Simone Grebner Ph.D.
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Address: Email: grebn1s@cmich.edu |
Bio:
Simone Grebner received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Bern (Switzerland) in 2002. She previously held an appointment at the University of Munich (Germany) and the Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland). She held a research and teaching position at the University of Bern (Switzerland) from 1995 until 2007, engaging in Occupational Health Psychology. Moreover, she was appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2003, 2004, and 2007. She will join the Central Michigan University faculty in September 2007.
Research Interest:
Dr. Grebner is interested in several research topics, including job analysis, chronic and situation-related social and task-related stressors, coping with job stress, evaluation of stress-management trainings, and physiological stress responses and methods. One of her specific current interests in Occupational Health Psychology is the nature and effects of subjective success experiences for the employee.
Recent Research:
Elfering, A., & Grebner, S. (in press). Stress and patient safety. In J. Halbesleben (Ed.), Handbook of Stress and Burnout in Health Care. Nova Science Publishers.
Semmer, N., Grebner, S., & Elfering, A. (in press). Psychische Kosten von Arbeit [Psychological costs of work]. In U. Kleinbeck und K. H. Schmidt (Eds.), Enzyklopädie für Psychologie. Band: Arbeitspsychologie. Gottingen: Hogrefe.
Elfering, A., Semmer, N. K. & Grebner, S. (2006). Observer-assessed work stressors and patient safety: An event-sampling study. Ergonomics, 49, 457-469.
Grebner, S., Semmer, N. K., & Elfering, A. (2005). Working conditions and three types of well-being: A longitudinal study with self-report and rating data. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 10, 31-43.
Elfering, A., Grebner, S., Semmer, N. K., Kaiser-Freiburghaus, D., Lauper-Del Ponte, S., & Witschi, I. (2005).Chronic job stressors and job control: Effects on event-related coping success and well-being. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78, 237-252.
Semmer, N. K., Grebner, S., & Elfering, A. (2004). Beyond self-report: Using observational, physiological, and event-based measures in research on occupational stress. In P. L. Perrewé & D. C. Ganster (Eds.), Research in occupational stress and well-being: Vol. 3, Emotional and physiological processes and positive intervention strategies(pp. 205-263). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Grebner, S., Elfering, A., Semmer, N., Kaiser-Probst, C., & Schlapbach, M. L. (2004). Stressful situations at work and in private life among young workers: An event sampling approach. Social Indicators Research, 67, 11-49.
Grebner, S., Semmer, N. K., Lo Faso, L., Gut, S., Kälin, W., & Elfering, A. (2003). Working conditions, well-being and job-related attitudes among call centre agents. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 12, 341-365.
Elfering, A., Grebner, S., Semmer, N., Byland, C., & Gerber, H. (2003). A comparison of two urinary catecholamine indices for use in applied stress research: The effects of time and temperature until freezing. Human Factors, 45, 563-574.
Elfering, A., Grebner, S., Semmer, N., & Gerber, H. (2002) Time control, catecholamines, and back pain among young nurses. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment, & Health, 28, 386-393