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Sabine Sonnentag (born January 31, 1961 in Munich ) is a German psychologist and professor at the University of Mannheim .

Career

Sabine Sonnentag studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin . She then did her doctorate in 1991 at the Technical University of Braunschweig and completed her habilitation in 1997 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1995 to 1999 she was assistant professor and lecturer in psychology at the University of Amsterdam and, at the same time, from 1998 to 1999 she held a substitute professorship at the Faculty of Psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. She then spent several years at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Konstanz and at the Psychological Institute of the University of Braunschweig before she was appointed professor of psychology at the University of Mannheim . There she has held the Chair of Psychology I since 2010.

research

Sonnentag deals with work and organizational psychology . She is interested in how individual individuals can consistently perform well at work while staying healthy. Your research moves in the field of tension between relaxation and leisure and (high) work performance and work stress. She was able to show that it is of central importance for the recovery process to mentally switch off from work. Sonnentag also examines how stress at work influences healthy behavior in sports and nutrition and how organizations influence the health behavior of their employees.

Honors and memberships

Sabine Sonnentag is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and was registered on November 23, 2011 under matriculation no. 7460 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the section Psychology and Cognitive Sciences .

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