Henrik Dobewall
Year of birth: 1982
Official title: Senior researcher
Tel. + 358 29 524 8389
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Register studies
- Mental health
- Social inequalities
- Genes
- Gene-environment interactions
- Life course research
- Computational social sciences
- Cross-cultural differences
- Human values and personality
Primary duties
- Research
- Expert advice
- Data management
Education
- 2024, Associate professor (dosentti) in Sociology (Social Science Genetics / Sociogenomics), University of Turku-Finland
- 2013, Ph.D. Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu-Estonia
- 2009, Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen-Germany
Professional background
- 2019-2021, Post-doctoral researcher (Tutkijatohtori), Project: “How Early Psychosocial Environment Affects Compassion: A 31-years Long Prospective Cohort Study on the Development of Dispositional Compassion” / Principal investigator, Project: “Organizational Culture and Practices Dictionary”, Research Center for Psychology and Educational Psychology, University of Oulu-Finland
- 2018-2019, Post-doctoral researcher (Tutkijatohtori), Project: “Redefining Adolescent Learning: A multilevel longitudinal study of adolescent learning, health and well-being in educational transitions in Finland” Faculty of Social Sciences (Health Sciences), University of Tampere-Finland
- 2015-2017, Post-doctoral researcher (Tutkijatohtori), Project: “Intergenerational Transmission of Child-Rearing and Disadvantaged Position in Life”, Institute of Behavioural Sciences / Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki-Finland
- 2014-2015, Post-doctoral researcher, Project: “European Social Survey - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)”, Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, University Pompeu Fabra-Spain
Language skills
- German (native)
- English (excellent)
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Finnish (good)
Current projects
- 2021-, Mental health and social disadvantage over the early life course: Investigation into genes, families and living conditions (MEDIG)
- The Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Research - Working Group
Professional memberships
- 2018–, Review Editor, Frontiers in Psychology section Personality and Social Psychology
- 2011–, Member of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- 2021–, Member of the RC28 Social Stratification
Publications and research
Dissertation/Licentiate thesis
Dobewall, H. (2013). Human values and subjective well-being: An exploration of individual and cultural differences, change across life span, and self-other agreement, Tartu: Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu-Estonia.
Scientific research articles
- Dobewall, H., Sirniö, O. & Vaalavuo, M. (2023). Does social disadvantage persist over generations due to unevenly distributed mental health problems? A longitudinal investigation of Finnish register data. Social Science & Medicine, 330, 116037.
- Dobewall, H. Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., Marttila, S., Mishra, P., Saarinen, A., Cloninger, C.R., Zwir, I., Kähönen, M., Hurme, M., Raitakari, O., Lehtimäki, T., & Hintsanen, M. (2023). The relationship of trait-like compassion with epigenetic aging: The population-based prospective Young Finns Study. Research Topic: Expanding the Science of Compassion - Volume II. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1018797.
- Saarinen, A., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., Dobewall, H., Sormunen, E., Lehtimäki, T., Kähönen, M., Raitakari, O., Hietala J. (2023). Childhood family environment predicting psychotic disorders over a 37-year follow-up – A general population cohort study. Schizophrenia Research, 258, 9-17.
- Saarinen, A., Lyytikäinen, L. P., Hietala, J., Dobewall, H., Lavonius, V., Raitakari, O., ... & Keltikangas-Järvinen, L. (2022). Magical thinking in individuals with high polygenic risk for schizophrenia but no non-affective psychoses—a general population study. Molecular Psychiatry, 27, 3286–3293.
Dobewall, Henrik, Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa, Saarinen, Aino, et al. (2021). Genetic differential susceptibility to the parent-child relationship quality and the lifespan development of compassion. Developmental Psychobiology. - Kantasalmi, Kari, Kupiainen, Sirkku, Dobewall, Henrik, et al. (2021). Metropolialueen nuorten siirtyminen toisen asteen koulutukseen : Keiden koulupolku on suora, keiden viivästynyt tai mutkainen? Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, 86(3), 297-308 (in Finnish)
- Dobewall, Henrik, Lindfors, Pirjo, Karvonen, Sakari, et al. (2019). Health and educational aspirations in adolescence: A longitudinal study in Finland. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1447.
- Dobewall, Henrik, Koivusilta, Leena, Karvonen, Sakari, et al. (2019). Late start of upper secondary education and health-compromising behaviours among Finnish adolescents—A follow-up study. European Journal of Public Health, 30(1), 438-443.
- Dobewall, Henrik, Savelieva, Kateryna, Seppälä, Ilkka, et al. (2019). Gene–environment correlations in parental emotional warmth and intolerance: genome‐wide analysis over two generations of the Young Finns Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60(3), 277-285.
- Dobewall, Henrik, Hintsanen, Mirka, Savelieva, Kateryna, et al. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of latent satisfaction reflected by satisfaction across multiple life domains: A prospective 32-year follow-up study. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20(3), 955-970.
- Dobewall, Henrik, Hakulinen, Christian, Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa, et al. (2018). Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) variant rs1042778 moderates the influence of family environment on changes in perceived social support over time. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, 480-488.
- Aavik, Toivo & Dobewall, Henrik (2017). Where is the location of “health” in the human values system? Evidence from Estonia. Social Indicators Research, 131(3), 1145-1162.
- Dobewall, Henrik, Aavik, Toivo, Konstabel, Kenn. et al. (2014). A comparison of self-other agreement in personal values versus the big five personality traits. Journal of Research in Personality, 50, 1-10.
- Realo, Anu & Dobewall, Henrik (2011). Does life satisfaction change with age? A comparison of Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Sweden. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(3), 297-308.
