Constanze Eib
Visiting researcher at Department of Psychology; Clinical Psychology
- E-mail:
- constanze.eib@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
At Uppsala University, I am employed as Senior Lecturer in Work and Organizational Psychology. I am also employed as researcher at Stockholm University.
My research interests are organizational justice and fairness at work from different perspectives. I also study entrepreneurs (owner-managers, solo self-employed, freelancers), well-being and occupational health.
I am engaged in supervising students and course organizer and lecturer for Work and Organizational Psychology at the Department.
Biography
Education
- Docent, Uppsala University (2022)
- PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden (2015) (can be downloaded here: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A789976&dswid=-5264)
- Diploma, Heidelberg University, Germany (2010), Major: Work and Organizational Psychology
Selection of academic positions
- Since May 2022 "Universitetslektor" / Senior Lecturer in Work and Organizational Psychology, Uppsala University.
- May 2018 – May 2022 Biträdande universitetslektor in Work and Organizational Psychology, Uppsala University.
- June 2015 – May 2018 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Organizational Behavior, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia.
- 2011 - 2015 PhD student at Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
Selection of grants
- Program grant (Fairness for entrepreneurs? Relevance of stakeholders for entrepreneurs’ fairness, associations to health and business success across different time lags and groups of entrepreneurs, PI Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, diarienummer 2021-00916). 2021 FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare) (3 889 000 SEK)
- Program grant (Employment contracts, job insecurity, unionization, working conditions, work-related attitudes and health among women and men in a flexible labor market, PI Magnus Sverke, diarienummer 2019-01311). 2019 FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare) (8,700,000 SEK for the first 3 years).
- Project grant (Beyond ill-health – The impact of organizational injustice on withdrawal from work and labor market exit, PI Constanze Leineweber, diarienummer 2017-00259). 2017 Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare) (3,330,000 SEK).
- Project grant (Organizational justice and health: Effects of organizational changes and insecurity over time, PI Constanze Leineweber, diarienummer P13-0905:1). 2013 Styrelsen för Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2,650,000 SEK).
Reviewer activities
- Editorial Board member for Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health (2021-2023)
- Ad-hoc Reviewer
Selection of departmental activities
- Equal Opportunity Officer (Lika Villkorsombud) for Department of Psychology, Uppsala University (since spring 2019)

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Entrepreneurship, p. 682-723, 2023
- DOI for Act or Wait-and-See?: Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Part of International Journal of Human Resource Management, p. 2138-2169, 2022
- DOI for What helps managers being fair?: Predicting managers' self-reported justice enactment during pay setting using the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
- DOI for Just What I See?: Implications of Congruence Between Supervisors' and Employees' Perceptions of Pay Justice for Employees' Work-Related Attitudes and Behaviors
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Not All Are Equal: A Latent Profile Analysis of Well-Being among the Self-Employed
Part of Journal of Happiness Studies, p. 1661-1680, 2020
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Part of Small Business Economics, p. 355-368, 2019
- DOI for The cost of injustice: overall justice, emotional exhaustion, and performance among entrepreneurs: do founders fare better?
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Part of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, p. 553-567, 2018
- DOI for Organizational justice and health: Studying mental preoccupation with work and social support as mediators for lagged and reversed relationships
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Processes of Organizational Justice: Insights into the perception and enactment of justice
2015
Don't let it get to you! A moderated mediated approach to the (in)justice-health relationship.
Part of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, p. 434-45, 2015
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Recent publications
Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 786-808, 2025
- DOI for Tech-entrepreneurs' psychological contracts with their institutional environment: Insights from Sweden
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Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 496-521, 2025
- DOI for What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice?: Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context
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Part of Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology, p. 242-247, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 335-362, 2024
- DOI for Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Organizational Justice and Mental Health
Part of The Routledge Companion to Mental Health at Work, p. 341-371, Routledge, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 786-808, 2025
- DOI for Tech-entrepreneurs' psychological contracts with their institutional environment: Insights from Sweden
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Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 496-521, 2025
- DOI for What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice?: Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context
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Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 335-362, 2024
- DOI for Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Part of Entrepreneurship, p. 682-723, 2023
- DOI for Act or Wait-and-See?: Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Organizational injustice and sickness absence: The moderating role of locked-in status
Part of SSM - Population Health, 2023
- DOI for Organizational injustice and sickness absence: The moderating role of locked-in status
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Sustainable Return to Work for Workers with Mental Health and Musculoskeletal Conditions
Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
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Part of International Journal of Human Resource Management, p. 2961-2990, 2022
- DOI for You can't always get what you want: mechanisms and consequences of intra-organizational job change among middle managers in Sweden
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Part of International Journal of Human Resource Management, p. 2138-2169, 2022
- DOI for What helps managers being fair?: Predicting managers' self-reported justice enactment during pay setting using the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework
- Download full text (pdf) of What helps managers being fair?: Predicting managers' self-reported justice enactment during pay setting using the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework
Part of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
- DOI for Trajectories of Procedural and Interactional Justice as Predictors of Retirement among Swedish Workers: Differences between Three Groups of Retirees
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Part of Journal of Occupational Health, 2021
- DOI for The mediating effect of exhaustion in the relationship between effort‐reward imbalance and turnover intentions: A 4‐year longitudinal study from Sweden
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Part of BMC Public Health, 2020
- DOI for Effects of procedural justice on prospective antidepressant medication prescription: a longitudinal study on Swedish workers
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Part of Applied Psychology, p. 1271-1300, 2020
- DOI for How do job insecurity and organizational justice relate to depressive symptoms and sleep difficulties: a multilevel study on immediate and prolonged effects in swedish workers
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
- DOI for Just What I See?: Implications of Congruence Between Supervisors' and Employees' Perceptions of Pay Justice for Employees' Work-Related Attitudes and Behaviors
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Part of Work & Stress, p. 238-258, 2020
- DOI for Trajectories of Effort-Reward Imbalance in Swedish Workers: Differences in Demographic and Work-Related Factors and Associations with Health
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Part of Social Science and Medicine, 2020
- DOI for Is interpersonal justice related to group and organizational turnover?: Results from a Swedish panel study
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Not All Are Equal: A Latent Profile Analysis of Well-Being among the Self-Employed
Part of Journal of Happiness Studies, p. 1661-1680, 2020
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Is Female Entrepreneurship Only Empowering for Single Women?: Evidence from France and Germany
Part of Social Sciences, 2019
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Part of Small Business Economics, p. 355-368, 2019
- DOI for The cost of injustice: overall justice, emotional exhaustion, and performance among entrepreneurs: do founders fare better?
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Part of European journal of industrial relations, p. 377-393, 2019
Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Can lifestyle preferences help explain the persistent gender gap in academia? The "mothers work less" hypothesis supported for German but not for U.S. early career researchers
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Part of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, p. 553-567, 2018
- DOI for Organizational justice and health: Studying mental preoccupation with work and social support as mediators for lagged and reversed relationships
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Editorial: Fairness Perceptions at Work and Health – a complicated story
Part of Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, p. 87-91, 2018
Part of BMC Public Health, 2017
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, p. 320-8, 2016
Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 549-582, 2015
Don't let it get to you! A moderated mediated approach to the (in)justice-health relationship.
Part of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, p. 434-45, 2015
- DOI for Don't let it get to you! A moderated mediated approach to the (in)justice-health relationship.
- Download full text (pdf) of Don't let it get to you! A moderated mediated approach to the (in)justice-health relationship.
Part of Economic and Industrial Democracy, p. 549-582, 2015
- DOI for The interaction between organizational justice and job characteristics: Associations with work attitudes and employee health cross-sectionally and over time
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Entwicklung und Validierung einer Skala zum sozialen Exhibitionismus im Internet (SEXI)
Part of Diagnostica, 2014
Influence of judges’ behaviors on perceived procedural justice
Part of Journal of Applied Social Psychology, p. 46-59, 2014
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Articles, review/survey
Sustainable Return to Work: A Systematic Review Focusing on Personal and Social Factors
Part of Journal of occupational rehabilitation, p. 679-700, 2019
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Chapters in book
Part of Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology, p. 242-247, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
Organizational Justice and Mental Health
Part of The Routledge Companion to Mental Health at Work, p. 341-371, Routledge, 2023
Part of Handbook on Management and Employment Practices, Springer, 2021
Does it matter if I’m treated fairly at work?
Part of An Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology: An International Perspective, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
Agility or Wait-and-See?: How the Covid-19 Crisis Impacts Entrepreneurs’ Well-being across Countries
Part of Academy of management annual meeting proceedings, 2021