Work-Life Balance

In today's world, people can work anywhere and at any timethanks to new technologies and worktime arrangements such as flexitime.

Despite advantages for employers andemployees, boundaries between work and private life are more blurred.

Here, leading experts discuss recent developments and findings concerning the work-life balance,the effects on people and organizations, and solutions to the challenges posed.The Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, originally founded in 1890, is theoldest psychology journal in Europe and the second oldest in theworld.

One of the founding editors was Hermann Ebbinghaus. Since2007, it is published in English and devoted to topical issues thatprovide state-of-the-art overviews of current research in psychology.The Zeitschrift fur Psychologie publishes high-quality research fromall branches of empirical psychology that is clearly of internationalinterest and relevance, and does so in four topical issues per year.Each topical issue is carefully compiled by guest editors and generallyfeatures one broad Review Article accompanied by Original Articlesfrom leading researchers as well as additional shorter contributionssuch as Research Spotlights (presenting details of individual studiesor summaries of particularly interesting work in progress), Horizons(summarizing important recent or future meetings or outlining futuredirections of work), and Opinion pieces that provide a platform forboth established and alternative views on aspects of the issue'stopic. The guest editors and the editorial team are assisted by anexperienced international editorial board and external reviewersto ensure that the journal's strict peer-review process is in keepingwith its long and honorable tradition of publishing only the best ofpsychological science.

The subjects being covered are determined bythe editorial team after consultation within the scientific community,thus ensuring topicality.

The Zeitschrift fur Psychologie thus bringsconvenient, cutting-edge compilations of the best of modernpsychological science, each covering an area of current interest.