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Kjartan Ólafsson - Specialist
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School of Social Sciences
Kjartan Ólafsson
Íslenska
Specialist
Location
Gimli
Email
kolafsson [at] hi.is
Unit
The Social Science Research Institute
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3790-8990
Research portal – Kjartan Ólafsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
FÉL306G - Statistics I: Introduction
FÉL301F - Social research methods
Published works
2023
Digital play on children’s terms
New Media and Society
Fátækt og áætlaður samfélagslegur kostnaður
2022
Educational leadership regarding municipal school support services in Iceland
Educational Management Administration and Leadership
Time spent online and children’s self-reported life satisfaction in Norway
New Media and Society
The Privacy Paradox by Proxy
Media and Communication
Málavog í barnavernd
Developing literacy education in Iceland
Education 3-13
Læsiskennsla í Byrjendalæsisskólum og öðrum skólum
Skólaþræðir - Tímarit Samtaka áhugafólks um skólaþróun
2021
Psychotropic use among older adults living at home
Issues in Mental Health Nursing
2020
Heilsa og lifun íbúa fyrir og eftir setningu strangari skilyrða fyrir flutningi á hjúkrunarheimili 2007
Læknablaðið
Iceland as a microcosm of the effects of educational reform on police students' social background
Children as Crowbar? Justifying Censorship on the Grounds of Child Protection
Nordic Journal of Human Rights
Is It Me, or Is It You? Exploring Contemporary Parental Worries in Norway
National Contexts for the Risk of Harm Being Done to Children by Access to Online Sexual Content
Iceland as a microcosm of the effects of educational reforms on police students‘ social background
2019
Heilsa og lifun íbúa fyrir og eftir setningu strangari skilyrða fyrir flutningi á hjúkrunarheimili 2007
Læknablaðið
Heilsa og lifun íbúa fyrir og eftir setningu strangari skilyrða fyrir flutningi á hjúkrunarheimili 2007
Læknablaðið
Digital and media literacy-related policies and teachers' attitudes
2018
Is big brother more at risk than little sister? The sibling factor in online risk and opportunity
New Media and Society
2017
Rannsókn á Byrjendalæsi
Innleiðing Byrjendalæsis
Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks for Children Online
Journal of Communication
Community participation and environment of children with and without autism spectrum disorder
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
Perceived consequences, changeability and personal control of coronary heart disease are associated with health-related quality of life
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Byrjendalæsi, grunnþættir menntunar og lykilhæfni í Aðalnámskrá grunnskóla
Corrigendum
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
2016
The effect of smartphone use on trends in European adolescents' excessive Internet use
Behaviour and Information Technology
The mobile Internet
New Media and Society
2015
„Bara fimm mínútur í viðbót“: Unglingar, netnotkun og samskipti við foreldra.
Uppeldi og menntun
Skólaþátttaka og umhverfi 8-17 ára getumikilla barna með einhverfu: Mat foreldra
Uppeldi og menntun
EU Kids Online II Dataset
British Journal of Educational Technology
Viðhorf Íslendinga til ætlaðs samþykkis við líffæragjafir
Læknablaðið
Underage Use of Social Network Sites
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Does it matter what mama says
Children and Society
Excessive Internet Use and its association with negative experiences
Computers in Human Behavior
2014
„Ég nota alla lausa tíma sem ég hef“
Netla
Viohorf Íslendinga til ætlaos sampykkis vio líffæragjafir
Laeknabladid
Internet addictive behavior in adolescence
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Online social networking in adolescence
Journal of Adolescent Health
Viðhorf Íslendinga til ætlaðs samþykkis við líffæragjafir
Læknablaðið
2013
Editorial
Cyberpsychology
Risky social networking practices among "underage" users
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Does the use of social networking sites increase children's risk of harm?
Computers in Human Behavior
2012
Similarities and differences across Europe
Mobile access
Tengsl þekkingar, sjálfseflingar, streitu og tegundar sykursýki við langtímasykurgildið
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2010
Migration intentions of rural youth in Iceland: Can a large-scale development project stem the tide of out-migration?
Society and Natural Resources
Migration intentions of rural youth in Iceland: Can a large-scale development project stem the tide of out-migration?
Society and Natural Resources
Föst búseta og hlutabúseta í Fjallabyggð.
Umferð á norðanverðum Tröllaskaga: Erindi og áfangastaðir vegfarenda
Búsetuþróun í Fjallabyggð 1929-2009
Towards a digital adolescent society? The social structure of the Icelandic adolescent blogosphere
New Media and Society
2009
What we know, what we do not know
Opportunities and pitfalls of cross-national research
Lýðfræði Fjallabyggðar, 1928-2028
Að heiman
Álver á Bakka við Húsavík
2007
Olíuhreinsistöð á Vestfjörðum
2006
North Iceland
2003
Fólk og fyrirtæki: Um búsetu og starfsskilyrði fyrirtækja á landsbyggðinni.
Þyngd skólabarna og tengsl hennar við líðan og námsárangur
Læknablaðið
2000
Félagsstarf og frístundir íslenskra unglinga
1997
Akonitín, eiturefni í bláhjálmi : yfirlitsgrein
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