Kristiina Lappalainen

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-lagged panel model with a group of Finnish students and their parents from Grade 5 to Grade 7 was used to examine how a student's behavioural and emotional strengths are associated with these relationships and how the relationships influence students' academic performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of academic learning disabilities with social competence and psychological well-being of adolescents was studied, and the relationship between social competence, increased cooperation skills and decreased levels of impulsivity and disruptiveness was examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the cross-informant agreement of students' behavioral and emotional strengths between different sources and explored the agreement separately for students with and without special education needs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the psychometric characteristics of the BERS-2 with a Finnish sample and found that the five scales have good reliability and formed a strong strength index.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the international research on the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale (BERS-2), a strength-based measure, to determine the cross informant agreement and convergent validity between student self-report and teacher report, with a sample of 5th grade Finnish students.