Anders Bakken

About

Anders Bakken is senior researcher at the Section for Youth Research at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. He has been carrying out research
regarding social inequality in school achievement and living conditions among young people in Norway. He is the director of the Ungdata-center.

Field of study

Social inequalities Youth Educational outcome School Youth surveys Norway

Research groups

Youth Research

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

Children and Young People in Sport – Knowledge for a More Inclusive Sports Sector
What influences Norwegian children and young people's participation in organised sport – and who gets left behind?
Ungdata plus. A longitudinal study of boys and girls in Vestfold and Telemark, Norway
Ungdata plus will collect data on what children and young people in Vestfold and Telemark (Norway) do in their leisure time and examine how this is related to their health and quality of life, and important life outcomes as adults – such as education, work and family life.
Young in Oslo 2023
Young in Oslo is the City of Oslo’s Ungdata survey – a unique study that has been conducted since the mid-1990s. The 2023 survey will provide answers to what it’s like for children and young people to grow up in Oslo – after living with a pandemic for almost two years.
Young in Oslo 2026
Young in Oslo is a unique Ungdata-study that has been conducted since the mid-1990s. The survey provides important information about what it is like to grow up in Oslo, and how this has changed over time.

Completed research projects

Adolescents in Oslo in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The aim of the study was to map young people’s everyday life and quality of life, and how they experience the COVID-19 pandemic while they were still subject to strict restrictions.
Consequences of the Pandemic for Living Conditions and Equality
In this project we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for living conditions for children and young people, equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities.
Follow-up research of "Sport for all in Oslo"
In this research, NOVA at OsloMet, in collaboration with the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, evaluate the program «Sport for all in Oslo» from its inception in 2018 until 2024.
International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 (ICCS)
The ICCS 2016-study investigates students’ knowledge and understanding of societal values, civic society and political systems.
Minority Students in Upper Secondary School
This project is about school satisfaction, educational drive and school performance among students with immigrant background in Norwegian upper secondary school.
Participation in Sports among Norwegian Youth
The aim of the research project is to gain new knowledge about the social position and status of sport participation among young people in Norway.
Sports Research at the Ungdata Centre
The project aims to update and widen our knowledge about participation in sports and physical activity and experiences with sports among children and young people in Norway.
Stress among Youths
In this project, we aim to gain knowledge about how and why youths experience stress and stressors.
Young in Oslo 2021
Young in Oslo is a unique study that has been conducted since the mid-1990s. The new survey in 2021 will provide answers to what it is like for adolescents to grow up in Oslo – and how young people's everyday life has changed over time.
Young People and Political Extremism
NOVA has initiated a research project about political attitudes and engagement among Norwegian youth. Trust and mistrust in societal and political institutions among ordinary and radical youth is central to the study.

Scientific publications

Jacobsen, Sigurd Eid ; Bakken, Anders ; Europa, Ryan Tamayo (2026). Data Resource Profile: Ungdata—National Norwegian Youth Surveys. International Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 55.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyag007

Potrebny, Thomas; Nilsen, Sondre Aasen; Bakken, Anders ; Soest, Tilmann von ; Kvaløy, Kirsti; Samdal, Oddrun; Sivertsen, Børge; Aase, Heidi; Bang, Lasse (2024). Secular trends in mental health problems among young people in Norway: a review and meta-analysis. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Vol. 34.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-024-02371-4

Overå, Stian; Bakken, Anders ; Hyggen, Christer (2024). Prevalence and Characteristics of Female and Male Esports Players among Norwegian Youth: A General Population Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). Vol. 21.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091136

Kozák, Michal ; Bakken, Anders ; Soest, Tilmann Martin von (2023). Psychosocial well-being before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study of more than half a million Norwegian adolescents. Nature Mental Health.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00088-y

Cano, Ruben Rodriguez; Kypriotakis, George; Garcia, Laura Cortes; Bakken, Anders ; Soest, Tilmann Martin von (2023). Polysubstance use and its correlation with psychosocial and health risk behaviours among more than 95,000 Norwegian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic (January to May 2021): a latent profile analysis. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100603

Bakken, Anders ; Heggen, Kåre; Helland, Håvard (2022). Utdanning. Frønes, Ivar; Kjølsrød, Lise (Ed.). Det norske samfunn : bind 2. p. 179-205. Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4173767

Heradstveit, Ove; Nilsen, Sondre Aasen; Breivik, Kyrre; Bakken, Anders ; Haug, Thomas; Stormark, Kjell Morten (2022). Psychometric properties of a short self-report measure of rule-breaking behaviour among adolescents: findings from the Ungdata survey. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948221104650

Ulset, Vidar Sandsaunet; Bakken, Anders ; Soest, Tilmann Von (2021). Ungdoms opplevelser av konsekvenser av pandemien etter ett år med covid-19-restriksjoner. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). Vol. 141.
https://doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.21.0335

Bilgrei, Ola Røed ; Bakken, Anders ; Pedersen, Willy (2021). Når ungdom ruser seg. Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.). UNGDOMMEN. p. 255-274. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.142.ch11

Pedersen, Willy ; Bakken, Anders ; Stefansen, Kari ; Soest, Tilmann von (2021). Sexual victimization in the digital age: A population-based study of physical and image-based sexual abuse among adolescents. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02200-8

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