Aino Peltonen
MHSc
Doctoral Researcher, Project Researcher
Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Medicine
I am a member of the DigiWellbeing research group, which investigates the impact of digital media use (e.g., social media, gaming) on health and well-being. The group’s key focus areas include digital well-being, mental health, and health promotion.
In my doctoral research, I focus on digital well-being, with the aim of developing and evaluating the effectiveness of the preventive UnLogged intervention in promoting adolescents’ digital well-being and academic performance, while also reducing healthcare service use. In addition, I am developing a novel DigiWell Instrument and testing its psychometric properties. My dissertation is part of the UnLogged project (ESF+).
More broadly, my research interests concern digital well-being and digital media use, with particular attention to their implications for health, everyday life, and society. For my Master’s thesis, I examined risk profiles of problematic Internet use (PIU) among young adults using data from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort (NFBC1986).
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- Digital well-being
- Health promotion
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