Joonas Pitkänen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4197966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joonas Pitkänen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joonas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitkänen |
| SIGNATURE | PITKÄNEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8413-6399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Age at First Marriage or Cohabitation Among First-, Second-, and 2.5-Generation Immigrant Women, Finland 1987–2020
Immigrants and their descendants are increasingly forming families across Europe, yet little is known about how immigration background shapes first union entry in emerging immigration contexts. Here, we examine whether immigrant generation, age at arrival, and sending region are associated with entry into opposite-sex first unions for women in Finland from 1987 to 2020. Treating cohabitation and direct marriage as competing events, we estimate ca…
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden
Youth violence has decreased in many Western countries, including Finland and Sweden, during the 2000s. A worrying deviation from this decline concerns lethal youth violence in the two countries, in particular Sweden, which has experienced a clear increase. In this study, we analyze the extent to which this divergence mirrors a concentration of violence whereby fewer and fewer young people are subject to the criminal justice system, but where tho…
Violent and sexual victimisation and incident anxiety, mood and substance use disorders in childhood and adolescence
BACKGROUND: Studies on the association between victimisation in childhood and adolescence and psychiatric disorders increasingly acknowledge that these associations might be partly confounded by unmeasured familial factors. However, previous quasi-experimental evidence is largely based on retrospective self-reported data with potential response biases and small samples. METHODS: We measured psychiatric disorders and victimisation events from rout…
Educational outcomes of children with an immigrant background
Children with an immigrant background have generally poorer school outcomes than nonimmigrant children. Immigrant generation and age at migration play a significant role in shaping these outcomes. To capture the complexity of this population’s experiences, we define immigrant background as a compound variable including immigrant generation, age at migration, and exogamous family setting (i.e. children born to one immigrant and one nonimmigrant pa…
Number of siblings and psychotropic medication purchases surrounding parental death in adulthood
BACKGROUND: Parental death has well-established adverse effects on the mental health of children and adolescents, but evidence on adults is scarce. Also, the role of siblings has not been assessed before, even though siblings might be an important source of support during parental death. METHODS: We conducted a national cohort study to examine psychotropic medication purchases (antidepressants, anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives) before and aft…
The changing socioeconomic composition of the Finnish prison population
BACKGROUNDAlthough prison inmates are known to be disadvantaged in multiple ways, we know less about changes in the socioeconomic backgrounds of prisoners over time.We examine these changes in a period characterized by a decreasing prisoner rate, the introduction of community service, and strong macroeconomic fluctuations. OBJECTIVEWe analyze changes in the socioeconomic backgrounds of individuals imprisoned between 1988-2019.We provide compariso…
Does early drug use‐related police contact predict premature mortality and morbidity
The effect of low childhood income on self-harm in young adulthood
Low childhood income is an established risk factor of self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood, and childhood income is additionally associated with various correlates of self-harm. How these correlates, such as psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, violent behaviour and school problems, mediate the effect of childhood income on self-harm, is less understood. The purpose of the current paper is to examine this mediation. The study is based …
Health of Immigrant Children
Although the children of first-generation immigrants tend to have better health than the native population, the health advantage of the children of immigrant families deteriorates over generations. It is, however, poorly understood where on the generational health assimilation spectrum children with one immigrant and one native parent (i.e., exogamous families) lie, to what extent family resources explain health assimilation, and whether the proc…
Trauma and violent offending among adolescents
Background Earlier studies, based on data collected among juvenile court clients or prisoners, suggest that there is an association between trauma and adolescent-onset offending. However, there is a lack of large-scale data on juvenile violence and clinical mental health observations with unselected participants, and a risk-factor-oriented research combining multiple variables affecting violent behaviour. Methods We analyse the effect of trauma o…
Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood is common among youth not in education, employment or training (NEETs). However, the evidence on other adverse childhood experiences as determinants of NEET remains scarce. We use Finnish longitudinal register data on a 20% random sample of households with 0–14-year-old children in 2000 to assess the childhood determinants of NEET. For an analytical sample of 99,137 children born 1986–1993, family socioecon…
Experience of maternal and paternal adversities in childhood as determinants of self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood
INTRODUCTION: Previous studies suggest that childhood experience of parental adversities increases the risk of subsequent offspring self-harm, but studies on distinct paternal and maternal characteristics are few and it remains unclear how these interact with childhood social position. The study aims to assess whether paternal and maternal adversities have different associations with offspring self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood. Interac…
Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood is common among youth not in education, employment or training (NEETs). However, the evidence on other adverse childhood experiences as determinants of NEET remains scarce. We use Finnish longitudinal register data on a 20% random sample of households with 0–14-year-old children in 2000 to assess the childhood determinants of NEET. For an analytical sample of 99,137 children born 1986–1993, family socioecon…
Health of Immigrant Children
Although the children of first-generation immigrants tend to have better health than the native population, the health advantage of the children of immigrant families deteriorates over generations. It is, however, poorly understood where on the generational health assimilation spectrum children with one immigrant and one native parent (i.e., exogamous families) lie, to what extent family resources explain health assimilation, and whether the proc…
Trauma and violent offending among adolescents
Background Earlier studies, based on data collected among juvenile court clients or prisoners, suggest that there is an association between trauma and adolescent-onset offending. However, there is a lack of large-scale data on juvenile violence and clinical mental health observations with unselected participants, and a risk-factor-oriented research combining multiple variables affecting violent behaviour. Methods We analyse the effect of trauma o…
Parental socioeconomic resources and adverse childhood experiences as predictors of not in education, employment, or training
Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood is common among youth not in education, employment or training (NEETs). However, the evidence on other adverse childhood experiences as determinants of NEET remains scarce. We use Finnish longitudinal register data on a 20% random sample of households with 0–14-year-old children in 2000 to assess the childhood determinants of NEET. For an analytical sample of 99,137 children born 1986–1993, family socioecon…
Experience of maternal and paternal adversities in childhood as determinants of self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood
INTRODUCTION: Previous studies suggest that childhood experience of parental adversities increases the risk of subsequent offspring self-harm, but studies on distinct paternal and maternal characteristics are few and it remains unclear how these interact with childhood social position. The study aims to assess whether paternal and maternal adversities have different associations with offspring self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood. Interac…
Trauma and violent offending among adolescents
Background Earlier studies, based on data collected among juvenile court clients or prisoners, suggest that there is an association between trauma and adolescent-onset offending. However, there is a lack of large-scale data on juvenile violence and clinical mental health observations with unselected participants, and a risk-factor-oriented research combining multiple variables affecting violent behaviour. Methods We analyse the effect of trauma o…
The effect of low childhood income on self-harm in young adulthood
Low childhood income is an established risk factor of self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood, and childhood income is additionally associated with various correlates of self-harm. How these correlates, such as psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, violent behaviour and school problems, mediate the effect of childhood income on self-harm, is less understood. The purpose of the current paper is to examine this mediation. The study is based …
Health of Immigrant Children
Although the children of first-generation immigrants tend to have better health than the native population, the health advantage of the children of immigrant families deteriorates over generations. It is, however, poorly understood where on the generational health assimilation spectrum children with one immigrant and one native parent (i.e., exogamous families) lie, to what extent family resources explain health assimilation, and whether the proc…
Does early drug use‐related police contact predict premature mortality and morbidity
The changing socioeconomic composition of the Finnish prison population
BACKGROUNDAlthough prison inmates are known to be disadvantaged in multiple ways, we know less about changes in the socioeconomic backgrounds of prisoners over time.We examine these changes in a period characterized by a decreasing prisoner rate, the introduction of community service, and strong macroeconomic fluctuations. OBJECTIVEWe analyze changes in the socioeconomic backgrounds of individuals imprisoned between 1988-2019.We provide compariso…
Age at First Marriage or Cohabitation Among First-, Second-, and 2.5-Generation Immigrant Women, Finland 1987–2020
Immigrants and their descendants are increasingly forming families across Europe, yet little is known about how immigration background shapes first union entry in emerging immigration contexts. Here, we examine whether immigrant generation, age at arrival, and sending region are associated with entry into opposite-sex first unions for women in Finland from 1987 to 2020. Treating cohabitation and direct marriage as competing events, we estimate ca…
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden
Youth violence has decreased in many Western countries, including Finland and Sweden, during the 2000s. A worrying deviation from this decline concerns lethal youth violence in the two countries, in particular Sweden, which has experienced a clear increase. In this study, we analyze the extent to which this divergence mirrors a concentration of violence whereby fewer and fewer young people are subject to the criminal justice system, but where tho…
Violent and sexual victimisation and incident anxiety, mood and substance use disorders in childhood and adolescence
BACKGROUND: Studies on the association between victimisation in childhood and adolescence and psychiatric disorders increasingly acknowledge that these associations might be partly confounded by unmeasured familial factors. However, previous quasi-experimental evidence is largely based on retrospective self-reported data with potential response biases and small samples. METHODS: We measured psychiatric disorders and victimisation events from rout…
Educational outcomes of children with an immigrant background
Children with an immigrant background have generally poorer school outcomes than nonimmigrant children. Immigrant generation and age at migration play a significant role in shaping these outcomes. To capture the complexity of this population’s experiences, we define immigrant background as a compound variable including immigrant generation, age at migration, and exogamous family setting (i.e. children born to one immigrant and one nonimmigrant pa…
Number of siblings and psychotropic medication purchases surrounding parental death in adulthood
BACKGROUND: Parental death has well-established adverse effects on the mental health of children and adolescents, but evidence on adults is scarce. Also, the role of siblings has not been assessed before, even though siblings might be an important source of support during parental death. METHODS: We conducted a national cohort study to examine psychotropic medication purchases (antidepressants, anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives) before and aft…
Medicine (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Young adult (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works)