Rikke Tokle
Biographic Data
| ID | 261497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rikke Tokle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rikke |
| FAMILY NAME | Tokle |
| SIGNATURE | TOKLE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Institute of Public Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8284-0924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sexual Debut Projects
This study introduces the concept of ‘sexual debut projects’ as a novel theoretical framework for examining the interplay of sexual practices, social context, and gendered risk in youth sexual culture. It builds on Hirsch and Khan’s notion of ‘sexual projects’ and is rooted in the sociology of sexuality, which emphasises the social embeddedness of sexual practices. Empirically, we rely on sexual debut stories systematically collected through 127 …
Shades of Green
Despite the increasing number of studies on adolescent cannabis use, little is known about the different varieties of cannabis use identities among contemporary youth. In this study, we develop a qualitative typology of adolescent cannabis use to illuminate the multitude of drug use practices and how they intersect with various projects of the self. Drawing on 6 years of longitudinal interview data with a large group of Norwegian adolescents, who…
Cubs of Wall Street
Although cocaine use is rising among youth in many countries, little is known about the social context and its influence on this new pattern of use. Drawing on a theoretical framework of class, gender, and peer-status dynamics and extensive data from personal interviews, we investigate how cocaine use is culturally situated and socially organised in certain Norwegian high school cultures. The focal sample consists of study participants who stated…
What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault
Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for further theorisation and identifies some of the social mechanisms that underlie victims' sensemaking in the aftermath of such assaults. Drawing on qualitative interviews with female victims, we present a typology of four experie…
E-cigarette use in global digital youth culture. A qualitative study of the social practices and meaning of vaping among 15–20-year-olds in Denmark, Finland, and Norway
Young people's vaping is a social practice interwoven in contemporary digital and global youth culture. Transnational regulations are needed to support individual countries in preventing e-cigarette use and exposure among young people
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards
In adolescence, drinking in party settings represents socialisation and fun but also a red zone for sexual assaults. Expanding current knowledge of sexual assault as a systemic attack, this article investigates how adolescents understand and navigate sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts. Using a narrative lens and interviews with 95 15- to 19-year-olds in Norway, we found that adolescents linked drinking to the risk of total loss of c…
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies
Drawing on the framework of alcohol expectancies and their importance for drinking behaviors, this longitudinal mixed-methods study examined changes and continuities in the development of alcohol expectancies during adolescence. Quantitative and qualitative data were prospectively collected at four time points between 2015 and 2020 from nationwide, socio-economic, and gender-balanced samples of Norwegian adolescents aged 12–18. Quantitative data …
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents
Recent years have seen a growing public debate concerning the political regulation of cannabis products, substantiated by a multitude of competing narratives about the effects of various policies. However, little is known about how these ongoing discussions influence the meaning-making of cannabis use within wider contemporary youth cultures. Based on interviews with 80 Norwegian adolescents aged 16–17 years, this study explores narratives of cha…
Alcohol use in adolescence
Initiation of alcohol use often takes place in adolescence. This longitudinal study explores adolescents’ alcohol use by highlighting mediators in their network that either hinder or facilitate alcohol consumption. Qualitative individual interviews were conducted with 75 adolescents (age 15–16) during their final year of lower secondary school (LSS), and their first year of upper secondary school (USS) (age 16–17), amounting to 150 interviews in …
Single, Dual, and Triple Use of Cigarettes, e-Cigarettes, and Snus among Adolescents in the Nordic Countries
New tobacco and nicotine products have emerged on the market in recent years. Most research has concerned only one product at a time, usually e-cigarettes, while little is known about the multiple use of tobacco and nicotine products among adolescents. We examined single, dual, and triple use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and snus among Nordic adolescents, using data of 15-16-year-olds (n = 16,125) from the European School Survey Project on Alcoho…
Cannabis, youth and social identity
This article explores the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence. Based on longitudinal qualitative data from 50 focus-group and 175 individual interviews with young Norwegians, followed from the ages of 12–13 years to 16–17 years, the analysis shows how representations, opinions and use of cannabis gradually evolve. When first interviewed, none had personal experience with the drug and the students spoke of cannabis use as a symbol of a…
Normalisation of non‐drinking? 15–16‐year‐olds' accounts of refraining from alcohol
Bottom-up meets top-down
Framed both as a solution to and as an additional part of the tobacco problem, e-cigarettes have been the subject of risk controversies since they were launched in 2006, followed by massive divergence in media, public health approaches and regulations across the world. This study explores vapers' risk perceptions and accounts of the public risk communication and regulation of e-cigarettes in a Norwegian context were nicotine-containing e-liquids …
Vaping and fidget-spinners’
E-cigarettes were devalued from novelty and transgression to childish and uninteresting within the same sample over a four-year period. In conclusion, e-cigarettes in the sample represented fashionable experimentation rather than steady user patterns
Cloud chasers' and 'substitutes
The use of e-cigarettes is increasing, a practice denoted as vaping. We explore user motives, self-identity as vapers and involvement in vaping subcultures, drawing on sociological theory of stigma, subcultures and symbolic boundaries. Based on analyses of semi-structured interviews with 30 Norwegian vapers, we find that there is a vaping subculture in Norway. We identify two dominant vaper identities. The first is labelled cloud chasers. These w…
Addicted to being cool’
Background: Although the prevalence of daily smokers are decreasing and there are signs of increasing stigma attached to smoking, occasional smoking rates have remained surprisingly stable. The increasing proportion of smokers who do not smoke daily emphasize the importance of understanding the reasoning behind this pattern of smoking. We explored how young adult occasional smokers in Norway viewed and defined their smoking and how they managed t…
Cloud chasers' and 'substitutes
The use of e-cigarettes is increasing, a practice denoted as vaping. We explore user motives, self-identity as vapers and involvement in vaping subcultures, drawing on sociological theory of stigma, subcultures and symbolic boundaries. Based on analyses of semi-structured interviews with 30 Norwegian vapers, we find that there is a vaping subculture in Norway. We identify two dominant vaper identities. The first is labelled cloud chasers. These w…
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards
In adolescence, drinking in party settings represents socialisation and fun but also a red zone for sexual assaults. Expanding current knowledge of sexual assault as a systemic attack, this article investigates how adolescents understand and navigate sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts. Using a narrative lens and interviews with 95 15- to 19-year-olds in Norway, we found that adolescents linked drinking to the risk of total loss of c…
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies
Drawing on the framework of alcohol expectancies and their importance for drinking behaviors, this longitudinal mixed-methods study examined changes and continuities in the development of alcohol expectancies during adolescence. Quantitative and qualitative data were prospectively collected at four time points between 2015 and 2020 from nationwide, socio-economic, and gender-balanced samples of Norwegian adolescents aged 12–18. Quantitative data …
Cubs of Wall Street
Although cocaine use is rising among youth in many countries, little is known about the social context and its influence on this new pattern of use. Drawing on a theoretical framework of class, gender, and peer-status dynamics and extensive data from personal interviews, we investigate how cocaine use is culturally situated and socially organised in certain Norwegian high school cultures. The focal sample consists of study participants who stated…
What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault
Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for further theorisation and identifies some of the social mechanisms that underlie victims' sensemaking in the aftermath of such assaults. Drawing on qualitative interviews with female victims, we present a typology of four experie…
Cannabis, youth and social identity
This article explores the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence. Based on longitudinal qualitative data from 50 focus-group and 175 individual interviews with young Norwegians, followed from the ages of 12–13 years to 16–17 years, the analysis shows how representations, opinions and use of cannabis gradually evolve. When first interviewed, none had personal experience with the drug and the students spoke of cannabis use as a symbol of a…
Addicted to being cool’
Background: Although the prevalence of daily smokers are decreasing and there are signs of increasing stigma attached to smoking, occasional smoking rates have remained surprisingly stable. The increasing proportion of smokers who do not smoke daily emphasize the importance of understanding the reasoning behind this pattern of smoking. We explored how young adult occasional smokers in Norway viewed and defined their smoking and how they managed t…
Cloud chasers' and 'substitutes
The use of e-cigarettes is increasing, a practice denoted as vaping. We explore user motives, self-identity as vapers and involvement in vaping subcultures, drawing on sociological theory of stigma, subcultures and symbolic boundaries. Based on analyses of semi-structured interviews with 30 Norwegian vapers, we find that there is a vaping subculture in Norway. We identify two dominant vaper identities. The first is labelled cloud chasers. These w…
Normalisation of non‐drinking? 15–16‐year‐olds' accounts of refraining from alcohol
Bottom-up meets top-down
Framed both as a solution to and as an additional part of the tobacco problem, e-cigarettes have been the subject of risk controversies since they were launched in 2006, followed by massive divergence in media, public health approaches and regulations across the world. This study explores vapers' risk perceptions and accounts of the public risk communication and regulation of e-cigarettes in a Norwegian context were nicotine-containing e-liquids …
Vaping and fidget-spinners’
E-cigarettes were devalued from novelty and transgression to childish and uninteresting within the same sample over a four-year period. In conclusion, e-cigarettes in the sample represented fashionable experimentation rather than steady user patterns
Cannabis, youth and social identity
This article explores the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence. Based on longitudinal qualitative data from 50 focus-group and 175 individual interviews with young Norwegians, followed from the ages of 12–13 years to 16–17 years, the analysis shows how representations, opinions and use of cannabis gradually evolve. When first interviewed, none had personal experience with the drug and the students spoke of cannabis use as a symbol of a…
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents
Recent years have seen a growing public debate concerning the political regulation of cannabis products, substantiated by a multitude of competing narratives about the effects of various policies. However, little is known about how these ongoing discussions influence the meaning-making of cannabis use within wider contemporary youth cultures. Based on interviews with 80 Norwegian adolescents aged 16–17 years, this study explores narratives of cha…
Alcohol use in adolescence
Initiation of alcohol use often takes place in adolescence. This longitudinal study explores adolescents’ alcohol use by highlighting mediators in their network that either hinder or facilitate alcohol consumption. Qualitative individual interviews were conducted with 75 adolescents (age 15–16) during their final year of lower secondary school (LSS), and their first year of upper secondary school (USS) (age 16–17), amounting to 150 interviews in …
Single, Dual, and Triple Use of Cigarettes, e-Cigarettes, and Snus among Adolescents in the Nordic Countries
New tobacco and nicotine products have emerged on the market in recent years. Most research has concerned only one product at a time, usually e-cigarettes, while little is known about the multiple use of tobacco and nicotine products among adolescents. We examined single, dual, and triple use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and snus among Nordic adolescents, using data of 15-16-year-olds (n = 16,125) from the European School Survey Project on Alcoho…
E-cigarette use in global digital youth culture. A qualitative study of the social practices and meaning of vaping among 15–20-year-olds in Denmark, Finland, and Norway
Young people's vaping is a social practice interwoven in contemporary digital and global youth culture. Transnational regulations are needed to support individual countries in preventing e-cigarette use and exposure among young people
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards
In adolescence, drinking in party settings represents socialisation and fun but also a red zone for sexual assaults. Expanding current knowledge of sexual assault as a systemic attack, this article investigates how adolescents understand and navigate sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts. Using a narrative lens and interviews with 95 15- to 19-year-olds in Norway, we found that adolescents linked drinking to the risk of total loss of c…
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies
Drawing on the framework of alcohol expectancies and their importance for drinking behaviors, this longitudinal mixed-methods study examined changes and continuities in the development of alcohol expectancies during adolescence. Quantitative and qualitative data were prospectively collected at four time points between 2015 and 2020 from nationwide, socio-economic, and gender-balanced samples of Norwegian adolescents aged 12–18. Quantitative data …
What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault
Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for further theorisation and identifies some of the social mechanisms that underlie victims' sensemaking in the aftermath of such assaults. Drawing on qualitative interviews with female victims, we present a typology of four experie…
Sexual Debut Projects
This study introduces the concept of ‘sexual debut projects’ as a novel theoretical framework for examining the interplay of sexual practices, social context, and gendered risk in youth sexual culture. It builds on Hirsch and Khan’s notion of ‘sexual projects’ and is rooted in the sociology of sexuality, which emphasises the social embeddedness of sexual practices. Empirically, we rely on sexual debut stories systematically collected through 127 …
Shades of Green
Despite the increasing number of studies on adolescent cannabis use, little is known about the different varieties of cannabis use identities among contemporary youth. In this study, we develop a qualitative typology of adolescent cannabis use to illuminate the multitude of drug use practices and how they intersect with various projects of the self. Drawing on 6 years of longitudinal interview data with a large group of Norwegian adolescents, who…
Cubs of Wall Street
Although cocaine use is rising among youth in many countries, little is known about the social context and its influence on this new pattern of use. Drawing on a theoretical framework of class, gender, and peer-status dynamics and extensive data from personal interviews, we investigate how cocaine use is culturally situated and socially organised in certain Norwegian high school cultures. The focal sample consists of study participants who stated…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Norwegian (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Political science (5 works)