Blar i Doktorgradsavhandlinger / PhD Dissertations på utgivelsesdato
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Young & Active: development and evaluation of an internet intervention to increase fitness and health-related quality of life in adolescents with overweight and obesity
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Overweight and obesity among adolescents may have consequences with potentially lasting effects on health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Excess weight is also associated with decreases in physical activity ... -
Anaerobic conditioning of soccer players: the evaluation of different anaerobic training methods on soccer player's physical performance
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Background: High performance in soccer depends on various physical qualities and skills, including tactical and technical skills as the two most import factors that contribute to success. These skills could be more important ... -
Healthier than the rest?: physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in adults in the county of Sogn & Fjordane, Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Physical activity (PA) is important to maintain good health and prevent noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, low levels of PA are observed worldwide. Monitoring of CVD risk factors, ... -
The struggle over military identity: a multi-sited ethnography on gender, fitness and "the right attitudes" in the military profession/field
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)As a result of dramatic changes in the arrangement and missions of the Norwegian Armed Forces, and consequently in competence, gender and identity politics, traditional thinking on what are considered to be valuable ... -
"Ordinary kids": everyday life experiences of children with disabillities
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)The aim of this thesis was to obtain knowledge about the everyday life experiences of some Norwegian children with disabilities who were in a transitional phase between primary and secondary school. This thesis is a part ... -
Norwegian sport for development and peace: donor discourse and local practice
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Sport as a method for development and peace has been a growing field in international and Norwegian development aid over the past decade. NGOs within the field form part of what has come to be defined as the “Sport for ... -
Reliability and methodological concerns of vertical drop jumping and sidestep cutting tasks: implications for ACL injury risk screening
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Vertical drop jumping (VDJ) and sidestep cutting tasks have been suggested as movement screening tasks to identify players with increased risk for ACL injury. Previous studies have investigated the reliability of kinematics ... -
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in health and disease: cardiorespiratory fitness in adults in Norway and in lung cancer patients undergoing surgery
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) is used to quantify an individual’s exercise capacity and is recognized as the main variable for measurement during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). There are limited reference values ... -
Inpatient intensive lifestyle intervention for the treatment of severe obesity: beyond the weight reduction, and experiences with physical activity
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)The recent increase in the prevalence of severe obesity has led to an urgent need for non-surgical treatment options and increased focus and priority on lifestyle interventions specifically targeted toward this obesity ... -
Retracing the steps towards professional football: practice engagement characteristics and performance attainment among Norwegian elite youth and senior players
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)The overall purpose of this thesis is to identify characteristics that may explain why some players manage to progress to professional football while others do not. Specifically, I focused in this thesis on practice ... -
Physical activity level, musculoskeletal fitness,balance, strength and power performance in older adults
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)The link between physical activity and prevention of disease, maintenance of independence, and improved quality of life in older adults is supported by strong evidence. However, there is a lack of data on population levels ... -
The process of burnout among high-performance sport coaches
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Introduction: High-performance coaches have a highly demanding job and they work inconvenient work hours (e.g., Olusoga et al., 2009; Thelwell et al., 2008b). They are also described as highly motivated for their sport and ... -
Venner på tur: naturguiding som relasjonell kunnskap
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)Avhandlingens tema er naturguiding. Temaets aktualitet relateres til det naturbaserte reiselivet i Norge, der vekst og internasjonal konkurranse har bidratt til å skjerpe kravene til kunnskap om helse, miljø og sikkerhet ... -
Sport, race and gender: the experiences of black Norwegian athletes
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)In this study, I explored how racism and marginalization in Norwegian sport are experienced by black Norwegian athletes. To accomplish this, I used the following research questions: 1. How are individual and institutional ... -
Stress, emotions, and coping in elite football players: a study of negative emotions, defensive self-presentation strategies, and their relationships to skill and performance level
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)This thesis investigated potential relationships between stress emotions, the use of defensive self-presentation strategies as coping strategies, accuracy of self-perceptions, and skill and performance level in elite soccer ... -
"Karakteren i seg selv gir jo ikke noe læring": en empirisk studie av vurdering for læring i kroppsøving ved seks videregående skoler i Norge
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)Tema i denne artikkelbaserte avhandlingen er vurdering for læring (VfL) i kroppsøving. Både avhandlingens litteraturgjennomgang og tidligere internasjonale litteraturgjennomganger viser at selv om det har vært et økende ... -
Mindfulness in High Performance Environments
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)Introduction: Being mindful and mindfulness-training have been associated with improved attention control and stress-reduction in the normal population. However, little is known about the effects of such training in high ... -
Quantification of movement patterns in cross-country skiing using inertial measurement units
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)Inertial measurement units (IMU) are implemented in a variety of commonly-used technological equipment including cars and smartphones. IMUs are sensitive to motion, sample at high frequency, and have become small, wireless, ... -
Muscle activation and kinematics in contemporary breaststroke swimming
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)This thesis consists of five studies, the main objectives of which were to establish a reliable method for conducting surface electromyography (EMG) in water over prolonged submersion (Study 1); to develop a specific method ... -
Sedentary behaviour in young people: assessment methods and predictors
(Doctoral thesis, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT Introduction: Both children and adolescent spend a lot of their awake time sedentary, and studies have shown that sedentary behaviour may be detrimental to health. Several studies have examined correlates ...