Saana Myllyntausta
PhD
saakar@utu.fi +358 29 450 3783 +358 50 326 2152 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6503-3829 |
Areas of expertise
Sleep; sleep research; work stressors, retirement; ageing; accelerometer; longitudinal research
Sleep; sleep research; work stressors, retirement; ageing; accelerometer; longitudinal research
Biography
MA, psychology, University of Turku 2016
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Turku 2020
Research
I work as a university lecturer in the field of psyhology at the Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology of University of Turku. In my research, I examine sleep among older employees. In my PhD thesis, I examined changes in sleep during the transition to retirement.
Teaching
I teach quantitative research methods and statitsics as well as sleep-related topics to students of psychology and speech-language pathology.
Publications 
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- Concurrent changes in sleep and cognitive function during retirement transition: the Finnish retirement and aging study (2025)
- European Journal of Ageing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Are changes in sleep problems associated with changes in life satisfaction during the retirement transition? (2024)
- European Journal of Ageing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex-related differential item functioning of the Jenkins Sleep Scale : a cross-sectional study among 77 967 employees in the Finnish public sector (2024)
- BMJ Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of working hours with accelerometer-based sleep duration and sleep quality on the following night among older employees (2023)
- Sleep epidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Do Sleep Problems Explain the Association Between Work Stress and the Trajectories of Work Ability From Midlife to Pensionable Age? (2023)
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Finnish Retirement and Aging Study: a prospective cohort study (2023)
- BMJ Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The association of previous night's sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts (2023)
- European Journal of Ageing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of job strain with accelerometer-based sleep duration and timing of sleep among older employees (2022)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associations of sleep and individual characteristics with accelerometer-measured catch-up sleep among older employees (2022)
- Sleep epidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study (2022)
- European Journal of Ageing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in the 24-h movement behaviors during the transition to retirement: compositional data analysis (2022)
- International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Components of Stress and Their Associations with Sleep Problems: A Cohort Study of Older Employees (2022)
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psychological Distress During the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment (2022)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series B
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Temporal changes in self-reported sleep quality, sleep duration and sleep medication use in relation to temporal changes in quality of life and work ability over a 1-year period among Finnish municipal employees (2022)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trajectories of Worktime Control From Midlife to Retirement and Working Beyond Retirement Age (2022)
- Work, Aging and Retirement
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Why do men extend their employment beyond pensionable age more often than women? a cohort study (2022)
- European Journal of Ageing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of changes in lifestyle with changes in sleep difficulties: an analysis of 38 400 participants over a 16-year follow-up (2021)
- BMJ Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Daytime fatigue as a predictor for subsequent retirement among older New Zealand workers (2021)
- SLEEP HEALTH
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Internal consistency and factor structure of Jenkins Sleep Scale: cross-sectional cohort study among 80 000 adults (2021)
- BMJ Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Persistence of sleep difficulties for over 16 years amongst 66,948 working-aged adults (2021)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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