Christopher Bratt
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Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research Open
Can aggregated composite scores be used to compare countries or other groups despite measurement non-invariance? We propose a pragmatic approach, emphasizing that measurement invariance is valuable but not strictly necessary for all such c…
Enabling Ageing in Place: The Potential for Expanded Family Care Open
As ageing in place becomes a central component of eldercare strategies, family members of older adults face mounting pressure to provide more care for older people. By analysing data from Norway, this paper explores the potential for expan…
Caring for older parents in Norway – How does it affect labor market participation and absence from work? Open
As the population ages, younger generations will increasingly be called upon to provide informal care to their aging parents. To prepare for this development, it is essential to understand how employees combine the dual responsibilities of…
Help and Care to Older Parents in the Digital Society Open
This study examines the extent and predictors of employees’ help and care to their old parentsand aims to contribute to policy development enabling employees to combine full-time workand caregiving to parents. Analyzing responses from 3332…
Is it racism? The belief in cultural superiority across Europe Open
Are Europeans racist if they maintain that some cultures are superior? Theorists of cultural racism argue so and suggest that modern racism in Europe is expressed as a belief in cultural superiority. But this claim has been based on theore…
After Hospital: Should Older Care-Needing Patients Be Transferred to Their Homes or to an Intermediate Care Institution? Open
Background: In most European countries, communities need to provide health and social care services to an increasing number of severely ill patients discharged from hospitals. We investigated whether nurses in hospitals and in the communit…
Nurses' experiences of transitions of older patients from hospitals to community care. A nation‐wide survey in Norway Open
Background and Aims Moving older patients from hospitals to community services is a critical phase of integrated care. Yet, large‐scale research on the quality of these transitions has been missing. Consequently, it has been difficult to a…
Supporting the old but neglecting the young? The two faces of ageism. Open
Ageism is the most prevalent form of prejudice and is experienced by both older and younger people. Little is known about whether these experiences are interdependent or have common origins. We analyze data from 8,117 older (aged 70 and ov…
Should I stay or should I go? Nurses’ wishes to leave nursing homes and home nursing Open
Attempts to reduce turnover in elderly care services need to address the working conditions for younger nurses, for instance by reducing the time young nurses work in isolation.
Agisem in the European Region: Finding from the European Social Survey Open
The Ageism module fielded in the 2008–2009 European Social Survey (ESS) across 29 representative samples in the European region (with over 55,000 respondents) is the first major internationally comparable study of individual and societal a…
Perceived age discrimination across age in Europe: From an ageing society to a society for all ages. Open
Ageism is recognized as a significant obstacle to older people's well-being, but age discrimination against younger people has attracted less attention. We investigate levels of perceived age discrimination across early to late adulthood, …
What do older people think that others think of them, and does it matter? The role of meta-perceptions and social norms in the prediction of perceived age discrimination. Open
Psychological theories of aging highlight the importance of social context. However, very little research has distinguished empirically between older people's perception of how others in their social context perceive them (personal meta-pe…
Shaping the Development of Prejudice Open
Social dominance orientation (SDO) has been theorized as a stable, early-emerging trait influencing outgroup evaluations, a view supported by evidence from cross-sectional and two-wave longitudinal research. Yet, the limitations of identif…
How Does Income Inequality Get Under the Skin? The Mediating Role of Perceived Age Discrimination in the Inequality- Health Nexus for Older and Younger People Open
The relative income hypothesis predicts poorer health in societies with greater income inequality, yet the psychological mechanisms that explain this association are not clear to date. This study tests the hypothesis that perceived age dis…