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Carl Göran Svedin

Carl Göran Svedin

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Overview

Carl Göran Svedin is a researcher affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science as subfields. The research topics covered by Svedin emphasize areas including Child Abuse and Trauma, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, as well as Sports injuries and prevention.

Svedin's publication record includes contributions to several prominent venues, most notably:

  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Psychiatry Research

Among recent papers associated with topics on adolescent mental health and trauma, the following titles stand out:

  • "A potential increase in adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury during covid-19: A comparison of data from three different time points during 2011 - 2021" (2021), published in Psychiatry Research
  • "Suicidal thoughts (ideation) among elite athletics (track and field) athletes: associations with sports participation, psychological resourcefulness and having been a victim of sexual and/or physical abuse" (2020), published in British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Emotional Dysregulation and Trauma Symptoms Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents" (2022), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Lifetime Prevalence of Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuses in Young Elite Athletics Athletes" (2021), published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • "Adolescents' Use of Pornography: Trends over a Ten-year Period in Sweden" (2021), published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

Svedin frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Linda Jönsson, Marie Bladh, Åsa Landberg, Örjan Dahlström, and Meghan Donevan, with collaborative publications ranging from six to ten occurrences for each coauthor.

The research contributions of Carl Göran Svedin focus on areas of childhood trauma, adolescent emotional development, and psychosocial aspects tied to behavior, self-harm, and sexuality. Their work often intersects with issues of gender and media, as well as safety and sports medicine. The breadth of published research indicates active engagement with multidisciplinary approaches aimed at understanding complex psychosocial factors affecting youth and marginalized populations.

Best Publications

  • Child sexual abuse is largely hidden from the adult society An epidemiological study of adolescents' disclosures.

    Gisela Priebe;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Prevalence and Function of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in a Community Sample of Adolescents, Using Suggested DSM-5 Criteria for a Potential NSSI Disorder

    Maria Zetterqvist;Lars-Gunnar Lundh;Örjan Dahlström;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Adolescents and self-taken sexual images

    Karen Cooper;Ethel Quayle;Linda Jonsson;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Frequent users of pornography. A population based epidemiological study of Swedish male adolescents

    Carl Göran Svedin;Ingrid Åkerman;Gisela Priebe

  • Child physical abuse and concurrence of other types of child abuse in Sweden-Associations with health and risk behaviors.

    Eva-Maria Annerbäck;L. Sahlqvist;Carl Göran Svedin;Gun Wingren

  • Mental health in young mothers, single mothers and their children

    Sara Agnafors;Marie Bladh;Carl Göran Svedin;Gunilla Sydsjö

  • Social phobia in Swedish adolescents : Prevalence and gender differences

    Malin Gren-Landell;Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Gunilla Bohlin

  • Polytraumatization and psychological symptoms in children and adolescents

    Per E. Gustafsson;Doris Nilsson;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Selling Sex in a Population-Based Study of High School Seniors in Sweden: Demographic and Psychosocial Correlates

    Carl Göran Svedin;Gisela Priebe

  • Prevalence and characteristics of child physical abuse in Sweden - findings from a population-based youth survey

    Eva-Maria Annerbäck;Gun Wingren;Carl Göran Svedin;Per Gustafsson

  • Sexual experiences in childhood: young adults' recollections

    IngBeth Larsson;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Teachers' and parents' reports on 3- to 6-year-old children's sexual behavior--a comparison.

    IngBeth Larsson;Carl Göran Svedin

  • The psychometric properties of the Trauma Symptom Checklist For Children (TSCC) in a sample of Swedish children.

    Doris Nilsson;Marie Wadsby;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Sexual debut before the age of 14 leads to poorer psychosocial health and risky behaviour in later life

    Asa A. Kastbom;Gunilla Sydsjö;Marie Bladh;Gisela Priebe;Gisela Priebe

  • A Comparison of Adolescents Engaging in Self-Injurious Behaviors With and Without Suicidal Intent: Self-Reported Experiences of Adverse Life Events and Trauma Symptoms

    Maria Zetterqvist;Lars-Gunnar Lundh;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Online or off-line victimisation and psychological well-being: a comparison of sexual-minority and heterosexual youth

    Gisela Priebe;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Sexually coercive behavior in male youth: population survey of general and specific risk factors.

    Cecilia Kjellgren;Gisela Priebe;Carl Göran Svedin;Niklas Långström

  • Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse in the Nordic Countries: A Literature Review.

    Kathrine Kloppen;Siren Haugland;Carl Göran Svedin;Magne Mæhle

  • Sexual Coercion Experience and Sexually Coercive Behavior: A Population Study of Swedish and Norwegian Male Youth

    Michael C. Seto;Cecilia Kjellgren;Gisela Priebe;Svein Mossige

  • Voluntary sexual exposure online among Swedish youth - social background, Internet behavior and psychosocial health

    Linda S. Jonsson;Gisela Priebe;Marie Bladh;Carl Göran Svedin

  • Prevalence, characteristics, and associations of sexual abuse with sociodemographics and consensual sex in a population-based sample of Swedish adolescents.

    Gisela Priebe;Carl Göran Svedin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Niklas Långström
Niklas Långström Karolinska Institute
Lars-Gunnar Lundh
Lars-Gunnar Lundh Lund University
Tomas Furmark
Tomas Furmark Uppsala University
Gunilla Bohlin
Gunilla Bohlin Uppsala University
Michael C. Seto
Michael C. Seto University of Ottawa
Ethel Quayle
Ethel Quayle University of Edinburgh
Maria Tillfors
Maria Tillfors Karlstad University
Andreas Karwautz
Andreas Karwautz Medical University of Vienna
Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg

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