Elina Haavio-Mannila
Biographic Data
| ID | 173647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elina Haavio-Mannila |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elina |
| FAMILY NAME | Haavio-Mannila |
| SIGNATURE | HAAVIO-MANNILA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 190 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Socioeconomic differences in self-rated health among women: A comparison of St. Petersburg to Estonia and Finland
Women's self-rated health in St. Petersburg varied similarly by education but differently by income and employment as compared to Estonia and Finland. Education is likely the most meaningful dimension of women's socioeconomic position in St. Petersburg. More research is needed to further clarify the pathways between socioeconomic position and health in Russia
The socio-demographic patterning of sexual risk behaviour: A survey of young men in Finland and Estonia
A clear socio-demographic patterning for sexual behaviour and self-reported STIs was revealed in Finland, but a less consistent trend was seen in Estonia. The findings of this study suggest that prevention strategies should focus in Finland on less educated singles and in Estonia on young men generally
The Impact of Aging on Human Sexual Activity and Sexual Desire
This article empirically studies how much aging modifies human sexual activity and sexual desire, and what the most important determinants in this change are. The analyses are based on 2 representative national sex surveys conducted in Finland in the 1990s. As a result of female widowhood, aging men had a higher incidence of sexual intercourse compared with aging women; and in relationships, women were more likely than men to report lack of sexua…
La situation de la femme au travail en Finlande
Vu le taux élevé des femmes dans la population active on peut dire que la situation de la femme est bonne en Finlande : 42% de la main-d'œuvre, 21% des députés au Parlement, et 15% des représentants municipaux. Par contre, on ne trouve que 5% de femmes dans les cadres supérieurs de la vie économique. Cependant, les enquêtes montrent qu'on attend toujours des femmes qu'elles gardent les charges ménagères. Et la garde des enfants reste encore impar…
Correlates of Increased Sexual Satisfaction
Repression, Revolution and Ambivalence: The Sexual Life of Three Generations
Attitudes toward unconventional and casual forms of sexuality and toward extramarital relations as well as the appearance of parallel (extra) sexual relationships are studied in three sexual generations. These are constructed on the basis of sexual norms and practices prevailing at the time of the sexual initiation of their members. The following sexual generations are distinguished: the sexual generations of repression born 1917-36, revolution b…
Influence of Work Place Sex Segregation on Family Life
The purpose of the article is to examine the influence of the sex structure, i.e., the proportion of men and women doing the same sort of work and having daily contacts, at work on family life. The data consists of mail responses by 692 married or cohabiting men and 667 women in 11 occupational groups in Southern Finland. The data was analyzed by using cross tabulations and path analysis. The results indicate that integration of men and women in …
Who Benefits from Working in Non-Traditional Workroles: Interaction Patterns and Quality of Worklife
The Finnish labor market is sharply segregated by sex Previous research has shown the work of women to be inferior to that of men in that it is less autonomous, allows less freedom for self-regulation and self-determination, is more restricted in space and time, and is more monotonous. This study sought to determine whether the segregation of work by sex at the workplace affected the qualitatine aspects of men's and women's work. Data were taken …
Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays for Erik Allardt
Family Life in Estonia and Finland
The Socialist Republic of Estonia and Finland, a capitalist market economy, are geographically and culturally close to each other Family life in these societies, representing different social and economic systems, was studied on the basis of official statistics and by interviewing representative samples of both populations. The investigation is part of the official scientific coop eration in sociology between the USSR and Finland which started te…
Inequalities in health and gender
Unfinished Democracy: Women in Nordic politics
Caregiving in the Welfare State
Changes in the care given by the family, social networks and the state to children, the elderly and the sick have been examined empirically on the basis of 744 personal interviews conducted among urban population aged 25-64 years in Finland in 1981. Sources of help in solving conjugal crisis, problems with teenage children and financial problems were investigated according to sex and age of respondents. Also type of confidants in personal trouble…
Development of Sex Differences in Economic Activity and Mental Health in Scandinavia
In this preliminary study, sex differences in first admissions to mental hospitals in Finland, Norway, and Sweden are examined against the background of changes in the economic activity of men and women in 1939-1976 Hypotheses denved from earlier studies about the beneficial effect of meaningful economic activity on the mental health of women get some support from macro-level inter-country and historical comparisons. Also, women's growing awarene…
Changes in Sex Roles in Politics as an Indicator of Structural Change in Society
(1978). Changes in Sex Roles in Politics as an Indicator of Structural Change in Society. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 8, Women in Politics, pp. 56-85
Ecological and sex differences in the hospitalization of mental illness in Finland and Sweden
Social Linkages Used by Migrant and Nonmigrant Families in Solving Health, Work and Economic Problems
One of the many consequences of industrialization is the increased migration to new environments. While much of the flow of population is from rural to urban areas, there is also substantial movement from smalier cities to larger ones and some from one country to another. The social organization in these new surroundings may differ considerably from that of the family's place of origin. In a modem society the division of labour between institutio…
The careers of professional women and men in Finland
The different conditions for a successful career of professional women & men were investigated on the basis of a mail questionnaire sent to 581 per sons with academic degrees in agricultural sciences, architecture, engineering, law, medicine, & forestry. The sample was stratified according to sex & field of study. The response rate was 80 %; 223 women & 230 men returned the questionnaire. Career success was measured by income & own evaluation of …
Mental Health Problems of New Ethnic Min Orities in Sweden
Immigrant mental patients attending the psychiatric clinic of Vasterås Central Hospital in Central Sweden were compared with Swedish patients at the samt clinic as regards to diagnosis, expressed problems, amount of care, and social charac teristics. Propensity to seek public psychiatric treatment was lower than among Swedes. It was the higher the greater the geographical and cultural distance between Sweden and their country ot ongin is: immigra…
Cross-National Differences in Adoption of New Ideologies and Practices in Family Life
Personal interviews were carried out in the valley of the Tornio River, the northern boundary between Sweden and Finland, in 1966. The study among married persons is part of a larger study about the influence of the national boundary on the life style of a formerly unified social and economic area. In the analysis of the respondents, sex and social position were controlled. Families at the center had adopted more new ideologies and practices than…
Reciprocity Systems of the Rural Society of the Finnish-Carelian Culture Area with Special References to Social Intercourse of the Youth.Matti Sarmela
Satisfaction with Family, Work, Leisure and Life Among Men and Women
Convergences between East and West: Tradition and Modernity in Sex Roles in Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union
Changes in the participation of men and women in the agricultural and nonagricultural labor force during the 20th century, the present division of household tasks at home, and sex role attitudes are examined in Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union. Time and rate of industrialization, economical and ideological factors are used as explaining factors. There has not been any equivalent to the Swedish 'return home 'movement among women in the 1930's …
Some Consequences of Women's Emancipation
The paper describes two kinds of consequences of women's emancipation from the family. The increasing number of educated and working women (1) makes contacts between adult men and women outside the family more frequent and (2) influences the statuses of both male and female professionals and wives of men in these professions. The contacts of male and female employees are rather infrequent and formal in the two factories studied in a small industr…
The Position of Finnish Women: Regional and Cross-National Comparisons
Correlates of Increased Sexual Satisfaction
The Impact of Aging on Human Sexual Activity and Sexual Desire
This article empirically studies how much aging modifies human sexual activity and sexual desire, and what the most important determinants in this change are. The analyses are based on 2 representative national sex surveys conducted in Finland in the 1990s. As a result of female widowhood, aging men had a higher incidence of sexual intercourse compared with aging women; and in relationships, women were more likely than men to report lack of sexua…
Satisfaction with Family, Work, Leisure and Life Among Men and Women
Inequalities in health and gender
Convergences between East and West: Tradition and Modernity in Sex Roles in Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union
Changes in the participation of men and women in the agricultural and nonagricultural labor force during the 20th century, the present division of household tasks at home, and sex role attitudes are examined in Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union. Time and rate of industrialization, economical and ideological factors are used as explaining factors. There has not been any equivalent to the Swedish 'return home 'movement among women in the 1930's …
Social Linkages Used by Migrant and Nonmigrant Families in Solving Health, Work and Economic Problems
One of the many consequences of industrialization is the increased migration to new environments. While much of the flow of population is from rural to urban areas, there is also substantial movement from smalier cities to larger ones and some from one country to another. The social organization in these new surroundings may differ considerably from that of the family's place of origin. In a modem society the division of labour between institutio…
Repression, Revolution and Ambivalence: The Sexual Life of Three Generations
Attitudes toward unconventional and casual forms of sexuality and toward extramarital relations as well as the appearance of parallel (extra) sexual relationships are studied in three sexual generations. These are constructed on the basis of sexual norms and practices prevailing at the time of the sexual initiation of their members. The following sexual generations are distinguished: the sexual generations of repression born 1917-36, revolution b…
Development of Sex Differences in Economic Activity and Mental Health in Scandinavia
In this preliminary study, sex differences in first admissions to mental hospitals in Finland, Norway, and Sweden are examined against the background of changes in the economic activity of men and women in 1939-1976 Hypotheses denved from earlier studies about the beneficial effect of meaningful economic activity on the mental health of women get some support from macro-level inter-country and historical comparisons. Also, women's growing awarene…
Sex Differentiation in Role Expectations and Performance
Sex-role expectations and performance at home and work and social participation are examined on the basis of 444 interviews among the adult population of Helsinki. Women are supposed to be and are more passive in almost all kinds of social participation outside the home, even though the Finnish women, internationally compared, have a high educational level and often work outside the home. The attitudes toward the division of labor between the sex…
Caregiving in the Welfare State
Changes in the care given by the family, social networks and the state to children, the elderly and the sick have been examined empirically on the basis of 744 personal interviews conducted among urban population aged 25-64 years in Finland in 1981. Sources of help in solving conjugal crisis, problems with teenage children and financial problems were investigated according to sex and age of respondents. Also type of confidants in personal trouble…
The Position of Finnish Women: Regional and Cross-National Comparisons
Family Life in Estonia and Finland
The Socialist Republic of Estonia and Finland, a capitalist market economy, are geographically and culturally close to each other Family life in these societies, representing different social and economic systems, was studied on the basis of official statistics and by interviewing representative samples of both populations. The investigation is part of the official scientific coop eration in sociology between the USSR and Finland which started te…
Ecological and sex differences in the hospitalization of mental illness in Finland and Sweden
The position of women in society: Formal ideology vs. everyday ethic
The Medical Profession in Finland
FINLAND, a small nation of 4.5 million people, occupies some 130,000 square miles of territory at about the same latitude as Alaska. It is a country that is still predominantly rural, with some 60 per cent of its inhabitants living in the rural areas. At the same time, technological and industrial advances have brought rapid changes in the occupational structure with more and more Finns engaged in urban types of occupations (viz. industry and ter…
Influence of Work Place Sex Segregation on Family Life
The purpose of the article is to examine the influence of the sex structure, i.e., the proportion of men and women doing the same sort of work and having daily contacts, at work on family life. The data consists of mail responses by 692 married or cohabiting men and 667 women in 11 occupational groups in Southern Finland. The data was analyzed by using cross tabulations and path analysis. The results indicate that integration of men and women in …
Changes in Sex Roles in Politics as an Indicator of Structural Change in Society
(1978). Changes in Sex Roles in Politics as an Indicator of Structural Change in Society. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 8, Women in Politics, pp. 56-85
Mental Health Problems of New Ethnic Min Orities in Sweden
Immigrant mental patients attending the psychiatric clinic of Vasterås Central Hospital in Central Sweden were compared with Swedish patients at the samt clinic as regards to diagnosis, expressed problems, amount of care, and social charac teristics. Propensity to seek public psychiatric treatment was lower than among Swedes. It was the higher the greater the geographical and cultural distance between Sweden and their country ot ongin is: immigra…
The occupational value structure of the Finnish medical profession
Local Homogamy in Finland
Historical background Residential propinquity is an important factor in mate selection even in the modern industrial society.1) In the old Finnish agrarian society the mate was almost invariably chosen from the near neighborhood — from the same village or rural commune. proportion of local marriages of all marriages shows a rather uniform pattern, though the dates and the areas studied are quite different from each other, and the number of cases …
Official and Unofficial Expectations Concerning the Care of the Sick
Local Homogamy in Finland
Historical background Residential propinquity is an important factor in mate selection even in the modern industrial society.1) In the old Finnish agrarian society the mate was almost invariably chosen from the near neighborhood — from the same village or rural commune. proportion of local marriages of all marriages shows a rather uniform pattern, though the dates and the areas studied are quite different from each other, and the number of cases …
The position of women in society: Formal ideology vs. everyday ethic
Sex Differentiation in Role Expectations and Performance
Sex-role expectations and performance at home and work and social participation are examined on the basis of 444 interviews among the adult population of Helsinki. Women are supposed to be and are more passive in almost all kinds of social participation outside the home, even though the Finnish women, internationally compared, have a high educational level and often work outside the home. The attitudes toward the division of labor between the sex…
The Medical Profession in Finland
FINLAND, a small nation of 4.5 million people, occupies some 130,000 square miles of territory at about the same latitude as Alaska. It is a country that is still predominantly rural, with some 60 per cent of its inhabitants living in the rural areas. At the same time, technological and industrial advances have brought rapid changes in the occupational structure with more and more Finns engaged in urban types of occupations (viz. industry and ter…
The occupational value structure of the Finnish medical profession
Some Consequences of Women's Emancipation
The paper describes two kinds of consequences of women's emancipation from the family. The increasing number of educated and working women (1) makes contacts between adult men and women outside the family more frequent and (2) influences the statuses of both male and female professionals and wives of men in these professions. The contacts of male and female employees are rather infrequent and formal in the two factories studied in a small industr…
The Position of Finnish Women: Regional and Cross-National Comparisons
Satisfaction with Family, Work, Leisure and Life Among Men and Women
Convergences between East and West: Tradition and Modernity in Sex Roles in Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union
Changes in the participation of men and women in the agricultural and nonagricultural labor force during the 20th century, the present division of household tasks at home, and sex role attitudes are examined in Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union. Time and rate of industrialization, economical and ideological factors are used as explaining factors. There has not been any equivalent to the Swedish 'return home 'movement among women in the 1930's …
Cross-National Differences in Adoption of New Ideologies and Practices in Family Life
Personal interviews were carried out in the valley of the Tornio River, the northern boundary between Sweden and Finland, in 1966. The study among married persons is part of a larger study about the influence of the national boundary on the life style of a formerly unified social and economic area. In the analysis of the respondents, sex and social position were controlled. Families at the center had adopted more new ideologies and practices than…
Reciprocity Systems of the Rural Society of the Finnish-Carelian Culture Area with Special References to Social Intercourse of the Youth.Matti Sarmela
Mental Health Problems of New Ethnic Min Orities in Sweden
Immigrant mental patients attending the psychiatric clinic of Vasterås Central Hospital in Central Sweden were compared with Swedish patients at the samt clinic as regards to diagnosis, expressed problems, amount of care, and social charac teristics. Propensity to seek public psychiatric treatment was lower than among Swedes. It was the higher the greater the geographical and cultural distance between Sweden and their country ot ongin is: immigra…
The careers of professional women and men in Finland
The different conditions for a successful career of professional women & men were investigated on the basis of a mail questionnaire sent to 581 per sons with academic degrees in agricultural sciences, architecture, engineering, law, medicine, & forestry. The sample was stratified according to sex & field of study. The response rate was 80 %; 223 women & 230 men returned the questionnaire. Career success was measured by income & own evaluation of …
Ecological and sex differences in the hospitalization of mental illness in Finland and Sweden
Social Linkages Used by Migrant and Nonmigrant Families in Solving Health, Work and Economic Problems
One of the many consequences of industrialization is the increased migration to new environments. While much of the flow of population is from rural to urban areas, there is also substantial movement from smalier cities to larger ones and some from one country to another. The social organization in these new surroundings may differ considerably from that of the family's place of origin. In a modem society the division of labour between institutio…
Changes in Sex Roles in Politics as an Indicator of Structural Change in Society
(1978). Changes in Sex Roles in Politics as an Indicator of Structural Change in Society. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 8, Women in Politics, pp. 56-85
Development of Sex Differences in Economic Activity and Mental Health in Scandinavia
In this preliminary study, sex differences in first admissions to mental hospitals in Finland, Norway, and Sweden are examined against the background of changes in the economic activity of men and women in 1939-1976 Hypotheses denved from earlier studies about the beneficial effect of meaningful economic activity on the mental health of women get some support from macro-level inter-country and historical comparisons. Also, women's growing awarene…
Caregiving in the Welfare State
Changes in the care given by the family, social networks and the state to children, the elderly and the sick have been examined empirically on the basis of 744 personal interviews conducted among urban population aged 25-64 years in Finland in 1981. Sources of help in solving conjugal crisis, problems with teenage children and financial problems were investigated according to sex and age of respondents. Also type of confidants in personal trouble…
Unfinished Democracy: Women in Nordic politics
Inequalities in health and gender
Family Life in Estonia and Finland
The Socialist Republic of Estonia and Finland, a capitalist market economy, are geographically and culturally close to each other Family life in these societies, representing different social and economic systems, was studied on the basis of official statistics and by interviewing representative samples of both populations. The investigation is part of the official scientific coop eration in sociology between the USSR and Finland which started te…
Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays for Erik Allardt
Influence of Work Place Sex Segregation on Family Life
The purpose of the article is to examine the influence of the sex structure, i.e., the proportion of men and women doing the same sort of work and having daily contacts, at work on family life. The data consists of mail responses by 692 married or cohabiting men and 667 women in 11 occupational groups in Southern Finland. The data was analyzed by using cross tabulations and path analysis. The results indicate that integration of men and women in …
Who Benefits from Working in Non-Traditional Workroles: Interaction Patterns and Quality of Worklife
The Finnish labor market is sharply segregated by sex Previous research has shown the work of women to be inferior to that of men in that it is less autonomous, allows less freedom for self-regulation and self-determination, is more restricted in space and time, and is more monotonous. This study sought to determine whether the segregation of work by sex at the workplace affected the qualitatine aspects of men's and women's work. Data were taken …
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