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Chapter 5 - Children of Today Are the Adults of Tomorrow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2025

By
Lea Pulkkinen
Edited by
Frank Kessel
Frank Kessel
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Summary

The chapter describes the maturation and goals of a Finnish researcher who, from her own childhood years, had an interest in human development. Various events steered her to research this very topic. In the 1960s, she introduced a framework of emotional regulation for a longitudinal study, from middle childhood to middle adulthood, that she has conducted. The results show that individual differences in emotional regulation in childhood tend to lead to different life paths due to their accumulating effects on human development in several spheres of life. The narrative underlines how international contacts are valuable for a researcher from a small country, and how she made such contacts through extensive activities within learned societies. Also, she discusses the great value of both multidisciplinary research and the application of research findings and emphasizes the importance of developmental psychological knowledge being established in various societal contexts.

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longitudinal study from childhood to middle ageemotional regulationinternational activitiesmultidisciplinary researchapplication of research findings
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Pillars of Developmental Psychology
Recollections and Reflections
 , pp. 44 - 54
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Pitkänen, L. (1969). A descriptive model of aggression and nonaggression with applications to children’s behaviour. Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research, 19. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978–951–39–8239–3.Google Scholar
Pitkänen-Pulkkinen, L. (1977). Effects of simulation programmes on the development of self-control. In van Lieshout, C. F. M. & Ingram, D. J. (Eds.), Stimulation of Social Development in School (pp. 176–190). Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger.Google Scholar
Pulkkinen, L. (2017). Human Development from Middle Childhood to Middle Adulthood: Growing Up to Be Middle-aged. (In collaboration with Katja Kokko.) London: Routledge. Open access: www.doi.org/10.4324/9781315732947.Google Scholar
Pulkkinen, L. (2022). Tutkijan Omakuva. [Self-Portrait of a Scientist.] Helsinki, Finland: Teos.Google Scholar
Pulkkinen, L., Kaprio, J., & Rose, R. J. (Eds.). (2006). Socioemotional Development and Health from Adolescence to Adulthood. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rose, R. J., Salvatore, J. E., Aaltonen, S., Barr, P. B., Bogl, L. H., Byers, H. A., Heikkilä, K., Korhonen, T., Latvala, A., Palviainen, T., Ranjit, A., Whipp, A. M., Pulkkinen, L., Dick, D. M., & Kaprio, J. (2019). FinnTwin12 Cohort: An Updated Review. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22(5), 1–10. https://doi.org.10.1017/thg.2019.83.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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