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Overview

Kirsti Lonka is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with notable contributions in Education, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's published work covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

Some recent research articles by Kirsti Lonka include:

  • "Motivating Online Learning: The Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond" (2021), published in The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
  • "Motivation across a transition: Changes in achievement goal orientations and academic well-being from elementary to secondary school" (2020), published in Learning and Individual Differences
  • "The Development of Teachers' and Their Students' Social and Emotional Learning During the "Learning to Be Project"-Training Course in Five European Countries" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "University students' epistemic profiles, conceptions of learning, and academic performance" (2020), published in Higher Education
  • "Can you feel the excitement? Physiological correlates of students' self-reported emotions" (2022), published in British Journal of Educational Psychology

Kirsti Lonka frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • Education Sciences
  • Psykologia
  • European Proceedings of International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology

Collaborators frequently working with Kirsti Lonka include:

  • Katariina Salmela-Aro
  • Lauri Hietajärvi
  • Rekar Abdulhamed
  • Mette Ranta
  • Kai Hakkarainen

Best Publications

  • Studying in higher education: students' approaches to learning, self‐regulation, and cognitive strategies

    Annamari Heikkilä;Kirsti Lonka

  • Epistemologies, Conceptions of Learning, and Study Practices in Medicine and Psychology.

    Kirsti Lonka;Sari Lindblom-Ylänne

  • Balancing between inspiration and exhaustion: PhD students' experienced socio-psychological well-being

    Jenni Stubb;Kirsi Pyhältö;Kirsti Lonka

  • 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

  • Interprofessional training in the context of clinical practice: goals and students' perceptions on clinical education wards.

    Sari Ponzer;Uffe Hylin;Ann Kusoffsky;Monica Lauffs

  • Aspects and Prospects of Measuring Studying and Learning in Higher Education

    Kirsti Lonka;Erkki Olkinuora;Jarkko Mäkinen

  • Developing scholarly communities as learning environments for doctoral students

    Kirsi Pyhältö;Jenni Stubb;Kirsti Lonka

  • Individual Ways of Interacting with the Learning Environment--Are They Related to Study Success?.

    Sari Lindblom-Ylänne;Kirsti Lonka

  • Challenges of Becoming a Scholar: A Study of Doctoral Students' Problems and Well-Being

    Kirsi Pyhältö;Auli Toom;Jenni Stubb;Kirsti Lonka

  • Entrepreneurship as a twenty-first century skill: Entrepreneurial alertness and intention in the transition to adulthood

    Martin Obschonka;Kai Hakkarainen;Kirsti Lonka;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • Media multitasking is associated with distractibility and increased prefrontal activity in adolescents and young adults

    Mona Emilia Moisala;Viljami R. Salmela;Lauri Hietajärvi;E. Salo

  • Activating instruction: How to foster study and thinking skills in higher education

    Kirsti Maaria Lonka;Kirsi Ahola

  • Review and Process Effects of Spontaneous Note-Taking on Text Comprehension

    Virpi Slotte;Kirsti Lonka

  • Tutkiva oppiminen. Älykkään toiminnan rajat ja niiden ylittäminen

    Kai Hakkarainen;Kirsti Lonka;Lasse Lipponen

  • Motivating Online Learning: The Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond

    Thomas K.F. Chiu;Tzung Jin Lin;Kirsti Lonka

  • Students at risk: Students' general study orientations and abandoning/prolonging the course of studies

    Jarkko Mäkinen;Erkki Olkinuora;Kirsti Lonka

  • Tutkiva oppiminen käytännössä: matkaopas opettajille

    Kai Hakkarainen;Marianne Bollström-Huttunen;Riikka Pyysalo;Kirsti Lonka

  • Writing as a learning tool: integrating theory and practice

    Päivi Tynjälä;Lucia Mason;Kirsti Lonka

  • Interrelations among university students’ approaches to learning, regulation of learning, and cognitive and attributional strategies: a person oriented approach

    Annamari Heikkilä;Markku Niemivirta;Juha Nieminen;Kirsti Lonka

  • Conceptions of Learning and Knowledge: Does Training Make a Difference?

    Kirsti Lonka;Elana Joram;Mary Bryson

Frequent Co-Authors

Katariina Salmela-Aro
Katariina Salmela-Aro University of Helsinki
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
Amandeep Dhir
Amandeep Dhir University of Agder
Lucia Mason
Lucia Mason University of Padua
Minna Huotilainen
Minna Huotilainen University of Helsinki
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari Aalto University
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Anssi Peräkylä
Anssi Peräkylä University of Helsinki

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