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34
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20505
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9995
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15

Overview

Despoina Xanthopoulou is affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on Business, Management and Accounting, Health Professions, and Psychology. Within these areas, they have explored subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics covered by Despoina Xanthopoulou emphasize Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Employment and Welfare Studies, Workplace Health and Well-being, Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Xanthopoulou include:

  • Structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and work engagement: A cross-country study (2021), published in European Management Journal
  • How does chronic burnout affect dealing with weekly job demands? A test of central propositions in JD-R and COR-theories (2022), published in Applied Psychology
  • The effects of a job crafting intervention on the success of an organizational change effort in a blue-collar work environment (2020), published in Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • Toxicity and Functional Tissue Responses of Two Freshwater Fish after Exposure to Polystyrene Microplastics (2021), published in Toxics
  • Burnout and job performance: a two-wave study on the mediating role of employee cognitive functioning (2021), published in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Despoina Xanthopoulou frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Evangelia Demerouti, Gintarė Mališauskaitė, Olena Nizalova, Arnold B. Bakker, and Maria Vakola. These collaborations indicate ongoing work in related fields and joint exploration of topics in organizational psychology and workplace health.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in respected venues such as Applied Psychology, Social Indicators Research, PsycTESTS Dataset, European Management Journal, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Best Publications

  • The Role of Personal Resources in the Job Demands-Resources Model

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Job Resources Boost Work Engagement, Particularly When Job Demands Are High

    Arnold B. Bakker;Jari J. Hakanen;Evangelia Demerouti;Despoina Xanthopoulou

  • Reciprocal relationships between job resources, personal resources, and work engagement.

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Do transformational leaders enhance their followers' daily work engagement?

    Maria Tims;Arnold B. Bakker;Despoina Xanthopoulou

  • Working in the Sky: A Diary Study on Work Engagement Among Flight Attendants

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Baker;Ellen Heuven;Evangelia Demerouti

  • When do job demands particularly predict burnout?: The moderating role of job resources

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Maureen F. Dollard;Evangelia Demerouti

  • Beyond the demand-control model: Thriving on high job demands and resources

    Arnold B. Bakker;Marc van Veldhoven;Despoina Xanthopoulou

  • The crossover of daily work engagement: test of an actor-partner interdependence model.

    Arnold B. Bakker;Despoina Xanthopoulou

  • The gain spiral of resources and work engagement: Sustaining a positive worklife

    Marisa Salanova;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker

  • Creativity and charisma among female leaders: the role of resources and work engagement

    Arnold B. Bakker;Despoina Xanthopoulou

  • Burnout and connectedness among Australian volunteers: A test of the Job Demands–Resources model

    Kerry A. Lewig;Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Maureen F. Dollard

  • Work engagement among employees facing emotional demands: The role of personal resources.

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Andrea Fischbach

  • Measuring job and academic burnout with the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI): Factorial invariance across samples and countries

    Dorota Reis;Despoina Xanthopoulou;Ioannis Tsaousis

  • Everyday working life: Explaining within-person fluctuations in employee well-being

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B Bakker;Remus Ilies

  • A diary study on the happy worker: how job resources generate positive emotions and generate personal resources

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and work engagement: A cross-country study

    Ariadna Monje Amor;Despoina Xanthopoulou;Nuria Calvo;José Pablo Abeal Vázquez

  • Social support moderates the impact of demands on burnout and organizational connectedness: a two-wave study of volunteer firefighters.

    Jasmine Y. Huynh;Despoina Xanthopoulou;Anthony H. Winefield

  • Need for recovery after emotional labor: Differential effects of daily deep and surface acting

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Arnold B. Bakker;Wido G.M. Oerlemans;Maria Koszucka

  • How do engaged employees stay engaged

    A.B. Bakker;E. Demerouti;D. Xanthopoulou

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Evangelia Demerouti
Evangelia Demerouti Eindhoven University of Technology
Berrin Erdogan
Berrin Erdogan Portland State University
Anthony H. Winefield
Anthony H. Winefield University of South Australia
Remus Ilies
Remus Ilies National University of Singapore
Maureen F. Dollard
Maureen F. Dollard University of South Australia
Konstantinos Kafetsios
Konstantinos Kafetsios Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Marisa Salanova
Marisa Salanova Jaume I University
Panagiotis G. Simos
Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete

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