Nina Høy-Petersen

• Høy-Petersen, Nina; Selstø, Annlaug; Helleve, Arnfinn & Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (2026). “It’s Fine if it Helps Mom”: Comparing Teenager’s and Parent’s Experiences with a Universal Parental Guidance Program. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. ISSN 0738-0151. doi: 10.1007/s10560-026-01094-6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study centres on findings from qualitative interviews with eight Norwegian adolescents aged 16–19, comparing these to findings from five focus groups with a total of 29 parents from Norwegian and other cultural backgrounds, following the parents’ completion of a new universal parental guidance program (ICDP Youth). As parents with teenagers are increasingly seeking parental guidance, there is a need for knowledge about teenager’s thoughts and experiences related to their parent’s participation. We combine elements of content- and thematic analysis. From the perspective that teenagers’ knowledge of the intervention informs their perceptions of it, the first section of findings details what the teenagers are told by their parents- before presenting their more general reflections and feelings about their parents’ participation. The second section of findings then outlines and compares parents’ and teenagers’ experiences of the usefulness of the intervention. Findings indicate that the parents, who report substantial improvements in their own parenting competences, give very little information about the program to their teenagers, and that the teenagers are disinterested in- and remember little of what they have been told. Although the teenagers perceive that the program predominantly benefits the parent(s) and indicate that there was no need for such an intervention, they without exception report a valued increase in parental calmness (reduced negative emotional expressiveness). No negative experiences or feelings associated with their parent(s) participation were reported by the teenagers.

• Rotevatn, Torill Alise; Høy-Petersen, Nina; Hussaini, Lema; Håberg, Siri Eldevik; Magnus, Maria Christine & Morken, Nils-Halvdan [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2025). Utilization of antenatal care among immigrant women in Norway: a nationwide register-based cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 25, s. 1–15. doi: 10.1186/s12884-025-07519-x. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Background: International research suggests that immigrants face poorer access to antenatal care, but comprehensive nationwide studies identifying variations across immigrant groups are lacking. Using national registries like the Medical Birth Registry, we compared antenatal care utilization among immigrant women by country/region of origin to Norwegian women. Methods: We included 348,547 singleton births between 2012–2018 by women aged ≥ 16 years registered with ≥ 1 antenatal consultation in primary care, including 79,671 (22.9%) births by immigrant women. We calculated odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) using both crude and adjusted logistic regression models, assessing the likelihood of immigrant women having fewer consultations than recommended by national guidelines compared to Norwegian women per trimester. Estimates were adjusted for relevant sociodemographic variables. Results: Large country-specific differences in estimates were noted across all trimesters. In the crude models, Eritrean (OR 3.01 [95%CI: 2.76–3.28]), Somali (OR 2.63 [95%CI: 2.48–2.79]) and Ethiopian (OR 1.90 [95%CI: 1.67–2.16]) women, and women from other Sub-Saharan countries (OR 1.92 [95%CI: 1.77–2.08]), had the highest odds of initiating antenatal care later than the first trimester. In later trimesters, care utilization by immigrants and Norwegian women were more similar, except for lower utilization among Somali women. Sociodemographic variables explained much of the observed differences. Conclusion: Late initiation and substandard utilization of antenatal care among certain immigrant groups exists in Norway. Timely access to antenatal care is important for maternal and child health. Efforts should be initiated to facilitate earlier initiation of antenatal care, particularly among Eritrean, Somali, Ethiopian and other Sub-Saharan women.

• Høy-Petersen, Nina (2021). Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. 55(6), s. 1191–1210. doi: 10.1177/00380385211011570. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Applying a dual-process framework to in-depth interviews and survey data, this article explores behavioural manifestations of intercultural attitudes for white majority Norwegians. The article builds upon established literatures on social cognition showing that humans operate with two separate cognitive systems. Affective ‘automatic’ heuristics often generate negative stereotypes, aversive emotions and behavioural responses to ethnic diversities. In contrast, the ‘discursive’ cognitive system, which stores cultural scripts, motivates predominantly egalitarian aspirations and performances. As people balance their behaviours according to contextual evaluations of costs and benefits, the article’s findings indicate a tendency to practise openness and civility in public and spatio-temporally bounded encounters, and to reject or exclude the Other in half or more of privately made selection decisions.

• Høy-Petersen, Nina (2021). Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. doi: 10.1177/00016993211028885. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Applying theories from sociology and social psychology concerned with the intersection of culture and cognition to in-depth interviews, this paper empirically explores the Norwegian majority population’s perceptions of cultural diversities using a dual-process (DP) methodological and analytic approach. Globalization has produced a mix of new anxieties, opportunities, and curiosities, leaving most people juggling conflicting objectives of self-preservation and self-realization, and making cognitive self-regulation and behavioural flexibility valorized skills of contemporary life. Instead of identifying xenophobic and cosmopolitan attitudes at opposite ends of a spectrum, the current paper argues in line with current research and theory in studies of DP cognition that they commonly co-exist, albeit in separate automatic and discursive cognitive systems, within the same individual. As a result, people’s perceptions of cultural and ethnic diversities tend to be ambivalent and contextually malleable – for example, in cases where their deep dispositions appear incompatible with their own self-concept or dominant cultural expectations. Most centrally, the current research proposes concrete strategies to elicit responses from both cognitive systems in the context of interpretive interviews. Secondly, the paper proposes clues that help to identify from which cognitive system interviewees’ conflicting cosmopolitan and xenophobic attitudes originate, thereby enabling researchers to further delineate the specific characteristics of these attitudes, including the mode of cultural learning through which they form, their flexibility or robustness to change, their role in behaviour motivation, and the extent to which they are conscious and controllable.

• Høy-Petersen, Nina & Woodward, Ian (2018). Working with difference: Cognitive schemas, ethical cosmopolitanism and negotiating cultural diversity. International Sociology. ISSN 0268-5809. s. 1–19. doi: 10.1177/0268580918792782. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Høy-Petersen, Nina & Fangen, Katrine (2018). Hate Crime Policy: Global Controversies and the Norwegian Approach. I Øverland, Gwynyth; Andersen, Arnfinn J.; Førde, Kristin Engh; Grødum, Kjetil & Salomonsen, Joseph (Red.), Violent Extremism in the 21st Century: International Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781527515802. s. 244–270. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Hate crime is a fluid category that has been constructed and implemented in a variety of ways within the legal system and in political discourse. As hate crime policies have been developed in many divergent directions across the globe, the outcomes they generate are likely to be rather diverse and conflicting. This paper situates the Norwegian configuration of hate crime legislation, policy and political discourse among key international debates on the topic. It analyses political and legislative debates that occurred in Norway prior to the implementation of its updated hate crime legislation in 2015. Made available with special permission from the publisher.

• Høy-Petersen, Nina; Woodward, Ian & Skrbis, Zlatko (2016). Gender performance and cosmopolitan practice: exploring gendered frames of openness and hospitality. Sociological Review. ISSN 0038-0261. 64(4), s. 970–986. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12390. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Syse, Astri & Høy-Petersen, Nina (2024). Life-threatening Illness in a Partner A Mixed-methods Study of Implications for Labor Market Efforts, Health and Welfare Uptake. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Høy-Petersen, Nina; Selstø, Annlaug; Helleve, Arnfinn & Hart, Rannveig Kaldager (2023). Følgeevaluering av ICDP veiledning for foreldre med ungdommer. Folkehelseinstituttet. Område for psykisk og fysisk helse. ISSN 9788284064147. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  • Rapporten evaluerer en ny versjon av et gruppebasert veiledningsprogram for foreldre med ungdommer, som bygger på International Child Development Programme (ICDP) og Tuning in to Teens (TinT). Den primære læringsmetoden er erfaringsutveksling og refleksjon mellom foreldre, på bakgrunn av korte undervisningssegmenter om hvordan foreldre kan styrke relasjonen med ungdommene sine. • ICDP Ungdom er tenkt som et universelt helsefremmende tiltak (primærtiltak), men foreldre som opplever større utfordringer med ungdommene sine er overrepresentert i veiledningsgruppene. Hvis det er et mål at tiltaket brukes forebyggende som tenkt, må det gjøres en endring i og økt satsning på brede rekrutteringsstrategier og markedsføring. • Foreldrene som deltok i vår evaluering er svært fornøyde, både med opplevelsen som deltakere og med veilednings nytteverdi. De beskriver at de har blitt tryggere i foreldrerollen, at de nå er roligere i relasjonen med ungdommene, og at samspillet og kommunikasjonen med ungdommene er bedre. Endringene vedvarer et år etter avsluttet veiledning. Ungdommene er lite interesserte i veiledningen, men enes om at foreldrene blant annet har blitt roligere. • Funnene tyder på at ICDP Ungdom kan passe tvers av kulturelle skillelinjer så lenge foreldrene har noe botid i Norge, men at det krever bedre tematisering av kultur og kulturelle forskjeller i oppdragelsesnormer. • Vi ser variasjoner i om veilederne er fornøyde med veiledningsmateriellet. ICDP veiledere spiller en sentral rolle i implementeringen og gjennomføringen av tiltaket, ofte som initiativtagere for etablering av tilbudet på sin arbeidsplass. Å opprettholde deres motivasjon og ønske om å ta i bruk den nye versjonen av programmet er viktig for å sikre en langsiktig realisering av tiltaket. • Vi anbefaler endringer av veiledningsmateriellet for å sikre bedre konsistens mellom programmet slik det ser ut på tegnebrettet, og slik det gjennomføres i felt. Vi anbefaler at opplegget gjøres mer fleksibelt, gjerne ved å endre manualen til en mal, med flere valgmuligheter for oppgaver, undervisningsinnhold, og pedagogiske tilnærminger. Malen bør øke tiltakets kultursensitivitet ved å inneholde tilpasset materiale for foreldre med mer kollektivistisk bakgrunn. • Vår studie kan ikke gi svar på om ICDP Ungdom har en positiv effekt på ungdommer, deres foreldre og deres relasjon. Rapportering om høy tilfredshet er svært vanlig i evalueringsforskning, og har ingen sterk sammenheng med tiltakets faktiske effekt. For å undersøke om ICDP Ungdom har positive effekter må det gjøres en (kvasi-)eksperimentell evaluering av tiltaket.

• Solhjell, Randi; Høy-Petersen, Nina & Haanshuus, Birgitte P. (2020). What is hate crime? Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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