Roman Pauli

University Hospital RWTH Aachen · Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine

According to the perseverative cognition hypothesis, prolonged activation for example, via work-related rumination impairs recovery and thereby poses a risk to employee health. The extent to which gender, age, occupation or longitudinal stress exposure may alter work-related rumination is an ongoing debate. Whether group or longitudinal comparisons...

Sustainable return to work after depression – a comparative study among occupational physicians and affected employees Introduction: The number of sick days taken from work due to depression is steadily rising. A successful return to work (WE) is essential for sustainable reintegration. This study aims to identify factors to optimise WE and to inve...

Background Pharmacological neuroenhancement (PNE) is discussed as coping strategy in academic and work-related contexts. Depending on the definition of PNE and sample population, different prevalence rates for various groups have been reported. In the three parts of the study, prevalence rates for work and student populations in Germany are detecte...

Introduction The number of sick days taken from work due to depression is steadily rising. A successful return to work (RTW) is essential for sustainable reintegration. This study aims to identify factors to optimize RTW and to investigate approaches for sustainable RTW (sRTW) after depressive episodes. Methods Semi-structured expert interviews wi...

Objective: A common criticism of self-report measures to assess job stressors is their bias by characteristics of the respondent: Individuals high in negative affectivity report more stress, even in the absence of objective stressors (Watson et al. 2015). Based on previous research on effects of item wording (Lang et al. 2020) and response format (...

Although required by law, less than 30% of companies in the EU have implemented a psychosocial risk assessment in their occupational safety and health (OSH) management (Eurofound and EU-OSHA, 2014). The main reason for this gap is a lack of expertise on the process and content of such a risk assessment (Beck, 2019). Therefore, the aim of the EIT He...

Objective: Affective dispositions are associated with subjective perceptions of stress [1, 2] and may thus bias self-reported assessments of job characteristics. Questionnaire design can limit or trigger measurement bias, as e.g. individuals high in neuroticism report more stress when question stimuli are phrased person-related rather than task rel...

Background The Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS) was originally developed to compare doctor’s and patient’s consensus regarding patient centeredness. Research assumed PPOS measurements to be comparable across different groups of participants, however, without assessing the actual validity of this assumption. In this study, we investigat...

In this study, we link cognitive processes of recovery to the social context in which employees experience job stressors. The aim was to examine how the social context in which employees experience work stressors is associated with individuals’ work-related thoughts in nonwork time and thus may prolong work-related mental efforts beyond working hou...

Background The theory and practice of ethics consultations (ECs) in health care are still characterized by many controversies, including, for example, the practice of giving recommendations. These controversies are complicated by an astonishing lack of evidence in the whole field. It is not clear how often a recommendation is issued in ethics consu...

Without a doubt, Frankfurt Pathologist Philipp Schwartz is one of the most iconic scholars in recent medical history. As the son of Jewish parents, he was forced to emigrate after Hitler seized power in 1933. Despite this repressive experience, he succeeded in founding the “Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wissenschaftler im Ausland” (“Emergency Society o...

Der Frankfurter Pathologe Philipp Schwartz gehört zweifellos zu den bemerkenswertesten Wissenschaftlern der jüngeren Medizingeschichte. Als Sohn jüdischer Eltern sah er sich nach der Machtergreifung Hitlers (1933) zur Emigration gezwungen. Trotz dieser repressiven Erfahrung gelang ihm im selben Jahr die Gründung der „Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wisse...

Auf der Grundlage eines Auftrages des Strafvollzugsaus-schusses beteiligen sich 14 der 16 Bundesländer an einer län-derübergreifenden Evaluierung des Jugendstrafvollzuges. Dieser Auftrag beinhaltet drei Analysedimensionen: Erstens geht es um die Dokumentation der Strukturqualität des Ju-gendstrafvollzuges anhand eines Kataloges vergleichbarer Kennz...

Im nordrhein-westfälischen Strafvollzugsgesetz ist nunmehr die Behandlung der Gefangenen als Grundlage zur Erreichung des Vollzugsziels festgeschrieben (§ 3 StVollzG NRW). Unter der An-nahme, dass es zur Zielerreichung auch der freiwilligen Beteiligung an Behandlungsmaßnahmen bedarf, soll die Bereitschaft der Gefangenen zur Mitwirkung gefördert und...

In this contribution, we analyze a comprehensive set of rhetorical strategies used by security professionals to legitimize the implementation of advanced surveillance systems. Drawing on a set of semi-structured in-depth interviews with experts from safety and security departments of an air traffic control provider in Italy, we show that both the e...

Zur Erreichung des Vollzugszieles – einem Leben in sozialer Verantwortung ohne Straftaten – ist der Vollzug der Freiheitsstrafe grundsätzlich so zu gestalten, dass den schädlichen Folgen des Freiheitsentzuges entgegengewirkt wird (vgl. StVollzG NRW §2). Angesichts der Herausforde-rung, die Inhaftierten in Unfreiheit auf ein Leben in Freiheit vor-zu...