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    Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism

    The attachment and caregiving domains maintain proximity and care-giving behavior between parents and offspring, in a way that has been argued to shape people’s mental models of how relationships work, resulti...

    Thomas Haarklau Kleppesto, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Olav Vassend in Behavior Genetics (2024)

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    Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic

    Injustice typically involves some people benefitting at the expense of others. An opportunist might then be selectively motivated to amend only the injustice that is harmful to them, while someone more princip...

    Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Thomas Haarklau Kleppestø in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Effects of a school-based intervention on levels of anxiety and depression: a cluster-randomized controlled trial of the MindPower program in ten high schools in Norway

    The previous decades have shown increased symptoms of depression and anxiety among adolescents. To promote mental health and reduce mental illness, the government of Norway has, as in other countries, pledged ...

    Gry Anette Sælid, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Leif Edvard Aarø in BMC Psychology (2022)

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    Effectiveness of attachment-based family therapy compared to treatment as usual for depressed adolescents in community mental health clinics

    Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a disabling mood disorder, profoundly affecting a large number of adolescent’s quality of life. To date, no obvious treatment of choice for MDD in adolescents is available an...

    Luxsiya Waraan, Erling W. Rognli in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental… (2021)

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    Evaluation of “SIBS”, An Intervention for Siblings and Parents of Children with Chronic Disorders

    Siblings of children with chronic disorders are at increased risk of experiencing family communication problems and poorer mental health. We assessed initial feasibility, acceptability, and outcomes of SIBS; a...

    Yngvild Bjartveit Haukeland in Journal of Child and Family Studies (2020)

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    Bias from self selection and loss to follow-up in prospective cohort studies

    Self-selection into prospective cohort studies and loss to follow-up can cause biased exposure-outcome association estimates. Previous investigations illustrated that such biases can be small in large prospect...

    Guido Biele, Kristin Gustavson in European Journal of Epidemiology (2019)

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    Genetically Informative Mediation Modeling Applied to Stressors and Personality-Disorder Traits in Etiology of Alcohol Use Disorder

    A statistical mediation model was developed within a twin design to investigate the etiology of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Unlike conventional statistical mediation models, this biometric mediation model can ...

    Tom Rosenström, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Eivind Ystrom in Behavior Genetics (2019)

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    Genetic and Environmental Structure of DSM-IV Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Twin Study

    Results from previous studies on DSM-IV and DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) have suggested that the construct is etiologically multidimensional. To our knowledge, however, the structure of genetic...

    Tom Rosenström, Eivind Ystrom, Fartein Ask Torvik in Behavior Genetics (2017)