Riikka Korja
Psykoterapeutti, Kehityksen ja kasvatuksen erikoispsykologi
riipen@utu.fi Assistentinkatu 7 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6833-1565 |
Topics: Child development, self-regulation, family, parenting, pregnancy, prenatal programming, preterm birth, psychotherapy, family interventions
Riikka Korja is a professor of developmental psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Turku. She is the principal investigator for the Child Development and Parenting sub-study in the FinnBrain project and the group leader for the Centre of Excellence in Learning Dynamics and Intervention Research (InterLearn) at the University of Turku consortium. Additionally, Korja is the senior investigator in the research on digital developmental monitoring of preterm infants (ePIPARI, pediatric diseases at TYKS).
In her research, Korja aims to comprehensively investigate both protective and vulnerable factors in child development, as well as the underlying mechanisms of child development. The Child Development and Parenting sub-study of the FinnBrain project explores the psychological development of children and the environmental factors and biological processes influencing this development. Of particular interest is the development of a child's self-regulation.
In the CoE InterLearn the focus is on understanding the cognitive, and socio-emotional developmental pathways associated with learning difficulties and the mental health problems linked to them. This research also investigates the environmental factors connected to these pathways and how they explain later-life functioning and well-being.
Korja is the team leader for clinical education in the department of psychology. As the responsible teacher, she is involved in courses such as Psychological Interventions and Psychotherapy, Developmental Psychology II, and Early Development and Family Relationships. Additionally, Korja acts as the responsible professor in the three-year professional training program for Children and Youth Specialized Psychologists in PSYKONET.
- Across ages and places : Unpredictability of maternal sensory signals and child internalizing behaviors (2024)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Antecedents of maternal pregnancy-related anxiety trajectories: The FinnBrain birth cohort study (2024)
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy (2024)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Negative associations between maternal prenatal hair cortisol and child socioemotional problems (2024)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Prepandemic to Early COVID-19 : Changes in Couple Functioning and Links With Harsh Parenting (2024)
- Journal of Family Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Trajectories of maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms and child's socio-emotional outcome during early childhood (2024)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Attention Biases for Emotional Facial Expressions During a Free Viewing Task Increase Between 2.5 and 5 Years of Age (2023)
- Developmental Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Childcare context and socio-emotional development in toddlers - a quantitative report from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Finland (2023)
- European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Course of child social-emotional and sleep symptoms, parental distress and pandemic-related stressors during COVID-19 (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Infant gut microbiota and negative and fear reactivity (2023)
- Development and Psychopathology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Investigating the role of relationship satisfaction and paternal psychological distress during pregnancy on offspring health in early life (2023)
- BJPsych Open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - “I Try to Think Behind My Child’s Cry”: Preparation for Separation Experiences in the Light of Parental Mentalization (2023)
- Journal of infant, child, and adolescent psychotherapy
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Latent profile analysis of diurnal cortisol patterns at the ages of 2, 3.5, and 5 years: Associations with childcare setting, child individual characteristics, and maternal distress (2023)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Longitudinal associations between parental early psychological distress and children's emotional and behavioural problems during early childhood and self-reported social functioning in 11-year-old children born very preterm (2023)
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Maternal executive functioning is associated with infant sustained attention, but not executive functioning, in a sex-specific manner (2023)
- Nordic Psychology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Maternal Perinatal Stress Trajectories and Negative Affect and Amygdala Development in Offspring (2023)
- American Journal of Psychiatry
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study (2023)
- Infant Behavior and Development
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Parental Narratives of Bonding and Relational Experiences with Preterm Infants Born at 23 to 24 Weeks-A Qualitative Descriptive Study (2023)
- Children
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Sense of coherence, its components and depressive and anxiety symptoms in expecting women and their partners – A FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2023)
- Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))