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Psychology
Finland
2023

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Psychology D-index 78 Citations 16,725 255 World Ranking 1111 National Ranking 8

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award

2022 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Cognition

Lea Pulkkinen mainly focuses on Developmental psychology, Longitudinal study, Personality, Aggression and Injury prevention. Her work on Young adult as part of general Developmental psychology research is often related to Social environment, thus linking different fields of science. Her Young adult research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Genetic model, Prosocial behavior and Anxiety.

Her studies in Longitudinal study integrate themes in fields like Alcohol abuse, Psychiatry and Demography. Big Five personality traits and Personality development are among the areas of Personality where she concentrates her study. Her research investigates the connection between Injury prevention and topics such as Human factors and ergonomics that intersect with issues in Suicide prevention.

Her most cited work include:

  • Dimensions of executive functioning: Evidence from children (731 citations)
  • Age of onset of drinking and the use of alcohol in adulthood: a follow‐up study from age 8–42 for females and males (320 citations)
  • Models of self-regulated learning: a review (293 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Lea Pulkkinen mainly investigates Developmental psychology, Personality, Longitudinal study, Clinical psychology and Aggression. In general Developmental psychology study, her work on Young adult often relates to the realm of Injury prevention, thereby connecting several areas of interest. The various areas that Lea Pulkkinen examines in her Injury prevention study include Suicide prevention and Human factors and ergonomics.

Personality and Middle age are frequently intertwined in her study. The concepts of her Longitudinal study study are interwoven with issues in Self-esteem, Demography, Occupational prestige, Socioeconomic status and Self-control. Her Demography research integrates issues from Prospective cohort study and Heritability.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Developmental psychology (61.69%)
  • Personality (28.74%)
  • Longitudinal study (26.82%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Developmental psychology (61.69%)
  • Personality (28.74%)
  • Longitudinal study (26.82%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her primary areas of study are Developmental psychology, Personality, Longitudinal study, Aggression and Young adult. Her study in the fields of Prosocial behavior under the domain of Developmental psychology overlaps with other disciplines such as Home environment. She has researched Personality in several fields, including Identity, Middle age and Life course approach.

Her Longitudinal study research incorporates themes from Confirmatory factor analysis, Factorial validity and Factor structure. Lea Pulkkinen has included themes like Conduct disorder, Clinical psychology, Heritability, Population based and Cohort in her Aggression study. Her Young adult study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Odds ratio, Nicotine, Peer group and Confounding.

Between 2014 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Longitudinal heritability of childhood aggression (56 citations)
  • Childhood aggression and the co-occurrence of behavioural and emotional problems: results across ages 3–16 years from multiple raters in six cohorts in the EU-ACTION project (35 citations)
  • Identity Formation in Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study from Age 27 to 50 (25 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Social psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Cognition

Lea Pulkkinen spends much of her time researching Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology, Personality, Longitudinal study and Aggression. She combines topics linked to Twin study with her work on Developmental psychology. Her work in Twin study addresses issues such as Psychiatry, which are connected to fields such as Young adult.

Her Clinical psychology study combines topics in areas such as Big Five personality traits and Neuroticism. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Middle age, Identity development, Adult development and Identity formation. Lea Pulkkinen combines subjects such as Conduct disorder and Psychopathology with her study of Aggression.

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Best Publications

Dimensions of executive functioning: Evidence from children

Juhani E. Lehto;Petri Juujärvi;Libbe Kooistra;Lea Pulkkinen.
British Journal of Development Psychology (2003)

1290 Citations

Models of self-regulated learning: a review

Minna Puustinen;Lea Pulkkinen.
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research (2001)

509 Citations

Age of onset of drinking and the use of alcohol in adulthood: a follow‐up study from age 8–42 for females and males

Tuuli Pitkänen;Anna-Liisa Lyyra;Lea Pulkkinen.
Addiction (2005)

490 Citations

Types of work-family interface : well-being correlates of negative and positive spillover between work and family

Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Sabine Geurts;Lea Pulkkinen.
(2006)

473 Citations

Genetic and environmental factors in health-related behaviors: studies on Finnish twins and twin families.

Jaakko A. Kaprio;Lea Pulkkinen;Richard J. Rose.
Twin Research (2002)

413 Citations

Parenting mechanisms in links between parents' and adolescents' alcohol use behaviors.

Shawn J. Latendresse;Richard J. Rose;Richard J. Viken;Lea Pulkkinen.
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (2008)

376 Citations

Aggression in childhood and long-term unemployment in adulthood: a cycle of maladaptation and some protective factors.

Katja Kokko;Lea Pulkkinen.
Developmental Psychology (2000)

325 Citations

Parental monitoring moderates the importance of genetic and environmental influences on adolescent smoking.

Danielle M. Dick;Richard Viken;Shaun Purcell;Jaakko Kaprio.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology (2007)

276 Citations

Understanding the covariation among childhood externalizing symptoms: genetic and environmental influences on conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms.

Danielle M. Dick;Richard J. Viken;Jaakko Kaprio;Lea Pulkkinen.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2005)

264 Citations

Proactive and reactive aggression in early adolescence as precursors to anti- and prosocial behavior in young adults

Lea Pulkkinen.
Aggressive Behavior (1996)

243 Citations

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