DigiConsumers - Improving young people's financial skills in a digitalised consumer society 2019—2025

DigiConsumers researchers met in Imatra

The Sixth and Final DigiConsumers Research Seminar was held in Imatra

DigiConsumers brings together different disciplines and stakeholders

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New research

Rekar Abdulhamed
23.05.2025

Mental Health Disparities Among Children and Adolescents of Immigrant Origin in Finland : Risks and Psychosocial Resources in Proximal Socioecological Contexts

University of Helsinki
Dissertationes Universitatis Helsingiensis 167/2025

Immigrant-origin minors may face challenges that are burdensome to their mental health. This dissertation investigates whether there is a mental health disparity between immigrant-origin and the majority population non-immigrant minors in Finland, with an aim to identify key risk factors and psychosocial resources linked with mental health among this population. The population-based School Health Promotion Studies (2017–2023) and the Youth Future Report 2023 were the data investigated in the five part-studies of this dissertation.

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DigiConsumers in a nutshell

DigiConsumers is a multidisciplinary research project for identifying solutions to improve the economic and consumer skills of young people between the ages of 13 and 25 especially in digital environments.

Digitalisation has changed a number of everyday habits, such as consumption, savings and other money-related activities.

The goal of the research

Actions to promote digital and economic skills require a comprehensive understanding of young people’s consumption habits and economic behaviours, as well as the factors that influence them in digital environments.

The aim of the study is to find practical solutions to improve young people’s economic and digital skills and to promote sustainable consumption.

A multidisciplinary consortium

DigiConsumers is a multidisciplinary consortium focusing on changes in the consumption cultures, consumption and economic behaviours and economic and digital skills of young people. The project will be carried out between 2019 and 2025 and it is funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) at the Academy of Finland.

Led by the University of Jyväskylä, the consortium also consists of University of Helsinki, University of Vaasa, Pellervo Economic Research PTT and Nuorten yrittäjyys ja talous NYT.

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Work packages

Young people as consumers in digital environments

The factors affecting young people´s digital and financial skills inside and outside school
Assessing Financial Literacy – PISA and background
Game-based approaches and digital tools in financial education

Communications and interaction

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Anu Sirola
31.07.2025

13: Problematic online behaviours during COVID-19: emerging risks and concerns

Chapter 13 synthesizes research evidence on internet-based problematic consumption behaviours among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, namely excessive online gambling, gaming, and shopping. Anu Sirola analyses the risks to the emotional, social, and financial well-being of these behaviours to young people who are typical consumers of these digital services, which have addictive potential.

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