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The energy and identification continua of burnout and work engagement : Developmental profiles over eight years

2017

Abstract Understanding of the mutual developmental dynamics between burnout and work engagement is limited due to the lack of longitudinal studies with long follow-ups and multi-wave data. This study sought to identify subgroups of employees characterized by long-term exhaustion-vigor (energy continuum) and cynicism-dedication (identification continuum). A further important aim was to investigate differences between the identified subgroups in their experiences of progress in their personal work goals. Five-wave, eight-year follow-up data among Finnish white-collar professionals ( n  = 168) were studied using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA). The analysis yielded three exhaustion-vigor subgrou…

Literacy Skill Development of Children With Familial Risk for Dyslexia Through Grades 2, 3, and 8

2015

This study followed the development of reading speed, reading accuracy, and spelling in transparent Finnish orthography in children through Grades 2, 3, and 8. We compared 2 groups of children with familial risk for dyslexia—1 group with dyslexia (Dys_FR, n = 35) and 1 group without (NoDys_FR, n = 66) in Grade 2—with a group of children without familial risk for dyslexia (controls, n = 72). The Dys_FR group showed persistent deficiency, especially in reading speed, and, to a minor extent, in reading and spelling accuracy. The Dys_FR children, contrary to the other 2 groups, relied heavily on letter-by-letter decoding in Grades 2 and 3. In children not fulfilling the criteria for dyslexia in…

Reading comprehension from grade 1 to 6 in two shallow orthographies: comparison of Estonian and Finnish students

2018

The aim was to examine reading comprehension among elementary school students in two shallow orthographies, Estonian and Finnish. Participants were 619 Estonian children (50% boys) and 292 Finnish children (52% boys) whose reading comprehension was assessed in first, second, third, and sixth grades. The results showed that reading comprehension among Estonian and Finnish children was at a similar level by the end of first grade but Finnish children started to have better performance from second grade onward. These findings suggest that the roots of Finnish students’ strong reading skills are nurtured from the very beginning of elementary school. The potential cross-country differences in re…

Muutoksen mahdollisuus : sosiaalinen media kielenopetuksen osana

2014

This article examines L2 learners’ multimodal literacy practices during two university-level Finnish as a second language courses. My focus is on the students’ use of microblogs as a learning tool. I + rst explore what new practices have emerged from the introduction of the microblogging service Twitter. Second, the focus shifts to the students’ opinions about using microblogs in language learning and I ask what potential the use of social media has for language learning and teaching. The data consist of about 900 tweets (microblog posts including links to online articles, video recordings and photos) posted by the students during two 12-week text comprehension courses as well as of video-r…

Literacy Skills and Online Research and Comprehension : Struggling Readers Face Difficulties

2019

The present study evaluated the extent to which literacy skills (reading fluency, written spelling, and reading comprehension), together with nonverbal reasoning, prior knowledge, and gender, are related to students’ online research and comprehension (ORC) performance. The ORC skills of 426 sixth graders were measured using a Finnish adaptation of the Online Research and Comprehension Assessment. Results of a structural equation model showed that these ORC skills were divided into six highly correlated factors, and that they formed a common factor in ORC. Altogether, these predictor variables explained 57% of the variance in ORC. Reading comprehension, along with gender, was the strongest p…

Suomalainen aikakauslehti, lukijan tarpeet ja mediamurros

2016

This thesis discusses commercial Finnish magazines in the midst of media disruption. First, this research clarifies what has been the core content of printed magazines. Then this study focuses on finding out what kind of reader needs the producers of these magazines tried to satisfy. The purpose of this study is to discuss, whether the core content of magazines and the methods of satisfying the readers’ needs could be transferred to the digital media environment and in what way. The theoretical framework of this study is the notion of media concept. It allows viewing magazines as a vast whole and demonstrates a relationship between content and the audience’s needs. In addition, this study u…

An In-between Reader : Situatedness and Belonging in Tove Jansson’s Helsinki

2021

Finnish-Swedish artist and writer Tove Jansson (1914–2001), widely known as the author of the Moomin books, was born in Helsinki and resided there for the greater part of her life. The city features as a setting for her adult-oriented fiction – notably, semi-autobiographical fix-up novels Sculptor’s Daughter (1968/2015) and Fair Play (1989/2011). This article adopts a situated approach to literary geography, examining the researcher’s own position as a Helsinki resident and a ‘situated’ reader. Using autoethnography as a method, I analyze how the city and Jansson’s life narrative are co-produced by the writer, her texts, texts about her (such as biographies and press articles) and myself as…

Kirjoittajaan ja lukijaan viittaaminen Jussi Halla-ahon Scripta-blogin maahanmuuttokeskeisissä verkkokolumneissa

2013

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tarkastella kirjoittajaan ja lukijaan viittaamista Jussi Halla-ahon Scripta-blogissa julkaistuissa maahanmuuttokeskeisissä verkkokolumneissa. Halla-aho ja hänen lukijakuntansa perustama keskustelufoorumi (Hommaforum) ovat olleet esillä mediassa, minkä takia koettiin kiinnostavaksi tutkia, miten Halla-aho ja hänen lukijansa näkyvät Halla-ahon verkkokolumneissa. Lisäksi blogi julkaisupaikkana antaa kirjoittajalle vapauksia, joita esimerkiksi sanomalehteen kirjoittavalla kolumnistilla ei ole. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin, millaisin kielellisin keinoin kirjoittajaan ja lukijaan viitataan, millaisissa semanttisissa puhefunktioissa viittauksia käytetään ja kuinka paljon …

Teksti ja lukijuus murroksessa

2001

Parental literacy predicts children’s literacy: A longitudinal family-risk study

2011

This family-risk (FR) study examined whether the literacy skills of parents with dyslexia are predictive of the literacy skills of their offspring. We report data from 31 child–parent dyads where both had dyslexia (FR-D) and 68 dyads where the child did not have dyslexia (FR-ND). Findings supported the differences in liability of FR children with and without dyslexia: the parents of the FR-D children had more severe difficulties in pseudoword reading and spelling accuracy, in rapid word recognition, and in text reading fluency than the parents of the FR-ND children. Finally, parental skills were found to be significant predictors of children's Grade 3 reading and spelling. Parental skills p…