Susan Kaiser
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 172565 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Kaiser |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Kaiser |
| FIRMA | KAISER S |
| AFILIACIONES | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2081-7734 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Child welfare workers’ attitudes towards network and family kinship care in Norway
This study examines and compares Norwegian child welfare workers’ attitudes towards network and family kinship care, where children who are removed from their parents’ care are placed with someone in their social network or with relatives. Using data from a 2023 national survey, we assessed differences in attitudes and their implications for child welfare practices. While workers generally had positive attitudes towards both care types, they show…
Advantages and disadvantages of kinship foster care – Perspectives from child welfare workers in Norway
Would I Do It Again? Examining Foster Parents' Willingness to Take on the Same Foster Care Placement Again
This study aims to identify factors that are important to improve the retention of foster parents, which is crucial to meet the increasing need for good and stable foster homes. Using data from a survey conducted by the Norwegian Foster Homes Association, we assessed which variables could predict the willingness of foster parents to take on the same foster care placement again. Multinomial logistic regressions were used to compare foster parents …
Parental Satisfaction With Child Welfare Services in Norway
This study aims to examine parents' satisfaction with Norwegian child welfare services (CWS) and factors associated with parents' satisfaction. Different factors were included in the analysis, such as characteristics of the contact with CWS, and service aspects, as evaluated by parents (accessibility, information quality, workers' skills and user participation). Data were collected from 412 parents in 20 different municipalities. Over half of the…
Examining the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Social Aptitudes Scale in two clinical samples
Future validity studies should investigate whether SAS is suitable as a screening instrument for detecting autism spectrum disorder
The child's place in the foster family
This longitudinal study examines the child's place in the foster family through the use of conventional names for familial figures (e.g., ‘mum/dad’) and through the foster parents' intention to adopt the child. Data were collected at two time points during childhood and adolescence, among children placed in kinship and non‐kinship foster care in Norway. Children placed at a younger age and children in non‐kinship foster care were more likely to c…
Burnout and Engagement at the Northernmost University in the World
Few studies have looked at the relationship of job characteristics and worker well-being among Norwegian academics. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources, burnout, and engagement among Norwegian university staff. In total, 236 staff from one university in Norway answered the questionnaire. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses identified job demands as the most important predictors f…
Cyberbullying status and mental health in Norwegian adolescents
The aim of the present study was to examine how the cyberbullying status (not involved, cyber‐victim only, cyberbully only, cyber‐victim and bully) is related to the mental health of the adolescents when controlled for traditional bullying experience. We also examined the potential moderator sex on the relationship between cyberbullying status and mental health. Univariate analyses of variance were conducted to predict mental health problems usin…
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Evaluate Work-Related Outcomes Among Norwegian Health Care Workers
The job demands-resources (JD-R) model was used to evaluate work-related outcomes among 489 health care professionals working in public health services for children and their families in Norway. In accordance with the JD-R model, the relationship of job demands and job resources with different outcomes (turnover intention, job satisfaction, and service quality) should be mediated through burnout and engagement. The results of the multilevel struc…
Ent-Grenztes Heranwachsen
Entangling the Fashion Subject Through the African Diaspora
African diasporic theory offers a way to break out of oppositional thinking and evolutionary notions of progress. African American epistemologies—in conversation with other African diasporic thought—can be characterized as moving beyond either/or frameworks to “both/and” ways of knowing. Identity nots become identity (k)nots when entanglement replaces opposition and evolution as an organizing logic to account for diverse subject positions. Drawin…
Betwixt and be Tween
In this article, we argue that what is now known as the ‘tween’ cannot be understood apart from its inception in, and articulation with, the market exigencies of childhood - specifically girlhood - as they have emerged since the Second World War. Drawing upon trade discourses from the children’s clothing industry since the 1940s, interviews with children and views expressed by children’s market observers, we demonstrate how ‘the tween’ (or subtee…
Doing Beauty
Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function li…
Youth Style
In their everyday efforts to put together how they “look,” adolescents visually capture and articulate complex issues that society finds difficult to express verbally. In this paper we explore these “looks” as one example of youth appearance style and as a reflection of, and an impetus for, cultural anxieties. In doing so we draw on a series of multi‐method field studies conducted over the last ten years. A key feature of these studies has been t…
Proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme in cultural studies at UC Davis
The following proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme at the University of California, Davis, is the culmination of four years of meetings and other organizing activities focused on the formal institutionalization of cultural studies at UC Davis. Groundwork for the proposed cultural studies programme began in a series of discussions held by an interdisciplinary group of faculty about how to create the opportunity for structured graduate teaching, …
Appearance Management as Border Construction
Who we say we are and how we strive to look are but part of the negotiation of identity and appearance. While previous research has focused on the construction of who we are, in this paper we examine the negotiation of who we are not. We explore the vantage point and examine statements of identity not, questioning whether they allude to the mere antithesis of identity or to more complex identity ambivalences. Drawing from nearly 300 interviews, w…
Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style
This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays…
Stigmata and negotiated outcomes
This paper explores the role of clothing in the management of appearances by persons with disabilities. A negotiated outcomes perspective is used to study the clothing choices of disabled persons, rather than viewing them as passive recipients of the labels supplied by perceivers. A two‐part study of college students with physical disabilities, including comments from a series of focused group interviews and open‐ended responses to a questionnair…
Betwixt and be Tween
In this article, we argue that what is now known as the ‘tween’ cannot be understood apart from its inception in, and articulation with, the market exigencies of childhood - specifically girlhood - as they have emerged since the Second World War. Drawing upon trade discourses from the children’s clothing industry since the 1940s, interviews with children and views expressed by children’s market observers, we demonstrate how ‘the tween’ (or subtee…
Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style
This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays…
Appearance Management as Border Construction
Who we say we are and how we strive to look are but part of the negotiation of identity and appearance. While previous research has focused on the construction of who we are, in this paper we examine the negotiation of who we are not. We explore the vantage point and examine statements of identity not, questioning whether they allude to the mere antithesis of identity or to more complex identity ambivalences. Drawing from nearly 300 interviews, w…
Doing Beauty
Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function li…
Youth Style
In their everyday efforts to put together how they “look,” adolescents visually capture and articulate complex issues that society finds difficult to express verbally. In this paper we explore these “looks” as one example of youth appearance style and as a reflection of, and an impetus for, cultural anxieties. In doing so we draw on a series of multi‐method field studies conducted over the last ten years. A key feature of these studies has been t…
Entangling the Fashion Subject Through the African Diaspora
African diasporic theory offers a way to break out of oppositional thinking and evolutionary notions of progress. African American epistemologies—in conversation with other African diasporic thought—can be characterized as moving beyond either/or frameworks to “both/and” ways of knowing. Identity nots become identity (k)nots when entanglement replaces opposition and evolution as an organizing logic to account for diverse subject positions. Drawin…
Stigmata and negotiated outcomes
This paper explores the role of clothing in the management of appearances by persons with disabilities. A negotiated outcomes perspective is used to study the clothing choices of disabled persons, rather than viewing them as passive recipients of the labels supplied by perceivers. A two‐part study of college students with physical disabilities, including comments from a series of focused group interviews and open‐ended responses to a questionnair…
Would I Do It Again? Examining Foster Parents' Willingness to Take on the Same Foster Care Placement Again
This study aims to identify factors that are important to improve the retention of foster parents, which is crucial to meet the increasing need for good and stable foster homes. Using data from a survey conducted by the Norwegian Foster Homes Association, we assessed which variables could predict the willingness of foster parents to take on the same foster care placement again. Multinomial logistic regressions were used to compare foster parents …
Parental Satisfaction With Child Welfare Services in Norway
This study aims to examine parents' satisfaction with Norwegian child welfare services (CWS) and factors associated with parents' satisfaction. Different factors were included in the analysis, such as characteristics of the contact with CWS, and service aspects, as evaluated by parents (accessibility, information quality, workers' skills and user participation). Data were collected from 412 parents in 20 different municipalities. Over half of the…
The child's place in the foster family
This longitudinal study examines the child's place in the foster family through the use of conventional names for familial figures (e.g., ‘mum/dad’) and through the foster parents' intention to adopt the child. Data were collected at two time points during childhood and adolescence, among children placed in kinship and non‐kinship foster care in Norway. Children placed at a younger age and children in non‐kinship foster care were more likely to c…
Burnout and Engagement at the Northernmost University in the World
Few studies have looked at the relationship of job characteristics and worker well-being among Norwegian academics. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources, burnout, and engagement among Norwegian university staff. In total, 236 staff from one university in Norway answered the questionnaire. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses identified job demands as the most important predictors f…
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Evaluate Work-Related Outcomes Among Norwegian Health Care Workers
The job demands-resources (JD-R) model was used to evaluate work-related outcomes among 489 health care professionals working in public health services for children and their families in Norway. In accordance with the JD-R model, the relationship of job demands and job resources with different outcomes (turnover intention, job satisfaction, and service quality) should be mediated through burnout and engagement. The results of the multilevel struc…
Stigmata and negotiated outcomes
This paper explores the role of clothing in the management of appearances by persons with disabilities. A negotiated outcomes perspective is used to study the clothing choices of disabled persons, rather than viewing them as passive recipients of the labels supplied by perceivers. A two‐part study of college students with physical disabilities, including comments from a series of focused group interviews and open‐ended responses to a questionnair…
Communities, Commodities, Cultural Space, and Style
This article explores the interconnections between queer communities and cultural space(s) in the context of style. Visibility issues and politics have become important to gay communities in the U.S. Gays and lesbians use clothing and appearance style to signal membership in or separation from specific cultures or communities. Within commodity capital, the heuristic categories of 'subculture' and 'target market' describe space or spaces that gays…
Appearance Management as Border Construction
Who we say we are and how we strive to look are but part of the negotiation of identity and appearance. While previous research has focused on the construction of who we are, in this paper we examine the negotiation of who we are not. We explore the vantage point and examine statements of identity not, questioning whether they allude to the mere antithesis of identity or to more complex identity ambivalences. Drawing from nearly 300 interviews, w…
Proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme in cultural studies at UC Davis
The following proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme at the University of California, Davis, is the culmination of four years of meetings and other organizing activities focused on the formal institutionalization of cultural studies at UC Davis. Groundwork for the proposed cultural studies programme began in a series of discussions held by an interdisciplinary group of faculty about how to create the opportunity for structured graduate teaching, …
Doing Beauty
Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function li…
Youth Style
In their everyday efforts to put together how they “look,” adolescents visually capture and articulate complex issues that society finds difficult to express verbally. In this paper we explore these “looks” as one example of youth appearance style and as a reflection of, and an impetus for, cultural anxieties. In doing so we draw on a series of multi‐method field studies conducted over the last ten years. A key feature of these studies has been t…
Betwixt and be Tween
In this article, we argue that what is now known as the ‘tween’ cannot be understood apart from its inception in, and articulation with, the market exigencies of childhood - specifically girlhood - as they have emerged since the Second World War. Drawing upon trade discourses from the children’s clothing industry since the 1940s, interviews with children and views expressed by children’s market observers, we demonstrate how ‘the tween’ (or subtee…
Entangling the Fashion Subject Through the African Diaspora
African diasporic theory offers a way to break out of oppositional thinking and evolutionary notions of progress. African American epistemologies—in conversation with other African diasporic thought—can be characterized as moving beyond either/or frameworks to “both/and” ways of knowing. Identity nots become identity (k)nots when entanglement replaces opposition and evolution as an organizing logic to account for diverse subject positions. Drawin…
Ent-Grenztes Heranwachsen
Cyberbullying status and mental health in Norwegian adolescents
The aim of the present study was to examine how the cyberbullying status (not involved, cyber‐victim only, cyberbully only, cyber‐victim and bully) is related to the mental health of the adolescents when controlled for traditional bullying experience. We also examined the potential moderator sex on the relationship between cyberbullying status and mental health. Univariate analyses of variance were conducted to predict mental health problems usin…
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Evaluate Work-Related Outcomes Among Norwegian Health Care Workers
The job demands-resources (JD-R) model was used to evaluate work-related outcomes among 489 health care professionals working in public health services for children and their families in Norway. In accordance with the JD-R model, the relationship of job demands and job resources with different outcomes (turnover intention, job satisfaction, and service quality) should be mediated through burnout and engagement. The results of the multilevel struc…
Burnout and Engagement at the Northernmost University in the World
Few studies have looked at the relationship of job characteristics and worker well-being among Norwegian academics. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources, burnout, and engagement among Norwegian university staff. In total, 236 staff from one university in Norway answered the questionnaire. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses identified job demands as the most important predictors f…
Examining the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Social Aptitudes Scale in two clinical samples
Future validity studies should investigate whether SAS is suitable as a screening instrument for detecting autism spectrum disorder
The child's place in the foster family
This longitudinal study examines the child's place in the foster family through the use of conventional names for familial figures (e.g., ‘mum/dad’) and through the foster parents' intention to adopt the child. Data were collected at two time points during childhood and adolescence, among children placed in kinship and non‐kinship foster care in Norway. Children placed at a younger age and children in non‐kinship foster care were more likely to c…
Parental Satisfaction With Child Welfare Services in Norway
This study aims to examine parents' satisfaction with Norwegian child welfare services (CWS) and factors associated with parents' satisfaction. Different factors were included in the analysis, such as characteristics of the contact with CWS, and service aspects, as evaluated by parents (accessibility, information quality, workers' skills and user participation). Data were collected from 412 parents in 20 different municipalities. Over half of the…
Would I Do It Again? Examining Foster Parents' Willingness to Take on the Same Foster Care Placement Again
This study aims to identify factors that are important to improve the retention of foster parents, which is crucial to meet the increasing need for good and stable foster homes. Using data from a survey conducted by the Norwegian Foster Homes Association, we assessed which variables could predict the willingness of foster parents to take on the same foster care placement again. Multinomial logistic regressions were used to compare foster parents …
Child welfare workers’ attitudes towards network and family kinship care in Norway
This study examines and compares Norwegian child welfare workers’ attitudes towards network and family kinship care, where children who are removed from their parents’ care are placed with someone in their social network or with relatives. Using data from a 2023 national survey, we assessed differences in attitudes and their implications for child welfare practices. While workers generally had positive attitudes towards both care types, they show…
Advantages and disadvantages of kinship foster care – Perspectives from child welfare workers in Norway
Psychology (10 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Norwegian (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)