Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth

This article aims to explore stressors experienced by Swedish adolescent girls and young women, specifically understood in relation to social context and gender theory. Interviews were conducted with 40 young Swedish women, aged 16–25 years, who had sought help at a youth health centre for stress pr...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2010-11, Vol.71 (9), p.1567-1575
Main Authors: Wiklund, Maria, Bengs, Carita, Malmgren-Olsson, Eva-Britt, Öhman, Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent girls
Adolescents
Adult
Adults
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Content analysis
Female
Females
Femininity
Gender
Gender Identity
Girls
Health facilities
Health Problems
Health services
Humans
Individualism
Medical sciences
Mental health
Mental stress
Miscellaneous
Modernity
Psychological Distress
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative content analysis
Qualitative method
Qualitative Research
Risk Factors
Sex
Sex Factors
Social Environment
Social problems
Social psychology
Social Support
Stress
Stress, Psychological - etiology
Sweden
Sweden Stress Adolescents Young women Gender Femininity Youth health Qualitative content analysis Qualitative method
Women
Women - psychology
Young Adult
Young adults
Young women
Youth
Youth health
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