Ari Haukkala
Biographic Data
| ID | 1732875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Haukkala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari |
| FAMILY NAME | Haukkala |
| SIGNATURE | HAUKKALA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8567-1548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Effectiveness of the Let’s Move It multi-level vocational school-based intervention on physical activity and sedentary behavior
BACKGROUND: Low levels of physical activity (PA), more prevalent among those with low education, require effective interventions. Fewer trials have tested interventions to decrease sedentary behavior (SB). No school-based interventions have shown lasting effects on PA or SB in vocational schools. PURPOSE: To examine whether the Let's Move It intervention has effects on behavioral and clinical outcomes among vocational students after 2 and 14 mont…
A dual process model to predict adolescents’ screen time and physical activity
OBJECTIVE: Many adolescents report a lack of physical activity (PA) and excess screen time (ST). Psychological theories aiming to understand these behaviours typically focus on predictors of only one behaviour. Yet, behaviour enactment is often a choice between options. This study sought to examine predictors of PA and ST in a single model. Variables were drawn from dual process models, which portray behaviour as the outcome of deliberative and a…
Taking it to the bank
A rapidly growing proportion of health research uses ‘secondary data’: data used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected. Do researchers using secondary data have an obligation to disclose individual research findings to participants? While the importance of this question has been duly recognised in the context of primary research (ie, where data are collected from participants directly), it remains largely unexamined …
App-based food Go/No-Go training
Food Go/No-Go training aims to alter implicit food biases by creating associations between perceiving unhealthy foods and withholding a dominant response. Asking participants to repeatedly inhibit an impulse to approach unhealthy foods can decrease unhealthy food intake in laboratory settings. Less is known about how people engage with app-based Go/No-Go training in real-world settings and how this might relate to dietary outcomes. This pragmatic…
I would like to discuss it further with an expert”
Preschool Environmental Factors, Parental Socioeconomic Status, and Children’s Sedentary Time
Preschool children's high levels of sedentary time (ST) is a public health concern. As preschool reaches a large population of children from different socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, more knowledge on how the preschool setting is associated with children's ST is relevant. Our aims were to examine (1) the associations of preschool setting (covering social, physical, and organizational level) with children's ST, and (2) the moderating role …
Simple and rationale-providing SMS reminders to promote accelerometer use
DRKS DRKS00007721 . Registered 14.04.2015. Retrospectively registered
Genuine participation in participant-centred research initiatives
The introduction of Web 2.0 technology, along with a population increasingly proficient in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), coupled with the rapid advancements in genetic testing methods, has seen an increase in the presence of participant-centred research initiatives. Such initiatives, aided by the centrality of ICT interconnections, and the ethos they propound seem to further embody the ideal of increasing the participatory natu…
What explains the socioeconomic status gap in activity? Educational differences in determinants of physical activity and screentime
This study revealed that already in the first years of educational differentiation, levels of key PA determinants differ, contributing to socioeconomic differences in PA. The analyses identified the strongest mediators of the SES-PA association, but additional investigation utilising longitudinal and experimental designs are needed. This study demonstrates the usefulness of combining constructs from various theoretical approaches to better unders…
Let’s Move It’ – a school-based multilevel intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour among older adolescents in vocational secondary schools
ISRCTN10979479 . Registered: 31.12.2015
Genetic causal beliefs about morbidity
Despite increased public discussion of genomics, the relative proportion of those who endorse genetic factors as the most important cause of morbidity has remained low. However, within this group beliefs about benefits of health behavior changes have become more positive. This could indicate that increase in genomic health information does not lead to more negative appraisals of efficacy of lifestyle changes
Predicting gender differences in liking for vegetables and preference for a variety of vegetables among 11-year-old children
Sense of Coherence, Depressive Symptoms, Cardiovascular Diseases, and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: There is increasing interest in whether positive and negative psychological constructs are bipolar opposites of the same phenomenon. We examine whether a positive construct--sense of coherence (SOC)--has independent predictive power over and above depressive symptoms for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. METHODS: Participants included 3850 men and 4083 women aged 25 to 74 years who had participated in risk factor su…
Socio-economic disparities in the consumption of vegetables, fruit and energy-dense foods
Objective A low socio-economic status (SES) is related to less healthy dietary habits, but the reasons for this remain unclear. We examined whether the absolute or relative importance of various food choice motives contributed to SES disparities in vegetable/fruit and energy-dense food intake. Design We analysed cross-sectional data from the FINRISK Study 2007 by means of structural equation modelling and used a shortened version of the Food Choi…
Socio-economic differences in self-reported insomnia and stress in Finland from 1979 to 2002
Self-reported insomnia and stress were more common during later study periods. The socio-economic differences in insomnia and stress have remained fairly stable over a 24-year time period. However, some of the associations in socio-economic differences were curvilinear and converse. Future studies are needed to explore the complex socio-economic gradients, especially in stress
Hostility, Anger Control, and Anger Expression as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease
Objective: To examine in a prospective setting whether different hostility measures, including Cynical Distrust, Trait Anger, Anger Out, Anger In, and Anger Control, are related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and ischemic heart disease (IHD). Methods: Participants comprised 25- to 74-year-old men (n = 3850) and women (n = 4083), followed up for 10 to 15 years. Trait Anger, Anger Out, Anger In, and Anger Control were assessed with the Spielberger…
Emotional eating, depressive symptoms and self-reported food consumption. A population-based study
Eating styles, self-control and obesity indicators. The moderating role of obesity status and dieting history on restrained eating
Comparing sense of coherence, depressive symptoms and anxiety, and their relationships with health in a population-based study
Social inoculation against cigarette advertisements in a culture allowing cigarette advertising and in another banning it
This article describes the effects of a social inoculation program against cigarette advertisements among pre-adolescent youth in Los Angeles, California, where printed advertising is allowed, and in Helsinki, Finland, where it is banned. In Helsinki, the 4th-grade students reported liking persons depicted in advertisements less at the immediate posttest, and the 6th-grade students reported liking the depicted persons less at the 6-month follow-u…
Emotional eating, depressive symptoms and self-reported food consumption. A population-based study
Eating styles, self-control and obesity indicators. The moderating role of obesity status and dieting history on restrained eating
App-based food Go/No-Go training
Food Go/No-Go training aims to alter implicit food biases by creating associations between perceiving unhealthy foods and withholding a dominant response. Asking participants to repeatedly inhibit an impulse to approach unhealthy foods can decrease unhealthy food intake in laboratory settings. Less is known about how people engage with app-based Go/No-Go training in real-world settings and how this might relate to dietary outcomes. This pragmatic…
Comparing sense of coherence, depressive symptoms and anxiety, and their relationships with health in a population-based study
Predicting gender differences in liking for vegetables and preference for a variety of vegetables among 11-year-old children
Social inoculation against cigarette advertisements in a culture allowing cigarette advertising and in another banning it
This article describes the effects of a social inoculation program against cigarette advertisements among pre-adolescent youth in Los Angeles, California, where printed advertising is allowed, and in Helsinki, Finland, where it is banned. In Helsinki, the 4th-grade students reported liking persons depicted in advertisements less at the immediate posttest, and the 6th-grade students reported liking the depicted persons less at the 6-month follow-u…
Comparing sense of coherence, depressive symptoms and anxiety, and their relationships with health in a population-based study
Eating styles, self-control and obesity indicators. The moderating role of obesity status and dieting history on restrained eating
Hostility, Anger Control, and Anger Expression as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease
Objective: To examine in a prospective setting whether different hostility measures, including Cynical Distrust, Trait Anger, Anger Out, Anger In, and Anger Control, are related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and ischemic heart disease (IHD). Methods: Participants comprised 25- to 74-year-old men (n = 3850) and women (n = 4083), followed up for 10 to 15 years. Trait Anger, Anger Out, Anger In, and Anger Control were assessed with the Spielberger…
Emotional eating, depressive symptoms and self-reported food consumption. A population-based study
Socio-economic differences in self-reported insomnia and stress in Finland from 1979 to 2002
Self-reported insomnia and stress were more common during later study periods. The socio-economic differences in insomnia and stress have remained fairly stable over a 24-year time period. However, some of the associations in socio-economic differences were curvilinear and converse. Future studies are needed to explore the complex socio-economic gradients, especially in stress
Sense of Coherence, Depressive Symptoms, Cardiovascular Diseases, and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: There is increasing interest in whether positive and negative psychological constructs are bipolar opposites of the same phenomenon. We examine whether a positive construct--sense of coherence (SOC)--has independent predictive power over and above depressive symptoms for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. METHODS: Participants included 3850 men and 4083 women aged 25 to 74 years who had participated in risk factor su…
Socio-economic disparities in the consumption of vegetables, fruit and energy-dense foods
Objective A low socio-economic status (SES) is related to less healthy dietary habits, but the reasons for this remain unclear. We examined whether the absolute or relative importance of various food choice motives contributed to SES disparities in vegetable/fruit and energy-dense food intake. Design We analysed cross-sectional data from the FINRISK Study 2007 by means of structural equation modelling and used a shortened version of the Food Choi…
Genetic causal beliefs about morbidity
Despite increased public discussion of genomics, the relative proportion of those who endorse genetic factors as the most important cause of morbidity has remained low. However, within this group beliefs about benefits of health behavior changes have become more positive. This could indicate that increase in genomic health information does not lead to more negative appraisals of efficacy of lifestyle changes
Predicting gender differences in liking for vegetables and preference for a variety of vegetables among 11-year-old children
Let’s Move It’ – a school-based multilevel intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour among older adolescents in vocational secondary schools
ISRCTN10979479 . Registered: 31.12.2015
Genuine participation in participant-centred research initiatives
The introduction of Web 2.0 technology, along with a population increasingly proficient in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), coupled with the rapid advancements in genetic testing methods, has seen an increase in the presence of participant-centred research initiatives. Such initiatives, aided by the centrality of ICT interconnections, and the ethos they propound seem to further embody the ideal of increasing the participatory natu…
What explains the socioeconomic status gap in activity? Educational differences in determinants of physical activity and screentime
This study revealed that already in the first years of educational differentiation, levels of key PA determinants differ, contributing to socioeconomic differences in PA. The analyses identified the strongest mediators of the SES-PA association, but additional investigation utilising longitudinal and experimental designs are needed. This study demonstrates the usefulness of combining constructs from various theoretical approaches to better unders…
I would like to discuss it further with an expert”
Preschool Environmental Factors, Parental Socioeconomic Status, and Children’s Sedentary Time
Preschool children's high levels of sedentary time (ST) is a public health concern. As preschool reaches a large population of children from different socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, more knowledge on how the preschool setting is associated with children's ST is relevant. Our aims were to examine (1) the associations of preschool setting (covering social, physical, and organizational level) with children's ST, and (2) the moderating role …
Simple and rationale-providing SMS reminders to promote accelerometer use
DRKS DRKS00007721 . Registered 14.04.2015. Retrospectively registered
Taking it to the bank
A rapidly growing proportion of health research uses ‘secondary data’: data used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected. Do researchers using secondary data have an obligation to disclose individual research findings to participants? While the importance of this question has been duly recognised in the context of primary research (ie, where data are collected from participants directly), it remains largely unexamined …
App-based food Go/No-Go training
Food Go/No-Go training aims to alter implicit food biases by creating associations between perceiving unhealthy foods and withholding a dominant response. Asking participants to repeatedly inhibit an impulse to approach unhealthy foods can decrease unhealthy food intake in laboratory settings. Less is known about how people engage with app-based Go/No-Go training in real-world settings and how this might relate to dietary outcomes. This pragmatic…
A dual process model to predict adolescents’ screen time and physical activity
OBJECTIVE: Many adolescents report a lack of physical activity (PA) and excess screen time (ST). Psychological theories aiming to understand these behaviours typically focus on predictors of only one behaviour. Yet, behaviour enactment is often a choice between options. This study sought to examine predictors of PA and ST in a single model. Variables were drawn from dual process models, which portray behaviour as the outcome of deliberative and a…
Effectiveness of the Let’s Move It multi-level vocational school-based intervention on physical activity and sedentary behavior
BACKGROUND: Low levels of physical activity (PA), more prevalent among those with low education, require effective interventions. Fewer trials have tested interventions to decrease sedentary behavior (SB). No school-based interventions have shown lasting effects on PA or SB in vocational schools. PURPOSE: To examine whether the Let's Move It intervention has effects on behavioral and clinical outcomes among vocational students after 2 and 14 mont…
Medicine (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 works) · Population (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Public health (6 works)