Koorosh Massoudi

University of Lausanne | UNIL · Institute of psychology

Introduction Teleworking is one of the most significant legacies of the pandemic. Great attention is now being paid to its effects on workers’ health. One of the arguments that emerged on this issue is that ‘working away from the office’ affects the time we spend with significant others. This calls into question all those processes that make relati...

Satisfaction with academic studies is a subjective indicator of students’ well-being and experiences in the context of studies. However, evidence for the reliability and validity of academic satisfaction measures, particularly their French variants, is still limited, thus restricting the administration of evidence-based assessments of academic sati...

Work precarity, referring to the work-related psychological state of insecurity, instability, and powerlessness, is on the rise. Despite being employed, workers are increasingly exposed to work precarity due to the global disparities of access to decent work. Paid domestic cleaning (PDC) workers represent a vulnerable group, exposed to adverse empl...

Defined as occupations, tasks, or roles perceived as disgusting or degrading, dirty work results from perceptions of a broad array of actors in society. This study aimed at identifying descriptors adolescents in Switzerland associate with dirty work. The originality of this study stems from investigating dirty work on the basis of adolescents’ perc...

The present study investigates longitudinal relationships between job insecurity and a set of work, career, and life outcomes. Using an integrative theoretical framework that combines the principles of conservation of resources and sustainable career development, we aim to unravel the scope and dynamics of stressor-strain pathways that undermine em...

In the current volatile and insecure professional context, developing and maintaining sustainable careers has become a major concern. This study contributes to the advancement of research on sustainable careers by applying the career sustainability framework in a 7-year longitudinal study on Swiss workers’ career trajectories ( N = 789). We thus ai...

Orientation: Most stress models emphasise the impact of adverse work conditions on psychological strain. Despite considerable support for these additive models, the role of personal characteristics moderating the stress–strain sequence is under-researched. Research purpose: The study investigated the indirect and curvilinear effects of personal res...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to numerous aspects of work such as working conditions, workload, income, nature of duties, or work-home balance that may eventually pose significant risks to employee well-being and career development. Using a person-centred approach, we examined how these changes cluster together, defining t...

In line with the recent literature, the aim of this article is to adopt a psychological approach to understand how technology is subjectively perceived and experienced at work, where the use of technology is seldom an individual choice, as well as its effects on employee’s well-being. This study aims to adopt a person-centered approach to create cl...

This conceptual contribution aims to adapt and apply Psychology of Working Theory to the specificities of the school-to-work transition (STWT) process. The STWT is thus conceptualized as a first attempt to access decent work under the influence of specific predictors, mediators, and moderators and leading to particular outcomes. Based on recent lit...

Purpose This study proposes an examination of the psychometric properties of the French version of two boredom scales (i.e. the Dutch Boredom Scale and the Boredom Proneness Scale Short Version), the antecedents of boredom at work, based on an integrative theoretical framework drawing on the Job Demand-Resources model (Bakker and Demerouti, 2017) a...

The current study investigates employee well-being in stable versus changing psychosocial working conditions, using the Job Demand-Control theoretical framework. It thereby addresses a gap in the literature dealing with how the dynamics of the work environment may affect different aspects of well-being, such as job satisfaction, work stress, mental...

Ce chapitre souligne la pertinence de l’utilisation d’évaluations qualitatives de counseling avec une population migrante et multiculturelle. En effet, la perspective holistique et centrée sur la personne inhérente à ces approches, l’adaptabilité et la souplesse des outils qu’elles génèrent, ainsi que l’accent qu’elle met sur les dynamiques relatio...

La formation au métier de psychologue du conseil et de l’orientation est confrontée à de nouveaux défis, liés à la nécessité d’accompagner des individus aux prises avec de multiples transitions de carrière et des parcours professionnels complexes. En nous appuyant sur les notions de professionnalité émergente (Jorro, 2014) et de formation de l’iden...

Drawing on the concept of spillover between work and life domains and using a person‐centred approach, the present study examined the role of Big Five personality trait profiles in moderating the relationship between work‐related well‐being and life satisfaction over a 1‐year period in a sample of working adults in Switzerland (N = 1204). Latent pr...

De plus en plus complexes, exigeants et incertains, les parcours professionnels contemporains posent des défis inédits à la psychologie du conseil et de l’orientation. D’une part, l’accompagnement d’orientation se doit d’adopter une perspective temporelle étendue et s’atteler aux nombreuses transitions qui s’étalent de la première entrée dans le mo...

This chapter intends to propose an overarching perspective, based on a value-centered, life design-based conception of decent work, that could serve as a general framework for practitioners in their effort to elaborate and implement specific intervention methods and strategies. Highlighting the necessity to help our clients reach a decent occupatio...

This study investigated the moderating effects of culture-driven individual differences in the relationship between work conditions and work-related health outcomes in Switzerland and South Africa: Swiss natives (n = 397) and Swiss foreigners (n = 224), White South Africans (n = 432) and non-White South Africans (n = 434). We used the horizontal an...

The classical nosographical approach to personality disorders leads to a set of categories that may be considered to be both conceptually and empirically problematic. In this regard, the DSM-5 includes an alternative dimensional model for which the Personality Inventory Disorders (PID-5) has been developed. Our study compares this alternative dimen...

Résumé Les jeunes inactifs (ni en emploi ni en formation) sont à risque de précarisation sociale durable et de mauvaise santé. L’impact des facteurs contextuels et des problèmes de santé psychiques est connu dans les difficultés d’insertion socio-professionnelle, mais celui des traits de personnalité est moins clair. Une étude comparant des jeunes...

The main purpose of this chapter is to present and to discuss the implementation and the main methodological characteristics, notably in terms of design and research protocol, sampling and data collection procedure via a mixed-mode approach, of our 7-year longitudinal study on professional trajectories. More specifically, adopting several psycholog...

Modern-day organisations face rapid and continuous change. In order to deal with this rapidly changing and current hostile economic environment, most organisations have become increasingly dependent on a healthy and engaged workforce. As a result of the direct and indirect organisational costs associated with work wellness, the total well-being of...

In the context of the publication of DSM-5, the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) has been proposed as a new dimensional assessment tool for personality disorders. This instrument includes a pool of 220 items organized around 25 facets included in a five-factor second-order domain structure. The examination of the replicability of the trait s...

In the context of the publication of DSM-5, the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) has been proposed as a new dimensional assessment tool for personality disorders. This instrument includes a pool of 220 items organized around 25 facets included in a five-factor second-order domain structure. The examination of the replicability of the trait s...

Introduction. - Work engagement is a positive state of mind related to work, characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. It is measured through the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), which has shown good psychometric properties across occupational types and languages. Besides, some individuals may more easily experience work engagement t...

In most Western postindustrial societies today, the population is aging, businesses are faced with global integration, and important migration flows are taking place. Increasingly work organizations are hiring cross national and multicultural work teams. In this situation it is important to understand the influence of certain individual and cultura...

Selon le modèle de demandes-contrôle (Karasek, 1979), les conditions de travail les plus néfastes sont caractérisées par des exigences mentales élevées et par une latitude décisionnelle faible. Peu d'études se sont penchées sur le rôle des ressources individuelles en lien avec ce modèle. Pour cette raison, notre étude examine les effets modérateurs...

This study analyzed the role of working alliance in individual career counseling. The level of career decision difficulties and satisfaction with life of 188 clients was assessed at the beginning and at the end of career counseling. Clients’ perceived working alliance was assessed after the third session, and their satisfaction with the interventio...

This study tested for the measurement equivalence of a four-factor measure of career indecision (Career Indecision Profile-65 [CIP-65]) between a U.S. sample and two international samples; one composed of French-speaking young adults from France and Switzerland and the other of Italian adolescents. Previous research had supported the four-factor st...

This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Scale (HVIC) and the Auckland Individualism and Collectivism Scale (AICS). The sample consisted of 1,403 working individuals from Switzerland (N = 585) and from South Africa (N = 818). Principal component factor analyses indicated that...

This study, conducted with a representative sample of employed and unemployed adults living in Switzerland (N = 2002), focuses on work conditions (in terms of professional insecurity and job demands), career adaptability, and professional and general well-being. Analyses of covariance highlighted that both unemployed and employed participants with...

Clients’ personality traits and individual characteristics, such as age, gender, reason for seeking counselling, and further compounding problems in their personal or academic lives, may pose risk factors that render career decision making difficult and may also impact the overall effectiveness of a career counselling intervention. Neuroticism and...

Orientation: Research that considers the effects of individual characteristics and job characteristics jointly in burnout is necessary, especially when one considers the possibility of curvilinear relationships between job characteristics and burnout. Research purpose: This study examines the contribution of sense of coherence (SOC) and job charact...

The introduction to the thematic issue on Switzerland describes some institutional, political and socio-economic peculiarities of this country, in order to situate the following contributions. It also exposes logics for the choice of the articles.

The introduction to the thematic issue on Switzerland describes some institutional, political and socio-economic peculiarities of this country, in order to situate the following contributions. It also exposes logics for the choice of the articles.

The short-term effectiveness of career counseling is well supported in the literature. However, the long-term impact is often overlooked. This study quantitatively investigated the long-term stability of the positive effects gained through the career counseling process and qualitatively observed participants' levels of career project implementation...

A review of nearly three decades of cross-cultural research shows that this domain still has to address several issues regarding the biases of data collection and sampling methods, the lack of clear and consensual definitions of constructs and variables, and measurement invariance issues that seriously limit the comparability of results across cult...

Among the various work stress models, one of the most popular has been the job demands-control (JDC) model developed by Karasek (1979), which postulates that work-related strain is highest under work conditions characterized by high demands and low autonomy. The absence of social support at work further increases negative outcomes. This model, howe...

This study analyzes the role of the working alliance on the life satisfaction and career decision difficulties of clients participating in career counseling in Switzerland. The study also compares these career counseling clients to a group of students who did not seek counseling, to explore the overall effectiveness of a face-to-face career counsel...

This study examines the psychological and relational processes that occur in career counseling. Particularly, we examine the role of the working alliance and counselees’ individual characteristics as variables accounting for the outcome of the career counseling process. The sample consists of 101 counselees having undertaken an individual career co...

Este estudio instrumental fue diseñado para investigar las propiedades psicométricas de la versión francesa y replicabilidad transcultural del Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) en sus factores y facetas. El ZKPQ es un instrumento destinado a evaluar los cinco factores básicos del Alternative Five-Factor Model (AFFM). Los participan...