Stress Research Institute
Research on stress at the Department of Psychology focuses on stress and recovery in a broad sense, covering the entire spectrum from social and psychological structures, biological mechanisms, long-term health consequences, to the treatment of stress-related diagnoses.
The primary aim of the stress research is to deepen the understanding of mechanisms, countermeasures, and treatment methods for various stress-related conditions, with the goal of contributing to improved public health.
About the Stress Research Institute
The Stress Research Institute is a well-established brand among researchers and other societal groups interested in knowledge about stress, health, and daily life.
The Institute was formally dissolved in January 2024, and its research has since been integrated into the Department of Psychology, within the Division of Psychobiology and Epidemiology. However, the Department has decided to retain the “Stress Research Institute” brand.
The Institute’s research, with a particular focus on stress reactions, recovery, and health, based on interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approaches, continues as before, as does the dissemination of knowledge through channels such as the Stress Research Podcast, Stress Research Day, and other initiatives aimed at providing practical advice on topics like sleep and shift worker scheduling.
Stress research is one of the Department’s unofficial core areas. Research is primarily conducted within the Division of Psychobiology and Epidemiology, but it also has a natural place within the Division of Work and Organizational Psychology, and to some extent, within the Division of Clinical Psychology.
Research groups
Research projects
A selection of research projects in this area.
Exhaustion Disorder – an appraisal
Organization of the work environment to promote sustainable health
Post-retirement work: A path to extending working life that generates new inequalities?
Psychosocial stress over the working career and cognitive dysfunction
Sleep in everyday life – relationship to mood and performance in young and older adults
SLEMEG - An MEG-study on the effects of insufficient sleep on emotional and attentional processes
Social regulation of stress and threat
Stress and Work-Related Mental Illness Among Working Adults With ADHD
This is not part of my job! Longterm health consequences of illegitimate tasks in welfare work
What combinations of shift work characteristics are the worst and what are the most attractive?
Working hours, health and security - how to organize a sustainable shift schedule?
Last updated: October 28, 2024
Source: Department of Psychology