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Torbjørn Torsheim
Researcher at University of Bergen
Publications - 164
Citations - 11844
Torbjørn Torsheim is an academic researcher from University of Bergen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 161 publications receiving 9782 citations. Previous affiliations of Torbjørn Torsheim include Ghent University & Queen's University.
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Researching health inequalities in adolescents: the development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) family affluence scale.
Candace Currie,Michal Molcho,William F. Boyce,Bjørn Evald Holstein,Torbjørn Torsheim,Matthias Richter +5 more
TL;DR: An overview of HBSC papers published to date that examine FAS-related socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour suggests consistent inequalities in self-reported health, psychosomatic symptoms, physical activity and aspects of eating habits at both the individual and country level.
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Development of a Facebook Addiction Scale.
TL;DR: The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale was constructed and administered to 423 students together with several other standardized self-report scales, and was positively related to Neuroticism and Extraversion, and negatively related to Conscientiousness.
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The family affluence scale as a measure of national wealth: validation of an adolescent self-report measure
TL;DR: Examination of the criterion and construct validity of the FAS as a measure of national absolute wealth in 35 countries suggests that FAS can be used with confidence in aggregate analyses of HBSC data that focus on relationships between SES and adolescent health.
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The destructiveness of laissez-faire leadership behavior.
TL;DR: The assumption that laissez-faire leadership behavior is a destructive leadership behavior that shows systematic relationships with workplace stressors, bullying at work, and psychological distress is supported.
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The global epidemiology of anabolic-androgenic steroid use: a meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis.
TL;DR: Estimating the global lifetime prevalence rate of anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use and investigating moderators of the prevalence rate found sample type (athletes), assessment method, sampling method, and male sample percentage were significant predictors of AAS use prevalence.