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‘I wished my mother enjoyed her work’: adolescents’ perceptions of parents’work and their links to adolescent psychosocial well-being
- Authors:
- WIERDA-BOER Hilder, RONKA Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Young Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 12(4), November 2004, pp.317-335.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article discusses links between parents’ work and adolescent psychosocial wellbeing from an adolescent perspective. What do adolescents think about their parents’ work? According to adolescents, do parents have enough time and energy for them? Are there links between adolescents’ perceptions of parents’work and their own wellbeing? In the research the sample consisted of 140 Finnish adolescents (mean age 15.9) derived from the longitudinal Adolescent Relationships and Well-Being study. The results indicate that, although most of the adolescents had rather positive perceptions of their parents’ work, they also perceived their fathers as especially spending long hours at work and their mothers as being often in a bad mood after work. Boys were more positive in their evaluations of their parent’s work than girls and had more materialistic wishes, whereas girls expressed more empathy. Negative perceptions of parents’ work were linked to depression and negative school attitude (fathers’ work only). Parental warmth and acceptance partially mediated these links. It is concluded that from the adolescent point of view parental working conditions should be taken seriously.
Noisy girls: new subjectivities and old gender discourses
- Author:
- NIELSEN Harriet Bjerrum
- Journal article citation:
- Young Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 12(1), February 2004, pp.9-30.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Young women have taken up new subject positions in a historical period when the subject of modernity has been declared dead. Subject positions have been far from selfevident either in the cultural context, or in the young women themselves, a fact that may, paradoxically, have helped them produce modern reflexive subjectivities with greater ease. It has been more necessary for contemporary girls than for boys to ask who they are and who they want to become. By gradually changing the norms for how gender, body or sexuality can be represented in public space, by reframing sexuality and morality in public as well as private, young women over the last three generations have simultaneously carved spaces for new subjectivities for women that are not reducible to gender.Thus, the ‘work of culture’ has also been a ‘work of subjectivity’. General claims of what the processes of modernization entail need specification, not only in relation to gender and other particular identities, but also in relation to societal contexts and to lived life. The new subjectivities are contextualized as ‘made in Scandinavia’ as well as discussed in an ethical perspective as a new form for ‘relational individualism’.
Impact of Europeanization on Nordic alcohol control policies: a discussion of processes and national differences
- Author:
- UGLAND Trygve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 10(1), February 2000, pp.58-67.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The impact of Europeanisation on Nordic alcohol control policies can occur through three main processes: 'positive activist reform', 'negative reform', and 'reform by indirect pressure'. In this article the significance of each of these processes has been considered and based on this discussion, it emerges that the effects have mainly occurred through negative reforms of indirect pressure.