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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-, et al.
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“Adolescents who feel depressed are rejected but do not withdraw: A longitudinal study of ethnically diverse friendship networks in England, Sweden, and Germany”
- 2021
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Ingår i: SSM - Population Health. - : Elsevier BV. - 2352-8273. ; 15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adolescents who feel depressed are likely to experience social isolation from friends. Previous studies have put forward at least four hypotheses that can account for the association between felt depression and social isolation. The hypotheses are: (1) adolescents who are rejected tend to feel more depressed, (2) adolescents who feel depressed tend to become rejected, (3) adolescents who withdraw from friends tend to feel more depressed, and (4) adolescents who feel depressed tend to withdraw from friends. The present study aims to test these four hypotheses in ethnically diverse contexts in three countries. Two waves of data from England (n = 515), Sweden (n = 1,228), and Germany (n = 869) were obtained from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU). One separate stochastic actor-oriented model of the longitudinal coevolution of friendship networks and felt depression was estimated for each of the three countries using the statistical package RSiena. The results consistently indicated that, in all three countries, adolescents who felt depressed were rejected by their peers. Also, the results consistently indicated that adolescents who felt depressed sought more friends, and the results therefore refuted the suggestion that adolescents who feel depressed withdraw from their friends. The findings of the study can inform health-promotion interventions that attempt to limit the social isolation of adolescents who feel depressed in ethnically diverse contexts. More specifically, the study suggests that the social isolation of adolescents who feel depressed may be limited through interventions that reduce the rejection that these adolescents experience from their peers.
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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-
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Differential effects of religiosity on the mental health problems of adolescent natives and immigrants in Sweden : A three-wave longitudinal study
- 2022
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Ingår i: Mental health & prevention. - : Elsevier. - 2212-6570. ; 27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Previous research has suggested that religiosity contributes to preventing mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, among adolescents. However, it is reasonable to suspect that the protective effect of religiosity on mental health problems is relatively stronger in immigrant populations than in native populations since immigrants are more likely to be challenged by experiences of migration, resettlement, and discrimination. The current study tests and compares the protective effects of religiosity on the mental health problems of adolescent natives and immigrants in Sweden.Design: Three waves of longitudinal data from 4,366 adolescents in Sweden were retrieved from Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU). The data were collected between 2010/2011 and 2012/2013, when the participants were on average 14-16 years old. Three subsamples were analysed separately, including natives (n = 2,459), first-generation immigrants (n = 560), and second-generation immigrants (n = 1,347). Latent growth curve models were estimated and plotted.Results: Religiosity predicted less mental health problems among first- and second-generation immigrants throughout the period of data collection, from age 14 to age 16. By contrast, religiosity was associated with more initial mental health problems among adolescent natives.Conclusion: To prevent mental health problems among adolescents, the findings of the current study suggest that it may be necessary to develop specific prevention strategies for specific adolescent populations. Also, early interventions to facilitate religiosity among adolescent immigrants may have lasting, preventive effects on their mental health problems.
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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-, et al.
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Smoking Motivation in the Face of Stigmatization : A Bourdieusian Analysis of Impressions
- 2019
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Ingår i: Stigma and Health. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 2376-6972 .- 2376-6964. ; 4:1, s. 30-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Earlier research from Western countries has indicated that individuals with low socioeconomic status(SES) initiate tobacco smoking even though smoking is a stigmatized practice. We propose thattheoretical developments of Bourdieu’s theories on capital can reveal a plausible mechanism thatexplains smoking motivation in the face of stigmatization, and we perform a double-blind randomizedcontrolled experiment with the impressions of a smoking adolescent girl to test and elaborate on ourproposition. The empirical data was collected through questionnaires distributed to 622 Swedishadolescents during the fall of 2015. Half the questionnaires included a picture of a smoking girl and halfthe questionnaires included an identical picture without the act of smoking. Binary logistic regressionsindicate that the girl in the picture was perceived as significantly less likable, more popular, less kind,less compassionate, more deceitful, more conceited, and more liable to bully when she smoked a cigarettethan when she did not smoke. The theoretical analysis implies that adolescents with low SES may seekto smoke in the face of stigmatization because of a motivating mechanism that functions in accordancewith Bourdieu’s economic logic of action. The concluding section presents implications for tobaccocontrolpolicies.
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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-
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Understanding the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin : Longitudinal investigations of inter-origin friendship formation
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present dissertation aims to understand some of the opportunities for, and influences on, the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin in Sweden. Informed by previous research, the dissertation suggests that successful social integration involves friendship formation between peers of similar origins (intra-origin friendship formation) as well as friendship formation between peers of different origins (inter-origin friendship formation). Social integration can be difficult to achieve in practice because most individuals tend to be homophilic and form intra-origin friendships rather than inter-origin friendships.Four studies based on longitudinal data are presented in the dissertation. The first study seeks to widen the understanding of refugee girls’ friendship formation through a qualitative analysis of interviews with refugee girls. The second study estimates stochastic actor-oriented models to investigate the friendship formation of adolescents with supportive and/or controlling parent-child relationships. The third article presents cross-lagged panel models for the reciprocal longitudinal associations between friendship formation and two forms of leisure: visits to youth centers and participation in structured leisure activities. Finally, the fourth study uses stochastic actor-oriented models to analyze with whom adolescents form friendships when they are involved in different forms of digital leisure, including online communication, video watching, and digital gaming.The refugee girls in the qualitative study stated that they formed close friendships with family members, such as cousins and siblings, rather than with peers of native origin because they experienced the latter as too dissimilar from themselves. The adolescents in the first quantitative study formed relatively more inter-origin friendships when their parents were supportive and fewer inter-origin friendships when their parents were controlling. According to the third study, visits to youth centers were associated with a larger number of intra-origin friendships among adolescents of foreign origin, while participation in structured leisure activities, such as sports and cultural projects, was related to more friendship formation regardless of origin. The fourth study suggested that native adolescents who were involved in digital gaming formed fewer friendships with native peers and had fewer friends outside of the school class, and foreign adolescents who communicated more online formed fewer friendships with native classmates but more friendships outside of the school class.All four studies indicate that the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin is not an automatic process that invariably happens when adolescents of different origins are mixed in the same location. When adolescents organize their own social lives away from the involvement of adults, they seem to remain or become more homophilic and form more friendships with peers of their own origin. By contrast, native and foreign adolescents tend to form more inter-origin friendships when adults provide them with support and structured social activities. In other words, the social integration of foreign adolescents seems to require supportive and committed adults, who contribute to facilitating inter-origin friendship formation.
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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-
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Varför är universiteten och högskolorna så dåliga?
- 2024
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sveriges universitet och högskolor är oerhört dåliga. Många studenter examineras utan grundläggande kunskaper och de flesta forskningsprojekt är sedan länge förbisprungna av samhällsutvecklingen. Universiteten och högskolorna framhålls som bastioner för fritt tänkande, men de flesta studenter och anställda upplever att de har större frihet att tänka utanför, än inne på, de akademiska institutionerna.Varför är universiteten och högskolorna så dåliga? utforskar de sociala och strukturella förutsättningarna för forskares och lärares arbete på universitet och högskolor. Boken förklarar varför forskare och lärare oftast lyckas dåligt med att utveckla och förmedla kunskaper som är intressanta eller användbara för andra än dem själva. Boken är skriven i en essäistisk stil, med svepande resonemang och tillspetsade formuleringar.
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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-
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Victimhood in Swedish political discourse
- 2021
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Ingår i: Discourse & Society. - London : Sage Publications. - 0957-9265 .- 1460-3624. ; 32:3, s. 292-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contemporary politics, the category of victimhood confers rights and recognition. An inclusive discussion about the construction and conferral of victimhood, which includes individuals from different social backgrounds, need be informed by the possible uses of victimhood in political discourse. The present study investigates how individuals and groups are positioned as victims by mainstream Swedish politicians. A constructionist discourse analysis inspired by positioning theory was performed of eight longer political speeches and fifty-six addresses to the Swedish parliament, held over the course of a year. The results suggest that individuals in the ‘normal’ majority, comprising the most numerous and normatively dominant group of society, were positioned as victims. Heterodox minorities, which had fundamentally different morals and political ambitions compared to the ‘normal’ majority, were positioned as offenders. The study argues that a more inclusive construction of victimhood could be accomplished by engaging with heterodox minorities through dialogue.
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- Aronson, Olov, 1991-, et al.
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Youth centers, structured leisure activities, and friends of native and foreign origin : A two-wave longitudinal study
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Leisure Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0022-2216 .- 2159-6417. ; 52:3, s. 265-285
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The social integration of adolescents of foreign origin is of much importance to contemporary Swedish politics, and knowledge is needed about the associations between different forms of leisure and social integration. The present study tests the associations between visits to youth centers and participation in structured leisure activities, on the one hand, and having friends regardless of origin, of native origin, and of foreign origin, on the other. Two-wave longitudinal data from 203 adolescents of foreign origin were collected, including friendship nominations from 1,185 peers. Cross-lagged panel models were constructed, controlling for relevant confounders. Visits to youth centers positively predicted the number of friends of foreign origin, while participation in structured leisure activities positively predicted the number of friends regardless of origin. In conclusion, structured leisure activities appear better than youth centers for promoting the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin into networks of friends of different origins.
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- Bergnéhr, Disa, 1974-, et al.
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Friends through school and family : Refugee girls’ talk about friendship formation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Childhood. - : Sage Publications. - 0907-5682 .- 1461-7013. ; 27:4, s. 530-544
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores refugee girls’ talk about friendship formation. Friendship is a complex process and a subjective experience. The study participants stressed similarity and cultural affinity as important criteria of forming friendships. Those who attended schools with a mixture of students described their native peers as having different temperaments and interests. Relatives were referred to as being best friends who one could trust and confide in. This suggests the need for a broad conceptualisation of friendship in research and practice.
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