NIH

Sport Psychology
Motivation
Media
Gender

Master degree in sociolinguistics, University of  Oslo, 1995
Master degree in sport psychology, Norwegian School of Sport Science, 2005. Currently working on a PhD project: ”Coping with environmental stress

Kristiansen, E., Roberts, G. C., & Abrahamsen, F. E. (2008). Achievement involvement and stress coping in elite sport. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 18 (4), 526-538.
 
Sisjord, M.K. and Kristiansen, E. (2008) ’Serious Athletes or Media Clowns? Female and Male Wrestlers’ Perceptions of Media Constructions’, Sociology of Sport Journal 25: 350-68.

 

Kristiansen, E., & Roberts, G.C. Young elite athletes and social support: Coping with competitive and organizational stress in “Olympic” competition. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Sport Science (in press).