Mirka Hintsanen
PhD
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Psychology
Values, Ideologies and Social Contexts of Education
Faculty of Education and Psychology
My research interests are related to several areas of psychology spanning from personality and developmental psychology to health and work psychology. I began my career by examining associations of work stress with atherosclerosis. Since then I moved to examining personality traits as predictors of health and well-being, development of personality, acute and chronic stress, gene x environment interactions, and intergenerational transmission of psychosocial factors. Currently, I am especially interested in compassion, its development and outcomes. I conduct multidisciplinary research in collaboration with colleagues from different fields like genetics, medicine and psychiatry.
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- Personality traits, Compassion, Self-compassion, Stress, Health, Well-being, Mindfulness, Gene-environment interactions
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