Academic article

• Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad; Pardis Salehi Yegaei; Parishad Bromandnia et al. (2025). Personal growth initiative: confirmatory factor analysis, gender invariance, and external validity of the Persian version. (external link)
• Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad; Pardis Salehi Yegaei; Nazanin Seyed Yaghoubi Pour et al. (2025). Maternal, paternal, and peer attachment and adolescent behavior problems: a validation study of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA-45). (external link)
• Marianne Beck; Nora Wiium (2019). Promoting academic achievement within a positive youth development framework. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Laura Ferrer Wreder; Bin-Bin Chen et al. (2019). Gender and Positive Youth Development: Advancing Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana. (external link)
• Diego Gomez-Baya; Ana Babic Cikes; Marina Hirnstein et al. (2022). Positive Youth Development and Depression: An Examination of Gender Differences in Croatia and Spain. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2021). Physical education and its importance to physical activity, vegetable consumption and thriving in high school students in Norway. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Torbjørn Torsheim; Bente Wold (2006). Normative processes and adolescents' smoking behaviour in Norway: A multilevel analysis. (external link)
• Ana Kozina; Nora Wiium; Jose-Michael Gonzalez et al. (2018). Positive Youth Development and Academic Achievement in Slovenia. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Kyrre Breivik; Bente Wold (2006). The relationship between smoker role models and intentions to smoke among adolescents. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Radosveta Dimitrova (2019). Positive Youth Development Across Cultures: Introduction to the Special Issue. (external link)
• Agnieszka Jankowska-Tvedten; Nora Wiium (2023). Positive youth identity: The role of adult social support. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Bente Wold (2006). Family and school influences on adolescent smoking behaviour. (external link)
• Pablo A. Pérez Díaz; Daniele Bachmann Vera; Nora Wiium (2022). A positive-psychology-based multiple regression model predicting wellbeing in Chilean youth. (external link)
• Eglantina Dervishi; Fatjona Hysi; Nora Wiium et al. (2022). Assets and school dropout among Roma and Egyptian minority adolescents in Albania. (external link)
• Eglantina Dervishi; Albana Canollari-Baze; Fatjona Hysi et al. (2022). The 5Cs of positive youth development and life purpose among Roma and Egyptian minority adolescents in Albania. (external link)
• Diana Miconi; Sonia Ouimet; Mohammed Abdullah Heel Kafi et al. (2023). Risk behaviors and well-being among Egyptian and Roma adolescents in Albania during the COVID-19 pandemic: Vulnerability and resilience in a positive youth development perspective. (external link)
• Denisse Manrique-Millones; Diego Gómez-Baya; Nora Wiium (2023). The Importance of the 5Cs of Positive Youth Development to Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study with University Students from Peru and Spain. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Ayfer Dost-Gozkan; Marianna Kosic (2018). Developmental Assets Among Young People in Three European Contexts: Italy, Norway and Turkey. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Bente Wold (2011). Actions taken by schools when tobacco policies are violated: Associations with adolescent smoking prevalence. (external link)
• Maria Bøhlerengen; Nora Wiium (2022). Environmental Attitudes, Behaviors, and Responsibility Perceptions Among Norwegian Youth: Associations With Positive Youth Development Indicators. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Bente Wold (2009). An ecological system approach to adolescent smoking behaviour. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Leif Edvard Aarø; Jørn Hetland (2009). Psychological reactance and adolescents' attitudes toward tobacco-control measures. (external link)
• Gina Tome; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Marta Reis et al. (2021). Positive youth development and wellbeing: Gender differences. (external link)
• Gina Tome; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Marta Reis et al. (2020). Positive Youth Development: The 5 Cs effect in a school environment. (external link)
• Sonia Ingoglia; Pasquale Musso; Cristiano Inguglia et al. (2021). Aligning personal and collective interests in emerging adults during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy. (external link)
• Danielle Fernandes; Tina Pivec; Ayfer Dost-Gozkan et al. (2021). Global overview of youth development: Comparison of the 5Cs and developmental assets across six countries.. (external link)
• Ayfer Dost-Gozkan; Ana Kozina; Delia Stefenel et al. (2021). External developmental assets and positive identity among emerging adults in Norway, Romania, Slovenia, and Turkey. (external link)
• Issa Sahar; Mali Frøshaug Rossland; Nora Wiium (2020). Risk Behaviors among Young People: The Role of Developmental Assets. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Marianne Beck; Laura Ferrer-Wreder (2021). The importance of developmental assets to mental health in Norwegian youth. (external link)
• Thomas Potrebny; Nora Wiium; Anne Haugstvedt et al. (2019). Health complaints among adolescents in Norway: A twenty-year perspective on trends. (external link)
• Sonia Ingoglia; Martyn Barrett; Nicola Maria Iannello et al. (2021). Promoting democratic and intercultural competences in the primary school context: The experience of “Children’s Voices for a new Human Space. (external link)
• Helga Bjørnøy Urke; Sara Madeleine Kristensen; Tormod Bøe et al. (2023). Perceptions of a caring school climate and mental well-being: a one-way street? Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model. (external link)
• Nana-Fatima T. Ozeto; Pascale Sophie Russell; Martyn Barrett et al. (2024). The role of valuing cultural diversity in children's endorsements of rights. (external link)
• N Wiium; Leif Edvard Aarø; J Hetland (2009). Subjective attractiveness and perceived trendiness in smoking and snus use: a study among young Norwegians. (external link)
• Eglantina Dervishi; Albana Canollari-Baze; Nora Wiium (2024). Developmental assets as predictors of Albanian adolescents’ life satisfaction. (external link)
• Byron Gregory Adams; Nora Wiium; Amina Abubakar (2018). Developmental Assets and Academic Performance of Adolescents in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. (external link)
• Anne Grete Danielsen; Nora Wiium; Britt Unni Wilhelmsen et al. (2010). Perceived support provided by teachers and classmates and students' self-reported academic initiative. (external link)
• Thomas Potrebny; Nora Wiium; Margrethe Moss-Iversen Lundegård (2017). Temporal trends in adolescents’ self-reported psychosomatic health complaints from 1980-2016: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (external link)
• Tore Tjora; Jørn Hetland; Leif Edvard Aarø et al. (2014). The association between smoking and depression from adolescence to adulthood. (external link)
• Denisse Manrique-Millones; Nora Wiium; Claudia Pineda-Marín et al. (2021). Association Between Substance Use Behaviors, Developmental Assets and Mental Health: A Glance at Latin American Young College Students. (external link)
• Harriet R Tenenbaum; Sonia Ingoglia; Nora Wiium et al. (2022). Can we increase children’s rights endorsement and knowledge?: A pilot study based on the reference framework of competences for democratic culture. (external link)
• Tina Pivec; Ana Kozina; Nora Wiium et al. (2020). ARE THE 5CS RELATED TO RISKY BEHAVIOUR: ANALYSIS ACROSS COUNTRIES. (external link)
• Ana Kozina; Nora Wiium; Tina Pivec (2020). POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE 5Cs AND ANXIETY. (external link)
• Bin-Bin Chen; Nora Wiium; Radosveta Dimitrova (2017). A Life History Approach to Understanding Developmental Assets Among Chinese Adolescents. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Sara Madeleine Kristensen; Elisabeth Årdal et al. (2023). Civic engagement and mental health trajectories in Norwegian youth. (external link)
• Russell Sarwar Kabir; David Teye Doku; Nora Wiium (2021). Connection in Youth Development Key to the Mental Health Continuum in Ghana: A Structural Equation Model of Thriving and Flourishing Indicators. (external link)
• Laura Ferrer-Wreder; Kyle Eichas; Delia Stefenel et al. (2021). The Importance of Positive Psychological Strengths in Well-Being and Adjustment of Romanian Emerging Adults: A Pattern and Variable-Oriented Approach. (external link)
• Pasquale Musso; Cristiano Inguglia; Nora Wiium et al. (2024). The role of late adolescents' emotion regulation in the experience of COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study. (external link)
• Anette Christine Iversen; Hilde Hetland; Nora Wiium (2007). Hvilken betydning har personlige og strukturelle faktorer for gjennomføring av mastergrad?. (external link)
• Nkomba Kayeyi; Knut Fylkesnes; Nora Wiium et al. (2013). Decline in sexual risk behaviours among young people in Zambia (2000-2009): Do neighbourhood contextual effects play a role?. (external link)
• Rune Aune Mentzoni; Bjørn Sætrevik; Helge Molde et al. (2014). Attentional bias in snus users: An experimental study. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Reidar Säfvenbom (2019). Participation in Organized Sports and Self-Organized Physical Activity: Associations with Developmental Factors. (external link)
• Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad; Pardis Salehi Yegaei; Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo et al. (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis of developmental assets scales: A study protocol for psychometric properties. (external link)
• Lise Kjønniksen; Nora Wiium; Ingunn Fjørtoft (2022). Affordances of School Ground Environments for Physical Activity: A Case Study on 10- and 12-Year-Old Children in a Norwegian Primary School. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Stephen Burgess; Laurence Moore (2011). Brief report: Multilevel analysis of school smoking policy and pupil smoking behaviour in Wales. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Simon Øverland; Leif Edvard Aarø (2011). Smoking cessation among Norwegian adolescents and young adults: preferred cessation methods. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Stein Atle Lie; Yngvar Ommundsen et al. (2010). Does relative age effect exist among Norwegian Professionnal Soccer Players?. (external link)
• Bin-Bin Chen; Nora Wiium; Radosveta Dimitrova (2018). Factor structure of positive youth development: Contributions of exploratory structural equation modeling. (external link)
• Pablo A. Pérez-Díaz; Sergio Nuno-Vasquez; Matheus França Perazzo et al. (2022). Positive identity predicts psychological wellbeing in Chilean youth: A double-mediation model. (external link)
• Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad; Farnaz Etesam; Pardis Salehi Yegaei et al. (2023). Measurement invariance of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) across gender and age: Demographic and medical correlates of mental health in patients with COVID-19. (external link)
• Pasquale Musso; Nicolò Maria Iannello; Fabiola Silletti et al. (2024). The Role of Individual and Contextual Resources Among Italian Emerging Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Person- and Variable-Centered Approach Within the Positive Youth Development Framework. (external link)
• Ana Kozina; Diego Gomez-Baya; Margarida Gaspar de Matos et al. (2021). The Association Between the 5Cs and Anxiety—Insights From Three Countries: Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain. (external link)
• Thomas Potrebny; Nora Wiium; Anne Haugstvedt et al. (2021). Trends in the utilization of youth primary healthcare services and psychological distress. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Kyrre Breivik; Bente Wold (2015). Growth trajectories of health behaviors from adolescence through young adulthood. (external link)
• Ana Kozina; Nora Wiium (2023). The development of the 5Cs of positive youth development in a school year: A 3-wave longitudinal study of Slovenian youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. (external link)
• Diego Gomez-Baya; Maria Muñoz-Parralo; Antonio David Martin-Barrado et al. (2024). Socio-Demographic Differences in Positive Youth Development in Spanish Undergraduates. (external link)
• Fitim Uka; Shkumbin Gashi; Arlinda Gashi et al. (2022). The effectiveness of internal cohesion psychotherapy in treating young clients with depression and anxiety disorders: The role of developmental assets in Kosovo context. (external link)
• Bin-Bin Chen; Nora Wiium; Radosveta Dimitrova et al. (2017). The Relationships between Family, School and Community Support and Boundaries and Student Engagement among Chinese Adolescents. (external link)
• Sonia Ingoglia; Nicolò Maria Iannello; Maria Valentina Cavarretta et al. (2025). Civic Engagement and Civic Competences in Adolescence: A Gender-Based Perspective. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Leif Edvard Aarø (2011). Outcome expectations and use of smokeless tobacco (snus): A cross-sectional study among young Norwegian snus users. (external link)
• Yekoyealem Desie; Ann O’Connell; Kassa Michael et al. (2021). Parenting of schoolchildren’s television viewing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (external link)
• David Doku; Susanna Raisamo; Nora Wiium (2012). The role of tobacco promoting and restraining factors in smoking intentions among Ghanaian youth. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Nora Wiium (2022). Character, diversity values, and civic engagement among Norwegian youth. (external link)
• Russell Sarwar Kabir; Nora Wiium (2021). Positive Youth Development and Environmental Concerns Among Youth and Emerging Adults in Ghana. (external link)
• Diego Gomez-Baya; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Nora Wiium (2021). Positive Youth Development and Subjective Happiness: Examining the Mediating Role of Gratitude and Optimism in Spanish Emerging Adults. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Ana Kozina (2021). Country and Gender Differences in Developmental Assets Among Youth and Emerging Adults in Ghana and Norway. (external link)
• Fitim Uka; Dashamir Bërxulli; Anisa Hasani et al. (2021). Developmental Assets, Academic Achievement and Risky Behaviors Among Albanians in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia. (external link)
• Radosveta Dimitrova; Danielle Fernandes; Sadia Malik et al. (2021). The 7Cs and Developmental Assets Models of Positive Youth Development in India, Indonesia and Pakistan. (external link)
• Alejandra del Carmen Domínguez; Nora Wiium; Danielle Jackman et al. (2021). Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and the 5Cs of Positive Youth Development in Mexico. (external link)
• Sofia Nag Delgado; Nilei Kattarina Huang; Nora Wiium (2021). Positive Youth Development and Thriving in Norwegian Youth. (external link)
• Marianna Kosic; Nora Wiium; Radosveta Dimitrova (2021). Social Support Among Slovene Minority and Italian Majority Youth in Italy: Links with Positive Identity, Social Competence and Academic Achievement. (external link)
• Ayfer Dost-Gozkan; Nora Wiium (2021). Developmental Assets and Identity Among Emerging Adults in Turkey. (external link)
• Danielle Fernandes; Velichko Fetvadjev,; Nora Wiium et al. (2021). The 5Cs of Positive Youth Development in New Zealand: Relations with Hopeful Expectations for the Future and Life Satisfaction Among Emerging Adults. (external link)
• Radosveta Dimitrova; Carmen Buzea; Nora Wiium et al. (2021). Positive Youth Development in Bulgaria, Italy, Norway and Romania: Testing the Factorial Structure and Measurement Invariance of the 5Cs Model. (external link)
• Radosveta Dimitrova; Nora Wiium (2021). Handbook of Positive Youth Development: Advancing the Next Generation of Research, Policy and Practice in Global Contexts. (external link)

Journal corrigendum

• Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad; Farnaz Etesam; Pardis Salehi Yegaei et al. (2023). Corrigendum: Construct validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in patients with COVID-19 and its demographic and medical correlates. (external link)

Lecture

• Nora Wiium (2022). Positive Youth Development: Conceptualization and Empirical Evidence. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2020). Depresjon i ikke-vestlige kulturer: Hvordan takler de det?. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2013). Depresjon: Symptomer, triggere, forebygging og behandling. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Nora Wiium (2023). Creativity and Mental Well-being among University Students in Ghana.. (external link)
• Marina Hirnstein; Nora Wiium; Gabrijela Vrdoljak et al. (2024). Mapping the network of developmental assets within the positive youth development perspective among youth in Croatia. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2016). Developmental Assets among Young People in the European context.. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2016). Risk behaviors among young people: the role of social support.. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2020). Positive Development among Young People in a Global Context.. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2015). Positive youth development: an empirical study of young people in Ghana and Norway. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2014). Smoking among adolescents: an ecological-systems approach. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2014). Short- and long-term associations between young people’s and parents' health-enhancing and health-compromising behaviours.. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2013). Multiple health behaviours: growth trajectories and covariates. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2013). Subjective attractiveness and perceived trendiness: Explaining current trends in smoking and snus use. (external link)
• Helga Bjørnøy Urke; Sara Madeleine Kristensen; Tormod Bøe et al. (2022). The within-person relationship of school climate and mental wellbeing in adolescence. (external link)
• Marina Hirnstein; Ana Kurtovic; Gabrijela Vrdoljak et al. (2020). Who helps? Relations of contribution to community, family, friends, and school activities with the 5Cs of the positive youth development. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2012). Health behaviours among young Norwegians:developmental trajectories. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2012). Depression:symptoms, prevalence, consequences, prevention & treatment. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2006). Normative processes and adolescent smoking behaviour: a multilevel analysis. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Nora Wiium (2005). Intrapersonal factors, family and school norms: combined and interactive influence on adolescent smoking behaviour. (external link)

Book anthology

• Nora Wiium; Denisse Manrique-Millones; Diana Miconi et al. (2024). Addressing Social Justice: A Positive Youth Development Approach. (external link)
• Radosveta Dimitrova; Nora Wiium (2021). Handbook of Positive Youth Development. Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Global Contexts. (external link)

Conference poster

• Nora Wiium; Leif Edvard Aarø; Jørn Hetland (2007). PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE AND ADOLESCENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD TOBACCO CONTROL MEASURES. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2010). Subjective attractiveness and perceived trendiness in smoking and snus use: a study among young Norwegians. (external link)
• Nkomba Kayeyi; Knut Martin Fylkesnes; Nora Wiium et al. (2012). Declines in Sexual Risk Behaviours among Young People in Zambia (2000 – 2009): Do Neighbourhood Contextual Effects Play a Role?. (external link)
• Nora Wiium (2012). Growth trajectories of health behaviours: Transition from adolescence to adulthood. (external link)
• Marina Hirnstein; Nora Wiium; Gabrijela Vrdoljak et al. (2024). A network analysis of the six Cs of positive youth development and gender among youth in Croatia. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Ana Kozina; Nora Wiium (2021). Positive Youth Development in Contexts. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Nora Wiium; Bin-Bin Chen; Diego Gomez-Baya et al. (2023). Editorial: Youth, health and development in diverse cultures and contexts. (external link)
• Nora Wiium; Laura Ferrer-Wreder; Jennifer E. Lansford et al. (2023). Editorial: Positive youth development, mental health, and psychological well-being in diverse youth. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Nora Wiium; Fitim Uka (2021). Positive Youth Development: An Empirical Study of Roma Youth. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Nora Wiium (2013). Measures of outcome expectancies, addiction and the use of snus. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Positive Youth Development in a Cross-national Perspective