Tutkijoiden artikkeleja, kirjoja ja raportteja

Teoksessa Auma-Aho ym. (toim.) (2024).  Taloudellinen toipuminen : Opas rahapeliongelman tuen ja hoidon ammattilaisille. THL, 18-23.

Taloudellisen toipumisen opas on tarkoitettu ammattilaisille, jotka kohtaavat työssään ihmisiä, joille rahapelaaminen on aiheuttanut taloudellisia seurauksia. Oppaassa käsitellään monipuolisesti rahapelaamisen taloudellisia haittoja, kokemuksia rahapelihaitoista, haittojen vaikutusta perheeseen ja läheisiin sekä saatavilla olevaa apua asiakkaan taloudelliseen toipumiseen.

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Volum 40, article number 8, (2025)

This study investigated the development of study engagement from the end of upper secondary school through the first and second years of higher education. The participants experienced the challenges related to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic while they were either university students or preparing for university entrance exams. The results indicated that most students tended to experience a drop in study engagement during the first wave of COVID-19 compared to the pre-pandemic level; however, they managed to boost their engagement back to previous levels approximately 6 months later. Students who managed to recover their engagement also tended to have higher socio-emotional skills than students who were struggling with study engagement before the pandemic or who started to struggle during the pandemic.

A sense of belonging is crucial for mental health and well-being, but immigrants may find achieving a sense of belonging elusive. This study examined the relationship between sense of belonging and mental health among Finnish native, and first- and second-generation immigrant adolescents (N = 61 540) in Finland. Moreover, we estimated whether sense of belonging buffered the negative effect of experienced discrimination on mental health.

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We developed a six-item Compact Acculturation Scale (CAS) based on common items on comprehensive acculturation scales and examined it with two designs using data from the Finnish Annual Youth Future Report Survey of 2023 (N = 744 immigrant-origin youth, IOY). This study shows that CAS is a reliable and robust instrument that can serve us in investigating acculturation both by variable- and person-oriented approaches.

Wiley Online Library

Teachers’ support and positive teacher–student bonds are key factors in promoting a sense of school belonging (SB) among adolescents. Previous research shows that immigrant-origin adolescents (IOA’s) report lower SB than their non-immigrant peers do. This study examines if positive teacher–student bonds are equally beneficial for the SB of immigrant-origin and non-immigrant adolescents. Using PISA 2022 data, the moderating role of immigrant status in this relationship was assessed in European countries by multi-level models (NStudents = 151,211, NSchools = 21,629, NCountries = 19). Country-level analyses revealed that IOA’s benefited less from positive teacher–student relations in 6 out of 19 countries. In Sweden, Belgium, and Portugal this moderation effect was conditional on the moderating role of school diversity promotion.

(2024) Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning 35(2), 188–201.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging adults are especially vulnerable as they experience its financial impact as a source of stress. We tested a model of psychological resilience among emerging adults (18–25 years) during the pandemic from six Western countries (Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and United States) using online survey data collected between May and September 2020.

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/financial-loss-and-financial-well-being-of-emerging-adults-during

Journal of Financial Therapy, 15(1), 26-42.

Financial inclusion has focused primarily on the accessibility of financial social services. However, it is important to note that individual financial practices not only require the opportunity to access financial structures, but also confidence in their accessibility to engage in and utilize such services. Individuals facing difficult life situations often encounter challenges in financial activities due to limited resources and a need for more skills.

Children are a significant consumer group and active users of digital platforms. This dissertation aims to explore concerns related to advertising ethics in relation to children as consumers in digital environments and how children navigate contemporary digital commercial environments. To examine macro-level ethical concerns that advertisements (re)produce societal stereotypes, girls’ portrayals in fifteen contemporary fast fashion advertisements available on the public Facebook pages of Nordic fast fashion companies H&M, Lindex, Kappahl, and Gina Tricot were analysed by using visual discourse analysis. Advertisements addressing buyers of teenage girls’ clothing in Finland, available from January 2019 to June 2020, were examined. Moreover, to examine ethical concerns regarding the privacy invasiveness of contemporary advertising formats, eight (N = 38) focus group discussions (FGD) were conducted to explore children’s perspectives on online profiling and targeted advertisements and their privacy negotiation practices in the digital commercial context.

Future teachers need to be confidently equipped to teach 21st century ICT skills. We investigated teaching self-efficacy (TSE) in ICT competencies among teacher students. We confirmed distinct ICT competencies among two cohorts from teacher training programs, and algorithmic. Regression analyses indicated TSE-biases regarding younger age, male gender, and a background in natural sciences, with significant interactions between age, gender, and having learned such ICT-skills already in school. The findings point to a need for tailored strategies in teacher education to mitigate TSE disparities.

International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, 1093-4537.

The purpose of this study was to explore school principals’ job crafting profiles during the prolonged COVID-19 crisis in 2021, and investigate profile differences regarding principals’ own perceived servant leadership, stress and work meaningfulness.

Kasvatus, 55(2), 129–149

Henkilösuuntautuneella tutkimusotteella tunnistettiin viisi motivaatioprofiilia odotuksista ja arvostuksista äidinkieltä, matematiikkaa, fysiikkaa ja ilmiölähtöistä oppimista kohtaan. Merkittävä osa oppilaista koki ilmiölähtöisen oppimisen kiinnostavana. Tätä tietoa kannattaisi hyödyntää kouluissa: ilmiöön nivominen voisi lisätä oppilaiden motivaatiota myös monen oppiaineen tai laaja-alaisen taidon suhteen.

Suomalaisten nuorten aikuisten talousosaamisessa on parantamisen varaa. Erityisesti 18–29-vuotiaiden digitaaliset taloustaidot kaipaavat kohentamista. Muihin ikäryhmiin – jopa yli 70-vuotiaisiin verrattuna – nuorten aikuisten digitaalinen talousosaaminen on heikointa kolmella mittarilla: digitaalisessa taloustietämyksessä, digitaalisessa talouskäyttäytymisessä sekä asenteissa digitaalista talousosaamista kohtaan. Osaamattomuus yhdistettynä nuorille tyypilliseen impulsiivisuuteen altistaa nuoret aikuiset digimaailman väärinkäytöksille.

Computers in Human Behavior,  Volume 153, April 2024,

Acting on a sudden urge to purchase something without a prior intention or plan to do so and without considering its long-term effects is regarded as impulse buying behavior. The convenience and automatization of online and mobile shopping have made impulsive purchases increasingly easier.

YFI julkaisuja.19. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

This research report explores the perceived impact of current global crises—including the aftermath of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, energy crisis, and inflation—on citizens aged 18 to 75 in Finland (n=1000), Sweden (n=1000), and the UK (n=1000). With data from June 2023, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global crises are delved into from various aspects, such as respondents’ perspectives on the effects of these crises on wellbeing, finances, consumption, and online behaviours.

Journal of Happiness Studies 25, 13 (2024).

A multidimensional model of emerging adults’ subjective financial well-being was proposed (Sorgente and Lanz, Int Journal of Behavioral Development, 43(5), 466–478 2019). The authors also developed a 5-factor scale (the Multidimensional Subjective Financial Well-being Scale, MSFWBS) intending to measure this construct in the European context.

Addictive Behaviors Reports

Loot boxes are increasingly common random-reward monetization mechanisms in digital games. They are popular among gamblers and pose various risks due to their gambling-like nature, but little is known about psychosocial vulnerabilities and financial consequences of purchasing them. This article examined psychosocial associations with self-reported increase in loot box purchasing and indebtedness among past-year gamblers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal of Education and Work, 1-16.

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the daily continuity of young people by causing financial insecurity, remote work/studies, loss of work, loneliness, stress, and unpredictability of the future. This study explores the experiences of pandemic-time graduates from Finland and Sweden in the transition from higher education to work.

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Educational Sciences. Doctoral dissertation (Article based). Supervisors: Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro, Professor Kirsti Lonka and Doctor Elina Ketonen.

This thesis examined adolescents’ socio-digital engagement across the years of adolescence. The overall aim of this dissertation was to investigate the complex interplay between adolescent’s socio-digital engagement and academic well-being while considering the role of sleep, a research area that has received less attention.

Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2023:49, sivumäärä: 156

Kolmen vuoden välein toteutettava PISA-tutkimusohjelma, jota koronapandemian vuoksi jouduttiin siirtämään vuodella alkuperäisestä aikataulusta, toteutettiin vuonna 2022 kahdeksannen kerran. Tutkimuksessa selvitetään, miten 15-vuotiaat nuoret hallitsevat tulevaisuuden kannalta keskeisiä avaintaitoja, millaiset tekijät ovat yhteydessä näihin taitoihin ja millaisia muutoksia osaamisessa on havaittavissa verraten aiempiin tutkimuskierroksiin.

Sosiaalinen media on muokannut erityisesti nuorten kulutuskäyttäytymistä ja nuorten rooli kuluttajina sosiaalisessa mediassa on kahtiajakoinen. Nuoret käyttävät aktiivisesti sosiaalisen median alustoja, joille yritykset ja brändit kohdentavat jatkuvasti lisää mainontaa. Yritykset tekevät myös kaupallista yhteistyötä somevaikuttajien kanssa, joita nuoret seuraavat erityisen aktiivisesti. Näin ollen nuoret ovat jatkuvasti kaupallisen vaikuttamisen kohteena.

An Interview with Professor Kirsti Lonka, University of Helsinki, Finland. Journal of Teacher Education, 10(6): 1-10.

Article Number: 2095-8129(2023)06-0001-10.

Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja – 119. vsk. –3/2023

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan suomalaisten talousosaamista hyödyntäen Taloudellisen yhteistyön ja kehityksen järjestön OECD:n piirissä olevan kansainvälisen talousopetusverkoston (International Network on Financial Education, INFE) kehittämää talousosaamisen mittaristoa. Tarkastelemme sekä talousosaamisen tasoa että sen jakautumista väestöryhmien välillä. Tehty tutkimus toteuttaa osaltaan talousosaamisen kansallisen strategian tavoitteita.

This study explores adolescents’ awareness of the sources that inform online profiling and their perspectives on online targeted advertisements. It employs thematic analysis to analyse eight focus group discussions (N = 38) with adolescents (13–16 years) in Finland’s capital region. The findings raise concerns about the opacity of online commercial data-gathering practices. Therefore, we urge corporations to demystify their data collection processes.

Tässä tutkimusraportissa selvitettiin kuluttajien liikkumiseen liittyviä arvoja, motiiveja ja asenteita sekä niissä tapahtuneita muutoksia. Tutkimusta varten kerättiin verkkopaneelilla valtakunnallisesti edustava kyselyaineisto (N=2000) 18-75-vuotialta suomenkielisiltä vastaajilta Manner-Suomen alueelta. Kyselyllä tutkittiin matkustamista arjessa ja vapaa-ajalla ja siinä tapahtuneita muutoksista.

Vocations and Learning.

The present study identifies job crafting profiles of public sector employees and how they differ in terms of employees’ work engagement, workaholism, and approach to learning. Participants represent various occupations from educational field, technical field, and administrative field. Using latent profile analysis, three job crafting profiles could be identified: Passive crafters (25%), Average crafters (57%), and Active crafters (18%). Passive crafters reported the lowest values in all approach-oriented job crafting strategies and the highest value in avoidance-oriented job crafting.

Frontiers in education, 8.

The purpose of this study was to analyze knowledge co-construction as a self-organization process and the role of technology as its catalyst. Novel AI-directed speech recognition technology and the artifacts it generates were deployed to scaffold the knowledge co-construction process in two groups of pre-service teachers in a science education context. Throughout the lesson, the focus of the learning tasks was on pedagogical content knowledge and students’ preconceptions.

The 15th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems.

This study investigates how consumers’ omnichannel self-efficacy and showrooming behavior affect the perceived channel integration of a retailer and how perceived channel integration affects consumers’ revisit intention.

In G. Fry and H. Chun (Eds.) Happiness education: holistic learning for sustainable well-being (1st ed.), (pp. 163–175). Routledge.

Sage Journals

This study advances research on children’s negotiation of online commercial privacy by identifying an act of digital agency by children that may serve their current needs but can also impact children negatively. Secondly, it identifies certain factors children consider while evaluating the trustworthiness of apps and websites before disclosing information online. Eight focus group discussions with children (13–16 years) in Finland’s capital region are analysed using thematic analysis.

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

COVID-19 has altered adolescents’ opportunities for developing and strengthening interpersonal skills and proficiencies. Using data from adolescents in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom, we examined the relation between internalizing symptoms assessed pre-pandemic or when pandemic-related restrictions were lifted (Time 1) and associated internalizing symptoms during a subsequent restrictive pandemic period (Time 2).

International Journal of Consumer Studies, 1–14.

Online shopping addiction can be defined as an Internet-based behavioural addiction which may lead to economic problems. Even though shopping is increasingly common through mobile devices, the effects of smartphone use on online shopping addiction are underexamined.

Kulttuuri teknologisoituvassa yhteiskunnassa (CULT) -ohjelman White Paper (6/2023)

Suomi tähtää digitalisaation edelläkävijäksi, mutta tutkimukset osoittavat että digitaidot eivät ole itsestäänselvyys edes nuorilla. Tavoitteeseen pääsy edellyttää, että panostamme nuorten digiosallisuuden parantamiseen lähivuosina.

The Journal of Social Media in Society, 12(1), 21–48.

This paper investigates how following social media influencers is associated with Finnish adolescents’ materialistic attitudes and purchase intentions. Although the interlinkages between social media, materialism, and purchase intentions have been presented in previous studies, little is known about how following social media influencers is connected to their followers’ materialistic values and purchase intentions.

SAGE Journals.

This article explores how young people construct and express their consumer identities via their consumption styles on social media. The importance of commercial content on social media, such as the postings of social media influencers and advertisers, has been increasing during the past years.

Journal of Business Research 159, 113693.

The pervasiveness of social media platforms (SMP) has resulted in users experiencing feelings associated with the phenomena of fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media fatigue. However, little is known about how these phenomena relate to and influence the psychological state of SMP users.

The Journal of Consumer Affairs.

Digital innovations are transforming financial services and resulting changes in consumer behavior and personal money management. Diffusion of pervasive digital technologies offers individuals quick and easy access to various digital services bringing opportunities and challenges into their personal money management. The study aimed to explore how digitalization affects individuals’ financial literacy and financial capability. As a result, we identified three main themes in the intersection of finance and digitalization: Fintech, Financial behavior in digital environments, and Behavioral interventions.

This study investigates the associations of adolescents’ financial socialization factors—financial education in school and families—with financial confidence. In addition, we examine how financial socialization factors indirectly relate to financial literacy skills through financial confidence and the role of demographic factors on financial socialization, financial confidence, and financial literacy scores. We used data on the 4 328 Finnish 15-year-olds participating in the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

In this study, we examine the prevalence of income and career concerns among emerging adults in three different welfare states during COVID-19: Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. This study also delves into how factors such as one’s self-perceived financial situation, generalized mistrust, loneliness and socio-demographics are related to emerging adults’ income and career concerns. Results showed that individuals from the United Kingdom were more likely to experience increased income and career concerns than those in Finland and Sweden.

Journal of Gambling Studies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified several psychosocial risks and problem behaviors among vulnerable individuals. Given that gambling has high addictive potential, it is important to consider the underlying mechanisms of problem gambling. This study examined psychosocial factors associated with pandemic-time problem gambling.

Chapter in conference publication (A4)  In A. Güneyli, & F. Silman (Eds.), ICEEPSY 2022: Education and Educational Psychology, vol 3. European Proceedings of International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology (pp. 1-14). European Publisher.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is promoted by offering teachers’ SEL workshops worldwide. However, little is known about their short-term and long-term outcomes. We explored how teachers benefit from Lions Quest (Mitt Valg in Norwegian) training in the short and long term in Norway. The results indicated that the teachers felt to be more competent in teaching SEL after their Lions Quest (Mitt Valg) teacher training. This trend appeared to be continuing in the long run. In addition, findings showed that teachers were willing to implement LQ as part of their teaching.

(2022) Kuluttajaboikotit ja cancel-kulttuuri [Consumer boycotts and cancel culture]. In: Poikkeuksellinen viestintä [Exceptional communication] (eds. By Koskela, Merja & Kantanen, Helena). ProComma Academic 9. ProCom – Viestinnän ammattilaiset ry. Helsinki. Sivut 146-158.

Tässä luvussa tutustutaan cancel-kulttuuriin perinteisten kuluttajaboikottien ja niihin liittyvän aiemman tutkimuksen pohjalta. Luvussa pohditaan myös yritysten haasteita ja mahdollisuuksia reagoida boikotteihin nykyisessä digitaalisessa viestintäympäristössä.

Nordicom Review

Young people are perceived as heavy consumers of social media and less avid consumers of news. This study explores news consumption among Finnish adolescents through a representative survey of 15–19-year-olds. We seek to answer two research questions: What are the news repertoires of Finnish adolescents? And what factors predict different news repertoires?

Oppiminen muuttuu yhteiskunnan mukana ja muuttuva yhteiskunta muuttaa tapoja oppia. Tässä podcastissa pureudutaan digitaalisen oppimisen ilmiöihin. Vieraana kasvatuspsykologian professori Kirsti Lonka Helsingin yliopistosta.

Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 1–22.

This study uses latent profile analysis to identify boycotting subgroups within Finland and the UK and to explore their potential differences across countries. These subgroups are based on how young British and Finnish consumers assess that reference groups and their personal experiences have influenced their boycotting decisions.

This study is based on comparative data obtained from the UK (n = 1,236) and Finland (n = 1,219). We identified four boycotting profiles: unlikely to be influenced, influenced by personal things, likely to be influenced, and moderately likely to be influenced. Our findings are especially relevant to consumer researchers, brands, and companies.

Politiikkasuositus on tehty yhteistyössä seuraavien tutkimushankkeiden kanssa: Growing Mind, Bridging the Gaps, DigiConsumers, EduRescue, ySkills, Agents.

Monitieteisiin seurantatutkimuksiin perustaen suositamme, että koulun kehittämisessä tulisi huomioida:
1. opettajien digiosaamisen kehittäminen
2. kattava digitaalinen infrastruktuuri kouluihin
3. hyvinvointi, sosiaalinen vuorovaikutus ja digitaalisuus tasapainoon

Chapter in publication Responsible Finance and Digitalization Implications and Developments edited By Panu Kalmi, Tommi Auvinen, Marko Järvenpää

Copyright 2023

1st Edition, Copyright 2023
ISBN 9780367700614
296 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
Published by Routledge

Responsible Finance and Digitalization offers a topical overview of the changes that are taking place in the financial sector and how the financial sector itself can contribute to solving global challenges. It equips both students (at MBA and other levels) and practitioners with analytical tools to reflect on this change and to take appropriate action to ensure that their organization can successfully navigate it and create value.

Rahoitusalan työntekijöille maksetaan noin 20 prosenttia korkeampaa palkkaa kuin samankaltaisille työntekijöille muilla palvelualoilla. Tämä rahoitusalan palkkapreemio on suurempi miehille, ja sukupuolten välinen ero palkkapreemiossa kasvaa sitä suuremmaksi, mitä korkeammassa kohdassa palkkajakaumaa katsomme eroa. Tämä kertoo lasikattoilmiöstä rahoitusalalla.

University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, July 2022

• What are financial literacy and financial capability?
• The Covid-19 pandemic has increased personal concern over finances
• Financial literacy may differ significantly among youth
• How to promote youth financial capability and resilience?
• Towards a new era in terms of financial literacy – and financial capability

(2022). British Journal of Educational Psychology, [12534]. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12534 ​

This study explored the physiological correlates of students’ self-reported emotions in ecologically valid settings by combining biosignal data (on physical and cardiac activity) and experience sampling method (ESM) data.

The aim of this study was to examine entrepreneurship in the context of future Finnish teachers’ readiness to teach 21st century (broad-based) competencies. Teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching entrepreneurial skills and financial matters is vital for their pupils to actively participate and flourish in future society. The study utilized survey data of future teachers’ expectancy-values in teaching seven broad-based competencies of the current national curriculum and their financial literacy.

Vol 40 Nro 2 (2022): Nuorisotutkimus 2 2022

Peruskoulun opetussuunnitelmaan sisältyy talousopetusta eri oppiaineisiin integroituna. Talous- ja kuluttajakasvatuksen opetusta on tutkittu, mutta tutkittua tietoa siitä, miten nuoret kokevat kouluopetuksen, on niukasti. Artikkelissa tutkitaan koulun talousopetusta nuorten kokemuksina.

An updated literature review by
Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, PhD, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece | Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands and
Mette Ranta, PhD, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
June 2022

Youth Partnership

Technology in Society, Volume 70, August 2022, 102012

Highlights:

• The Dark Web is known to contain risky COVID-19 information and forged certificates.
• COVID-19 skepticism is related to Dark Web use as an information source.
• Loneliness and high engagement in online activities are related to Dark Web use as an information source.
• The unregulated nature of the Dark Web makes it a risky alternative to official COVID-19 information.
• The Dark Web poses various risks particularly for vulnerable individuals.

(2022, June 6). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication.

Social–emotional skills have been shown to be beneficial for many important life outcomes for students. However, previous studies on the topic have suffered from many issues. To address these limitations, this study used a multi-informant and multicohort perspective to study the association between 15 social–emotional skills and 20 educational, social, psychological health, and physical health outcomes.

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Highlights

• We examine psychological detachment from the COVID-19 pandemic through SNS (social network sites) use.
• We place perceived isolation and work-family conflict as COVID-specific stressors.
• Work-family conflict drives psychological detachment through SNS use.
• Perceived isolation does not drive psychological detachment through SNS use.

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, [790478]. Peer-reviewed scientific article (A1)

Previous studies have examined the neural correlates of receiving negative feedback from peers during virtual social interaction in young people. However, there is a lack of studies applying platforms adolescents use in daily life. In the present study, 92 late-adolescent participants performed a task that involved receiving positive and negative feedback to their opinions from peers in a Facebook-like platform, while brain activity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

SN Computer Science

Gamified software applications are omnipresent in everyday life. The idea of using game design elements in non-game contexts to engage and motivate tasks has rapidly gained traction in the human–computer interaction and the psychology fields, but scarcely in the artificial intelligence (AI) research area.

Consumption Markets & Culture

This study analyses the visual construction of girls and notions surrounding young femininities articulated by 15 contemporary advertisements of Nordic fast fashion companies, available on their public Facebook pages in Finland. A visual discourse analysis identifies some blatantly stereotypical and a few complex visual constructions of girls as heterosexual, caring, innocent, sexy posers, active self-presenters and self-surveyors, carefree and environmental activists.

Frontiers in Psychology 13:861437

Current educational reforms concerning curricula and digitalization challenge educators to meet new demands for learning and schooling. What is common for current educational reforms is that they tend to emphasize competencies that are not related to the traditional subject-matters and reflect a stance which presents learning as a naturally reflective and collaborative act.

Journal of Adolescence 94(3): 401-414.

The majority of adolescents engage with others online, and using social media is one of their top activities. However, there is little longitudinal evidence addressing whether active social media use is associated with study-related emotional exhaustion or delayed bedtime at the individual level of development during adolescence.

Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 817008. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817008

The aim of this study was to investigate how job crafting, work engagement, and workaholism were related in public sector organizations. The participants (N = 213) were civil servants from three Finnish public organizations, representing different professions, such as school personnel, secretaries, directors, parking attendants, and ICT specialists.

This study highlighted the relevance of employees learning to balance their job resources and demands.

Highlights
• We conducted a 4-year follow-up study in adolescents.
• We assessed mental health indicators at 11 years of age.
• We assessed physical activity and different types of digital media use at 15 years of age.
• We identified four behavior profiles of digital media use and physical activity.
• Physical activity and related self-esteem were the strongest predictors for later behavior profiles.

International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 87, 193. [0147-1767].

The focus in the present study is on how experienced discrimination, being able to discuss personal matters with parents, and having someone to discuss personal worries with relate to symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety among first- and second-generation immigrant-background adolescents (aged 14–15) living in Finland.

It was alarming that 42 per cent of the first-generation immigrant group reported that they could not discuss their personal worries with anyone, and more than one-fifth of these youth hardly ever talked about personal matters with their parents.

The Journal of Economic Education

The authors focused on three different game-based interventions using a pre- and post-intervention survey design. They found robust effects with respect to knowledge gained from game-based approaches. However, the effects on self-reported financial behaviors were weak.

. (2022). Uskalla yrittää -podcast: Opiskeluvinkkejä ja kokeisiin valmistautuminen. Nuori Yrittäjyys ry. (40 min)

Kasvatuspsykologian professori Kirsti Lonka kertoo tutkimustensa pohjalta kaiken opiskelemisesta, kun on aika valmistautua ylioppilas- tai pääsykokeisiin! Tärkeätä eivät ole tekniikat vaan lähestymistapa, eikä muistaminen vaan ymmärtäminen. Kuullaan myös hyvästä tauosta ja muistiinpanoista. Entä miten matikan opiskelu liittyy maratoniin treenaamiseen? Juontajina Otto Rantanen ja Aatu Veikkola.

University of Jyväskylä

This study examines how young people’s materialistic values connect with status-seeking impression management on social media, and subsequently to social capital, within the same model. Eight hundred Finnish participants aged 15–19 participated in our structured phone survey.

Raportissa Lukutaito – Tie tulevaisuuteen: PISA 2018 Suomen pääraportti, sivut 261-285.

Koulujen resurssit, rakenteet ja oppimisympäristöt ovat kuuluneet rehtoreille osoitettavan koulukyselyn keskeiseen sisältöön PISAtutkimuksen alusta lähtien. Kansainvälisten vertailuiden koulukyselyaineistojen tarkasteluissa pääasiallinen huomio kiinnittyy siihen, miten koulun taustatekijät ovat yhteydessä koulun oppilaiden osaamiseen ja sen vaihteluun.

Raportissa Lukutaito – Tie tulevaisuuteen: PISA 2018 Suomen pääraportti, sivut 167-193.

Talousosaamisesta on tullut yhä tärkeämpi taito nyky-yhteiskunnassa. Hyvää talousosaamista tarvitaan, sillä talousasioihin liittyvä päätöksenteko on entistä haastavampaa, koska digitaalisen teknologian ja globalisaation aikakaudella esimerkiksi rahoitustuotteiden ja -palveluiden määrä ja monimuotoisuus on lisääntynyt ja yksilön vastuu tekemistään talouspäätöksistä kasvanut.

Traditional media have merged with social media and pursue to produce engaging content and form relationships with online audiences.

The study produces valuable, detailed information regarding young people’s online participation preferences and the potential of traditional media in engaging with online youth audiences.

The Routledge Handbook of Financial Literacy
Edited By Gianni Nicolini, Brenda J. Cude
Copyright 2022
1st Edition

Chapter 17  Education or Entertainment? On the Potential of Games in Financial Education

The aim or the present study was to examine the relative importance of financial education in school and families and dispositional factors (competitiveness, work mastery, meta-cognition) in predicting financial literacy among Finnish adolescents. The data on the 4328 Finnish 15-year-olds was drawn from the PISA 2018 assessment.

Large-scale Assessments in Education  9, Article 24  (open access)

2021 AFCPE Symposium Proceedings (Ed. A. Betz-Hamilton), 131-143.

Vulnerable consumers face many challenges in current financial environment. They have a higher risk of
financial hardships, limited resources, and a shortage of skills to avoid harsh financial circumstances. The
purpose of this study is to enlighten the characteristics of financial capability process and the sources of
self-efficacy information in vulnerable consumers’ day-to-day practices the financial coaching project
serves.

Teachers’ epistemic beliefs may have consequences for their pedagogical work. We used previously developed scales to assess epistemic beliefs that teachers hold about learning, knowledge and knowing, and how they report putting such ideas into practice. The scales consisted of self-reported Likert-type statements considering collaborative knowledge building, valuing metacognition, certainty of knowledge, and a surface approach to learning.

Routledge, Taylor & Francis. ISBN (painettu) 9780367553319, (elektroninen) 9781003093053.

This book explores the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools to foster supportive environments and good relationships. It presents research from nine different countries with discussion of how teachers, student teachers and policymakers can ensure successful SEL at school.

The book stresses the importance of social and emotional learning to allow students to become more autonomous and active in their own learning and presents very innovative ways of learning and teaching the skills.

International Approaches to Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: A Framework for Developing Teaching Strategy (pp. 207-219). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Many teachers seek their ways to the continuous teacher training to increase their pedagogical skills in SEL. But how sustained such benefits are in the long-term? This original empirical study aimed at investigating stability and change of teachers’ perceived competence, importance, and knowledge in SEL before, immediately after, and in six months follow-up of a Lions Quest (LQ) teachers’ SEL workshop.

In International Approaches to Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: A Framework for Developing Teaching Strategy. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Promoting social and emotional learning (SEL) is widely recommended in literature, because it promotes good relationships. It also helps to foster supportive and student-engaging instruction and to design learning environments accordingly. Through SEL students learn to become more autonomous and active in their own learning processes, which often leads them to improved academic performance (Zins, 2004). However, there are many challenges influencing the implementation of the social and emotional learning in the school context. It is important to understand various processes of the development of SEL and how it works in various cultural contexts.

In International Approaches to Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: A Framework for Developing Teaching Strategy. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

The authors who contributed to the chapters in the present book volume expanded our horizons about the richness and variation in the ways of approaching the complex phenomenon of social and emotional learning (SEL) in the school context. They described in various ways, how readiness to teach SEL is essential in fostering human growth and flourishing in teachers, their students and in the whole community. In this last chapter, it is time to give an integrated perspective of the SEL theory and the challenges of the future.

(2021). A year of COVID-19 in three countries – A study on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyday life, consumption and digital behaviour in Finland, Sweden, and Great Britain. YFI julkaisuja.9. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Tämän julkaisun tavoitteena on välittää nuorten ajatuksia, asenteita ja odotuksia työelämästä.

Nuorten työelämämaisemat -julkaisuun on nostettu kolme ilonaihetta ja kolme huolenaihetta, joista on käyty asiantuntijoiden kanssa keskustelua mm. tulosten julkistamisen yhteydessä toukokuussa sekä Suomi Areenalla heinäkuussa.

Väestöryhmittäin tarkasteltuna nuorten aikuisten ikäryhmä erottui monin tavoin. Nuoret olivat aktiivisimpia digikäyttäjiä, ja he olivat myös ostaneet verkkokaupoista pandemia-aikana muita ikäryhmiä aktiivisemmin. Nuoret kaipasivat myös ulkomaille nopeasti pandemian hellitettyä. Myös pandemia-ajan negatiiviset vaikutukset, kuten työllistymisen ongelmat ja lomautukset, koskettivat erityisesti nuoria aikuisia. Lisäksi pandemian aikainen yksinäisyys ja rahapeliongelmat sekä huoli omasta henkisestä hyvinvoinnista ja taloudellisesta toimeentulosta korostuivat nuorilla aikuisilla.

The results indicated that there was a favorable development in the intervention group in some of the measured skills among students, but the effects were different for the two age groups. This study adds to both theoretical and practical development of continuing teacher training about SEL and its possible role in reducing problem behavior among the students.

Lausunto Eduskunnan sivistysvaliokunnalle koskien Valtioneuvoston koulutuspoliittista selontekoa 3.6.2021. Helsingin yliopisto. 12 sivua.

Koulutuksen resursointi on turvattava ja nykyiset ongelmat ratkaistava, ennen kuin opettajien ja
oppilaiden oppimistulokset ja hyvinvointi alkavat dramaattisesti heiketä.

Virtual reality (VR) refers to technologies for substituting the perceived reality. With the recent proliferation of consumer-grade head-mounted VR displays, several industries have started to wake up to the possible potential of virtual reality. One typical area in the early stages of the adoption of these technologies is marketing, and especially its sub-areas of retail and shopping

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted students’ opportunities to learn worldwide. Students and teachers have been forced to shift from traditional classrooms to emergency online / remote learning. They face key challenges in adapting practices away from a focus on face-to-face learning to an online learning environment mediated by various forms of technology. The pandemic reveals the urgent need to augment the educational system’s technological infrastructure, expand the teachers’ pedagogical expertise and the students’ learning repertoire.

Valtioneuvoston selvityksiä: Selvityksessä tarkastellaan positiivisen luottotietorekisterin vaikutuksia luotonantajiin, luotonhakijoihin sekä rahoitusmarkkinoiden vakautta valvoviin viranomaisiin. Selvitys on tehty tausta-aineistoksi positiivista luottotietorekisteriä koskevalle lainsäädäntöhankkeelle.

Journal of Consumer Policy, 44, 235–257.

Aineisto: Suomi – Kulutus ja elämäntapa: paneeliaineisto, josta aikasarja-aineisto vuosilta 1999, 2004, 2009 ja 2019. 

Tuloksia: Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin mikro- ja makrotason tekijöitä, jotka vaikuttavat yksilöiden kulutuskäyttäytymiseen taloudellisen paineen alla. Neljä eri taloudellisen käyttäytymisen mallia löydettiin: menoerien leikkaus, lainaaminen, tulotason nostaminen ja uhkapelit. Merkittäviä eroja ikäryhmien ja kulutukseen liittyvien asenteiden välillä oli löydettävissä. Nuoret aikuiset lainasivat rahaa ja tukeutuivat uhkapeleihin vähemmän kuin vanhemmat ikäryhmät, ja pyrkivät nostamaan omaa tulotasoaan.

Millaisia ratkaisuja kuntapäättäjät voisivat tehdä, että nuori sukupolvi pelastettaisiin hukkumiselta? Miten varmistamme, ettemme tee samoja virheitä, joiden vuoksi nuoret kärsivät 90-luvun talouslamassa?

Proceedings of the Canadian Symposium XVI Issues and Directions for Home Economics/Family Studies/Human Ecology Education, February 27-28 2021 Virtual Symposium. Bauer Edstrom, M. & Renwick, K. (Eds.). Vancouver, B.C., Canada: University of British Columbia, 7-18.

Julkaistu conference proceedings. Yhteistyö kotitaloustieteen tutkijoiden kanssa.

Aineisto: Kysely kotitaloustieteenopettajille keväällä 2020.

Tulokset: Kotitaloustieteen opettajat korostavat kestävyyttä ruokakasvatuksessa ja opettavat kulutus- ja kestävyystaitoja. Opettajat tekevät mielellään yhteistyötä eri aineenopettajien kanssa.

Teaching and Learning. European Political Science volume 20, pages698–722 (2021)

Future horizons, shaped by unpredictable ecosystems and exponential automation, require discipline-specific as well as transdisciplinary skills to navigate. In the context of political science education, negotiation simulations, for example in the form of board games, can aid in developing both.

As a plausibility probe for wider investigations, we set out to research whether an International Relations course concept utilizing the classical board game Diplomacy with pedagogically altered rules and gaming conditions enhances students’ (n = 23) understanding of discipline-specific knowledge and future skills.

Suomessa nuoret itsenäistyvät eli muuttavat pois lapsuudenkodistaan kansainvälisesti tarkasteltuna varhain. Perhetausta ja nuorten nykyinen taloudellinen tilanne määrittelevät nuorten mahdollisuuksia selviytyä taloudellisesti itsenäisestä elämästään. Artikkelissa tarkastellaan itsenäisesti asuvien nuorten taloudellista tilannetta ja tarkemmin heidän kokemustaan tulojen riittävyydestä ja sitä selittävien perhe- ja yksilötason tekijöitä, jotka eriarvoistavat nuoria taloudellisessa pärjäämisessä.

Nuorisotutkimus 4-2020 / 38. vuosikerta.

Linkki Nuorisotutkimusseuran julkaisut-osioon, ei artikkeliin.

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan sosiaalisen median vaikuttajien seuraamisen, kaveripaineen ja sisiodemografisten muuttujien yhteyttä nuorten kulutusasenteisiin. Tutkimus pohjautuu kuluttajaksi sosiaalistumisen teorioihin sosiaalisen taustan ja muuttuvan mediavaikuttamisen kentekstissa. Tutkimusaineistona käytetään 800:lle 15-19-vuotiaalle nuorelle tehtyä kyselytutkimusta.

Nuorisotutkimus 4-2020 / 38. vuosikerta. Nuorisotutkimusseura ry.

Linkki Nuorisotutkimusseuran julkaisut-osioon.

Springer

The Finnish education system has gone through an exciting developmental path from a follower into a role model. Also on the two-decade history of PISA studies, Finland’s performance has provided years of glory as of the world’s top-performing nation, but also a substantial decline. This chapter examines Finland’s educational outcomes in recent PISA-study and the trends across previous cycles. Boys’ more unsatisfactory performance and the increasing effect of students’ socio-economic background are clear predictors of the declining trend, but they can explain it only partly. Some of the other possible factors are discussed.

The rise of modern socio‐digital technologies has fundamentally changed the everyday environments in which young people communicate with each other and cultivate interests. To gain a more sophisticated understanding of this phenomenon, this study provides in‐depth, qualitative insights into adolescents’ experiences of their socio‐digital developmental ecologies

COVID-19 pandemic by investigating their personal concerns about mental well-being, career/studies and economic situation. The authors investigated how young adults’ (aged 18–29) personal concerns differ from older people’s concerns (aged 30–65) and which person- and context-related antecedents relate to personal concerns.

DigiConsumers esittää politiikkasuosituksessaan kahdeksan toimenpidesuositusta, joiden avulla voidaan vahvistaa nuorten talousosaamista koulujen ja oppilaitosten opetussuunnitelmissa. Tavoite ei pelkästään ole nuorten talous- ja digitaitojen kehittäminen. Tavoite on myös nuorten elämänhallinnan vahvistaminen ja hyvinvoinnin edistäminen.

Tässä artikkelissa käsittelemme pelillisyyden käyttöä Vaasan yliopiston opetuksessa tekemämme kyselyn pohjalta. Tulokset osoittavat, että pelillisyyteen suhtaudutaan positiivisesti ja sitä hyödynnetään monipuolisesti opetuksessa, vaikka haasteitakin ilmenee. Tulokset viittaavat siihen, että pelillisyyden käyttöä opetuksessa voitaisiin entisestään lisätä yliopistopedagogisen koulutuksen avulla.

Teoksessa: Tarnanen, M., & Kostiainen, E. (toim.) Ilmiömäistä (s. 198—211). Jyväskylän yliopiston opettajankoulutuslaitos: Uutta luova asiantuntijuus –hanke. ISBN: 978-951-39-7792

Oppiainerajat ylittävät projektit ovat osa uusia opetussuunnitelmia ja ilmiölähtöisten projektien toteuttaminen luokanopettajakoulutuksessa antaa mahdollisuuden oppia niiden toteuttamista jo opiskeluaikana. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan kasvatuspsykologian suuntautumisvaihtoehtoa luokanopettajakoulutuksessa
ja siihen liittyviä ilmiölähtöisiä projekteja. Sekä 20 vuoden kokemuksen että viimeaikaisen tutkimuksen perusteella kuvataan ilmiölähtöisten projektien toteutusta, taustaideoita sekä haasteita.

Edita publishing (2018). Translated in Chinese and Russian in 2021, and Spanish, Croatian, Korean, and Thai in 2020.

Finland’s PISA results have raised world-wide interest in Finnish schools and teacher education. What will happen next? Phenomenal Learning from Finland presents Finland’s path to 21st century competences and the exciting concept of phenomenon-based learning as part of the new curriculum.

International order: https://www.booky.fi/product.php?id=9789513773083

Finnish order: https://www.editapublishing.fi/muut/tuote/phenomenal-learning-from-finland

Spanish order: https://www.amazon.com/Aprendizaje-extraordinario-Finlandia-Kirsti-LONKA/dp/9586656195

Chinese order: https://www.amazon.com/Phenomenal-learning-interpretation-methods-education/dp/7521732286

Tutkimus Palkkatyö vai osakkuus – ekonometrinen analyysi työntekijöiden osakkuuteen vaikuttavista tekijöistä on julkaistu Akava Worksin julkaisusarjassa.

Lisätietoja tutkimuksesta:

Henna Busk, 040 164 8136, henna.busk@ptt.fi

University students’ epistemic beliefs may have practical consequences for studying and success in higher education. Such beliefs constitute epistemic theories that may empirically manifest themselves as epistemic profiles. This study examined university students’ epistemic profiles and their relations to conceptions of learning, age, gender, discipline, and academic achievement.

Teoksessa Heinonen, S., Elina, H., Aunesluoma, J. H., Meristö, T., Aunesluoma, J., Pantzar, M., Heiskanen, E., Hiilamo, H., Lonka, K., Vaattovaara, M. K., & Hukkinen, J. (2020). Koronakriisin yhteiskunnalliset vaikutukset: globaali järjestelmä ja Eurooppa. (Eduskunnan tulevaisuusvaliokunnan julkaisu; Nro 1/2020). Eduskunnan tulevaisuusvaliokunta.

Koko suomalaisen yhteiskunnan vahvuus on, että koulutusta arvostetaan ja että oppimisen ja koulun kehittäminen perustuu pitkäkestoiseen tieteelliseen tutkimukseen. Koronatilanne on poikkeuksellinen erilainen, sillä on pitänyt tehdä paljon päätöksiä nopeasti, ilman että meillä on ollut käsitystä mihin suuntaan tilanne etenee. Sen jälkeen, kun koronapandemiaa koskevat hallituksen ohjeet julkistettiin 12.3.2020, on tapahtunut valtavan paljon.

Eduskunnan tulevaisuusvaliokunnan julkaisu; Nro 1/2020. Eduskunnan tulevaisuusvaliokunta.

Tämä raportti kerää yhteen ja esittelee tulevaisuusvaliokunnan kevään 2020
aikana käsittelemät asiantuntijalausunnot COVID-19-pandemiasta. Esipuheessa kuvataan
lyhyesti myös sitä, millä tavalla tulevaisuusvaliokunta hankki tietoa pandemiasta ja sen seurauksista.

Digitalisation has placed retail stores under re-examination due to the changing servicescape (i.e. the shopping environment) and social interactions with store personnel and other customers that are experienced across both online and offline stores. This interdisciplinary dissertation seeks to fill a research gap in the marketing literature concerning the servicescape and the sociological theory of social capital, including how interpersonal relationships and social networks constitute the service experience and how the digital–physical servicescape facilitates trust, human contact and communities.

Jyväskylän yliopisto, N:o 212/2020.

Tutkimus COVID-19-epidemian rajoitustoimien vaikutuksesta kulutuskäyttäytymiseen, taloudelliseen toimintaan ja hyvinvointiin.

PISA-tutkimusohjelma toteutettiin vuonna 2018 seitsemännen kerran. Taloudellisen yhteistyön ja kehityksen järjestön OECD:n toteuttaman tutkimusohjelman tarkoituksena on etsiä vastauksia siihen, miten peruskoulun päättövaiheessa olevat tai sen juuri päättäneet 15-vuotiaat nuoret osaavat etsiä, arvioida ja soveltaa tietoa arkielämän sekä tulevaisuuden tarpeista nousevien tehtävien ja ongelmien ratkaisemiseksi.

Suomi osallistui vuoden 2018 tutkimuksessa ensi kertaa talousosaamisen (Financial Literacy) arviointiin, joka oli tarjolla kansainvälisenä vaihtoehtona.

Talousosaaminen on keskeinen kansalaistaito, jota kaikki kansalaiset tarvitsevat markkinoilla toimiessaan sekä oman talouden raha-asioita hoitaessa. Tässä raportissa tarkastellaan suomalaisten talousosaamisen tilaa uusimpien tutkimusten ja selvitysten pohjalta.

Bank of Finland: Expository Studies. A; vol. 119.

The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of achievement goal orientation profiles among Finnish sixth- and seventh-graders, the stability and change in these profiles across the transition from elementary to lower secondary school, and the profile differences in academic achievement (grades) and academic well-being (school engagement and school burnout).

Technology-driven change has generated new, even revolutionary business models, characterized by high levels of user participation. In the finance field, business models based on crowdfunding have seen significant growth and entered use as an alternative means of extending access and gaining financing for various types of projects.

This article examined digital learning engagement as the out-of-school learning component that reflects informally emerging socio-digital participation. The gap hypothesis proposes that students who prefer learning with digital technologies outside of school are less engaged in traditional school. Frontline Learning Research, 8(1), 33 – 55.

The main reason for the existence of social banks is to fund other social enterprises. On that basis, Simon Cornée from the University of Rennes 1, Panu Kalmi from the University of Vaasa and Ariane Szafarz from the Université Libre de Bruxelles propose that social banks can operate profitably and still lend to their borrowers at attractive interest rates when their owners and depositors accept lower returns on their investments.

Families mobilize psychosocial resources to attune negative consequences of economic hardship, but research is lacking among youth. We propose an Economic Stress Model in Emerging Adulthood (ESM-EA) conceptualizing age-salient social relationships and financial capability as mediators between economic hardship and well-being. Sage Journals.

Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja – 115. vsk. – 4/2019

Tässä artikkelissa käsitellemme yliopiston taloustieteen opetuksen näkökulmasta sitä, miten taloustietoa tulisi mielestämme opettaa suomalaisessa koulujärjestelmässä.

Suomen akatemia/strateginen tutkimus: Taloudellisen osaamisen tila Suomessa on herättänyt paljon keskustelua viime aikoina, johtuen muun muassa kotitalouksien velkaantumisen sekä maksuhäiriöiden määrän kasvusta.

(2019).  Creative Education, 10(10), 2283–2310.

Along with the rapid development of digital technology and the increasing proportion of knowledge work, work is becoming decreasingly defined by time and place, and more diverse in terms of both. As digital tools and multi-locational spaces become focal parts of human performance, the optimal use of these resources requires not only the ability to mechanically use them, but also the ability to develop useful behavioral strategies and practices related to them.

(2019).   Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology 17 (2), 465-494.

The global trend of new curricula in many OECD countries indicates that social interaction skills are becoming increasingly important. Educators need to start fostering the development of learners’ social competences, which requires development of their own knowledge and skills. This study investigated the possible change in teachers’ knowledge, their applied knowledge and their sense of competence during the Lions Quest (LQ) workshops. For us to measure this, the participants responded to the LQ inquiry.