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Nordfjaern, Trond; Dahl, Hilde; Flemmen, Grete – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2013
Aims: To investigate social influence, health, criminality and substance use in a sample of 1288 Norwegian rural adolescents. Relations between these factors and substance use were examined. Methods: Data were obtained from the "UngData" study. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among adolescents (n = 740) in nine…
Descriptors: Social Status, Drinking, Social Influences, Parent Participation
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Sletten, Mira Aaboen – Journal of Youth Studies, 2011
Applying the theoretical framework of social capital, this article investigates whether adolescents' popularity among their peers during junior high school protects them against a financially marginalized position (as indicated by unemployment, social assistance reception and low educational attainment) in young adulthood. Based on a Norwegian…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Social Capital, Social Networks
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Bo Vatnar, Solveig Karin; Bjorkly, Stal – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This article reports a study of the possible impact of immigration on interactional aspects of intimate partner violence (IPV) among help-seeking women. Are there differences concerning (a) IPV categories, (b) IPV severity, frequency, duration, regularity, and predictability, (c) guilt and shame, (d) partners' ethnicity, and (e) children being…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Females, Foreign Countries, Immigration