Browsing Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi by Author "Gugushvili, Alexi"

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  • A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival 
    Stolz, Jörg; Gugushvili, Alexi; Molteni, Francesco; Antonietti, Jean-Philippe (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of ...
  • Are Populist Leaders Creating the Conditions for the Spread of COVID-19? 
    McKee, Martin; Gugushvili, Alexi; Koltai, Jonathan; Stuckler, David (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Do populist leaders contribute to the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? While all governments have struggled to respond to the pandemic, it is now becoming clear that some political leaders have performed much ...
  • BMI and dissatisfaction with life: contextual factors and socioemotional costs of obesity 
    Jarosz, Ewa; Gugushvili, Alexi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Purpose In this study, we investigate whether individuals’ BMI categories are associated with being dissatisfied with one’s life, how this association is affected by the social comparison that individuals make, and what ...
  • Does perceived social mobility affect health? Evidence from a fixed effects approach 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Zelinska, Olga; Präg, Patrick; Bulczak, Grzegorz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Rationale The question as to whether changing one's socioeconomic position over the life course affects health has not been answered in a conclusive manner. At the same time, it has been established that individuals who ...
  • Early-life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Dokken, Therese; Grue, Jan; Finnvold, Jon Erik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Individuals who have congenital conditions or become disabled early in life tend to have poorer educational and occupational outcomes than non‐disabled individuals. Disability is known to be a complex entity with ...
  • Equality of opportunity and health in post-COVID world 
    Gugushvili, Alexi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2021)
    Links between equality of opportunity and health in post-COVID world must be an issue of general interest to academic, health, and policy audiences in the developed countries and other parts of the world. We already know ...
  • How are social origin, destination and mobility linked to physical, mental, and self-rated health? Evidence from the United States 
    Bulczak, Grzegorz; Gugushvili, Alexi; Zelinska, Olga (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Abstract For decades, scholars have been exploring persistent inequalities in health by studying the roles of origin and destination socioeconomic positions (SEP), and the importance of social mobility trajectories from ...
  • How democracy alters our view of inequality — and what it means for our health 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Reeves, Aaron (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Background Income inequality is associated with poor health when economic disparities are especially salient. Yet, political institutions may alter this relationship because democracies (as opposed to autocracies) may be ...
  • Intergenerational Mobility in Relative Educational Attainment and Health-Related Behaviours 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; McKee, Martin; Murphy, Michael (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Research on intergenerational social mobility and health-related behaviours yields mixed findings. Depending on the direction of mobility and the type of mechanisms involved, we can expect positive or negative association ...
  • Intergenerational social mobility and health in Russia: Mind over matter? 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Präg, Patrick (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    The consequences of changing one’s socio-economic status over the life course—i.e. social mobility—for individual health are not well understood. Theories of the health implications of social mobility draw on the human ...
  • Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective 
    Gugushvili, Alexi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    This article explores the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on perceptions of popular explanations of poverty. It is hypothesised that those who experience improvements in socio-economic status through ...
  • Mortality in Transition: Study Protocol of the PrivMort Project, a multilevel convenience cohort study 
    Irdam, Darja; King, Lawrence P; Gugushvili, Alexi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    Background Previous research using routine data identified rapid mass privatisation as an important driver of mortality crisis following the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. However, existing studies ...
  • No evidence that social-democratic welfare states equalize valued outcomes for individuals with disabilities 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Grue, Jan; Dokken, Therese; Finnvold, Jon Erik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    It is acknowledged that generous welfare states can provide better outcomes to their populations in terms of objective and subjective indicators of well-being, yet there is little comparative evidence of the role that the ...
  • Parental transmission of smoking among middle-aged and older populations in Russia and Belarus 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; McKee, Martin; Azarova, Aytalina; Murphy, Michael (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Objectives The very high rates of smoking among men and the rapid changes among women in the Post-Soviet countries mean that this region offers an opportunity to understand better the intergenerational role of parental ...
  • Physical attractiveness and cardiometabolic risk 
    Bulczak, Grzegorz; Gugushvili, Alexi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Objectives There is only limited evidence suggesting that physical attractiveness and individuals' actual health are causally linked. Past studies demonstrate that characteristics related to physical attractiveness ...
  • Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Bulczak, Grzegorz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract Objective Physical attractiveness is often studied in relation to various life outcomes, but there is a lack of research on its links to intergenerational educational, occupational, and income mobility. Individuals ...
  • Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland 
    Zelinska, Olga; Gugushvili, Alexi; Bulczak, Grzegorz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Recently there has been a surge of interest in the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on individuals’ health and wellbeing outcomes. However, studies on the effects of social mobility on health, using ...
  • Social origins of support for democracy: a study of intergenerational mobility 
    Gugushvili, Alexi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Recent evidence suggests that popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions has been growing in different regions of the world, but studying the social origins of democratic versus authoritarian ...
  • Socioeconomic position, social mobility, and health selection effects on allostatic load in the United States 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; Bulczak, Grzegorz; Zelinska, Olga; Koltai, Jonathan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    The contemporaneous association between higher socioeconomic position and better health is well established. Life course research has also demonstrated a lasting effect of childhood socioeconomic conditions on adult health ...
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and war 
    Gugushvili, Alexi; McKee, Martin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Could there be a symbiotic relationship between COVID-19 and conflict? On the one hand, circumstances associated with armed conflicts may give rise to greater spread of the virus, while, on the other hand, the COVID-19 ...