Biography
Manja Vollmann is an Assistant Professor of Health Psychology at the section Socio-Medical Sciences of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. She obtained both her master's degree and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Greifswald, Germany. Manja is interested in factors and processes that affect well-being and health, especially among individuals facing illness or challenging circumstances. Her recent research activities mainly focus on students’ and health professionals’ well-being and performance as well as on determinants of preventive behaviors such as vaccination. Enthusiastically, she works with complex data sets and applies advanced methods for statistical data analysis.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Assistant professor | Socio-Medical Sciences (SMS)
- vollmann@eshpm.eur.nl
 
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Work
- Femke van den Brink, Manja Vollmann & NT Tick (2025) - Disruptive student behavior and emotional exhaustion in Dutch primary special education teachers: The mediating role of teachers' competence beliefs - Psychology in the Schools, 62 (3), 920-930 - doi: 10.1002/pits.23365
 - Renée A. Scheepers & Manja Vollmann (2024) - Nurses who co-create care with clients experience lower levels of burnout through the perception of fewer emotional demands: An observational study - BMC Nursing, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-02481-z
 - Femke Hilverda, Linda Siebers & Manja Vollmann (2024) - The role of health beliefs in HPV vaccine uptake among young men during the Dutch catch-up campaign in 2023 - European Journal of Health Psychology, 31 (4), 201-206 - doi: 10.1027/2512-8442/a000156
 - Sanne van Herpen, Femke Hilverda & Manja Vollmann (2024) - A longitudinal study on the impact of student-teacher and student-peer relationships on academic performance: the mediating effects of study effort and engagement - European Journal of Higher Education - doi: 10.1080/21568235.2024.2414760
 - Manja Vollmann, Renee Scheepers & Femke Hilverda (2024) - Study delay during emergency remote teaching among students at Dutch universities: the role of students’ education satisfaction and academic wellbeing - European Journal of Psychology of Education, 39 (3), 2849–2865 - doi: 10.1007/s10212-023-00779-1 - [link]
 - Renee Scheepers, Femke Hilverda & Manja Vollmann (2024) - Study demands and resources affect academic well-being and life satisfaction of undergraduate medical students in the Netherlands - Medical Education, 58 (9), 1097–1106 - doi: 10.1111/medu.15456
 - Heike Spaderna, Verena Klusmann, Heike Eschenbeck, Christel Salewksi, Silke Schmidt, Andreas Schwerdtfeger, Claus Vögele & Manja Vollmann (2024) - Towards New Horizons - European Journal of Health Psychology, 31 (1), 1-3 - doi: 10.1027/2512-8442/a000143 - [link]
 - Anoek Braam, Jeroen van Wijngaarden, Manja Vollmann, Carina Hilders & Martina Buljac (2023) - Clinical leaders crossing boundaries: A study on the role of clinical leadership in crossing boundaries between specialties - PLoS ONE, 18 (11 November) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294264 - [link]
 - Renee Scheepers, Manja Vollmann, Jane Murray Cramm & Anna Petra Nieboer (2023) - Empathic nurses with sufficient job resources are work-engaged professionals who deliver more individualized care - Journal of Clinical Nursing, 32 (19-20), 7321-7329 - doi: 10.1111/jocn.16830 - [link]
 - Manja Vollmann, Irina Todorova, Christel Salewski & Efrat Neter (2023) - Stresses of COVID-19 and expectations for the future among women: A cross cultural analysis according to the femininity/masculinity dimension - Cross-Cultural Research, 57 (4), 327–351 - doi: 10.1177/10693971221149783 - [link]
 - Femke van den Brink & Manja Vollmann (2023) - Young women’s sexual satisfaction in danger: the significance of thin-ideal internalization, positive body image, and appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy - Health Psychology Report, 11 (1), 81-87 - doi: 10.5114/hpr/153967
 - Manja Vollmann, Renée A. Scheepers, Anna P. Nieboer & Femke Hilverda (2022) - Study-related wellbeing, behavior, and attitudes of university students in the Netherlands during emergency remote teaching in the context of COVID-19: A longitudinal study - Frontiers in Psychology, 13 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1056983 - [link]
 - R. O. Wissing, F. Hilverda, R. A. Scheepers, A. P. Nieboer & M. Vollmann (2022) - Peer relationships buffer the negative association of online education with education satisfaction and subsequently with study engagement among undergraduate medical students - BMC Medical Education, 22 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03337-3 - [link]
 - Femke Hilverda & Manja Vollmann (2022) - The role of risk perception in students’ COVID-19 vaccine uptake:: A longitudinal study - Vaccines, 10 (1) - doi: 10.3390/vaccines10010022 - [link]
 - Manja Vollmann & Christel Salewski (2021) - To get vaccinated, or not to get vaccinated, that is the question: Illness representations about covid-19 and perceptions about covid-19 vaccination as predictors of covid-19 vaccination willingness among young adults in the Netherlands - Vaccines, 9 (9), 941 - doi: 10.3390/vaccines9090941 - [link]
 - Manja Vollmann, G Engelhardt & C Salewski (2021) - Effects of a brief multimodal online intervention on the intention to conduct sun protective behaviours through targeting illness representations about skin cancer: A randomized controlled trial - Psychology and Health, 36 (3), 253-270 - doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1775831 - [link]
 - Irina Todorova, Liesemarie Albers, Nicole Aronson, Adriana Baban, Yael Benyamini, Sabrina Cipolletta, Maria del Rio Carral, Elitsa Dimitrova, Claire Dudley, Mariana Guzzardo, Razan Hammoud, Darlina Hani Fadil Azim, MD (Femke) Hilverda, Qi Huang, Liji John, Michaela Kaneva, Sanjida Khan, Zlatina Kostova, Tatyana Kotzeva, M.A. Fathima, Milu Maria Anto, Chloe Michoud, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Julia Mohr, Karen Morgan, Elena Simona Nastase, Efrat Neter, Yulia Panayotova, Hemali Patel, Dhanya Pillai, Manuela Polidoro Lima, Desiree Qin, Christel Salewski, K.Anu Sankar, Sabrina Shao, Jeevanisha Suresh, Ralitsa Todorova, Silvia Caterina Maria Tomaino, M (Manja) Vollmann, David Winter, Mingjun Xie, Sam Xuan Ning & Asya Zlatarska (2021) - “What I thought was so important isn’t really that important”: international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic - Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 9 (1), 830-857 - doi: 10.1080/21642850.2021.1981909 - [link]
 - Manja Vollmann, A Matsuda, J R Kroep, K Kobayashi, K Kubota, K Inoue, K Yamaoka, H Putter, R Ramai, J W R Nortier & M J Fischer (2020) - Illness perceptions and quality of life in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: A 3-month follow-up pilot study - Patient Related Outcome Measures, 11, 67-71 - doi: 10.2147/PROM.S238009 - [link]
 - Femke van den Brink, Manja Vollmann & S van Weelie (2020) - Relationships between transgender congruence, gender identity rumination, and self-esteem in transgender and gender non-conforming individuals - Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 7 (2), 230-235 - doi: 10.1037/sgd0000357 - [link]
 
Thesis HCM
- Level
 - master
 - Year Level
 - master
 - Year
 - 2025
 - Course Code
 - GW4030MV
 
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
 - bachelor 1
 - Year Level
 - bachelor 1
 - Year
 - 2025
 - Course Code
 - GWAVV-25
 
