Editorial
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Nordic Psychology, 2022 Vol. 74, No. 2, 86–87, https://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2022.2085008 EDITORIAL This issue of Nordic Psychology has a number of really important and interesting articles to be read during the warm and rainy Nordic summer. The articles cover important and inter- esting themes such as sexual abuse cases, depression and anxiety, WAIS-IV short form, motivational climate and evolutionary emotion theory. In the first article of this issue “Children’s testimonies: What influences prosecutions and convictions in sexual abuse cases?” Linzi Margaret Trosh, Bjarki Thor Sigvardsson, Thorbjorg Sveinsdottir, Haukur Freyr Gylfason and Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson examine which factors regarding children’s testimony, at Barnahus in Iceland, influence prosecution and conviction of alleged sex offenders. The sample consisted of 542 cases of children interviewed between 1998 and 2012. The results show that cases were more likely to be prosecuted when a child gave a detailed description of the alleged abuse. Cases were more likely to be convicted if the alleged abuse had occurred multiple times or had lasted more than a year. In the second article of this issue “Prevalence estimates of depression and anxiety disorders among Icelandic university students when taking functional impairment into account” Ingvar Eysteinsson, Saevar Mar Gustavsson and Jon Fridrik