Despoina Xanthopoulou
Despoina Xanthopoulou graduated from the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her PhD in work and organizational psychology from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) in 2007, and then she worked as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Work & Organizational Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). From 2010 till 2013 she worked as a Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Crete (Greece). In 2013 she joined the School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology (since 2016), and she serves at the editorial boards of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Personnel Psychology, Occupational Health Science and Stress & Health. In July 2022, she joined the EC of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Next to her research and teaching work, she is active in organizational consulting.
My research falls into the area of Work & Organizational Psychology and focuses on the psychological processes that enable occupational well-being and job performance. Μy research mainly concerns the role of job characteristics, personal resources and proactive strategies (e.g., job crafting). Also, with my research, I try to understand how and under which circumstances employees recover from job demands during off-job hours. I specialize in advanced research designs (e.g., quantitative diary studies) and statistical analyses (e.g., multilevel modeling).
Tsounis, A., Xanthopoulou, D., Demerouti, E., Kafetsios, K., & Tsaousis, I. (2023). Workplace social capital: Redifining and measuring the construct. Social Indicators Research, 165(2), 555-583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-022-03028-y
Bakker, A.B., Xanthopoulou, D., & Demerouti, E. (2023). How does chronic burnout affect dealing with weekly job demands? A test of central propositions in JD-R and COR-theories. Applied Psychology, 72(1), 389-410. DOI: 10.1111/apps.12382
Beltrán Martín, I., Mª Rodríguez Sánchez, A., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2022). How to re-enchant workplaces and organizations? An introduction to the special issue. Business Research Quarterly, 25(1), 2-7.
Petrou, P., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2021). Interactive effects of approach and avoidance job crafting in explaining weekly variations in work performance and employability. Applied Psychology, 70(3), 1345-1359. DOI: 10.1111/apps.12277
Lemonaki, R., Xanthopoulou, D., Bardos, A.N., Karademas, E.C., & Simos, P.G. (2021). Burnout and job performance: A two-wave study on employee cognitive functioning. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(5), 692-704. DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2021.1892818
Xanthopoulou, D., & Stamovlasis, D. (2020). Job crafting and work engagement: Can their relationship be explained by a catastrophe model? Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, & Life Sciences, 24 (3), 305-326.
Täht, K., Xanthopoulou, D., Figgou, L., Kostouli, M., & Unt, M. (2020). The role of unemployment and job insecurity for the well-being of your Europeans: Social inequality as a macro-level moderator. Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(7), 2355-2375.
Tomprou, M., Xanthopoulou, D., & Vakola, M. (2020). Socio-emotional and monetary employee-organizational resources exchanges: Measurement and effects on daily employee functioning. Work & Stress, 34(2), 189-214.
Gkorezis, P., Erdogan, B., Xanthopoulou, D., & Bellou, V. (2019). Implications of perceived overqualification for employee’s close social ties: The moderating role of external organizational prestige. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115, 103335.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Oerlemans, W. G. M., Koszucka, M. (2018). Need for recovery after emotional labor: Differential effects of daily deep and surface acting. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(4), 481-494.
Demerouti, E., Xanthopoulou, D., & Bakker, A.B. (2018). How do cynical employees serve their customers? A multi-method study. European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, 27(1), 16-27.
Demerouti, E., Xanthopoulou, D., Petrou, P., & Karagkounis, C. (2017). Does job crafting assist dealing with organizational changes due to austerity measures? Two studies among Greek employees. European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, 26(4), 574-589.
Petrou, P., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2017). Regular versus cutback-related change: The role of employee job crafting in organizational contexts of different nature. International Journal of Stress Management, 24(1), 62-85.
Kostouli, M., Xanthopoulou, D., & Athanasiades, C. (2016). Economic strain and subjective well-being in married couples with children: A dyadic analysis. The European Journal of Counseling Psychology, 5, 43-61.
Gkorezis, P., Bellou, V., Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., & Tsiftsis, A. (2016). Linking football team performance to fans’ work engagement and job performance: Test of a spillover model. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(4), 791-812
Reis, D., Xanthopoulou, D., & Tsaousis, I. (2015). Measuring job and academic burnout with the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI): Factorial invariance across samples and countries. Burnout Research, 2(1), 8-18.
Demerouti, E., Xanthopoulou, D., Tsaousis, I., & Bakker, A.B. (2014). Disentagling task and contextual performance: A multitrait-multimethod approach. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 13, 59-69.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., & Fischbach, A. (2013). Work engagement among employees facing emotional demands: The role of personal resources. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 13(2), 74-84.
Huynh, J-Y, Xanthopoulou, D., & Winefield, A.H. (2013). Social support moderates the impact of demands on burnout and organizational connectedness: A two-wave study of volunteer firefighters. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 18(3), 9-15.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Demerouti, E., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2012). A diary study on the happy worker: How job resources relate to positive emotions and personal resources. European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, 21(4), 489-517.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., & Ilies, R. (2012). Everyday working life: Explaining within-person fluctuations in employee well-being. Human Relations, 65(9), 1051-1069.
Xanthopoulou, D., & Papagiannidis, S. (2012). Play online, work better? The spillover of active learning and transformational leadership. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79(7), 1328-1339.
Tims, M., Bakker, A.B., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2011). Do transformational leaders enhance their followers’ daily work engagement? The Leadership Quarterly, 22(1), 121-131.
Bakker, A.B., Van Veldhoven, M., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2010). Beyond the Demand-Control model: Thriving on high job demands and resources. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 9(1), 3-16.
Bakker, A.B., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2009). The crossover of daily work engagement: Test of an actor-partner interdependence model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(6), 1562-1571.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Demerouti, E., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2009). Reciprocal relationships between job resources, personal resources, and work engagement. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74(3), 235-244.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Demerouti, E., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2009). Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 82(1), 183-200.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Heuven, E., Demerouti, E., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2008). Working in the sky: A diary study on work engagement among flight attendants. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 13(4), 345-356.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Dollard, M.F., Demerouti, E., Schaufeli, W.B., Taris, T.W., & Schreurs, P.J.G. (2007). When do job demands particularly predict burnout? The moderating role of job resources. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 22(8), 766-786.
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A.B., Demerouti, E., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2007). The role of personal resources in the job demands-resources model. International Journal of Stress Management, 14(2), 121-141.
Bakker, A.B., Hakanen, J.J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Job resources boost work engagement, particularly when job demands are high. Journal of Educational Psychology, 99(2), 274-284.