Saana Myllyntausta
 PhD
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 saakar@utu.fi +358 29 450 3783 +358 50 326 2152 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku | 
Sleep; sleep research; work stressors, retirement; ageing; accelerometer; longitudinal research
MA, psychology, University of Turku 2016
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Turku 2020
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.
I teach quantitative research methods and statitsics as well as sleep-related topics to students of psychology and speech-language pathology.
- Concurrent changes in sleep and cognitive function during retirement transition: the Finnish retirement and aging study  (2025)  - European Journal of Ageing
 
- Are changes in sleep problems associated with changes in life satisfaction during the retirement transition?  (2024)  - European Journal of Ageing
 
- 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
 
- Association of working hours with accelerometer-based sleep duration and sleep quality on the following night among older employees  (2023)  - Sleep epidemiology
 
- 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
 
- Finnish Retirement and Aging Study: a prospective cohort study  (2023)  - BMJ Open
 
- 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
 
- Association of job strain with accelerometer-based sleep duration and timing of sleep among older employees  (2022)  - Journal of Sleep Research
 
- Associations of sleep and individual characteristics with accelerometer-measured catch-up sleep among older employees  (2022)  - Sleep epidemiology
 
- Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: findings from the FIREA cohort study  (2022)  - European Journal of Ageing
 
- Changes in the 24-h movement behaviors during the transition to retirement: compositional data analysis  (2022)  - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
 
- Components of Stress and Their Associations with Sleep Problems: A Cohort Study of Older Employees  (2022)  - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
 
- Psychological Distress During the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment  (2022)  - Journals of Gerontology, Series B
 
- 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
 
- Trajectories of Worktime Control From Midlife to Retirement and Working Beyond Retirement Age  (2022)  - Work, Aging and Retirement
 
- Why do men extend their employment beyond pensionable age more often than women? a cohort study  (2022)  - European Journal of Ageing
 
- 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
 
- Daytime fatigue as a predictor for subsequent retirement among older New Zealand workers  (2021)  - SLEEP HEALTH
 
- Internal consistency and factor structure of Jenkins Sleep Scale: cross-sectional cohort study among 80 000 adults  (2021)  - BMJ Open
 
- Persistence of sleep difficulties for over 16 years amongst 66,948 working-aged adults  (2021)  - PLoS ONE
 




