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dc.contributor.authorEriksen, Ingunn Marie
dc.contributor.authorSeland, Idunn
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-18T14:31:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-07T10:57:08Z
dc.date.available2020-07-18T14:31:46Z
dc.date.available2020-08-07T10:57:08Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-12
dc.identifier.citationEriksen, Seland. Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 2020en
dc.identifier.issn1103-3088
dc.identifier.issn1103-3088
dc.identifier.issn1741-3222
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/8825
dc.description.abstractThis study identifies key mechanisms in youth clubs for fostering well-being among vulnerable youths. We develop a framework to conceptualise prerequisites of well-being in youth, namely having a safe place to be, positive relations with others and possibilities for growth. This conceptualisation maintains insights from psychological elements of well-being while bringing psychosocial theory of identity in youth into a sociological orientation. Understanding youth as a dynamic and situated phase expands the investigation of both well-being and youth clubs from merely revolving around ‘risk’ and ‘protection’. Based on interviews with youth workers and participants in youth clubs in Norway, the paper describes how ‘hanging out’ in adult-supervised but otherwise unstructured spaces provides youths with safety, belonging and a gradual sense of mastery. As such, the club may function as an institutionalised safe space and gives time, a ‘moratorium’, offering vulnerable youths shelter from adult responsibilities and the acceleration of societal demands.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was commissioned and financially supported by The Norwegian Directorate of Health.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesYoung - Nordic Journal of Youth Research;
dc.rightsEriksen, Ingunn Marie, Seland, Idunn, Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs, Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 1–16. © 2020 SAGE Publications and YOUNg Editorial group. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308820937571en
dc.subjectYouth clubsen
dc.subjectWell-beingen
dc.subjectAdolescentsen
dc.subjectMoratoriumsen
dc.subjectYouth workersen
dc.subjectSocial worken
dc.titleConceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2020-07-18T14:31:45Z
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dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308820937571
dc.identifier.cristin1819787
dc.source.journalYoung - Nordic Journal of Youth Research


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