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Ulla Kinnunen

Ulla Kinnunen

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Psychology
Finland
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
87
Citations
23994
World Ranking
1103
National Ranking
8

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

Ulla Kinnunen is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland and has a research focus spanning psychology and health professions. Their academic work is primarily rooted in the domains of workplace health and well-being, social sciences, and organizational behavior.

The main fields of study covered include:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, their research addresses several subfields, notably:

  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Education
  • Clinical Psychology

Kinnunen's work covers a range of topics related to occupational and psychological health, including:

  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Research in Social Sciences
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports

Kinnunen has co-authored several publications with recurring collaborators, including:

  • Jessica de Bloom
  • Anne Mäkikangas
  • Satu Kaski
  • Saija Mauno
  • Taru Feldt

Frequent venues for Kinnunen's publications include:

  • Psykologia
  • Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology
  • Stress and Health
  • Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Journal of Clinical Nursing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kinnunen document various aspects of occupational health and motivation, such as:

  • Illegitimate tasks in health care: Illegitimate task types and associations with occupational well-being (2021), Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • Profiling development of burnout over eight years: relation with job demands and resources (2020), European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Need Satisfaction and Optimal Functioning at Leisure and Work: A Longitudinal Validation Study of the DRAMMA Model (2020), Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Work-related ill- and well-being among Finnish sport coaches: Exploring the relationships between job demands, job resources, burnout and work engagement (2020), International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
  • Leader motivation as a building block for sustainable leader careers: The relationship between leadership motivation profiles and leader and follower outcomes (2020), Journal of Vocational Behavior

Best Publications

  • Job Demands and Resources as Antecedents of Work Engagement: A Longitudinal Study.

    Saija Mauno;Ulla Kinnunen;Mervi Ruokolainen

  • Antecedents and Outcomes of Work-Family Conflict Among Employed Women and Men in Finland

    Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno

  • The Construct Validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: Multisample and Longitudinal Evidence

    Piia Seppälä;Saija Mauno;Taru Feldt;Jari Hakanen

  • Work-home interaction from a work psychological perspective: Development and validation of a new questionnaire, the SWING

    Sabine A. E. Geurts;Toon W. Taris;Michiel A. J. Kompier;Josje S. E. Dikkers

  • Psychosocial work stressors and well-being: self-esteem and optimism as moderators in a one-year longitudinal sample

    Anne Mäkikangas;Ulla Kinnunen

  • 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

  • Work-to-family conflict and its relationship with satisfaction and well-being: a one-year longitudinal study on gender differences

    Ulla Kinnunen;Sabine Geurts;Saija Mauno

  • Cross-lagged associations between perceived external employability, job insecurity, and exhaustion: Testing gain and loss spirals according to the Conservation of Resources Theory

    Nele De Cuyper;Anne Mäkikangas;Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno

  • Psychological consequences of fixed-term employment and perceived job insecurity among health care staff.

    Special Researcher Saija Mauno PhD;Ulla Kinnunen;Anne Mäkikangas;Jouko Nätti

  • Job demands–resources model in the context of recovery: Testing recovery experiences as mediators

    Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Marjo Siltaloppi;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Family-supportive organization perceptions, multiple dimensions of work–family conflict, and employee satisfaction: A test of model across five samples

    Laurent M. Lapierre;Paul E. Spector;Tammy D. Allen;Steven Poelmans

  • Recovery experiences as moderators between psychosocial work characteristics and occupational well-being

    Marjo Siltaloppi;Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt

  • Exploring work- and organization-based resources as moderators between work–family conflict, well-being, and job attitudes

    Saija Mauno;Ulla Kinnunen;Mervi Ruokolainen

  • Organizational antecedents and outcomes of job insecurity: a longitudinal study in three organizations in Finland

    Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno;Jouko Nätti;Mika Happonen

  • Testing the effort-reward imbalance model among Finnish managers: the role of perceived organizational support.

    Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Anne Mäkikangas

  • The effects of job stressors on marital satisfaction in Finnish dual-earner couples

    Saija Mauno;Ulla Kinnunen

  • Work–family conflict and its relations to well-being: the role of personality as a moderating factor

    Ulla Kinnunen;Ad Vermulst;Jan Gerris;Anne Mäkikangas

  • Perceived job insecurity : A longitudinal study among Finnish employees

    Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno;Jouko Natti;Mika Happonen

  • A mediational model of sense of coherence in the work context: a one‐year follow‐up study

    Taru Feldt;Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno

  • Perceived job insecurity among dual‐earner couples: Do its antecedents vary according to gender, economic sector and the measure used?

    Saijo Mauno;Ulla Kinnunen

Frequent Co-Authors

Saija Mauno
Saija Mauno Tampere University
Taru Feldt
Taru Feldt University of Jyväskylä
Anne Mäkikangas
Anne Mäkikangas Tampere University
Jessica de Bloom
Jessica de Bloom Tampere University
Kalevi Korpela
Kalevi Korpela Tampere University
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Sabine A. E. Geurts
Sabine A. E. Geurts Radboud University
Hans De Witte
Hans De Witte KU Leuven
Lea Pulkkinen
Lea Pulkkinen University of Jyväskylä

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