SAM - Institutt for sosialfag
Recent Submissions
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Payment Problems and Suicide: Life under Financial Strain
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)Aims: Suicide deaths are often linked to impulsivity during moments of crisis, such as financial difficulties, relationship breakdowns and poor health. For individuals experiencing financial problems, risk factors for ... -
Understanding a Parent’s Visitation Capacity After a Care Order
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)The ability of parents to maintain visitation with their child after a care order is a complex aspect of child welfare. While visitation is widely recognized as essential for preserving family bonds and supporting potential ... -
Anti-Poverty Interventions across "Most Different" Settings: Considering Change over Time in Comparisons of Emotional Impact
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2024)A comparative, qualitative study in the Global North and South provided ground-breaking evidence concerning the psychosocial impact of antipoverty interventions. This chapter offers a new look at synthetic findings from a ... -
“It Is Possible to Call More People Mum”—Contact Between Children in Foster Care and Their Birth Parents
(Social Sciences;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)Contact arrangements in child protection can often create conflicts and distress. This is an area the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWSs) have paid greater attention to in recent years, to a large degree due to several ... -
Psykisk helse hos ansatte i barnevernet Barnevernsansattes opplevelser av belastninger knyttet til arbeid i barnevernet
(Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)I denne artikkelen undersøker vi opplevelse av psykisk belastning hos ansatte i barnevernet. Studien er en del av prosjektet «Psykisk helse hos barnevernsansatte», som består av både en kvantitativ og en kvalitativ del. ... -
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today’s interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, ... -
Stress management with HRV following AI, semantic ontology, genetic algorithm and tree explainer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)Heart Rate Variability (HRV) serves as a vital marker of stress levels, with lower HRV indicating higher stress. It measures the variation in the time between heartbeats and offers insights into health. Artificial intelligence ... -
The associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: A Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995-1997
(Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Psychiatric disorder diagnoses are linked to long-term socio-economic “shadows” into adulthood, but little is known about how these diagnoses are associated with adulthood payment problems in Norway, and whether ... -
Sustainable Commercial Fishery Control Using Multimedia Forensics Data from Non-trusted, Mobile Edge Nodes
(Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2024)Uncontrolled over-fishing has been exemplified by the UN as a serious ecological challenge and a major threat to sustainable food supplies. Emerging trends within governing bodies point towards digital solutions by deploying ... -
Tilbakeføringsarbeid fra fengsel til samfunnet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Det er et uttalt politisk mål at innsatte i fengsel skal tilbakeføres til samfunnet på en måte som forebygger utenforskap, fremmer deltakelse i arbeidsliv og utdanning, og motvirker ny kriminalitet. Artikkelen utforsker ... -
Checking Out the Unexplained: With Age, Children Become Increasingly Skeptical of Surprising Claims
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)When presented with surprising claims, older children investigate such claims more often than younger children. The present study tests whether older children (6–7-year-olds) are more skeptical than younger children ... -
Sleep problems were unrelated to social media use in the late COVID-19 pandemic phase: A cross-national study.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2025)Sleep problems are commonly related to stress and mental health problems. However, social media use has become widespread in the general population during recent years, and their addictive potential may influence people’s ... -
Health literacy in parents of children with Hirschsprung disease: a novel study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Purpose To explore health literacy (HL) among parents of children with Hirschsprung disease (HD). Methods Norwegian-speaking parents of children under 16 who underwent HD surgery at a tertiary center were surveyed using ... -
«Jeg følte at jeg faktisk ‘var’ der» Resonans og berørthet mellom utøver og publikum i 'Enkemesse i en allehelgensnatt'
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)I denne artikkelen tar jeg utgangspunkt i møtet mellom publikum og meg som utøver i min interaktive, musikalske fortelling om en allehelgensmesse jeg var med å arrangere på homodiskoteket Den Sorte Enke i Oslo på starten ... -
Taking care of you – or yourself? The human right protections in demarcation between paternalism and autonomy in Norwegian child welfare institutions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article examines the complex interplay between autonomy and paternalism in the domain of child welfare, with a special focus on the application of international human rights frameworks. It underscores the dual protection ... -
Intervjuer på Teams og telefon: Hva slags data gir medierte intervjuer?
(Chapter, 2024)In discussions of qualitative interviewing, face-to-face interviews are often understood as the “gold standard” and other interview forms are evaluated against this. Researchers who use data from telephone and video ... -
«Far er fra Syria, men det er ikke sånn strikt»Forståelser av kultur i barnevernstjenestens drøftinger av samværmellom fosterbarn og deres foreldre
(Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan barnevernsansattes kulturforståelser får betydning for deres vurderinger av samvær mellom foreldre og barn under offentlig omsorg. Artikkelen er en del av en studie om hvordan ansatte i ... -
The Uses and Experiences of Synchronous Communication Technology for Home-Dwelling Older Adults in a Home Care Services Context: Qualitative Systematic Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: European health care systems regard information and communication technology as a necessity in supporting future health care provision by community home care services to home-dwelling older adults. Communication ... -
The technology multiple: The robot avatar substituting for the ill body
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this article, we explore how a very simple telepresence robot avatar becomes a technology multiple when interacting with humans. Based on Mol’s notion of the body multiple, we explore how AV1 – a social telepresence ... -
Evaluering av argumenter for politiske reformer: En demonstrasjon av Toulmin-Dunn-modellen på Ny arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning (Nav) i Norge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Viktige politiske beslutninger er ofte kompliserte og inkluderer ofte mange aktører, flere alternative løsninger og ulike interesser, verdier og mål. Vi har benyttet Toulmin-Dunn-modellen som er en modell for analyse av ...
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