T Abel
Biographic Data
| ID | 23125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Abel |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Abel |
| SIGNATURE | ABEL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6740-1149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 329 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond chronological age
Maturity offset affects physical test outcomes in youth throwers, especially in power-related throwing tasks. These findings highlight the importance of considering maturity offset when interpreting test results to reduce bias in talent identification and better support long-term athlete development
Biomechanics of elite handcyclists are highly individual—a case series on kinetics, kinematics, and muscular activity
These findings indicate that the biomechanics of handcycling propulsion are highly individual among elite handcyclists and may be influenced by their classification, handbike setup, and muscular capabilities. We encourage future research to replicate this study in a larger cohort and examine how work distributions and other biomechanical parameters change over time to individualize training prescriptions in athletes
Integrating Patient‐reported Experience (PRE) in a multistage approach to study access to health services for women with chronic illness and migration experience
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported Experience (PRE) is an emerging concept integrating patient perspectives and amplifying voices often marginalized in discussions surrounding health systems. However, it remains a challenge to use and integrate PREs when studying patient agency and access to quality services, particularly with data from multiple sources. In this article, using study materials from the Swiss MIWOCA project, we present and reflect upon a…
Doping in Paralympic sport
IntroductionLimited effort has been invested in understanding doping in Paralympic sport. The limited evidence that exists suggests that factors influencing doping in parasport are similar to Olympic sport. However, based on the design and nature of the previous studies, where methods have been mostly limited to qualitative data and prevalence numbers, further research is warranted to extend previous findings.MethodsInformed by current evidence f…
Critical health literacy
Health literacy research is growing rapidly and broadly; however, conceptual advances in critical health literacy (CHL) seem hampered by a lack of a clear definition. In this paper, we refer to key features of the concept as identified in earlier works, offer a new definition of CHL and briefly discuss its theoretical roots. Reflection and action are suggested as the two constituent components of CHL. Consequences for future research are also dis…
Complexity awareness among university students in Switzerland during the Covid-19 pandemic
Public health challenges relating to Covid-19 are highly complex and reasons behind preventive measures can be difficult to understand. Complexity awareness, an important part of healthy literacy, may help young people to understand the situation and act accordingly. However, we could not find any tools to assess complexity awareness during a pandemic in the literature. The purpose of this study was to develop pandemic-specific items to assess co…
Implementing the capability approach in health promotion projects
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper was to develop a framework for the use of the capability approach in health promotion projects, which could guide future projects as well as improve the comparability of the projects' effectiveness. METHOD: The study involved a three-stage process comprising a total of six steps. We first developed a theoretical model and then analyzed data from four empirical studies that had implemented projects using the capabi…
Exploring Well-Being and Its Correlates among Young Men Using Sen’s Capability Approach
Young men differ in their perceived capabilities and functionings in different life domains according to their equipment with different forms of capital. To better understand the mechanisms underlying the transformation of capabilities into functionings, future studies should analyze issues of choice and adaptation to restricted living conditions
Critical health literacy and the Covid-19 crisis
Applying critical health literacy has never been more needed than in these days when an infectious disease crisis arrives at a time of information excess and high expectations of controlling health. Public health personnel have generally assumed that knowing about the risk factors of infectious diseases has always been key to controlling and preventing an epidemic infectious disease’s devastating consequences. What is different with COVID-19 is t…
The capability approach as a bridging framework across health promotion settings
Health promotion research has increasingly called for transdisciplinary approaches. Such calls ask for bridging frameworks that define comprehensive sets of health determinants and appropriately conceptualize the roles of population groups as well as other relevant actor groups in the co-production of health. This article aims to present the seminal capability approach by Sen and Nussbaum as a potentially suitable framework for such bridging ende…
Experiences With Health Care Services in Switzerland Among Immigrant Women With Chronic Illnesses
Introduction: Descriptive data indicate a high burden of chronic illness among immigrant women in Switzerland. Little is known about how immigrant women with chronic illnesses experience healthcare services. This paper presents a methodological approach theoretically informed by Sen’s capability approach and Levesque’s framework of access to healthcare to study patient-reported experiences (PREs) of Swiss healthcare services among immigrant women…
Co-producing active lifestyles as whole-system-approach
Population health interventions tend to lack links to the emerging discourse on interactive knowledge production and exchange. This situation may limit both a better understanding of mechanisms that impact health lifestyles and the development of strategies for population level change. This paper introduces an integrated approach based on structure-agency theory in the context of 'social practice'. It investigates the mechanisms of co-production …
Vulnerability in Health Trajectories
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A short food literacy questionnaire (SFLQ) for adults
The short food literacy questionnaire (SFLQ) was developed to measure a broad range of skills including functional, interactive, and critical elements of FL. This study evaluated SFLQ measurement properties. We used a workplace intervention trial to reduce salt intake in Switzerland to explore the underlying structure of the questionnaire with 350 respondents and identify the ideal number of SFLQ items to capture the different elements of FL. Exp…
Patterns of sports participation, health risk behaviours, and socio-economic position in young Swiss men
This study applies health lifestyle theory to describe patterns of sports participation and explore their associations with other health-relevant behaviours (smoking and at-risk drinking), socio-economic position (education and household income), and language region in Switzerland. We applied a bias corrected three-step latent class analysis to a cross-sectional sample of young Swiss men (N = 10,458) collected in 2010–2011. Five different pattern…
Social inequalities in health information seeking among young adults in Montreal
Over their lifecourse, young adults develop different skills and preferences in relationship to the information sources they seek when having questions about health. Health information seeking behaviour (HISB) includes multiple, unequally accessed sources; yet most studies have focused on single sources and did not examine HISB's association with social inequalities. This study explores 'multiple-source' profiles and their association with socioe…
The contribution of travel-related urban zones, cycling and pedestrian networks and green space to commuting physical activity among adults – a cross-sectional population-based study using geographica…
Good pedestrian and cycling infrastructure may play an important role in promoting commuting physical activity among the employed population, regardless of educational background, leisure-time and occupational physical activity. Close proximity to green space and a high proportion of green space near the home may not be sufficient to initiate commuting physical activity in Finland, where homes surrounded by green areas are often situated in car-o…
Health literacy among young adults
Health literacy (HL) is context-specific. In public health and health promotion, HL in the private realm refers to individuals' knowledge and skills to prevent disease and to promote health in everyday life. However, there is a scarcity of measurement tools explicitly geared to private realm contexts. Our aim was to develop and test a short survey tool that captures different dimensions of HL in the context of family and friends. We used cross-se…
Capital interplays and the self-rated health of young men
Our study provides empirical support for the role of capital interplays, social processes in which capitals interpenetrate or co-constitute one another, in the intergenerational production of the health of young men in Switzerland
Cultural Transmission in Cycles
The ‘information cycle’ is an evolutionary model of the processes of gene/culture maintenance and change. This paper reports the first naturalistic experimental study designed to collect information data that can illuminate the mechanisms of ‘culture’ production and sharing in information cycles. It is an analysis of conversation among university students in Taiwan. A junior class of 32 students utilized pencil and paper (P&P) diaries to record c…
Environmental justice and health practices
While empirical evidence continues to show that people living in low socio-economic status neighbourhoods are less likely to engage in health-enhancing behaviour, our understanding of why this is so remains less than clear. We suggest that two changes could take place to move from description to understanding in this field; (i) a move away from the established concept of individual health behaviour to a contextualised understanding of health prac…
Self-Reported Capabilities Among Young Male Adults in Switzerland
Capitals and capabilities
Landscape and well-being
Factors associated with educational aspirations among adolescents
Characteristics of the school environment, the family and the individual adolescent are all associated with the level of educational aspiration, but in a different way for different educational tracks. Interventions aimed at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health via the educational system should, therefore, take this variation and the rather pivotal role of the father into account
Capitals and capabilities
Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles
The intent of this article is to move beyond the work of Weber and construct a concept of health lifestyles applicable to the current phase of modernity. Beginning with the early twentieth-century work of Simmel and Weber on lifestyles generally, we move to mid-century to examine Bourdieu's perspective and turn to Giddens for an analysis of late century conditions. We find that Weber's insight concerning the dialectical interplay of choice and ch…
Cultural capital and social inequality in health
Economic and social resources are known to contribute to the unequal distribution of health outcomes. Culture-related factors such as normative beliefs, knowledge and behaviours have also been shown to be associated with health status. The role and function of cultural resources in the unequal distribution of health is addressed. Drawing on the work of French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the concept of cultural capital for its contribution to the…
Measuring health lifestyles in a comparative analysis
The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle - results from an international study
Lifestyle or Lebensführung? Critical Remarks on the Mistranslation of Weber's 'Class, Status, Party
Max Weber's concept of Lebensführung was inappropriately translated as "lifestyle" in the two major English-language translations of his work. The result is that Weber's distinctly different terms "Lebensführung" (life conduct) and "Lebensstil" (lifestyles) have the imprecise and singular meaning "lifestyle" in Anglo-American literature. Translated literally, Lebensführun means life conduct and refers to choice and selfdirection in a person's beh…
Environmental justice and health practices
While empirical evidence continues to show that people living in low socio-economic status neighbourhoods are less likely to engage in health-enhancing behaviour, our understanding of why this is so remains less than clear. We suggest that two changes could take place to move from description to understanding in this field; (i) a move away from the established concept of individual health behaviour to a contextualised understanding of health prac…
Max Weber, Formal Rationality, and Health Lifestyles
Max Weber's concept of formal rationality and ideas about lifestyles in general are applied to current trends in health lifestyles. The central contribution of Weber's thinking is recognition of the dialectical interplay between formal versus substantive rationality, consumption versus production, choice versus life chances, class similarities versus distinctions, and self-control versus conformity in shaping health life-styles and the reality of…
Self reported physical activity, public health, and perceived environment
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The focus of physical activity promotion is moving from methods for increasing health enhancing physical activity on the individual level to higher level strategies including environmental and policy approaches. Scientific inquiry, traditionally related to individual-based strategies, requires adaptation and refinement when environmental and policy changes become more relevant. The objective of this study is to investigate the si…
Health Policy Perception and Health Behaviours
Associations of health policy perception with health behaviours are analysed. Policy perception is differentiated in information about programmes and appraisal of health policy's contribution to policy goals, and conceptualized on the level of: (1) individuals; and (2) populations (as a social climate indicator). Survey data from the Biomed2-Project MAREPS gathered in Belgium, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland ( N= 3343) sh…
Self-Reported Capabilities Among Young Male Adults in Switzerland
Health lifestyles and self-direction in employment among American men
A short food literacy questionnaire (SFLQ) for adults
The short food literacy questionnaire (SFLQ) was developed to measure a broad range of skills including functional, interactive, and critical elements of FL. This study evaluated SFLQ measurement properties. We used a workplace intervention trial to reduce salt intake in Switzerland to explore the underlying structure of the questionnaire with 350 respondents and identify the ideal number of SFLQ items to capture the different elements of FL. Exp…
Doping in Paralympic sport
IntroductionLimited effort has been invested in understanding doping in Paralympic sport. The limited evidence that exists suggests that factors influencing doping in parasport are similar to Olympic sport. However, based on the design and nature of the previous studies, where methods have been mostly limited to qualitative data and prevalence numbers, further research is warranted to extend previous findings.MethodsInformed by current evidence f…
Patterns of sports participation, health risk behaviours, and socio-economic position in young Swiss men
This study applies health lifestyle theory to describe patterns of sports participation and explore their associations with other health-relevant behaviours (smoking and at-risk drinking), socio-economic position (education and household income), and language region in Switzerland. We applied a bias corrected three-step latent class analysis to a cross-sectional sample of young Swiss men (N = 10,458) collected in 2010–2011. Five different pattern…
Cultural Transmission in Cycles
The ‘information cycle’ is an evolutionary model of the processes of gene/culture maintenance and change. This paper reports the first naturalistic experimental study designed to collect information data that can illuminate the mechanisms of ‘culture’ production and sharing in information cycles. It is an analysis of conversation among university students in Taiwan. A junior class of 32 students utilized pencil and paper (P&P) diaries to record c…
The Significance of the Concept of Consciousness of Kind
Journal Article The Significance of the Concept of Consciousness of Kind Get access Theodore Abel Theodore Abel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 9, Issue 1, October 1930, Pages 1–10, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570077 Published: 01 October 1930
The Sociology of Concentration Camps
Journal Article The Sociology of Concentration Camps Get access Theodore Abel Theodore Abel Hunter College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 30, Issue 2, December 1951, Pages 150–155, https://doi.org/10.2307/2571626 Published: 01 December 1951
Health lifestyles and self-direction in employment among American men
Measuring health lifestyles in a comparative analysis
Lifestyle or Lebensführung? Critical Remarks on the Mistranslation of Weber's 'Class, Status, Party
Max Weber's concept of Lebensführung was inappropriately translated as "lifestyle" in the two major English-language translations of his work. The result is that Weber's distinctly different terms "Lebensführung" (life conduct) and "Lebensstil" (lifestyles) have the imprecise and singular meaning "lifestyle" in Anglo-American literature. Translated literally, Lebensführun means life conduct and refers to choice and selfdirection in a person's beh…
Max Weber, Formal Rationality, and Health Lifestyles
Max Weber's concept of formal rationality and ideas about lifestyles in general are applied to current trends in health lifestyles. The central contribution of Weber's thinking is recognition of the dialectical interplay between formal versus substantive rationality, consumption versus production, choice versus life chances, class similarities versus distinctions, and self-control versus conformity in shaping health life-styles and the reality of…
Struktur und Dynamik moderner Lebensstile
Im folgenden Beitrag werden grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Entwicklung eines empirischen Lebensstilkonzepts vorgestellt. Auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen der aktuellen Lebensstildiskussion wird verzichtet (vgl. u.a. Lüdtke 1989, Berger und Hradil 1990a, Müller 1992b, Berger und Michailow, beide in diesem Band). Dem Ansatz nach stehen unsere Überlegungen den Arbeiten Max Webers zu Lebensführung, Lebenschancen und Leb…
Conceptualizing Contemporary Health Lifestyles
The intent of this article is to move beyond the work of Weber and construct a concept of health lifestyles applicable to the current phase of modernity. Beginning with the early twentieth-century work of Simmel and Weber on lifestyles generally, we move to mid-century to examine Bourdieu's perspective and turn to Giddens for an analysis of late century conditions. We find that Weber's insight concerning the dialectical interplay of choice and ch…
Self reported physical activity, public health, and perceived environment
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The focus of physical activity promotion is moving from methods for increasing health enhancing physical activity on the individual level to higher level strategies including environmental and policy approaches. Scientific inquiry, traditionally related to individual-based strategies, requires adaptation and refinement when environmental and policy changes become more relevant. The objective of this study is to investigate the si…
The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle - results from an international study
A New Ecosystems Ecology for Anthropology
"Conversation between anthropology and ecosystems ecology was interrupted in the early 1980s, due to several well-reasoned critiques of then-popular applications of ecosystems theory in anthropology and due, especially perhaps, to the appearance of promising alternative ecological and evolutionary paradigms and programs. Since then, ecosystems ecology has been both refined and transformed by the study of complex systems, with its radical critique…
Understanding Complex Human Ecosystems
"It is suggested that ecotourism development on the island of Bonaire can be productively understood as a perturbation of a complex human ecosystem. Inputs associated with ecotourism have fueled transformations of the island ecology and sociocultural system. The results of this study indicate that Bonaire's social and economic hierarchy is approaching a new, stable systems state following a 50-yr transition begun by government and industry that s…
Health Policy Perception and Health Behaviours
Associations of health policy perception with health behaviours are analysed. Policy perception is differentiated in information about programmes and appraisal of health policy's contribution to policy goals, and conceptualized on the level of: (1) individuals; and (2) populations (as a social climate indicator). Survey data from the Biomed2-Project MAREPS gathered in Belgium, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland ( N= 3343) sh…
Health-related quality of life
KIDSCREEN-52 quality-of-life measure for children and adolescents
This study describes the development and reports the first psychometric results of the European KIDSCREEN-52 generic health-related quality-of-life questionnaire for children and adolescents. The KIDSCREEN-52, including ten dimensions, was applied in a European survey involving 12 countries (i.e., Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the UK) and 22,110 children and adol…
Kulturelles Kapital, kollektive Lebensstile und die soziale Reproduktion gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit
Trotz intensiver Bemühungen der empirischen Public Health Forschung und trotz wachsender Zahl statistischer Befunde zu einzelnen Zusammenhängen von sozialen Merkmalen und Gesundheit, sind eine Reihe grundlegender Fragen zur sozial ungleichen Verteilung von Gesundheit bis heute offen (Siegrist & Marmot 2004, Krieger 2003). Insbesondere für die Fragen zur sozialen Produktion und Reproduktion der gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit fehlen bis heute hinrei…
From Text to Codings
BACKGROUND: High intercoder reliability (ICR) is required in qualitative content analysis for assuring quality when more than one coder is involved in data analysis. The literature is short of standardized procedures for ICR procedures in qualitative content analysis. OBJECTIVE: To illustrate how ICR assessment can be used to improve codings in qualitative content analysis. METHODS: Key steps of the procedure are presented, drawing on data from a…
Cultural capital and social inequality in health
Economic and social resources are known to contribute to the unequal distribution of health outcomes. Culture-related factors such as normative beliefs, knowledge and behaviours have also been shown to be associated with health status. The role and function of cultural resources in the unequal distribution of health is addressed. Drawing on the work of French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the concept of cultural capital for its contribution to the…
Age and gender differences in health-related quality of life of children and adolescents in Europe
Landscape and well-being
Factors associated with educational aspirations among adolescents
Characteristics of the school environment, the family and the individual adolescent are all associated with the level of educational aspiration, but in a different way for different educational tracks. Interventions aimed at reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health via the educational system should, therefore, take this variation and the rather pivotal role of the father into account
Reliability, construct and criterion validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 score
Our results indicate that the KIDSCREEN-10 provides a valid measure of a general HRQoL factor in children and adolescents, but the instrument does not represent well most of the single dimensions of the original KIDSCREEN-52. Test-retest reliability was slightly below a priori defined thresholds
Capitals and capabilities
Self-Reported Capabilities Among Young Male Adults in Switzerland
Environmental justice and health practices
While empirical evidence continues to show that people living in low socio-economic status neighbourhoods are less likely to engage in health-enhancing behaviour, our understanding of why this is so remains less than clear. We suggest that two changes could take place to move from description to understanding in this field; (i) a move away from the established concept of individual health behaviour to a contextualised understanding of health prac…
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