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Trangsrud, Lise Katrine Jepsen; Borg, M.; Bratland-Sanda, S.; Klevan, T. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2022
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore subjective experiences of how "friluftsliv" can support processes of recovery for persons living with eating disorders. Eight participants with experiences with bulimia nervosa and/or binge-eating disorders, and with interests in nature and "friluftsliv" were interviewed twice,…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Coping, Natural Resources, Foreign Countries
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Akoth, Agnes; Enoksen, Elisabeth – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
Norway has large unrealized potential for recruiting students from Africa. In order to increase student mobilisation and integration, it is important to know the potential challenges students from underrepresented continents are likely to face in an environment with severe sociocultural differences. This study examined experiences of 7…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Experience, Acculturation
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Ødegård, Magnar – SAGE Open, 2019
In the light of Martin Heidegger and Hubert Dreyfus's concepts of being-in-the-world and skillful coping, this article addresses disruptions students face in modern society. Such disruptions involve pressure for achievement and lack of belonging to communities. In the discussion, the article presents the terms "being-disrupted" and…
Descriptors: Coping, Student Behavior, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Schultz, Jon-Håkon; Skarstein, Dag – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with temporary, distinct cognitive impairment. This study explores how cognitive impaired academic performance is recognized and explained by young Norwegians who survived the Utøya massacre of July 22, 2011. Qualitative interviewing of 65 students (aged 16-29 years) was conducted 2.5 years after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Cognitive Ability, Trauma
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Haugan, Jan Arvid; Frostad, Per; Mjaavatn, Per-Egil – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
This article illuminates factors predicting students' intention to leave upper secondary school. The research is anchored in an ecological theoretical perspective that considers dropout as a multifaceted phenomenon that culminates in the decision to leave school. Based on this, we have used a longitudinal research design to investigate to what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Intention, Dropouts
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Pinxsterhuis, Irma; Strand, Elin Bolle; Stormorken, Eva; Sveen, Unni – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The aim of this study was to elicit participants' experiences with a multidisciplinary patient education programme and their views regarding the usefulness of the programme. Focus group interviews were conducted with 10 participants immediately and nine months following participation in the programme and analysed using thematic analysis.…
Descriptors: Patient Education, Program Effectiveness, Focus Groups, Coping
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Nes, Ragnhild B.; Røysamb, Espen; Hauge, Lars J.; Kornstad, Tom; Landolt, Markus A.; Irgens, Lorentz M.; Eskedal, Leif; Kristensen, Petter; Vollrath, Margarete E. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study explores the stability and change in maternal life satisfaction and psychological distress following the birth of a child with a congenital anomaly using 5 assessments from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study collected from Pregnancy Week 17 to 36 months postpartum. Participating mothers were divided into those having infants…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Mothers, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables
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Vikan, Arne; Karstad, Silja Berg; Dias, Maria – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
Four-hundred-and-eighty children in the age groups of four and six years, 240 each from Brazil and Norway, were asked how their feelings of anger, sadness and fear were reduced in a recollected episode, to propose emotion regulation strategies for protagonists and to envisage the result of regulation strategies. A majority of even the youngest…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Control, Foreign Countries, Age Differences
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Svebak, Sven; Jensen, Eva Naper; Gotestam, K. Gunnar – Journal of School Nursing, 2008
The effects of a school nursing service on health complaints and mood were investigated in a Norwegian high school. The school nursing service was delivered to students in 1 high school, and students in a comparable high school served as the comparison group. There were 41 students in the treatment group and 63 in the comparison group. All…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Nurses, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns