Publications

Inequality in Youth

Rogstad, J., Eriksen, I. M. and Moberg, K. (2025). The reproduction of wealth inequality: How middle and upper class parents instil financial orientations in their children. Sociology, 1–17
Smette, I. and Hegna, K. (2025). Understanding rural young women’s pathways towards settledness in Norway: A longitudinal perspective. In Vehkalahti, K., Eriksen, I. M. and Østergaard, J. (eds.), Growing Up Rural: Qualitative Longitudinal Explorations of Young People Living in the Nordic Countries. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Eriksen, I. M., Vehkalahti, K., Ristaniemi, H., Rönnlund, M., Tollefsen, A., Østergaard, J. and Armila, P. (2025). Trajectories of belonging among Nordic rural youth: Strengthening, weakening, or conflicting belonging over time. In Vehkalahti, K., Eriksen, I. M. and Østergaard, J. (eds.), Growing Up Rural. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Rönnlund, M., Tollefsen, A., Eriksen, I. M., Ristaniemi, H., Vehkalahti, K., Østergaard, J. and Armila, P. (2025). Rural Nordic youth’s transition to upper secondary school: Challenges and dilemmas. In Vehkalahti, K., Eriksen, I. M. and Østergaard, J. (eds.), Growing Up Rural. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Østergaard, J., Eriksen, I. M., Rönnlund, M., Vehkalahti, K., Ristaniemi, H., Armila, P. and Tollefsen, A. (2025). Young people’s projective imagination growing up in rural Nordic countries. In Vehkalahti, K., Eriksen, I. M. and Østergaard, J. (eds.), Growing Up Rural. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Eriksen, I. M. and Vehkalahti, K. (2025). Cross contextual temporal analysis: Experiences with collaborative analyses of qualitative longitudinal data from four countries. In Vehkalahti, K., Eriksen, I. M. and Østergaard, J. (eds.), Growing Up Rural. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Eriksen, I. M., Persson, M. and Rogstad, J. (2025). Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: Identification and reorientation. Journal of Youth Studies, 1–14.
Persson, M. and Eriksen, I. M. (2025). Sports participation as a reflection of social inclusion in youth: A holistic exploration of sport within young people’s lives. Sport, Education and Society, 1–12.
Davan, L. B. and Eriksen, I. M. (2024). Ungdommers levde medborgerskap: Betydningen av klassede foreldrepraksiser under pandemien. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, 8(4), 1–14.
Eriksen, I. M. and Andersen, P. L. (2023). The gendered district effect: Psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities. Journal of Youth Studies, 1–17.
Eriksen, I. M., Stefansen, K., Langnes, T. F. and Walseth, K. (2023). The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two generational longitudinal approach. Sociology of Health and Illness, 1–16.
Eriksen, I. M., Stefansen, K. and Smette, I. (2022). Inequalities in the making: The role of young people’s relational resources through the Covid 19 lockdown. Journal of Youth Studies.
Eriksen, I. M. and Stefansen, K. (2022). Mapping young Norwegians’ self projects and future orientations. In Nico, M. and Pollock, G. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course. London: Routledge
Eriksen, I. M., Stefansen, K. and Ødegård, G. (2021). Fire typer ungdomsliv: Ressurser, relasjoner og stedets betydning. In Ødegård, G. and Pedersen, W. (eds.), Ungdommen. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk
Eriksen, I. M. (2021). Teens’ dreams of becoming professional athletes: The gender gap in youths’ sports ambitions. Sport in Society.
Eriksen, I. M. and Stefansen, K. (2021). What are youth sports for? Youth sports parenting in working class communities. Sport, Education and Society.
Eriksen, I. M. (2021). Ungdom i endring. Kort oppsummert, no. 3. NOVA, OsloMet
Eriksen, I. M. and Andersen, P. L. (2021). Ungdoms tilhørighet, trivsel og framtidsplaner i Distrikts Norge. NOVA rapport 2/21
Eriksen, I. M. and Davan, L. B. (2020). Tap og tillit. Ungdoms livstilfredshet og samfunnsdeltagelse under pandemien. NOVA rapport 13/20
Eriksen, I. M. and Seland, I. (2019). Ungdom, kjønn og fritid. NOVA rapport 6/19

Young in Norway

Skirbekk, V. F., Tamnes, C. K., Juliusson, P. B., Jugessur, A. and von Soest, T. (2025). Diverging trends in the age of social and biological transitions to adulthood. Advances in Life Course Research, 65.
Ivanova, A., Fluit, S., Fischer, N., von Soest, T. and Kozák, M. (2025). Masturbation trajectories from late adolescence into mid adulthood: A population based longitudinal study. Journal of Sex Research.
Potočár, L., Kozák, M., Bøe, T. and von Soest, T. (2025). The social gradients in mental health and psychosocial well being from adolescence to midlife. Social Science and Medicine, 383.
Bårdstu, S. K. et al. (2025). Active during childhood: Undercontrolled or extraverted in late adolescence? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(2), 456–475.
Solberg, O. M. et al. (2025). From adolescence to midlife: Within person associations between self esteem and internalising symptoms across 28 years. Journal of Affective Disorders, 389.
Kozák, M. and von Soest, T. (2025). Adolescent work values and adult attainment two decades later. Journal of Education and Work.
Rodriguez Cano, R. et al. (2024). Loneliness in adolescence and prescription of psychotropic drugs in adulthood. BJPsych Open, 10(2).
Bierwiaczonek, K. et al. (2024). Loneliness trajectories over three decades are associated with conspiracist worldviews in midlife. Nature Communications, 15(1).
Potrebny, T. et al. (2024). Secular trends in mental health problems among young people in Norway. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34, 69–81.
Nordmo, M. et al. (2024). The diminishing association between adolescent mental disorders and educational performance from 2006–2019. JCPP Advances, 4(3).

UngVold

Frøyland, L. R. and von Soest, T. (2018). Trends in the perpetration of physical aggression among Norwegian adolescents 2007–2015. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47(9), 1938–1951.
Huang, L. and Mossige, S. (2012). Academic achievement in Norwegian secondary schools: The impact of violence during childhood. Social Psychology of Education, 15(2), 147–164.
Frøyland, L. R. and Heggebø, K. (2024). Childhood maltreatment and revictimisation in young adulthood. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.