Between Normality and Diagnosis: Interviews with Undiagnosed Swedish Adolescents

Ten Swedish adolescents with ADHD-like symptoms but no formal diagnosis participated in in-depth qualitative interviews. The study, authored by Jan Grimell and uploaded to figshare in 2026, explores tensions between spontaneous self-expression and social regulation using Mead's concepts of the I and the Me. It examines how medical discourse shapes self-understanding for those in a diagnostic gray zone.

Use Cases

• Analyzing narrative themes of stigma and legitimacy based on qualitative interview data.
• Studying the impact of medicalized interpretations on self-concept based on participant accounts.
• Exploring tensions between institutional expectations and personal identity based on described experiences.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• Analysis is based on in-depth qualitative interviews with ten participants.

Limitations

• Dataset is a 17.7 KB DOCX file containing analysis, not raw structured data.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

In-depth qualitative interviews and abductive analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-25 06:03:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sweden