Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Organisational psychology Psychology Social and occupational psychology Developmental psychology
Subject areas
Epidemiology Children's early development Young people and drugs Youth Youth and child Familylife, parenting, child-care Youth Research Sickness Absence Work and Family Psykisk helse Arbeid og psykisk helse Intervention Work and organisational psychology Working life and health Longitudinal studies Burnout
Research groups
Research projects
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COMPRESSED − A longitudinal study of compressed work schedules within the health, care and welfare services
With increasing need for more workforce in the healthcare-sector, the offers of the future is reliant on how we precure sufficient staff and maintain the health of the workers.
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Crossbow: Crossing and Managing Boundaries between Work and Non-Work – Co-creating Healthy Teleworking
In this project we aim to map, explore and understand the opportunities and challenges of telework, and to contribute to enhanced organizational preparedness for healthy, sustainable and productive teleworking.
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Early COVID-19 wave in Norway: Social inequality in morbidity, compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions and labour marked consequences (CorRisk)
Pandemics like COVID-19 are among the most pressing global threats to human life and economic security. The core idea of CorRisk is that infectious disease pandemics created by influenza or corona-viruses have always been more than just a medical problem and that their epidemiology and impact are profoundly shaped by social and economic structures. While the state of the art mainly studies medical risk factors, this project proposes to study the "forgotten" socioeconomic risk factors for unequal morbidity, compliance to the NPIs and labor market consequences.
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Flex-IT – A mixed-method study of cross-domain information technology use in everyday life
The emergence of new technology has increasingly blurred the boundaries between work and family domains, and the consequences for the health and productivity of the labor force remains unknown. These contradictory perspectives make it important to understand to what extent, when and for who cross-domain IT use is healthy and/or unhealthy.
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NEET: Preventing sick leave and marginalization in young adults
Despite the increasing costs of early school leaving and failures to integrate into the adult workforce, it is still unknown what the determinants to unhealthy school-to-work transitions are.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Clayborne, Zahra M.;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Gustavson, Kristin;
Bekkhus, Mona
; Gilman, Stephen; Khandaker, Golman; Fell, Deshayne; Colman, Ian
(2022).
Positive maternal mental health attenuates the associations between prenatal stress and children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms.
14 p.
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01999-4
Kingsbury, Mila; Clayborne, Zahra;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Gustavson, Kristin; Colman, Ian
(2022).
Predictors of Relationship Satisfaction Across the Transition to Parenthood: Results from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).
24 p.
Journal of Family Issues.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X221113850
Ballo, Jannike Gottschalk;
Heglum, Mari Amdahl
;
Nilsen, Wendy
;
Bernstrøm, Vilde Hoff
(2022).
Can adolescent work experience protect vulnerable youth? A population wide longitudinal study of young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET).
18 p.
Journal of Education and Work.
Vol. 35.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2099534
Clayborne, Zahra M.;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Gustavson, Kristin;
Bekkhus, Mona
; Gilman, Stephen E.; Khandaker, Golam M.; Fell, Deshayne B.; Colman, Ian
(2021).
Prenatal maternal stress, child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and the moderating role of parenting: Findings from the Norwegian mother, father, and child cohort study.
Psychological Medicine.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004311
Clayborne, Zahra M.; Colman, Ian; Kingsbury, Mila; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Gustavson, Kristin;
Nilsen, Wendy
(2021).
Prenatal work stress is associated with prenatal and postnatal depression and anxiety: Findings from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).
Journal of Affective Disorders.
Vol. 298.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.11.024
Alves, Daniele Evelin
;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Fure, Silje Christine Reistad;
Enehaug, Heidi
; Howe, Emilie Isager; Løvstad, Marianne; Fink, Louisa; Andelic, Nada;
Spjelkavik, Øystein
(2020).
What characterizes work and workplaces that retain their employees following acquired brain injury? Systematic review.
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AOEM).
Vol. 77.
https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2019-106102
Opdal, Ida Marie; Morseth, Bente; Handegård, Bjørn Helge; Lillevoll, Kjersti;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Nielsen, Christopher Sivert; Furberg, Anne-Sofie; Rosenbaum, Simon; Rognmo, Kamilla
(2020).
Is change in mental distress among adolescents predicted by sedentary behavior or screen time? Results from the longitudinal population study The Tromsø Study: Fit Futures.
11 p.
BMJ Open.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035549
Alves, Daniele Evelin
;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Fure, Silje Christine Reistad;
Enehaug, Heidi
; Howe, Emilie; Løvstad, Marianne; Fink, Louisa; Hadzic-Andelic, Nada;
Spjelkavik, Øystein
(2019).
What characterises work and workplaces that retain their employees following acquired brain injury? Systematic review.
9 p.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Vol. 77.
https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2019-106102
Østby, Kristian Amundsen; Mykletun, Arnstein;
Nilsen, Wendy
(2018).
Explaining the gender gap in sickness absence.
Occupational Medicine.
Vol. 68.
https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqy062
Rodwell, Laura; Romaniuk, Helena;
Nilsen, Wendy
; Carlin, John B.; Lee, Katherine J.; Patton, George C.
(2018).
Adolescent mental health and behavioural predictors of being NEET: A prospective study of young adults not in employment, education, or training.
Psychological Medicine.
Vol. 48.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717002434