Psychology
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Research domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of research
- Depression
- Sustainable Development
- Health Psychology
- Cognitive Functioning
- Memory
- Pain
- Stress
- Young adults
- Adolescents
- Developmental psychology
- Anxiety
Research environments
Research in psychology concern cognition, personality, mental illness, stress, pain, sleep, social anxiety, antisocial behavior, criminality, psychopathy, social relationships (to peers, parents, etc.), peer networks, prevention, intervention, young people and climate change and several other areas. The research questions posed range from psychopathology to positive psychology. There are two broader research environments; the Center for Health and Medical Psychology (CHAMP), under the direction of professor Hugo Hesser and LEADER - Center for Lifespan Developmental Research, headed by professor Jonas Persson. Research is also conducted in the multidisciplinary research environment CESSS, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Social Science which is led by Associate Professors Maria Ojala, psychology, Erik Hysing, political science, and Karin Gustafsson, sociology. These three research environments, together with colleagues in other disciplines, gather thirty researchers and graduate students.
Center for Health and Medical Psychology seeks to understand the psychological mechanisms underlying the development of mental and physical health and illness.
Center for Lifespan Developmental Research specializes in longitudinal research on people's social and psychological development, and especially adolescents and young adults' development.
CESSS seeks to gain knowledge necessary for the transformation of society towards a sustainable future. In psychology the research focus is on young people and climate change engagement, coping with climate change worry, climate change hope, and predictors of climate friendly behaviors.
Researchers
- Henrik Andershed
- Anna-Karin Andershed
- Serena Bauducco
- Sevgi Bayram-Ozdemir
- Sofia Bergbom
- Katja Boersma
- Jan Carlsson
- Sara Edlund
- Linnea Engman
- Ida Flink
- Terese Glatz
- Hugo Hesser
- Darun Jaf
- Sammyh Khan
- Filippa Klint
- Reza Kormi-Nouri
- Delia Latina
- Rebecca Lennartsson
- Mats Liljegren
- Tara Linden
- Steven J. Linton
- Joakim Norberg
- Annika Norell-Clarke
- Maria Ojala
- Jonas Persson
- Selma Salihovic
- Martien Schrooten
- Lauree Tilton-Weaver
- Frida Wirsén
- Matilda Wurm
- Xiang Zhao
- Metin Özdemir
- Pernilla Andersson, PhD student
- Tor Arnison, PhD student
- Lilian Berggren, PhD student
- Elin Ekholm, PhD student
- Linnea Engman, PhD student
- Clover Giles, PhD student
- Nadezhda Golovchanova, PhD student
- Johannes Larsson, PhD student
- Sara Nygren, PhD student
- Christiana Owiredua, PhD student
- Carmen Solares Canal, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- "Better safe than sorry?" Identifying causes of overprotective parenting in a changing social world
- A wicked problem occupation: exploring how climate change scientists identify and cope with their professional work
- Anger and emotion dysregulation
- Communication about sex
- Divine Ganges, Profane Development: Sacred Geographies and the Governing of Pollution
- Effect of multimodal rehabilitation for patients with chronic pain problems
- Emotion regulation and disordered eating
- Empirical approach to classification of individuals with chronic pain to optimize multimodal pain rehabilitation
- Exposing others and self being expose to others threats and harassment in various living environments
- Interventions to prevent sleep problems in youth: Sleeping well in a modern society
- Minority joy and minority stress in transgender people: An intervention study
- Mobility, informal learning and citizenship in mobile preschools
- Newbreed
- No Sound Sounds as Loud as the One You are Trying Not To Hear: The Delayed Costs of Suppressed (Tinnitus) Sounds
- Parenting of adolescents' Internet use
- Parents' use of Internet and social media
- Preconditions for communication about healthy and sustainable food with youths
- Prefiguring sustainable futures through food activism: How young people deal with border tensions between the sustainable and unsustainable in everyday life
- Project FIRE
- Sex and Pain (SAP)
- Sexual pain in men - A cross-sectional study of psychological factors and sexual functioning
- Sleep well: a brief, student-administered intervention for insomnia in primary care settings
- The development of NSSI during adolescence
- The Hybrid Project. Transdiagnostic emotion focused treatment for emotional and somatic comorbidity. A SCED on implementation and effectiveness in primary care
- The IDA program
- The IDEA Project (Inkludering och DiskriminEring Bland UngA)
- The impact of online peer interactions on adolescents' sleep: A multimethod approach
- The PIA Study - Promoting Integration and Adjustment of Newly Arrived Youth and their Families
- The transience and persistence of memory: Linking neurobehavioral mechanisms of adaptive forgetting to adult aging and mood
- Understanding how young people change when they start or stop playing sports: A longitudinal quasi-experimental study
- What's next? The influence of (in)validating communication on pain anticipation
- Will it hurt? Attentional bias to signals predicting pain
- Vägledande samspel-ICDP - a method to improve teachers? relationship competence and improves their beliefs in their teaching ability
- Young people's communication with parents, friends, and teachers about global environmental problems: Emotions, coping, and self-efficacy
- Youth and Diversity Project
Completed projects
- A study of cognitive abilities in bilingual children: Advantages and disadvantages
- An RCT testing the effectiveness of a hybrid emotion-focused treatment for chronic pain patients with co-occurring emotional problems
- Changes over time in declarative (episodic and semantic) memory in school-aged children
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and depression: A randomized, controlled trial
- Co-morbid social anxiety and chronic pain - A study of common factors and a randomized trial of new treatment strategies
- Context Sensitivity as a Shared Process: Understanding co-occurring pain and distress
- Cross-cultural studies in well-being
- Depression and Internet Use:
- Depression and musculoskeletal pain: What role does catastrophizing play?
- Discovering how youth sleep: A longitudinal study of why poor and good sleep develops
- Explaining the Links Between Peer Management and Adolescents' Delinquency
- Happy Despite Pain: Positive Psychology for Patients with Chronic Pain
- How Do Wallflowers Grow? Development of Shyness and Social Anxiety in the Adolescent Peer Context
- How does pain catastrophizing impact on Pain? Mediational analyses.
- Hybrid emotion-focused exposure for chronic pain
- Implementing Early Workplace-based preventive Interventions for Pain-related Disability
- Internet treatment for people with bipolar disorder - a pilot study
- Interoceptive exposure for chronic pain
- Let´s app? Web based CBT as an early school-based intervention for adolescents with pain, low mood, and distress
- Matching Interventions to Risks: Implementing Early Interventions to Prevent Disability due to chronic Pain
- Political development as agency
- Prevent Sick leave (PS): An RC T on the effects of a workplace focused program to prevent stress- and pain-related sick leave
- Profiler av internaliserade och externaliserade problem
- Psychological factors in Fear of Childbirth
- Psychological interventions for sensitivity to odours
- Researchers and school in close collaboration to help young people
- Sexual victimization of early maturing girls and related consequences
- Social - Anxiety - Pain
- Social factors and long-term memory
- Social phobia during adolescence: Its course and Internet delivered self-help
- Social phobia: A career hindrance? An assessment of adolescent and adult students and self-help treatment via the Internet
- Stress, Pain and Insomnia; Different Conditions or Reflections of the same Problem?
- Stress: A transdiagnostic intervention for youth
- The affective personality
- The intertwined development of interpersonal conflict and conflict resolution during adolescence: promoting and protective factors in family, peers, and romantic partners
- The Roles of Emotion Regulation and Parent and Peer Relationships in the Development of Adolescent Social Fears
- The three-cities study
- Understanding of the conditions which may reduce the educational gap between young immigrant and Swedish adolescents
- Understanding the development of insomnia: Risk factors and processes in chronic insomnia
- Understanding the Risk and Protective Factors to Risky Drunken Behaviors
- Understandning Negative and Positive Youth Development within one Unifying Paradigm: an Agentic Perspective
- Up & Out: Adolescents in Transition