Maike Debus, professeure assistante
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Université de Neuchâtel |
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April 2023: New article on reactions to perceived overqualification and formal work arrangements published
Debus, M. E., Körner, B., Wang, M., & Kleinmann, M. (2023). Reacting to perceived overqualification: Uniting strain-based and self-regulatory adjustment reactions and the moderating role of formal work arrangements. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(2), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09870-8
Education
2012 | PhD conferral, University of Zurich |
2008 | Diploma in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych., M.Sc. equivalent), Technical University of Braunschweig |
Academic positions
Since 2/2021 | Assistant professor, University of Neuchâtel |
2020 - 2021 | Assistant professor, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) |
2014 - 2020 | Senior research and teaching associate, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Zurich |
2011 - 2013 | Research and teaching associate, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Zurich |
2008 - 2011 | Doctoral student, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Zurich |
International research visits
2014 | Visiting researcher, Portland State University, School of Business Administration |
2010 | Visiting researcher, Washington State University, Department of Psychology |
2006 | Research internship, Institute for Social Research (ISR) and Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute (MBNI), University of Michigan |
Key research areas
Economic stressors (specifically job insecurity and overqualification at work)
Resources and recovery from work
Impression management at work
Editorial activities
Editorial board memberships: Occupational Health Science, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior
Journal reviewer: Applied Psychology: An International Review, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being Career Development International, Društvena istraživanja, Economic and Industrial Democracy, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, German Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Occupational Health Science, Organization Science, Safety Science, Stress & Health, Work & Stress
Scientific outreach & media reports (recent)
Interview with Deutschlandfunk (with podcast) about work stress and meaningfulness (11/2022), available here
Interview with Augsburger Allgemeine on «Quiet quitting» (9/2022), available here
Interview on work experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic with HR Today, 11/2021, available here
Interview on procrastination at work with Bilan, 2/2021 available here
Report on Gross, Debus, Liu, Wang, & Kleinmann (2020) on I/O At Work, available here
Interview on the future of work with myHEALTH, 11/2020, available here
Interview on remote leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic with Beobachter, 8/2020, available here
Third-party funding
See here for a complete list
Publications (peer reviewed articles)
*Equal contribution.
For a complete list, please see my profile on ResearchGate.
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Debus, M. E., Körner, B., Wang, M., & Kleinmann, M. (2023). Reacting to perceived overqualification: Uniting strain-based and self-regulatory adjustment reactions and the moderating role of formal work arrangements. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38(2), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09870-8
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Gashi, S., Alecci, L., Gjoreski, M., Di lascio, E., Mehrotra, A., Musolesi, M., Debus, M. E., Gasparini, F., & Santini, S. (2022). Handling missing data for sleep monitoring systems. 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII55700.2022.9953832
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Gashi, S., Alecci, L., Di Lascio, E., Debus, M. E., Gasparini, F., & Santini, S. (2022). The role of model personalization for sleep stage and sleep quality recognition using wearables. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 21(2), 69-77. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2022.3164334
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Di Lascio, E., Gashi, S., Debus, M. E., & Santini, S. (2021). Automatic recognition of flow during work activities using context and physiological signals. 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII52823.2021.9597434
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*Gross, C., *Debus, M. E., Ingold, P. V., & Kleinmann, M. (2021): Too much self-promotion! How self-promotion climate relates to employees’ supervisor-focused self-promotion effectiveness and their work group’s performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42, 1042-1059. doi: 10.1002/job.2547
- Debus, M. E., Unger, D., & Probst, T. M. (2021). Dirty work on the COVID-19 frontlines: Exacerbating the situation of marginalized groups in marginalized professions. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 14, 144-148. doi:10.1017/iop.2021.33
- Greulich, B., Debus, M. E., Kleinmann, M., & König, C. J. (2021). Potential biasing factors in work stress surveys: A qualitative study on response behaviour. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30, 40-57. doi:10.1080/1359432X.2020.1812580
- Gross, C., Debus, M. E., Liu, Y., Wang, M., & Kleinmann, M. (2020). I am nice and capable! How newcomers’ self-presentation to their supervisors affects their socialization outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/apl0000817
- Heimann, A., Ingold, P. V., Debus, M. E., & Kleinmann, M. (2020). Who will go the extra mile? Selecting organizational citizens with a personality-based structured job interview. Journal of Business and Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10869-020-09716-1
- Luksyte, A., Bauer, T. N.*, Debus, M. E.*, Erdogan, B.*, & Wu, C*. (2020). Perceived overqualification and collectivism values: Implications for work and non-work outcomes. Journal of Management. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0149206320948602
- Di Lascio, E., Gashi, S., Hidalgo, J. S., Nale, B., Debus, M. E., & Santini, S. (2020). A multi-sensor approach to automatically recognize breaks and work activities of knowledge workers in academia. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4, 1-20. doi:10.1145/3411821
- Debus, M. E., Kleinmann, M., König, C. J., & Winkler, S. (2020). Being tough versus tender: The impact of country-level and individual masculinity orientations as moderators of the relationship between job insecurity and job attitudes. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 69, 616-652. doi: 10.1111/apps.12189
- Debus, M. E., Gross, C., & Kleinmann, M. (2020). The power of doing: How job crafting transmits the beneficial impact of autonomy among overqualified employees. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35, 317-331. doi:10.1007/s10869-019-09625-y
- Stollberger, J., & Debus, M. E. (2020). Go with the flow, but keep it stable? The role of flow variability in the context of daily flow experiences and daily creative performance. Work & Stress, 34, 342-358. doi:10.1080/02678373.2019.1695293
- Debus, M. E., Greulich, B., König, C. J., & Kleinmann, M. (2019). Insecure about how to rate your job insecurity? A two-study investigation into time frames applied to job insecurity measures. Occupational Health Science, 3, 421-435. doi:10.1007/s41542-019-00049-x
- Debus, M. E., Unger, D., & König, C. J. (2019). Job insecurity and performance over time: The critical role of job insecurity duration. Career Development International, 25, 325-336. doi:10.1108/CDI-04-2018-0102
- Debus, M. E., Fritz, C., & Philipp, M. (2019). A story of gains and losses: Shifts in job characteristics and well-being when transitioning to a managerial role. Journal of Business and Psychology, 34, 637-655. doi:10.1007/s10869-018-9604-3
- Debus, M. E., & Körner, B. (2018). Überqualifizierung im Kontext organisationaler Karrieren: Die Signalwirkung von proaktivem Verhalten [Overqualification in the workplace: The signaling function of proactive behavior]. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie, 49, 34-41. doi:10.1007/s11612-018-0400-3
- Debus, M. E.*, & Unger, D.* (2017). The interactive effects of dual-earner couples’ job insecurity: Linking conservation of resources theory with crossover research. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 90, 225–247. doi:10.1111/joop.12169
- Debus, M. E., König, C. J., Kleinmann, M., & Werner, C. S. (2015). Examining the effects of negative affectivity on self- and supervisor ratings of job stressors: The role of stressor observability. Work & Stress, 29, 341-361. doi:10.1080/02678373.2015.1075233
- Debus, M. E., Sonnentag, S., Deutsch, W., & Nussbeck, F. W. (2014). Making flow happen: The effects of being recovered on work-related flow between and within days. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 713-722. doi:10.1037/A0035881
- Debus, M. E., König, C. J., & Kleinmann, M. (2014). The building blocks of job insecurity: The impact of environmental and person-related variables on job insecurity perceptions. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 87, 329-351. doi:10.1111/joop.12049
- Debus, M. E., Probst, T. M., König, C. J., & Kleinmann, M. (2012). Catch me if I fall! Enacted uncertainty avoidance and the social safety net as country-level moderators of the job insecurity-job attitudes link. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 690-698. doi:10.1037/a0027832
- König, C. J., Debus, M. E., Häusler, S., Lendenmann, N., & Kleinmann, M. (2010). Examining occupational self-efficacy, work locus of control and communication as moderators of the job insecurity-job performance relationship. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 31, 231-247. doi:10.1177/0143831X09358629