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Research group Division for Epidemiology

The research area focuses on improved understanding of how stress-related illnesses and health problems arise and can be prevented in and outside of the workplace.

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The Division for Epidemiology is the home to SLOSH – Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health – a nationally representative cohort study of the health consequences of psychosocial factors at work with 40,877 participants. Through extensive international collaboration, researchers at the Division are also able to use a number of large databases both in Sweden and in other countries to explore questions about working life and health.

Group description

The research focus mainly on longitudinal studies aiming to:

  • explore associations between work organisation, work environment and health, e.g. self-rated health, sleep disturbances, hearing problems, cognitive disturbances, depression, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and premature death.
  • study the causes and consequences of sickness absence, sickness presenteeism, and retirement.
  • investigate how acquired behavioural patterns, personal choices, and the balance between work and private life affects the associations between stress in working life and health.
  • study the health consequences of downsizing, organisational changes, and business cycle.
  • investigate the role of sleep and restitution in the relationship between stress in working life and health outcome.
  • study physiological mechanisms which mediate the association between stress and manifest disease, e.g. atherosclerosis and disturbances in hormonal regulation.
  • evaluate workplace interventions aiming to improve the work environment, reduce harmful stress, as well as to promote health and productivity among the emplyees.

Group members

Group managers

Hugo Westerlund

Professor

Department of Psychology
Hugo Westerlund

Hui Xin Wang

Professor

Department of Psychology

Members

Sandra Blomqvist

Postdoc

Department of Psychology
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Jaana Halonen

Researcher

Department of Psychology
Jaana Halonen. Foto: Johanna Bruun

Rebecka Holmgren

PhD Student

Department of Psychology
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Robin Högnäs

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
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Aleksandra Lebedeva

Guest Researcher

Department of Psychology

Constanze Leineweber

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
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Linda Magnusson Hanson

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
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Charlotta Nilsen

Guest

Department of Psychology
Charlotta Nilsen

Anna Nyberg

Researcher

Department of Psychology
Anna Nyberg

Paraskevi Peristera

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology

Loretta Platts

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
Loretta Platts Foto: Psykologiska institutionen/HD

Kristiina Rajaleid

Researcher

Department of Public Health Sciences
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Auriba Raza

Researcher

Department of Psychology
Auriba Raza. Foto: Psykologiska institutionen/HD

Lawrence Sacco

Researcher

Department of Psychology
Lawrence Sacco. Foto: Psykologiska institutionen/HD

Andreas Sarling

PhD Student

Department of Psychology
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Holendro Singh Chungkham

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
Holendro Singh Chungkham

Johanna Stengård

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology

Töres Theorell

Professor Emeritus

Department of Psychology
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Maria Wijkander

PhD Student

Department of Psychology

Tianwei Xu

Researcher

Department of Psychology
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