Operative stress - a study of stress responses, personality, and the effect of biofeedback in operative police officers
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Project period:
2022 - current
Description:
PHD-project (Henriette Kaasa Ringheim) funded by the Norwegian Police University College. The project is a collaboration between the Norwegian Police Academy and the University of Bergen, Department of Psychosocial Science.
Main supervisor: Anita L. Hansen. Co-supervisors: Asle M. Sandvik and Espen Svensen Gjevestad
Objectives:
The overall aim of the project is to gain new knowledge about stress responses in police officers and how to improve self-regulation using biofeedback as an intervention.
Outcomes:
This is a PhD project in progress.
Other studies within this research area:
Sandvik, Asle Makoto; Gjevestad, Espen Svendsen; Aabrekk, Einar; Öman, Peter H.; Kjendlie, Per-Ludvik; Hystad, Sigurd William; Bartone, Paul T.; Hansen, Anita Lill; Johnsen, Bjørn Helge. (2020). Physical fitness and psychological hardiness as predictors of parasympathetic control in response to stress: a Norwegian police simulator training study. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 35, 504–517.