Eija Räikkönen
Biographic Data
| ID | 97411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eija Räikkönen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eija |
| FAMILY NAME | Räikkönen |
| SIGNATURE | RÄIKKÖNEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4450-9178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Engaged teachers are satisfied with their profession: Evidence from novice teachers in Finnish early childhood education and care and the links with their socio-demographic characteristics
Low retention among newly graduated teachers and high turnover among the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce have become an international concern. Though engaged teachers tend to report more job satisfaction and remain longer in their profession, research on novice ECEC teachers’ job satisfaction and work engagement is scarce. Thus, this study explores novice ECEC teachers’ evaluations of their work engagement and job satisfaction…
Examining Factorial Validity and Cross-Cultural Similarity of the Short-Form Cocaring Relationship Questionnaire for Assessing Family–Professional Partnerships in ECE
Goodness-of-Fit Between a 1-Year-Old’s Behavioral Tendencies and the Form of Child Care
The goodness-of-fit model suggests that interplay between a child’s behavioral tendencies and their environment, such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) context, is a key factor in promoting child’s well-being in early childhood. Using survey data from Finnish parents with a 1-year-old child, we investigate: differences in seven behavioral tendencies (e.g., Activity level, Irritability) among children in different forms of childcare; va…
Self-efficacy in online credibility evaluation: Examining grade-level differences
Prenatal Expectations as Predictors of Postnatal Coparenting: Moderation Effect of Psychological Distress
Objective To investigate whether parents' prenatal expectations of coparenting predict their own and their spouse's postnatal coparenting quality, both at the individual level and in terms of daily variability, and whether prenatal psychological distress at the family level moderates these associations. Background Previous research has shown a link between prenatal and postnatal coparenting, and between poorer coparenting and psychological distre…
The role of work–family conflict and enrichment in second-birth intentions: Comparing Finnish mothers and fathers
Findings on the relationship between work–family reconciliation and subsequent childbearing are inconsistent, and research on fathers’ experiences and positive work–family reconciliation is limited. This study addresses these gaps by investigating the extent to which first-time parents’ experiences of work-to-family and family-to-work conflict (WFC and FWC) and enrichment (WFE and FWE) are associated with their second-birth intentions and whether…
Dynamics of professionals’ daily negative emotions and assessments of the emotional climate among children in Finnish early childhood education and care
This study examined dynamics between Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals' ( N = 77) daily negative emotions and both harmonious and discordant climates in the child group using a mobile diary during five consecutive working days. Professionals' negative emotions and their assessments of the emotional climate were associated within the workday, but the previous day's interpretation of the emotional climate predicted nex…
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: The roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes
As in the other Nordic welfare states, public ECEC system is seen as the cornerstone of the universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution in Finland. Many Finnish municipalities, however, support private ECEC service provision and parents’ possibility to choose ECEC services for their child, both of which indicate privatisation and marketisation of ECEC. This study examines parents’ (N = 781) ECEC decisions between public and pr…
Explicit video-based instruction enhanced students’ online credibility evaluation skills: Did storifying instruction matter
This study tested the efficacy of explicit video-based instruction (4 x 45-min lessons) in promoting sixth graders' online credibility evaluation skills. It also investigated whether storified instruction enhanced learning more than non-storified instruction. Storified and non-storified interventions contained the same learning content, and the same components of explicit instruction informed their design. The only difference in the two formats w…
Work–family conflict intensifies after becoming a parent, but does it hinder second‐birth intentions in Finland
Intergenerational mobility into doctoral education across Europe
Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social background. In this paper, we use combined data on over 200,000 individuals from the European Social Survey, the European Values Study, and the World Values Survey to estimate the strength of the relationship between parental education and child PhD attainment with…
School staff members’ professional agency in Finland, Scotland and Sweden – A comparative study
Professional agency has been comprehensively investigated in educational contexts, but there have been few quantitative or comparative studies. This quantitative study explored school staff members’ professional agency in Finland, Scotland, and Sweden, addressing three dimensions of agency: influencing at work , participation at work , and negotiating professional identity . The questionnaire data indicated fairly strong agency among lower second…
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
Pre-service teachers evaluating online texts about learning styles: There is room for improvement in justifying the credibility
Teachers’ abilities to critically evaluate the credibility of online information are fundamental when they educate critical online readers. This study examined pre-service teachers’ abilities to evaluate and justify the credibility of online texts on learning styles. Pre-service teachers ( N = 169) read and evaluated two more and two less credible online texts on learning styles in a web-based environment. Most pre-service teachers were able to d…
Storifying instructional videos on online credibility evaluation: Examining engagement and learning
This study used video-based instruction to promote adolescents' online credibility evaluation skills and to examine whether storification of instructional videos can maintain students' situational interest and positive activating epistemic emotions during a four-lesson intervention better than non-storified instructional videos. The study also investigated whether storified instruction can enhance students' learning of online credibility evaluati…
Examining the structure of credibility evaluation when sixth graders read online texts
Teaching sourcing during online inquiry – adolescents with the weakest skills benefited the most
Sourcing - identifying, evaluating, and using information about the sources of information - assists readers in determining what to trust when seeking information on the Internet. To survive in the post-truth era, students should be equipped with sufficient sourcing skills. This study investigated the efficacy of a teacher-led intervention aimed at fostering upper secondary school students’ ( N = 365) sourcing during online inquiry. The intervent…
It runs in the family: Using sibling similarities to uncover the hidden influence of family background in doctoral education and academic careers
Family background has been shown to be a strong determinant of educational attainment, yet relatively little is known about the role that family background plays in PhD attainment or in the selection into academic careers. In this study, we estimate sibling correlations from Finnish full population register data to comprehensively assess the importance of family background in selection into academia. Our results show that family background accoun…
Dynamic properties of successful plural leadership configuration: An exploratory process-study
Our article introduces an exploratory process study of successful plural leadership configuration in searching for alternative solutions to wicked problems. The study was executed within four educational organisations that solved challenging wicked problems arising from today’s changing contexts. We argue that plural leadership configuration is a dynamic process when people in diverse organisational positions, roles, and levels design profitable …
Family and work‐related risk factors in children's s ocial–emotional well‐being and parent–educator cooperation in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care
Non‐standard work schedules (NSWS) have become typical, but their associations with childcare arrangements and children's well‐being are unknown. This study explores how risk factors are associated with the social–emotional well‐being of girls and boys using flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care. Furthermore, the study investigates whether well‐functioning cooperation between parents and educators buffers the negative effects of t…
Confident, cautiously confident or concerned? Working life profiles, capabilities, and expectations for work-family reconciliation among young Finnish women
The uncertainties and growing social inequality young adults face in the labour market call for research on the link between young women’s expectations about working life and the real options they have in seeking to combine work with care. Drawing on Sen’s capabilities approach, this study contributes to filling this gap in the literature by examining how women in emerging adulthood in Finland foresee their future career and working life, and how…
Mothers' return-to-work reasons and work-family conflict: Does a Partner Involved in Childcare Make a Difference
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects again…
Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure
Despite intensive research on agency in education and work environments, the topic remains underexplored through the lens of emotions. This study conducted the development and validation of a quantitative measure to explore emotional agency in working life. Empirical data ( N = 240) were collected via a web-based survey within the professional domains of healthcare and real estate services. The participants’ age, educational level, and gender cor…
Students’ Interpretations of a Persuasive Multimodal Video About Vaccines
The present study investigated students’ ( N = 404) interpretations of the main message and use of modes in a persuasive multimodal video on vaccines. It also examined whether students’ topic knowledge, language arts grades, and self-identified gender were associated with their interpretations. Students analyzed a YouTube video in which two entertainers demonstrated the importance of vaccinating children. Students’ interpretations of the usefulne…
Students' abilities to evaluate the credibility of online texts: The role of internet‐specific epistemic justifications
Previous evaluation studies have rarely used authentic online texts and investigated upper secondary school students' use of evaluation criteria and deep reasoning. The associations between internet‐specific epistemic justifications for knowing and credibility evaluation of online texts are not yet fully understood among adolescents. This study investigated upper secondary school students' ( N = 372) abilities to evaluate self‐selected authentic …
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland: Motivations and Barriers in a Complex Nordic Leave Scheme
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Professional agency in a university context: Academic freedom and fetters
Math anxiety and its relationship with basic arithmetic skills among primary school children
BackgroundChildren have been found to report and demonstrate math anxiety as early as the first grade. However, previous results concerning the relationship between math anxiety and performance are contradictory, with some studies establishing a correlation between them while others do not. These contradictory results might be related to varying operationalizations of math anxiety.AimsIn this study, we aimed to examine the prevalence of math anxi…
Mothers' return-to-work reasons and work-family conflict: Does a Partner Involved in Childcare Make a Difference
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects again…
Mothers’ non-standard working and childcare-related challenges: A comparison between lone and coupled mothers
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to particularly focus on lone-mother families, comparing the childcare-related challenges experienced by working lone mothers and coupled mothers in three European countries in the context of a 24/7 economy and non-standard working hours (e.g. evening, night and weekend work). Design/methodology/approach – This study utilises survey data from Finnish, Dutch and British working mothers ( n =1,106) collected a…
Daily rhythms of young children in the 24/7 economy: A comparison of children in day care and day and night care
The study explored temporal variation in children’s moods and compared children in regular day care with those in day and night care in Finland. To examine variation in children’s experiences, a mobile diary was used. The participants comprised 32 young children and their parents and day care personnel. Adults evaluated children’s moods three times daily over 1 week. A clear weekday-weekend rhythm was found among children in day care, who display…
Confident, cautiously confident or concerned? Working life profiles, capabilities, and expectations for work-family reconciliation among young Finnish women
The uncertainties and growing social inequality young adults face in the labour market call for research on the link between young women’s expectations about working life and the real options they have in seeking to combine work with care. Drawing on Sen’s capabilities approach, this study contributes to filling this gap in the literature by examining how women in emerging adulthood in Finland foresee their future career and working life, and how…
Manuscript: You have a Message from Illi! The Mobile Diary in Researching Children’s Daily Experiences
Associations between Sociodemographic Characteristics and Primary Care Arrangements for One-Year-Old Children in Finland: Municipal Supplement to Home Care Allowance as a Potential Moderator
Introduction: Sociodemographic characteristics are robust predictors of children’s care arrangements. However, children’s unequal enrolment in early childhood education and care cannot be solely attributed to differences in sociodemographic characteristics, which are often considered separate from contextual factors. Therefore, we explored associations between sociodemographic characteristics and primary care arrangements for one-year-olds while …
Literacy instruction activities and their associations with first graders’ reading performance in two transparent orthographies
The aim of the study was to analyse literacy instruction activities and their associations with the reading performance of first graders in Estonia and Finland, two countries that share similar orthographies and educational systems but differ in the onset of formal reading instruction. The contents of 33 Literacy lessons in first grade spring were analysed and students’ (NEST = 415, NFIN = 154) reading performance was assessed in first grade autu…
Development of Participation in and Identification With School: Associations With Truancy
This longitudinal study covering two educational transitions examined 1,821 Finnish students’ participation in and identification with school and their associations with students’ academic achievement and truancy. The students were surveyed (a) at the end of primary school, (b) at the beginning of lower secondary school, (c) at the end of lower secondary school, and (d) in the first year of upper secondary education. In alignment with the partici…
Manuscript: You have a Message from Illi! The Mobile Diary in Researching Children’s Daily Experiences
Mothers’ non-standard working and childcare-related challenges: A comparison between lone and coupled mothers
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to particularly focus on lone-mother families, comparing the childcare-related challenges experienced by working lone mothers and coupled mothers in three European countries in the context of a 24/7 economy and non-standard working hours (e.g. evening, night and weekend work). Design/methodology/approach – This study utilises survey data from Finnish, Dutch and British working mothers ( n =1,106) collected a…
Math anxiety and its relationship with basic arithmetic skills among primary school children
BackgroundChildren have been found to report and demonstrate math anxiety as early as the first grade. However, previous results concerning the relationship between math anxiety and performance are contradictory, with some studies establishing a correlation between them while others do not. These contradictory results might be related to varying operationalizations of math anxiety.AimsIn this study, we aimed to examine the prevalence of math anxi…
Daily rhythms of young children in the 24/7 economy: A comparison of children in day care and day and night care
The study explored temporal variation in children’s moods and compared children in regular day care with those in day and night care in Finland. To examine variation in children’s experiences, a mobile diary was used. The participants comprised 32 young children and their parents and day care personnel. Adults evaluated children’s moods three times daily over 1 week. A clear weekday-weekend rhythm was found among children in day care, who display…
Professional agency in a university context: Academic freedom and fetters
Fathers' Leave Take-Up in Finland: Motivations and Barriers in a Complex Nordic Leave Scheme
Despite being the first country in the world to introduce paternity leave in 1978, Finland's current national leave scheme is complex with regard to incentivizing fathers' take-up. Taking the unique Finnish leave scheme as a case example, this article examines fathers' motivations and barriers to leave. Although research on fathers' take-up of leave in divergent leave policy contexts has increased dramatically, fathers' motivations and barriers t…
Promoting sixth graders’ credibility evaluation of Web pages: An intervention study
Citing as a sourcing practice: Students’ citing self-selected online sources in their essays (Las citas como práctica del uso de las fuentes: las citas de fuentes en línea seleccionados por los estudi…
This study examined upper secondary school students’ citations of self-selected online sources in their essays. Students (n = 140) conducted online inquiry about either effects of social media on people’s quality of life (SM) or allowance of genetic manipulation of organisms (GMO). Students, working either individually or in pairs, explored online sources with the help of a graphic organizer, after which they composed their essays. To capture the…
Literacy instruction activities and their associations with first graders’ reading performance in two transparent orthographies
The aim of the study was to analyse literacy instruction activities and their associations with the reading performance of first graders in Estonia and Finland, two countries that share similar orthographies and educational systems but differ in the onset of formal reading instruction. The contents of 33 Literacy lessons in first grade spring were analysed and students’ (NEST = 415, NFIN = 154) reading performance was assessed in first grade autu…
Development of Participation in and Identification With School: Associations With Truancy
This longitudinal study covering two educational transitions examined 1,821 Finnish students’ participation in and identification with school and their associations with students’ academic achievement and truancy. The students were surveyed (a) at the end of primary school, (b) at the beginning of lower secondary school, (c) at the end of lower secondary school, and (d) in the first year of upper secondary education. In alignment with the partici…
Students’ Interpretations of a Persuasive Multimodal Video About Vaccines
The present study investigated students’ ( N = 404) interpretations of the main message and use of modes in a persuasive multimodal video on vaccines. It also examined whether students’ topic knowledge, language arts grades, and self-identified gender were associated with their interpretations. Students analyzed a YouTube video in which two entertainers demonstrated the importance of vaccinating children. Students’ interpretations of the usefulne…
Students' abilities to evaluate the credibility of online texts: The role of internet‐specific epistemic justifications
Previous evaluation studies have rarely used authentic online texts and investigated upper secondary school students' use of evaluation criteria and deep reasoning. The associations between internet‐specific epistemic justifications for knowing and credibility evaluation of online texts are not yet fully understood among adolescents. This study investigated upper secondary school students' ( N = 372) abilities to evaluate self‐selected authentic …
Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure
Despite intensive research on agency in education and work environments, the topic remains underexplored through the lens of emotions. This study conducted the development and validation of a quantitative measure to explore emotional agency in working life. Empirical data ( N = 240) were collected via a web-based survey within the professional domains of healthcare and real estate services. The participants’ age, educational level, and gender cor…
Examining the structure of credibility evaluation when sixth graders read online texts
Teaching sourcing during online inquiry – adolescents with the weakest skills benefited the most
Sourcing - identifying, evaluating, and using information about the sources of information - assists readers in determining what to trust when seeking information on the Internet. To survive in the post-truth era, students should be equipped with sufficient sourcing skills. This study investigated the efficacy of a teacher-led intervention aimed at fostering upper secondary school students’ ( N = 365) sourcing during online inquiry. The intervent…
It runs in the family: Using sibling similarities to uncover the hidden influence of family background in doctoral education and academic careers
Family background has been shown to be a strong determinant of educational attainment, yet relatively little is known about the role that family background plays in PhD attainment or in the selection into academic careers. In this study, we estimate sibling correlations from Finnish full population register data to comprehensively assess the importance of family background in selection into academia. Our results show that family background accoun…
Dynamic properties of successful plural leadership configuration: An exploratory process-study
Our article introduces an exploratory process study of successful plural leadership configuration in searching for alternative solutions to wicked problems. The study was executed within four educational organisations that solved challenging wicked problems arising from today’s changing contexts. We argue that plural leadership configuration is a dynamic process when people in diverse organisational positions, roles, and levels design profitable …
Family and work‐related risk factors in children's s ocial–emotional well‐being and parent–educator cooperation in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care
Non‐standard work schedules (NSWS) have become typical, but their associations with childcare arrangements and children's well‐being are unknown. This study explores how risk factors are associated with the social–emotional well‐being of girls and boys using flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care. Furthermore, the study investigates whether well‐functioning cooperation between parents and educators buffers the negative effects of t…
Confident, cautiously confident or concerned? Working life profiles, capabilities, and expectations for work-family reconciliation among young Finnish women
The uncertainties and growing social inequality young adults face in the labour market call for research on the link between young women’s expectations about working life and the real options they have in seeking to combine work with care. Drawing on Sen’s capabilities approach, this study contributes to filling this gap in the literature by examining how women in emerging adulthood in Finland foresee their future career and working life, and how…
Mothers' return-to-work reasons and work-family conflict: Does a Partner Involved in Childcare Make a Difference
Facilitating mothers’ work–family reconciliation upon their return to work can be considered a viable means of enhancing women’s overall employment participation. This study examined return-to-work reasons among mothers with a one-year-old child, how these reasons are related to mothers’ background characteristics, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) and whether having a partner home caring for the child protects again…
Pre-service teachers evaluating online texts about learning styles: There is room for improvement in justifying the credibility
Teachers’ abilities to critically evaluate the credibility of online information are fundamental when they educate critical online readers. This study examined pre-service teachers’ abilities to evaluate and justify the credibility of online texts on learning styles. Pre-service teachers ( N = 169) read and evaluated two more and two less credible online texts on learning styles in a web-based environment. Most pre-service teachers were able to d…
Storifying instructional videos on online credibility evaluation: Examining engagement and learning
This study used video-based instruction to promote adolescents' online credibility evaluation skills and to examine whether storification of instructional videos can maintain students' situational interest and positive activating epistemic emotions during a four-lesson intervention better than non-storified instructional videos. The study also investigated whether storified instruction can enhance students' learning of online credibility evaluati…
Selecting between public and private early childhood education and care in the Nordic context: The roles of socioeconomic status, municipal subsidies and parents’ attitudes
As in the other Nordic welfare states, public ECEC system is seen as the cornerstone of the universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) institution in Finland. Many Finnish municipalities, however, support private ECEC service provision and parents’ possibility to choose ECEC services for their child, both of which indicate privatisation and marketisation of ECEC. This study examines parents’ (N = 781) ECEC decisions between public and pr…
Explicit video-based instruction enhanced students’ online credibility evaluation skills: Did storifying instruction matter
This study tested the efficacy of explicit video-based instruction (4 x 45-min lessons) in promoting sixth graders' online credibility evaluation skills. It also investigated whether storified instruction enhanced learning more than non-storified instruction. Storified and non-storified interventions contained the same learning content, and the same components of explicit instruction informed their design. The only difference in the two formats w…
Work–family conflict intensifies after becoming a parent, but does it hinder second‐birth intentions in Finland
Psychology (25 works) · Mathematics education (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Credibility (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 works)