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Margareta Bohlin
Senior Lecturer
Department of PsychologyAbout Margareta Bohlin
My current research focuses on psychosocial living conditions from an interdisciplinary perspective. I lead and participate in projects concerning social media organizing and resistance strategies, including responses to online hate and threats. A relatively new project explores psychosocial processes involved in opinion formation online and how these can be addressed.
Two other areas of focus in my research are existential perspectives on addiction and recovery, and the connection between involuntary loneliness and existential health. In the first, I explore how existential questions—such as meaning, belonging, and personal transformation—intersect with processes of addiction and recovery. This research highlights the need to consider deeper human experiences in both treatment and prevention. The second area investigates how involuntary loneliness affects existential well-being, particularly in isolated environments. It emphasizes the significance of social connectedness, community, and purpose for mental and existential health, especially in times of increasing digitalization and societal fragmentation.
A recently initiated research field examines psychosocial perspectives on life in the archipelago, particularly on islands. The focus is on both the challenges and opportunities for enhanced quality of life, as well as how increased digital engagement affects private individuals and entrepreneurs in archipelagic settings. At present, I am part of a newly established Archipelago Research Network based at Södertörn University.
Ongoing research projects:
- Existential perspectives on addiction and recovery (EAR)
- Involuntary loneliness and existential health (ILE)
- Addressing online hate, threats, and conspiracy theories (RCT)
- Psychosocial perspectives on living and working in island and archipelago environments and digital development (PIR)
Previous Research Projects (some ongoing)
My doctoral dissertation focused on youth risk behaviors from social psychological and existential perspectives. A related area of research concerns sexual development and sexual vulnerability. I have worked on projects within the framework of the #metoo movement, addressing sexual harassment and the social organizing that constitutes the foundation of the movement. Parts of this research have examined the impact on the working conditions of various professional groups, such as police officers.
Another research field has focused on the life circumstances and coping strategies of adolescents living with diabetes, including shifts in healthcare strategies and how these affect both healthcare professionals and other adults involved.
Selected previous research projects:
- Youth organizing and interaction processes on social media and their implications for professional practice (SMYR)
- Youth risk-taking, sexual development, and sexual vulnerability online, as well as studies of risk discourses in various media (RaM)
- Psychosocial organizing on social media and sexual vulnerability (SPOSH)
- Life conditions and approaches to chronic illness among adolescents with diabetes, and evolving care strategies among healthcare professionals and adults (DUV)
I earned my PhD in 2011 with the dissertation Music and Risk in an Existential and Gendered World. In the spring of 2015, I was appointed Associate Professor (Docent) in Psychology.
Research Groups
- GREY – Gothenburg Research Unit on Youth Development
- GR-WOP – Gothenburg Research Group in Work and Organizational Psychology
- SOL – Safety, Organization, and Leadership
Teaching and Supervision
I teach in the social sciences at both undergraduate and advanced levels, with a primary focus on general psychology, child and youth studies, risk and risk behaviors, gender and intersectional perspectives, sexology, health psychology, research methodology, and digital/social media research. I supervise students at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels.
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A Roadmap for Swedish Island Research - Previous Knowledge, Current Debates and Imminent Research
Gaps
Paulina Ines Rytkönen, Håkan Tunón, Margareta Bohlin, Marcus Box, Sune Fogelström, Lotten Hjelm, Sten-Åke Persson, Tommy Larsson Segerlind, Ulf Westerberg
Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History - 2024 -
Promoting Vitality and Sustainable Development on small Islands:
Insights from Community
Perspectives
Margareta Bohlin, Nora Bohlin
Conference: Mapping Key Challenges to Sustainability on Islands - 2023 -
Structural Relations between Sources of Parental Knowledge, Feelings of Being Overly Controlled and Risk Behaviors in early
Adolescence
Sabina Kapetanovic, Margareta Bohlin, Therése Skoog, Arne Gerdner
Journal of Family Studies - 2020 -
Does One Size Fit All? –Linking Parenting with Adolescent Substance Use and Adolescent
Temperament
Sabina Kapetanovic, Therése Skoog, Margareta Bohlin, Arne Gerdner
Journal of Research on Adolescence - 2020 -
Aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship and associations with adolescent risk behaviors over
time.
Sabina Kapetanovic, Therése Skoog, Margareta Bohlin, Arne Gerdner
Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) - 2019 -
DOES ONE SIZE FIT ALL? - LINKING PARENTING WITH ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USE AND
ADOLESCENT
TEMPERAMENT
Sabina Kapetanovic, Therése Skoog, Margareta Bohlin, Arne Gerdner
19th European Conference on Developmental Psychology - 2019 -
Sociala medier och
identitetsbildande
Margareta Bohlin
Tidningen Mind - En tidning från Mind om psykisk ohälsa - 2018 -
UNGVUXCENTRALEN-
ÅMÅLS KOMMUN
I SAMARBETE MED VGR
OCH
SAMORDNINGSFÖRBUNDET
Anders Ingelgård, Margareta Bohlin
2018 -
Bidirectional links between adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, parental control and adolescent
delinquency
Sabina Kapetanovic, Therése Skoog, Margareta Bohlin, Arne Gerdner
XVI biennial meeting of European Association of Research on Adolescence. Ghent, Belgium - 2018 -
Ungvux-centralen. Åmåls kommun i samarbete med VGR och
Samordningsförbundet.
Anders Ingelgård, Margareta Bohlin
2018 -
Ungdomars risktagande i en existentiell och genusordnad
värld
Margareta Bohlin
Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap : grundläggande perspektiv. Redaktörer: Thomas Johansson och Emma Sorbring - 2018 -
Health care to empower self-care in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus and an immigrant minority
background
Åse Boman, Margareta Bohlin, Mats Eklöf, Gun Forsander, Christian Munthe, Marianne Törner
Sage Open medicine - 2017 -
Music and risks in an existential and gendered world - A current social
challenge.
Margareta Bohlin
AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM Belfragesalen, BMC, LUND, 17/3 2017 - 2017 -
Tidiga insatser för ökat välbefinnande. Samordning av resurser i
Åmål.
Margareta Bohlin, Peter Olsson
Konferens som Samsjuklighet. Varför gör vi inte det vi vet? Möjligheter och hinder. Göteborg 12 oktober 2017. - 2017 -
Dynamics of Parental Knowledge and Over Time Associations with Adolescent Risk
Behaviors.
Sabina Kapetanovic, Therése Skoog, Margareta Bohlin, Arne Gerdner
the 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology - 2017 -
Social mobilisering och organisering via sociala
medier
Margareta Bohlin, Sevtap Gurdal
Daneback K. & Sorbring E. (Red.). Socialt arbete och internet: att förstå och hantera sociala problem på nya arenor - 2016 -
University teacher and student judgements on cheating in study situations. Högskolan Väst rapportserie,
2016:4
Margareta Bohlin, Stephen Widén
2016 -
Taking risks in an existential and gendered world- A current societal
challenge
Margareta Bohlin
G16- Swedish gender research conference. Linköping, Sweden: 23-25 november - 2016 -
Conceptions of Diabetes and Diabetes Care in Young People With Minority
Backgrounds
Åse Boman, Margareta Bohlin, Mats Eklöf, Gun Forsander, Marianne Törner
Qualitative Health Research - 2015 -
Adolescents' Self-defining Internet
Experiences
Åsa Andersson, Margareta Bohlin, Linda Lundin, Emma Sorbring
Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World. Sampson Lee Blair , Patricia Neff Claster , Samuel M. Claster (ed.). (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth) - 2015 -
Facebook as a means to make new peers among early maturing
girls
Therése Skoog, Emma Sorbring, Margareta Bohlin
Computers in Human Behavior - 2015 -
Adolescents´voices on organization via social
media
Margareta Bohlin
Research Grand Prix. Trollhättan - 2015 -
Adolescents´voices on organization via social
media
Margareta Bohlin, Sevtap Gurdal, Sabina Kapetanovic
The 14th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA). Cesme, Turkey: 3-4 September - 2015 -
Adolescent girls’ and boys’ well-being in relation to online and offline sexual and
romantic
activity
Emma Sorbring, Therése Skoog, Margareta Bohlin
Cyberpsychology : Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace - 2014 -
Att experimentera med sitt själv- internet och
identitetsskapande
Emma Sorbring, Margareta Bohlin, Åsa Andersson, Linda Lundin
Sorbring E., Andersson Å., Molin M. (Red.) - Att förstå ungdomars identitetsskapande: en metod- och inspirationsbok - 2014 -
Riskdiskurser i
kvällspressen
Margareta Bohlin, Martin Malm, Daniel Saura, Soly Erlandsson
Att förstå ungdomars identitetsskapande- En metod- och inspirationsbok. Emma Sorbring,; Åsa Andersson; Martin Molin (red.) - 2014 -
Musik, subkultur, ungdomar och
risktagande
Susanna Nordström, Margareta Bohlin
Att förstå ungdomars identitetsskapande - En metod- och inspirationsbok. Emma Sorbring; Åsa Andersson; Martin Molin (red.) - 2014 -
State and art of tinnitus research from a critical discourse
perspective
Soly Erlandsson, Nicolas Dauman, Margareta Bohlin
XI. International Tinnitus Seminar. Berlin, Germany: 21-24 May - 2014 -
Risk Discources in Swedish
tabloids
Margareta Bohlin, Sabina Kapetanovic
The 14th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA). Cesme, Turkey: 3-6 September - 2014 -
Improving diabetes care for minority group adolescents - a stance in perceptions, attitudes, communication and
context
Marianne Törner, Margareta Bohlin, Åse Boman, Mats Eklöf, Gun Forsander, Christian Munthe, Cajsa Ottesjö, Helena Wigert, Ewa Wikström
39th annual conference of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes. Oct 16-19, Gothenburg - 2013 -
Organizing Person-Centred Care in Pediatric Diabetes: Communication, Decision Making, Ethics and
Health
Marianne Törner, Margareta Bohlin, Åse Boman, Mats Eklöf, Christian Munthe, Ewa Wikström, Gun Forsander
39th ISPAD annual conference - 2013 -
Häng med på fest vid Sipperödsjön om en kvart! Ungdomars organisering via sociala
medier
Margareta Bohlin
Barnbladet - 2012 -
Risks and music - Patterns among young women and men in
Sweden.
Margareta Bohlin, Stephen Widén
ECDP conference in Bergen, Norway. - 2011 -
Music and Risk in an existential and gendered
world
Margareta Bohlin
2011 -
Risks and music - Patterns among young women and men in
Sweden
Margareta Bohlin, Emma Sorbring, Stephen Widén, SI Erlandsson
Noice & Health - 2011 -
Young voices on risk
taking
Margareta Bohlin, Stephen Widén, Emma Sorbring, Soly Erlandsson
ECDP conference in Vilnius, Litauen. - 2010 -
Hearing, hearing-related risk-taking behaviour and attitudes towards noise among young American
adults
Stephen Widén, A.E. Holmes, T Johnson, Margareta Bohlin, S.I. Erlandsson
International Journal of audiology - 2009 -
Bullerorsakade hörselnedsättningar, attityder och riskbeteende hos
ungdomar.
Widén Stephen, Soly Erlandsson, Holmes A, Johnson T, Margareta Bohlin
2008 -
Risktagande - Hot eller
utveckling?
Margareta Bohlin, Stephen Widén
I S. Erlandsson & E. Sorbring (Reds.) Ung på 2000-talet: Perspektiv på ungdomars vardag. - 2008 -
Cultural and social perspectives on attitudes, noise and risk behaviour in children and young
adults.
Soly I Erlandsson, A Holmes, Stephen Widén, Margareta Bohlin
Seminars in Hearing - 2008 -
Fusk och plagiat vid
högskolan
Stephen Widén, Margareta Bohlin
2007 -
Young women and men and their perspectives on music and
risk
Margareta Bohlin
2007 -
Risk taking and noise exposure among
adolescents.
Margareta Bohlin, Soly I Erlandsson
Noise and Health - 2007 -
Risk taking and leisure time noise among
adolescents
Margareta Bohlin, Soly Erlandsson
NIHL (Noise induced hearing loss) Children Conference, National Hearing Conservation - 2006 -
Ungdomars attityder och riskbeteende kring hörsel och
buller
Margareta Bohlin, Soly Erlandsson, Stephen Widén
2006 -
Personalansvarigas reflektioner kring etnicitet, jämställdhet och funktionshinder – en studie med beskrivande vinjetter som
metod.
Soly Erlandsson, Margareta Bohlin
2004 -
Att leva i transithallen – En fenomenologisk studie om arbetssökande, kvinnor med utländsk bakgrund och med
funktionshinder.
Margareta Bohlin, Soly Erlandsson
2002 -
Attitudes towards mental
illness
Margareta Bohlin, Tina Johansson, Ole Boe
VIIth European Conferece on Organizational Psychology and Health Care (ENOP - 2001