About
By education a social psychologist, Hansen has worked mainly in the areas of gerontology and mental health and well-being. He prepared his doctoral thesis (2010) at the University of Oslo (Faculty of Medicine). The title of the thesis was "Subjective well-being in the second half of life". To date, publications include studies of aging, mental health, well-being, childlessness, informal caregiving, gender division of housework and childcare.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Aging Quality of Life Life-evolvement Care-taking Care-taking of elders Mental Health Old people
Research groups
Research projects
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A Life Course Perspective on the Gendered Pathways of Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life, and its Consequences for Health and Wellbeing (GENPATH)
GENPATH is an international European research project focussing on social exclusion in later life.
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Active Ageing – Pathways and Outcomes (AgePaths)
This project investigates pathways and outcomes of active ageing in three domains and their interactions: the labor market, civil society, and the family.
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Activity Friend for Persons with Dementia
The project addresses what role the "activity friend" volunteers play in municipal health care and for people with dementia in Norway.
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Children's Level of Living: The Impact of Family Economy for Children's Lives
The aim of the project was to explore how income influence different aspects of children's lives.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Hansen, Thomas; Blekesaune, Morten
(2022).
The age and well-being “paradox”: a longitudinal and multidimensional reconsideration.
European Journal of Ageing
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Vol. 19.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3007682
Nes, Ragnhild Bang; Yu, Baeksan; Hansen, Thomas; Vedaa, Øystein; Røysamb, Espen; Nilsen, Thomas Sevenius
(2022).
Flattening the quality of life curve? A prospective person-centred study from Norway amid COVID-19.
Quality of Life Research
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Vol. 31.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/99002
Pavlidis, George; Hansen, Thomas; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Network and solitude satisfaction as modifiers of disadvantages in the quality of life of older persons who are challenged by exclusion from social relations: a gender stratified analysis. Applied Research in Quality of Life . Vol. 17.
Amare, Azmeraw T.; Schubert, Klaus Oliver; Hou, Liping; Clark, Scott R.; Papiol, Sergi; Cearns, Micah; Heilbronner, Urs; Degenhardt, Franziska; Tekola-Ayele, Fasil; Hsu, Yi-Hsiang; Shekhtman, Tatyana; Adli, Mazda; Akula, Nirmala; Akiyama, Kazufumi; Ardau, Raffaella; Arias, Bárbara; Aubry, Jean-Michel; Backlund, Lena; Bhattacharjee, Abesh Kumar; Bellivier, Frank; Benabarre, Antonio; Bengesser, Susanne; Biernacka, Joanna M.; Birner, Armin; Brichant-Petitjean, Clara; Cervantes, Pablo; Chen, Hsi-Chung; Chillotti, Caterina; Cichon, Sven; Cruceanu, Cristiana; Czerski, Piotr M.; Dalkner, Nina; Dayer, Alexandre; Del Zompo, Maria; DePaulo, J. Raymond; Étain, Bruno; Jamain, Stephane; Falkai, Peter; Forstner, Andreas J.; Frisen, Louise; Frye, Mark A.; Fullerton, Janice M.; Gard, Sébastien; Garnham, Julie S.; Goes, Fernando S.; Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria; Grof, Paul; Hashimoto, Ryota; Hauser, Joanna; Herms, Stefan; Hoffmann, Per; Hofmann, Andrea; Jiménez, Esther; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Kassem, Layla; Kuo, Po-Hsiu; Kato, Tadafumi; Kelsoe, John R.; Kittel-Schneider, Sarah; Kliwicki, Sebastian; König, Barbara; Kusumi, Ichiro; Laje, Gonzalo; Landén, Mikael; Lavebratt, Catharina; Leboyer, Marion; Leckband, Susan G.; Tortorella, Alfonso; Manchia, Mirko; Martinsson, Lina; McCarthy, Michael J.; McElroy, Susan L.; Colom, Francesc; Mitjans, Marina; Mondimore, Francis M.; Monteleone, Palmiero; Nievergelt, Caroline M.; Nöthen, Markus M.; Novák, Tomas; O’Donovan, Claire; Ozaki, Norio; Ösby, Urban; Pfennig, Andrea; Potash, James B.; Reif, Andreas; Wray, Naomi R.; Ripke, Stephan; Mattheisen, Manuel; Trzaskowski, Maciej; Byrne, Enda M.; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Adams, Mark J.; Agerbo, Esben; Air, Tracy M.; Andlauer, Till F. M.; Bacanu, Silviu-Alin; Bækvad-Hansen, Marie; Beekman, Aartjan T. F.; Bigdeli, Tim B.; Binder, Elisabeth B.; Blackwood, Douglas H. R.; Bryois, Julien; Buttenschøn, Henriette N.; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Cai, Na; Castelao, Enrique; Christensen, Jane varregaard; Clarke, Toni-Kim; Coleman, Jonathan R. I.; Colodro-Conde, Lucía; Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste; Craddock, Nick; Crawford, Gregory E.; Davies, Gail; Deary, Ian J.; Degenhardt, Franziska; Derks, Eske M.; Direk, Nese; Dolan, Conor V.; Dunn, Erin C.; Eley, Thalia C.; Escott-Price, Valentina; Kiadeh, Farnush Farhadi Hassan; Finucane, Hilary K.; Forstner, Andreas J.; Frank, Josef; Gaspar, Héléna A.; Gill, Michael; Goes, Fernando S.; Gordon, Scott D.; Grove, Jakob; Hall, Lynsey S.; Hansen, Christine Søholm; Hansen, Thomas; Herms, Stefan; Hickie, Ian B.; Hoffmann, Per; Homuth, Georg; Horn, Carsten; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Hougaard, David M.; Ising, Marcus; Jansen, Rick; Jorgenson, Eric; Knowles, James A.; Kohane, Isaac S.; Kraft, Julia; Kretzschmar, Warren W.; Krogh, Jesper; Kutalik, Zoltán; Li, Yihan; Lind, Penelope A.; MacIntyre, Donald J.; MacKinnon, Dean F.; Maier, Robert M.; Maier, Wolfgang; Marchini, Jonathan; Mbarek, Hamdi; McGrath, Patrick; McGuffin, Peter; Medland, Sarah E.; Mehta, Divya; Middeldorp, Christel M.; Mihailov, Evelin; Milaneschi, Yuri; Milani, Lili; Mondimore, Francis M.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Mostafavi, Sara; Mullins, Niamh; Nauck, Matthias; Ng, Bernard; Nivard, Michel G.; Nyholt, Dale R.; O’Reilly, Paul F.; Oskarsson, Hogni; Owen, Michael J.; Painter, Jodie N.; Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker; Pedersen, Marianne Giørtz; Peterson, Roseann E.; Pettersson, Erik; Peyrot, Wouter J.; Pistis, Giorgio; Posthuma, Danielle; Quiroz, Jorge A.; Qvist, Per; Rice, John P.; Riley, Brien P.; Rivera, Margarita; Mirza, Saira Saeed; Schoevers, Robert; Schulte, Eva C.; Shen, Ling; Shi, Jianxin; Shyn, Stanley I.; Sigurdsson, Engilbert; Sinnamon, Grant C. B.; Smit, Johannes H.; Smith, Daniel J.; Stefansson, Hreinn; Steinberg, Stacy; Streit, Fabian; Strohmaier, Jana; Tansey, Katherine E.; Teismann, Henning; Teumer, Alexander; Thompson, Wesley Kurt; Thomson, Pippa A.; Thorgeirsson, Thorgeir E.; Traylor, Matthew; Treutlein, Jens; Trubetskoy, Vassily; Uitterlinden, André G.; Umbricht, Daniel; Van der Auwera, Sandra; van Hemert, Albert M.; Viktorin, Alexander; Visscher, Peter M.; Wang, Yunpeng; Webb, Bradley T.; Weinsheimer, Shantel Marie; Wellmann, Jürgen; Willemsen, Gonneke; Witt, Stephanie H.; Wu, Yang; Xi, Hualin S.; Yang, Jian; Zhang, Futao; Arolt, Volker; Baune, Bernhard T.; Berger, Klaus; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Dannlowski, Udo; de Geus, Geus; DePaulo, J. Raymond; Domenici, Enrico; Domschke, Katharina; Esko, Tõnu; Grabe, Hans J.; Hamilton, Steven P.; Hayward, Caroline; Heath, Andrew C.; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Kloiber, Stefan; Lewis, Glyn; Li, Qingqin S.; Lucae, Susanne; Madden, Pamela A. F.; Magnusson, Patrik K.; Martin, Nicholas G.; McIntosh, Andrew M.; Metspalu, Andres; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Nordentoft, Merete; Nöthen, Markus M.; O’Donovan, Michael C.; Paciga, Sara A.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Perlis, Roy H.; Porteous, David J.; Potash, James B.; Preisig, Martin; Rietschel, Marcella; Schaefer, Catherine; Schulze, Thomas G.; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stefansson, Kari; Tiemeier, Henning; Uher, Rudolf; Völzke, Henry; Weissman, Myrna M.; Werge, Thomas; Lewis, Cathryn M.; Levinson, Douglas F.; Breen, Gerome; Børglum, Anders D.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Reininghaus, Eva; Rouleau, Guy A.; Rybakowski, Janusz K.; Schalling, Martin; Schofield, Peter R.; Schweizer, Barbara W.; Severino, Giovanni; Shilling, Paul D.; Shimoda, Katzutaka; Simhandl, Christian; Slaney, Claire M.; Squassina, Alessio; Stamm, Thomas; Stopkova, Pavla; Maj, Mario; Turecki, Gustavo; Vieta, Eduard; Veeh, Julia; Witt, Stephanie H.; Wright, Adam; Zandi, Peter P.; Mitchell, Philip B.; Bauer, Michael; Alda, Martin; Rietschel, Marcella; McMahon, Francis J.; Schulze, Thomas G.; Baune, Bernhard T. (2021). Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry . Vol. 26.
Onstad, Oda Utsi; Joranger, Pål; Hansen, Thomas
(2021).
Nye eldre – nye former for frivillighet? Frivillighetsmønstre og motivbegrunnelser sett i lys av endringer i verdier, utdanningsnivå og mestring.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning
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Vol. 24.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2977343
Hansen, Thomas; Kafková, Marcela Petrová; Katz, Ruth; Lowenstein, Ariela; Naim, Sigal; Pavlidis, George; Villar, Feliciano; Walsh, Kieran; Aartsen, Marja
(2021).
Exclusion from social relations in later life: Micro-and macro-level patterns and correlations in a european perspective.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Vol. 18.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2996610
Hansen, Thomas; Slagsvold, Britt (2021). The Baby-boomer generation: Another breed of elderly people?. Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir; Takle, Marianne; Britt, Slagsvold (Ed.). Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. Kapittel 9. p. 153-173. Routledge.
Hansen, Thomas; Nilsen, Thomas Sevenius; Knapstad, Marit; Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse; Skogen, Jens Christoffer; Vedaa, Øystein; Nes, Ragnhild Bang
(2021).
Covid-fatigued? A longitudinal study of Norwegian older adults’ psychosocial well-being before and during early and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
European Journal of Ageing
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2833256
Aartsen, Marja; Walsh, Kieran; Villar, Feliciano; Lowenstein, Ariela; Katz, Ruth; Naim, Sigal; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Wanka, Anna; Urbaniak, Anna Maria; Hansen, Thomas; Vidovićová, Lucie (2021). Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life and the Role of Gender: A Heuristic Model. Gender a výzkum . Vol. 22.
Hansen, Thomas; Nilsen, Thomas Sevenius; Yu, Baeksan; Knapstad, Marit; Skogen, Jens Christoffer; Vedaa, Øystein; Nes, Ragnhild Bang
(2021).
Locked and lonely? A longitudinal assessment of loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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Vol. 47.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2739693
