Sylvie Vincent-Höper

Medical School Hamburg | MSH · Department of Psychology

Introduction Sexual harassment in the workplace is a global issue. Social and healthcare workers are at high risk of experiencing sexual harassment. The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence rates of nonverbal, verbal and physical sexual harassment from patients and clients against healthcare workers. The links between sexual harassmen...

Background Employees in social work exhibit high rates of sick leave due to mental health issues. Additionally, work-related demands in youth welfare have increased in recent years. Particularly in light of the escalating shortage of skilled professionals in this field, this trend becomes especially critical. The aim of this study is to systematica...

Purpose Although nonwork mastery generates personal resources and improves employee well-being and performance, employees must invest personal resources to experience mastery during nonwork time. Drawing on conservation of resources theory and resource exchange perspectives, the purpose of this study is to examine the role of day-to-day provisions...

Evidence points to an indirect relationship between transformational leadership (TFL) and employee well-being, and numerous work characteristics have been identified as mediators. However, the relative mediating effect of different types of job resources and job demands on the TFL–well-being relationship remains unclear, rendering it impossible to...

Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we developed and evaluated a supportive leadership training (SLT) intervention designed to teach leaders ways to be supportive of their employees. Given the important role of supportive leaders in helping employees deal with excessive workloads, we theorized that the beneficial intervention effects on em...

Social and healthcare workers are at high risk of experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace. Although sexual harassment is detrimental to people’s well-being, only a few studies have systematically investigated social and healthcare workers’ experiences of different forms of sexually harassing behaviors by patients, clients, and residents in...

Der Einfluss der personalen Führung auf die Gesundheit der Beschäftigten wird in diesem Beitrag in den Fokus genommen. Im ersten Schritt geben wir einen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand. Bei einem Vergleich verschiedener gesundheitsförderlicher Führungskonzepte wird die Relevanz der Beziehungsqualität zwischen Führungskraft und Beschäft...

In this study, we draw on conservation of resources theory to suggest that transformational leaders’ encouragement of extra effort in followers might reduce or increase followers’ emotional exhaustion depending on their ability to replenish energy reserves. Specifically, we argue that the indirect relationship between transformational leadership (T...

Ergebnis Die höchsten Zusammenhänge unter den Stressoren mit den Gesundheitsindikatoren zeigen Rollenkonflikte (r =-0.59 bis r = 0.34), qualitative Anforderungen (r =-0.48 bis r = .33) und emotionale Anforderungen (r =-0.31 bis r = 0.23). Unter den Res-sourcen weisen eine Vielfalt an Arbeitsmerkmalen durchgehend Zusammenhänge mit den Gesundheitsind...

In this study, we draw upon conservation of resources theory to suggest that transformational leaders’ capacity to encourage extra effort might both energize and exhaust followers depending on their ability to replenish energy reserves. Specifically, we argue that the indirect relationship between transformational leadership and emotional exhaustio...

Purpose This study of leaders and followers working in day-care centers aims to use a multilevel perspective on supportive leadership to examine its role in linking workload at the leader level and emotional exhaustion at the follower level. Integrating theoretical work on social support with conservation of resources (COR) theory, leaders' workloa...

The aim of this study is to obtain a better understanding of the association between the frequency of nurses’ exposure to workplace aggression from patients and their levels of burnout. In particular, we seek to shed light on the role of the availability of follow-up counseling in organizations after critical incidents in mitigating the adverse rel...

In this study, we investigated health-relevant job characteristics of social workers in ambulatory youth welfare services, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on a systematic literature review, expert workshops, and focus group discussions with 9 experts of the target group, we identified target group-specific job demands and job...

According to the concept of abusive supervision, abusive supervisors display hostility towards their employees by humiliating and ridiculing them, giving them the silent treatment, and breaking promises. In this study, we argue that abusive supervision may not be limited to mistreatment at the relationship level and that the abuse is likely to exte...

Although evidence reveals severe effects of sexual harassment on care workers’ mental health, there is a scarcity of studies that investigate care workers’ experiences of sexually inappropriate behavior from patients or clients. One reason for this lack of research is that validated measures that assess different types of sexual harassment experien...

Dialysis nurses face complex and demanding working conditions. Due to demographic changes, the number of dialysis patients has increased, while the number of skilled personnel is expected to decrease, leading to tremendous increases in quantitative demands in the near future. Against the background of increasing workload, focusing on the provision...

Purpose In this study, the authors integrate the concept of leader support with a process model of innovation including the generation, promotion and implementation of innovative ideas to obtain an in-depth understanding of how leaders may support employees’ innovative efforts. The purpose of this paper is to develop an organizing framework and val...

To advance knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between leadership and employees’ well-being, this study examines leaders’ effects on their employees’ compensatory coping efforts. Using an extension of the job demands–resources model, we propose that high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) allows employees to cope with high job...

In this article, we draw upon the notion that employees’ work characteristics are an important pathway through which leaders influence employee well-being and propose a theoretical framework that integrates perspectives on leadership, occupational stress, and job design. Based on this integrative approach, we developed the health- and development-p...

Background A dialysis nurse’s work is complex and demanding. Based on the results of a systematic review and a survey study, we developed a health-promoting intervention for dialysis nurses. The aim of this study is to evaluate this intervention. Methods Before the intervention, the dialysis facilities were surveyed, and an analysis workshop was c...

Gesundheit hat im Coaching-Prozess hohe Relevanz. Aus arbeits- und gesundheitspsychologischen Modellen lassen sich Faktoren ableiten, die für die Gesundheit wichtig sind und die im Coaching berücksichtigt werden sollten. Dazu gehören bedingungsbezogene und personenbezogene Belastungen und Risikofaktoren sowie Ressourcen. Hinzu kommen das Wissen übe...

Objective: The role of leaders’ behaviour in maintaining employees’ health has become a topic of growing interest in business practice and university research for some time. In recent years, the number of studies on this subject has increased significantly. Transformational leadership is the leadership concept that has been most frequently linked t...

The sex-specific division of labor in our society implies that men and women differ in career perspectives, occupations, income, status, power, and influence. This sex-specific division of labor is supported and kept strong by processes of socialization. Within the last couple of years a number of interventions were designed to further advance the...

In recent years, transformational leadership as a health-related factor has become a focal point of interest in research and practice. However, the pathways and mechanisms underlying this association are not yet well understood. In order to gain knowledge on how or why transformational leadership and employee well-being are associated, we investiga...

Although, transformational leadership is among the most thoroughly examined leadership theories, knowledge regarding its association with followers' career outcomes is still limited. Furthermore, the underlying mechanisms explaining how transformational leaders affect their employees' career success are yet not well-understood. Based on theoretical...

Within the framework of a qualitative study, ten executives of a major German trading and retailing company were interviewed about the antecedents and consequences of shared leadership. The interview-material was reviewed by content analysis and subsequently categorized. The study uncovers 12 prerequisites that decision-makers in organizations shou...

Studies show that high-quality reciprocal relationships between leaders and followers are positively associated with employee well-being. However, the pathways for promoting this health-enhancing leadership behaviour have not yet been well explored, and most studies have been cross-sectional. The primary objective of this study was to examine the e...

Gesundheit hat im Coaching-Prozess hohe Relevanz. Aus arbeits- und gesundheitspsychologischen Modellen lassen sich Faktoren ableiten, die für die Gesundheit wichtig sind und die im Coaching berücksichtigt werden sollten. Dazu gehören bedingungsbezogene und personenbezogene Belastungen und Risikofaktoren sowie Ressourcen. Hinzu kommen das Wissen übe...

This paper presents the computer-related self-concept as a new theoretical approach to analyzing and understanding computer-related attitudes, emotions, and behaviors. The approach integrates different lines of research on computer-related self-cognitions. The authors developed and validated a questionnaire to measure the computer-related self-conc...

Current research confirms the link between leadership behavior and subordinates’ health. However, only a few longitudinal surveys have been carried out. The present longitudinal study examined whether occupational self-efficacy moderates the impact of transformational leadership on perceived negative well-being. The sample consisted of 339 employee...

There is empirical evidence that leadership behaviour is related to employee wellbeing. Most studies have analysed the relation between individual leadership constructs and indicators of employee well-being. There has been no systematic comparison of different leadership constructs with respect to their impact on different indicators of employee we...

Purpose The aim of the present study is to give insights into the interplay between leadership, well‐being and occupational success by examining the indirect effect of transformational leadership on subjective occupational success mediated by work engagement. Design/methodology/approach A gender‐sensitive approach was applied in order to reveal po...

Auch im Jahre 2012 ist noch eine Aufteilung der Erwerbsarbeit nach Geschlecht festzustellen: Frauen sind sowohl in bestimmten Branchen und Berufen, insbesondere im technisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich, als auch in Führungspositionen nach wie vor unterrepräsentiert. Insbesondere auf den höheren und höchsten Führungsebenen ist der Frauenanteil i...

In Germany, just like in most western industrialized countries, the workforce is still highly horizontally as well as vertically segregated: Women generally hold only a small proportion of managerial positions; engineering and computing can still be considered as male domains. In this article we present thetechnology-related self-concept as a new t...

Die direkte Führungskraft ist aufgrund ihres engen Kontaktes zu ihren MitarbeiterInnen besonders geeignet, diese gemäß ihrer Interessen und Fähigkeiten zu fordern und zu fördern. Dieser Artikel bietet einen zusammenfassenden Überblick über die Forschungsliteratur zur Bedeutung und Wirkungsweise von Führungsverhaltensweisen im Hinblick auf die beruf...

Zusammenfassung Der Einfluss des Führungsverhaltens auf die Gesundheit von Mitarbeitern gewinnt in den letzten Jahren sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der betrieblichen Praxis zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Entwicklung und Validierung eines Instruments zur Messung gesundheits- und entwicklungsförderlichen...

The group manager, who has close contact with his employees, is especially adequate to support these according to their interests and abilities. In this study we identified 12 leadership behaviors that enhance employees’ competencies and career advancement by analyzing 36 interviews with (potential) managers from companies operating in the fields o...

There has been a growing interest in the past years, in analyzing the impact of leadership behavior on employees’ health and well-being. In the present study, we investigated the relationships between supervisors’ behavior and indicators of employees’ well-being among a sample of 685 female and 637 male employees. Employees assessed the leadership...

Es besteht breiter Konsens darüber, dass Führungskräfte einen Einfluss auf die Gesundheit ihrer Mitarbeiter ausüben. Über Ausmaß und Art der Einflussnahme ist bislang jedoch wenig bekannt. Der Beitrag stellt einen neuen Führungsansatz dar, der Erkenntnisse aus der Stress- und der Führungsforschung miteinander verknüpft. Dieser integrative Ansatz di...