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Oddgeir Friborg is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research encompasses multiple fields, primarily within medicine and psychology, with a significant focus on subfields such as clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, orthopedics and sports medicine, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of health and behavior, including:

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Eating disorders and behaviors
  • Sleep and wakefulness research
  • Stroke rehabilitation and recovery
  • Acute ischemic stroke management
  • Child abuse and trauma
  • Resilience and mental health

Oddgeir Friborg has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, among them:

  • The relationship between resilience and loneliness elucidated by a Danish version of the resilience scale for adults (2020), published in BMC Psychology
  • Sleep patterns and insomnia in a large population-based study of middle-aged and older adults: The Tromsø study 2015-2016 (2020), published in Journal of Sleep Research
  • Is physical exercise and dietary therapy a feasible alternative to cognitive behavior therapy in treatment of eating disorders? A randomized controlled trial of two group therapies (2020), published in International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Stroke-Specific Quality of Life one-year post-stroke in two Scandinavian country-regions with different organisation of rehabilitation services: a prospective study (2020), published in Disability and Rehabilitation
  • The Norwegian healthy body image intervention promotes positive embodiment through improved self-esteem (2020), published in Body Image

Frequent collaborators include Jan H. Rosenvinge, Gunn Pettersen, Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen, Svein Bergvik, and Karin Abeler.

The venues where Oddgeir Friborg has most frequently published include:

  • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Trials
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
  • Chronobiology International

Best Publications

  • A new rating scale for adult resilience: what are the central protective resources behind healthy adjustment?

    Oddgeir Friborg;Odin Hjemdal;Jan H. Rosenvinge;Monica Martinussen

  • Resilience in relation to personality and intelligence

    Oddgeir Friborg;Dag Barlaug;Monica Martinussen;Jan H. Rosenvinge

  • Mindfulness training for stress management: a randomised controlled study of medical and psychology students

    Michael de Vibe;Ida Solhaug;Reidar Tyssen;Oddgeir Friborg;Oddgeir Friborg

  • Resilience predicting psychiatric symptoms: a prospective study of protective factors and their role in adjustment to stressful life events

    Odin Hjemdal;Oddgeir Friborg;Tore C. Stiles;Jan H. Rosenvinge

  • A New Scale for Adolescent Resilience: Grasping the Central Protective Resources Behind Healthy Development

    Odin Hjemdal;Oddgeir Friborg;Tore C. Stiles;Monica Martinussen

  • Resilience as a moderator of pain and stress

    Oddgeir Friborg;Odin Hjemdal;Jan H. Rosenvinge;Monica Martinussen

  • Validating the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 (EDI-3): A Comparison Between 561 Female Eating Disorders Patients and 878 Females from the General Population

    Loa Clausen;Jan H. Rosenvinge;Oddgeir Friborg;Oddgeir Friborg;Kristian Rokkedal

  • Likert-based vs. semantic differential-based scorings of positive psychological constructs: A psychometric comparison of two versions of a scale measuring resilience.

    Oddgeir Friborg;Monica Martinussen;Jan H. Rosenvinge

  • The effects of cognitive behavioral therapy as an anti-depressive treatment is falling: A meta-analysis.

    Tom J. Johnsen;Oddgeir Friborg

  • Mental habits: metacognitive reflection on negative self-thinking

    Bas Verplanken;Oddgeir Friborg;Catharina E. Wang;David Trafimow

  • Comorbidity of personality disorders in mood disorders: A meta-analytic review of 122 studies from 1988 to 2010

    Oddgeir Friborg;Oddgeir Friborg;Egil W. Martinsen;Egil W. Martinsen;Monica Martinussen;Sabine Kaiser

  • Comorbidity of personality disorders in anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis of 30 years of research.

    Oddgeir Friborg;Monica Martinussen;Sabine Kaiser;Karl Tore Øvergård

  • Resilience as a predictor of depressive symptoms: a correlational study with young adolescents.

    Odin Hjemdal;Tore Aune;Trude Reinfjell;Tore C. Stiles

  • The Resilience Scale for Adults: Construct Validity and Measurement in a Belgian Sample

    Odin Hjemdal;Oddgeir Friborg;Stephanie Braun;Chantal Kempenaers

  • The comorbidity of personality disorders in eating disorders: a meta-analysis

    Monica Martinussen;Oddgeir Friborg;Phoebe Schmierer;Sabine Kaiser

  • Empirical Support for Resilience as More than the Counterpart and Absence of Vulnerability and Symptoms of Mental Disorder

    Oddgeir Friborg;Odin Hjemdal;Monica Martinussen;Jan H. Rosenvinge

  • A school intervention for mental health literacy in adolescents: effects of a non-randomized cluster controlled trial

    Ingunn Skre;Oddgeir Friborg;Oddgeir Friborg;Camilla Breivik;Camilla Breivik;Lars Inge Johnsen

  • Does Personality Moderate the Effects of Mindfulness Training for Medical and Psychology Students

    Michael de Vibe;Ida Solhaug;Reidar Tyssen;Oddgeir Friborg

  • Associations between seasonal variations in day length (photoperiod), sleep timing, sleep quality and mood: a comparison between Ghana (5°) and Norway (69°)

    Oddgeir Friborg;Bjørn Bjorvatn;Bjørn Bjorvatn;Benjamin Amponsah;Ståle Pallesen;Ståle Pallesen

  • Resilience and Acculturation among Unaccompanied Refugee Minors.

    Serap Keles;Oddgeir Friborg;Thormod Idsøe;Thormod Idsøe;Selcuk Sirin

  • Eating Disorder Inventory-5

    Oddgeir Friborg;Loa Clausen;Jan H. Rosenvinge

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan H. Rosenvinge
Jan H. Rosenvinge University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Odin Hjemdal
Odin Hjemdal Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Monica Martinussen
Monica Martinussen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Tore C. Stiles
Tore C. Stiles Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ståle Pallesen
Ståle Pallesen University of Bergen
Børge Sivertsen
Børge Sivertsen Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Egil W. Martinsen
Egil W. Martinsen University of Oslo
Michael Gradisar
Michael Gradisar Flinders University
Niva Piran
Niva Piran University of Toronto
Deborah L. Reas
Deborah L. Reas Oslo University Hospital

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