Tanja Linnavalli

Biographic Data

ID6948406
NAMETanja Linnavalli
GIVEN NAMESTanja
FAMILY NAMELinnavalli
SIGNATURELINNAVALLI T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0003-1775-5795
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Linguistic diversity and social-emotional development in Finnish early childhood education and care

    Open AccessSilja Martikainen, Maryam Zarra-Nezhad et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Early social-emotional development is crucial for children's well-being and future outcomes. Although previous work suggests that multilingual children may have advantages in social-emotional development compared to monolingual children, the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) environment may not adequately respond to the needs of multilingual children in Finland. This study examined the association between language status and social-emotio…

  • Children’s health-related quality of life in early childhood education and care

    Open AccessSilja Martikainen, Tanja Linnavalli et al.ARTICLEEuropean Early Childhood…2025

    Studies focusing on young children's self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are scarce.More research is needed on the reliability and validity of the methods as well as how selfreported HRQoL in early childhood is linked to other well-being factors.Using the Kiddy-KINDL questionnaire in interviews with 245 3-to 6-year-old children this study investigated how children view their quality of life in Swedish speaking early childhood edu…

  • Saga

    Open AccessTanja Linnavalli, Silja Martikainen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2024

    Social–emotional development is a key factor in child well-being and development, and studying how it can be supported in early childhood is crucial. This study acted as a second trial testing the efficacy of a shared story book reading intervention combined with mentalizing discussions (SAGA), on children’s ( N = 196) social–emotional development. In contrast to the first trial, the current trial utilized a group comprised of mostly multilingual…

  • Finnish and Swedish riding school pupils' motivation towards participation in non-riding education

    Open AccessLina Nyberg, Tanja Linnavalli et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2023References: 12

    Many horse enthusiasts have insufficient knowledge about horse behavior and welfare (BW) and learning and human-horse communication (LC), which poses a risk for both horse welfare and human safety. The main objective of this study was to investigate why riding school pupils participate or do not participate in non-riding education in BW and LC, using Self-determination theory (SDT). SDT posits that the quality of motivation is related to the indi…

  • Saga-Supporting Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood Education

    Open AccessMirjam Kalland, Tanja Linnavalli et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2022

    The aim of the SAGA project is to support children’s social-emotional development and teacher mentalizing by promoting regular shared story-book reading with mentalizing dialogs in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers. The theoretical phase, the modeling phase (Phase I), and the exploratory phase (Phase II) of the SAGA intervention, as well as the research protocol for the final trial (Phase III), are described in the present article

  • Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions on the Social-Emotional Wellbeing of Preschool Children and Their Families

    Open AccessTanja Linnavalli, Mirjam KallandARTICLEEducation Sciences2021

    In the spring of 2020, as a result of the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many children dropped out of daycare and early education in Finland, and parents had to balance work and childcare for months. The wellbeing of families during the lockdown has been studied to some extent, but few studies have focused on children under school age. In May 2020, we sent a survey to the 82 families originally recruited in our study on supporting soci…

  • Musical Expertise Facilitates Dissonance Detection On Behavioral, Not On Early Sensory Level

    Tanja Linnavalli, Juha Ojala et al.ARTICLEMusic Perception An Interdisciplina…2020

    Consonance and dissonance are basic phenomena in the perception of chords that can be discriminated very early in sensory processing. Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate neural processing of various musical stimuli, but it is unclear whether this applies to detecting consonance and dissonance. Our study aimed to determine if sensitivity to increasing levels of dissonance differs between musicians and nonmusicians, using a combination o…