Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Traut-Mattausch

Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Eva Traut-Mattausch
Department for Psychology

Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +(0)662 / 8044 – 5149
Fax.: +(0)662 / 8044 – 5126
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Head of the Division of Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology
Academic Director of the postgraduate course Supervision, Coaching und Mediation
Academic Director of the postgraduate course Psychosocial Counseling
Deputy head of the DSP Research Group Brain, Behaviour and Health
Deputy head of the Department for Psychology

Consultation Hours:
Appointments should be made with Isobel Klier, BA
Room: 2OG, A-2.014

Research group:
PERL  PsychoEconomic Research Lab

Education:

Academic Employment:

  • since 2025: Member of the Senate of the University of Salzburg
  • since 2024: Academic Director of the part-time postgraduate course Psychosocial Counseling at the University of Salzburg
  • 2023 – 2025: Alternate Member/Member of the Working Group on Equal Opportunities at the University of Salzburg
  • since 2022: Deputy Head of the DSP Research Group “Brain, Behaviour and Health” at the University of Salzburg
  • 2018 – 2019: Member of the Curriculum Committee “Human-Computer Interaction” at the University of Salzburg
  • 2018 – 2020: Chair of the Arbitration Committee at the University of Salzburg
  • 2017 – 2019: Head of the Department for Psychology at the University of Salzburg
  • 2015 – 2017 and 2019 – 2024: Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Salzburg
  • 2016 – 2021: Head of the DSP Research Group “Coping with the Challenges of Modern Work Environments: Work-Life-Balance 4.0” at the University of Salzburg
  • 2015 – 2019: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg
  • 2015 – 2019 and since 2025: Chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Department of Psychology at the University of Salzburg
  • 2015 – 2022: Editorial Board Member for the journal ‘Coaching / Theorie & Praxis’
  • since 2012: Academic Director of the part-time postgraduate course Supervision, Coaching und Mediation at the University of Salzburg
  • since 2009: Member of the Curriculum Committee for the Department of Psychology at the University of Salzburg
  • since 2009: University Professor of Work, Organization and Economic Psychology for the Department of Psychology at the University of Salzburg
  • 2008: Guest Researcher within the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Kanada. Invited by Prof. Dr. Mark P. Zanna.
  • 2005 – 2007: Habilitation scholarship of the Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsprogramms (on leave from the C1 and A13 positions)
  • 2002 – 2009: Academic Researcher and Assistant (C1) as well as Academic Councilor (A13) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München within the Institute for Psychology

Research Interests:

The PsychoEconomic Research Lab (PERL) deals with issues within the field of Work, Organzational and Economic Psychology. Research topics include: the interaction of demands and resources and their impact on employees’ health and performance, the effectiveness of various types of counseling as human resource development tools, causes and impact of impostor phenomenon in the workplace and to what extent various perspectives cause changes in economic behavior. We combine experimental laboratory research with research from within the field, in order to be able to respond to current challenges in the workplace.

Key publications:

Zanchetta, M., Fellner, S., & Traut-Mattausch, E. (2026). Leadership and employee mental health: A job demands–resources perspective on health-promoting and health-impairing leadership. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), doi:   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-025-00855-8.

Vikoler, T., Ganesch, H., Dubravac, J. & Traut-Mattausch, E. (2025). Digital Stress Induction in Daily Life Using the Salzburg Mobile Stress Induction (SMSI): Development and Ambulatory Evaluation Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27, 1, 22 S., e75785. doi:  https://doi.org/10.2196/75785

Kovács, D., Demerouti, E. & Traut-Mattausch, E. (2025). Conceptualizing how job crafting turns into a personal resource as job crafting self-efficacy. International Journal of Stress Management. 32, 3, S. 300-309 10 S. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1037/str0000366

Junker, S., Pömmer, M., Traut-Mattausch, E. (2020). The impact of cognitive-behavioural stress management coaching on changes in cognitive appraisal and the stress response: a field experiment. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1080/17521882.2020.1831563

Zanchetta, M., Junker, S., Wolf, A.-M., Traut-Mattausch, E. (2020). “Overcoming the Fear That Haunts Your Success” – The Effectiveness of Interventions for Reducing the Impostor Phenomenon. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(405), 1-15. doi:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00405