| Media and communication | |
| Stream-coordinator: Ola Erstad | Title of abstract |
| (Institute for Educational research, University of Oslo) | |
| Autio, Minna | Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki | Use of Cash Advances among Young Finnish Adults - ‘the Poor Pay More´? |
| Boonaert, Tom | Department of Social Welfare Studies; Ghent University | New Emerging Online Social Networks for Disadvantaged Youth |
Jonsson, Fatima Liu, Fengshu | Department of system and computer science Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo | Online peers, real peers, and local peers in the game café. A study of the social relationships of play among young people.
Where Else Can One Go? Urban Chinese Youth and the Net Café as a Third Place |
| Siibak, Andra | Institute of Journalism and Communication, University of Tartu | "How you doin`?" Visual impression management of young men on a social networking website |
| Söderström, Sylvia | NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS, Funksjonshemming og Samfunn | Digital Differentiation and Disabled Youths - The Significance of Social Ties in a Networked Society |
| Tan, Leon | Public Health & Psychosocial Studies/AUT University & Art History/University of Auckland | Youth 2.0: Young People and Social Media |
| Wittendorff, Nina M. | The Danish Center for Youth Research, Learning Lab Denmark, University of Aarhus | Youth & Gambling |
| Økland, Øyvind | Mediehøgskolen/Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication | Globalization and the use of new media among youth in Ghana |
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| Identity and lifestyle | |
| Stream-coordinator: Åsa Bäckström | Title of abstract |
| (Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University) |
| Bäckström, Åsa | Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. | Style in physical activity |
| Chukwukah, Lydia Esohe | Ambrose Alli, University, faculty of socia sciences, Ekpoma Nigeria | Celebrity´s status of stardom: Representation of children and young people in the mass media portraits in Nigeria |
| Ferreira, Vitor Sérgio | Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon University | Youth scenes, body marks and (bio)sociabilities |
| Gustafson, Katarina | Department of Social Work,Stockholm University | Adolescents identity-work, school choice and community discourses |
| Haukanes, Haldis | Department for Education and Health Promotion, University of Bergen | Growing up global? Young Czechs´ and Tunisians´ bonds to family and place |
| Jansen, Anne | Department of Psychology UiO | Narratives and the constitution of selves - Developmental moves and identity negotiations among youths |
| Kobin, Maarja | Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University | Hip-hop in Rakvere |
| Kuusisto, S. Arniika E. | Department of Applied Sciences of Education, University of Helsinki | Young people´s social ties within religious minority community |
| Devlin, Maurice | Department of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth | The impact of negative stereotyping on young people´s social ties |
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| Violence, racism and disintegration | |
| Stream-coordinator: Vesa Puuronen | Title of abstract |
| (Department of Social Policy and Social Psycholgy, University of Kuopio) |
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| Oksanen, Atte | Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Tampere | Shattering Social Ties: On Jokela Highschool Shooting and Myyrmanni Bombing Incident |
| Puuronen, Vesa | Department of Social Policy and Social Psycholgy, University of Kuopio | Ethnic Attidutes of Russian Young People |
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| Transition to Work | | |
| Stream-coordinator: Tarja Tolonen | Title of abstract |
| (Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki + Youth Research Network) |
| Berglund, Leif | Berglund, Leif, Human Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology | Supportive actors to youth´s labour market establishment |
| Cairns, David | Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon | Homeward Bound? Social Capital and Youth Housing Transitions |
| Gjerustad, Cay | NOVA | Change of occupational aspirations during adolescence |
| Helve, Helena | University of Kuopio, Dept. of Social Work and Social Pedagogy | The changing life-styles and values of the young persisting temporary unemployed in Finland |
| Kovacheva, Siyka K. | Department of Sociology, University of Plovdiv | Types of Family Social Capital in Bulgaria and Their Role for Young People´s Transition from School to Work |
| Maguire, Sue | University of Warwick | Young People in Jobs Without Training |
| Reiter, Herwig | Institute of Sociology, University of Bremen | Recognition uncertainty and the ambivalent role of family ties in negotiating post-communist youth transitions |
Sletten, Mira Svensson, Lotta | NOVA IBL, Linköping University, Sweden | Material living conditions and adolescents´ expectations towards the future Future of the world - but a regional problem?! |
| Tolonen, Tarja R. | Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki + Youth Research Network | Young people´s lifestyles in relation to work and education |
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| Transition in Education | |
| Stream-coordinator: Lihong Huang | Title of abstract |
| (NOVA-Norwegian social reseach) | |
| Huang, Lihong | NOVA | Peer relations and student achievement in Norwegian secondary schools |
| Kim, Hyuncheol | National Youth Policy Institute in Korea | Patterns of Adolescent Relationship with Parent, Teachers and Peers: International Comparison of Korea, Japan, USA, Sweden and German |
| Krzaklewska, Ewa | Sociology, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland | Mobility and bonds - the structure and meaning of networks for hypermobile individuals |
| Lauglo, Jon | Dept. of Educational Research, University of Oslo/NOVA-Norwegian Social Research | Family based social capital for education? |
| Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum | Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo | New World - Old Gender? Growing up in a Gender Equality Era. Presentation of a new project at Centre for Gender research, University of Oslo. |
| Pless, Mette | Danish Centre for Youth Research, The Danish School of Education, AArhus University | Young People´s transition from secondary school to youth education. Possibilities and barriers. |
| Vyverman Veerle | Youth Research Platform, Ghent University (Belgium), Department of Social Welfare Studies | Bonds in separate worlds? Family and school. |
| Weber, Christoph | Department of Sociology, Johannes Kepler University Linz | Antisocial Behaviour and Social Bonds: Time-lagged Effects of Externalising Behaviour Problems on School Attachment |
| Weitz, Ylva N. E. M. | Institution of Social Work, University of Stockholm | The situation in school for young people in out-of-home-care |
| Aaltonen, Sanna | Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki | Finding and framing disadvantaged young people |
| Aasebø, Turid S. | Department of education, University of Agder | | Classroom culture - between nerds and social overheated students |
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| Political participation, inclusion | |
| Stream-coordinator: Tapio Kuure | Title of abstract |
| (The Centre of Expertise on Socian Welefare, University of Tampere) |
| Anu Gretschel | Youth Research Network, Finland | Theoretical Framework for Assessing Quality in Participation of Young People in Local Democracy |
| Koski, Pasi, J. | Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education, University of Turku | Leisure-time activities and the social capital of the young |
| Kuure, Tapio | The Centre of Expertise on Socian Welefare, University of Tampere, Finland | Multi-professional and cross-sectoral teams in youth service creating ties between public authotiry and community |
| Plaesu, Ancuta | Youth Studies and Research Directorate, National Agency for Supporting Youth´s Innitiatives | Civic and Political Participation of Romanian Youth |
| Teige, Kirsten H. | The Norwegian Children and Youth Concil | Social Capital in Young Communities of Democracy |
| Willumsen, Eli Sirnes | Council of Children and Youth of Oslo, Norway | Relation between young people andlocal government: Experiences from the Central Youth Council of Oslo, Norway |
| Witte, G.T. (Toby), Notten, A.L.T. | Expertcentre ´ Growing up in the City´, Rotterdam University, Institute Sociale Education | On the radicalisation of Muslim-youngsters in the Netherlands, or the self-exclusion of a counterculture |
| Wohlgemuth, Daniel | The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs | Are there different explanations for political participation among young compared to older citizens? |
| Ødegård, Guro | NOVA | Political participation in late modernity among Norwegian youth: An individual choice or a statement of social class? |
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| Youth work | | |
| Stream-coordinator: Juha Nieminen | Title of abstract |
| (Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences) | |
| Knudsen, Rikke et al. | Department of Psychology and Educational Research, Roskilde University | Free from Bullying |
| Määttä, Mirja T. | Youth Research Network & Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, University of Kuopio | A High Season for Finnish Youth Policy? The Formulation of the Government´s Child &Youth Policy Programme 2007-2011 |
| Nieminen, Juha | Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences | Youth work, communities and life history |
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| Friendship | | |
| Stream-coordinator: Sidsel Natland | Title of abstract |
| (Faculty of Social Sciences, Sogn & Fjordane University College) |
Natland, Sidsel | Faculty of Social Sciences, Sogn & Fjordane University College | Violent friendships? Violent girls on friendship, gender and power. |
| Pörhölä, Maili H. | University of Jyväskylä, Dept. of Communication | Bullying at school as a risk factor in affiliation to one´s peer community |
| Sweeting, Helen | MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow | Friendships, identity and behaviours in youth |
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| Well being, risk and social support | |
| Stream-coordinator: Jon Lauglo | Title of abstract |
| (Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo/NOVA-Norwegian Social Research) |
| Iversen, Erik | The Bergen Clinics Foundation | Prevalence of substance use among adolescents in western Norway |
| Lasgaard, Mathias | Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus | Loneliness and social support in adolescent boys with autism spectrum disorders |
| Modée, Lisa. | The National Board for Youth Affairs | The meaning of life - family and friends and young peoples well being |
| Nygren, Karina | Institutionen för socialt arbete,Umeå Universitet | Health and norm compliance among Swedish
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| Thorød, Anne Brita | University of Agder | Social capital in poor children´s lives |
| Vahtera, Sirpa | Department of Psychology,University of Jyväskylä | Social support as a psychological strenght in emerging adulthood |
| Vilhjamsson, Runar | Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland | Bodily deviations and body image in mid-adolescence |
| West, Patrick | Medical Research Council of Great Britain | Which is more important for health in youth: family socioeconomic status or the peer group? |
| Young, Robert | MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow | Do "alternative" teens have poorer mental health?: A study of contemporary adolescents peer-group identity. |
| Ytterhus, Borgunn | Department of social work & health science, NTNU | From situational dynamics to relational dynamics: how does social inclusion and exclusion among peers with and without disabilities change during childhood? |
| Zeyrek, Emek, Y. | Psychology Department, Middle East Technical University | The relationship of problem-solving skills, attachment style, and hopelessness to uicidality in Turkish culture |
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| Family | | |
| Stream-coordinator: Ngan-Pun Ngai | Title of abstract |
| (Department of social work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Barter, Christine | School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol | Teenage experiences of partner control and violence and the role of friendship networks |
| Børresen, Runi | Buskerud University College, Department of Education | A possible new health comprimising behaviour among young people? |
| Kelhä, Minna S. | University of Helsinki | Young motherhood in the context of extended youth |
| Kovács, Eszter | University of Szeged, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Sciences | Family, friendship and romantic couples - Insight to future partnerships of youth |
| Kuhar, Metka | Faculty of Social Sciences, university of Ljubljana | Inter-generational authority patterns in adolescent-parent relationships |
| Marques, Ana Cristina | CIES/ISCTE; Portugal | Sex, love and gender: young people´s sexual paths to adulthood |
| Ngai, Ngan-Pun | Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong kong | Attitudinal and Experiential Influences on Parent-Child Relationship in Two Chinese Metropolitan Cities |
| Ngai Steven Sek-yum | Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong kong | Service Participation, Friendship Networks, Family Supports and Developmental Outcomes among Low-Income Young People in Hong Kong |
| Nilsen, Ann Christin | Agder Research | Young people at risk: the importance of social ties beyond the family |
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| Migration and integration | |
| Stream-coordinator: Viggo Vestel | Title of abstract |
| (NOVA-Norwegian social reseach) | |
| Blum, Johanna | Austrian Institute for Youth Research | Educational and occupational decisions of migrant youth: The impact of social and cultural capital |
| Cetrez, Önver A. | Department of Theology, Uppsala University | "I hate when people ask med where I come from..." The challenges of postmodernization for understanding religio-cultural identities in Sweden |
Dejaeghere, Yves Fossland, Trine | | Centrum voor Politicologie; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Belgium |
Department of Sociology, University of Tromsø | Diversity and Social Capital: Can you only trust "the other" if he´s not near you?
Multicultural change and the power of Identity |
Honkasalo, Veronika Mørch,Sven | Finnish Youth Research Network Dep. of Psychology, Copenhagen University | Antiracist research ethos and ethical commitments of youth research European ethnic minority youth. Or the development of bonds and communities in the life of "the new youth" in Europe. |
| Pessoa, Inês C. | Department of Sociology, ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal) | "Ethnic" peer groups in migratory contexts: the case of Portuguese young people in Macao |
| Aarset, Monica Five | Institute for social research (ISF), Norway | Autonomy and belonging among minority youth in Oslo |
