Mattias Strandh
Biographic Data
| ID | 226107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattias Strandh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattias |
| FAMILY NAME | Strandh |
| SIGNATURE | STRANDH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6867-6205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 333 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
School-based cross-curricular sexuality education and its association with sexual initiation, refusal, and gender in Sweden
Sexual initiation and refusal are key contributors to sexual health, but despite their importance there has been limited research on how sexual initiation and refusal are learned. Therefore, we explored associations between sexual initiation and refusal, and satisfaction with the reception of information from school-based cross-curricular sexuality education. For this we used empirical data from SRHR 2017 [Sexual and Reproductive Health and Right…
Patterns of violence exposure in a life-course perspective and associations to mental and physical health problems and health-related risk behaviors among women and men in Sweden: A latent class analy…
Gendered patterns of poly-victimization and their health-related consequences underscore the importance of early intervention to prevent revictimization. The identification of unique and resilient clusters among women, despite similar childhood violence exposure, highlights the need for further research into protective mechanisms and trauma-to-benefit pathways, as conceptualized within the TTB framework
Violence in adulthood amplifies the health correlates of childhood maltreatment
The results underscore the importance of studying violence exposure in a life-course perspective and suggest that the relationship between childhood adversities and long-term physical health problems in adulthood may be affected by the traumatic effects of revictimization in adult life. This points to the importance of early identification of child maltreatment and provision of robust services to protect children, treat symtoms of trauma, and enh…
Post-discharge pharmacological treatment discontinuation of forensic psychiatric patients in Sweden
For many former forensic psychiatric patients, there are situational factors associated with medication discontinuation. This insight holds significance for professionals who are involved in pre-discharge planning within forensic psychiatric care and those who interact with this cohort of former patients post-discharge
Changes in the association between educational achievement, attainment and subsequent mental health: A survival analysis of 21 Swedish graduation cohorts
Low compulsory school achievements and failure to complete upper secondary school has become more important risk factors for inpatient treatment for internalizing disorders, particularly in native-born youth and girls. More research is needed to establish whether youth with internalizing disorders increasingly fail in school or whether low achievement has become more harmful for mental health
Women and men physically abused by closely related perpetrators over a lifespan. Revictimization and associations to situational factors in childhood
Have performance-based educational reforms increased adolescent school-pressure in Sweden? A synthetic control approach
Increased levels of stress and other mental health problems have been reported amongst adolescents in high-income countries. In particular, rates of school-pressure have increased significantly. Despite such increases, little is known about the underlying determinants of increased adolescent stress, making this an emerging public health concern. The educational stressors hypothesis contends that increased rates of stress result from pronounced pe…
Historical, clinical and situational risk factors for post-discharge recidivism in forensic psychiatric patients – A Swedish registry study
OBJECTIVE: To investigate which factors, known at the time of discharge, correlate with post-discharge recidivism in forensic psychiatric patients in Sweden. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A database was constructed based on registry data taken from the Swedish National Forensic Psychiatric Register, as well as data on post-discharge convictions sourced from the National Council of Crime Prevention and demographic data from Statistics Sweden. The sample c…
Psychotropic medication use and academic performance in adolescence: A cross‐lagged path analysis
INTRODUCTION: The study investigated the directionality of associations between mental health problems and school grades across two timepoints (T1 and T2) during mid to late adolescence; in school year 9 (ages 15-16) and school year 12 (ages 17-18). The study also investigated variation in the associations as a function of gender and across socioeconomic groups. METHODS: Longitudinal data from several Swedish administrative registers were utilise…
Egalitarian Values and Sexual Behavior—The Role of Country Level Values in Shaping Individual Level Behaviors in Africa, South America and Asia
Objective The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between country level egalitarian values (broadly speaking emancipatory values/structural gender equality) and sexual behavior among youth. Methods: Comparative individual level data on sexual activity and condom use were collected from the Global School-based Student Health Survey, resulting in a final sample of 23 countries, analyzed utilizing multilevel logistic regression anal…
When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too: The effects of partner’s employment status on health in comparative perspective
The effects of changes in employment status on health within couples have attracted increasing attention. This paper contributes to this emerging research by investigating whether the impact of a partner's employment status on individual self-rated health varies systematically across countries with varying decommodification levels. We use longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and hybrid mod…
Consequences of school grading systems on adolescent health: Evidence from a Swedish school reform
Education reforms that entail increased emphasis on high-stakes testing, assessment and grading have spread across education systems in recent decades. Critics have argued that these policies could have consequences for stress, identity, self-esteem and the overall health of pupils. However, these potentially negative consequences have rarely been investigated in a systematic and rigorous way. In this study we use a major education reform in Swed…
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Academic Achievement in Adolescence
The well-being of young people in relation to their school performance has received increased attention in recent years. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the longitudinal and reciprocal relationship between adolescents’ subjective well-being and their academic achievements. The current study examined the bidirectional relationship between subjective well-being and academic achievement across two timepoints (T1 and T2) during the course…
Determinants of Declining School Belonging 2000-2018: The Case of Sweden
Students' sense of belonging at school has declined across the world in recent decades, and more so in Sweden than in almost any other high-income country. However, we do not know the characteristics or causes of these worldwide trends. Using data on Swedish students aged 15-16 years from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) between 2000 and 2018, we show that the decline in school belonging in Sweden was driven by a dispropo…
Sibling Ill Health and Children's Educational Outcomes
BACKGROUND: The presence of health problems in a child is known to be negatively associated with later academic achievement, but less is known about the educational outcomes for siblings of children in poor health. The study investigated how having a sibling with health problems affects a healthy sibling's academic achievement. METHODS: We utilized medical and social microdata from Swedish administrative population registers. Our sample consisted…
Decomposition of income-related inequality in upper secondary school completion in Sweden by mental health, family conditions and contextual characteristics
Our results highlighted substantial income-related inequality in upper secondary school incompletion concentrated among the poor in the Swedish setting. Apart from family level characteristics, which explained a large portion of the inequalities, mental health problems appeared to be of particular importance as they represent a central target for both increasing the population average in upper secondary school completion and for reducing the gap …
Parental Illness and Young People’s Education
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of parental health problems on the probability of youths leaving upper secondary education before completion in Sweden, and to investigate potential gender differences in these effects. Medical and social microdata from Swedish administrative registers were used. The study population consisted of individuals born between 1987 and 1990 ( N = 398,748) who were still alive and residing …
Gender and secular trends in adolescent mental health over 24 years - The role of school-related stress
Increasing levels of psychosomatic symptoms, and other mental health problems, among adolescents, and especially among girls, have been reported across various countries. The "educational stressors hypothesis" states that this trend can be explained by an increasing amount of stressors in the school environment. This study tests this hypothesis, using repeated cross-sectional data, between the years 1993-2017, from the Health Behaviours of School…
Is the effect of ill health on school achievement among Swedish adolescents gendered
This study investigates why the relationship between health problems requiring hospitalization between the ages of 13 and 16 and school achievement (school grades in 9th grade) in Sweden was stronger for girls than for boys. We reviewed previous research on gender differences in subjective health, health care utilization and medical drug treatment to identify mechanisms responsible for this gendered effect. The relationship was analysed using ret…
The interplay between national and parental unemployment in relation to adolescent life satisfaction in 27 countries: Analyses of repeated cross-sectional school surveys
Living in a country with higher national unemployment seems to be related to lower adolescent life satisfaction, whether parents are unemployed or not, although stronger among adolescents where the father or both parents are unemployed. However, variation in unemployment over the years did not show an association with adolescent life satisfaction
Unemployment, well-being, and the moderating role of education policies: A multilevel study
This article aims to investigate if education policies moderate the association between unemployment and well-being among young adults. Based on the capability approach, we argue that education policies mitigate the negative effects of unemployment by providing opportunities for education and thus ways to exit unemployment. Education policies can strengthen capabilities, enhance the control that individuals have over their situation, and thereby …
Education system stratification and health complaints among school-aged children
Transitions from temporary employment to permanent employment among young adults: The role of labour law and education systems
Temporary work is common across Europe, especially among young people. Whether temporary employment is a transitory stage on the road to standard employment, and whether this varies depending on institutional contexts, is controversial. This article investigates variability in transition rates from temporary to permanent employment across Europe, and how this is related to employment protection legislation (EPL) and the vocational specificity of …
Gender inequality and adolescent suicide ideation across Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and Latin America – a cross-sectional study based on the Global School Health Survey (GSHS)
Background: Suicide ideation is a health issue affecting adolescents worldwide. There are significant variations in suicide ideation between countries and genders, which have not been fully explained. Research is especially lacking in countries outside Europe and North America. Gender equality has been shown to matter in other aspects of adolescent mental health, such as life satisfaction, but has not been researched in relation to suicide ideati…
The Effects of Unemployment and Insecure Jobs on Well-Being and Health: The Moderating Role of Labor Market Policies
Labor market insecurities have been growing in Europe and previous research has illustrated that unemployment and insecure jobs negatively affect individuals’ well-being and health. Although empirical evidence suggests that these effects vary substantially across different welfare states, we still know little about the moderating role of specific labor market policies. Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, this article investigates how…
Different Exit Routes from Unemployment and their Impact on Mental Well-being: The Role of the Economic Situation and the Predictability of the Life Course
The relationship between unemployment and mental well-being has been thoroughly researched. Longitudinal studies have shown unemployment to have negative impact on mental well-being, whereas re-employment has positive impact. This research has however taken little interest in a more complex concept of labour market status than just ‘employment versus unemployment’, or indeed other alternative exit routes from unemployment. In this article, an inv…
The interference of paid work with household demands in different social policy contexts: Perceived work-household conflict in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
The article explores whether people experiences a lower level of work-household conflict in a context that is characterized by extensive family policies (Sweden and to some extent Hungary and Czech Republic) aimed at facilitating participation in the labour market. This is done by studying perceived work-household conflict among women and men living in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The analyses are based on the…
Unemployment, gender and mental health: The Role of the Gender Regime
Existing research suggests that gender differences in the effect of unemployment on mental health are related to the different positions and roles that are available for men and women in society and the family; roles that are connected with their different psychosocial and economic need for employment. The aim of this article is to analyse the role of gender in the relationship between unemployment and mental wellbeing in Sweden, representing a g…
The Effects of Unemployment and Insecure Jobs on Well-Being and Health: The Moderating Role of Labor Market Policies
Labor market insecurities have been growing in Europe and previous research has illustrated that unemployment and insecure jobs negatively affect individuals’ well-being and health. Although empirical evidence suggests that these effects vary substantially across different welfare states, we still know little about the moderating role of specific labor market policies. Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, this article investigates how…
Gender and secular trends in adolescent mental health over 24 years - The role of school-related stress
Increasing levels of psychosomatic symptoms, and other mental health problems, among adolescents, and especially among girls, have been reported across various countries. The "educational stressors hypothesis" states that this trend can be explained by an increasing amount of stressors in the school environment. This study tests this hypothesis, using repeated cross-sectional data, between the years 1993-2017, from the Health Behaviours of School…
State Intervention and Mental Well-being Among the Unemployed
Although the relationship between unemployment and poor mental well-being has long been an area of interest within behavioural science, the role of state intervention in the unemployment situation has not been thoroughly investigated. This article investigates how unemployment benefit systems and active labour market policy measures affect mental well-being among the unemployed in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal and nationally representativ…
Nest Leaving in Sweden: The Importance of Early Educational and Labor Market Careers
This article investigates the importance of the early educational and labor market career for nest leaving and for returning to the parental home. Using unique individual life course data for the e
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Mental Well-being Among the Unemployed: The Role of Economic and Psychosocial Factors
Classic research on unemployment and mental health has focused on the functions of employment. These functions are considered to be of equal importance for all unemployed. A critique of this perspective has been that it views the unemployed as passive and homogeneous. Instead, an agency approach has been suggested, which focuses on the individual goals of the unemployed. This paper develops and tests a model for understanding the differentiated m…
The Impact of Unemployment Benefit System on the Mental Well-Being of the Unemployed in Sweden, Ireland and Great Britain
Although the availability of social support and psychological attachment to work have been shown to influence mental well-being in unemployment, the main determinant suggested in research is economic strain. Yet, though the level of state support in unemployment is the most crucial determinant of economic strain, there has been little research on the impact of welfare benefit regime on mental well-being among the unemployed. In this paper we comp…
Unemployment, well-being, and the moderating role of education policies: A multilevel study
This article aims to investigate if education policies moderate the association between unemployment and well-being among young adults. Based on the capability approach, we argue that education policies mitigate the negative effects of unemployment by providing opportunities for education and thus ways to exit unemployment. Education policies can strengthen capabilities, enhance the control that individuals have over their situation, and thereby …
Active Labour Market Policy and Unemployment Scarring: A Ten-year Swedish Panel Study
Previous studies have shown mixed results concerning the effects of participation in active labour market policy programmes (ALMPs) on the longer-term scars in the form of poor income development and low job stability following the end of an unemployment spell. Most previous studies, however, have been limited both in the time frame used and to particular programmes. We argue that human capital investments are long-term investments and should the…
Consequences of school grading systems on adolescent health: Evidence from a Swedish school reform
Education reforms that entail increased emphasis on high-stakes testing, assessment and grading have spread across education systems in recent decades. Critics have argued that these policies could have consequences for stress, identity, self-esteem and the overall health of pupils. However, these potentially negative consequences have rarely been investigated in a systematic and rigorous way. In this study we use a major education reform in Swed…
A Wish Come True? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Retirement Preferences and the Timing of Retirement
When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too: The effects of partner’s employment status on health in comparative perspective
The effects of changes in employment status on health within couples have attracted increasing attention. This paper contributes to this emerging research by investigating whether the impact of a partner's employment status on individual self-rated health varies systematically across countries with varying decommodification levels. We use longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and hybrid mod…
Determinants of Declining School Belonging 2000-2018: The Case of Sweden
Students' sense of belonging at school has declined across the world in recent decades, and more so in Sweden than in almost any other high-income country. However, we do not know the characteristics or causes of these worldwide trends. Using data on Swedish students aged 15-16 years from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) between 2000 and 2018, we show that the decline in school belonging in Sweden was driven by a dispropo…
Transitions from temporary employment to permanent employment among young adults: The role of labour law and education systems
Temporary work is common across Europe, especially among young people. Whether temporary employment is a transitory stage on the road to standard employment, and whether this varies depending on institutional contexts, is controversial. This article investigates variability in transition rates from temporary to permanent employment across Europe, and how this is related to employment protection legislation (EPL) and the vocational specificity of …
Ageing, health inequalities and the welfare state: A multilevel analysis
Comparative studies of health inequalities have largely neglected age and ageing aspects, while ageing research has often paid little attention to questions of social inequalities. This article investigates cross-country differences in gradients in self-rated health and limiting long-standing illness (LLSI) in middle-aged and in older people (aged 50–64 and 65–80 years) linked to social class, and degrees to which the social health gradients are …
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Academic Achievement in Adolescence
The well-being of young people in relation to their school performance has received increased attention in recent years. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the longitudinal and reciprocal relationship between adolescents’ subjective well-being and their academic achievements. The current study examined the bidirectional relationship between subjective well-being and academic achievement across two timepoints (T1 and T2) during the course…
Training for the unemployed: Differential Effects in White- And Blue-Collar Workers With Respect to Mental Well-Being
In this study we investigate the effects of active labour market policy measures on health and well-being and how these effects are connected with socioeconomic status. The data were collected among the participants (n = 212) in 24 conventional vocational training courses in Finland. According to the results, training was accompanied by improvements in health and well-being among participants with a higher socioeconomic status, whereas for blue-c…
Education system stratification and health complaints among school-aged children
Higher education and self-governance: The effects of higher education and field of study on voice and agency in Sweden
Annica BrännlundaAnnica Brännlund is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at UmeÅ University, Sweden. Her research aims to reconsider the role of education in terms of individual well-being and development. The focus is on long-term non-market effects of education, such as the link between education and health, education and articulation of opinions, and education and self-government. The analysis includes both level of education and fiel…
Have performance-based educational reforms increased adolescent school-pressure in Sweden? A synthetic control approach
Increased levels of stress and other mental health problems have been reported amongst adolescents in high-income countries. In particular, rates of school-pressure have increased significantly. Despite such increases, little is known about the underlying determinants of increased adolescent stress, making this an emerging public health concern. The educational stressors hypothesis contends that increased rates of stress result from pronounced pe…
Parental Illness and Young People’s Education
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of parental health problems on the probability of youths leaving upper secondary education before completion in Sweden, and to investigate potential gender differences in these effects. Medical and social microdata from Swedish administrative registers were used. The study population consisted of individuals born between 1987 and 1990 ( N = 398,748) who were still alive and residing …
What does class origin and education mean for the capabilities of agency and voice
This article investigates the relationship between class origin, educational attainment, and the capabilities of agency and voice. The main objectives are to investigate how class origin and educational attainment interact and to consider whether higher education reduces any structural inequalities in the social aspects of life. A longitudinal approach is applied, using a national survey of 1058 Swedish young people, controlling for baseline valu…
Nest Leaving in Sweden: The Importance of Early Educational and Labor Market Careers
This article investigates the importance of the early educational and labor market career for nest leaving and for returning to the parental home. Using unique individual life course data for the e
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Mental Well-being Among the Unemployed: The Role of Economic and Psychosocial Factors
Classic research on unemployment and mental health has focused on the functions of employment. These functions are considered to be of equal importance for all unemployed. A critique of this perspective has been that it views the unemployed as passive and homogeneous. Instead, an agency approach has been suggested, which focuses on the individual goals of the unemployed. This paper develops and tests a model for understanding the differentiated m…
Different Exit Routes from Unemployment and their Impact on Mental Well-being: The Role of the Economic Situation and the Predictability of the Life Course
The relationship between unemployment and mental well-being has been thoroughly researched. Longitudinal studies have shown unemployment to have negative impact on mental well-being, whereas re-employment has positive impact. This research has however taken little interest in a more complex concept of labour market status than just ‘employment versus unemployment’, or indeed other alternative exit routes from unemployment. In this article, an inv…
State Intervention and Mental Well-being Among the Unemployed
Although the relationship between unemployment and poor mental well-being has long been an area of interest within behavioural science, the role of state intervention in the unemployment situation has not been thoroughly investigated. This article investigates how unemployment benefit systems and active labour market policy measures affect mental well-being among the unemployed in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal and nationally representativ…
The Impact of Unemployment Benefit System on the Mental Well-Being of the Unemployed in Sweden, Ireland and Great Britain
Although the availability of social support and psychological attachment to work have been shown to influence mental well-being in unemployment, the main determinant suggested in research is economic strain. Yet, though the level of state support in unemployment is the most crucial determinant of economic strain, there has been little research on the impact of welfare benefit regime on mental well-being among the unemployed. In this paper we comp…
The interference of paid work with household demands in different social policy contexts: Perceived work-household conflict in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
The article explores whether people experiences a lower level of work-household conflict in a context that is characterized by extensive family policies (Sweden and to some extent Hungary and Czech Republic) aimed at facilitating participation in the labour market. This is done by studying perceived work-household conflict among women and men living in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The analyses are based on the…
Sociologförbundet har ordet: Den (o)synliga sociologin
Göra illa för att hjälpa eller hjälpa till att göra illa: Arbetslösas reservationslöner, jobbchanser och återanställningsinkomster
Hurting to help or helping to hurt? The reservation wages of unemployed, job chances and reemployment incomes in SwedenEconomic incentives and their impact on the job search behaviour of the unemployed have been a central focus in the academic and political debate in Sweden. A key concept has been the reservation wages of the unemployed, the lowest income at which an unemployed person would be willing to accept a job offer. Unemployment benefit s…
Active Labour Market Policy and Unemployment Scarring: A Ten-year Swedish Panel Study
Previous studies have shown mixed results concerning the effects of participation in active labour market policy programmes (ALMPs) on the longer-term scars in the form of poor income development and low job stability following the end of an unemployment spell. Most previous studies, however, have been limited both in the time frame used and to particular programmes. We argue that human capital investments are long-term investments and should the…
Sociologförbundet har ordet: Den liberala utbildningen - bredden som specialisering
Higher education and self-governance: The effects of higher education and field of study on voice and agency in Sweden
Annica BrännlundaAnnica Brännlund is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at UmeÅ University, Sweden. Her research aims to reconsider the role of education in terms of individual well-being and development. The focus is on long-term non-market effects of education, such as the link between education and health, education and articulation of opinions, and education and self-government. The analysis includes both level of education and fiel…
A Wish Come True? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Retirement Preferences and the Timing of Retirement
Unemployment, gender and mental health: The Role of the Gender Regime
Existing research suggests that gender differences in the effect of unemployment on mental health are related to the different positions and roles that are available for men and women in society and the family; roles that are connected with their different psychosocial and economic need for employment. The aim of this article is to analyse the role of gender in the relationship between unemployment and mental wellbeing in Sweden, representing a g…
Unemployment and mental health scarring during the life course
BACKGROUND: There has been little research on the long-term relationship between unemployment experiences and mental health over the life course. This article investigates the relationship between youth unemployment as well as that of unemployment experiences during later periods and mental health at ages 16, 21, 30 and 42 years. METHODS: The study makes use of the 'Northern Swedish Cohort' (NSC), a 27-year prospective cohort study. The cohort, i…
Training for the unemployed: Differential Effects in White- And Blue-Collar Workers With Respect to Mental Well-Being
In this study we investigate the effects of active labour market policy measures on health and well-being and how these effects are connected with socioeconomic status. The data were collected among the participants (n = 212) in 24 conventional vocational training courses in Finland. According to the results, training was accompanied by improvements in health and well-being among participants with a higher socioeconomic status, whereas for blue-c…
Do open youth unemployment and youth programs leave the same mental health scars? - Evidence from a Swedish 27-year cohort study
A considered and consistent active labor market policy directed at youths could potentially reduce the short- and long-term mental health costs of youth unemployment
What does class origin and education mean for the capabilities of agency and voice
This article investigates the relationship between class origin, educational attainment, and the capabilities of agency and voice. The main objectives are to investigate how class origin and educational attainment interact and to consider whether higher education reduces any structural inequalities in the social aspects of life. A longitudinal approach is applied, using a national survey of 1058 Swedish young people, controlling for baseline valu…
Subjective well-being among the self-employed in Europe: Macroeconomy, gender and immigrant status
Ageing, health inequalities and the welfare state: A multilevel analysis
Comparative studies of health inequalities have largely neglected age and ageing aspects, while ageing research has often paid little attention to questions of social inequalities. This article investigates cross-country differences in gradients in self-rated health and limiting long-standing illness (LLSI) in middle-aged and in older people (aged 50–64 and 65–80 years) linked to social class, and degrees to which the social health gradients are …
The relationship between work and family preferences and behaviors: A longitudinal study of gender differences in Sweden
Proposed theories to explain gender inequality in the labor market and family, such as gender specialization within families and gender segregation in the labor markets, lack consideration for individual preferences. Preference theory accounts for individual choice and gendered preferences but has been substantially criticized, indicating a need for further research. This study uses Swedish longitudinal data to explore how preferences for work an…
Gender inequality and adolescent suicide ideation across Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and Latin America – a cross-sectional study based on the Global School Health Survey (GSHS)
Background: Suicide ideation is a health issue affecting adolescents worldwide. There are significant variations in suicide ideation between countries and genders, which have not been fully explained. Research is especially lacking in countries outside Europe and North America. Gender equality has been shown to matter in other aspects of adolescent mental health, such as life satisfaction, but has not been researched in relation to suicide ideati…
The Effects of Unemployment and Insecure Jobs on Well-Being and Health: The Moderating Role of Labor Market Policies
Labor market insecurities have been growing in Europe and previous research has illustrated that unemployment and insecure jobs negatively affect individuals’ well-being and health. Although empirical evidence suggests that these effects vary substantially across different welfare states, we still know little about the moderating role of specific labor market policies. Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, this article investigates how…
Is the effect of ill health on school achievement among Swedish adolescents gendered
This study investigates why the relationship between health problems requiring hospitalization between the ages of 13 and 16 and school achievement (school grades in 9th grade) in Sweden was stronger for girls than for boys. We reviewed previous research on gender differences in subjective health, health care utilization and medical drug treatment to identify mechanisms responsible for this gendered effect. The relationship was analysed using ret…
The interplay between national and parental unemployment in relation to adolescent life satisfaction in 27 countries: Analyses of repeated cross-sectional school surveys
Living in a country with higher national unemployment seems to be related to lower adolescent life satisfaction, whether parents are unemployed or not, although stronger among adolescents where the father or both parents are unemployed. However, variation in unemployment over the years did not show an association with adolescent life satisfaction
Unemployment, well-being, and the moderating role of education policies: A multilevel study
This article aims to investigate if education policies moderate the association between unemployment and well-being among young adults. Based on the capability approach, we argue that education policies mitigate the negative effects of unemployment by providing opportunities for education and thus ways to exit unemployment. Education policies can strengthen capabilities, enhance the control that individuals have over their situation, and thereby …
Psychology (31 works) · Economics (23 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (20 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Demographic economics (19 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Mental health (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Unemployment (14 works)