TY - THES A1 - Baumgarten, Franz T1 - Nahrungsergänzungsmittel im Nachwuchssport - Interventionsempfehlungen vor dem Hintergrund der Theorie der Zielsysteme T1 - Nutritional supplements in youth sport - Recommendations for interventions using the theory of goal systems N2 - Aufgrund verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse wird jungen Sporttreibenden vom Gebrauch von Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln (NEM) abgeraten. Diese Dissertation verfolgt vor dem Hintergrund der Theorie der Zielsysteme (TDZ) das Ziel der Erstellung anwendungsorientieren Handlungswissens, anhand dessen Interventionsempfehlungen zur Reduzierung des prävalenten NEM-Konsums im Nachwuchssport ableitbar sind. Insgesamt wurden sechs Untersuchungen durchgeführt. Die Versuchsteilnehmenden absolvierten in sämtlichen Studien eine Variante der lexikalischen Entscheidungsaufgabe. Diese Aufgabe diente der Operationalisierung von automatisch aktivier- und abrufbaren nahrungsergänzungsmittelbezogenen Ziel-Mittel-Relationen. In einer Stichprobe von Sportstudierenden zeigte sich, dass NEM mit dem Ziel Leistung assoziiert sind (Studie 1). Unter Berücksichtigung des NEM-Konsums wurde dieses Ergebnis für Nachwuchsathletinnen und -athleten aus dem Breitensport repliziert (Studie 2). Zusätzlich konnte in beiden Studien die Bedeutung dieser Ziel-Mittel-Relationen für das Verhalten nachgewiesen werden. In den nachfolgenden Untersuchungen wurden spezifische Veränderungsmechanismen der verhaltensleitenden Ziel-Mittel-Relation aus Leistung und NEM zunächst an Sportstudierenden experimentell evaluiert. Durch das Herausstellen der fehlenden leistungssteigernden Wirkung von NEM konnte diese Zielassoziation nicht modifiziert werden (Studie 3). Das Betonen gesundheitsschädigender Konsequenzen (Studie 4) und das Akzentuieren einer gesunden Ernährung (Studie 5) erwiesen sich demgegenüber als geeignet zur Veränderung der Ziel-Mittel-Relation. Das Herausstellen einer gesunden Ernährung führte deskriptiv bei Nachwuchsathletinnen und -athleten ebenfalls zur Modifikation der Zielassoziation (Studie 6). Die inferenzstatistische Bestätigung der Ergebnisse dieser Studie steht aufgrund der geringen Teststärke der Untersuchung noch aus. Insgesamt verdeutlichen die Ergebnisse, dass die auf Ebene automatischer Kognitionen bestehende und verhaltensleitende Assoziation des Gebrauchs von NEM mit Leistung durch die Akzentuierung gesundheitlicher Perspektiven experimentell verändert werden kann. Abschließend wird die theoretische und praktische Bedeutung des erstellten Handlungswissen für künftige Interventionsempfehlungen zur Reduzierung des Gebrauchs von NEM diskutiert. N2 - Various scientific findings discourage the use of nutritional supplements (NS) among young athletes. In light of the theory of goal systems (TGS) this doctoral thesis aims at the development of academically guided recommendations for intervention approaches that reduce the prevalent NS use. Within this framework, a total of six studies was conducted. In each study participants completed an adapted version of a lexical decision task. This task served to measure NS related goal-means associations that are proposed within the TGS and can be activated and retrieved automatically. In a sample of sport and exercise students NS were associated with the goal performance (study 1). These findings were replicated in a sample of NS using young athletes from amateur sports (study 2). In addition, both studies emphasized the importance of this particular goal-means association for behaviour. The following studies evaluated potential mechanisms for the modification of the behaviour influencing goal-means association between NS and performance in samples of sport and exercise students. Highlighting the lack of performance enhancing effects of NS did not alter the goal-means association between NS and performance (study 3). Rather, the emphasis on the harmful effects of health (study 4) and on healthy diet (study 5) led to significant changes of this particular goal-means association. Highlighting the positive effects of a healthy diet for athletic performance descriptively proved to be a potential mechanism for altering goal-means associations in a sample of young athletes from competitive sports (study 6). Due to the lack of statistical power, the confirmation of this trend using inferential statistics is still pending. Overall, the results of the completed studies illustrate that the automatic and behaviour influencing goal-means associations between NS and performance can be experimentally modified, especially by health-oriented messages. The theoretical and practical relevance of this thesis for future interventions in order to reduce the NS use among young athletes is discussed. KW - Nahrungsergänzungsmittel KW - Nachwuchssport KW - Theorie der Zielsysteme KW - automatische Prozesse KW - Intervention KW - nutritional supplements KW - young athletes KW - theory of goal systems KW - automatic processes KW - intervention Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405652 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wolff, Wanja A1 - Brand, Ralf A1 - Baumgarten, Franz A1 - Lösel, Johanna A1 - Ziegler, Matthias T1 - Modeling students’ instrumental (mis-)use of substances to enhance cognitive performance BT - Neuroenhancement in the light of Job Demands-Resources Theory N2 - Background: Healthy university students have been shown to use psychoactive substances, expecting them to be functional means for enhancing their cognitive capacity, sometimes over and above an essentially proficient level. This behavior called Neuroenhancement (NE) has not yet been integrated into a behavioral theory that is able to predict performance. Job Demands Resources (JD-R) Theory for example assumes that strain (e.g. burnout) will occur and influence performance when job demands are high and job resources are limited at the same time. The aim of this study is to investigate whether or not university students’ self-reported NE can be integrated into JD-R Theory’s comprehensive approach to psychological health and performance. Methods: 1,007 students (23.56 ± 3.83 years old, 637 female) participated in an online survey. Lifestyle drug, prescription drug, and illicit substance NE together with the complete set of JD-R variables (demands, burnout, resources, motivation, and performance) were measured. Path models were used in order to test our data’s fit to hypothesized main effects and interactions. Results: JD-R Theory could successfully be applied to describe the situation of university students. NE was mainly associated with the JD-R Theory’s health impairment process: Lifestyle drug NE (p < .05) as well as prescription drug NE (p < .001) is associated with higher burnout scores, and lifestyle drug NE aggravates the study demands-burnout interaction. In addition, prescription drug NE mitigates the protective influence of resources on burnout and on motivation. Conclusion: According to our results, the uninformed trying of NE (i.e., without medical supervision) might result in strain. Increased strain is related to decreased performance. From a public health perspective, intervention strategies should address these costs of non-supervised NE. With regard to future research we propose to model NE as a means to reach an end (i.e. performance enhancement) rather than a target behavior itself. This is necessary to provide a deeper understanding of the behavioral roots and consequences of the phenomenon. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 362 KW - Neuroenhancement KW - study demands KW - burnout KW - Job Demands Resources Theory KW - students Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-401441 SN - 1866-8364 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wolff, Wanja A1 - Baumgarten, Franz A1 - Brand, Ralf T1 - Reduced self-control leads to disregard of an unfamiliar behavioral option BT - an experimental approach to the study of neuroenhancement N2 - Background: Neuroenhancement (NE), the use of psychoactive substances in order to enhance a healthy individual's cognitive functioning from a proficient to an even higher level, is prevalent in student populations. According to the strength model of self-control, people fail to self-regulate and fall back on their dominant behavioral response when finite self-control resources are depleted. An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that ego-depletion will prevent students who are unfamiliar with NE from trying it. Findings: 130 undergraduates, who denied having tried NE before (43% female, mean age = 22.76 +/- 4.15 years old), were randomly assigned to either an ego-depletion or a control condition. The dependent variable was taking an "energy-stick" (a legal nutritional supplement, containing low doses of caffeine, taurine and vitamin B), offered as a potential means of enhancing performance on the bogus concentration task that followed. Logistic regression analysis showed that ego-depleted participants were three times less likely to take the substance, OR = 0.37, p = .01. Conclusion: This experiment found that trying NE for the first time was more likely if an individual's cognitive capacities were not depleted. This means that mental exhaustion is not predictive for NE in students for whom NE is not the dominant response. Trying NE for the first time is therefore more likely to occur as a thoughtful attempt at self-regulation than as an automatic behavioral response in stressful situations. We therefore recommend targeting interventions at this inter-individual difference. Students without previous reinforcing NE experience should be provided with information about the possible negative health outcomes of NE. Reconfiguring structural aspects in the academic environment (e.g. lessening workloads) might help to deter current users. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 358 KW - Neuroenhancement KW - Self-control KW - Ego-depletion KW - Prevention Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-401386 ER -