Occupational Health Psychology - Science topic

This study examines the relationship between working from home (WFH) and satisfaction with work-life balance (WLB) and life satisfaction among parents with dependent children, focusing on moderating factors related to work hours and childcare demands. We differentiate between parents who continued WFH from before the COVID-19 pandemic and those who...

Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) drivers in Ghana face occupational challenges due to long hours, poor road conditions, and limited support, contributing to fatigue driving and increased accident risks. This study examines the association psychosocial work factors, psychological well-being, and burnout have with fatigue driving among HGV drivers in Ghana,...

Prolonged labour pain is a challenging aspect of childbirth. This study examined how a woman's job affects her prolonged labour pain experience in India's diverse healthcare and socioeconomic landscape. The National Family Health Survey 5, a nationwide study conducted in India investigated the correlation between occupation and prolonged labour pai...

From comprehensive theoretical models, interventions based on character strengths are considered promising tools for the development of work engagement and performance (Bakker & Demerouti, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 22(3), 273, 2017; Salanova et al., 2006). However, there is a gap in scientific research regarding these interventions...

Background It’s more important to measure the subjective perception of change after undergoing any behavioral or psychological intervention. Global rating of change method—anchor item-based is a method by which the change can be quantified and “minimum subjective perceived effect” (MSPE) can be calculated. Aim The current study was planned to quan...

Various interactions and their complexities at workplaces, organizational values and practices, policy decisions, managerial aspects, work satisfaction, burnout, coping, and resilience all circumscribe the employees' health and well-being and impede multiple interactions. Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) aims to promote a happy and healthy work...

Introdução Os profissionais de saúde estão expostos a um elevado número de fatores de risco psicossociais. Estes têm consequências a nível individual e organizacional. A psicologia da saúde ocupacional aplica princípios da psicologia na proteção e promoção da saúde e bem-estar dos trabalhadores. Neste âmbito, pode atuar a nível da organização, com...

Wstęp: W marcu 2020 roku WHO ogłosiła pandemię COVID-19, co doprowadziło do wprowadzenia izolacji fizycznej i zmiany trybu edukacji na całym świecie. W Polsce od 12 marca wszystkie placówki edukacyjne zostały zamknięte, a nauka odbywała się zdalnie, co zaburzyło schemat kształcenia. Izolacja społeczna i nauka na odległość wywołały negatywne skutki...

Purpose: Managing employee engagement and burning has always been a challenging problem for human resource management and companies in today's competitive corporate climate, both in terms of positive and poor organisational effects. To increase social workers' commitment, it is crucial to look into the factors that affect their desire to leave thei...

Extant research suggests the effectiveness of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) interventions depends on their design in the broader organisational context. While the field recognises that pre- and posttest evaluation do not sufficiently capture the complex dynamics around OHP interventions, complex multi-level OHP interventions are still scarce...

A Psicologia da Saúde Ocupacional é uma área de estudo e intervenção relevante para ajudar a identificar e a compreender os fatores que afetam a saúde e o bem-estar dos indivíduos no ambiente de trabalho. Neste sentido, foi definido como objetivo analisar os resultados e as considerações da investigação em torno da Psicologia da Saúde Ocupacional,...

This chapter provides a framework and explains the need for more collaboration between four key roles to support workplace mental health: Occupational Health Psychologists, Well-Being Champions, Mental Health Peer Support, and those implementing Total Worker Health initiatives.

This study presents a bibliometrics analysis and scientific mapping of research on workload and occupational frustration within the field of organizational behavior from 2001 to 2023. Data from the Scopus database were analyzed using VOSviewer software. The study explores publication trends, identifies the most productive authors, countries, and pu...

For too long, organizational science has implicitly or explicitly endorsed job performance as the ultimate criterion (or the bottom line for organizational performance). We propose that a broader vision of well-being-or optimal functioning-should be the ultimate criterion. This conceptualization does not preclude performance but rather encompasses...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first is to map and analyse prominent contributions, current dynamics, patterns, gaps and research prospects in the field of workplace incivility (WI); second is to provide a coherent theoretical research framework for future research. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a two-step analysis a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first is to map and analyse prominent contributions, current dynamics, patterns, gaps and research prospects in the field of workplace incivility (WI); second is to provide a coherent theoretical research framework for future research. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a two-step analysis a...

This article aims to 1) explore how retired academics experienced work-to-retirement transition and 2) offer insights that can be applied in addressing its potential opportunities and challenges. Toward this end, we conducted face-to-face interviews with retirees (n=7) from a comprehensive private university in Manila, Philippines. The descriptive...

Stress-as-Offense-to-Self (SOS) theory presumes threats to the self are a source of adverse outcomes and boosts to one’s self-view thwart adverse outcomes (Semmer et al., 2019). Consistent with needs-threat model (Williams, 2007) and sociometer theory (Leary, 2005), workplace ostracism (WO) is one such threat to sense of self, as it reduces a perso...

The objective of the present study is divided into two parts: the first one aimed to expose the translation and adaptation process of the Porto-Martins and Benevides-Pereira (2008) version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale; the second part focused on the validation of the instrument considering samples from five distinct and independent studies,...

Reports an error in "When the medium massages perceptions: Personal (vs. public) displays of information reduce crowding perceptions and outsider mistreatment of frontline staff" by Jean-Nicolas Reyt, Dorit Efrat-Treister, Daniel Altman, Chen Shapira, Arie Eisenman and Anat Rafaeli (Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2022[Feb], Vol 27[1], 1...

Recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery, and control; Sonnentag and Fritz (Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12, 204–221, 2007)) are thought to enhance both work and health outcomes, though the mechanisms are not well understood. We propose and test an integrated theoretical model in which work engagement...

Background Governments and employers aim to promote sustainable employability (SE) in aging societies. In the Netherlands, an instrument for capturing the employee perspective on SE, the MAastricht Instrument for Sustainable Employability (MAISE-NL), has recently been developed. This study seeks to validate the Italian version of the MAISE (MAISE-I...

In 2019, we put out the call for submissions to a special issue of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) on preventing interpersonal stressors. At that time, we could not imagine that in 2020, a global pandemic (coronavirus disease [COVID-19]) would suddenly shut down our workplaces and result in a loss of face-toface interpersonal intera...

In this brief article, the editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology notes that there has been a rapid increase in the visibility of occupational health psychology over the last 25 years, which has seen growing impact and importance of OHP topics. In this time, the nature of work has changed considerably due to significant societal an...

This systematic literature review synthesises the existing knowledge about the impact on working caregivers managing dual responsibilities of paid work and informal eldercare, as well as the demands and resources related to juggling these duties. Due to the increasing volume of research in this area, it is important to synthesise current knowledge...

Purpose While presenteeism is empirically linked to lower productivity, the role of a person's motives for engaging in presenteeism has been overlooked. Using a Conservation of Resources Theory framework, we examine the moderating effects of presenteeism motives (approach and avoidance motives) on the presenteeism–productivity relationship. Design...

The world of work is changing dramatically due to continuous technological advancements and globalization (the so-called industry 4 [...]

Contextual nuance holds value for occupational health and safety, particularly as workplace challenges and solutions become more complex. However, disciplines that inform occupational safety and health vary in the degree to which they target breadth and depth of understanding. The future of work presents challenges related to work, the workplace, a...

With the cultivation of the government, the team of social workers continues to grow. The occupational mental health status of social workers has been paid more and more attention. Based on screening and combing the existing literature on occupational health psychology of social workers in China, this paper summarizes and reviews the research on ps...

Purpose Drawing upon the job-demands resources and the job demands-control-support model, the authors examined the buffering effect of health-oriented leadership (HoL) in terms of staff care on the relationship between job demands and employee health and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Cross-sectional data from two studies ( N 1 = 31...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to generate threats to occupational health, safety, and well-being. As a result, it presents an opportunity to deepen the field’s insights into occupational health psychology (OHP), and to offer practical guidance that may help workers, organizations, and society mitigate the pandemic’s negative effects. This special...

Paula Brough’s recent keynote address to the virtual 14th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference, discussed the ‘enigmatic concept of work-life balance’. Brough noted that 45 years of work-life balance research has produced distinct advancements in the scholarly discussions of work-life balance (i.e., clarity of definition, m...

Many workers experience their jobs as effortful or even stressful, which can result in strain. Although recovery from work would be an adaptive strategy to prevent the adverse effects of work-related strain, many workers face problems finding enough time to rest and to mentally disconnect from work during nonwork time. What goes on in workers’ mind...

The occupational specialty of casino employees brings about the problem of long-standing severe emotional exhaustion and stress management challenges. Therefore, it is of great significance to pay attention to their occupational health psychology (Du & Li, in Psych Res 7(1):46–50, 2014). Based on the relevant researches on occupational health psych...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has imposed significant threats to individuals’ physical health and has substantially changed the socioeconomic order and the nature of our work and life all over the world. To guide organizations to design effective workplace interventions to mitigate the negative impacts of COVID-19, we take the occupational health psycho...

Many OHP interventions depend on some form of active participation from an employee and trends of low participation in interventions could jeopardize validity and impact. Intervention involvement can vary based on demographic, job-related, and health-related factors, with some research finding that those who would benefit the most from an intervent...

Background Health promotion and age management at work are top priorities for governments and employers. To promote sustainable employability (SE) in aging societies is more necessary than ever. In the Netherlands, an instrument for tapping the employee perspective on SE (MAISE-NL) has recently been developed. This study aims to validate the Italia...

Presentation has been given at the 14th (digital) Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (Cyprus).

Objective Governments and employers aim to promote sustainable employability (SE) in ageing societies. In the Netherlands, an instrument for tapping the employee perspective on SE (MAISE-NL), has recently been developed. This study aims to validate the Italian version of MAISE (MAISE-IT). Methods The MAISE-IT, the Work-Health Balance questionnaire...

Effective occupational health psychology (OHP) interventions are evidence-based strategies that address the increasing costs of occupational stress and poor well-being. However, the evidence that OHP interventions successfully reduces these costs remains ambiguous. This systematic review of OHP interventions assessed the theoretical basis informing...

Abstract Occupational diseases and accidents have been studied due to their importance because of the large number of individuals worldwide who are exposed in their different areas of work, as well as the knowledge about them is constantly evolving, for this reason it is necessary analyze different authors and the approach they show from the multip...

What goes on in workers' minds after a stressful work day and what is it about their jobs that got them thinking like this? This Special Issue of the German Journal of Human Resource Management (GHRM) aims to bridge the gap between research on cognitive recovery processes (e.g., detachment, work reflection, rumination, problem-solving pondering) th...

The set of studies in this issue focus on applied interventions in occupational health psychology (OHP), that is, interventions that are intended to treat employee health and well-being problems or prevent these problems from occurring in the first place. An issue regarding many past evaluations of the effectiveness of these treatments was the rela...

Background: Since the beginning of the 20th century, the importance of creating healthy work environments and promoting the health of workers in the healthcare sector to create Healthy and Resilient Organizations has been emphasized. In this context, self-esteem is an essential construct which influences health and healthy life styles, and, therefo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to promote a wider understanding of the importance of distinguishing between presenteeism behavior and its motivation and between the avoidance and approach dimensions of motivation, and to rectify the neglect of presenteeism’s antecedents (in particular, situational ones). It develops a theoretical model that...

Purpose Studies have shown that availability for work during non-work hours can impair well-being. However, there are significant inter-individual differences regarding these effects. Referring to the “effort–reward–imbalance” model and the “stress-as-offense-to-self” model, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that perceived advan...

Präsentismus – Ein Beitrag zur Erklärung des Phänomens Präsentismus bezeichnet das Verhalten, trotz gesundheitlicher Beschwerden zur Arbeit zu gehen. Seit der Aussage von Hemp (2004), die Kosten, die Unternehmen durch Präsentismus entstehen, überstiegen jene für Absentismus und der Aussage von Pirkovitsch (2007), bei Präsentismus handle es sich um...

INTRODUCCIÓN CONCLUSIONES  No se han observado diferencias estadísticamente significativas al comparar las dos intervenciones activas (MM y EA) entre sí en ninguna de las variables dependientes a lo largo de la intervención. Sin embargo, sí se encuentran diferencias al comparar por separado cada una de las intervenciones con el grupo control. Así,...

Self-employed is an interesting category when it comes to the phenomenon of sickness presence. To our knowledge, there are few studies of sickness presence among self-employed. In addition, earlier studies have indicated that self-employed have a high working pace and work many and irregular ours (Gunnarsson, Vingård, & Josephson, 2007; Nordenmark,...

O processo de tomada de decisão a respeito da escolha de uma carreira tem se tornado cada vez mais complexo diante das constantes mudanças no mundo do trabalho. Em curtos espaços de tempo, novas ocupações surgem e desaparecem, muitas vezes em períodos mais curtos do que muitas das clássicas formações acadêmicas. Diante desse cenário, novos recursos...

This paper is an annotated bibliography of important research reports in the field of occupational health psychology.

Objectives: This study integrates different aspects of ethnicity and work-related stress dimensions (based on the Demands-Resources-Individual-Effects model, DRIVE [Mark, G. M., and A. P. Smith. 2008. "Stress Models: A Review and Suggested New Direction." In Occupational Health Psychology, edited by J. Houdmont and S. Leka, 111-144. Nottingham: No...

Although she has conducted research in several areas, Christina Maslach is best known for her pioneering work on ‘burnout’. It’s a concept with great academic and popular appeal as it captures a common experience among employees, especially those working within the helping professions. Gail Kinman and Kevin Teoh interviewed Professor Maslach at the...

Occupational health psychology (OHP), as it is known today, is preceded by over a century of inquiry in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and other disciplines regarding the conditions of work and the welfare of workers, organizations, and society. This diverse body of research is richly detailed in reports on the history of OHP. Less represented...

Volatility in the work´s world requires high levels of productivity and performance, resulting in the growth of psychosocial factors, especially occupational stress of workers. Reason for the theoretical model (s) of Occupational Health Psychology to be repositioned in the emerging disruptive environment.

Measurement of occupational health psychology constructs is the cornerstone to developing our understanding of occupational health and safety. It also is critical in the design, evaluation, and implementation of interventions to improve employees and organizations well-being. The purpose of this article is a brief review of the current state of mea...

As part of the 20th anniversary celebration for the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (JOHP), this article reviews the literature on work-family with a special emphasis on research published in JOHP and that with health-related implications. We provide a retrospective overview of work-family research, tracing key papers and major theoretica...

Emotional labor has been an area of burgeoning research interest in occupational health psychology in recent years. Emotional labor was conceptualized in the early 1980s by sociologist Arlie Hochschild (1983) as occupational requirements that alienate workers from their emotions. Almost 2 decades later, a model was published in Journal of Occupatio...

It has been almost a decade since Journal of Occupational Health Psychology published back-to-back meta-analyses on occupational stress management interventions (Richardson & Rothstein, 2008) and organizational wellness programs (Parks & Steelman, 2008). These studies cited the need for systematic reviews given the growing body of literature in the...

http://www.springerpub.com/occupational-health-psychology.html Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field that focuses on the science and practice of psychology in promoting and developing workplace health- and safety-related initiatives. This comprehensive text for undergraduate and graduate survey courses...

The article contains the history of the first years of the SOHP Newsletter.

The job demands−resources (JD-R) model was introduced in the international literature 15 years ago (Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner, & Schaufeli, 2001). The model has been applied in thousands of organizations and has inspired hundreds of empirical articles, including 1 of the most downloaded articles of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology...

Sexual harassment (SH) is a continuing, chronic occupational health problem in organizations and work environments. First addressed in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology through a 1998 Special Section on Sexual Harassment, we return to this consequential issue. If the goal is to reduce SH in organizations, and we believe that it should b...

Investigating the relationship between Ethical Climate and Psychological Capital Ms Lindiwe Sibiya Ms Thelma Makoni Prof René van Wyk vanwyk.rene@uj.ac.za * Corresponding author Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg ABSTRACT Ethical climate and psychological capital play an...

The present study explored the relationships among leadership styles, leader’s effectiveness and well-being directly as well as indirectly through collective efficacy among the employees of the education industry, the latest entrant on the Indian scene. Ninety full-time employees participated in the study. They were administered the Multifactor Lea...

Job insecurity, often defined as the subjectively perceived likelihood of involuntary job loss (1), emerges as a key psychosocial risk in the working environment in recent large scale European studies. The 5th European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) of 2010 showed that about 16% of the EU workers expected to lose their job in the next six months...

Promoção da saúde ocupacional em contexto escolar: da saúde física ao bem-estar profissional dos professores. In M. J. Chambel (Coord.), Psicologia da saúde ocupacional (pp.135-166). Lisboa: Pactor Editora. A escola tem desde há muito vindo a ser descrita como uma ecologia geradora de stress 1 para os professores e a docência como uma profissão de...

El objetivo de este estudio fue describir la producción científica publicada sobre riesgo psicosocial laboral, en las bases de datos ProQuest y PsycArticles, durante los años 2000 a 2010. Para la recolección de información se elaboró una rejilla con indicadores bibliométricos, clasificados en tres categorías: bibliométricas, metodológicas, y teóric...

Research in Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) demonstrates that different (work and non-work) environmental and individual characteristics might affect workers' well-being. However, these findings have been generalized to both women and men. Both women's and men's occupational health merit scientific attention, as researchers need to consider th...

Bergman and Jean (2016) skillfully summarize how the industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology literature generally overrepresents salaried, core, managerial, professional, and executive employees. We concur that that the underrepresentation of traditional workers (i.e., wage earners, laborers, first-line personnel, freelancers, contract worke...

General objective: Initiate activities to know the organizational environment of the workplace according to new legislation in Mexico, as result of the Labor Reform. Specific objective: to determine the level of work engagement of employees on board an oil and gas mexican offshore facility. Method: This was observation a land descriptive; the UWES-...

The aim of this study was to describe the scientific production published on psychosocial risk at work in the ProQuest and PsycArticles databases between 2000 and 2010. Data collection was assisted by a grid with bibliometric indicators in three different categories: bibliometric, methodological, and theoretical features of published articles. We i...

Protecting workers from hazards and risks in the workplace is an ongoing challenge worldwide. Annual statistics report more than two million fatalities and more than 300 million non-fatal incidents from workplace accidents, workplace violence, and work-related disease worldwide. It is estimated that more than half of the accidents are a result of s...

Presentation of a forthcoming five year prospective research project (2014 - 2019). Aim: There are three main aims. Firstly, to study how different organizational factors longitudinally are related to each other and how they interact over time. Secondly, to study how people’s experience of work is affected by different organizational factors, and...

Background: One of the most traditional approaches to the positive study of personality has been the research on Hardiness or Hardy Personality. However, studies about this construct have systematically suffered from a lack of sufficient psychometric guarantees of the measures. Method: This paper presents the Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire...

The objective of the current paper is to summarize the main evidence-based practical contributions of the WoNT team from Universitat Jaume I carried out on Occupational Health Psychology and Positive Organizational Psychology in crises settings. Specifically, we show the RED (Resources-Experiences-Demands) methodology that allows assessing risks an...

Aufgrund tief greifender Veränderungen der heutigen Arbeitswelt stehen Mitarbeiter und Führungskräfte steigenden Belastungen gegenüber, die sie zum Teil nicht ohne Unterstützung bewältigen können (Leka & Houdmont, 2010). Zur Stärkung der Gesundheit der Mitarbeiter kommt dem betrieblichen Gesundheitsmanagement eine wichtige Rolle zu (Sonntag, Stegma...

This paper details the design and evaluation of a positive psychology-based employee well-being program. The effect of the program on well-being was evaluated using a mixed method design comprising of an RCT to assess outcome effectiveness, and participant feedback and facilitator field notes to assess process and impact effectiveness. Fifty govern...

TO CITE: Acosta, H., Salanova, M., & Llorens, S. (2013). Bulding Organizational Trust: A Study in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. In J. Neves y S.P. Gonçalves (Eds.), Occupational Health Psychology: From burnout to well-being. Rosemead, CA: Cientific & Academic Publishing. ABSTRACT: The current study aims to contribute to our understanding of t...

Ref.: Torrente, P., Salanova, M., Llorens, S., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2013). From I to We: The factorial validity of a Team Work Engagement Scale. In J. Neves & S. P. Gonçalves (Eds.), Occupational Health Psychology: From burnout to well-being. Rosemead, CA: Scientific & Academic Publishing. This study contributes to our understanding of work engagemen...

Although a single-item job satisfaction measure has been shown to be reliable and inclusive as multiple-item scales in relation to health, studies including immunological data are few. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of single-item job and family life satisfaction based on its association with immune indices. A total of 189 w...

Occupational health psychology (OHP) is a relanively new discipline in foreign psychology. In article two approaches to the definition of OHP – European and North American – are described. The topic areas that comprise the focus of OHP abroad are considered: the results of published research themes’ and expert surveys’ analyze highlight the prevale...

The changes on work processes and job design in recent decades are focused in the demographic, economic, political, and technological aspects. These changes have created new psychosocial risks at work that affect the health and quality of workplace, increasing stress levels among workers. The aim of this study is to present such risks, their conseq...

This article introduces the monographic section on Positive Occupational Health Psychology (POHP), presenting eight theoretical and empirical papers about diverse topics. Traditionally, research on occupational health has mainly been focused on causes of diseases and on identifying and preventing work factors related to worker's impaired health. Ho...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the emerging concept of Positive Occupational Health Psychology (POHP). We discuss the usefulness of focusing on positive constructs in order to understand the path to health and well-being at work. We describe research findings on several POHP topics, including engagement, psychological capital, a...