeavor for intervention planners is to identify ... -
Social-Ecological Resilience Moderates the Effectiveness of Avoidant Coping in Children Exposed to Adversity: An Exploratory Study in Lithuania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Against the high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in Lithuania, the government testified a lack of effective ways to address the problem. A crucial endeavor for intervention planners is to identify ... -
Subjective Well-Being Among Unaccompanied Refugee Youth: Longitudinal Associations With Discrimination and Ethnic Identity Crisis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Unaccompanied refugee youth (URY), who as children fled their countries to seek asylum in a foreign country without the company of an adult legal caretaker are described as being in a vulnerable situation. Many of them ... -
Text Materialities, Affordances, and the Embodied Turn in the Study of Reading.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03)Digital texts have for decades been a challenge for reading research, creating a range of questions about reading and a need for new theories and concepts. In this paper, we focus on materialities of texts and suggest an ... -
Two Dimensions of Moral Cognition as Correlates of Different Forms of Participation in Bullying
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02)The present study investigated the extent to which moral disengagement and the tendency to consider moral rules as socio-conventional rules are distinct dimensions of morality, and their association with three different ... -
What Happens Before Book Reading Starts? an Analysis of Teacher–Child Behaviours With Print and Digital Books
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)A body of research documents teacher–child reading behaviors in educational settings. Few will disagree that the potential for word and narrative comprehension increases when children’s prior knowledge is activated and ...