Overview
- Offers a unique Nordic perspective on Occupational Health Psychology beyond the traditional topics
- Discusses the framework between Positive Psychology and Occupational Health Psychology
- Contains a depth of research and ideas for improving work and health in practical settings
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- health psychology
- occupational health
- occupational health psychology
- the meaning of work
- work engagement
- job crafting
- intervention research
- health change at work
- healthy organizations
- contemporary work issues
- stimulating health at work
- positive occupational health psychology
- positive psychology
- Nordic work life
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Per Øystein Saksvik is a professor at The Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (since 2001) where he also reached his Ph.D. in 1991 in Occupational Health Psychology. He has ten years of experience as contract researcher. He does research in occupational health and safety, organizational interventions, sickness absenteeism and presenteeism, and organizational change.Â
Marit Christensen has a PhD psychology and work as an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University og Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research interests are related to positive occupational health psychology, health promoting work, work environment surveys, work engagement, co-workership and healthy productive organisations. She has been a project leader for two Nordic projects regarding positive factors at work, and now she is in the research group for the ARK-project (work and climate surveys in the academic sector)
. The ARK research platform at the time consists of data from 19 different institutions where 15000 respondents have participated.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Positive Side of Occupational Health Psychology
Editors: Marit Christensen, Per Øystein Saksvik, Maria Karanika-Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66781-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66780-5Published: 13 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88319-9Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66781-2Published: 26 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Human Resource Management, Positive Psychology, Health Psychology