Íslenska

Thoroddur Bjarnason

Professor of Sociology at the University of Iceland

Youth studies
Migration, settlement intentions and youth outlook
  • Einar Baldvin Þorsteinsson, Þóroddur Bjarnason, Natasha M. Loi og Ársæll Már Arnarsson. 2022. Sexual orientation and migration intentions among rural, exurban, and urban adolescents in Iceland. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 24, 31–47. doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2020.1813333
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Tialda Haartsen, Ársæll M. Arnarsson og Vanda Sigurgeirsdóttir. 2021. The impact of school bullying on adolescent migration intentions. Population, Space and Place, e2422. doi.org/10.1002/psp.2422
  • Dean B. Carson, Þóroddur Bjarnason og Olof Andreas Stjernström. 2020. The changing youth population. Bls. 71–88 í Linda Lundmark, Dean B. Carson og Marco Eimermann (ritstj.), Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2014. Adolescent migration intentions and population change: A twenty-year follow-up of Icelandic communities. Sociologia Ruralis, 54, 500–515. doi.org/10.1111/soru.12050
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2011. Framtíðarbúseta unglinga af erlendum uppruna. Netla, 9 (32).
  • Carole L. Seyfrit, Þóroddur Bjarnason og Kjartan Ólafsson. 2010. Migration intentions of rural youth in Iceland: Can a large-scale development project stem the tide of out-migration? Society and Natural Resources, 23, 1201–1215. doi.org/10.1080/08941920903278152
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2009. London calling? Preferred emigration destinations among Icelandic youth. Acta Sociologica, 52, 149–161.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2008. International migration expectations among Icelandic youth. Arctic and Antarctic: International Journal of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues, 2, 47–74.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Þórólfur Þórlindsson. 2006. Should I stay or should I go? Migration expectations among youth in Icelandic fishing and farming communities. Journal of Rural Studies, 22, 290–300.
Bullying and violence among adolescents
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Tialda Haartsen, Ársæll M. Arnarsson og Vanda Sigurgeirsdóttir. 2021. The impact of school bullying on adolescent migration intentions. Population, Space and Place, e2422. doi.org/10.1002/psp.2422
  • Ársæll M. Arnarsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2018. The Problem with Low-Prevalence of Bullying. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, 1535. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071535
  • Ársæll Arnarsson, Sigríður Malmquist og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2017. Sjálfsvígshætta ungra gerenda eineltis. Glæður, 27, 24–30.
  • Richard B. Felson, Jukka Savolainen, Þóroddur Bjarnason, Amy L. Anderson og Israt Zohra. 2011. The cultural context of adolescent drinking and violence in 30 European countries. Criminology, 49, 699–728. doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00239.x
  • Ársæll Már Arnarsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2009. Einelti og samskipti við fjölskyldu og vini meðal 6., 8. og 10. bekkinga. Tímarit um menntarannsóknir, 6, 15–26.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Þórdís Jóna Sigurðardóttir og Þórólfur Þórlindsson. 1999. Human agency, capable guardians and structural constraints: A lifestyle approach to the study of violent victimization. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 28, 105–119.
Social ties and relationships with parents
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Pernille Bendtsen, Arsaell M. Arnarsson, Ina Borup, Ronald J. Iannotti, Petra Löfstedt, Ilona Haapasalo, Birgit Niclasen. 2012. Life satisfaction among children in different family structures: A comparative study of 36 western societies. Children & Society, 26, 51–62. doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00324.x
  • Þórólfur Þórlindsson, Þóroddur Bjarnason og Inga D. Sigfúsdóttir. 2007. Social Closure, Parental and Peer Networks: A Study of Adolescent Scholastic Achievement and Alcohol Use. Acta Sociologica, 50, 161–178.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Stefán H. Jónsson. 2007. Inequalities and Social Cohesion in Psycho-Somatic Health: Individual and Community Processes in Iceland. Bls. 123–131 í Social Cohesion for Mental Wellbeing among Adolescents. World Health Organization.
  • Ársæll Már Arnarsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2009. Einelti og samskipti við fjölskyldu og vini meðal 6., 8. og 10. bekkinga. Tímarit um menntarannsóknir, 6, 15–26.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Þórdís Jóna Sigurðardóttir. 2003. Psychological distress during unemployment and beyond: Social support and material deprivation among youth in six northern European countries. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 973–985.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Barbro Andersson, Marie Choquet, Zsuzsanna Elekes, Mark Morgan og Gertrude Rapinett. 2003. Alcohol culture, family structure and adolescent alcohol use: Multi-level modeling of frequency of heavy drinking among 15–16 year old students in eleven European countries. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64, 200–208.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Aleksandra G. Davidaviciene, Patrick Miller, Alojz Nociar, Andreas Pavlakis og Eva Stergar. 2003. Family structure and adolescent cigarette smoking in eleven European countries. Addiction, 98, 815–824.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1998. Parents, religion and perceived social coherence: A Durkheimian framework of adolescent anomie. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 37, 743–755.
  • Aldous, Joan, Gail M. Mulligan og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1998. Fathering over time: What makes the difference? Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 809–820.
Substance use and risk behavior among adolescents
  • Ársæll Arnarsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2020. Félagsleg staða og áfengisneysla unglinga 1999-2019. Niðurstöður úr rannsókninni Heilsa og líðan skólabarna (HBSC). Glæður, 30, 38–43.
  • Ársæll Már Arnarsson, Gísli Kort Kristófersson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2018. Adolescent Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Iceland 1995-2015. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37, S49–S57. doi.org/10.1111/dar.12587
  • Daniela Piontek, Ludwig Kraus, Thoroddur Bjarnason, Zsolt Demetrovics og Mats Ramstedt. 2013. Individual and country-level effects of cannabis-related perceptions on cannabis use. A multilevel study among adolescents in 32 European countries. Journal of Adolescent Health, 473–479. doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.07.010
  • Margreet de Looze, William Pickett, Quinten Raaijmakers, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Anne Hublet, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Þóroddur Bjarnason, Michal Molcho, Wilma Vollebergh og Tom ter Bogt. 2012. Early risk behaviors and adolescent injury in 25 European and North American countries: A cross-national consistent relationship. Journal of Early Adolescence, 32, 104–125. doi.org/10.1177/0272431611414062
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Andreea Steriu og Anna Kokkevi. 2010. Cannabis Supply and Demand Reduction: Evidence from the ESPAD Study of Adolescents in 31 European Countries. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 17, 123–134. doi.org/10.3109/09687630802419155
  • Þórólfur Þórlindsson, Þóroddur Bjarnason og Inga D. Sigfúsdóttir. 2007. Social Closure, Parental and Peer Networks: A Study of Adolescent Scholastic Achievement and Alcohol Use. Acta Sociologica, 50, 161–178.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2006. Polarization in alcohol consumption among Icelandic adolescents, 1995-2003. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 23, 51–58.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Stefán Hrafn Jónsson. 2005. Contrast Effects in Perceived Risk of Substance Use. Substance Use and Misuse, 40, 1733–1748.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Þórólfur Þórlindsson, Inga D. Sigfúsdóttir og Michael R. Welch. 2005. Familial and Religious Influences on Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Multi-Level Study of Students and School Communities. Social Forces, 84, 375–390.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Barbro Andersson, Marie Choquet, Zsuzsanna Elekes, Mark Morgan og Gertrude Rapinett. 2003. Alcohol culture, family structure and adolescent alcohol use: Multi-level modeling of frequency of heavy drinking among 15–16 year old students in eleven European countries. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64, 200–208.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Aleksandra G. Davidaviciene, Patrick Miller, Alojz Nociar, Andreas Pavlakis og Eva Stergar. 2003. Family structure and adolescent cigarette smoking in eleven European countries. Addiction, 98, 815–824.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Sigrún Aðalbjarnardóttir. 2000. Anonymity and confidentiality in school surveys on tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use. Journal of Drug Issues, 30, 335–344.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1995. Administration mode bias in a school survey on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use. Addiction, 90, 555–559.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason, Brynjólfur Mogensen, Dagmar Ýr Stefánsdóttir, Jóhann Ásmundsson. 2007. Þáttur áfengis í komum unglinga á slysa- og bráðadeild Landspítala. Læknablaðið, 93, 181–185.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1992. Rannsóknir á hassneyslu Reykjavíkuræskunnar. Sálfræðiritið, 3, 49–60.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2007. Risk factors in adolescent substance use in a cross-cultural context. Kafli í Richard Muscat, Þóroddur Bjarnason, Francois Beck og Patrick Peretti-Watel (ritstj.). Risk factors in adolescent drug use: Evidence from school surveys and application in policy. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2009. Cultural and linguistic predictors of difficulties in school and risk behavior among adolescents of foreign descent in Iceland. Bls. 15–19 í Michal Molcho, Þóroddur Bjarnason, Francesca Cristini, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Theadora Koller, Carmen Moreno, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn og Massimo Santinello (ritstj.). Foreign-born Children in Europe: An Overview from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Study. Brussels: International Organization for Migration.
Suicide, suicide risk and adolescent mental health
  • Ársæll M. Arnarsson, Sigrún Sveinbjörnsdottir, Einar B. Þorsteinsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2015. Suicidal risk and sexual orientation in adolescence: A population-based study in Iceland. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 43, 497–505. doi.org/10.1177/1403494815585402
  • Anna Kokkevi, Clive Richardson, Deborah Olszewski, Joao Matias, Karin Monshouwer og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2012. Multiple substance use and self-reported suicide attempts by adolescents in 16 European countries. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 21, 443–450. doi.org/10.1007/s00787-012-0276-7
  • Sigrún Sveinbjörnsdóttir, Einar B. Þorsteinsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2012. Upplifun unglinga á almennri líkamlegri og andlegri heilsu með hliðsjón af kynhneigð. Sálfræðiritið, 17, fylgirit I, 20–22.
  • Ársæll Arnarsson, Sigríður Malmquist og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2017. Sjálfsvígshætta ungra gerenda eineltis. Glæður, 27, 24–30.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2009. Anomie among European Adolescents: Conceptual and empirical clarification of a multilevel sociological concept. Sociological Forum, 24, 135–161.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2007. The Social Psychology of Anomie: The Association of Exteriority and Constraint with Self-Esteem and Depression among European Adolescents. REALIDAD: Revista del Cono Sur de Psicología Social y Política, 2, 7–16. kennedy.edu.ar/Posgrados/realidad.htm
  • Inga D. Sigfúsdóttir, Þórólfur Þórlindsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2007. Religion: Soutien divin et tension psychologique. Social Compass, 54, 473–492.
  • Messner, Steven F., Lawrence E. Raffalovich, Þóroddur Bjarnason og Benjamin Pearson-Nelson. 2006. Divorce, Non-marital Fertility, and Youth Suicide Rates: A Multinational, Time-Series Analysis. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68, 1105–1111.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1998. Parents, religion and perceived social coherence: A Durkheimian framework of adolescent anomie. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 37, 743–755.
  • Þórólfur Þórlindsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1998. Modeling Durkheim on the micro level: A study of youth suicidality. American Sociological Review, 63, 94–110.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1994. The influence of social support, suggestion and depression on suicidal behavior among Icelandic youth. Acta Sociologica, 37, 195–206.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Þórólfur Þórlindsson. 1994. Manifest predictors of past suicide attempts in a population of Icelandic adolescents. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 24, 350–358.
  • Þórólfur Þórlindsson og Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1994. Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in a population of Icelandic adolescents. Arctic Medical Research, 53, 580–582.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason og Stefán H. Jónsson. 2007. Inequalities and Social Cohesion in Psycho-Somatic Health: Individual and Community Processes in Iceland. Bls. 123–131 í Social Cohesion for Mental Wellbeing among Adolescents. World Health Organization.
Adolescent attitudes and anomie
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2009. Anomie among European Adolescents: Conceptual and empirical clarification of a multilevel sociological concept. Sociological Forum, 24, 135–161.
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 2007. The Social Psychology of Anomie: The Association of Exteriority and Constraint with Self-Esteem and Depression among European Adolescents. REALIDAD: Revista del Cono Sur de Psicología Social y Política, 2, 7–16. kennedy.edu.ar/Posgrados/realidad.htm
  • Þóroddur Bjarnason. 1998. Parents, religion and perceived social coherence: A Durkheimian framework of adolescent anomie. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 37, 743–755.