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Katariina Salmela-Aro

Katariina Salmela-Aro

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Psychology
Finland
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
92
Citations
27467
World Ranking
890
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Katariina Salmela-Aro is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences with a strong emphasis on social psychology, clinical psychology, education, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including education, achievement and giftedness, motivation and self-concept in sports, COVID-19 and mental health, early childhood education and development, impact of technology on adolescents, child development and digital technology, and grit, self-efficacy, and motivation.

Katariina Salmela-Aro's scholarly output includes a number of recent papers notable for their coverage of climate-related anxiety, mental health, and education in pandemic conditions. These publications include:

  • Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries (2022) in Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health: Cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries (2021) in Current Psychology
  • Higher Education in Times of COVID-19: University Students' Basic Need Satisfaction, Self-Regulated Learning, and Well-Being (2021) in AERA Open
  • Distance learning in higher education during COVID-19: The role of basic psychological needs and intrinsic motivation for persistence and procrastination-a multi-country study (2021) in PLoS ONE
  • Students' Trait Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Teacher Emotional Support in Preventing Burnout: The Moderating Role of Academic Anxiety (2020) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Lauri Hietajärvi, Katja Upadyaya, Xin Tang, Jari Lavonen, and Kirsti Lonka, reflecting a significant body of joint research efforts.

Publications appear regularly in journals and outlets including Psykologia, Frontiers in Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, European Psychologist, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

In addition to journal articles, Katariina Salmela-Aro has authored books published by Yale University Press, including the title Learning Science in 2020.

Best Publications

  • School-Burnout Inventory (SBI) Reliability and Validity

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Noona Kiuru;Esko Leskinen;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • Depressive symptoms and school burnout during adolescence: evidence from two cross-lagged longitudinal studies.

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Hannu Savolainen;Leena Holopainen

  • School burnout and engagement in the context of demands-resources model

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Katja Upadyaya

  • Fear of childbirth according to parity, gestational age and obstetric history.

    H Rouhe;K Salmela-Aro;E Halmesmäki;T Saisto

  • Development of school engagement in association with academic success and well-being in varying social contexts: A review of empirical research.

    Katja Upadyaya;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • Burned out to drop out: Exploring the relationship between school burnout and school dropout

    Miia Bask;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • Achievement Goal Orientations and Subjective Well-Being: A Person-Centred Analysis.

    Heta Tuominen-Soini;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Markku Niemivirta

  • Does School Matter? The Role of School Context in Adolescents' School-Related Burnout *

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Noona Kiuru;Minna Pietikäinen;Jukka Jokela

  • The trajectories of student emotional engagement and school burnout with academic and psychological development: Findings from Finnish adolescents

    Ming-Te Wang;Angela Chow;Tara Hofkens;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • Psychosocial characteristics of women and their partners fearing vaginal childbirth.

    Terhi Saisto;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Erja Halmesmäki

  • A randomized controlled trial of intervention in fear of childbirth.

    Terhi Saisto;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Teija Könönen;Teija Könönen

  • Achievement goal orientations and academic well-being across the transition to upper secondary education.

    Heta Tuominen-Soini;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Markku Niemivirta

  • The Dark Side of Internet Use: Two Longitudinal Studies of Excessive Internet Use, Depressive Symptoms, School Burnout and Engagement Among Finnish Early and Late Adolescents.

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Katja Upadyaya;Katja Upadyaya;Kai Hakkarainen;Kirsti Lonka

  • Gendered pathways in school burnout among adolescents.

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Lotta Tynkkynen

  • Personal Goals During Emerging Adulthood: A 10-Year Follow Up

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Kaisa Aunola;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • Schoolwork engagement and burnout among Finnish high school students and young adults: Profiles, progressions, and educational outcomes.

    Heta Tuominen-Soini;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • From job demands and resources to work engagement, burnout, life satisfaction, depressive symptoms, and occupational health

    Katja Upadyaya;Katja Upadyaya;Matti Vartiainen;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • The role of educational track in adolescents' school burnout: a longitudinal study.

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Noona Kiuru;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • Peer Group Influence and Selection in Adolescents' School Burnout: A Longitudinal Study

    Noona Kiuru;Kaisa Aunola;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Esko Leskinen

  • Personal goals and well-being during critical life transitions: The four C's—Channelling, choice, co-agency and compensation

    Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • Goal importance and related achievement beliefs and emotions during the transition from vocational school to work: Antecedents and consequences.

    Jari-Erik Nurmi;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Petri Koivisto

Frequent Co-Authors

Jari-Erik Nurmi
Jari-Erik Nurmi University of Jyväskylä
Kirsti Lonka
Kirsti Lonka University of Helsinki
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Kaisa Aunola
Kaisa Aunola University of Jyväskylä
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine
Ming-Te Wang
Ming-Te Wang University of Pittsburgh
Brett Laursen
Brett Laursen Florida Atlantic University

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