Mare Teichmann (born 1 March 1954) is an Estonian

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

and academic.

Biography

Mare Teichmann was born 1 March 1954, in

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

. She holds a

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in Psychology from the Behterev Institute

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, now Saint Petersburg. Mare Teichmann (PhD) is Professor of Psychology, and founder of Chair of Psychology (1992); founder and director of Institute of Industrial Psychology (2009) at

Tallinn University of Technology Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; ) is the only Institute of technology, technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administration a ...

(now Professor Emeritus). She is a member of many boards and councils, especially in the academic self-administration of her specialty in Work and Organizational Psychology; her current positions include but are not limited to: membership in the

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Quality of Life Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards ...

Board, chairwoman of the WHO Estonian Quality of Life Centre, member of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, and member of the Collaborative International Study of Managerial Stress (CISMS). Her main fields of research are occupational stress, psychosocial factors at work, quality of life incl.

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, work

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. Parallel to academic work she has been applying science-based knowledge and psychological methods to practice as CEO of PE Konsult Lt

Selected works

* Teichmann, M. (2020). Mapping and Assessing Psychosocial Risk Factors for Individual- and Organizational-level Occupational Stress Intervention. EAWOP IN PRACTICE, 2020/12, 25–38.http://www.eawop.org/ckeditor_assets/attachments/1337/99_inpractice_12_journal_v2.pdf * Teichmann, M. (2014). Academics' occupational stressors. Medical News Today's (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/270831.php) and Medical News Today weekly newsletter. * Martínez-Córcoles, M.; Teichmann, M.; Mart Murdvee, Murdvee, M. (2017). Assessing technophobia and technophilia: Development and validation of a questionnaire. Technology in Society, 51, 183–188. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/technology-in-society/vol/51/suppl/C * Teichmann, M. (2011). "The challenges facing academic staff professional development in technical university." In: Papers of Baltech Conference 2011: Lincköping, Sweden: Tallinn Technical University, 2011, 1 - 19. * Teichmann, Mare, Mart Murdvee, Murdvee, M., Saks, Kai. (2006). "Spiritual Needs and Quality of Life in Estonia." ''Social Indicators Research'', Vol. 76, No. 1, 147–163. * Spector, Paul E., Allen, Tammy D., Poelmans, Steven, Cooper, Cary L., Bernin, Peggy, Hart, Peter, Lu, Luo, Miller, Karen, Renault de Moraes, Lucio, Ostrognay, Gabrielle M., Pitariu, Horea, Salamatov, Vladimir, Salgado, Jesus, Sanchez, Juan I., Siu, Oi Ling, Teichmann, Mare, Theorell, Töres, Vlerick, Peter, Widerszal-Bazyl, Maria, Yu, Shanfa. (2005). "An international comparative study of work-family stress and occupational strain." In: ''Work and family: An international research perspective.'' (Ed. Poelmans, Steven A. Y.); Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. pp. 71–84. riginal Chapter

References

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