Economic poverty among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries

Povlsen, Lene; Regber, Susann; Fosse, Elisabeth; Karlsson, Leena Eklund; Gunnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur

doi:10.1177/1403494817743894

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“…In contradiction to the previous findings (Kawamoto et al 2018; Le Vigouroux and Scola 2018; Mikolajczak et al 2018b) being unemployed or having a low income were significant predictors of burning out as a parent. These effects may be specific to Finland, as it has been shown that economic poverty in Finnish families with children has been increasing during the past decade (Povlsen et al 2018) and that poor families have significantly worse quality of life than those with better income (Karvonen and Salmi 2016). However, similar to the previous studies (Kawamoto et al 2018;Mikolajczak et al 2018) and in line with our expectations (Hypothesis 1), all family background variables together explained relatively little variance of parental burnout (8%).…”

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Risk Factors for Parental Burnout among Finnish Parents: The Role of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism

2019

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Objectives Although parental burnout can have detrimental consequences to families, the investigation of the syndrome is still in its infancy. The present study investigated what are the key family background variables that contribute to parental burnout among Finnish parents. Moreover, we investigated how self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism uniquely and interactively relate to parental burnout over and above the impacts of background variables. Methods Questionnaire-based data was collected from 1725 parents (91% mothers) and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results The results showed that when several family-and child-related background variables were taken into account, parent's age, unemployment, perceived poor financial situation of the family, and having a child with special needs, showed unique associations with burning out as a parent. Even more crucial risk factor for burning out was, however, socially prescribed perfectionism: the higher the level of socially prescribed perfectionism the parents reported, the higher the level of their parental burnout. The relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism and parental burnout was further strengthened when parents reported also a high level of self-oriented perfectionism. Finally, the relationship between gender and parental burnout was mediated via perfectionism: mothers reported more socially prescribed and self-oriented perfectionism than fathers and, consequently, were also more burned out as parents. Conclusions The results suggest that in Finland specific attention should be given to families with poor financial resources and unemployment. Moreover, high social expectations experienced by the mothers could be balanced, for example, by teaching them skills of self-acceptance and compassion. Keywords Family background variables • Parental exhaustion • Self-expectations • Social expectations • Structural equation modeling

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Risk Factors for Parental Burnout among Finnish Parents: The Role of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism

2019

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“…During the first 3 months after the implementation of the latest reform, the number of children under the age of 18 living in poverty increased by almost 11,000 to an all‐time high of 64,500 children (Caspersen & Damm, 2021; Ejrnæs et al, 2020; Juul, 2018; Povlsen et al, 2018; Schytz, 2018). Child poverty has previously been a relatively rare phenomenon in Denmark because generous social benefits and benefits that specifically target children have, to a large degree, prevented child poverty (Ejrnæs et al, 2020; Povlsen et al, 2018). This means that practices with vulnerable families in poverty have not been given much attention in the frontline.…”

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Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty

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Jacobsen

2021

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Based on strong discourses of individualization, active welfare reforms in Denmark have changed the financial security of vulnerable families and increased numbers of children are growing up in poverty. This study investigates how poverty is reflected in frontline workers' categorizations of children considered vulnerable. Empirically, the study draws on qualitative group interviews with 56 informants and descriptive results from two surveys with almost 2000 respondents each. Findings are analysed using Foucault's theory of disciplinary power. The findings give an important insight as to how policy discourse influences and steers the moral and professional judgement in the frontline and why social work with vulnerable clients takes on particular forms. The results show that frontline workers implement and reproduce an individualised discourse found in recent social policy reforms while overlooking societal structures defining the individual's possibilities. In particular, poverty is left unrecognised, as categorizations of ‘normal’ versus ‘vulnerable’ revolve around family relations and perception of personal shortcomings of the parents.

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“…This is something that they worry about and link to security in their everyday life, in line with the concept of human security. As we mentioned in the introduction, there has been increasing social inequality in Norway in the last few decades (Povlsen et al 2018), something that might explain their uncertainties regarding their economic future.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The universal welfare regime in Norway and the relatively low impact of the financial crisis in 2008 (Belmonte-Martín and Tufte 2017) might explain why the experience of risk and prosperity is different among our participants in northern Norway compared to those from other countries. However, there has been an identified increase in social inequality in Norway in the last decades (Povlsen et al 2018).…”

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“If we want to have a good future, we need to do something about it”. Youth, security and imagined horizons in the intercultural Arctic Norway

2021

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Security is an issue often raised when discussing the Arctic, a region where international relations and tensions between the great powers of the past and present often are taken-for-granted as the traditional scope of dialog. We have chosen to focus on youth in Arctic Norway, their perceived notion of security in their everyday lives, and how this influences their perceived possibilities for the future. We combine human security and ontological security perspectives with the concept of imagined horizons to grasp the discrepancy that we find between how the Arctic is defined from an international relations perspective, and the Arctic that youth in northern Norway understand in their everyday lives. We base the analysis on qualitative interviews with youth of various ethnic backgrounds in the Arctic town Alta in Norway, where we have interviewed them about security, cultural differences, climate change and environmental issues in the Arctic.

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Economic poverty among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries

Cited by 17 publications

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Risk Factors for Parental Burnout among Finnish Parents: The Role of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism

Risk Factors for Parental Burnout among Finnish Parents: The Role of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism

Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty

“If we want to have a good future, we need to do something about it”. Youth, security and imagined horizons in the intercultural Arctic Norway

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