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dc.contributor.authorEriksen, Ingunn Marie
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-05T09:48:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-08T01:06:01Z
dc.date.available2020-02-05T09:48:39Z
dc.date.available2020-03-08T01:06:01Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationEriksen I. Class, parenting and academic stress in Norway: middle-class youth on parental pressure and mental health. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2020en
dc.identifier.issn0159-6306
dc.identifier.issn0159-6306
dc.identifier.issn1469-3739
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/8238
dc.description.abstractMental health problems among young people have increased in recent decades, particularly among middle-class youth, a development often related to increasing achievement pressure. This paper explores how young people from the financial and cultural middle classes in Norway experience school stress and their parents’ values and practices concerning school achievement. Based on interviews with 53 boys and girls, aged 15–17, the study identifies 2 narratives. The first narrative is told by youth from the financial middle classes. They talk about their parents’ explicit demands, and tie the parental pressure to their achievement-related mental health problems. The second narrative describes a ceaseless self-drive, told by youth mainly from the cultural middle class. They portray their parents’ expectations as implicit rather than explicit, and they see mental health problems as achievement related – but not related to their parents. In both narratives, however, self-worth relies on achievement.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe study was funded by the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Ministry of Children and Families.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiscourse;Published online 04 Feb 2020
dc.rightsThe Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education February 4 2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2020.1716690en
dc.subjectYouthsen
dc.subjectParentsen
dc.subjectMental healthen
dc.subjectStressen
dc.subjectSocial classesen
dc.subjectSchool achievementsen
dc.titleClass, parenting and academic stress in Norway: middle-class youth on parental pressure and mental healthen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2020-02-05T09:48:39Z
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dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1716690
dc.identifier.cristin1791024
dc.source.journalDiscourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education


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