Fiia Söderholm

Fiia Söderholm is a Lecturer at the School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on the interplay between support, school burnout, and student engagement in general upper secondary education, with a particular interest in academically high-achieving students. She is a member of the Motivation, Learning, and Well-being (MoLeWe UEF) research group and contributes to longitudinal studies examining educational dynamics.

• Research Interests
  • Associations between perceived support and school burnout
  • Longitudinal analysis of student engagement profiles
  • Quantitative methods in educational research
• Key Article Trends
  • Investigates stability and transitions in engagement profiles (highly engaged, moderately engaged, disengaged) across three years of upper secondary education
  • Highlights the predictive role of support in maintaining high engagement and reducing burnout
  • Examines extrinsic motivation and its interaction with engagement
• Projects
  • Making the grade but feeling exhausted? Developmental and situational dynamics of motivation, perfectionism, and academic well-being across secondary education (2022–2027)
  • Pathway to Supported and Holistic Career Counseling in General Upper Secondary Education (longitudinal study with data collection 2019–2020–2020)
• Labs/Teams
  • Motivation, Learning, and Well-being (MoLeWe UEF) research group