@article{KnollWiedemannSchraderetal.2015, author = {Knoll, Nina and Wiedemann, Amelie U. and Schrader, Mark and Felber, Juliane and Burkert, Silke and Daig, Isolde and Heckhausen, Jutta}, title = {Calibrating Independence Goals and Partner Support: Couples Adjust to Functional Limitations after Tumor Surgery}, series = {Applied psychology : Health and well-being}, volume = {7}, journal = {Applied psychology : Health and well-being}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {1758-0846}, doi = {10.1111/aphw.12043}, pages = {167 -- 187}, year = {2015}, abstract = {When patients recover from disease-related functional limitations, support received from partners may not always match patients' changing independence goals. The lines of defense (LoD) model proposes a hierarchy of independence goals (LoDs), ranging from minimising discomfort by disengagement (lowest LoD) to protection of self-reliance (highest LoD). Prostate cancer patients' LoDs were examined as moderators of the association between partner support and patients' and partners' affect during patients' recovery from postsurgical functional limitations. MethodsData from 169 couples were assessed four times within 7months following patients' surgery. Patients reported on post-surgery functional limitations (i.e. incontinence), LoDs, affect, and received partner support. Partners reported on affect and support provided to patients. ResultsIn patients endorsing lower LoDs, more received support was associated with less negative affect. Also, not endorsing high LoDs while receiving strong partner support was related to patients' lower negative and higher positive affect. Partners' support provision to patients tended to be associated with increases in partners' negative affect when patients had endorsed higher LoDs and with increases in positive affect when patients had endorsed lower LoDs. Matching patients' independence goals or LoDs with partners' support may be beneficial for patients' and partners' affect.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KnollWiedemannmHeckhausenetal.2012, author = {Knoll, Nina and Wiedemannm, A. U. and Heckhausen, Juliane and Burkert, Silke and Felber, Juliane and Schrader, M.}, title = {The interplay of autonomy goals and spousal support a prospective study with couples facing cancer}, series = {Psychology \& health : official journal of the European Health Psychology Society}, volume = {27}, booktitle = {Psychology \& health : official journal of the European Health Psychology Society}, number = {33}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0887-0446}, pages = {70 -- 71}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{KraheAbrahamFelberetal.2005, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Abraham, Charles and Felber, Juliane and Helbig, M. K.}, title = {Perceived discrimination of international visitors to universities in Germany and the UK}, issn = {0007-1269}, year = {2005}, abstract = {The extent to which international students and academics feel discriminated against in the host country was explored in three samples from two countries: students in Germany (N = 161), students in the UK (N = 139), and academics in Germany (N = 79). Respondents completed a measure of perceived discrimination of increasing severity, comprising antilocution (verbal derogation), avoidance, behavioural discrimination, and physical assault. Physical discernibility as foreigner, quality of private contacts with host nationals, and language proficiency were explored as predictors of perceived discrimination. Across the three samples, respondents who were identifiable as foreigners by their appearance reported more discrimination. Positive contacts with host nationals were associated with lower levels of perceived discrimination. Language proficiency predicted perceived antilocution in the two German samples. All samples perceived their personal level of discrimination to be lower than that of their respective in-groups (international students/ academics), but the tendency was moderated by visibility and contact quality}, language = {en} } @article{KraheMoellerKirwiletal.2011, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and Moeller, Ingrid and Kirwil, Lucyna and Huesmann, L. Rowell and Felber, Juliane and Berger, Anja}, title = {Desensitization to media violence links with habitual media violence exposure, aggressive cognitions, and aggressive behavior}, series = {Journal of personality and social psychology}, volume = {100}, journal = {Journal of personality and social psychology}, number = {4}, publisher = {American Psychological Association}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0022-3514}, doi = {10.1037/a0021711}, pages = {630 -- 646}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This study examined the links between desensitization to violent media stimuli and habitual media violence exposure as a predictor and aggressive cognitions and behavior as outcome variables. Two weeks after completing measures of habitual media violence exposure, trait aggression, trait arousability, and normative beliefs about aggression, undergraduates (N = 303) saw a violent film clip and a sad or a funny comparison clip. Skin conductance level (SCL) was measured continuously, and ratings of anxious and pleasant arousal were obtained after each clip. Following the clips, participants completed a lexical decision task to measure accessibility of aggressive cognitions and a competitive reaction time task to measure aggressive behavior. Habitual media violence exposure correlated negatively with SCL during violent clips and positively with pleasant arousal, response times for aggressive words, and trait aggression, but it was unrelated to anxious arousal and aggressive responding during the reaction time task. In path analyses controlling for trait aggression, normative beliefs, and trait arousability, habitual media violence exposure predicted faster accessibility of aggressive cognitions, partly mediated by higher pleasant arousal. Unprovoked aggression during the reaction time task was predicted by lower anxious arousal. Neither habitual media violence usage nor anxious or pleasant arousal predicted provoked aggression during the laboratory task, and SCL was unrelated to aggressive cognitions and behavior. No relations were found between habitual media violence viewing and arousal in response to the sad and funny film clips, and arousal in response to the sad and funny clips did not predict aggressive cognitions or aggressive behavior on the laboratory task. This suggests that the observed desensitization effects are specific to violent content.}, language = {en} } @article{KraheMoellerBergeretal.2011, author = {Krah{\´e}, Barbara and M{\"o}ller, Ingrid and Berger, Anja and Felber, Juliane}, title = {Repression versus sensitization in response to media violence as predictors of cognitive avoidance and vigilance}, series = {Journal of personality}, volume = {79}, journal = {Journal of personality}, number = {1}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Malden}, issn = {0022-3506}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00674.x}, pages = {165 -- 190}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Repression and sensitization as situational modes of coping with anxiety were examined as predictors of trait measures of cognitive avoidance and vigilance. In this study, 303 undergraduates saw a violent film clip to elicit anxiety. Increases in skin conductance level (SCL) and state anxiety (STA) from baseline were measured to identify repressors (high SCL, low STA) and contrast them with sensitizers (low SCL, high STA) and genuinely low anxious individuals (low SCL, low STA). State anger was also recorded. Trait measures of vigilance and cognitive avoidance were collected 2 weeks earlier. Significant SCL x STA interactions indicated that repressors scored higher on cognitive avoidance and lower on vigilance compared to sensitizers and low anxious participants. Repressors were less likely than sensitizers to report gaze avoidance during the clip. The anger by SCL interaction was nonsignificant, suggesting that repressors and sensitizers differ specifically in the processing of anxiety rather than negative affect in general.}, language = {en} } @article{NeyerFelberGebhardt2012, author = {Neyer, Franz J. and Felber, Juliane and Gebhardt, Claudia}, title = {Development and validation of a brief measure of technology commitment}, series = {Diagnostica}, volume = {58}, journal = {Diagnostica}, number = {2}, publisher = {Hogrefe}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, issn = {0012-1924}, doi = {10.1026/0012-1924/a000067}, pages = {87 -- 99}, year = {2012}, abstract = {The authors propose a model of technology commitment that describes individual differences in the willingness of technology use in terms of three facets: technology acceptance, technology competence, technology control. It is assumed that technology commitment predicts adaptive technology use especially in old age. Data from three studies (N = 825 participants) support the conceptual distinction of the constructs and confirm the psychometric properties of the newly constructed scale. Construct validity was established via correlations with theoretically related constructs (technology use, personality, successful aging, health) as well as concurrently vis-a-vis other measures of technology acceptance.}, language = {de} }