Kristin Alve Glad

Biographic Data

ID2192765
NAMEKristin Alve Glad
GIVEN NAMESKristin Alve
FAMILY NAMEGlad
SIGNATUREGLAD K A
AFFILIATIONSNorwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies
ORCID0000-0002-9965-8595
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • “I Could Have Killed Him” Survivors' Descriptions of Their Counterfactual Thoughts After a Terrorist Attack

    Open AccessKristin Alve Glad, Ines Blix et al.ARTICLEScandinavian Journal of Psychology2026

    Many trauma survivors mentally create alternative scenarios to the factual past (i.e., “what could have happened”), referred to as counterfactual thoughts (CFT). However, to date, research on the phenomenology of post‐trauma CFT is sparse. We aimed to systematically explore the characteristics and content of CFT reported by young survivors of a terrorist attack. Approximately 8.5 years after the terrorist attack on Utøya island in 2011, 220 survi…

  • Early predictors of prolonged grief among bereaved trauma survivors 8.5 years after a terrorist attack

    Open AccessKristin Alve Glad, Grete Dyb et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2024

    Young, bereaved survivors may be at particularly high risk of experiencing persistent grief reactions following the traumatic loss of a peer. Pending replication of our findings, professionals should focus on identifying bereaved who experience intense somatic symptoms early after a traumatic loss. Targeting these symptoms may alleviate the exacerbation of persistent grief reactions several years after a traumatic loss. (PsycInfo Database Record …

  • I Wish You Had Died on Utøya

    Open AccessKristin Alve Glad, Grete Dyb et al.ARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence2024

    We aimed to explore how many of the politically active, highly media-exposed, young survivors of the terrorist attack on Utøya island, Norway, have had personal experiences with hate speech and threats post-terror. Further, we aimed to examine the nature of these experiences, and the impact and consequences they have had for the directly affected. Approximately 8.5 years after the politically motivated terrorist attack on Utøya island in 2011, 28…

  • The longitudinal association between symptoms of posttraumatic stress and complicated grief

    Kristin Alve Glad, Synne Øien Stensland et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2021

    Findings suggest that targeting PTSD symptoms among trauma-exposed bereaved may hinder later development of complicated grief. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Survivors Report Back

    Kristin Alve Glad, Siri Thoresen et al.ARTICLEJournalism Studies2017Cited by: 2References: 2

    This study sought to systematically explore how young survivors of a terrorist attack perceive specific aspects of their contact with the media. We used data from a large-scale longitudinal study on health and coping among survivors of the terrorist attack at Utøya Island and their parents. Thirty to thirty-two months after the attack, 261 survivors (52.1 percent males, mean = 22.1, SD = 4.76) were asked to give a written description of their con…

  • A longitudinal study of psychological distress and exposure to trauma reminders after terrorism

    Kristin Alve Glad, Gertrud Sofie Hafstad et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2016

    Trauma reminders, especially auditory reminders, are prevalent and distressing for years after a terrorist attack. Exposure to reminders may be important not only in the development and maintenance of PTSD but also in a broader conceptualization of posttraumatic reactions and functioning. Which reminder survivors appraise as the worst may fluctuate over time. It is important to help survivors identify and cope with reminders. (PsycINFO Database R…