Stephanie Andel

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Investigating the impact of work on employees' health, safety, and well-being

Stephanie Andel is concerned about the psychosocial work factors that influence employee health, safety, and well-being. In her research, her goal is to answer the following questions:

  • What role does feeling called to one’s work have on employees’ health and well-being?
  • What are the psychosocial work factors that drive employee safety outcomes within high-risk occupations?
  • What are individual-level strategies that employees can use to effectively cope with work stress and promote their own recovery?


Much of Professor Andel's translational research is interdisciplinary. She frequently collaborates with colleagues from a variety of academic backgrounds, including Public Health, Management, Public Affairs, Medicine, and Information Systems. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify effective individual-level and organizational-level strategies that will enhance employees' health, safety, and well-being and reduce the negative impacts of stressful and harmful work environments.

Professor Andel's translation of research into occupational health solutions for stressful and harmful work situations is another excellent example of how IUPUI's faculty members are TRANSLATING their RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE.

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    When antecedent becomes consequent: An examination of the temporal order of job dissatisfaction and verbal aggression exposure in a longitudinal study
    (Work & Stress, 2019-10-02) Andel, Stephanie A.; Pindek, Shani; Spector, Paul E.
    Past research has traditionally examined stressors as predictors and strains as outcomes. However, some recent research has found evidence of reverse causality between various stressors and strains, demonstrating that the relationship between these types of variables may extend beyond the traditional stressor-strain framework. The current study builds upon this past research by examining the temporal direction of the relationship between verbal aggression exposure and job satisfaction. Specifically, through the lens of emotional contagion theory, we suggest that low levels of job satisfaction in employees are detectable by others, which in turn leads them to engage in verbal aggression directed toward those employees. To test this postulation, 309 emergency medical professionals completed surveys that assessed verbal aggression exposure and job satisfaction across three time points. Results of cross-lagged structural equation model tests showed a significant job satisfaction to verbal aggression path over time, but a nonsignificant verbal aggression to job satisfaction path over time. Additionally, results support the postulation that job satisfaction leads to physical strain outcomes through verbal aggression exposure. Overall, results suggest that job satisfaction may serve as a predictor of verbal aggression exposure rather than a result within high stakes environments such as the emergency medical services.