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Taru Feldt is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, including psychology, health professions, and business, management, and accounting. This diverse academic involvement reflects a broad approach to understanding organizational and workplace dynamics.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, Taru Feldt explores various subfields. These include general health professions, organizational behavior and human resource management, social psychology, sociology and political science, and education. This highlights the scientist's focus on workplace environments and the human factors influencing them.

The central topics of their research have concentrated on job satisfaction and organizational behavior, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, workplace health and well-being, emotional intelligence and performance, workaholism and burnout, workplace violence and bullying, and ethics in business and education.

The scientist has published prolifically, with contributions to numerous academic journals. The frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Psykologia
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Työelämän tutkimus
  • Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing

Some of Taru Feldt's recent papers include:

  • "Illegitimate tasks in health care: Illegitimate task types and associations with occupational well-being," 2021, Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • "Intensified job demands in healthcare and their consequences for employee well-being and patient satisfaction: A multilevel approach," 2021, Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • "Profiling development of burnout over eight years: relation with job demands and resources," 2020, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • "Teacher coping profiles in relation to teacher well-being: A mixed method approach," 2021, Teaching and Teacher Education
  • "Is work intensification bad for employees? A review of outcomes for employees over the last two decades," 2022, Work & Stress

Collaboration has been a significant element of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mari Herttalampi
  • Saija Mauno
  • Mari Huhtala
  • Elina Auvinen
  • Johanna Rantanen

Taru Feldt's research addresses critical aspects of occupational health, organizational dynamics, and employee well-being, combining an empirical approach across multiple related disciplines and collaborating extensively with other researchers in the field.

Best Publications

  • The Construct Validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: Multisample and Longitudinal Evidence

    Piia Seppälä;Saija Mauno;Taru Feldt;Jari Hakanen

  • Types of work-family interface : well-being correlates of negative and positive spillover between work and family

    Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Sabine Geurts;Lea Pulkkinen

  • Sense of coherence and health: evidence from two cross-lagged longitudinal samples.

    Mika Kivimäki;Taru Feldt;Jussi Vahtera;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • Job demands–resources model in the context of recovery: Testing recovery experiences as mediators

    Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Marjo Siltaloppi;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Recovery experiences as moderators between psychosocial work characteristics and occupational well-being

    Marjo Siltaloppi;Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt

  • Testing the effort-reward imbalance model among Finnish managers: the role of perceived organizational support.

    Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Anne Mäkikangas

  • Structural validity and temporal stability of the 13-item sense of coherence scale: Prospective evidence from the population-based HeSSup study

    Taru Feldt;Hanna Lintula;Sakari Suominen;Markku Koskenvuo

  • Long-term stability in the Big Five personality traits in adulthood.

    Johanna Rantanen;Riitta-Leena Metsäpelto;Taru Feldt;Lea Pulkkinen

  • A mediational model of sense of coherence in the work context: a one‐year follow‐up study

    Taru Feldt;Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno

  • The role of sense of coherence in well-being at work: Analysis of main and moderator effects

    Taru Feldt

  • Does the Ethical Culture of Organisations Promote Managers' Occupational Well-Being? Investigating Indirect Links via Ethical Strain.

    Mari Huhtala;Taru Feldt;Anna-Maija Lämsä;Saija Mauno

  • Self-esteem, dispositional optimism, and health: Evidence from cross-lagged data on employees

    Anne Mäkikangas;Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt

  • Economic stress and marital adjustment among couples: analyses at the dyadic level

    Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt

  • Bergen Burnout Inventory: reliability and validity among Finnish and Estonian managers.

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Johanna Rantanen;Katriina Hyvönen;Kati Tilleman

  • The longitudinal development of employee well-being: a systematic review

    Anne Mäkikangas;Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Wilmar Schaufeli

  • Does Personality Matter? A Review of Individual Differences in Occupational Well-Being

    Anne Mäkikangas;Taru Feldt;Ulla Kinnunen;Saija Mauno

  • Young managers' drive to thrive : A personal work goal approach to burnout and work engagement

    Katriina Hyvönen;Taru Feldt;Katariina Salmela-Aro;Ulla Kinnunen

  • The stability of sense of coherence: comparing two age groups in a 5-year follow-up study

    Taru Feldt;Esko Leskinen;Ulla Kinnunen;Isto Ruoppila

  • Work–family conflict and psychological well-being: Stability and cross-lagged relations within one- and six-year follow-ups

    Johanna Rantanen;Ulla Kinnunen;Taru Feldt;Lea Pulkkinen

  • The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study

    Mari Huhtala;Mari Huhtala;Asko Tolvanen;Saija Mauno;Saija Mauno;Taru Feldt

  • Change and stability of sense of coherence in adulthood: Longitudinal evidence from the Healthy Child study.

    Jari J. Hakanen;Taru Feldt;Esko Leskinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulla Kinnunen
Ulla Kinnunen Tampere University
Saija Mauno
Saija Mauno Tampere University
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Anne Mäkikangas
Anne Mäkikangas Tampere University
Lea Pulkkinen
Lea Pulkkinen University of Jyväskylä
Katja Kokko
Katja Kokko University of Jyväskylä
Kalevi Korpela
Kalevi Korpela Tampere University
Jessica de Bloom
Jessica de Bloom Tampere University
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Katariina Salmela-Aro University of Helsinki

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