Bjørn E Holstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 248122 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bjørn E Holstein |
| NOMBRES | Bjørn E |
| APELLIDO | Holstein |
| FIRMA | HOLSTEIN B E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4348-280X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 387 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Sorrow and Ambivalence of Intergenerational Estrangement in Later Life
Estrangement from adult children can be a painful experience. However, it remains to be investigated how older parents relate to estrangement and what factors predict these sentiments. This article investigated older parents' sentiments toward estrangement on dimensions of sorrow, ambivalence, and relief. Parent demographics and estrangement characteristics duration, initiative, and estrangement proportions were examined as predictors of parent s…
How Older Parents Cope With Estrangement From Adult Children
Intergenerational estrangement is a new but growing field of research. Studies have suggested that estrangement is associated with negative emotional outcomes, especially for older parents. This study explored how older parents cope with being estranged from their children. In-depth interviews with 15 older parents ( M = 83 years), seven fathers and eight mothers, were conducted to gain insights into coping responses. Participants were recruited …
Loneliness and ease of communication with parents and friends
The study found a remarkably strong negative association between loneliness and ease of communication with parents and friends, especially for girls
Estrangement between older parents and adult children
Parent-child relationships are among the most important social connections throughout life. Estrangement from one or more children has been shown to evoke feelings of sorrow for parents as they move closer to the end of life. Yet family estrangement in older age has not garnered much attention in the scientific literature, and associations with mental health remain unresolved. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association betwee…
Bullying at School, Cyberbullying, and Loneliness
Exposure to bullying at school and cyberbullying are strongly associated with loneliness. It is important to reduce bullying at school and on the internet and to promote effective interventions to reduce continuing loneliness
Lonely, but Not Alone
This paper explores loneliness as it is understood and experienced by adolescents, with a special focus on the importance of their migration status. We recruited students from five schools following a maximum variation sampling scheme, and we conducted 15 semi-structured, individual interviews with eighth-grade adolescents (aged 14-15 years) that were immigrants, descendants, and with a Danish majority background. A thematic analysis was applied …
Persistent social inequality in low life satisfaction among adolescents in Denmark 2002–2018
Persistent social inequality in low intake of vegetables among adolescents, 2002–2014
Objective To examine the trend in social inequality in low intake of vegetables among adolescents in Denmark from 2002 to 2014 using occupational social class (OSC) as socio-economic indicator. Design Repeated cross-sectional school surveys including four waves of data collection in 2002–2014. The analyses focused on absolute social inequality (difference between high and low OSC in low vegetable intake) as well as relative social inequality (OR …
Trends in social inequality in physical inactivity among Danish adolescents 1991–2014
The aim of this study was to investigate social inequality in physical inactivity among adolescents from 1991 to 2014 and to describe any changes in inequality during this period. The analyses were based on data from the Danish part of the HBSC study, which consists of seven comparable cross-sectional studies of nationally representative samples of 11-15-year old adolescents. The available data consisted of weekly time (hours) spent on vigorous p…
Breakfast frequency among adolescents
Objective To investigate (i) associations between adolescents’ frequency of breakfast and family functioning (close relations to parents, quality of family communication and family support) and (ii) if any observed associations between breakfast frequency and family functioning vary by sociodemographic factors. Design School-based cross-sectional study. Students completed a web-based questionnaire. Associations were estimated by multilevel multiv…
Fast-food intake and perceived and objective measures of the local fast-food environment in adolescents
Objective We examined associations between fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet exposure. Design Information from the Health Behaviours in School-aged Children Study was linked to fast-food outlets in seventy-five school neighbourhoods. We used multivariate multilevel logistic regression analyses to examine associations between at least weekly fast-food intake and perceived and objective fast-food outlet measures. Subject…
Lunch frequency among adolescents
Objective To investigate: (i) how lunch frequency of adolescents varies between schools and between classes within schools; (ii) the associations between frequency of lunch and individual sociodemographic factors and school characteristics; and (iii) if any observed associations between lunch frequency and school characteristics vary by gender and age groups. Design Cross-sectional study in which students and school headmasters completed self-adm…
Loneliness and Ethnic Composition of the School Class
Loneliness, immigration background and self-identified ethnicity
Migration is an increasing worldwide phenomenon that creates multicultural societies with a growing number of adolescents who have experienced a process of migration or who have an ethnic background other than that of the majority. Migration may lead to loss of social relations and create challenges related to acculturation in the new country. These experiences may induce feelings of loneliness. Research on ethnic and migrant disparities in lonel…
Does school social capital modify socioeconomic inequality in mental health? A multi-level analysis in Danish schools
Perceived problems with computer gaming and internet use among adolescents
The three new measures of perceived problems related to computer and console gaming and internet use among adolescents are appropriate, reliable and valid for use in non-clinical surveys about young people's everyday life and behaviour. These new measures do not assess Internet Gaming Disorder as it is listed in the DSM and therefore has no parity with DSM criteria. We found an increasing risk of perceived problems with increasing time spent with…
Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement
The DOSC measure was associated with aging-related outcomes in a midlife Danish population, and is, thus, well suited for future epidemiological research on social inequalities in health and aging
Meal frequencies in early adolescence predict meal frequencies in late adolescence and early adulthood
Having low meal frequencies in early adolescence predicted low meal frequencies in late adolescence and early adulthood. We propose that promotion of regular meals become a prioritised issue within health education
Secular Trends in Alcohol Drinking Among Danish 15‐Year‐Olds
This study describes the secular trends in weekly intake of beer, wine, liquor, and drunkenness among 15‐year‐olds 1988–2010 (total N = 8,701), a period with several policy initiatives regarding alcohol in D enmark. Data from seven comparative and representative school surveys conducted in 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010 were used. The proportion of 15‐year‐olds in D enmark who drank alcohol and were drunk increased from 1988 to 2002…
Inequalities in asthma treatment among children by country of birth and ancestry
BACKGROUND: Investigations in several Western countries have reported ethnic differences in asthma prevalence and treatment among children and in some countries these differences are increasing. The aim of this study was to analyse whether there are inequalities in asthma treatment by country of birth and ancestry among children residing in Denmark, and whether this potential association may vary between different household income groups. METHODS…
Validation of presence of supermarkets and fast-food outlets in Copenhagen
Objective We examined the quality of food outlet addresses provided by secondary sources and determined whether they could be physically located in the field. Design Addresses of food outlets in fourteen school districts in the northern part of Copenhagen were obtained from multiple business locators. We geocoded 202 addresses using a geographic information system and cross-referenced the sources against each other using a validation grid. Physic…
Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence contribute to adult health inequalities
Aims: This paper presents a model that encompasses pathways and mechanisms working over adolescence that contribute to adult health inequalities. We review evidence on the four mechanisms: socially differential exposure, tracking, socially differential tracking, and socially differential vulnerability. Methods: We conducted literature searches in English-language peer-reviewed journals using PubMed (from 1966 to May 2009) and PsycINFO, and combin…
Supermarket and fast-food outlet exposure in Copenhagen
Objective To investigate whether exposure to fast-food outlets and supermarkets is socio-economically patterned in the city of Copenhagen. Design The study was based on a cross-sectional multivariate approach to examine the association between the number of fast-food outlets and supermarkets and neighbourhood-level socio-economic indicators. Food business addresses were obtained from commercial and public business locators and geocoded using a ge…
“I'd Rather Not Take it, But . . .”
Little is known about healthy young women's everyday experiences with medicine use and their general perceptions of medicines. In this article, we describe a user-perspective study involving in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 young women between the ages of 16 and 20 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired by Schutz's phenomenology, informants' medicine-taking experiences were considered within the context of their life-worlds. Analysis revealed th…
Socioeconomic Inequality in Exposure to Bullying During Adolescence
Objectives. We examined the socioeconomic distribution of adolescent exposure to bullying internationally and documented the contribution of the macroeconomic environment. Methods. We used an international survey of 162 305 students aged 11, 13, and 15 years from nationally representative samples of 5998 schools in 35 countries in Europe and North America for the 2001–2002 school year. The survey used standardized measures of exposure to bullying…
Researching health inequalities in adolescents
Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality-an eight year follow-up study
Socioeconomic Inequality in Exposure to Bullying During Adolescence
Objectives. We examined the socioeconomic distribution of adolescent exposure to bullying internationally and documented the contribution of the macroeconomic environment. Methods. We used an international survey of 162 305 students aged 11, 13, and 15 years from nationally representative samples of 5998 schools in 35 countries in Europe and North America for the 2001–2002 school year. The survey used standardized measures of exposure to bullying…
Social relations and mortality. An eleven year follow-up study of 70-year-old men and women in Denmark
The Impact of Structural and Functional Characteristics of Social Relations as Determinants of Functional Decline
The results point to the importance of social relations in the prevention of functional decline in older adults
Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement
The DOSC measure was associated with aging-related outcomes in a midlife Danish population, and is, thus, well suited for future epidemiological research on social inequalities in health and aging
High agreement on family affluence between children’s and parents’ reports
OBJECTIVE: To examine the agreement between parents' and children's reports on four items of family affluence: number of cars, own bedroom, number of family holidays and number of computers, and to analyse predictors of disagreement. DESIGN: Cross-sectional child-parent validation study of selected items from an internationally standardised questionnaire. SETTING: Survey conducted in schools in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Scotlan…
Loneliness, immigration background and self-identified ethnicity
Migration is an increasing worldwide phenomenon that creates multicultural societies with a growing number of adolescents who have experienced a process of migration or who have an ethnic background other than that of the majority. Migration may lead to loss of social relations and create challenges related to acculturation in the new country. These experiences may induce feelings of loneliness. Research on ethnic and migrant disparities in lonel…
Loneliness and Ethnic Composition of the School Class
Does school social capital modify socioeconomic inequality in mental health? A multi-level analysis in Danish schools
Influence of marital history over two and three generations on early death. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953
Background: This study examined the effects of marital status over two and three generations on last generation’s mortality, and tested the hypothesis of an effect of the latest status (proximity effect) as well as the hypothesis of an accumulative effect. Methods: The study population covers a random sample of all boys born in the the metropolitan area of Copenhagen with complete data from interviews and registers on two and three generation’s m…
Emerging trends in gerontology and geriatrics
Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parents
Objective: To examine (1) the relation between parental socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations, (2) the relative importance of mother’s educational status and father’s occupational status on offspring mortality, and (3) the effect of factors in the family environment on these relations. Design: A longitudinal study with record linkage to the Civil Registration System. The data were analysed using Cox regression models. …
Does school environment affect 11-year-olds' fruit and vegetable intake in Denmark
Lonely, but Not Alone
This paper explores loneliness as it is understood and experienced by adolescents, with a special focus on the importance of their migration status. We recruited students from five schools following a maximum variation sampling scheme, and we conducted 15 semi-structured, individual interviews with eighth-grade adolescents (aged 14-15 years) that were immigrants, descendants, and with a Danish majority background. A thematic analysis was applied …
Secular Trends in Alcohol Drinking Among Danish 15‐Year‐Olds
This study describes the secular trends in weekly intake of beer, wine, liquor, and drunkenness among 15‐year‐olds 1988–2010 (total N = 8,701), a period with several policy initiatives regarding alcohol in D enmark. Data from seven comparative and representative school surveys conducted in 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010 were used. The proportion of 15‐year‐olds in D enmark who drank alcohol and were drunk increased from 1988 to 2002…
Using Analgesics as Tools
In this study, the authors explore the context surrounding young women's use of analgesics to deal with headache. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 young women between the ages of 16 and 20 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Interviews focused on the young women's experiences with medications within the context of their everyday lives. The central elements in the participants' accounts emerged via a phenomenological approach. Analysis revealed that…
Estrangement between older parents and adult children
Parent-child relationships are among the most important social connections throughout life. Estrangement from one or more children has been shown to evoke feelings of sorrow for parents as they move closer to the end of life. Yet family estrangement in older age has not garnered much attention in the scientific literature, and associations with mental health remain unresolved. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association betwee…
Persistent social inequality in low life satisfaction among adolescents in Denmark 2002–2018
Young women's use of medicines
Medicine use among youths is widespread and on the increase. This is especially true for young females, whose utilization of a variety of medications grows considerably during the teenage years. This user perspective study aims to obtain a greater understanding of what young women perceive as the norms for medicine use at home and among peers, and how these perceptions are reflected in their own use of medicine. In-depth interviews were conducted…
Emerging trends in gerontology and geriatrics
Social relations and mortality. An eleven year follow-up study of 70-year-old men and women in Denmark
Exposure to teachers smoking and adolescent smoking behaviour
Teachers smoking during school hours is associated with adolescent smoking. This finding has implications for future tobacco prevention strategies in schools in many countries with liberal smoking policies where it might provide support for those working to establish smokefree schools
Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality-an eight year follow-up study
Cynical Hostility, Socioeconomic Position, Health Behaviors, and Symptom Load
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the cross-sectional association between cynical hostility and high symptom load in a Danish population-based study. Furthermore, the aim was to investigate to what extent health risk behaviors mediated this association. METHODS: Data were based on a postal questionnaire in a Danish random sample of 3426 men and 3699 women aged 40 or 50 years. Cynical hostility was measured by the 8-item Cynical Distrust Scale. High symptom l…
The Impact of Structural and Functional Characteristics of Social Relations as Determinants of Functional Decline
The results point to the importance of social relations in the prevention of functional decline in older adults
Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children
BACKGROUND: There have been no large-scale international comparisons on bullying and health among adolescents. This study examined the association between bullying and physical and psychological symptoms among adolescents in 28 countries. METHODS: This international cross-sectional survey included 123,227 students 11, 13 and 15 years of age from a nationally representative sample of schools in 28 countries in Europe and North America in 1997-98. …
Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parents
Objective: To examine (1) the relation between parental socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations, (2) the relative importance of mother’s educational status and father’s occupational status on offspring mortality, and (3) the effect of factors in the family environment on these relations. Design: A longitudinal study with record linkage to the Civil Registration System. The data were analysed using Cox regression models. …
Influence of marital history over two and three generations on early death. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953
Background: This study examined the effects of marital status over two and three generations on last generation’s mortality, and tested the hypothesis of an effect of the latest status (proximity effect) as well as the hypothesis of an accumulative effect. Methods: The study population covers a random sample of all boys born in the the metropolitan area of Copenhagen with complete data from interviews and registers on two and three generation’s m…
High agreement on family affluence between children’s and parents’ reports
OBJECTIVE: To examine the agreement between parents' and children's reports on four items of family affluence: number of cars, own bedroom, number of family holidays and number of computers, and to analyse predictors of disagreement. DESIGN: Cross-sectional child-parent validation study of selected items from an internationally standardised questionnaire. SETTING: Survey conducted in schools in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Scotlan…
Researching health inequalities in adolescents
Using Analgesics as Tools
In this study, the authors explore the context surrounding young women's use of analgesics to deal with headache. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 young women between the ages of 16 and 20 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Interviews focused on the young women's experiences with medications within the context of their everyday lives. The central elements in the participants' accounts emerged via a phenomenological approach. Analysis revealed that…
“I'd Rather Not Take it, But . . .”
Little is known about healthy young women's everyday experiences with medicine use and their general perceptions of medicines. In this article, we describe a user-perspective study involving in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 young women between the ages of 16 and 20 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired by Schutz's phenomenology, informants' medicine-taking experiences were considered within the context of their life-worlds. Analysis revealed th…
Socioeconomic Inequality in Exposure to Bullying During Adolescence
Objectives. We examined the socioeconomic distribution of adolescent exposure to bullying internationally and documented the contribution of the macroeconomic environment. Methods. We used an international survey of 162 305 students aged 11, 13, and 15 years from nationally representative samples of 5998 schools in 35 countries in Europe and North America for the 2001–2002 school year. The survey used standardized measures of exposure to bullying…
Does school environment affect 11-year-olds' fruit and vegetable intake in Denmark
Young women's use of medicines
Medicine use among youths is widespread and on the increase. This is especially true for young females, whose utilization of a variety of medications grows considerably during the teenage years. This user perspective study aims to obtain a greater understanding of what young women perceive as the norms for medicine use at home and among peers, and how these perceptions are reflected in their own use of medicine. In-depth interviews were conducted…
Pathways and mechanisms in adolescence contribute to adult health inequalities
Aims: This paper presents a model that encompasses pathways and mechanisms working over adolescence that contribute to adult health inequalities. We review evidence on the four mechanisms: socially differential exposure, tracking, socially differential tracking, and socially differential vulnerability. Methods: We conducted literature searches in English-language peer-reviewed journals using PubMed (from 1966 to May 2009) and PsycINFO, and combin…
Supermarket and fast-food outlet exposure in Copenhagen
Objective To investigate whether exposure to fast-food outlets and supermarkets is socio-economically patterned in the city of Copenhagen. Design The study was based on a cross-sectional multivariate approach to examine the association between the number of fast-food outlets and supermarkets and neighbourhood-level socio-economic indicators. Food business addresses were obtained from commercial and public business locators and geocoded using a ge…
Validation of presence of supermarkets and fast-food outlets in Copenhagen
Objective We examined the quality of food outlet addresses provided by secondary sources and determined whether they could be physically located in the field. Design Addresses of food outlets in fourteen school districts in the northern part of Copenhagen were obtained from multiple business locators. We geocoded 202 addresses using a geographic information system and cross-referenced the sources against each other using a validation grid. Physic…
Meal frequencies in early adolescence predict meal frequencies in late adolescence and early adulthood
Having low meal frequencies in early adolescence predicted low meal frequencies in late adolescence and early adulthood. We propose that promotion of regular meals become a prioritised issue within health education
Secular Trends in Alcohol Drinking Among Danish 15‐Year‐Olds
This study describes the secular trends in weekly intake of beer, wine, liquor, and drunkenness among 15‐year‐olds 1988–2010 (total N = 8,701), a period with several policy initiatives regarding alcohol in D enmark. Data from seven comparative and representative school surveys conducted in 1988, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010 were used. The proportion of 15‐year‐olds in D enmark who drank alcohol and were drunk increased from 1988 to 2002…
Inequalities in asthma treatment among children by country of birth and ancestry
BACKGROUND: Investigations in several Western countries have reported ethnic differences in asthma prevalence and treatment among children and in some countries these differences are increasing. The aim of this study was to analyse whether there are inequalities in asthma treatment by country of birth and ancestry among children residing in Denmark, and whether this potential association may vary between different household income groups. METHODS…
Perceived problems with computer gaming and internet use among adolescents
The three new measures of perceived problems related to computer and console gaming and internet use among adolescents are appropriate, reliable and valid for use in non-clinical surveys about young people's everyday life and behaviour. These new measures do not assess Internet Gaming Disorder as it is listed in the DSM and therefore has no parity with DSM criteria. We found an increasing risk of perceived problems with increasing time spent with…
Addressing Social Inequality in Aging by the Danish Occupational Social Class Measurement
The DOSC measure was associated with aging-related outcomes in a midlife Danish population, and is, thus, well suited for future epidemiological research on social inequalities in health and aging
Does school social capital modify socioeconomic inequality in mental health? A multi-level analysis in Danish schools
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