Marit Christensen
Background and activities
I am an associate professor of work and organizational psychology at the Department of Psychology and affiliated with the Centre for Health Promotion Research. In 2012, I defended my doctoral thesis: "Work and health in a changing world: The implications of job demands and resources for job satisfaction and health at work."
I have been project manager on two Nordic projects dealing with positive factors in the working life and healthy engaged workers in healthy organisations. In these projects I have together with my Nordic partners worked to map and test theories and methods on positive factors in the working life adapted to Nordic working life.
I am researching, and have been part of the development of ARK, which is a comprehensive mapping and implementation programme to promote psychosocial working environment and climate in the university and university college sector in Norway.
I also lead a work package in the H2020 project "H-work - Multilevel Interventions to Promote Mental Health in SMEs and Public Workplaces". Together with 14 partners from nine different countries, we will develop and test multi-level tools and measures to promote mental health in Europe. Watch the video "Going to research working environment that provides good mental health" for more information.
Other projects that I am a part of are:
- Understanding Healthy Workplaces: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Norway and the United States", founded by Peder Seather, collaboration with UC Berkeley (interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces), Business school of Norway Campus Stavanger and University of Tampere, Finland.
- "Successful aging in the worklife" collaboration with HRM Han university Nijmegen, Netherland,
- "Healthy healthcare" – European consortium.
- Developing and testing tools for implementing organizational interventions, collaboration with Work Psychology, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield.
- The leaders' role in the process of organisational interventions in collaboration with the University of Sheffield, the business school.
- BAT- Development and testing of the Burnout Assessment Tool. Contact: Marit Christensen
Professional interests
Occupational health
Work engagement
Health promotion
Organisational interventions
Development of measuring tools for the psychosocial working environment
Courses
- PSY3913 - Master Thesis in Work and Organisational Psychology
- PSY3133 - Internship
- PSY3130 - Occupational Health Psychology
- PSY3136 - Modern working life
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) To Change or Not to Change: A Study of Workplace Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).
- (2022) Engaged or Obsessed? Examining the Relationship between Work Engagement, Workaholism and Work-Related Health via Work- Home Interaction. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. vol. 7 (1).
- (2022) COVID-19-Related Job Demands and Resources, Organizational Support, and Employee Well-Being: A Study of Two Nordic Countries. Challenges. vol. 13 (10).
- (2021) The Role of Adequate Resources, Community and Supportive Leadership in Creating Engaged Academics. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). vol. 18 (5).
- (2021) “We All Held Our Own”: Job Demands and Resources at Individual, Leader, Group, and Organizational Levels During COVID-19 Outbreak in Health Care. A Multi-Source Qualitative Study. Workplace Health & Safety: Promoting Environments Conducive to Well-Being and Productivity. vol. 70 (1).
- (2021) Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. vol. 6 (1).
- (2021) Line managers' middle-levelness and driving proactive behaviors in organizational interventions. International Journal of Workplace Health Management. vol. 14 (6).
- (2021) Positive participatory organizational interventions: A multilevel approach for creating healthy workplaces. Frontiers in Psychology. vol. 12.
- (2021) A Six-Year Effect Evaluation of an Occupational Health Intervention – Considering Contextual Challenges. American Journal of Applied Psychology. vol. 10 (3).
- (2020) H-WORK Project: Multilevel Interventions to Promote Mental Health in SMEs and Public Workplaces. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). vol. 17 (21).
- (2020) An Open Time Perspective and Social Support to Sustain in Healthcare Work: Results of a Two-Wave Complete Panel Study. Frontiers in Psychology. vol. 11.
- (2020) The Relationship between Empowering Leadership, Work Characteristics, and Work Engagement among Academics: A Sem Mediation Analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. vol. 5 (1).
- (2020) Investigating Managerial Qualities to Support Sustainable Intervention Effects in the Long Term. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. vol. 10 (2).
- (2019) The line manager’s role in implementing successful organizational interventions. The Spanish Journal of Psychology. vol. 22.
- (2018) Academic work engagement, resources and productivity: empirical evidence with policy implications. Studies in Higher Education.
- (2018) Healthy universities. The development and implementation of a holistic health promotion intervention program especially adopted for the educational sector. The ARK study. Global Health Promotion. vol. 27 (1).
- (2017) Work engagement - A double edged Sword: A Study of the Relationship between Work Engagement and the Work-Home Interaction Using the ARK Research Platform. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
- (2016) Academic Work Engagement, Resources and Productivity: Implications for Intervention Policies. Webside: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2016/abstracts.
- (2016) Job autonomy in higher education, a mediator between empowering leadership and engagement. Webside: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2016/abstracts.
- (2016) Work engagement: A double-edged sword? A study on the relationship between work engagement and the work-home interaction. Webside: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2016/abstracts.