Carita Bengs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 210441 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carita Bengs |
| PRENOMES | Carita |
| SOBRENOME | Bengs |
| ASSINATURA | BENGS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3634-0600 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Balance, self-efficacy and collective individualism
Background: In health education, there is a risk of giving overly prescriptive recommendations, potentially activating conflicting in-group norms that reduce message receptiveness. For example, the notion of ‘unhealthy youth’ is a stereotype which suggests that young people are expected to make unhealthy choices. If such in-group norms are activated as part of health education, the will to emulate healthy out-group behaviour may decrease. Objecti…
Leaving early or staying on? Retirement preferences and motives among older health-care professionals
There is a need for improved knowledge about how workplace conditions and organisational factors may obstruct or facilitate work in late life. By means of both quantitative and qualitative data, this study aims to explore retirement preferences among employees (aged 55 and older) in a large Swedish health-care organisation and to identify work-related motives influencing their retirement preferences. The quantitative analysis showed large variati…
"It was as if I wasn't there" - Experiences of everyday racism in a Swedish medical school
The aim of this study was to explore and analyze how cultural/ethnic minority students at a Swedish medical school perceive and make sense of educational experiences they viewed as related to their minority position. We interviewed 18 medical students (10 women, and 8 men), who self-identified as coming from minority backgrounds. Data were collected and analyzed simultaneously, inspired by constructivist grounded theory methodology. The concepts …
He just has to like ham” – The centrality of meat in home and consumer studies
Living Close to the Edge
Although self-reported stress-related problems are common among Swedish adolescent girls and young women, few qualitative studies have been carried out of young people's own understandings and descriptions of their lived embodied experiences of stress-related illness. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to explore and analyze the lived embodied experiences of stress among adolescent girls and young women who had sought help at a youth he…
"En ribba att nå" - Unga kvinnors förkroppsligade stress i en neoliberal och könad kontext
Negative trends in adolescent mental and subjective health are indicated in Sweden and worldwide. Self-reported mental and subjective health complaints such as pain, sleeping problems, anxiety, and various stress-related problems seem to have increased over time among older adolescents, especially among girls. In this article we aim to highlight and problematise teenage girls' and young women’s perceived and embodied stress and mental health in r…
My Greatest Dream is to be Normal
Depression is common among young people. Gender differences in diagnosing depression appear during adolescence. The study aim was to explore the impact of gender on depression in young Swedish men and women. Grounded theory was used to analyze interviews with 23 young people aged 17 to 25 years who had been diagnosed with depression. Their narratives were marked by a striving to be normal and disclosed strong gender stereotypes, constructed in in…
He Messed Me Up”
This article illuminates two Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Interviews were conducted in a youth health center. A combination of qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis describes violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during the period of adolescence and transition into adulthood. Despite Swedish progressive publi…
Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth
Gaps Between Patients, Media, and Academic Medicine in Discourses on Gender and Depression
For reasons that are not yet fully understood, depression affects women twice as often as men. In this article we describe an investigation of how depression is understood in relation to men and women by the patients themselves, the media, and the medical research establishment. We do this by undertaking a metasynthesis of data from three different sources: interviews with depressed patients, media portrayals of depressed individuals in Sweden, a…
Gendered Portraits of Depression in Swedish Newspapers
Mass media are influential mediators of information, knowledge, and narratives of health and illness. In this article, we report on an examination of personal accounts of illness as presented in three Swedish newspapers, focusing on the gendered representation of laypersons' experiences of depression. A database search identified all articles mentioning depression during the year 2002. Twenty six articles focusing on personal experiences of depre…
Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth
Gendered Portraits of Depression in Swedish Newspapers
Mass media are influential mediators of information, knowledge, and narratives of health and illness. In this article, we report on an examination of personal accounts of illness as presented in three Swedish newspapers, focusing on the gendered representation of laypersons' experiences of depression. A database search identified all articles mentioning depression during the year 2002. Twenty six articles focusing on personal experiences of depre…
He just has to like ham” – The centrality of meat in home and consumer studies
Gaps Between Patients, Media, and Academic Medicine in Discourses on Gender and Depression
For reasons that are not yet fully understood, depression affects women twice as often as men. In this article we describe an investigation of how depression is understood in relation to men and women by the patients themselves, the media, and the medical research establishment. We do this by undertaking a metasynthesis of data from three different sources: interviews with depressed patients, media portrayals of depressed individuals in Sweden, a…
"It was as if I wasn't there" - Experiences of everyday racism in a Swedish medical school
The aim of this study was to explore and analyze how cultural/ethnic minority students at a Swedish medical school perceive and make sense of educational experiences they viewed as related to their minority position. We interviewed 18 medical students (10 women, and 8 men), who self-identified as coming from minority backgrounds. Data were collected and analyzed simultaneously, inspired by constructivist grounded theory methodology. The concepts …
He Messed Me Up”
This article illuminates two Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Interviews were conducted in a youth health center. A combination of qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis describes violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during the period of adolescence and transition into adulthood. Despite Swedish progressive publi…
My Greatest Dream is to be Normal
Depression is common among young people. Gender differences in diagnosing depression appear during adolescence. The study aim was to explore the impact of gender on depression in young Swedish men and women. Grounded theory was used to analyze interviews with 23 young people aged 17 to 25 years who had been diagnosed with depression. Their narratives were marked by a striving to be normal and disclosed strong gender stereotypes, constructed in in…
Living Close to the Edge
Although self-reported stress-related problems are common among Swedish adolescent girls and young women, few qualitative studies have been carried out of young people's own understandings and descriptions of their lived embodied experiences of stress-related illness. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to explore and analyze the lived embodied experiences of stress among adolescent girls and young women who had sought help at a youth he…
"En ribba att nå" - Unga kvinnors förkroppsligade stress i en neoliberal och könad kontext
Negative trends in adolescent mental and subjective health are indicated in Sweden and worldwide. Self-reported mental and subjective health complaints such as pain, sleeping problems, anxiety, and various stress-related problems seem to have increased over time among older adolescents, especially among girls. In this article we aim to highlight and problematise teenage girls' and young women’s perceived and embodied stress and mental health in r…
Gendered Portraits of Depression in Swedish Newspapers
Mass media are influential mediators of information, knowledge, and narratives of health and illness. In this article, we report on an examination of personal accounts of illness as presented in three Swedish newspapers, focusing on the gendered representation of laypersons' experiences of depression. A database search identified all articles mentioning depression during the year 2002. Twenty six articles focusing on personal experiences of depre…
Gaps Between Patients, Media, and Academic Medicine in Discourses on Gender and Depression
For reasons that are not yet fully understood, depression affects women twice as often as men. In this article we describe an investigation of how depression is understood in relation to men and women by the patients themselves, the media, and the medical research establishment. We do this by undertaking a metasynthesis of data from three different sources: interviews with depressed patients, media portrayals of depressed individuals in Sweden, a…
He Messed Me Up”
This article illuminates two Swedish adolescent girls' experiences of living in a violent relationship as teenagers and how this has affected their lives and health over time. Interviews were conducted in a youth health center. A combination of qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis describes violation, stress, trauma, coping, and agency during the period of adolescence and transition into adulthood. Despite Swedish progressive publi…
Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth
My Greatest Dream is to be Normal
Depression is common among young people. Gender differences in diagnosing depression appear during adolescence. The study aim was to explore the impact of gender on depression in young Swedish men and women. Grounded theory was used to analyze interviews with 23 young people aged 17 to 25 years who had been diagnosed with depression. Their narratives were marked by a striving to be normal and disclosed strong gender stereotypes, constructed in in…
"En ribba att nå" - Unga kvinnors förkroppsligade stress i en neoliberal och könad kontext
Negative trends in adolescent mental and subjective health are indicated in Sweden and worldwide. Self-reported mental and subjective health complaints such as pain, sleeping problems, anxiety, and various stress-related problems seem to have increased over time among older adolescents, especially among girls. In this article we aim to highlight and problematise teenage girls' and young women’s perceived and embodied stress and mental health in r…
Living Close to the Edge
Although self-reported stress-related problems are common among Swedish adolescent girls and young women, few qualitative studies have been carried out of young people's own understandings and descriptions of their lived embodied experiences of stress-related illness. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to explore and analyze the lived embodied experiences of stress among adolescent girls and young women who had sought help at a youth he…
He just has to like ham” – The centrality of meat in home and consumer studies
"It was as if I wasn't there" - Experiences of everyday racism in a Swedish medical school
The aim of this study was to explore and analyze how cultural/ethnic minority students at a Swedish medical school perceive and make sense of educational experiences they viewed as related to their minority position. We interviewed 18 medical students (10 women, and 8 men), who self-identified as coming from minority backgrounds. Data were collected and analyzed simultaneously, inspired by constructivist grounded theory methodology. The concepts …
Leaving early or staying on? Retirement preferences and motives among older health-care professionals
There is a need for improved knowledge about how workplace conditions and organisational factors may obstruct or facilitate work in late life. By means of both quantitative and qualitative data, this study aims to explore retirement preferences among employees (aged 55 and older) in a large Swedish health-care organisation and to identify work-related motives influencing their retirement preferences. The quantitative analysis showed large variati…
Balance, self-efficacy and collective individualism
Background: In health education, there is a risk of giving overly prescriptive recommendations, potentially activating conflicting in-group norms that reduce message receptiveness. For example, the notion of ‘unhealthy youth’ is a stereotype which suggests that young people are expected to make unhealthy choices. If such in-group norms are activated as part of health education, the will to emulate healthy out-group behaviour may decrease. Objecti…
Psychology (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Qualitative research (5 obras) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 obras) · Health, psychology, and well-being (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras)