Ari Vaananen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 322590 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ari Vaananen |
| PRENOMES | Ari |
| SOBRENOME | Vaananen |
| ASSINATURA | VAANANEN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Finnish Institute of Occupational Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1107-5799 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Does primary care level psychotherapy associate with later use of long-term psychotherapy – longitudinal register-based cohort study among Finnish occupationally active individuals
BACKGROUND: One key question for current psychotherapy research is how limited resources should be used efficiently to optimise treatment pathways. We examined how primary care level (PCL) psychotherapy, a history of mental disorder, and sociodemographic factors are associated with the later probability of receiving long-term rehabilitative psychotherapy. METHODS: This longitudinal observational cohort study based on a register data from the Gaps…
Time spent abroad as a source of human capital – A nationwide study
This study examined the extent to which time spent abroad contributes to human capital, using higher income as an indicator. Utilising Finnish register data, the study focused on returning migrants with higher education ( N = 3497), matched with a reference population ( N = 30,882). Time abroad was associated with a higher income level upon return amongst men (returnees €63,199, reference €55,982), but not amongst women (returnees €39,316, refere…
The changing emotional codes underlying generation-specific understandings of mental health at work
This qualitative interview study examined the changing role of emotions in understanding and forming work inability, and the tensions generated by differing emotional codes in the workplace. Data were collected in 2021 through 70 interviews in Finland’s municipal sector: young employees born between the late 1980s and early 2000s, their supervisors, and occupational health professionals born between the late 1950s and early 1980s. Three thematic …
Social work, emotion management and the transformation of the welfare state
Drawing from the sociological and organizational scholarship of emotion management in human service work, our historical analysis elaborates on how external pressures and efficiency requirements jeopardize employees’ ability to carry out emotional labour in the public sector. Building on the Finnish social workers’ accounts published in a professional trade paper in 1975–2009, the article provides an insight into the emotional challenges and diss…
The Effect of Healthy Lifestyle Changes on Work Ability and Mental Health Symptoms
Short but intensive remote lifestyle coaching can reduce depressive symptoms and improve work ability, and time-related resources at work may improve mental health in the context of individual lifestyle intervention. However, further randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm the findings
Psychotherapy and change in mental health-related work disability
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders are a major cause of work disability among the working-age population. Psychotherapy has shown to be an effective treatment for mental disorders, but the evidence is mainly based on small-scale randomised trials with relatively short follow-ups. We used population-based register data to examine the association between statutory rehabilitative psychotherapy and change in depression or anxiety-related work disability. M…
Unmet need for mental health medication within the migrant population of Northern Ireland
Background Migrant populations are particularly at risk of not receiving the care for mental ill-health that they require for a range of reasons, including language and other barriers to health service access. This record linkage study compares, for migrant and settled communities, the likelihood that a person in Northern Ireland with poor mental health will receive psychotropic medication. Methods A cohort of 78 267 people aged 16–64 years (incl…
The informalization of doctor-patient relations in a Finnish setting
This article features data drawn from interviews with doctors working in the Finnish occupational health-care system. These are used to explore the value of an Eliasian approach towards interpreting and assessing the moral meanings and social dynamics of relationships between health practitioners and their patients. We attend to spiralling 'formalizing' and 'informalizing' processes and how these are operating to reconfigure doctor-patient relati…
Struggle over employees psychological well-being. The politization and depolitization of the debate on employee mental health in the Finnish insurance sector
This article examines the emergence and evolution of the discourse on mental health problems as an occupational health risk in the professional debates among Finnish insurance workers from a historical perspective. Our findings indicate that the mental health discourse was influenced by organizational, cultural and political changes. We also found that the employee’s role and the power relations in the insurance sector influenced the way in which…
Occupational class, capitalist class advantage and mortality among working-age men
BACKGROUND: Disparities in mortality have been firmly established across occupational grades and the incomes they earn, but this line of research has failed to include individuals' relationships to capital, as suggested by class analysists. METHODS: According to Wright's classification, the research generated 10 mutually exclusive classes based on occupation and investment income: worker; capitalist worker; professional; capitalist professional; …
Antidepressant medication use among working age first-generation migrants resident in Finland
The gender and country of origin dependent use of antidepressant medication is discussed in terms of socio-political and cultural between-group differences. Recommendations are made to address inequalities in accessing services, particularly for migrants from non-Western countries
From silence to diagnosis
Health risks, social relations and class
In this article we examine the treatment of psychosocial risks in public occupational health discourse in Finnish newspaper and magazine articles between the 1960s and 2000s, using discourse analysis. Building on class theories, our aim is to investigate how class expectations have been linked with the redefinition of occupational health risks during this period. Our results suggest that as social relations at the workplace became problematised i…
Is a single item stress measure independently associated with subsequent severe injury
High stress is associated with an increased risk of severe injury
The growth and the stagnation of work stress
Stress at work is a frequent subject of scientific research. In most of this, the unit of analysis has been the employee and his or her work stress. Historical, cultural and macro-contextual approaches have rarely been included in the analytical framework. In this study, we examined secular trends in scientific publications on work stress, and analysed how, over a period of 50 years, a new discursive, institutional, intellectual and subjective sp…
Emergence of emotional management
This article analyses the increasing emphasis on emotions in management ideals by examining the changing qualities of the ideal manager in Finland in the post-Second World War era. We examined 1425 manager position job advertisements in the major Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat between 1949 and 2009. Our results show that emotional requirements were rather uncommon during the post-war era but that they became key characteristics in job advert…
Transformation of the Finnish employee ideal in job advertisements from 1944 to 2009
In this article we examine transformation of the Finnish employee ideal since the Second World War. Our qualitative analysis is based on the data of 490 job advertisements from 1944 to 2009, and follows the change in employee requirements during this period. Our results show that requirements for transferable, particularly interpersonal, skills increased considerably during the research period. While workmanship, diligence, competence and work ex…
Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease
Organizational predictors and health consequences of changes in burnout
We investigated job burnout and job characteristics, including decision authority, skill discretion, predictability, and information flow, among Finnish forestry workers ( N = 4356) in a longitudinal study. We linked these responses individually with data on the participants' subsequent prescriptions for psychotropic drugs including antidepressants. We aim to study the antecedents of changes in burnout levels over four years time and their health…
Implementation of Workplace-Based Smoking Cessation Support Activities and Smoking Cessation Among Employees
Objectives. We investigated the relationship between implementation of workplace smoking cessation support activities and employee smoking cessation. Methods. In 2 cohort studies, participants were 6179 Finnish public-sector employees who self-reported as smokers at baseline in 2004 (study 1) or 2008 (study 2) and responded to follow-up surveys in 2008 (study 1; n = 3298; response rate = 71%) or 2010 (study 2; n = 2881; response rate = 83%). Supe…
Men of Steel? The Masculinity of Metal Industry Workers in Finland after World War II
This article examines the masculinity of metal workers in the post-WWII era of reparation and radical societal change in Finland. Young men from agrarian communities took on employment in metal industry jobs in droves after WWII. In this paper, metal workers’ masculinity is explored in three areas: (a) the transitional period when young men took their first steps in the shoes of metal workers; (b) defining the personal territory of work; and (c) …
Formulation of work stress in 1960-2000
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Organisational merger and psychiatric morbidity
A negative change in work organisation during an organisational merger may elevate the risk for postmerger psychiatric morbidity
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
When It Is Better to Give Than to Receive
The authors examined esteem enhancement theory and equity theory in explaining the long-term health status of men (n = 178) and women (n = 575). Baseline characteristics were measured in 1990-1993, intimate reciprocity in 1993, and recorded sickness absences for a 9-year period during 1993-2001. Among women, giving more support than receiving in intimate relationships positively affected subsequent health status, as indicated by fewer sickness ab…
Job characteristics, physical and psychological symptoms, and social support as antecedents of sickness absence among men and women in the private industrial sector
Transformation of the Finnish employee ideal in job advertisements from 1944 to 2009
In this article we examine transformation of the Finnish employee ideal since the Second World War. Our qualitative analysis is based on the data of 490 job advertisements from 1944 to 2009, and follows the change in employee requirements during this period. Our results show that requirements for transferable, particularly interpersonal, skills increased considerably during the research period. While workmanship, diligence, competence and work ex…
Formulation of work stress in 1960-2000
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Maintenance of subjective health during a merger
Change in reciprocity as a predictor of depressive symptoms
Occupational class, capitalist class advantage and mortality among working-age men
BACKGROUND: Disparities in mortality have been firmly established across occupational grades and the incomes they earn, but this line of research has failed to include individuals' relationships to capital, as suggested by class analysists. METHODS: According to Wright's classification, the research generated 10 mutually exclusive classes based on occupation and investment income: worker; capitalist worker; professional; capitalist professional; …
From silence to diagnosis
Health risks, social relations and class
In this article we examine the treatment of psychosocial risks in public occupational health discourse in Finnish newspaper and magazine articles between the 1960s and 2000s, using discourse analysis. Building on class theories, our aim is to investigate how class expectations have been linked with the redefinition of occupational health risks during this period. Our results suggest that as social relations at the workplace became problematised i…
The growth and the stagnation of work stress
Stress at work is a frequent subject of scientific research. In most of this, the unit of analysis has been the employee and his or her work stress. Historical, cultural and macro-contextual approaches have rarely been included in the analytical framework. In this study, we examined secular trends in scientific publications on work stress, and analysed how, over a period of 50 years, a new discursive, institutional, intellectual and subjective sp…
Emergence of emotional management
This article analyses the increasing emphasis on emotions in management ideals by examining the changing qualities of the ideal manager in Finland in the post-Second World War era. We examined 1425 manager position job advertisements in the major Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat between 1949 and 2009. Our results show that emotional requirements were rather uncommon during the post-war era but that they became key characteristics in job advert…
Organizational predictors and health consequences of changes in burnout
We investigated job burnout and job characteristics, including decision authority, skill discretion, predictability, and information flow, among Finnish forestry workers ( N = 4356) in a longitudinal study. We linked these responses individually with data on the participants' subsequent prescriptions for psychotropic drugs including antidepressants. We aim to study the antecedents of changes in burnout levels over four years time and their health…
Lack of Predictability at Work and Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Objectives. We examined whether the distinctive components of job control—decision authority, skill discretion, and predictability—were related to subsequent acute myocardial infarction (MI) events in a large population of initially heart disease–free industrial employees. Methods. We prospectively examined the relation between the components of job control and acute MI among private-sector industrial employees. During an 18-year follow-up, 56 fa…
Men of Steel? The Masculinity of Metal Industry Workers in Finland after World War II
This article examines the masculinity of metal workers in the post-WWII era of reparation and radical societal change in Finland. Young men from agrarian communities took on employment in metal industry jobs in droves after WWII. In this paper, metal workers’ masculinity is explored in three areas: (a) the transitional period when young men took their first steps in the shoes of metal workers; (b) defining the personal territory of work; and (c) …
Struggle over employees psychological well-being. The politization and depolitization of the debate on employee mental health in the Finnish insurance sector
This article examines the emergence and evolution of the discourse on mental health problems as an occupational health risk in the professional debates among Finnish insurance workers from a historical perspective. Our findings indicate that the mental health discourse was influenced by organizational, cultural and political changes. We also found that the employee’s role and the power relations in the insurance sector influenced the way in which…
Implementation of Workplace-Based Smoking Cessation Support Activities and Smoking Cessation Among Employees
Objectives. We investigated the relationship between implementation of workplace smoking cessation support activities and employee smoking cessation. Methods. In 2 cohort studies, participants were 6179 Finnish public-sector employees who self-reported as smokers at baseline in 2004 (study 1) or 2008 (study 2) and responded to follow-up surveys in 2008 (study 1; n = 3298; response rate = 71%) or 2010 (study 2; n = 2881; response rate = 83%). Supe…
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Organisational merger and psychiatric morbidity
A negative change in work organisation during an organisational merger may elevate the risk for postmerger psychiatric morbidity
Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity
BACKGROUND: Most prospective studies on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and mental health have been conducted using subjective health indicators and short-term follow-ups. The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a strong sense of coherence is a protective factor against psychiatric disorders over a long period of time. METHODS: The study was conducted in a multinational forest industry …
Are intrinsic motivational factors of work associated with functional incapacity similarly regardless of the country
Background: Many psychosocial models of wellbeing at work emphasise the role of intrinsic motivational factors such as job autonomy, job complexity, and innovativeness. However, little is known about whether the employees of multinational enterprises differ from country to country with regard to intrinsic motivational factors, and whether these factors are associated with wellbeing similarly in the different countries. The purpose of this study w…
Job characteristics, physical and psychological symptoms, and social support as antecedents of sickness absence among men and women in the private industrial sector
Maintenance of subjective health during a merger
Burnout as a Predictor of Medically Certified Sick-Leave Absences and Their Diagnosed Causes
Stress-related illnesses, such as mental, behavioral, and cardiovascular diseases, are common causes for sick-leave absences. It is generally assumed that burnout, the chronic stress syndrome, also leads to absenteeism and poor health, but this assumption has rarely been tested. The authors investigated the prospective effect of burnout on registered sick leaves and their causes in industrial employees. We collected the number of medically certif…
Are intrinsic motivational factors of work associated with functional incapacity similarly regardless of the country
Background: Many psychosocial models of wellbeing at work emphasise the role of intrinsic motivational factors such as job autonomy, job complexity, and innovativeness. However, little is known about whether the employees of multinational enterprises differ from country to country with regard to intrinsic motivational factors, and whether these factors are associated with wellbeing similarly in the different countries. The purpose of this study w…
When It Is Better to Give Than to Receive
The authors examined esteem enhancement theory and equity theory in explaining the long-term health status of men (n = 178) and women (n = 575). Baseline characteristics were measured in 1990-1993, intimate reciprocity in 1993, and recorded sickness absences for a 9-year period during 1993-2001. Among women, giving more support than receiving in intimate relationships positively affected subsequent health status, as indicated by fewer sickness ab…
Work stress in the etiology of coronary heart disease—a meta-analysis
Sex Differences in Health Effects of Family Death or Illness
OBJECTIVE: To study sex differences in health after stressful life events in the family. METHOD: We examined the association between a serious event (death or severe illness of spouse, death or severe illness of other family member, death of close relative) and health among 6,095 male and 21,217 female public sector employees in Finland by repeated measures Poisson regression analysis with the generalized estimating equations method. The longitud…
Sense of coherence and diabetes
The results suggest that besides focusing on well-known risk factors for diabetes, strengthening SOC in employees of = <50 years of age can also play a role in attempts to tackle increasing rates of diabetes
Relationship between job strain and smoking cessation
Smoking cessation may be less likely in workplaces with high strain and low control. Policies and programs addressing employee job strain and control might also contribute to the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions
Lack of Predictability at Work and Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Objectives. We examined whether the distinctive components of job control—decision authority, skill discretion, and predictability—were related to subsequent acute myocardial infarction (MI) events in a large population of initially heart disease–free industrial employees. Methods. We prospectively examined the relation between the components of job control and acute MI among private-sector industrial employees. During an 18-year follow-up, 56 fa…
Change in reciprocity as a predictor of depressive symptoms
The Role of Work Group in Individual Sickness Absence Behavior
The purpose of our two-year follow-up study was to examine the effect of the social components of the work group, such as group absence norms and cohesion, on sickness absence behavior among individuals with varying attitudes toward work attendance. The social components were measured using a questionnaire survey, and data on sickness absence behavior were collected from the employers' records. The study population consisted of 19,306 Finnish mun…
Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity
BACKGROUND: Most prospective studies on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and mental health have been conducted using subjective health indicators and short-term follow-ups. The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a strong sense of coherence is a protective factor against psychiatric disorders over a long period of time. METHODS: The study was conducted in a multinational forest industry …
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Organisational merger and psychiatric morbidity
A negative change in work organisation during an organisational merger may elevate the risk for postmerger psychiatric morbidity
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease
Organizational predictors and health consequences of changes in burnout
We investigated job burnout and job characteristics, including decision authority, skill discretion, predictability, and information flow, among Finnish forestry workers ( N = 4356) in a longitudinal study. We linked these responses individually with data on the participants' subsequent prescriptions for psychotropic drugs including antidepressants. We aim to study the antecedents of changes in burnout levels over four years time and their health…
Implementation of Workplace-Based Smoking Cessation Support Activities and Smoking Cessation Among Employees
Objectives. We investigated the relationship between implementation of workplace smoking cessation support activities and employee smoking cessation. Methods. In 2 cohort studies, participants were 6179 Finnish public-sector employees who self-reported as smokers at baseline in 2004 (study 1) or 2008 (study 2) and responded to follow-up surveys in 2008 (study 1; n = 3298; response rate = 71%) or 2010 (study 2; n = 2881; response rate = 83%). Supe…
Men of Steel? The Masculinity of Metal Industry Workers in Finland after World War II
This article examines the masculinity of metal workers in the post-WWII era of reparation and radical societal change in Finland. Young men from agrarian communities took on employment in metal industry jobs in droves after WWII. In this paper, metal workers’ masculinity is explored in three areas: (a) the transitional period when young men took their first steps in the shoes of metal workers; (b) defining the personal territory of work; and (c) …
Formulation of work stress in 1960-2000
Emergence of emotional management
This article analyses the increasing emphasis on emotions in management ideals by examining the changing qualities of the ideal manager in Finland in the post-Second World War era. We examined 1425 manager position job advertisements in the major Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat between 1949 and 2009. Our results show that emotional requirements were rather uncommon during the post-war era but that they became key characteristics in job advert…
Transformation of the Finnish employee ideal in job advertisements from 1944 to 2009
In this article we examine transformation of the Finnish employee ideal since the Second World War. Our qualitative analysis is based on the data of 490 job advertisements from 1944 to 2009, and follows the change in employee requirements during this period. Our results show that requirements for transferable, particularly interpersonal, skills increased considerably during the research period. While workmanship, diligence, competence and work ex…
Is a single item stress measure independently associated with subsequent severe injury
High stress is associated with an increased risk of severe injury
The growth and the stagnation of work stress
Stress at work is a frequent subject of scientific research. In most of this, the unit of analysis has been the employee and his or her work stress. Historical, cultural and macro-contextual approaches have rarely been included in the analytical framework. In this study, we examined secular trends in scientific publications on work stress, and analysed how, over a period of 50 years, a new discursive, institutional, intellectual and subjective sp…
Medicine (21 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Workplace Health and Well-being (15 obras) · Psychiatry (13 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Population (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Demography (10 obras)