About
Rikke Tokle (PhD in Sociology) works as a researcher at the the Section for Youth Research at NOVA. Tokle's current research focuses on young people, sexual health, sexual risk, and drug use. Tokle is the project leader of the qualitative NOVA research project Sexual Culture in youth. Her research interests include youth culture, subculture, gender, sexuality, marginalization and the social meaning of alcohol, tobacco and drug use in adolescense. Tokle's previous research includes qualitative and quantitative studies of e-cigarette and alcohol use among young people, the changing tobacco and cannabis landscape, as well as exploratory studies of the evolving vaping (sub)culture.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Sociology of culture Substance use Youth Research Gender and sexuality Sexual violence
Countries
Research groups
Research projects
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Sexual Culture in Youth
The project will investigate how young people negotiate, experience and handle issues related to sexuality, sexual health and risk - in light of both contemporary youth culture, and other social and societal conditions.
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The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Tokle, Rikke; Buvik, Kristin; Stefansen, Kari; Solstad, Gerd Marie
(2023).
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts.
Journal of Youth Studies
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3050191
Scheffels, Janne; Brunborg, Geir Scott; Bilgrei, Ola Røed; Tokle, Rikke; Burdzovic Andreas, Jasmina; Buvik, Kristin
(2023).
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study Among 12-to-18-Year-Olds.
Journal of Adolescent Research
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3067409
Scheffels, Janne; Tokle, Rikke; Linnansaari, Anu; Rasmussen, Sofie; Charlotta, Pisinger
(2022).
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.
10 p.
International journal of drug policy
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Vol. 111.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3065971
Raitasalo, Kirsimarja; Bye, Elin Kristin; Pisinger, Charlotta; Scheffels, Janne; Tokle, Rikke; Kinnunen, Jaana M.; Ollila, Hanna M.; Rimpelä, Arja
(2022).
Single, Dual, and Triple Use of Cigarettes, e-Cigarettes, and Snus among Adolescents in the Nordic Countries.
11 p.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
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Vol. 19.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2985368
Bilgrei, Ola Røed; Scheffels, Janne; Buvik, Kristin; Tokle, Rikke
(2022).
The green shift? Narratives of changing cannabis policies and identity-work among Norwegian adolescents.
Drugs: education prevention and policy
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Vol. 29.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2979237
Tokle, Rikke; Brunborg, Geir Scott; Vedøy, Tord Finne
(2021).
Adolescents' use of nicotine-free and nicotine e-cigarettes: A longitudinal study of vaping transitions and vaper characteristics.
Nicotine & Tobacco Research
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2977844
Sæbø, Gunnar; Tokle, Rikke; Lund, Ingeborg
(2021).
Newspaper Coverage of Snus in an Emerging Norwegian Snus Market 2002-2011: A Content Analysis.
Nicotine & Tobacco Research
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Vol. 24.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988182
Buvik, Kristin; Tokle, Rikke; Bilgrei, Ola Røed; Scheffels, Janne
(2021).
Alcohol use in adolescence: a qualitative longitudinal study of mediators for drinking and non-drinking.
Drugs: education prevention and policy
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2986940
Bilgrei, Ola Røed; Buvik, Kristin; Tokle, Rikke; Scheffels, Janne (2021). Cannabis, youth and social identity: the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence. 16 p. Journal of Youth Studies .
Tokle, Rikke Iren
(2020).
‘Vaping and fidget-spinners’: A qualitative, longitudinal study of e-cigarettes in adolescence.
8 p.
International journal of drug policy
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Vol. 82.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2685669
