Hilde Eileen Nafstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 296941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilde Eileen Nafstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilde Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Nafstad |
| SIGNATURE | NAFSTAD H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Psychological Sense of Community in Recovery Processes of Emerging and Older Adults: Ideological Antecedents and Implications for Public Health
Across the world, governments are struggling to help people recover from substance use problems. Due to their particular risk factors, two age groups are of special interest to public health: emerging adults and older adults. Psychological sense of community (PSOC) is a key dimension in their recovery. Yet, to develop context‐sensitive and effective strategies tailored for these groups, there is a need to understand their discourses of PSOC as si…
In what ways do emerging adults with substance use problems experience their communities as influencing their personal recovery processes
Applying the multiple psychological sense of community concept (MPSOC), this study explored how emerging adults with substance use problems experience the influences of various senses of community and communities on their personal recovery processes. Semi‐structured interviews with 21 emerging adults from different urban contexts in Norway were analysed using a collaborative, seven‐step, deductive, and reflexive thematic approach. MPSOC is shown …
Multiple senses of community and recovery processes. A pilot study for a national evaluation of the experiences of persons with substance use problems receiving help and services from Norwegian munici…
AIMS: This pilot study uses a multifaceted concept of sense of community (SOC)-multiple senses of community (MPSOC)-to understand how the multiple communities of persons with substance use problems, including those with a positive, negative and neutral SOC, influence processes of substance use recovery. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 informants from different Norwegian municipalities and regions. A collaborative resear…
Lay Definitions of Happiness across Nations: The Primacy of Inner Harmony and Relational Connectedness
In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction. However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the available literature, this study explored lay definitions of happiness across nations and cultural dimensions, analyzing their components and relationship with participants' demographic features. Participants were 2799 adults (age range = 30-60, 50% women) living in u…
Making Sense of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Discourse Analysis of Media Language on Self-development
The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the increasingly popular media discourse of self-development, and examine it as a technology of neoliberal subjectification. Drawing on Foucaul…
Communal Values and Individualism in Our Era of Globalization: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Three Different Societies
Symbolic Boundaries and Ideology in the Norwegian Multicultural Society: A Longitudinal Study of Public Discourse
Group boundaries between immigrant minority and majority members are currently undergoing considerable and complex changes in European multicultural societies due to migration. In this paper, we present a descriptive, longitudinal investigation of the usage of linguistic expressions in Norwegian media discourse that describe symbolic boundary developments between immigrant minority and majority members, and their multicultural context. Seventy‐tw…
Globalization, Neo‐Liberalism and Community Psychology
A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norway is presented, demonstrating how the current globalized capitalist market ideology is now permeating this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state. This ideological shift carries powerful implications for community psychology, as traditional welfare state values of equal services based on a universalistic principle are set aside, and social and material inequalities are increasingl…
Community and Care Work in a World of Changing Ideologies
Seymour B. Sarason, one of the founders of community psychology, has stated the need for developing barometers of community changes. The authors present a methodology for identifying societal ideologies, ideological shifts and power relations as reflected by the language of public discourse. As a case study, systematic analyses of changes in the Norwegian language over the last two decades are presented. It is demonstrated how Norwegian society h…
Ideology and power: The influence of current neo‐liberalism in society
Understanding power requires analysis of the intra‐personal, interpersonal, inter‐group as well as the ideological levels. The present study demonstrates the importance of the ideological level. A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norwegian public discourse demonstrates how the current globalised capitalist market ideology has increasingly permeated this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state; individualism increasing at…
The representation of social issues in public discourse and newspaper language: A comment on Gardikiotis, Martin and Hewstone's (2004) study
Gardikiotis, Martin and Hewstone (2004) investigated the representation of majority versus minority headlines in five British newspapers over a period of five years. They found majority headlines to be twice as frequent as minority headlines. However, they identified headlines with the search words ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ only in the singular form. We argue that in the public discourse the minority, but not the majority is likely to be represen…
Current trends in Norwegian social psychology: A brief review
Applied versus Basic Social Research: A Question of Amplified Complexity
The tasks, working situation, and professional role assigned to applied social scientists are analysed. The processes of basic and applied social research are systematically compared, and it is demonstrated how applied social research has to meet all the cnteria of traditional basic research as well as the specific criterion of social relevance. The problem of how to develop adequate critena for evaluating applied social research is addressed. Th…
Current Social Psychology in Norway: A Trend Report
Introduction In addition to the obvious space restrictions, the representativity of the present review is also reduced by the following factors: (a) the prejudices of the present reviewers what they do and do not include as social psychology; and (b) information or communication barriers. Social psychology is conducted at different types of institution and at various places in Norway. The institutional go-between, however, is far from perfect. He…
Making Sense of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Discourse Analysis of Media Language on Self-development
The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the increasingly popular media discourse of self-development, and examine it as a technology of neoliberal subjectification. Drawing on Foucaul…
Globalization, Neo‐Liberalism and Community Psychology
A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norway is presented, demonstrating how the current globalized capitalist market ideology is now permeating this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state. This ideological shift carries powerful implications for community psychology, as traditional welfare state values of equal services based on a universalistic principle are set aside, and social and material inequalities are increasingl…
Ideology and power: The influence of current neo‐liberalism in society
Understanding power requires analysis of the intra‐personal, interpersonal, inter‐group as well as the ideological levels. The present study demonstrates the importance of the ideological level. A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norwegian public discourse demonstrates how the current globalised capitalist market ideology has increasingly permeated this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state; individualism increasing at…
Symbolic Boundaries and Ideology in the Norwegian Multicultural Society: A Longitudinal Study of Public Discourse
Group boundaries between immigrant minority and majority members are currently undergoing considerable and complex changes in European multicultural societies due to migration. In this paper, we present a descriptive, longitudinal investigation of the usage of linguistic expressions in Norwegian media discourse that describe symbolic boundary developments between immigrant minority and majority members, and their multicultural context. Seventy‐tw…
Multiple senses of community and recovery processes. A pilot study for a national evaluation of the experiences of persons with substance use problems receiving help and services from Norwegian munici…
AIMS: This pilot study uses a multifaceted concept of sense of community (SOC)-multiple senses of community (MPSOC)-to understand how the multiple communities of persons with substance use problems, including those with a positive, negative and neutral SOC, influence processes of substance use recovery. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 informants from different Norwegian municipalities and regions. A collaborative resear…
Community and Care Work in a World of Changing Ideologies
Seymour B. Sarason, one of the founders of community psychology, has stated the need for developing barometers of community changes. The authors present a methodology for identifying societal ideologies, ideological shifts and power relations as reflected by the language of public discourse. As a case study, systematic analyses of changes in the Norwegian language over the last two decades are presented. It is demonstrated how Norwegian society h…
Current Social Psychology in Norway: A Trend Report
Introduction In addition to the obvious space restrictions, the representativity of the present review is also reduced by the following factors: (a) the prejudices of the present reviewers what they do and do not include as social psychology; and (b) information or communication barriers. Social psychology is conducted at different types of institution and at various places in Norway. The institutional go-between, however, is far from perfect. He…
Current trends in Norwegian social psychology: A brief review
Applied versus Basic Social Research: A Question of Amplified Complexity
The tasks, working situation, and professional role assigned to applied social scientists are analysed. The processes of basic and applied social research are systematically compared, and it is demonstrated how applied social research has to meet all the cnteria of traditional basic research as well as the specific criterion of social relevance. The problem of how to develop adequate critena for evaluating applied social research is addressed. Th…
The representation of social issues in public discourse and newspaper language: A comment on Gardikiotis, Martin and Hewstone's (2004) study
Gardikiotis, Martin and Hewstone (2004) investigated the representation of majority versus minority headlines in five British newspapers over a period of five years. They found majority headlines to be twice as frequent as minority headlines. However, they identified headlines with the search words ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ only in the singular form. We argue that in the public discourse the minority, but not the majority is likely to be represen…
Community and Care Work in a World of Changing Ideologies
Seymour B. Sarason, one of the founders of community psychology, has stated the need for developing barometers of community changes. The authors present a methodology for identifying societal ideologies, ideological shifts and power relations as reflected by the language of public discourse. As a case study, systematic analyses of changes in the Norwegian language over the last two decades are presented. It is demonstrated how Norwegian society h…
Ideology and power: The influence of current neo‐liberalism in society
Understanding power requires analysis of the intra‐personal, interpersonal, inter‐group as well as the ideological levels. The present study demonstrates the importance of the ideological level. A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norwegian public discourse demonstrates how the current globalised capitalist market ideology has increasingly permeated this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state; individualism increasing at…
Globalization, Neo‐Liberalism and Community Psychology
A longitudinal analysis (1984–2005) of media language in Norway is presented, demonstrating how the current globalized capitalist market ideology is now permeating this long‐established Scandinavian welfare state. This ideological shift carries powerful implications for community psychology, as traditional welfare state values of equal services based on a universalistic principle are set aside, and social and material inequalities are increasingl…
Symbolic Boundaries and Ideology in the Norwegian Multicultural Society: A Longitudinal Study of Public Discourse
Group boundaries between immigrant minority and majority members are currently undergoing considerable and complex changes in European multicultural societies due to migration. In this paper, we present a descriptive, longitudinal investigation of the usage of linguistic expressions in Norwegian media discourse that describe symbolic boundary developments between immigrant minority and majority members, and their multicultural context. Seventy‐tw…
Communal Values and Individualism in Our Era of Globalization: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Three Different Societies
Making Sense of Neoliberal Subjectivity: A Discourse Analysis of Media Language on Self-development
The influence of neoliberalism on culture and subjectivity is well documented. This paper contributes to understanding of how neoliberal ideology enters into the production of subjectivity. While subject formation takes place in multiple and contradictory ways and across multiple social sites, we focus on the increasingly popular media discourse of self-development, and examine it as a technology of neoliberal subjectification. Drawing on Foucaul…
Lay Definitions of Happiness across Nations: The Primacy of Inner Harmony and Relational Connectedness
In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction. However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the available literature, this study explored lay definitions of happiness across nations and cultural dimensions, analyzing their components and relationship with participants' demographic features. Participants were 2799 adults (age range = 30-60, 50% women) living in u…
Multiple senses of community and recovery processes. A pilot study for a national evaluation of the experiences of persons with substance use problems receiving help and services from Norwegian munici…
AIMS: This pilot study uses a multifaceted concept of sense of community (SOC)-multiple senses of community (MPSOC)-to understand how the multiple communities of persons with substance use problems, including those with a positive, negative and neutral SOC, influence processes of substance use recovery. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 informants from different Norwegian municipalities and regions. A collaborative resear…
In what ways do emerging adults with substance use problems experience their communities as influencing their personal recovery processes
Applying the multiple psychological sense of community concept (MPSOC), this study explored how emerging adults with substance use problems experience the influences of various senses of community and communities on their personal recovery processes. Semi‐structured interviews with 21 emerging adults from different urban contexts in Norway were analysed using a collaborative, seven‐step, deductive, and reflexive thematic approach. MPSOC is shown …
Psychological Sense of Community in Recovery Processes of Emerging and Older Adults: Ideological Antecedents and Implications for Public Health
Across the world, governments are struggling to help people recover from substance use problems. Due to their particular risk factors, two age groups are of special interest to public health: emerging adults and older adults. Psychological sense of community (PSOC) is a key dimension in their recovery. Yet, to develop context‐sensitive and effective strategies tailored for these groups, there is a need to understand their discourses of PSOC as si…
Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Politics (5 works)