TY - JOUR
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Maaß, Ulrike
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Einsatz standardisierter Patienten im Psychologiestudium
BT - von der Forschung in die Praxis
JF - Verhaltenstherapie : Praxis, Forschung, Perspektiven
N2 - Hintergrund: Im Rahmen des reformierten Psychotherapeutengesetzes wird eine starkere Praxisorientierung in der klinisch-psychologischen Lehre und in der Prufung psychotherapeutischer Kompetenzen verankert. Hierbei sollen Studierende durch die Interaktion mit standardisierten Patient*innen (SP) therapeutische Kompetenzen erwerben und demonstrieren. Fragestellung: Das Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, eine evidenzbasierte Umsetzung dieser neuen Lehr- und Prufungsformate zu unterstutzen, indem bisherige Forschungsbefunde zum Einsatz von SP dargestellt und Bereiche, in denen weitere Forschung notwendig ist, aufgezeigt werden. Ergebnisse: Empirische Befunde zeigen, dass SP psychische Storungen authentisch darstellen konnen. Voraussetzung dafur sind beispielsweise die Auswahl geeigneter SP, detaillierte Rollenanleitungen, spezifisches Training, Feedback und Nachschulungen. Auch wenn einige Forschungsfragen, wie zur vergleichenden Wirksamkeit des Einsatzes von SP, noch unbeantwortet sind, lassen sich praktische Implikationen fur SP-Programme in Lehre, Prufung und Forschung ableiten, die in einem Ablaufschema dargestellt werden. Schlussfolgerungen: Der Einsatz von SP bietet gro ss es Potenzial fur die klinisch-psychologische Lehre und Ausbildungsforschung. Um den Einsatz von SP an anderen Standorten zu unterstutzen, werden Beispielmaterialien (z.B. Rollenanleitung) in den elektronischen Supplementen (siehe www.karger.com/doi/10.1159/000509249 fur alle Supplemente) zum Artikel zur Verfugung gestellt.
N2 - Background: Within the pending reformation of the German law of psychotherapy training, education in clinical psychology and the examination of psychotherapeutic competencies are established as more practice oriented. Students will acquire and demonstrate therapeutic skills through interactions with standardized patients (SPs). The aim of the current paper is to enhance evidence-based implementation of these new methods of education and examination by presenting the current evidence regarding the use of SPs and by pointing out areas for further research. Results: Results of recent studies demonstrate that SPs are able to present mental disorders authentically. Prerequisites are, among others, the selection of suitable SPs, detailed role scripts, specific training, feedback, and corrective training. Although some research questions, including the comparative effectiveness of SPs, remain unanswered, practice implications for using SPs in education, examination, and research can be drawn. These implications are illustrated schematically. Conclusions: The use of SPs has large potential for education in clinical psychology and for research on psychotherapy training. With a view to encouraging the widespread use of SPs, we provide exemplary materials (e.g., role script) within the online supplements (see www.karger.com/doi/10.1159/000509249 [Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen] for all online suppl. material).
T2 - Standardized patients in clinical psychology: from research to practice
KW - Training
KW - Ausbildung
KW - Psychotherapie
KW - Evidenzbasierte Versorgung
KW - training
KW - education
KW - psychotherapy
KW - evidence-based care
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1159/000509249
SN - 1016-6262
SN - 1423-0402
VL - 31
IS - 2
SP - 152
EP - 160
PB - Karger
CY - Basel
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Seelig, Stefan A.
A1 - Rabe, Maximilian Michael
A1 - Malem-Shinitski, Noa
A1 - Risse, Sarah
A1 - Reich, Sebastian
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
T1 - Bayesian parameter estimation for the SWIFT model of eye-movement control during reading
JF - Journal of mathematical psychology
N2 - Process-oriented theories of cognition must be evaluated against time-ordered observations. Here we present a representative example for data assimilation of the SWIFT model, a dynamical model of the control of fixation positions and fixation durations during natural reading of single sentences. First, we develop and test an approximate likelihood function of the model, which is a combination of a spatial, pseudo-marginal likelihood and a temporal likelihood obtained by probability density approximation Second, we implement a Bayesian approach to parameter inference using an adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo procedure. Our results indicate that model parameters can be estimated reliably for individual subjects. We conclude that approximative Bayesian inference represents a considerable step forward for computational models of eye-movement control, where modeling of individual data on the basis of process-based dynamic models has not been possible so far.
KW - dynamical models
KW - reading
KW - eye movements
KW - saccades
KW - likelihood function
KW - Bayesian inference
KW - MCMC
KW - interindividual differences
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2019.102313
SN - 0022-2496
SN - 1096-0880
VL - 95
PB - Elsevier
CY - San Diego
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Heinze, Peter Eric
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - What do laypersons believe characterises a competent psychotherapist?
JF - Counselling and psychotherapy research
N2 - Aim
Although research and clinical definitions of psychotherapeutic competence have been proposed, less is known about the layperson perspective. The aim was to explore the views of individuals with different levels of psychotherapy experience regarding what-in their views-constitutes a competent therapist.
Method
In an online survey, 375 persons (64% female, mean age 33.24 years) with no experience, with professional experience, or with personal pre-experience with psychotherapy participated. To provide low-threshold questions, we first presented two qualitative items (i.e. "In your opinion, what makes a good/competent psychotherapist?"; "How do you recognize that a psychotherapist is not competent?") and analysed them using inductive content analysis techniques (Mayring, 2014). Then, we gave participants a 16-item questionnaire including items from previous surveys and from the literature and analysed them descriptively.
Results
Work-relatedprinciples, professionalism, personalitycharacteristics, caringcommunication, empathy and understandingwere important categories of competence. Concerning the quantitative questions, most participants agreed with items indicating that a therapist should be open, listen well, show empathy and behave responsibly.
Conclusion
Investigating layperson perspectives suggested that effective and professional interpersonal behaviour of therapists plays a central role in the public's perception of psychotherapy.
KW - client preferences
KW - expectancies
KW - psychotherapeutic competencies
KW - psychotherapy process
KW - public involvement
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12343
SN - 1473-3145
SN - 1746-1405
VL - 21
IS - 3
SP - 660
EP - 671
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Maaß, Ulrike
A1 - Hofmann, Laura
A1 - Perlinger, Julia
A1 - Wagner, Birgit
T1 - Effects of bereavement groups-a systematic review and meta-analysis
JF - Death studies
N2 - This review summarizes the evidence of bereavement groups for symptoms of grief and depression. The literature search using Web of Science, EBSCO, PubMed, CINAHL, and MEDLINE yielded 14 studies (N = 1519) meeting the inclusion criteria (i.e., randomized-controlled trials, bereaved adults, bereavement group, validated measures). Overall, bereavement groups were marginally more effective than control groups post-treatment (gG = 0.33, gD = 0.22) but not at follow-up. Although tertiary interventions yielded larger effect sizes than secondary interventions, the difference was not significant. The results imply that the evidence for bereavement groups is weak, although the large heterogeneity of concepts for intervention and control groups limits the generalizability.
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1772410
SN - 0748-1187
SN - 1091-7683
VL - 46
IS - 3
SP - 708
EP - 718
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Bangeow, Petjo
T1 - Zur Abschaffung des Gutachterverfahrens in der Vertragspsychotherapie – ein Qualitätsverlust?
JF - Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie
N2 - Objectives: This article investigates whether or not the abolishment of the expertise procedure for an outpatient psychotherapy is a reliable quality feature; and whether or not the elimination of this procedure results in a reduction of quality in outpatient psychotherapy.
Methods: We conducted a literature research that considered articles written between the years 2000 and 2020 dealing with the expertise procedure as a quality standard of outpatient psychotherapy. In order to discuss the different views of the cited authors, we also refer to further literature.
Results: The expertise procedure is not a reliable quality feature of outpatient psychotherapy. The idea that abolishing the expertise procedure results in a reduction of quality in outpatient psychotherapy is not confirmed by the studies summarized.
N2 - Zielsetzung: Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit der Fragestellung, inwiefern das Gutachterverfahren in der Vertragspsychotherapie ein zuverlässiges Qualitätsinstrument darstellt und ob sich aus der geplanten Abschaffung des Gutachterverfahrens das Risiko einer Qualitätsminderung in der ambulanten Psychotherapie ergibt.
Methodik: Es wurde eine Literaturrecherche durchgeführt. Arbeiten von den Jahren 2000 bis 2020 wurden berücksichtigt, welche sich mit dem Gutachterverfahren als Qualitätsmerkmal der ambulanten Psychotherapie befassen. Um die unterschiedlichen Standpunkte der zitierten Autor_innen zu diskutieren, wurde auch Bezug auf weiterführende Literatur genommen.
Ergebnisse: Das Gutachterverfahren scheint empirisch nicht sicher als zuverlässiges Qualitätsmerkmal der ambulanten Psychotherapie herangezogen werden zu können. Die Annahme, dass sich durch eine gutachterbefreite Vertragspsychotherapie eine Qualitätsminderung der Psychotherapie ergibt, wird durch die hier zusammengefassten Arbeiten insgesamt nicht gestützt.
T2 - The abolition of the expertise procedure for outpatient psychotherapy - A reduction of quality in the psychotherapy?
KW - psychotherapy
KW - guideline
KW - expertise procedure
KW - quality standards
KW - outpatient psychotherapy
KW - Psychotherapie
KW - Richtlinie
KW - Gutachterverfahren
KW - Qualitätsstandard
KW - ambulante Psychotherapie
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000778
SN - 1422-4917
SN - 1664-2880
VL - 49
IS - 1
SP - 64
EP - 72
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Bern
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
A1 - Schuster, Isabell
A1 - Tomaszewska, Paulina
T1 - Prevalence of sexual aggression victimization and perpetration in a German university student sample
JF - Archives of sexual behavior : the official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research
N2 - This study examined the prevalence of sexual aggression perpetration and victimization in a sample of 1,172 students (755 female, 417 male) from four universities in Germany. All participants were asked about both victimization by, and perpetration of, sexual aggression since the age of 14 years, using the Sexual Aggression and Victimization Scale (SAV-S). Prevalence rates were established for different coercive strategies, sexual acts, and victim-perpetrator relationships. Both same-sex and opposite-sex victim-perpetrator constellations were examined. The overall victimization rate was 62.1% for women and 37.5% for men. The overall perpetration rate was 17.7% for men and 9.4% for women. Prevalence rates of both victimization and perpetration were higher for participants who had sexual contacts with both opposite-sex and same-sex partners than for participants with exclusively opposite-sex partners. Significant overlap was found between victim and perpetrator status for men and women as well as for participants with only opposite-sex and both opposite-sex and same-sex partners. A disparity between (higher) victimization and (lower) perpetration reports was found for both men and women, suggesting a general underreporting of perpetration rather than a gendered explanation in terms of social desirability or the perception of consent cues. The findings are placed in the international research literature on the prevalence of sexual aggression before and after the #metoo campaign, and their implications for prevention efforts are discussed.
KW - Sexual aggression
KW - Sexual victimization
KW - Male victims
KW - Female perpetrators
KW - Same-sex relationships
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-01963-4
SN - 0004-0002
SN - 1573-2800
VL - 50
IS - 5
SP - 2109
EP - 2121
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rabovsky, Milena
T1 - Change in a probabilistic representation of meaning can account for N400 effects on articles
BT - a neural network model
JF - Neuropsychologia : an international journal in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience
N2 - Increased N400 amplitudes on indefinite articles (a/an) incompatible with expected nouns have been initially taken as strong evidence for probabilistic pre-activation of phonological word forms, and recently been intensely debated because they have been difficult to replicate. Here, these effects are simulated using a neural network model of sentence comprehension that we previously used to simulate a broad range of empirical N400 effects. The model produces the effects when the cue validity of the articles concerning upcoming noun meaning in the learning environment is high, but fails to produce the effects when the cue validity of the articles is low due to adjectives presented between articles and nouns during training. These simulations provide insight into one of the factors potentially contributing to the small size of the effects in empirical studies and generate predictions for cross-linguistic differences in article induced N400 effects based on articles’ cue validity. The model accounts for article induced N400 effects without assuming pre-activation of word forms, and instead simulates these effects as the stimulus-induced change in a probabilistic representation of meaning corresponding to an implicit semantic prediction error.
KW - N400
KW - ERPs
KW - prediction
KW - neural networks
KW - cue validity
KW - meaning
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107466
SN - 0028-3932
SN - 1873-3514
VL - 143
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Poltz, Nadine
T1 - Rezension zu: Bernart, Hartmut E.; Weinig, Jacob. - Rechenschwierigkeiten und Rechenstörungen – Multimodales Therapieprogramm für Kinder- und Jugendliche. - Beltz: Weinheim, 2020. - 300 S. - ISBN 978-3-621-28698-5
JF - Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
Y1 - 2020
SN - 978-3-621-28698-5
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000584
SN - 1616-3443
SN - 2190-6297
VL - 49
IS - 3
SP - 191
EP - 192
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Malesza, Marta
T1 - The reduced discounting inventory
BT - construction and initial validation
JF - Current psychology
N2 - In two studies, the aim of this research was to develop and validate a Polish version of the reduced Discounting Inventory. In Study 1 (N = 623) items extraction from the 48-item DI was based upon item-total correlation and items with highest coefficients were considered. The reduced Discounting Inventory resulted in sixteen items. Cronbach's a coefficient was .78, and the item-total correlations ranged between .59 and .77. The correlation between Polish versions of reduced Discounting Inventory and longer 48-item Discounting Inventory was .85. Next, the reduced Discounting Inventory was evaluated in terms of factorial and construct validity. The structure of the instrument was analysed by Confirmatory Factor Analyses procedure. It indicated that the four-factor structure had the best fit to the data. Additionally, we show that this reduced Discounting Inventory closely parallels the longer 48-item inventory its relation to traditional discounting measures using pairs of hypothetical choices (expect for the delay discounting subscale). Finally, in study 2, the test-retest reliability of the reduced Discounting Inventory over a 3-month interval was assessed (247 subjects of the 623 individuals who participated in Study 1). Results indicated good stability of the reduced measure (>= .88). It is concluded that the reduced Discounting Inventory has notable psychometric properties and that it can serve as an alternative measure of discounting when situations do not allow the use of longer inventories.
KW - Discounting inventory
KW - Reduced measure
KW - Reliability
KW - Validity
Y1 - 2018
SN - 1046-1310
SN - 1936-4733
VL - 40
IS - 2
SP - 545
EP - 552
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Maaß, Ulrike
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Maas, Jana
A1 - Unverdross, Maria
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Psychological interventions for health anxiety and somatic symptoms
BT - a systematic review and meta-analysis
JF - Zeitschrift für Psychologie = Journal of psychology
N2 - This study examined the effectiveness of psychological interventions for severe health anxiety (SHA) regarding somatic symptoms (SS) and health anxiety (HA). The databases Web of Science, EBSCO, and CENTRAL were searched on May 15, 2019, May 16, 2019, and August 5, 2019, respectively. Eighteen randomized controlled trials (N = 2,050) met the inclusion criteria (i.e., hypochondriasis, illness anxiety disorder or somatic symptom disorder with elevated HA being assessed with validated interviews: use of standardized outcome measures). Two reviewers independently evaluated the studies' risk of bias using the Revised Cochrane Risk-of-Bias Tool for randomized trials (RoB-2) tool. Overall, psychological interventions were significantly more effective than waitlist, treatment-as-usual, or placebo post-treatment (g(SS) = 0.70, g(HA) = 1.11) and at follow-up (g(SS) = 0.33, g(HA)= 0.70). CBT outperformed other psychological interventions or pharmacotherapy for HA post- treatment (Hedge's g(HA) = 0.81). The number of sessions did not significantly predict the effect sizes. In sum, psychological interventions were effective for SHA, but the generalizability of the results for SS is limited, because only two high-quatity trials contributed to the comparison.
KW - health anxiety
KW - hypochondriasis
KW - systematic review
KW - meta-analysis
KW - psychotherapy
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000400
SN - 2190-8370
SN - 2151-2604
VL - 228
IS - 2
SP - 68
EP - 80
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tomaszewska, Paulina
A1 - Schuster, Isabell
T1 - Prevalence of teen dating violence in Europe
BT - a systematic review of studies since 2010
JF - New directions for child and adolescent development
N2 - Violence in adolescent relationships is a common problem with numerous negative short- and long-term consequences. Because most of the evidence on teen dating violence (TDV) synthesized in reviews comes from North American studies, this review aimed to compile evidence on prevalence rates of TDV based on studies identified for Europe only. Specifically, we considered different forms of TDV victimization and perpetration, gender differences, and its measurement. A systematic literature search of the most popular databases Ebsco and PubMed yielded a total of N = 34 studies, with most of the studies identified for Spain, and only a few studies in other European countries. In sum, the results revealed a great variability in prevalence rates across and within the European countries, a common pattern of gender differences, and a wide range of applied measures, corresponding with the evidence from the North American studies. Implications for future research and policy were discussed.
KW - gender
KW - measurement
KW - prevalence
KW - review
KW - teen dating violence
KW - victimization and perpetration
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20437
SN - 1534-8687
SN - 1520-3247
VL - 178
IS - Special Issue: Prevalence and predictors of teen dating violence: a European perspective
SP - 11
EP - 37
PB - Jossey-Bass
CY - San Francisco
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Giraudier, Manon
A1 - Ventura-Bort, Carlos
A1 - Weymar, Mathias
T1 - Effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (TVNS) on emotional word processing and recognition memory
JF - Psychophysiology
KW - transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation
Y1 - 2020
SN - 0048-5772
SN - 1469-8986
VL - 57
SP - S73
EP - S73
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Malden
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Gmeiner, Michaela Silvia
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - Simply too much
BT - The extent to which weight bias internalization results in a higher risk of eating disorders and psychosocial problems
JF - Eating and weight disorders : studies on anorexia, bulimia and obesity
N2 - Purpose Weight bias internalization (WBI) is associated with negative health consequences such as eating disorders and psychosocial problems in children. To date, it is unknown to what extent WBI considerably raises the risk of negative outcomes. Methods Analyses are based on cross-sectional data of 1,061 children (9-13 years, M = 11, SD = 0.9; 52.1% female) who filled in the WBI scale (WBIS-C). First, ROC analyses were run to identify critical cut-off values of WBI (WBIS-C score) that identify those who are at higher risk for psychosocial problems or eating disorder symptoms (as reported by parents). Second, it was examined whether WBI is more sensitive than the relative weight status in that respect. Third, to confirm that the cut-off value is also accompanied by higher psychological strain, high- and low-risk groups were compared in terms of their self-reported depressive symptoms, anxious symptoms, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem. Results WBIS-C scores >= 1.55 were associated with a higher risk of disturbed eating behavior; for psychosocial problems, no cut-off score reached adequate sensitivity and specificity. Compared to relative weight status, WBI was better suited to detect disturbed eating behavior. Children with a WBIS-C score >= 1.55 also reported higher scores for both depressive and anxious symptoms, higher body dissatisfaction, and lower self-esteem. Conclusion The WBIS-C is suitable for identifying risk groups, and even low levels of WBI are accompanied by adverse mental health. Therefore, WBI is, beyond weight status, an important risk factor that should be considered in prevention and intervention.
KW - Weight bias internalization
KW - Self-stigmatization
KW - Children
KW - ROC
KW - Mental
KW - health
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01170-z
SN - 1590-1262
VL - 27
IS - 1
SP - 317
EP - 324
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -
TY - CHAP
A1 - Wendt, Julia
A1 - Hufenbach, Miriam Catrin
T1 - Trait anxiety and conditioned responding: role of the US work-up procedure?
T2 - Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
KW - Trait Anxiety
KW - US Work-up
KW - US Intensity
Y1 - 2021
SN - 1469-8986
SN - 0048-5772
VL - 58
SP - S61
EP - S61
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Roth-Rawald, Julia
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Krankheitsängste bei Psychologiestudierenden
T1 - Health anxiety of psychology students
BT - Studie zur Angst vor körperlichen Erkrankungen und psychischen Störungen
BT - examination of fear of physical diseases and mental disorders
JF - Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
N2 - Theoretischer Hintergrund: Als Medical Students’ Disease wird die Angst von Medizinstudierenden bezeichnet, unter Krankheiten zu leiden, mit denen sie sich im Studium auseinandersetzen. Fragestellung: Es wurde untersucht, ob ähnliche Phänomene vorübergehender Krankheitsängste auch bei Psychologiestudierenden existieren. Methode: Mittels etablierter Illness-Attitude-Scales (IAS) und einer eigens entwickelten Ergänzung wurden Ängste vor somatischen und psychischen Erkrankungen erhoben. Ergebnisse: Krankheitsängste bei Psychologiestudierenden waren nicht stärker ausgeprägt als bei Studierenden anderer Fachrichtungen. Ängste vor körperlichen Erkrankungen waren häufiger als Ängste vor psychischen Störungen, die keiner signifikanten zeitlichen Veränderung unterlagen. Schlussfolgerung: Die Beschäftigung mit psychischen Störungen geht nicht zwangsläufig mit einem Anstieg von Ängsten vor psychischen Erkrankungen unter Psychologiestudierenden einher. Erhöhte Belastungswerte bei allen Studierenden legen nahe, dass das Studium selbst eine Herausforderung darstellt, für deren Bewältigung Unterstützung angeboten werden kann. the same level of fear regarding health anxiety as students of other disciplines. Their anxiety about suffering from physical illnesses was also greater than their anxiety about suffering from mental disorders. Conclusion: Studying mental disorders does not necessarily result in an increase of related health anxiety. However, university studies seem to be a burdensome period of life in their own right, for which coping support can be provided.
N2 - Background: Medical students’ disease is the fear of medical students that they suffer from the diseases they are studying. Objective: This study examined whether similar phenomena of transient health anxiety exist among psychology students. Method: Health anxieties regarding physical illnesses and mental disorders were analyzed with the well-established Illness Attitude Scale (IAS) and a custom-developed supplement. Results: In general, psychology students experienced the same level of fear regarding health anxiety as students of other disciplines. Their anxiety about suffering from physical illnesses was also greater than their anxiety about suffering from mental disorders. Conclusion: Studying mental disorders does not necessarily result in an increase of related health anxiety. However, university studies seem to be a burdensome period of life in their own right, for which coping support can be provided.
KW - health anxiety
KW - mental disorders
KW - mental hypochondriasis
KW - psychology
KW - students
KW - questionnaire
KW - Krankheitsangst
KW - psychische Störungen
KW - mentale Hypochondrie
KW - Psychologiestudierende
KW - Fragebogen
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000578
SN - 1616-3443
SN - 2190-6297
VL - 49
IS - 2
SP - 103
EP - 112
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
A1 - Uhlmann, Andreas
A1 - Herzberg, Meike
T1 - The voice gives it away
BT - male and female pitch as a cue for gender stereotyping
JF - Social psychology
N2 - Two experiments examined the impact of voice pitch on gender stereotyping. Participants listened to a text read by a female (Study 1; N = 171) or male (Study 2, N = 151) speaker, whose voice pitch was manipulated to be high or low. They rated the speaker on positive and negative facets of masculinity and femininity, competence, and likability. They also indicated their own gendered self-concept. High pitch was associated with the ascription of more feminine traits and greater likability. The high-pitch female speaker was rated as less competent, and the high-pitch male speaker was perceived as less masculine. Text content and participants' gendered self-concept did not moderate the pitch effect. The findings underline the importance of voice pitch for impression formation.
KW - voice pitch
KW - gender stereotypes
KW - masculinity
KW - femininity
KW - likability
KW - competence
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000441
SN - 1864-9335
SN - 2151-2590
VL - 52
IS - 2
SP - 101
EP - 113
PB - Hogrefe & Huber
CY - Bern
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Skowronski, Marika
A1 - Busching, Robert
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
T1 - Predicting adolescents’ self-objectification from sexualized video game and Instagram use
BT - A longitudinal study
JF - Sex roles : a journal of research
N2 - A growing body of research has demonstrated negative effects of sexualization in the media on adolescents' body image, but longitudinal studies and research including interactive and social media are scarce. The current study explored the longitudinal associations of adolescents' use of sexualized video games (SVG) and sexualized Instagram images (SII) with body image concerns. Specifically, our study examined relations between adolescents' SVG and SII use and appearance comparisons, thin- and muscular-ideal internalization, valuing appearance over competence, and body surveillance. A sample of 660 German adolescents (327 female, 333 male;M-age = 15.09 years) participated in two waves with an interval of 6 months. A structural equation model showed that SVG and SII use at Time 1 predicted body surveillance indirectly via valuing appearance over competence at Time 2. Furthermore, SVG and SII use indirectly predicted both thin- and muscular-ideal internalization through appearance comparisons at Time 1. In turn, thin-ideal internalization at Time 1 predicted body surveillance indirectly via valuing appearance over competence at Time 2. The results indicate that sexualization in video games and on Instagram can play an important role in increasing body image concerns among adolescents. We discuss the findings with respect to objectification theory and the predictive value of including appearance comparisons in models explaining the relation between sexualized media and self-objectification.
KW - social media
KW - computer games
KW - sexualization
KW - body image
KW - self-objectification
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01187-1
SN - 0360-0025
SN - 1573-2762
VL - 84
IS - 9-10
SP - 584
EP - 598
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ventura-Bort, Carlos
A1 - Schnabel, Ella
A1 - Wendt, Julia
A1 - Weymar, Mathias
T1 - Influence of resting heart rate variability on affect processing in different induction contexts
JF - Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
KW - HRV
KW - Emotion
KW - Startle
Y1 - 2020
SN - 0048-5772
SN - 1469-8986
SN - 1540-5958
VL - 57
SP - S39
EP - S39
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Malden
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Maaß, Ulrike
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Poltz, Nadine
A1 - Lorenz, Anna
A1 - Ay-Bryson, Destina Sevde
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Live supervision in psychotherapy training
BT - a systematic review
JF - Training and education in professional psychology
N2 - There is increasing interest in improving psychotherapy training using evidence-based supervision. One approach is live supervision (LS), in which the supervisor offers immediate feedback to the trainee (e.g., via microphone, text messages) during the session. This review summarizes the research on LS and its main results. The databases Web of Science Core Collection, PsycArticles, PsycBooks, PsycInfo, PSYNDEX, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, and PubMed were searched from inception to January 23, 2020 (including a backward search) and updated November 15, 2020. The inclusion criteria (i.e., main focus on LS, immediate feedback from a present supervisor, psychological setting) were met by k = 138 publications, including k = 8 randomized controlled trials (RCTs; N = 339). Two reviewers independently evaluated the RCTs' risk of bias using the revised Cochrane Risk-of-Bias Tool. Most publications had a family therapy background (59%), were categorized as nonempirical (55%), aimed primarily at describing or comparing specific LS methods (35%), and displayed positive views on LS (87%). Based on the RCTs, LS was superior to no-supervision in 78% of all comparisons, but only in 13% of the cases compared to a delayed supervision (DS) condition (i.e., regarding trainee skills, patient outcomes, or other variables). These results somewhat contradict the overall favorable views in the literature. However, the generalizability is limited due to a lack of high-quality studies and substantial heterogeneity in terms of LS methods, concepts, outcomes, and measurements. Ideas for more systematic research on LS regarding objectives and methods are proposed.
Public Significance Statement This review summarizes research on live supervision (LS). LS is a form of supervision in psychotherapy training in which the supervisor observes the trainee's therapy session and provides immediate feedback. The review concludes that LS is probably as effective as delayed supervision (DS), although more high-quality research is needed.
KW - psychotherapy
KW - feedback
KW - bug-in-the-eye
KW - training
KW - therapist competence
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000390
SN - 1931-3918
SN - 1931-3926
VL - 16
IS - 2
SP - 130
EP - 142
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Chen, Hao
A1 - Nebe, Stephan
A1 - Mojtahedzadeh, Negin
A1 - Kuitunen-Paul, Soren
A1 - Garbusow, Maria
A1 - Schad, Daniel
A1 - Rapp, Michael A.
A1 - Huys, Quentin J. M.
A1 - Heinz, Andreas
A1 - Smolka, Michael N.
T1 - Susceptibility to interference between Pavlovian and instrumental control is associated with early hazardous alcohol use
JF - Addiction biology
N2 - Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) tasks examine the influence of Pavlovian stimuli on ongoing instrumental behaviour. Previous studies reported associations between a strong PIT effect, high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder. This study investigated whether susceptibility to interference between Pavlovian and instrumental control is linked to risky alcohol use in a community sample of 18-year-old male adults. Participants (N = 191) were instructed to 'collect good shells' and 'leave bad shells' during the presentation of appetitive (monetary reward), aversive (monetary loss) or neutral Pavlovian stimuli. We compared instrumental error rates (ER) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain responses between the congruent and incongruent conditions, as well as among high-risk and low-risk drinking groups. On average, individuals showed a substantial PIT effect, that is, increased ER when Pavlovian cues and instrumental stimuli were in conflict compared with congruent trials. Neural PIT correlates were found in the ventral striatum and the dorsomedial and lateral prefrontal cortices (lPFC). Importantly, high-risk drinking was associated with a stronger behavioural PIT effect, a decreased lPFC response and an increased neural response in the ventral striatum on the trend level. Moreover, high-risk drinkers showed weaker connectivity from the ventral striatum to the lPFC during incongruent trials. Our study links interference during PIT to drinking behaviour in healthy, young adults. High-risk drinkers showed higher susceptibility to Pavlovian cues, especially when they conflicted with instrumental behaviour, indicating lower interference control abilities. Increased activity in the ventral striatum (bottom-up), decreased lPFC response (top-down), and their altered interplay may contribute to poor interference control in the high-risk drinkers.
KW - high‐risk drinking
KW - interference control
KW - Pavlovian‐to‐instrumental transfer
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12983
SN - 1355-6215
SN - 1369-1600
VL - 26
IS - 4
SP - 1
EP - 14
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
A1 - Rabe, Maximilian Michael
A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1 - Reich, Sebastian
T1 - Sequential data assimilation of the stochastic SEIR epidemic model for regional COVID-19 dynamics
JF - Bulletin of mathematical biology : official journal of the Society for Mathematical Biology
N2 - Newly emerging pandemics like COVID-19 call for predictive models to implement precisely tuned responses to limit their deep impact on society. Standard epidemic models provide a theoretically well-founded dynamical description of disease incidence. For COVID-19 with infectiousness peaking before and at symptom onset, the SEIR model explains the hidden build-up of exposed individuals which creates challenges for containment strategies. However, spatial heterogeneity raises questions about the adequacy of modeling epidemic outbreaks on the level of a whole country. Here, we show that by applying sequential data assimilation to the stochastic SEIR epidemic model, we can capture the dynamic behavior of outbreaks on a regional level. Regional modeling, with relatively low numbers of infected and demographic noise, accounts for both spatial heterogeneity and stochasticity. Based on adapted models, short-term predictions can be achieved. Thus, with the help of these sequential data assimilation methods, more realistic epidemic models are within reach.
KW - Stochastic epidemic model
KW - Sequential data assimilation
KW - Ensemble Kalman
KW - filter
KW - COVID-19
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-020-00834-8
SN - 0092-8240
SN - 1522-9602
VL - 83
IS - 1
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ruzanska, Ulrike Alexandra
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - How is intuitive eating related to self-reported and laboratory food intake in middle-aged adults?
JF - Eating behaviors
N2 - As intuitive eating (IE) is characterized by eating in response to internal cues of hunger and satiety and by monitoring the effect of food on the body, it has been hypothesized to lead to healthy food intake. Evidence concerning its link to food intake is scarce. This experimental study investigated the relationship between IE and food intake in middle-aged adults. Fifty-five participants aged 50-70 years completed the Intuitive Eating Scale 2 to measure IE. Usual consumption frequency of fruits, vegetables, snacks and sweets was assessed as a measure of healthy self-reported food intake. A taste test of apples, carrots, coated peanuts and chocolate was conducted as a measure of healthy and total laboratory food intake. Regression analyses were performed using Frequentist and Bayesian methods of inference. In line with our hypothesis, IE was associated with healthier self-reported food intake (medium effect size: f(2) = 0.24). The data were 49.80 times more likely under H-1 than under H-0. Contrary to our hypotheses, IE was neither associated with healthy nor total laboratory food intake in classical regression analyses. The accompanying Bayes factors revealed inconclusive evidence. Data only allow drawing cautious conclusions about the different relationship between IE and the self-reported consumption frequency of the foods vs. the amount of these foods consumed in a single test situation. Future studies combining different measures of IE (e.g., behavioral paradigms) and self-reported (e.g., diet quality, portion sizes) and laboratory (e.g., repeated taste tests with pre-selected foods) food intake are warranted to further explore their relationship.
KW - Intuitive eating
KW - Food intake
KW - Taste test
KW - Middle-aged adults
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2020.101405
SN - 1471-0153
SN - 1873-7358
VL - 38
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schwetlick, Lisa
A1 - Rothkegel, Lars Oliver Martin
A1 - Trukenbrod, Hans Arne
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
T1 - Modeling the effects of perisaccadic attention on gaze statistics during scene viewing
JF - Communications biology
N2 - Lisa Schwetlick et al. present a computational model linking visual scan path generation in scene viewing to physiological and experimental work on perisaccadic covert attention, the act of attending to an object visually without obviously moving the eyes toward it. They find that integrating covert attention into predictive models of visual scan paths greatly improves the model's agreement with experimental data.
How we perceive a visual scene depends critically on the selection of gaze positions. For this selection process, visual attention is known to play a key role in two ways. First, image-features attract visual attention, a fact that is captured well by time-independent fixation models. Second, millisecond-level attentional dynamics around the time of saccade drives our gaze from one position to the next. These two related research areas on attention are typically perceived as separate, both theoretically and experimentally. Here we link the two research areas by demonstrating that perisaccadic attentional dynamics improve predictions on scan path statistics. In a mathematical model, we integrated perisaccadic covert attention with dynamic scan path generation. Our model reproduces saccade amplitude distributions, angular statistics, intersaccadic turning angles, and their impact on fixation durations as well as inter-individual differences using Bayesian inference. Therefore, our result lend support to the relevance of perisaccadic attention to gaze statistics.
KW - Computational models
KW - Human behaviour
KW - Visual system
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01429-8
SN - 2399-3642
VL - 3
IS - 1
PB - Springer Nature
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
A1 - Berger, Anja
T1 - Correlates of victim-perpetrator overlap in sexual aggression among men and women
BT - a conceptual replication and extension
JF - Psychology of violence
N2 - Objective: The study replicated and extended a study by Peterson, Beagley, McCallum, and Artime (2019), who studied differences in sexual attitudes and behaviors in men who were both victims and perpetrators of sexual assault, only victims, only perpetrators, or neither. They found a heightened rate of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and some evidence of greater traumatic sexualization in men who were both victims and perpetrators.
Method: Our sample consisted of 2,149 college students (39.6% male) in Germany. We measured sexual aggression perpetration and victimization, CSA, sexual self-esteem, depressive symptoms, risky sexual scripts, and risky sexual behavior.
Results: Perpetration rates were significantly higher among victims than among nonvictims, and the victim-perpetrator group scored highest on CSA. A significant effect of group membership was found on measures of depressive symptoms, risky sexual scripts, and risky sexual behavior in both sex groups, mainly due to differences of the victim-only, perpetrator-only, and victim-perpetrator groups from the nonvictim-nonperpetrator group. The effect on sexual self-esteem was found for women only. Few differences emerged between the victim-only, perpetrator-only, and victim-perpetrator groups. Most associations remained significant when controlling for CSA.
Conclusion: We found a substantial overlap between victimization and perpetration but no evidence for a special vulnerability of the victim-perpetrator group. Instead, experiences of victimization, perpetration, or both were linked to more negative correlates compared with individuals who were neither victims nor perpetrators. The findings need to be interpreted with caution due to the small number of individuals in the perpetrator-only and victim-perpetrator groups.
KW - victim-perpetrator overlap
KW - childhood sexual abuse
KW - sexual aggression
KW - sexual scripts
KW - depressive symptoms
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000282
SN - 2152-0828
SN - 2152-081X
VL - 10
IS - 5
SP - 564
EP - 574
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Ein hilfreicher Leitfaden zur Verfassung des Berichts an den Gutachterim Rahmen der Verhaltenstherapie
BT - Rezension zu: Surall, Daniel; Kunz, Oliver: Leitfaden für den VT-Bericht. Psychotherapie-Anträge erfolgreich stellen. - Göttingen: Hogrefe, 2019. - 205 S. - ISBN 978-3-8017-2947-9
JF - Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
N2 - Seit dem 01. 04. 2017 erfolgte eine umfangreiche Reform der Psychotherapie-Richtlinie. Neben der Einführung neuer Leistungen (z. B. Akutbehandlung, psychotherapeutische Sprechstunde) wurden auch Änderungen im Ablauf und der Beantragung von Psychotherapie beschlossen. Beispielsweise ist der Bericht an den Gutachter bzw. die Gutachterin seltener eine notwendige Voraussetzung zur Durchführung einer psychotherapeutischen Behandlung, als dass zuvor der Fall war. Im Zuge der Reform wurde auch der Leitfaden für die Gestaltung des Berichts an den Gutachter bzw. die Gutachterin überarbeitet.
Vor dem Hintergrund der Psychotherapie-Richtlinien-Reform ist das Werk „Leitfaden für den VT-Bericht an den Gutachter“ von Daniel Surall und Oliver Kunz sehr willkommen. Das Buch gliedert sich insgesamt in zehn Kapitel, in denen die Autoren ausführlich auf den reformierten Bericht an den Gutachter bzw. an die Gutachterin eingehen. In den ersten beiden Kapiteln fassen die Autoren die Änderungen zur Psychotherapie-Richtlinie und im Bericht an den Gutachter / die Gutachterin zusammen. In den folgenden sechs Kapiteln wird auf die einzelnen Abschnitte des neuen Berichts an den Gutachter/die Gutachterin eingegangen. Sehr hilfreich ist hierbei, dass die Autoren zahlreiche Fallbeispiele nutzen, um die einzelnen Abschnitte des Berichts an den Gutachter/die Gutachterin zu erläutern. Auch die übersichtliche Darstellungsform in Form von Tabellen (z. B. zur Darstellung der Verhaltensanalyse) erleichtert den Leser_innen die Nachvollziehbarkeit der Inhalte. Erfreulich ist auch, dass die Autoren hinsichtlich der Antragstellung auch immer auf Unterschiede zwischen erwachsenen Patient_innen und Kindern und Jugendlichen eingehen. Im neunten Kapitel des Leitfadens wird ausführlicher das Thema Umwandlungs- und Fortführungsanträge aufgegriffen. Dies ist insbesondere sinnvoll, da nach der neuen Psychotherapie-Richtlinie für Kurzzeitanträge in der Regel keine Berichtspflicht besteht und Umwandlungs- und Fortführungsanträge in der Praxis häufiger als zuvor von Relevanz sein dürften. Im zehnten Kapitel wird in knapper Weise darauf eingegangen, wie bei Ablehnung oder Kürzung von beantragten Leistungen vorgegangen werden kann.
Das Buch umfasst einen umfangreichen Anhang (67 Seiten), in dem Beispiele für Berichte an den Gutachter / die Gutachterin und Behandlungspläne für verschiedene psychische Störungen zu finden sind. Auch hierbei werden sowohl Berichte für Erwachsene als auch für Kinder und Jugendliche präsentiert. Zudem beinhaltet der Anhang des Buches das Berner Inventar für Therapieziele, Auszüge aus dem AMDP-Befundbogen (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Methodik und Dokumentation in der Psychiatrie, 2018)<\litr>, den Leitfaden zum Erstellen des Berichts an die Gutachter_innen (PTV 3) sowie einer Gegenüberstellung des alten und des neuen Leitfadens für den Bericht an die Gutachter_innen.
Bei dem von Surall und Kunz vorgelegten Buch handelt es sich um einen äußerst hilfreichen Leitfaden, der Therapeut:innen bei der Abfassung des Berichts an den Gutachter / die Gutachterin im Rahmen der Verhaltenstherapie unterstützen kann. Hierbei kann der Leitfaden Psychotherapeut_innen in Ausbildung bei der Abfassung ihrer ersten Anträge unterstützen. Aber auch erfahrenen Kolleg_innen können bei dem Übergang in die neuen Antragsformalitäten, die mit der Reform der Psychotherapie-Richtlinie einhergingen, unterstützen werden. Hierbei ist insbesondere die Im Anhang befindliche Gegenüberstellung des alten und des neuen Leitfadens für den Bericht an den Gutachter / die Gutachterin hilfreich, um sich einen schnellen Überblick über die Änderungen zu verschaffen. Insgesamt werden die einzelnen Abschnitte des Berichts an den Gutachter / die Gutachterin sehr gut strukturiert und verständlich erläutert. Die vielen Beispiele und die ausführlichen Materialien im Anhang ergänzen zudem die Erläuterungen und erleichtern das Verständnis. Zu Beginn des Buches wäre zudem noch eine Abbildung hilfreich gewesen, die den Ablauf der Beantragung von Psychotherapie schematisch darstellt, um einen genaueren Überblick über die Beantragung von Psychotherapie nach der neuen Psychotherapie-Richtlinie zu erhalten. Auch ein Stichwortverzeichnis würde die Suche nach bestimmten Inhalten erleichtern.
Zusammenfassend kann festgehalten werden, dass es sich bei dem Werk von Surall und Kunz um einen sehr empfehlenswerten Leitfaden handelt, der im Rahmen der Antragstellung von Verhaltenstherapie genutzt werden kann. Aufgrund der klaren Struktur und Anschaulichkeit durch viele Beispielanträge bringt das Buch alle Voraussetzungen mit, um sich als Standartwerk zu etablieren, dass Therapeut_innen bei der Beantragung von Verhaltenstherapie in äußerst hilfreicher Weise unterstützt.
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000553
SN - 1616-3443
SN - 2190-6297
VL - 49
IS - 3
SP - 193
EP - 194
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Behrend, Nicole
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - Validation of a German version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2)
JF - Body image : an international journal of research
N2 - The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is the most current measure of body appreciation, a central facet of positive body image. This work aimed to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of a German version. In Study 1 (N = 659; M-age = 27.19, SD = 8.57), exploratory factor analyses (EFA) revealed that the German BAS-2 has a one-dimensional factor structure in women and men, showing cross-gender factor similarity. In Study 2 (N = 472; M-age = 30.08, SD = 12.35), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) further supported the original scale's one-dimensional factor structure after freeing correlated errors. The German BAS-2 also showed partial scalar invariance across gender, with women and men not differing significantly in latent mean scores. As predicted, we found convergent relationships with measures of self-esteem, intuitive eating, and variables associated with negative body image (i.e., weight-and shape concerns, drive for thinness). Correlations with BMI were small and in an inverse direction. Incremental validity was demonstrated by predicting self-esteem and intuitive eating over and above measures of negative body image. Additionally, the German BAS-2 showed internal consistency and 2-week test-retest reliability. Overall, our results suggest that the German BAS-2 is a psychometrically sound instrument.
KW - BAS-2
KW - Body appreciation
KW - Positive body image
KW - Validation
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.01.020
SN - 1740-1445
SN - 1873-6807
VL - 41
SP - 216
EP - 224
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
A1 - Rabe, Maximilian Michael
A1 - Schwetlick, Lisa
A1 - Seelig, Stefan A.
A1 - Reich, Sebastian
A1 - Vasishth, Shravan
T1 - Data assimilation in dynamical cognitive science
JF - Trends in cognitive sciences
N2 - Dynamical models make specific assumptions about cognitive processes that generate human behavior. In data assimilation, these models are tested against timeordered data. Recent progress on Bayesian data assimilation demonstrates that this approach combines the strengths of statistical modeling of individual differences with the those of dynamical cognitive models.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.11.006
SN - 1364-6613
SN - 1879-307X
VL - 26
IS - 2
SP - 99
EP - 102
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Groppe, Karoline
A1 - Elsner, Birgit
T1 - Executive function and weight status in children
BT - a one-year longitudinal perspective
JF - Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence
N2 - There is considerable evidence for an association between obesity and impaired executive function (EF) in adolescents and adults. However, little research has examined EF in overweight or obese children. Furthermore, data on EF in underweight individuals is lacking. In addition, there is no consensus on the directionality of the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and EF, and longitudinal studies are rare. Thus, the present study examined whether children differ in their performance on a battery of EF tasks depending on their weight status (underweight, normal-weight, overweight), and investigated the longitudinal cross-lagged associations between EF and BMI. Hot EF (delay of gratification, affective decision-making), cool EF (attention shifting, inhibition, working memory [WM] updating), and BMI were assessed in 1,657 German elementary-school children at two time points, approximately one year apart. Overweight children exhibited slightly poorer attention shifting, WM updating, and affective decision-making abilities as compared to normal-weight children. Unexpectedly, they did not show any deficits in inhibition or delay of gratification. EF levels of underweight children did not differ significantly from those of normal-weight children. Furthermore, poor attention shifting and enhanced affective decision-making predicted a slightly higher BMI one year later, and a higher BMI also predicted poorer attention shifting and WM updating one year later. The latter association between BMI and subsequent EF scores, however, diminished when controlling for socioeconomic status. Results indicate that hot and cool EF plays a role in the weight development of children, and might be a promising factor to address in preventive interventions.
KW - Hot and cool executive function
KW - Overweight
KW - Underweight
KW - Middle childhood
KW - Longitudinal
Y1 - 2015
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2015.1089981
SN - 0929-7049
SN - 1744-4136
VL - 23
IS - 2
SP - 129
EP - 147
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Ay-Bryson, Destina Sevde
A1 - Marschner, Linda
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - The heterogeneous course of OCD
BT - a scoping review on the variety of definitions
JF - Psychiatry research : the official publication of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
N2 - Although effective treatments exist, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is, according to the views of patients and experts, still associated with chronicity, a term with no clear and consistent definition. To improve patient care and to foster research, a clear distinction between the various concepts of chronicity cited in the literature is crucial. The aim was thus to explicate central concepts related to courses and trajectories in OCD based on an explorative, scoping search of the existing literature. Our review revealed a considerable lack in content validity, as the concepts were operationalized inconsistently. Concepts related to symptom improvement were (complete) recovery, partial/full remission and partial/full response. Terms used in relation with symptom stability or worsening were chronic/continuous, intermittent and episodic course, waxing and waning, relapse, recurrence, deterioration and treatment-refractoriness. All concepts are explained and visualized as a result of the review. Further, based on authors' remarks, we present recommendations on how to enhance care for chronic OCD patients, namely training psychotherapists to apply CBT as intended, managing patient beliefs about disease and treatment, and adapting psychotherapy to OCD subtypes. Finally, we then propose a literature-based definition of treatment-refractory OCD.
KW - review
KW - OCD
KW - anxiety disorder
KW - prevention
KW - treatment response
KW - non-response
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112821
SN - 0165-1781
SN - 1872-7123
VL - 285
PB - Elsevier
CY - Clare
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Urbach, Tina
A1 - Fay, Doris
T1 - Leader member exchange in leaders’ support for voice
BT - good relationships matter in situations of power threat
JF - Applied psychology : an international review
JF - Psychologie appliquée
N2 - While previous research underscores the role of leaders in stimulating employee voice behaviour, comparatively little is known about what affects leaders' support for such constructive but potentially threatening employee behaviours. We introduce leader member exchange quality (LMX) as a central predictor of leaders' support for employees' ideas for constructive change. Apart from a general benefit of high LMX for leaders' idea support, we propose that high LMX is particularly critical to leaders' idea support if the idea voiced by an employee constitutes a power threat to the leader. We investigate leaders' attribution of prosocial and egoistic employee intentions as mediators of these effects. Hypotheses were tested in a quasi-experimental vignette study (N = 160), in which leaders evaluated a simulated employee idea, and a field study (N = 133), in which leaders evaluated an idea that had been voiced to them at work. Results show an indirect effect of LMX on leaders' idea support via attributed prosocial intentions but not via attributed egoistic intentions, and a buffering effect of high LMX on the negative effect of power threat on leaders' idea support. Results differed across studies with regard to the main effect of LMX on idea support.
KW - proactive personality
KW - antecedents
KW - behavior
KW - consequences
KW - metaanalysis
KW - model
KW - performance
KW - supervisors
KW - trust
KW - work
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12245
SN - 0269-994X
SN - 1464-0597
VL - 70
IS - 2
SP - 674
EP - 708
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Backhaus, Daniel
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
A1 - Rothkegel, Lars Oliver Martin
A1 - Trukenbrod, Hans Arne
T1 - Task-dependence in scene perception: Head unrestrained viewing using mobile eye-tracking
JF - Journal of vision
N2 - Real-world scene perception is typically studied in the laboratory using static picture viewing with restrained head position. Consequently, the transfer of results obtained in this paradigm to real-word scenarios has been questioned. The advancement of mobile eye-trackers and the progress in image processing, however, permit a more natural experimental setup that, at the same time, maintains the high experimental control from the standard laboratory setting. We investigated eye movements while participants were standing in front of a projector screen and explored images under four specific task instructions. Eye movements were recorded with a mobile eye-tracking device and raw gaze data were transformed from head-centered into image-centered coordinates. We observed differences between tasks in temporal and spatial eye-movement parameters and found that the bias to fixate images near the center differed between tasks. Our results demonstrate that current mobile eye-tracking technology and a highly controlled design support the study of fine-scaled task dependencies in an experimental setting that permits more natural viewing behavior than the static picture viewing paradigm.
KW - scene viewing
KW - real-world scenarios
KW - mobile eye-tracking
KW - task
KW - influence
KW - central fixation bias
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.5.3
SN - 1534-7362
VL - 20
IS - 5
SP - 1
EP - 21
PB - Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology
CY - Rockville
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Soemer, Alexander
A1 - Schiefele, Ulrich
T1 - Working memory capacity and (in)voluntary mind wandering
JF - Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2 - According to influential accounts of mind wandering (MW), working memory capacity (WMC) plays a key role in controlling the amount of off-task thought during the execution of a demanding task. Whereas WMC has primarily been associated with reduced levels of involuntarily occurring MW episodes in prior research, here we demonstrate for the first time that high-WMC individuals exhibit lower levels of voluntary MW. One hundred and eighty participants carried out a demanding reading task and reported their attentional state in response to random thought probes. In addition, participants' WMC was measured with two common complex span tasks (operation span and symmetry span). As a result, WMC was negatively related to both voluntary and involuntary MW, and the two forms of MW partially mediated the positive effect of WMC on reading performance. Furthermore, the negative relation between voluntary WM and reading remained significant after controlling for interest. Thus, in contrast to prior research suggesting that voluntary MW might be more closely related to motivation rather than WMC, the present results demonstrate that high-WMC individuals tend to limit both involuntary and voluntary MW more strictly than low-WMC individuals.
KW - mind wandering
KW - intention
KW - working memory
KW - executive control
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01737-4
SN - 1069-9384
SN - 1531-5320
VL - 27
IS - 4
SP - 758
EP - 767
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hilton, Matthew
A1 - Wartenburger, Isabell
A1 - Elsner, Birgit
T1 - Kinematic boundary cues modulate 12-month-old infants’ segmentation of action sequences
BT - an ERP study
JF - Neuropsychologia : an international journal in behavioural and cognitive neuroscience
N2 - Human infants can segment action sequences into their constituent actions already during the first year of life. However, work to date has almost exclusively examined the role of infants' conceptual knowledge of actions and their outcomes in driving this segmentation. The present study examined electrophysiological correlates of infants' processing of lower-level perceptual cues that signal a boundary between two actions of an action sequence. Specifically, we tested the effect of kinematic boundary cues (pre-boundary lengthening and pause) on 12-month-old infants' (N = 27) processing of a sequence of three arbitrary actions, performed by an animated figure. Using the Event-Related Potential (ERP) approach, evidence of a positivity following the onset of the boundary cues was found, in line with previous work that has found an ERP positivity (Closure Positive Shift, CPS) related to boundary processing in auditory stimuli and action sequences in adults. Moreover, an ERP negativity (Negative Central, Nc) indicated that infants' encoding of the post-boundary action was modulated by the presence or absence of prior boundary cues. We therefore conclude that 12-month-old infants are sensitive to lower-level perceptual kinematic boundary cues, which can support segmentation of a continuous stream of movement into individual action units.
KW - Action segmentation
KW - Kinematic boundary processing
KW - ERPs
KW - Boundary cues
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107916
SN - 0028-3932
SN - 1873-3514
VL - 159
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krügel, André
A1 - Rothkegel, Lars
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
T1 - No exception from Bayes’ rule
BT - the presence and absence of the range effect for saccades explained
JF - Journal of vision
N2 - In an influential theoretical model, human sensorimotor control is achieved by a Bayesian decision process, which combines noisy sensory information and learned prior knowledge. A ubiquitous signature of prior knowledge and Bayesian integration in human perception and motor behavior is the frequently observed bias toward an average stimulus magnitude (i.e., a central-tendency bias, range effect, regression-to-the-mean effect). However, in the domain of eye movements, there is a recent controversy about the fundamental existence of a range effect in the saccadic system. Here we argue that the problem of the existence of a range effect is linked to the availability of prior knowledge for saccade control. We present results from two prosaccade experiments that both employ an informative prior structure (i.e., a nonuniform Gaussian distribution of saccade target distances). Our results demonstrate the validity of Bayesian integration in saccade control, which generates a range effect in saccades. According to Bayesian integration principles, the saccadic range effect depends on the availability of prior knowledge and varies in size as a function of the reliability of the prior and the sensory likelihood.
KW - saccades
KW - saccadic accuracy
KW - range effect
KW - Bayesian sensorimotor
KW - integration
KW - central-tendency bias
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.7.15
SN - 1534-7362
VL - 20
IS - 7
PB - ARVO
CY - Rockville
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Heinze, Peter Eric
A1 - Fatfouta, Ramzi
A1 - Schröder-Abe, Michela
T1 - Validation of an implicit measure of antagonistic narcissism
JF - Journal of research in personality
N2 - Narcissism has traditionally been assessed using explicit measures, yet contemporary measures are limited in their ability to capture people's automatic (i.e., implicit) self-evaluations. Here, we propose the antagonistic narcissism Implicit Association Test (AN-IAT). Three studies (N = 1082) using self-, informant-reports, and other implicit measures tested the psychometric properties of the AN-IAT. The AN-IAT showed high internal consistency and good temporal stability. The measure was positively associated with (antagonistic) narcissism, aggression, and lack of empathy, but unrelated to communal, pathological, and agentic narcissism as well as self-esteem. The AN-IAT predicted self- and informantratings of aggression and empathy beyond self-reports of antagonistic and agentic narcissism, and agreeableness. Together, the antagonistic narcissism IAT is a promising addition to the assessment of narcissism.
KW - narcissism
KW - antagonistic
KW - implicit self-concept of personality
KW - IAT
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103993
SN - 0092-6566
SN - 1095-7251
VL - 88
PB - Elsevier
CY - San Diego
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
T1 - Risk cactors for the development of aggressive behavior from middle childhood to adolescence
BT - the interaction of person and environment
JF - Current directions in psychological science
N2 - In this article, I examine the development of aggressive behavior from middle childhood to adolescence as a result of the interaction between the person and the environment and discuss implications for intervention measures. Three main questions are addressed and illustrated by examples from recent research: What are intrapersonal risk factors for the development and persistence of aggressive behavior from middle childhood to adolescence? What factors in the social environment contribute to the development of aggressive behavior? How do individual dispositions and environmental risk factors interact to explain developmental trajectories of aggressive behavior?
KW - aggression
KW - development
KW - anger regulation
KW - contagion
KW - media violence
KW - peer influences
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420917721
SN - 0963-7214
SN - 1467-8721
VL - 29
IS - 4
SP - 333
EP - 339
PB - Sage
CY - Thousand Oaks
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Pan, Jinger
A1 - Yan, Ming
A1 - Laubrock, Jochen
T1 - Perceptual span in oral reading
BT - the case of Chinese
JF - Scientific Studies of Reading
N2 - The present study explores the perceptual span, that is, the physical extent of the area from which useful visual information is obtained during a single fixation, during oral reading of Chinese sentences. Characters outside a window of legible text were replaced by visually similar characters. Results show that the influence of window size on the perceptual span was consistent across different fixation and oculomotor measures. To maintain normal reading behavior when reading aloud, it was necessary to have information provided from three characters to the right of the fixation. Together with findings from previous research, our findings suggest that the physical size of the perceptual span is smaller when reading aloud than in silent reading. This is in agreement with previous studies in English, suggesting that the mechanisms causing the reduced span in oral reading have a common base that generalizes across languages and writing systems.
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2017.1283694
SN - 1088-8438
SN - 1532-799X
VL - 21
SP - 254
EP - 263
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Meissner, Claudia
A1 - Weck, Florian
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
T1 - Screening dysfunktionaler Überzeugungen bei Zwangsstörungen
T1 - Screening for dysfunctional beliefs in obsessive-compulsive disorders
BT - ein Scoping Review zu den aktuellen Erhebungsinstrumenten
BT - Scoping review of current survey instruments
JF - Psychotherapeut
N2 - Background Dysfunctional beliefs and assumptions of obsessive thoughts are decisive for the etiology and maintenance of obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD). The reliable and valid assessment of these beliefs using screening procedures is relevant for the cognitive behavioral therapy. Objective Based on the domains suggested by the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG), the aim of the current study was a scoping review of recent screening instruments on those domains relevant to OCD. The psychometric properties were systematically evaluated and their features were compared. Material and methods The literature search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection, Google Scholar und PubMed. English and German screening instruments for adults (>= 18 years) were included. Results A total of 56 studies on testing of psychometric characteristics of 16 screening instruments were included. The questionnaires included all domains of dysfunctional beliefs. In addition, four of them assessed multiple domains and nine were in the German language. The majority of screening procedures showed adequate to good psychometric properties. The methodological quality of the studies was heterogeneous, statistical and methodological procedures became more complex over the years. Conclusion Further research is necessary on disorder-related specificity and sensitivity to change for screening measures in different clinical samples.
N2 - Hintergrund: Dysfunktionale Überzeugungen und Bewertungen von Zwangsgedanken sind ausschlaggebend für die Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung von Zwangsstörungen. Die reliable und valide Erfassung dieser Überzeugungen mithilfe von Screeningverfahren ist für die kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Behandlung relevant. Fragestellung: Ziel der Arbeit war die Erstellung eines Scoping review bezüglich der aktuellen Screeninginstrumenten zur Erfassung der 6 von der Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG) vorgeschlagenen Domänen bei Zwangsstörungen. Die Verfahren wurden systematisch nach ihrer psychometrischen Güte bewertet und in ihren Eigenschaften verglichen. Material und Methoden: Die Literatursuche erfolgte in den Datenbanken Web of Science Core Collection, Google Scholar und PubMed. Eingeschlossen wurden deutsch- und englischsprachige Verfahren für Erwachsene (≥18 Jahre). Ergebnisse: Es konnten 56 Studien zur Überprüfung der psychometrischen Eigenschaften von 16 Fragebogen eingeschlossen werden. Die Fragebogen erfassten alle Domänen dysfunktionaler Überzeugungen. Außerdem lagen 4 domänenübergreifende Verfahren vor, und 9 der Fragebogen waren deutschsprachig. Die Mehrzahl der Screeningverfahren wies adäquate bis gute psychometrische Werte auf. Die methodische Qualität der Studien war heterogen; methodische und statistische Verfahren nahmen über die Jahre an Komplexität zu. Schlussfolgerung: Weiterer Forschungsbedarf besteht v. a. in der Untersuchung der Störungsspezifität und Änderungssensitivität von Screeningverfahren an klinischen Stichproben.
KW - literature search
KW - questionnaires
KW - sensitivity and specificity
KW - psychometrics
KW - cognitive behavioral therapy
KW - Literaturrecherche
KW - Fragebogen
KW - Sensitivität und Spezifität
KW - Psychometrie
KW - Kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Behandlung
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-020-00410-4
SN - 0935-6185
SN - 1432-2080
VL - 65
IS - 3
SP - 181
EP - 189
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Endrejat, Paul C.
A1 - Baumgarten, Franz
A1 - Kauffeld, Simone
T1 - When theory meets practice
BT - Combining Lewin’s Ideas about Change with Motivational Interviewing to Increase Energy-Saving Behaviours Within Organizations
JF - Journal of Change Management
N2 - Although more than seven decades have passed since Lewin laid the foundation for how employees’ behaviour could be changed within organizations, his ideas are far from being obsolescent. Accordingly, this article demonstrates how Lewin’s concepts can still be of use in tackling current issues (i.e. the need to raise energy-saving behaviours within organizations). In order to revive Lewin’s concepts, we combine his approaches on organization change with Motivational Interviewing (MI), a facilitation approach that fits well with his democratic and participatory mind-set. After a theoretical consideration of how Lewin’s ideas could be accompanied by MI principles, we outline a practical concept for raising the level of employees’ energy-saving behaviours to a higher standard. The usefulness of our concept is highlighted on the basis of qualitative (a force field analysis) and quantitative (an increase of energy-saving norms and – behaviours) data. Lewin’s legacy for current organization development, and the theoretical as well as practical implications for how his ideas could be applied through a combination with MI practices, are discussed.
KW - Kurt Lewin
KW - field theory
KW - group dynamics
KW - motivational interviewing
KW - energy-saving
KW - organization development
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2017.1299372
SN - 1469-7017
SN - 1479-1811
VL - 17
IS - 2
SP - 101
EP - 120
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Malesza, Marta
T1 - Grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism in prisoner's dilemma game
JF - Personality and individual differences
N2 - The aim of this article is to investigate the role of the grandiose and vulnerable narcissism in the economic game. One widely employed paradigm in this field of experimental economic games is the prisoner's dilemma-used to examine competitive versus cooperative behaviour. In the present study a prisoner's dilemma game was administrated to individuals (N = 320), along with measures of grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism and impulsivity. Specifically, our results show that vulnerable narcissism has a significant positive effect on defecting behaviors, while grandiose narcissism has a significant positive effect on cooperation in the initial round. However, while the game proceeded, grandiose narcissism started to have a positive effect on defecting behaviors too. This suggests that grandiose narcissists have, at least initially, positive qualities to them which can make them popular, but in the long run they lose their positive reputation and their likeability and willingness to cooperate decrease.
KW - grandiose narcissism
KW - vulnerable narcissism
KW - prisoner's dilemma game
KW - experimental economics
KW - impulsivity
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109841
SN - 0191-8869
SN - 1873-3549
VL - 158
PB - Pergamon Press; Elsevier Science
CY - Oxford, Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Skowronski, Marika
A1 - Busching, Robert
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
T1 - The effects of sexualized video game characters and character personalization on women's self-objectification and body satisfaction
JF - Journal of experimental social psychology
N2 - Female role models in video games are rare, and if they are present, they are often heavily sexualized. Objectification theory suggests that exposure to sexualized media characters increases self-objectification and decreases body satisfaction in female users. This study investigated the effect of playing a video game with a sexualized versus a nonsexualized character on women's experiences of self-objectification and body satisfaction. We further studied the effect of character personalization as a core feature of video games on the relation between sexualized avatars, self-objectification and body satisfaction. N = 262 female participants reported state self-objectification and body satisfaction after 30 min of playing the video game The Sims 4 with a sexualized or nonsexualized avatar that was either generic or personalized to look like the participant. We predicted that controlling for trait self-objectification, playing the game with a sexualized character would increase state self-objectification, especially in the personalized condition. Regarding the effect of character sexualization on body satisfaction, competing hypotheses based on priming vs. the Proteus effect were tested, considering character personalization and enjoyment of sexualization as moderators and controlling for trait body satisfaction. The current study did not find evidence for the proposed hypotheses. The findings are discussed in terms of the relevance of objectification theory in explaining effects of sexualized models in interactive media.
KW - Video games
KW - Sexualization
KW - Self-objectification
KW - Body satisfaction
KW - Character personalization
KW - Media effects
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104051
SN - 0022-1031
SN - 1096-0465
VL - 92
IS - 1
PB - Elsevier
CY - San Diego
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Miklashevsky, Alex
A1 - Fischer, Martin H.
T1 - Motor simulation in sentence-picture verification
BT - Beyond Ostarek et al. (2019)
T2 - Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science; Abstracts and authors of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Cognition and Action in a Plurality of Spaces (ICSC 2021) TALKS: Submission 58
N2 - Background and Aims: Ostarek et al. (2019) claimed a conclusive
demonstration that language comprehension relies profoundly on
visual simulations. They presented participants with visual noise during sentence-picture verification (SPV) and measured lateralized button response speed. The authors selectively eliminated the classical congruency effect (faster yes decisions when pictures match the objects implied by the sentences) with ‘‘high level’’ noise made from images of other objects. However, that visual noise included tool pictures, known to activate lateralized motor affordances. Moreover, some of their sentences described motor actions. This raises the question whether motor simulation may have contaminated their results.
Methods: Replicating Ostarek et al. (2019), 33 right-handed
participants performed SPV but either without visual noise or while viewing (a) only left-handled or (b) only right-handled or (c) alternatingly left- and right-handled tools. Accuracy and reaction times of manual yes responses were analyzed. Additionally, hand-relatedness of sentences was rated.
Results: Replicating Ostarek et al. (2019), the classical SPV congruency effect appeared without noise and vanished when alternatingly handled tools were presented. Crucially, it reappeared when noise objects were consistently either left- or righthandled. Higher hand-relatedness of sentence content reduced SPV performance and accuracy was lower with right-handled noise.
Conclusion: First, we demonstrated an interaction between motor-
related language, visual affordances and motor responses in SPV.
This result supports the embodied view of language processing.
Second, we identified a motor process not previously known in SPV. This extends our understanding of mental simulation and calls for methodological controls in future studies.
Y1 - 2021
UR - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10339-021-01058-x.pdf
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01058-x
SN - 1612-4782
SN - 1612-4790
VL - 22
IS - Suppl. 1
SP - S32
EP - S33
PB - Springer
CY - Heidelberg
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
A1 - Berger, Anja
T1 - Pathways from college students’ cognitive scripts for consensual sex to sexual victimization
BT - a three-wave longitudinal study
JF - The journal of sex research : the publication of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
N2 - Sexual scripts serve as cognitive representations of typical elements of sexual interactions that guide sexual behavior. To the extent that cognitive scripts for consensual sex comprise elements associated with a risk of experiencing nonconsensual sex, they may be indirectly linked to sexual victimization via risky sexual behavior. A longitudinal study with 2,425 college students in Germany (58% female) examined pathways from sexual scripts for consensual sex, sexual behavior, and sexual victimization over three data waves separated by 12-month intervals. Sexual scripts and behavior were defined as risky to the extent that they include known vulnerability factors for sexual victimization (casual sex, alcohol consumption, ambiguous communication of sexual intentions). Path analyses confirmed that more risky sexual scripts prospectively predicted more risky sexual behavior, which predicted higher odds of sexual victimization. The findings held for men and women and participants with exclusively opposite-sex and both same- and opposite-sex contacts. Moreover, reciprocal influences between risky scripts and risky sexual behavior were found over time, confirming the proposed mutual reinforcement of scripts and behavior. The findings have implications for conceptualizing the role of scripts for consensual sex as vulnerability factors for sexual victimization among women and men and may inform intervention efforts.
KW - sexual scripts
KW - sexual victimization
KW - sexual behavior
KW - college students
KW - Germany
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1972922
SN - 0022-4499
SN - 1559-8519
VL - 58
IS - 9
SP - 1130
EP - 1139
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Adam, Maurits
A1 - Elsner, Birgit
T1 - The impact of salient action effects on 6-, 7-, and 11-month-olds’ goal-predictive gaze shifts for a human grasping action
JF - PLOS ONE
N2 - When infants observe a human grasping action, experience-based accounts predict that all infants familiar with grasping actions should be able to predict the goal regardless of additional agency cues such as an action effect. Cue-based accounts, however, suggest that infants use agency cues to identify and predict action goals when the action or the agent is not familiar. From these accounts, we hypothesized that younger infants would need additional agency cues such as a salient action effect to predict the goal of a human grasping action, whereas older infants should be able to predict the goal regardless of agency cues. In three experiments, we presented 6-, 7-, and 11-month-olds with videos of a manual grasping action presented either with or without an additional salient action effect (Exp. 1 and 2), or we presented 7-month-olds with videos of a mechanical claw performing a grasping action presented with a salient action effect (Exp. 3). The 6-month-olds showed tracking gaze behavior, and the 11-month-olds showed predictive gaze behavior, regardless of the action effect. However, the 7-month-olds showed predictive gaze behavior in the action-effect condition, but tracking gaze behavior in the no-action-effect condition and in the action-effect condition with a mechanical claw. The results therefore support the idea that salient action effects are especially important for infants' goal predictions from 7 months on, and that this facilitating influence of action effects is selective for the observation of human hands.
KW - attention
KW - eye movements
KW - infants perception
KW - mechanisms
KW - origins
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240165
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 15
IS - 10
PB - Public Library of Science
CY - San Fransisco
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Roth-Rawald, Julia
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Krankheitsängste bei Psychotherapeut_innen
BT - eine explorative Studie zu Ängsten vor psychischen Störungen
JF - Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
N2 - Hintergrund: Krankheitsängste beziehen sich meist auf die Angst vor dem Leiden an somatischen Erkrankungen. In Einzelfallberichten wurden auch Ängste vor psychischen Störungen berichtet, jedoch bisher nicht systematisch untersucht. Psychotherapeut_innen sind ständig mit psychischen Erkrankungen konfrontiert. Fragestellung: Diese Studie untersucht, wie stark Krankheitsängste bei Psychotherapeut_innen ausgeprägt sind und welche Faktoren diese beeinflussen. Methoden: Insgesamt 239 Psychotherapeut_innen wurden per anonymer Onlinebefragung mit den Illness Attitude Scales und der Mini-Symptom-Checklist untersucht. Ergebnisse: Krankheitsängste bei Psychotherapeut_innen waren geringer ausgeprägt als in der Allgemeinbevölkerung und bei Psychologiestudierenden. Faktoren wie die allgemeine psychische Belastung und das Vorhandensein tatsächlicher Diagnosen gingen mit erhöhten Krankheitsängsten einher. Schlussfolgerungen: Krankheitsängste können sich nicht nur auf somatische Erkrankungen beziehen, sondern auch psychische Störungen betreffen. Eine stärkere Berücksichtigung psychischer Krankheitsängste und deren weitere systematische Erfassung erscheinen daher wünschenswert.
N2 - Background: Illness anxiety is the fear of suffering from severe physical illnesses. Psychotherapists are constantly confronted with mental disorders. In individual case reports. anxiety related to suffering from mental disorders has also been documented but to date has not been systematically examined. Objectives: This study examines the strength of illness anxieties in psychotherapists and their influencing factors. Methods: We examined 239 psychotherapists using the Illness Attitude Scales and the Mini-Symptom-Checklist. Results: Illness anxieties in psychotherapists were significantly lower than those in the general population and psychology students. Variables like general mental stress and the presence of actual diagnoses correlated with higher illness anxieties. Conclusions: Illness anxiety is also present for mental disorders. Therefore, it is desirable to consider mental illness anxiety and its systematic detection.
T2 - Illness anxiety in psychotherapists
KW - illness anxiety
KW - mental disorders
KW - psychotherapists
KW - psychology students
KW - Krankheitsangst
KW - psychische Störungen
KW - Psychotherapeut_innen
KW - Psychologiestudierende
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000624
SN - 1616-3443
SN - 2190-6297
VL - 50
IS - 2
SP - 57
EP - 67
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Gmeiner, Michaela Silvia
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - Psychotherapie bei juveniler Adipositas
BT - gerechtfertigt und sinnvoll?
JF - Psychotherapeut
N2 - Background
Obesity is widespread in childhood and adolescence. Medical rehabilitation measures with a comprehensive range of treatment options represent an essential pillar of care. As obesity is associated with a wide range of psychosocial burdens, the question arises as to whether psychotherapeutic services should be given even greater consideration.
Objective
The main goal was to examine the rate of psychological problems among children and adolescents with obesity and their association with the weight loss course. Material and methods The sample consisted of 220 children and adolescents with obesity (8-16 years, M = 13.11 years, SD +/- 1.88 years; 54.5% female) who participated in an inpatient rehabilitation. Emotional and behavioral problems were assessed (strengths and difficulties questionnaire, SDQ via parental report) at the beginning of rehabilitation as well as 6 and 12 months after completion. Anthropometric data for determination of the weight status were collected by medical personnel of the clinics or in the follow-up by family doctors.
Results
Almost half of the children and adolescents (48.6%) showed abnormal values and girls in particular were affected significantly more often. The descriptive inspection after rehabilitation revealed a similarly high proportion. The presence of psychological problems had a significant negative effect on the weight course.
Conclusion
Psychological problems should be given greater consideration in the context of obesity therapy. On the one hand potentially burdened children should be identified by screening, on the other hand psychotherapy to reduce psychosocial strain should be an integral part of the treatment concept.
N2 - Hintergrund
Adipositas ist im Kindes- und Jugendalter stark verbreitet. Medizinische Rehabilitationsmaßnahmen mit ihrem umfassenden Behandlungsangebot stellen eine wesentliche Säule der Versorgung dar. Da Adipositas mit vielfältigen psychosozialen Belastungen verbunden ist, stellt sich die Frage, ob psychotherapeutische Angebote noch stärker berücksichtigt werden sollten.
Fragestellung
Untersucht wurde, wie verbreitet psychische Auffälligkeiten bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Adipositas sind und in welchem Zusammenhang sie zum Gewichtsverlauf stehen.
Material und Methoden
Die Stichprobe bestand aus 220 Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Adipositas (8 bis 16 Jahre, M = 13,11 Jahre; SD ± 1,88 Jahre; 54,5 % weiblich), die an einer stationären Rehabilitationsmaßnahme teilnahmen. Emotionale- und Verhaltensauffälligkeiten (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, SDQ) wurden zu Rehabilitationsbeginn sowie 6 und 12 Monate nach Rehabilitationsende im Elternbericht erfasst. Zudem wurden Daten zur Bestimmung des Gewichtstatus durch das medizinische Personal der Kliniken bzw. in der Katamnese von Hausärzten erhoben.
Ergebnisse
Fast die Hälfte der Kinder und Jugendlichen (48,6 %) wies auffällige Werte auf; v. a. Mädchen waren signifikant häufiger betroffen. Die deskriptive Betrachtung nach Rehabilitationsende zeigte einen vergleichbar hohen Anteil. Zudem wirkte sich das Vorliegen psychosozialer Auffälligkeiten signifikant negativ auf den Gewichtsverlauf aus.
Schlussfolgerung
Psychische Probleme sollten im Rahmen der Adipositastherapie stärker berücksichtigt werden. Zum einen sollten evtl. belastete Kinder durch Screenings identifiziert werden, zum anderen psychotherapeutische Maßnahmen zur Reduktion psychosozialer Belastungen integraler Bestandteil der Behandlung sein.
KW - child
KW - adolescent
KW - weight course
KW - psychological problems
KW - rehabilitation
KW - Kind
KW - Jugendlicher
KW - Gewichtsverlauf
KW - Psychische Auffälligkeit
KW - Rehabilitation
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-020-00474-2
SN - 0935-6185
SN - 1432-2080
VL - 66
IS - 1
SP - 16
EP - 22
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Malem-Shinitski, Noa
A1 - Opper, Manfred
A1 - Reich, Sebastian
A1 - Schwetlick, Lisa
A1 - Seelig, Stefan A.
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
T1 - A mathematical model of local and global attention in natural scene viewing
JF - PLoS Computational Biology : a new community journal
N2 - Author summary
Switching between local and global attention is a general strategy in human information processing. We investigate whether this strategy is a viable approach to model sequences of fixations generated by a human observer in a free viewing task with natural scenes. Variants of the basic model are used to predict the experimental data based on Bayesian inference. Results indicate a high predictive power for both aggregated data and individual differences across observers. The combination of a novel model with state-of-the-art Bayesian methods lends support to our two-state model using local and global internal attention states for controlling eye movements.
Understanding the decision process underlying gaze control is an important question in cognitive neuroscience with applications in diverse fields ranging from psychology to computer vision. The decision for choosing an upcoming saccade target can be framed as a selection process between two states: Should the observer further inspect the information near the current gaze position (local attention) or continue with exploration of other patches of the given scene (global attention)? Here we propose and investigate a mathematical model motivated by switching between these two attentional states during scene viewing. The model is derived from a minimal set of assumptions that generates realistic eye movement behavior. We implemented a Bayesian approach for model parameter inference based on the model's likelihood function. In order to simplify the inference, we applied data augmentation methods that allowed the use of conjugate priors and the construction of an efficient Gibbs sampler. This approach turned out to be numerically efficient and permitted fitting interindividual differences in saccade statistics. Thus, the main contribution of our modeling approach is two-fold; first, we propose a new model for saccade generation in scene viewing. Second, we demonstrate the use of novel methods from Bayesian inference in the field of scan path modeling.
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007880
SN - 1553-734X
SN - 1553-7358
VL - 16
IS - 12
PB - PLoS
CY - San Fransisco
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rezori, Roman Enzio von
A1 - Buchallik, Friederike
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - Validation of the German Benefit Finding Scale for youth with chronic conditions
JF - Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health
N2 - Background
Benefit finding, defined as perceiving positive life changes resulting from adversity and negative life stressors, gains growing attention in the context of chronic illness. The study aimed at examining the psychometric properties of the Benefit Finding Scale for Children (BFSC) in a sample of German youth facing chronic conditions.
Methods
A sample of adolescents with various chronic conditions (N = 304; 12 – 21years) completed the 10-item BFSC along with measures of intra- and interpersonal resources, coping strategies, and health-related quality of life (hrQoL). The total sample was randomly divided into two subsamples for conducting exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA/CFA).
Results
EFA revealed that the BFSC scores had a one-dimensional factor structure. CFA verified the one-dimensional factor structure with an acceptable fit. The BFSC exhibited acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.87 – 0.88) and construct validity. In line with our hypotheses, benefit finding was positively correlated with optimism, self-esteem, self-efficacy, sense of coherence, and support seeking. There were no correlations with avoidance, wishful thinking, emotional reaction, and hrQoL. Sex differences in benefit finding were not consistent across subsamples. Benefit finding was also positively associated with age, disease severity, and social status.
Conclusions
The BFSC is a psychometrically sound instrument to assess benefit finding in adolescents with chronic illness and may facilitate further research on positive adaptation processes in adolescents, irrespective of their specific diagnosis.
KW - Measure validation
KW - Chronic conditions
KW - Resilience
KW - Coping skills and adjustment
KW - Youth
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00438-7
SN - 1753-2000
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 8
PB - Biomed Central
CY - London
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Laubrock, Jochen
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
A1 - Cajar, Anke
T1 - Gaze-contingent manipulation of the FVF demonstrates the importance of fixation duration for explaining search behavior
T2 - Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary
N2 - Hulleman & Olivers' (H&O's) model introduces variation of the functional visual field (FVF) for explaining visual search behavior. Our research shows how the FVF can be studied using gaze-contingent displays and how FVF variation can be implemented in models of gaze control. Contrary to H&O, we believe that fixation duration is an important factor when modeling visual search behavior.
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000145
SN - 0140-525X
SN - 1469-1825
VL - 40
SP - 31
EP - 32
PB - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Ay-Bryson, Destina Sevde
A1 - Weck, Florian
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
T1 - Can simulated patient encounters appear authentic?
BT - development and pilot results of a rating instrument based on the portrayal of depressive patients
JF - Training and education in professional psychology
N2 - Public Significance Statement This study demonstrates that simulated patients (SPs) can authentically portray a depressive case. The results provide preliminary evidence of psychometrically sound properties of the rating scale that contributes to distinguishing between authentic and unauthentic SPs and may thus foster SPs' dissemination into evidence-based training.
For training purposes, simulated patients (SPs), that is, healthy people portraying a disorder, are disseminating more into clinical psychology and psychotherapy. In the current study, we developed an observer-based rating instrument for the evaluation of SP authenticity-namely, it not being possible to distinguish them from real patients-so as to foster their use in evidence-based training. We applied a multistep inductive approach to develop the Authenticity of Patient Demonstrations (APD) scale. Ninety-seven independent psychotherapy trainees, 77.32% female, mean age of 31.49 (SD = 5.17) years, evaluated the authenticity of 2 independent SPs, each of whom portrayed a depressive patient. The APD demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = .83) and a strong correlation (r = .82) with an established tool for assessing SP performance in medical contexts. The APD scale distinguished significantly between an authentic and unauthentic SP (d = 2.35). Preliminary evidence for the psychometric properties of the APD indicates that the APD could be a viable tool for recruiting, training, and evaluating the authenticity of SPs. Strengths, limitations, and future directions are also discussed in detail.
KW - authenticity
KW - evidence-based training
KW - standardized patients
KW - role-play
KW - mental disorders
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000349
SN - 1931-3918
SN - 1931-3926
VL - 16
IS - 1
SP - 20
EP - 27
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Risse, Sarah
A1 - Krügel, Andre
A1 - Backhaus, Daniel
T1 - Open Education in Methods Training
T1 - Open Education in der Methodenausbildung
BT - Vorstellung eines digitalen Lehrkonzepts für computergestütztes wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
BT - Presentation of a digital Teaching Concept for computer-supported scientific Work
JF - Psychologische Rundschau : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000602
SN - 0033-3042
SN - 2190-6238
VL - 73
IS - 3
SP - 206
EP - 208
PB - HOGREFE VERLAG
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Heinze, Peter Eric
A1 - Weck, Florian
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
T1 - Assessing patient preferences
BT - examination of the german cooper-norcross inventory of preferences
JF - Frontiers in psychology
N2 - Despite the positive effects of including patients' preferences into therapy on psychotherapy outcomes, there are still few thoroughly validated assessment tools at hand. We translated the 18-item Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) into German and aimed at replicating its factor structure. Further, we investigated the reliability of the questionnaire and its convergence with trait measures. A heterogeneous sample of N = 969 participants took part in our online survey. Performing ESEM models, we found acceptable model fit for a four-factor structure similar to the original factor structure. Furthermore, we propose an alternative model following the adjustment of single items. The German C-NIP showed acceptable to good reliability, as well as small correlations with Big-Five personality traits, trait and attachment anxiety, locus of control, and temporal focus. However, we recommend further replication of the factor structure and further validation of the C-NIP.
KW - psychotherapy
KW - preference
KW - activity preference
KW - preference assessment
KW - validation study
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.795776
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 12
PB - Frontiers Media
CY - Lausanne
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Spiegel, Thomas J.
T1 - Liberal naturalism without reenchantment
JF - European journal for philosophy of religion
N2 - There is a close conceptual relation between the notions of religious disenchantment and scientific naturalism. One way of resisting philosophical and cultural implications of the scientific image and the subsequent process of disenchantment can be found in attempts at sketching a reenchanted worldview. The main issue of accounts of reenchantment can be a rejection of scientific results in a way that flies in the face of good reason. Opposed to such reenchantment is scientific naturalism which implies an entirely disenchanted worldview. However, one of the main problems of scientific naturalism are placement problems. A reenchanted worldview does have the conceptual resources to avoid placement problems, yet seems to throw out the baby (a reasonable appeal to science as an authority) with the bathwater (placement problems). A dilemma results: the Scylla of an undesirable scientific naturalism and the Charybdis of a rampant, seemingly prescientific reenchanted worldview. In this article I argue that there is a safe middle passage between these two options, i.e. the recently proposed liberal naturalism which allows for a moderate normative reenchantment. Liberal naturalism lets us have it both ways: avoiding the placement problems while retaining a necessary and reasonable adherence to science, thereby avoiding both an all-too restrictive scientific naturalism.
KW - Naturalism
KW - Liberal Naturalism
KW - Disenchantment
KW - Secularism
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.24204/EJPR.2022.3350
SN - 1689-8311
VL - 14
IS - 1
SP - 207
EP - 229
PB - University of Innsbruck
CY - Innsbruck
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Stone, Kate
A1 - Vasishth, Shravan
A1 - Malsburg, Titus von der
T1 - Does entropy modulate the prediction of German long-distance verb particles?
JF - PLOS ONE
N2 - In this paper we examine the effect of uncertainty on readers’ predictions about meaning. In particular, we were interested in how uncertainty might influence the likelihood of committing to a specific sentence meaning. We conducted two event-related potential (ERP) experiments using particle verbs such as turn down and manipulated uncertainty by constraining the context such that readers could be either highly certain about the identity of a distant verb particle, such as turn the bed […] down, or less certain due to competing particles, such as turn the music […] up/down. The study was conducted in German, where verb particles appear clause-finally and may be separated from the verb by a large amount of material. We hypothesised that this separation would encourage readers to predict the particle, and that high certainty would make prediction of a specific particle more likely than lower certainty. If a specific particle was predicted, this would reflect a strong commitment to sentence meaning that should incur a higher processing cost if the prediction is wrong. If a specific particle was less likely to be predicted, commitment should be weaker and the processing cost of a wrong prediction lower. If true, this could suggest that uncertainty discourages predictions via an unacceptable cost-benefit ratio. However, given the clear predictions made by the literature, it was surprisingly unclear whether the uncertainty manipulation affected the two ERP components studied, the N400 and the PNP. Bayes factor analyses showed that evidence for our a priori hypothesised effect sizes was inconclusive, although there was decisive evidence against a priori hypothesised effect sizes larger than 1μV for the N400 and larger than 3μV for the PNP. We attribute the inconclusive finding to the properties of verb-particle dependencies that differ from the verb-noun dependencies in which the N400 and PNP are often studied.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267813
SN - 1932-6203
SP - 1
EP - 25
PB - PLOS ONE
CY - San Francisco, California, US
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Maas, Jana
A1 - Wiesenthal, Sophia
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Supervision in der Verhaltenstherapie
T1 - Supervision in behavioral therapy
BT - ein Scoping Review zur Identifikation von Forschungszielen
BT - a scoping review for identification of research objectives
JF - Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie : Forschung und Praxis
N2 - Theoretischer Hintergrund:Supervision spielt eine zentrale Rolle zum Wissens- und Kompetenzerwerb sowie in der Qualitätssicherung.
Fragestellung:Ziel war es, den aktuellen Forschungsstand zur Supervision im Rahmen der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie abzubilden, um daraus Schlussfolgerungen für die zukünftige Forschung abzuleiten.
Methode:Zur Evidenzsynthese wurde ein Scoping Review durchgeführt, das die Darstellung zentraler Konzepte, aktueller Evidenz und möglicher Forschungsbedarfe ermöglichte. Neben einer systematischen Literaturrecherche wurden Vorwärts- und Rückwärtssuchstrategien eingesetzt.
Ergebnisse:Eingeschlossen wurden zwölf Publikationen basierend auf zehn empirischen Studien. Alle Studien beschrieben Ausbildungssettings, aber nur wenige untersuchten übende Interventionen (z. B. Rollenspiele). Häufig wurden Effekte subjektiv erfasst, die methodische Qualität der Begleitstudien variierte.
Schlussfolgerungen:Notwendig sind weitere methodisch hochwertige Studien, experimentell orientiert oder in der klinischen Praxis, die die Supervisionsforschung bereichern können.
N2 - Background:Supervision plays a central role for the acquisition of therapeutic knowledge and competence and for quality control.
Objective:The study aimed at mapping the current evidence regarding cognitive–behavioral supervision, and drawing conclusions for future research.
Method:For evidence synthesis, we conducted a scoping review to outline key concepts, the current evidence, and potential gaps in research. In addition to a systematic literature search, forward and backward search strategies were implemented.
Results:We included 12 publications on 10 empirical studies. All studies referred to education and training, but only a few examined exercises (e. g., role plays). Mostly, outcomes were evaluated subjectively, and study quality varied.
Conclusion:Further methodologically sound studies, experimentally oriented or in clinical care, may support research.
KW - clinical supervision
KW - review
KW - scoping study
KW - cognitive behavioral therapy
KW - psychotherapy
KW - klinische Supervision
KW - Übersichtsarbeit
KW - kognitive Verhaltenstheraphie
KW - Psychoterapie
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000414
SN - 1616-3443
SN - 2190-6297
VL - 46
IS - 2
SP - 73
EP - 82
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Malesza, Marta
A1 - Schröder-Abé, Michela
T1 - The convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of the Discounting Inventory compared to the traditional discounting measures
JF - Journal of public health
N2 - Aim The Discounting Inventory was developed to provide researchers and practitioners with a standardized tool to asses individual differences in delay, probabilistic, effort and social discounting, all related to behavioral impulsivity. Convergent and discriminant validity of the Discounting Inventory was evaluated by comparing its associations with external variables to those obtained using standardized discounting measures with the same external variables. Subjects and methods A sample of 347 volunteers was examined. The first questionnaire completed by all participants was the Discounting Inventory. Individuals also completed the traditional discounting measure using pairs of hypothetical choices. The external measures included the Sensation Seeking Scale, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, Eysenck Impulsivity Venturesomeness Empathy Questionnaire, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised, and Temperament and Character Inventory. Results The results revealed that although almost all correlations were significant for both the Discounting Inventory and the traditional discounting measures, most of the correlations between external variables and the Discounting Inventory were significantly higher than those between external variables and traditional discounting measures. However, both discounting measures were most strongly correlated with external measures of impulsivity, which is not surprising given the fact that discounting is seen as a behavioral impulsivity. Finally, most relationships between the Discounting Inventory and external variables were incrementally valid over the traditional discounting measures. Conclusion The Discounting Inventory can help to diagnose problems with behavioral impulsivity.
KW - Discounting inventory
KW - Convergent validity
KW - Discriminant validity
KW - Incremental validity
KW - Discounting
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-020-01306-y
SN - 2198-1833
SN - 1613-2238
VL - 30
IS - 2
SP - 423
EP - 433
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Giraudier, Manon
A1 - Ventura-Bort, Carlos
A1 - Wendt, Julia
A1 - Lischke, Alexander
A1 - Weymar, Mathias
T1 - Memory advantage for untrustworthy faces: Replication across lab- and web-based studies
T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2 - The Covid-19 pandemic imposed new constraints on empirical research and forced researchers to transfer from traditional laboratory research to the online environment. This study tested the validity of a web-based episodic memory paradigm by comparing participants’ memory performance for trustworthy and untrustworthy facial stimuli in a supervised laboratory setting and an unsupervised web setting. Consistent with previous results, we observed enhanced episodic memory for untrustworthy compared to trustworthy faces. Most importantly, this memory bias was comparable in the online and the laboratory experiment, suggesting that web-based procedures are a promising tool for memory research.
T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 780
Y1 - 2022
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-561586
SN - 1866-8364
SP - 1
EP - 11
PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY - Potsdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Giraudier, Manon
A1 - Ventura-Bort, Carlos
A1 - Wendt, Julia
A1 - Lischke, Alexander
A1 - Weymar, Mathias
T1 - Memory advantage for untrustworthy faces: Replication across lab- and web-based studies
JF - PLoS ONE
N2 - The Covid-19 pandemic imposed new constraints on empirical research and forced researchers to transfer from traditional laboratory research to the online environment. This study tested the validity of a web-based episodic memory paradigm by comparing participants’ memory performance for trustworthy and untrustworthy facial stimuli in a supervised laboratory setting and an unsupervised web setting. Consistent with previous results, we observed enhanced episodic memory for untrustworthy compared to trustworthy faces. Most importantly, this memory bias was comparable in the online and the laboratory experiment, suggesting that web-based procedures are a promising tool for memory research.
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264034
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 11
PB - PLoS ONE
CY - San Francisco, California, US
ET - 2
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Brahms, Markus
A1 - Heinzel, Stephan
A1 - Rapp, Michael A.
A1 - Mückstein, Marie
A1 - Hortobágyi, Tibor
A1 - Stelzel, Christine
A1 - Granacher, Urs
T1 - The acute effects of mental fatigue on balance performance in healthy young and older adults – A systematic review and meta-analysis
T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2 - Cognitive resources contribute to balance control. There is evidence that mental fatigue reduces cognitive resources and impairs balance performance, particularly in older adults and when balance tasks are complex, for example when trying to walk or stand while concurrently performing a secondary cognitive task.
We conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed (MEDLINE), Web of Science and Google Scholar to identify eligible studies and performed a random effects meta-analysis to quantify the effects of experimentally induced mental fatigue on balance performance in healthy adults. Subgroup analyses were computed for age (healthy young vs. healthy older adults) and balance task complexity (balance tasks with high complexity vs. balance tasks with low complexity) to examine the moderating effects of these factors on fatigue-mediated balance performance.
We identified 7 eligible studies with 9 study groups and 206 participants. Analysis revealed that performing a prolonged cognitive task had a small but significant effect (SMDwm = −0.38) on subsequent balance performance in healthy young and older adults. However, age- and task-related differences in balance responses to fatigue could not be confirmed statistically.
Overall, aggregation of the available literature indicates that mental fatigue generally reduces balance in healthy adults. However, interactions between cognitive resource reduction, aging and balance task complexity remain elusive.
T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 779
KW - Cognitive fatigue
KW - Exertion
KW - Tiredness
KW - Postural control
KW - Gait
KW - Sway
Y1 - 2022
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-561560
SN - 1866-8364
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY - Potsdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Brahms, Markus
A1 - Heinzel, Stephan
A1 - Rapp, Michael A.
A1 - Mückstein, Marie
A1 - Hortobágyi, Tibor
A1 - Stelzel, Christine
A1 - Granacher, Urs
T1 - The acute effects of mental fatigue on balance performance in healthy young and older adults – A systematic review and meta-analysis
JF - Acta Psychologica
N2 - Cognitive resources contribute to balance control. There is evidence that mental fatigue reduces cognitive resources and impairs balance performance, particularly in older adults and when balance tasks are complex, for example when trying to walk or stand while concurrently performing a secondary cognitive task.
We conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed (MEDLINE), Web of Science and Google Scholar to identify eligible studies and performed a random effects meta-analysis to quantify the effects of experimentally induced mental fatigue on balance performance in healthy adults. Subgroup analyses were computed for age (healthy young vs. healthy older adults) and balance task complexity (balance tasks with high complexity vs. balance tasks with low complexity) to examine the moderating effects of these factors on fatigue-mediated balance performance.
We identified 7 eligible studies with 9 study groups and 206 participants. Analysis revealed that performing a prolonged cognitive task had a small but significant effect (SMDwm = −0.38) on subsequent balance performance in healthy young and older adults. However, age- and task-related differences in balance responses to fatigue could not be confirmed statistically.
Overall, aggregation of the available literature indicates that mental fatigue generally reduces balance in healthy adults. However, interactions between cognitive resource reduction, aging and balance task complexity remain elusive.
KW - Cognitive fatigue
KW - Exertion
KW - Tiredness
KW - Postural control
KW - Gait
KW - Sway
Y1 - 2022
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103540
SN - 1873-6297
VL - 225
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schad, Daniel
A1 - Vasishth, Shravan
A1 - Hohenstein, Sven
A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1 - How to capitalize on a priori contrasts in linear (mixed) models
BT - a tutorial
JF - Journal of memory and language
N2 - Factorial experiments in research on memory, language, and in other areas are often analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). However, for effects with more than one numerator degrees of freedom, e.g., for experimental factors with more than two levels, the ANOVA omnibus F-test is not informative about the source of a main effect or interaction. Because researchers typically have specific hypotheses about which condition means differ from each other, a priori contrasts (i.e., comparisons planned before the sample means are known) between specific conditions or combinations of conditions are the appropriate way to represent such hypotheses in the statistical model. Many researchers have pointed out that contrasts should be "tested instead of, rather than as a supplement to, the ordinary 'omnibus' F test" (Hays, 1973, p. 601). In this tutorial, we explain the mathematics underlying different kinds of contrasts (i.e., treatment, sum, repeated, polynomial, custom, nested, interaction contrasts), discuss their properties, and demonstrate how they are applied in the R System for Statistical Computing (R Core Team, 2018). In this context, we explain the generalized inverse which is needed to compute the coefficients for contrasts that test hypotheses that are not covered by the default set of contrasts. A detailed understanding of contrast coding is crucial for successful and correct specification in linear models (including linear mixed models). Contrasts defined a priori yield far more useful confirmatory tests of experimental hypotheses than standard omnibus F-tests. Reproducible code is available from https://osf.io/7ukf6/.
KW - contrasts
KW - null hypothesis significance testing
KW - linear models
KW - a priori
KW - hypotheses
Y1 - 2019
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.104038
SN - 0749-596X
SN - 1096-0821
VL - 110
PB - Elsevier
CY - San Diego
ER -
TY - THES
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
T1 - Beurteilung und Aufbau psychotherapeutischer Kompetenzen und die Veränderung von Patientenfertigkeiten
Y1 - 2021
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hodapp, Alice
A1 - Rabovsky, Milena
T1 - The N400 ERP component reflects an error-based implicit learning signal during language comprehension
JF - European journal of neuroscience
N2 - The functional significance of the N400 evoked-response component is still actively debated. An increasing amount of theoretical and computational modelling work is built on the interpretation of the N400 as a prediction error. In neural network modelling work, it was proposed that the N400 component can be interpreted as the change in a probabilistic representation of meaning that drives the continuous adaptation of an internal model of the statistics of the environment. These results imply that increased N400 amplitudes should correspond to greater adaptation, which can be measured via implicit memory. To investigate this model derived hypothesis, the current study manipulated expectancy in a sentence reading task to influence N400 amplitudes and subsequently presented the previously expected vs. unexpected words in a perceptual identification task to measure implicit memory. As predicted, reaction times in the perceptual identification task were significantly faster for previously unexpected words that induced larger N400 amplitudes in the previous sentence reading task. Additionally, it could be demonstrated that this adaptation seems to specifically depend on the process underlying N400 amplitudes, as participants with larger N400 differences during sentence reading also exhibited a larger implicit memory benefit in the perceptual identification task. These findings support the interpretation of the N400 as an implicit learning signal driving adaptation in language processing.
KW - adaptation
KW - EEG
KW - expectancy
KW - implicit learning
KW - prediction error
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15462
SN - 0953-816X
SN - 1460-9568
VL - 54
IS - 9
SP - 7125
EP - 7140
PB - Wiley
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hess, Markus
A1 - Wirtz, Susanne
A1 - Allroggen, Marc
A1 - Scheithauer, Herbert
T1 - Intervention und Therapie für Täter und Opfer von Schulbullying
BT - ein systematisches Review
BT - a systematic review
JF - Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie : Ergebnisse aus Psychotherapie, Beratung und Psychiatrie
N2 - Bullying ist eine Form wiederholten, aggressiven Verhaltens mit ernstzunehmenden Auswirkungen, unter denen Täter und Opfer häufig lange nach Ende des Bullying-Geschehens leiden. Dennoch ist die Therapie von Bullying und den damit einhergehenden Folgen ein bisher in der Forschung vernachlässigtes Thema. Im Rahmen eines systematischen Literaturüberblicks wurde daher untersucht, welche Therapieformen zur Behandlung von Bullying und dessen Folgen bei Opfern und bei Tätern bereits angewendet wurden. Eine systematische Suche in nationalen und internationalen Datenbanken führte zu 31 relevanten Publikationen, in denen 34 therapeutische Interventionen aus über 14 Ländern beschrieben wurden. In zehn Therapiestudien mit kontrolliertem Design zeigte sich, dass Behandlungsangebote, die sich sowohl an die betroffenen Personen als auch an ihr soziales Umfeld richten, besonders effektiv in der Behandlung von Bullying-Folgen sind. Die restlichen 24 Behandlungsansätze wurden keiner kontrollierten Evaluation unterzogen. Insgesamt zwei Drittel aller therapeutischen Interventionen wenden sich an die Gruppe der Opfer. Hier wird im Unterschied zur Behandlung von Tätern verstärkt auf Gruppentherapien zurückgegriffen. Unter der Bandbreite an Ansätzen ist die kognitive Verhaltenstherapie am häufigsten vertreten. Festzustellen bleibt ein Forschungsmangel an evidenzbasierten, gezielten Interventionen zur Behandlung von Bullying und dessen Folgen bei Opfern und Tätern. Unseres Wissens stellt diese Arbeit den ersten systematischen Überblick zu therapeutischen Interventionen bei Bullying für Kinder und Jugendliche dar.
T2 - Intervention and Therapy for Perpetrators and Victims of Bullying
KW - therapy
KW - intervention
KW - perpetrator
KW - victim
KW - bullying
KW - Therapie
KW - Intervention
KW - Täter
KW - Opfer
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2017.66.10.740
SN - 0032-7034
SN - 2196-8225
VL - 66
IS - 10
SP - 740
EP - 755
PB - Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kaufmann, Yvonne Marie
A1 - Maiwald, Lisa Marie
A1 - Schindler, Svenja
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Wie wirkt sich mehrmaliges Kompetenz-Feedback auf psychotherapeutische Behandlungen aus?
T1 - How does multiple competence feedback affect psychotherapeutic treatment?
BT - eine qualitative Analyse
BT - a qualitative analysis
JF - Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie : Forschung und Praxis
N2 - Theoretischer Hintergrund: Einflüsse von therapeutenorientiertem Kompetenz-Feedback in der Psychotherapieausbildung wurden bislang wenig untersucht.
Fragestellung: Wie gehen Ausbildungstherapeuten mit Feedback um? Welchen Einfluss hat ein regelmäßiges Kompetenz-Feedback auf die Qualität psychotherapeutischer Behandlungen (insbesondere Therapiesitzungen, therapeutische Beziehung, Person des Therapeuten, Supervision)?
Methode: Elf Therapeuten wurden mithilfe eines halbstrukturierten Interviewleitfadens befragt. Die Auswertung erfolgte mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring (2015).
Ergebnisse: Das auf Basis der Interviews erstellte Kategoriensystem umfasste die Kategorien „Erwartungen an das Feedback“, „Wahrnehmung des Feedbacks“, „Verarbeitung von und Umgang mit Feedback“, „Folgen, Auswirkungen und Veränderungen durch Feedback“ sowie „Verbesserungswünsche“.
Schlussfolgerungen: Therapeuten streben eine Umsetzung des Feedbacks an, welches sich auf die Behandlung, die Supervision, die eigene Person und die therapeutische Beziehung auswirkt.
N2 - Background: To date, the influence of therapist-oriented feedback in psychotherapy training has rarely been investigated.
Objective: How do therapists in training deal with competence feedback? What influence does a regular competence feedback have on treatment quality (especially therapy sessions, therapeutic alliance, the therapist, supervision)?
Method: We interviewed 11 therapists using a semistructured interview guide. The text material was analyzed with qualitative content analysis (Mayring, 2015).
Results: The interview-based system of categories consists of: expectations toward feedback; perception of feedback; processing of feedback; consequences, effects, and changes due to feedback; and suggestions for improvement.
Conclusion: Therapists strive to implement feedback. Competence feedback has an impact on treatment, supervision, the therapist, and the therapeutic alliance.
KW - feedback
KW - psychotherapy training
KW - psychotherapeutic competencies
KW - qualitative content analysis
KW - clinical supervision
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000412
SN - 1616-3443
SN - 2190-6297
VL - 46
IS - 2
SP - 96
EP - 106
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Muschalla, Beate
T1 - Work-anxiety-coping intervention improves work-coping perception while a recreational intervention leads to deterioration
BT - results from a randomized controlled trial
JF - European journal of work and organizational psychology : the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
N2 - Work-anxieties are costly and need early intervention. The perception of being able to cope with work is a basic requirement for work ability. This randomized controlled trial investigates whether a cognitive behavioural, work-anxiety-coping group (WAG) intervention leads to better work-coping perception than an unspecific recreational group (RG). Heterogeneous people in medical rehabilitation, who were due to return to work, were interviewed concerning their work-anxieties, and either randomly assigned to a WAG (n=85) or a RG (n=95). The participants (with an average of 50years old [range 23-64]; 51% women; 70% workers or employees, 25% academics, 5% unskilled) followed the group intervention for four or six sessions. The perceived work-coping was assessed by self-rating (Inventory for Job-Coping and Return Intention JoCoRi) after each group session. Although participants had a slight temporary decrease in work-coping after group session two (from M-1=2.47 to M-2=2.28, d(Cohen)=-.22), the WAG led to the improvement of perceived work-coping over the intervention course (from M-1=2.47 to M-6=2.65, d(Cohen)=.18). In contrast, participants from the RG reported lower work-coping after six group sessions (from M-1=2.26 to M-6=2.02, d(Cohen)=-.18). It is considered that people with work-anxieties need training in work-coping. By focusing on recreation only, this may lead to deterioration of work-coping. Indeed, intervention designers should be aware of temporary deterioration (side effects) when confronting participants with work-coping.
KW - Work-anxiety
KW - work-coping
KW - return to work
KW - intervention
KW - mental health
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2017.1384378
SN - 1359-432X
SN - 1464-0643
VL - 26
IS - 6
SP - 858
EP - 869
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Wiemers, Michael
A1 - Bekkering, Harold
A1 - Lindemann, Oliver
T1 - Is more always up?
BT - evidence for a preference of hand-based associations over vertical number mappings
JF - Journal of cognitive psychology
N2 - It has been argued that the association of numbers and vertical space plays a fundamental role for the understanding of numerical concepts. However, convincing evidence for an association of numbers and vertical bimanual responses is still lacking. The present study tests the vertical Spatio-Numerical-Association-of-Response-Codes (SNARC) effect in a number classification task by comparing anatomical hand-based and spatial associations. A mixed effects model of linear spatial-numerical associations revealed no evidence for a vertical but clear support for an anatomical SNARC effect. Only if the task requirements prevented participants from using a number-hand association due to frequently alternating hand-to-button assignments, numbers were associated with the vertical dimension. Taken together, the present findings question the importance of vertical associations for the conceptual understanding of numerical magnitude as hypothesised by some embodied approaches to number cognition and suggest a preference for ego-over geocentric reference frames for the mapping of numbers onto space.
KW - SNARC effect
KW - embodied numerosity
KW - numerical cognition
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2017.1302451
SN - 2044-5911
SN - 2044-592X
VL - 29
IS - 5
SP - 642
EP - 652
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - Abingdon
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Weck, Florian
A1 - Witthöft, Michael
T1 - Context effects in the evaluation of bodily symptoms
BT - comparing three versions of the health norms sorting task
JF - Journal of experimental psychopathology
N2 - The illness-related evaluation of bodily symptoms is considered to be an important maintaining factor in somatoform disorders. However, little is known about context variables that could influence this evaluation process. In the current study, participants completed three versions of the Health Norms Sorting Task (HNST) and evaluated bodily symptoms in different contexts (i.e., different evaluation perspectives and time frames of evaluation). Additionally, the three HNST versions were presented in different orders. Bodily symptoms were evaluated more often as a sign of illness when a specific time frame (i.e., one week) was given. However, this context effect was only large when participants had previously evaluated symptoms existing without a concrete duration. Thus, previously completed symptom evaluations appear to represent an important frame of reference in terms of a cue that makes specific context variables salient. The results further suggested that these cueing effects might be less relevant for participants with elevated somatic symptom reports.
KW - context effects
KW - Health Norms Sorting Task
KW - somatic symptom disorder
KW - symptom evaluation
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.054216
SN - 2043-8087
VL - 8
SP - 241
EP - 251
PB - Sage Publishing
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rabe, Maximilian Michael
A1 - Chandra, Johan
A1 - Krügel, André
A1 - Seelig, Stefan A.
A1 - Vasishth, Shravan
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
T1 - A bayesian approach to dynamical modeling of eye-movement control in reading of normal, mirrored, and scrambled texts
JF - Psychological Review
N2 - In eye-movement control during reading, advanced process-oriented models have been developed to reproduce behavioral data. So far, model complexity and large numbers of model parameters prevented rigorous statistical inference and modeling of interindividual differences. Here we propose a Bayesian approach to both problems for one representative computational model of sentence reading (SWIFT; Engbert et al., Psychological Review, 112, 2005, pp. 777-813). We used experimental data from 36 subjects who read the text in a normal and one of four manipulated text layouts (e.g., mirrored and scrambled letters). The SWIFT model was fitted to subjects and experimental conditions individually to investigate between- subject variability. Based on posterior distributions of model parameters, fixation probabilities and durations are reliably recovered from simulated data and reproduced for withheld empirical data, at both the experimental condition and subject levels. A subsequent statistical analysis of model parameters across reading conditions generates model-driven explanations for observable effects between conditions.
KW - reading eye movements
KW - dynamical models
KW - Bayesian inference
KW - oculomotor
KW - control
KW - individual differences
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000268
SN - 0033-295X
SN - 1939-1471
VL - 128
IS - 5
SP - 803
EP - 823
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Belli, Francesco
A1 - Felisatti, Arianna
A1 - Fischer, Martin H.
T1 - "BreaThink"
BT - breathing affects production and perception of quantities
JF - Experimental brain research
N2 - Cognition is shaped by signals from outside and within the body. Following recent evidence of interoceptive signals modulating higher-level cognition, we examined whether breathing changes the production and perception of quantities. In Experiment 1, 22 adults verbally produced on average larger random numbers after inhaling than after exhaling. In Experiment 2, 24 further adults estimated the numerosity of dot patterns that were briefly shown after either inhaling or exhaling. Again, we obtained on average larger responses following inhalation than exhalation. These converging results extend models of situated cognition according to which higher-level cognition is sensitive to transient interoceptive states.
KW - breathing
KW - embodied cognition
KW - interoception
KW - numerical cognition
KW - situated cognition
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06147-z
SN - 0014-4819
SN - 1432-1106
VL - 239
IS - 8
SP - 2489
EP - 2499
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Tomaszewska, Paulina
A1 - Schuster, Isabell
T1 - Comparing sexuality-related cognitions, sexual behavior, and acceptance of sexual coercion in dating app users and non-users
JF - Sexuality research & social policy
N2 - Using dating apps has become popular for many young adults worldwide, promising the chance to meet new sexual partners. Because there is evidence that using dating apps may be associated with risky sexual behavior, this study compared users and non-users concerning their sexuality-related cognitions, namely their risky sexual scripts and sexual self-esteem, as well as their risky and sexually assertive behavior. It also explored the link between dating app use and acceptance of sexual coercion. A total of 491 young heterosexual adults (295 female) participated in an online survey advertised in social media and college libraries in Germany. Results indicated that users had more risky sexual scripts and reported more risky sexual behavior than non-users. Furthermore, male dating app users had lower sexual self-esteem and higher acceptance of sexual coercion than male non-users. In both gender groups, dating app use predicted casual sexual activity via a more risky casual sex script. Gender differences, potential underlying mechanisms, and directions for future research are discussed.
KW - dating app use
KW - sexual scripts
KW - sexual behavior
KW - acceptance of sexual
KW - coercion
KW - young adults
Y1 - 2019
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-019-00397-x
SN - 1868-9884
SN - 1553-6610
VL - 17
IS - 2
SP - 188
EP - 198
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Wortmann, Hanna Rosalie
A1 - Gisch, Ulrike Alexandra
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Variety Seeking Tendency Scale (VARSEEK)
JF - Food quality and preference
N2 - As part of a healthy diet, guidelines recommend eating a variety of foods to reduce risks associated with malnutrition. However, whether people follow this recommendation substantially depends on their willingness to try unfamiliar foods, also referred to as food neophilia. This study aimed at comprehensively validating the German version of the Variety Seeking Tendency Scale (VARSEEK), a common instrument to assess food neophilia. Two independent sub-studies were conducted to examine the German VARSEEK's psychometric properties. Study 1 (N = 532, aged 18-91 years) and Study 2 (N = 468, aged 18-73 years) each comprised a German community sample. Data were collected both online and via a paper-pencil version. Whereas Study 1 included an EFA, Study 2 comprised a CFA, analyses of the VARSEEK's reliability and construct validity, and different explorative group comparisons. EFA and CFA results supported the original scale's unidimensionality. Internal consistency (alpha = .93) and test-retest reliability (r = .87) of the scale were high. VARSEEK scores were positively associated with openness, sensation seeking, and extraversion and negatively associated with food neophobia, general neophobia, and trait anxiety. Construct validity was further established by showing positive associations with ratings of familiarity with and willingness to try familiar and unfamiliar foods. Whereas group comparisons revealed no significant differences for sex, age, and weight status, analyses showed that people who belonged to the upper class were more food neophilic than those assigned to the lower and middle class. Findings further underscore that the German VARSEEK is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of food neophilia in the German population.
KW - food neophilia
KW - variety seeking
KW - food neophobia
KW - psychometric
KW - properties
KW - healthy eating behavior
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104319
SN - 0950-3293
SN - 1873-6343
VL - 94
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rheinberg, Falko
T1 - Intrinsic motivation and flow
JF - Motivation Science
N2 - From the beginning of his work as a researcher, Heinz Heckhausen was interested in activities that are performed for their own sake and not only for some rewarding consequences-later addressed with the term "intrinsic motivation." One of his conceptual contributions to this area was the systematization of the bewildering heterogeneity of differentiations between various concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. In the conception, he himself preferred, intrinsic motivation could include incentives of actions outcome if the goal is thematically identical with the action. Doing so the per se goal directed achievement motivation could be understood as intrinsically motivated. This understanding of achievement motivation was productively utilized in educational psychology. His interest in intrinsic motivation stimulated research on activity specific incentives. One of these incentives is the total emergence with a smooth-running activity-an incentive Csikszentmihalyi had already described as "flow experience."
KW - intrinsic motivation
KW - flow
KW - Heinz Heckhausen
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000165
SN - 2333-8113
SN - 2333-8121
VL - 6
IS - 3
SP - 199
EP - 200
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schwarz, Wolfgang
A1 - Reike, Dennis
T1 - The Müller-Lyer line-length task interpreted as a conflict paradigm
BT - A chronometric study and a diffusion account
JF - Attention, perception, & psychophysics : AP&P ; a journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc.
N2 - We propose to interpret tasks evoking the classical Müller-Lyer illusion as one form of a conflict paradigm involving relevant (line length) and irrelevant (arrow orientation) stimulus attributes. Eight practiced observers compared the lengths of two line-arrow combinations; the length of the lines and the orientation of their arrows was varied unpredictably across trials so as to obtain psychometric and chronometric functions for congruent and incongruent line-arrow combinations. To account for decision speed and accuracy in this parametric data set, we present a diffusion model based on two assumptions: inward (outward)-pointing arrows added to a line (i) add (subtract) a separate, task-irrelevant drift component, and (ii) they reduce (increase) the distance to the barrier associated with the response identifying this line as being longer. The model was fitted to the data of each observer separately, and accounted in considerable quantitative detail for many aspects of the data obtained, including the fact that arrow-congruent responses were most prominent in the earliest RT quartile-bin. Our model gives a specific, process-related meaning to traditional static interpretations of the Muller-Lyer illusion, and combines within a single coherent framework structural and strategic mechanisms contributing to the illusion. Its central assumptions correspond to the general interpretation of geometrical-optical illusions as a manifestation of the resolution of a perceptual conflict (Day & Smith, 1989; Westheimer, 2008).
KW - Muller-Lyer illusion
KW - Line perception
KW - Conflict task
KW - Diffusion model
KW - Psychometric and chronometric function
KW - Response bias
KW - Sensitivity
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02096-x
SN - 1943-3921
SN - 1943-393X
VL - 82
IS - 8
SP - 4025
EP - 4037
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Seelig, Stefan
A1 - Risse, Sarah
A1 - Engbert, Ralf
T1 - Predictive modeling of parafoveal information processing during reading
JF - Scientific reports
N2 - Skilled reading requires information processing of the fixated and the not-yet-fixated words to generate precise control of gaze. Over the last 30 years, experimental research provided evidence that word processing is distributed across the perceptual span, which permits recognition of the fixated (foveal) word as well as preview of parafoveal words to the right of fixation. However, theoretical models have been unable to differentiate the specific influences of foveal and parafoveal information on saccade control. Here we show how parafoveal word difficulty modulates spatial and temporal control of gaze in a computational model to reproduce experimental results. In a fully Bayesian framework, we estimated model parameters for different models of parafoveal processing and carried out large-scale predictive simulations and model comparisons for a gaze-contingent reading experiment. We conclude that mathematical modeling of data from gaze-contingent experiments permits the precise identification of pathways from parafoveal information processing to gaze control, uncovering potential mechanisms underlying the parafoveal contribution to eye-movement control.
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92140-z
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 11
IS - 1
PB - Nature Portfolio
CY - Berlin
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Paunov, Tatjana
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Recognizing obsessive-compulsive disorder
BT - How suitable is the German Zohar-Fineberg obsessive-compulsive screen?
T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2 - Background
Despite the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), its precise identification remains challenging. With the Zohar-Fineberg Obsessive-Compulsive Screen (ZF-OCS; 5 or 6 items), a brief instrument is widely available mainly in English. As there is a lack of empirical studies on the ZF-OCS, the aim of the present study was to translate the items into German and investigate the instrument in a nonclinical sample.
Methods
In two consecutive online surveys, n = 304 and n = 51 students participated. Besides the ZF-OCS, they answered established measures on OCD, depression, health anxiety, general anxiety and health-related well-being.
Results
Whereas internal consistency was low (α = .53–.72; ω = .55–.69), retest reliability (rt1,t2 = .89) at two weeks was high. As expected, we found high correlations with other OCD instruments (r > .61; convergent validity), and significantly weaker correlations with measures of depression (r = .39), health anxiety (r = .29), and health-related well-being (r = −.28, divergent validity). Nonetheless, the correlations with general anxiety were somewhere in between (r = .52).
Conclusions
Due to heterogeneous OCD subtypes, the ZF-OCS asks diverse questions which probably resulted in the present internal consistency. Nevertheless, the results on retest reliability and validity were promising. As for other OCD instruments, divergent validity regarding general anxiety seems problematic to establish. Even so, the ZF-OCS seems valuable for screening purposes, as it is short and easy to administer, and may facilitate initiating subsequent clinical assessment. Further studies should determine the instrument’s diagnostic accuracy.
T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 771
KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
KW - Psychodiagnostics
KW - Psychometric properties
KW - Screening
Y1 - 2021
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-554473
SN - 1866-8364
IS - 771
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kühne, Franziska
A1 - Paunov, Tatjana
A1 - Weck, Florian
T1 - Recognizing obsessive-compulsive disorder
BT - How suitable is the German Zohar-Fineberg obsessive-compulsive screen?
JF - BMC psychiatry
N2 - Background
Despite the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), its precise identification remains challenging. With the Zohar-Fineberg Obsessive-Compulsive Screen (ZF-OCS; 5 or 6 items), a brief instrument is widely available mainly in English. As there is a lack of empirical studies on the ZF-OCS, the aim of the present study was to translate the items into German and investigate the instrument in a nonclinical sample.
Methods
In two consecutive online surveys, n = 304 and n = 51 students participated. Besides the ZF-OCS, they answered established measures on OCD, depression, health anxiety, general anxiety and health-related well-being.
Results
Whereas internal consistency was low (α = .53–.72; ω = .55–.69), retest reliability (rt1,t2 = .89) at two weeks was high. As expected, we found high correlations with other OCD instruments (r > .61; convergent validity), and significantly weaker correlations with measures of depression (r = .39), health anxiety (r = .29), and health-related well-being (r = −.28, divergent validity). Nonetheless, the correlations with general anxiety were somewhere in between (r = .52).
Conclusions
Due to heterogeneous OCD subtypes, the ZF-OCS asks diverse questions which probably resulted in the present internal consistency. Nevertheless, the results on retest reliability and validity were promising. As for other OCD instruments, divergent validity regarding general anxiety seems problematic to establish. Even so, the ZF-OCS seems valuable for screening purposes, as it is short and easy to administer, and may facilitate initiating subsequent clinical assessment. Further studies should determine the instrument’s diagnostic accuracy.
KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
KW - Psychodiagnostics
KW - Psychometric properties
KW - Screening
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03458-x
SN - 1471-244X
VL - 21
PB - Springer Nature
CY - London
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Myachykov, Andriy
A1 - Chapman, Ashley J.
A1 - Fischer, Martin H.
T1 - Cross-representational interactions
BT - Interface and overlap mechanisms
JF - Frontiers in psychology
N2 - A crucial question facing cognitive science concerns the nature of conceptual representations as well as the constraints on the interactions between them. One specific question we address in this paper is what makes cross-representational interplay possible? We offer two distinct theoretical scenarios: according to the first scenario, co-activated knowledge representations interact with the help of an interface established between them via congruent activation in a mediating third-party general cognitive mechanism, e.g., attention. According to the second scenario, co-activated knowledge representations interact due to an overlap between their features, for example when they share a magnitude component. First, we make a case for cross representational interplay based on grounded and situated theories of cognition. Second, we discuss interface-based interactions between distinct (i.e., non-overlapping) knowledge representations. Third, we discuss how co-activated representations may share their architecture via partial overlap. Finally, we outline constraints regarding the flexibility of these proposed mechanisms.
KW - representation
KW - cross-representational interaction
KW - simulation
KW - embodiment
KW - grounded cognition
Y1 - 2017
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 7
PB - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY - Lausanne
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Fatfouta, Ramzi
A1 - Schröder-Abe, Michela
T1 - I can see clearly now
BT - clarity of transgression-related motivations
JF - Personality and individual differences : an international journal of research into the structure and development of personality, and the causation of individual differences
N2 - Past research has revealed that narcissists lack forgiveness. However, little is known about factors that might either buffer or, more critically, enhance the link between narcissism and lack of forgiveness. To address this gap in the literature, the present studies focused on the moderating role of clarity of transgression-related motivations. In an original and a replication study (Ns = 509 and 532, respectively), participants rated their levels of narcissistic admiration and rivalry and recalled a personal episode in which someone had hurt them. Subsequently, participants reported on their lack of forgiveness toward their transgressor. Response speed to these ratings served as an indirect clarity measure, with faster responses indicating greater clarity. In both studies, narcissistic rivalry (but not admiration) was positively related to lack of forgiveness and this relationship was stronger among individuals who were clear about their transgression-related motivations. Results inform our understanding of socio-emotional factors that contribute to narcissists' lack of forgiveness following interpersonal hurt.
KW - Narcissism
KW - Forgiveness
KW - Interpersonal transgressions
KW - Social relationships
KW - Indirect measurement
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.10.010
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 105
SP - 280
EP - 286
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Plener, Paul L.
A1 - Zohsel, Katrin
A1 - Hohm, Erika
A1 - Buchmann, Arlette F.
A1 - Banaschewski, T.
A1 - Zimmermann, Ulrich S.
A1 - Laucht, Manfred
T1 - Lower cortisol level in response to a psychosocial stressor in young females with self-harm
JF - Psychoneuroendocrinology
N2 - Background: Self-harm is highly prevalent in adolescence, often serving an emotion regulation function. Social stressors such as bullying are associated with self-harm. The neurobiological background of the relationship between social stressors and self-harm needs to be further understood to inform prevention and therapy. Methods: Participants were members of an epidemiological cohort study. 130 female participants underwent the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) at age 19. Of them, 21 reported a history of self-harm as assessed by the Youth Self Report. Psychiatric diagnoses were recorded. Results: Participants with a history of self-harm showed significantly lower blood cortisol levels throughout the TSST. Early psychosocial adversity did not significantly differ between groups with and without self-harm, with self-harming participants reporting more childhood adversities. Conclusion: These results add to the limited field of studies showing an altered HPA axis activity in females with self-harm. Future studies need to address the causal mechanisms behind this association.
KW - Self-harm
KW - Trier Social Stress Test
KW - TSST
KW - Cortisol
KW - Nonsuicidal self-injury
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.11.009
SN - 0306-4530
VL - 76
SP - 84
EP - 87
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Zohsel, Katrin
A1 - Holz, Nathalie E.
A1 - Hohm, Erika
A1 - Schmidt, Martin H.
A1 - Esser, Günter
A1 - Brandeis, Daniel
A1 - Banaschewski, Tobias
A1 - Laucht, Manfred
T1 - Fewer self-reported depressive symptoms in young adults exposed to maternal depressed mood during pregnancy
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders
N2 - Background: Depressed mood is prevalent during pregnancy, with accumulating evidence suggesting an impact on developmental outcome in the offspring. However, the long-term effects of prenatal maternal depression regarding internalizing psychopathology in the offspring are as yet unclear. Results: In n=85 young adults exposed to prenatal maternal depressed mood, no significantly higher risk for a diagnosis of depressive disorder was observed. However, they reported significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms. This association was especially pronounced when prenatal maternal depressed mood was present during the first trimester of pregnancy and when maternal mood was depressed pre- as well as postnatally. At an uncorrected level only, prenatal maternal depressed mood was associated with decreased amygdala volume. Limitations: Prenatal maternal depressed mood was not assessed during pregnancy, but shortly after childbirth. No diagnoses of maternal clinical depression during pregnancy were available. Conclusions: Self-reported depressive symptoms do not imply increased, but rather decreased symptom levels in young adults who were exposed to prenatal maternal depressed mood. A long-term perspective may be important when considering consequences of prenatal risk factors.
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.059
SN - 0165-0327
SN - 1573-2517
VL - 209
SP - 155
EP - 162
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Drosselmeyer, Julia
A1 - Jacob, Louis
A1 - Rathmann, Wolfgang
A1 - Rapp, Michael A.
A1 - Kostev, Karel
T1 - Depression risk in patients with late-onset rheumatoid arthritis in Germany
JF - Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
N2 - The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of depression and its risk factors in patients with late-onset rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated in German primary care practices. Longitudinal data from general practices (n=1072) throughout Germany were analyzed. Individuals initially diagnosed with RA (2009-2013) were identified, and 7301 patients were included and matched (1:1) to 7301 controls. The primary outcome measure was the initial diagnosis of depression within 5 years after the index date in patients with and without RA. Cox proportional hazards models were used to adjust for confounders. The mean age was 72.2 years (SD: 7.6 years). A total of 34.9 % of patients were men. Depression diagnoses were present in 22.0 % of the RA group and 14.3 % of the control group after a 5-year follow-up period (p < 0.001). In the multivariate regression model, RA was a strong risk factor for the development of depression (HR: 1.55, p < 0.001). There was significant interaction of RA and diagnosed inflammatory polyarthropathies (IP) (RA*IP interaction: p < 0.001). Furthermore, dementia, cancer, osteoporosis, hypertension, and diabetes were associated with a higher risk of developing depression (p values < 0.001). The risk of depression is significantly higher in patients with late-onset RA than in patients without RA for subjects treated in primary care practices in Germany. RA patients should be screened routinely for depression in order to ensure improved treatment and management.
KW - Late-onset rheumatoid arthritis
KW - Depression
KW - Primary care
KW - Risk factors
KW - Germany
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-016-1387-2
SN - 0962-9343
SN - 1573-2649
VL - 26
IS - 2
SP - 437
EP - 443
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Pan, Jinger
A1 - Kong, Yan
A1 - Song, Shuang
A1 - McBride, Catherine
A1 - Liu, Hongyun
A1 - Shu, Hua
T1 - Socioeconomic status, parent report of children’s early language skills, and late literacy skills
BT - a long term follow-up study among Chinese children
JF - Reading and writing : an interdisciplinary journal
N2 - Previous research on the longitudinal prediction of literacy development has focused mainly on the relationship between early cognitive/language skills and late literacy skills. The present study aimed to test the reliability of a number of measures reported by parents as compared to measuring cognitive and language skills in predicting subsequent reading achievement. Two hundred sixty-two Chinese children were administered four cognitive and language skills over three years at the preliterate stage. Additional information on children’s family socioeconomic status (SES), children’s early language skills, familial reading performance and habits, and familial handedness based on the observations of parents was collected. Performance on these variables in relation to subsequent literacy skills at 11 years of age was examined. SES and children’s early language skills significantly predicted subsequent literacy skills. Even with a number of cognitive and language skills statistically controlled, parental reports of children’s early language skills still contributed to reading comprehension. Poor readers defined at 11 years of age had lagged behind in early language skills, as well as family reading performance and habits, as compared to typically developing readers. These findings suggest that SES and parental estimates of children’s early language skills are useful for predicting children’s subsequent reading achievement.
KW - SES
KW - Parent questionnaire
KW - Early language skills
KW - Familial risk
KW - Chinese reading
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-016-9682-4
SN - 0922-4777
SN - 1573-0905
VL - 30
SP - 401
EP - 416
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Reike, Dennis
A1 - Schwarz, Wolfgang
T1 - Exploring the origin of the number-size congruency effect
BT - sensitivity or response bias?
JF - Attention, perception, & psychophysics : AP&P ; a journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc.
N2 - Physical size modulates the efficiency of digit comparison, depending on whether the relation of numerical magnitude and physical size is congruent or incongruent (Besner & Coltheart, Neuropsychologia, 17, 467–472, 1979), the number-size congruency effect (NSCE). In addition, Henik and Tzelgov (Memory & Cognition, 10, 389–395, 1982) first reported an NSCE for the reverse task of comparing the physical size of digits such that the numerical magnitude of digits modulated the time required to compare their physical sizes. Does the NSCE in physical comparisons simply reflect a number-mediated bias mechanism related to making decisions and selecting responses about the digit’s sizes? Alternatively, or in addition, the NSCE might indicate a true increase in the ability to discriminate small and large font sizes when these sizes are congruent with the digit’s symbolic numerical meaning, over and above response bias effects. We present a new research design that permits us to apply signal detection theory to a task that required observers to judge the physical size of digits. Our results clearly demonstrate that the NSCE cannot be reduced to mere response bias effects, and that genuine sensitivity gains for congruent number-size pairings contribute to the NSCE.
KW - Numerical cognition
KW - Number-size congruity effect
KW - Signal detection theory
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1267-4
SN - 1943-3921
SN - 1943-393X
VL - 79
SP - 383
EP - 388
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Holz, Nathalie E.
A1 - Boecker-Schlier, Regina
A1 - Buchmann, Arlette F.
A1 - Blomeyer, Dorothea
A1 - Jennen-Steinmetz, Christine
A1 - Baumeister, Sarah
A1 - Plichta, Michael M.
A1 - Cattrell, Anna
A1 - Schumann, Gunter
A1 - Esser, Günter
A1 - Schmidt, Martin
A1 - Buitelaar, Jan
A1 - Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas
A1 - Banaschewski, Tobias
A1 - Brandeis, Daniel
A1 - Laucht, Manfred
T1 - Ventral striatum and amygdala activity as convergence sites for early adversity and conduct disorder
JF - Frontiers in human neuroscience
N2 - Childhood family adversity (CFA) increases the risk for conduct disorder (CD) and has been associated with alterations in regions of affective processing like ventral striatum (VS) and amygdala. However, no study so far has demonstrated neural converging effects of CFA and CD in the same sample. At age 25 years, functional MRI data during two affective tasks, i.e. a reward (N = 171) and a face-matching paradigm (N = 181) and anatomical scans (N = 181) were acquired in right-handed currently healthy participants of an epidemiological study followed since birth. CFA during childhood was determined using a standardized parent interview. Disruptive behaviors and CD diagnoses during childhood and adolescence were obtained by diagnostic interview (2–19 years), temperamental reward dependence was assessed by questionnaire (15 and 19 years).
CFA predicted increased CD and amygdala volume. Both exposure to CFA and CD were associated with a decreased VS response during reward anticipation and blunted amygdala activity during face-matching. CD mediated the effect of CFA on brain activity. Temperamental reward dependence was negatively correlated with CFA and CD and positively with VS activity. These findings underline the detrimental effects of CFA on the offspring's affective processing and support the importance of early postnatal intervention programs aiming to reduce childhood adversity factors.
KW - childhood adversity
KW - conduct disorder
KW - amygdala
KW - ventral striatum
KW - fMRI
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw120
SN - 1749-5016
SN - 1749-5024
VL - 12
IS - 2
SP - 261
EP - 272
PB - Oxford Univ. Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Nazir, Tatjana A.
A1 - Hrycyk, Lianna
A1 - Moreau, Quentin
A1 - Frak, Victor
A1 - Cheylus, Anne
A1 - Ott, Laurent
A1 - Lindemann, Oliver
A1 - Fischer, Martin H.
A1 - Paulignan, Yves
A1 - Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne
T1 - A simple technique to study embodied language processes
BT - the grip force sensor
JF - Behavior research methods : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2 - Research in cognitive neuroscience has shown that brain structures serving perceptual, emotional, and motor processes are also recruited during the understanding of language when it refers to emotion, perception, and action. However, the exact linguistic and extralinguistic conditions under which such language-induced activity in modality-specific cortex is triggered are not yet well understood. The purpose of this study is to introduce a simple experimental technique that allows for the online measure of language-induced activity in motor structures of the brain. This technique consists in the use of a grip force sensor that captures subtle grip force variations while participants listen to words and sentences. Since grip force reflects activity in motor brain structures, the continuous monitoring of force fluctuations provides a fine-grained estimation of motor activity across time. In other terms, this method allows for both localization of the source of language-induced activity to motor brain structures and high temporal resolution of the recorded data. To facilitate comparison of the data to be collected with this tool, we present two experiments that describe in detail the technical setup, the nature of the recorded data, and the analyses (including justification about the data filtering and artifact rejection) that we applied. We also discuss how the tool could be used in other domains of behavioral research.
KW - Grip-force sensor
KW - Embodiment
KW - Language
KW - Motor system
Y1 - 2015
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0696-7
SN - 1554-351X
SN - 1554-3528
VL - 49
SP - 61
EP - 73
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Hoffmann, Svenja
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
T1 - Weight, shape, and muscularity concerns in male and female adolescents
BT - predictors of change and influences on eating concern
JF - The international journal of eating disorders
N2 - Objective:
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of age and weight status on adolescents' body dissatisfaction and its change over 20 months in a gender-comparing design. The influence of body image concern on eating concern was also investigated.
Method:
In a prospective study, 675 male and female adolescents aged 12–16 were assessed using self-report questionnaires on weight, shape, muscularity, and eating concerns. Height and weight measurements were taken by trained personnel. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.
Results:
Analyses of latent means revealed more pronounced weight/shape concern in females than males and more pronounced muscularity concern in males than females. Weight/shape concern increased in females over time, whereas muscularity concern remained stable in both genders. Baseline levels of weight/shape concern could be predicted by age and weight status in females and by weight status in males. The only predictor of change in weight/shape concern was weight status in males. Baseline levels of muscularity concern could be predicted by age in females and by weight status in males. Similar effects were found for changes in muscularity concern in both genders. Increases in weight/shape and muscularity concern were associated with more pronounced eating concern.
Discussion:
The results confirm gender differences in distinctive facets of body image concern and its prediction. The relevance of increase in body image concern in adolescents is underlined by its association with eating concern in both genders. Further explanatory variables for change in body dissatisfaction should be examined in future studies.
KW - weight and shape concern
KW - muscularity concern
KW - eating concern
KW - gender
KW - adolescence
KW - prospective
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22635
SN - 0276-3478
SN - 1098-108X
VL - 50
IS - 2
SP - 139
EP - 147
PB - Wiley
CY - Hoboken
ER -
TY - THES
A1 - Ventura-Bort, Carlos
T1 - Temporo-spatial dynamics of the impact of emotional contexts on visual processing and memory
T1 - Zeitlich-räumliche Dynamik der Auswirkungen emotionaler Kontexte auf die visuelle Verarbeitung und das Gedächtnis
N2 - It has frequently been observed that single emotional events are not only more efficiently processed, but also better remembered, and form longer-lasting memory traces than neutral material. However, when emotional information is perceived as a part of a complex event, such as in the context of or in relation to other events and/or source details, the modulatory effects of emotion are less clear. The present work aims to investigate how emotional, contextual source information modulates the initial encoding and subsequent long-term retrieval of associated neutral material (item memory) and contextual source details (contextual source memory). To do so, a two-task experiment was used, consisting of an incidental encoding task in which neutral objects were displayed over different contextual background scenes which varied in emotional content (unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral), and a delayed retrieval task (1 week), in which previously-encoded objects and new ones were presented. In a series of studies, behavioral indices (Studies 2, 3, and 5), event-related potentials (ERPs; Studies 1-4), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (Study 5) were used to investigate whether emotional contexts can rapidly tune the visual processing of associated neutral information (Study 1) and modulate long-term item memory (Study 2), how different recognition memory processes (familiarity vs. recollection) contribute to these emotion effects on item and contextual source memory (Study 3), whether the emotional effects of item memory can also be observed during spontaneous retrieval (Sstudy 4), and which brain regions underpin the modulatory effects of emotional contexts on item and contextual source memory (Study 5). In Study 1, it was observed that emotional contexts by means of emotional associative learning, can rapidly alter the processing of associated neutral information. Neutral items associated with emotional contexts (i.e. emotional associates) compared to neutral ones, showed enhanced perceptual and more elaborate processing after one single pairing, as indexed by larger amplitudes in the P100 and LPP components, respectively. Study 2 showed that emotional contexts produce longer-lasting memory effects, as evidenced by better item memory performance and larger ERP Old/New differences for emotional associates. In Study 3, a mnemonic differentiation was observed between item and contextual source memory which was modulated by emotion. Item memory was driven by familiarity, independently of emotional contexts during encoding, whereas contextual source memory was driven by recollection, and better for emotional material. As in Study 2, enhancing effects of emotional contexts for item memory were observed in ERPs associated with recollection processes. Likewise, for contextual source memory, a pronounced recollection-related ERP enhancement was observed for exclusively emotional contexts. Study 4 showed that the long-term recollection enhancement of emotional contexts on item memory can be observed even when retrieval is not explicitly attempted, as measured with ERPs, suggesting that the emotion enhancing effects on memory are not related to the task embedded during recognition, but to the motivational relevance of the triggering event. In Study 5, it was observed that enhancing effects of emotional contexts on item and contextual source memory involve stronger engagement of the brain's regions which are associated with memory recollection, including areas of the medial temporal lobe, posterior parietal cortex, and prefrontal cortex.
Taken together, these findings suggest that emotional contexts rapidly modulate the initial processing of associated neutral information and the subsequent, long-term item and contextual source memories. The enhanced memory effects of emotional contexts are strongly supported by recollection rather than familiarity processes, and are shown to be triggered when retrieval is both explicitly and spontaneously attempted. These results provide new insights into the modulatory role of emotional information on the visual processing and the long-term recognition memory of complex events. The present findings are integrated into the current theoretical models and future ventures are discussed.
N2 - Es wurde häufig beobachtet, dass einzelne emotionale Ereignisse effizienter verarbeitet und besser erinnert werden und länger anhaltende Gedächtnisspuren bilden als neutrales Material. Wenn jedoch emotionale Informationen als Teil eines komplexen Ereignisses wahrgenommen werden, wie beispielsweise im Kontext oder in Bezug auf andere Ereignisse und/oder Quellendetails, sind die modulierenden Einflüsse von Emotionen weniger klar. Die vorliegende Arbeit zielt darauf ab zu untersuchen, wie emotionale, kontextuelle Quelleninformationen die anfängliche Kodierung und den anschließenden langfristigen Abruf von zugehörigem neutralen Material (Itemgedächtnis) und kontextuellen Quellendetails (Quellengedächtnis) modulieren. Dazu wurde ein Zwei-Aufgaben-Experiment verwendet, bestehend aus einer nicht instruierten Enkodierungsaufgabe, bei der neutrale Objekte eingebettet in verschiedene kontextuelle Hintergrundszenen dargeboten wurden, die in ihrem emotionalen Inhalt variierten (unangenehm, angenehm und neutral), und einer verzögerten Abrufaufgabe (1 Woche), bei der zuvor enkodierte und neue Objekte präsentiert wurden. In einer Reihe von Studien wurden Verhaltensindizes (Studien 2-5), ereigniskorrelierte Potenziale (EKPs; Studien 1-4) und funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie (Studie 5) verwendet, um zu untersuchen, ob emotionale Kontexte die visuelle Verarbeitung der zugehörigen neutralen Informationen kurzfristig verändern können (Studie 1) und das Langzeitgedächtnis modulieren (Studie 2), wie verschiedene Prozesse des Wiedererkennens (Vertrautheit vs. Rekollektion) zu diesen Emotionseffekten auf das Item- und das kontextuelle Quellengedächtnis beitragen (Studie 3), ob die emotionalen Effekte auf das Itemgedächtnis auch bei der spontanen Abfrage beobachtet werden können (Studie 4) und über welche Hirnregionen die modulierenden Effekte emotionaler Kontexte auf das Item- und kontextuelle Quellengedächtnis vermittelt werden (Studie 5).
In Studie 1 wurde beobachtet, dass emotionale Kontexte durch emotionales assoziatives Lernen die Verarbeitung der zugehörigen neutralen Informationen kurzfristig verändern können. Neutrale Elemente, die mit emotionalen Kontexten verbunden sind (im Folgenden „emotional Assoziierte“ genannt), zeigten nach einer einzigen Paarung im Vergleich zu neutralen Elementen eine verbesserte perzeptuelle und elaboriertere Verarbeitung, wie durch höhere Amplituden in den P100- bzw. LPP-Komponenten nachgewiesen wurde. Studie 2 zeigte, dass emotionale Kontexte länger anhaltende Gedächtniseffekte erzeugen, was sich in einer besseren Itemgedächtnisleistung und größeren EKP-alt/neu Unterschieden für emotional Assoziierte zeigte. In Studie 3 wurde eine mnemonische Differenzierung zwischen Item- und kontextuellem Quellengedächtnis beobachtet, die durch Emotionen moduliert wurde. Das Itemgedächtnis wurde durch den Prozess der Vertrautheit getrieben unabhängig von den emotionalen Kontexten während der Enkodierung. Das kontextuelle Quellengedächtnis wurde dagegen durch Rekollektion getrieben und war besser für emotionales Material. Wie in Studie 2 wurden in EKPs, die mit Rekollektionsprozessen in Verbindung stehen, verstärkende Effekte von emotionalen Kontexten für das Itemgedächtnis beobachtet. Ebenso wurde für das kontextuelle Quellengedächtnis eine ausgeprägte Rekollektionsbezogene Potenzierung der EKPs ausschließlich für emotionale Kontexte beobachtet. Studie 4 zeigte, dass die langfristige Verstärkung der Rekollektion, die emotionale Kontexten im Itemgedächtnis verursachen, auch dann beobachtet werden kann, wenn der Abruf nicht explizit instruiert wird. Dieser Befund zum spontanen Erinnern deutet darauf hin, dass die gedächtnissteigernden Effekte von Emotionen nicht mit der Aufgabe zusammenhängen, die während des Abrufs gestellt wurde, sondern mit der motivationalen Relevanz des auslösenden Ereignisses. In Studie 5 wurde beobachtet, dass an der verstärkenden Wirkung von emotionalen Kontexten auf das Item- und kontextuelle Quellengedächtnis solche Hirnregionen beteiligt sind, die mit der Rekollektionsprozessen assoziiert werden, einschließlich der Bereiche des medialen Temporallappens, des posterioren parietalen Kortex und des präfrontalen Kortex.
Zusammengenommen deuten diese Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass emotionale Kontexte die anfängliche Verarbeitung der zugehörigen neutralen Informationen und der nachfolgenden, langfristigen Erinnerungen an Items und kontextuelle Quellen schnell modulieren. Die durch emotionaler Kontexte ausgelösten Gedächtniseffekte werden eher durch Rekollektions- und weniger durch Vertrautheitsprozesse vermittelt und zeigen sich sowohl bei expliziten als auch bei spontanen Abruf. Diese Ergebnisse liefern neue Erkenntnisse über die modulierende Rolle emotionaler Informationen bei der visuellen Verarbeitung und der Langzeiterinnerung an komplexe Ereignisse. Die vorliegenden Erkenntnisse werden in aktuelle theoretische Modelle integriert und zukünftige Forschungsperspektiven werden diskutiert.
KW - memory
KW - fMRI
KW - Emotion
KW - emotion
KW - EEG
KW - Gedächtnis
KW - EEG
KW - fMRT
Y1 - 2020
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-550236
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Frodl, Thomas
A1 - Janowitz, Deborah
A1 - Schmaal, Lianne
A1 - Tozzi, Leonardo
A1 - Dobrowolny, Henrik
A1 - Stein, Dan J.
A1 - Veltman, Dick J.
A1 - Wittfeld, Katharina
A1 - van Erp, Theo G. M.
A1 - Jahanshad, Neda
A1 - Block, Andrea
A1 - Hegenscheid, Katrin
A1 - Voelzke, Henry
A1 - Lagopoulos, Jim
A1 - Hatton, Sean N.
A1 - Hickie, Ian B.
A1 - Frey, Eva Maria
A1 - Carballedo, Angela
A1 - Brooks, Samantha J.
A1 - Vuletic, Daniella
A1 - Uhlmann, Anne
A1 - Veer, Ilya M.
A1 - Walter, Henrik
A1 - Schnell, Knut
A1 - Grotegerd, Dominik
A1 - Arolt, Volker
A1 - Kugel, Harald
A1 - Schramm, Elisabeth
A1 - Konrad, Carsten
A1 - Zurowski, Bartosz
A1 - Baune, Bernhard T.
A1 - van der Wee, Nic J. A.
A1 - van Tol, Marie-Jose
A1 - Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.
A1 - Thompson, Paul M.
A1 - Hibar, Derrek P.
A1 - Dannlowski, Udo
A1 - Grabe, Hans J.
T1 - Childhood adversity impacts on brain subcortical structures relevant to depression
JF - Journal of psychiatric research
N2 - Childhood adversity plays an important role for development of major depressive disorder (MDD). There are differences in subcortical brain structures between patients with MDD and healthy controls, but the specific impact of childhood adversity on such structures in MDD remains unclear. Thus, aim of the present study was to investigate whether childhood adversity is associated with subcortical volumes and how it interacts with a diagnosis of MDD and sex. Within the ENIGMA-MDD network, nine university partner sites, which assessed childhood adversity and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with MDD and controls, took part in the current joint mega-analysis. In this largest effort world-wide to identify subcortical brain structure differences related to childhood adversity, 3036 participants were analyzed for subcortical brain volumes using FreeSurfer. A significant interaction was evident between childhood adversity, MDD diagnosis, sex, and region. Increased exposure to childhood adversity was associated with smaller caudate volumes in females independent of MDD. All subcategories of childhood adversity were negatively associated with caudate volumes in females - in particular emotional neglect and physical neglect (independently from age, ICV, imaging site and MDD diagnosis). There was no interaction effect between childhood adversity and MDD diagnosis on subcortical brain volumes. Childhood adversity is one of the contributors to brain structural abnormalities. It is associated with subcortical brain abnormalities that are relevant to psychiatric disorders such as depression. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
KW - Depression
KW - Childhood adversity
KW - MRI
KW - Caudate
KW - Hippocampus
KW - ENIGMA
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2016.11.010
SN - 0022-3956
SN - 1879-1379
VL - 86
SP - 58
EP - 65
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Muschalla, Beate
T1 - Is it a Case of "Work-Anxiety" When Patients Report Bad Workplace Characteristics and Low Work Ability?
JF - Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
N2 - Aims Work-anxiety may produce overly negative views of the workplace that impair provider efforts to assess work ability from patient self-report. This study explores the empirical relationships between patient-reported workplace characteristics, work-anxiety, and subjective and objective work ability measures. Methods 125 patients in medical rehabilitation before vocational reintegration were interviewed concerning their vocational situation, and filled in a questionnaire on work-anxiety, subjective mental work ability and perceived workplace characteristics. Treating physicians gave independent socio-medical judgments concerning the patients’ work ability and impairment, and need for supportive means for vocational reintegration. Results Patients with high work-anxiety reported more negative workplace characteristics. Low judgments of work ability were correlated with problematic workplace characteristics. When controlled for work-anxiety, subjective work ability remained related only with social workplace characteristics and with work achievement demands, but independent from situational or task characteristics. Sick leave duration and physicians’ judgment of work ability were not significantly related to patient-reported workplace characteristics. Conclusions In socio-medical work ability assessments, patients with high work-anxiety may over-report negative workplace characteristics that can confound provider estimates of work ability. Assessing work-anxiety may be important to assess readiness for returning to work and initiating work-directed treatments.
KW - Work anxiety
KW - Work ability
KW - Workplace
KW - Sick leave
KW - Work characteristics
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-016-9637-2
SN - 1053-0487
SN - 1573-3688
VL - 27
SP - 106
EP - 114
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Krahé, Barbara
A1 - Berger, Anja
T1 - Longitudinal pathways of sexual victimization, sexual self-esteem, and depression in women and men
JF - Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
N2 - Objective: This article presents a longitudinal analysis of the links between sexual assault victimization, depression, and sexual self-esteem by examining their cross-lagged paths among both men and women. Method: Male and female college students (N = 2,425) in Germany participated in the study that comprised 3 data waves in their first, second, and third year of university, separated by 12-month intervals. Sexual assault victimization was assessed at Time 1 (T1) since the age of 14 and at Time 2 (T2) and Time 3 (T3) for the last 12 months. Depression and sexual self-esteem were measured at each wave. Results: Random-intercept cross-lagged panel analyses, controlling for individual differences in depression and sexual self-esteem, showed that sexual assault at T1 predicted depression and lower sexual self-esteem at T2, and depression and lower self-esteem at T2 predicted sexual assault victimization at T3. In addition, significant paths were found from T1 depression to T2 sexual assault victimization and from T2 sexual assault victimization to depression at T3. Sexual victimization at T1 was indirectly linked to sexual victimization at T3 via depression at T2. Both depression and sexual self-esteem at T1 were indirectly linked to sexual victimization at T3. The paths did not differ significantly between men and women. Conclusion: Sexual assault victimization was shown to be a risk factor for both depression as a general mental health indicator and lowered sexual self-esteem as a specific outcome in the domain of sexuality. Moreover, depression and sexual self-esteem increased the vulnerability for sexual assault victimization, which has implications for prevention and intervention efforts. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.
KW - sexual assault victimization
KW - depression
KW - sexual self-esteem
KW - longitudinal study
KW - Germany
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000198
SN - 1942-9681
SN - 1942-969X
VL - 9
IS - 2
SP - 147
EP - 155
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Lazarides, Rebecca
A1 - Rubach, Charlott
A1 - Ittel, Angela
T1 - Adolescents’ perceptions of socializers’ beliefs, career-related conversations, and motivation in mathematics
JF - Developmental psychology
N2 - Research based on the Eccles model of parent socialization demonstrated that parents are an important source of value and ability information for their children. Little is known, however, about the bidirectional effects between students’ perceptions of their parents’ beliefs and behaviors and the students’ own domain-specific values. This study analyzed how students’ perceptions of parents’ beliefs and behaviors and students’ mathematics values and mathematics-related career plans affect each other bidirectionally, and analyzed the role of students’ gender as a moderator of these relations. Data from 475 students in 11th and 12th grade (girls: 50.3%; 31 classrooms; 12 schools), who participated in 2 waves of the study, were analyzed. Results of longitudinal structural equation models demonstrated that students’ perceptions of their parents’ mathematics value beliefs at Time 1 affected the students’ own mathematics utility value at Time 2. Bidirectional effects were not shown in the full sample but were identified for boys. The paths within the tested model varied for boys and girls. For example, boys’, not girls’, mathematics intrinsic value predicted their reported conversations with their fathers about future occupational plans. Boys’, not girls’, perceived parents’ mathematics value predicted the mathematics utility value. Findings are discussed in relation to their implications for parents and teachers, as well as in relation to gendered motivational processes.
KW - parents’ beliefs
KW - parent–child conversations
KW - motivation
KW - mathematics
KW - gender
Y1 - 2016
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000270
SN - 0012-1649
SN - 1939-0599
VL - 53
IS - 3
SP - 525
EP - 539
PB - American Psychological Association
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Jung, Janis
A1 - Krahe, Barbara
A1 - Busching, Robert
T1 - Differential risk profiles for reactive and proactive aggression
BT - a longitudinal latent profile analysis
JF - Social psychology
N2 - This two-wave longitudinal study identified configurations of social rejection, affiliation with aggressive peers, and academic failure and examined their predictivity for reactive and proactive aggression in a sample of 1,479 children and adolescents aged between 9 and 19 years. Latent profile analysis yielded three configurations of risk factors, made up of a non-risk group, a risk group scoring high on measures of social rejection (SR), and a risk group scoring high on measures of affiliation with aggressive peers and academic failure (APAF). Latent path analysis revealed that, as predicted, only membership in the SR group at T1 predicted reactive aggression at T2 17 months later. By contrast, only membership in the APAF group at T1 predicted proactive aggression at T2.
KW - reactive/proactive aggression
KW - social rejection
KW - aggressive peers
KW - academic failure
KW - childhood
KW - adolescence
KW - Germany
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000298
SN - 1864-9335
SN - 2151-2590
VL - 48
IS - 2
SP - 71
EP - 84
PB - Hogrefe
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Galetzka, Cedric
T1 - Commentary on: Radesky, Jenny S.; Schumacher, Jayna ; Zuckerman, Barry: Mobile and interactive media use by young children: the good, the bad, and the unknown. - Pediatrics. - 135 (2015), 1, S. 1 - 3. - doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-2251
T2 - Frontiers in psychology
KW - learning
KW - smartphones
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00461
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 8
PB - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY - Lausanne
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Köhler, Kai
A1 - Eggert, Patrick
A1 - Lorenz, Sebastian
A1 - Herr, Kerstin
A1 - Willmund, Gerd
A1 - Zimmermann, Peter
A1 - Alliger-Horn, Christina
T1 - Effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in German Armed Forces Soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder under routine inpatient care conditions
JF - Military medicine : the official journal of AMSUS
N2 - Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the more commonly occurring mental disorders following potentially traumatizing events soldiers may encounter when deployed abroad. One of the first-line recommended treatment options is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). The number of studies assessing the effectiveness of EMDR in German soldiers under routine conditions is currently almost nil. Methods: A retrospective, quasi-experimental effectiveness study on EMDR in an inpatient setting is presented using a prepost design. The study compares symptom reduction in soldiers (N = 78) with a wait-list (N = 18). Effect sizes of EMDR were measured for PTSD, symptoms of depression, and general mental health. Results: Effect size for EMDR treatment of PTSD was d = 0.77; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.51 to 1.36, for symptoms of depression d = 0.99; 95% CI: 0.31 to 1.36, and for general psychiatric symptoms d = 0.53; 95% CI: 0.17 to 1.21. The effects resulting from EMDR treatment were somewhat weaker than those reported in comparable studies in civilians. Conclusion: EMDR therapy is an effective treatment to reduce symptoms of PTSD and depression. However, in the military context it needs to be complemented by treatment options that specifically address further conditions perpetuating the disorders.
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-16-00307
SN - 0026-4075
SN - 1930-613X
VL - 182
SP - E1672
EP - E1680
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Schiefele, Ulrich
T1 - Classroom management and mastery-oriented instruction as mediators of the effects of teacher motivation on student motivation
JF - Teaching and teacher education : an international journal of research and studies
N2 - This study addressed the role of elementary school teachers' classroom management and mastery-oriented instructional practices as mediators of the effects of teacher motivation on student motivation. The sample comprised 110 teacher-class pairs (1731 students). The results from multilevel regression analyses revealed that teacher educational interest contributed to student reports of teachers' instructional practices. These practices, in turn, were significant predictors of students' subject interest and mastery goals at both the student and the class level. Finally, teacher educational interest showed significant and substantial indirect relations to student motivation that were mediated by teachers’ instructional practices.
KW - Teacher motivation
KW - Student motivation
KW - Interest
KW - Mastery goals
KW - Classroom management
KW - Mastery-oriented instruction
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.02.004
SN - 0742-051X
VL - 64
SP - 115
EP - 126
PB - Elsevier
CY - Oxford
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Pitzer, Martina
A1 - Esser, Günter
A1 - Schmidt, Martin H.
A1 - Hohm, Erika
A1 - Banaschewski, Tobias
A1 - Laucht, Manfred
T1 - Child regulative temperament as a mediator of parenting in the development of depressive symptoms
BT - a longitudinal study from early childhood to preadolescence
JF - Journal of neural transmission
N2 - Child temperament as well as parenting behaviors have been linked to adolescent depression. Beyond their main effects, the interplay between these factors is of interest. For example, in an interactive model, a differential susceptibility of temperamental variants to parenting has been suggested. However, so far, the differential susceptibility hypothesis has mostly been studied with a focus on externalizing disorders. On the other hand, parenting may shape the child’s temperament and vice versa in a transactional process. In a prospective, longitudinal at-risk sample (163 boys, 176 girls), we assessed emotional (easy–difficult) and regulative (self-control) temperament at ages 4.5, and 8 years, respectively, as well as parenting quality at age 4.5 years using the HOME inventory. Hierarchical linear regression analysis was used to investigate the prediction of depressive symptoms at age 11, measured by the Child Depression Inventory, including interaction terms between the temperament variable and parenting. We additionally tested whether parenting was mediated by child temperament. As previously reported, both self-control and parenting were longitudinally associated with preadolescent depressive symptoms. There were no interactive effects between temperament and parenting. However, the effects of parenting were partly mediated by self-control. Our data do not support a differential susceptibility of temperamental variants in the development of preadolescent depression. However, our results are in line with the assumption that parenting may shape young children’s temperament, with positive parenting in the early childhood fostering the development of regulative temperament.
KW - Temperament
KW - Parenting
KW - Children
KW - Depression
KW - Parent-child-interaction
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1682-2
SN - 0300-9564
SN - 1435-1463
VL - 124
SP - 631
EP - 641
PB - Springer
CY - Wien
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Warschburger, Petra
A1 - Petersen, Ann-Christin
A1 - von Rezori, Roman Enzio
A1 - Buchallik, Friederike
A1 - Baumeister, Harald
A1 - Holl, Reinhard
A1 - Minden, Kirsten
A1 - Müller-Stierlin, Annabel Sandra
A1 - Reinauer, Christina
A1 - Staab, Doris
A1 - COACH consortium,
T1 - A prospective investigation of developmental trajectories of psychosocial adjustment in adolescents facing a chronic condition - study protocol of an observational, multi-center study
JF - BMC Pediatrics
N2 - Background
Relatively little is known about protective factors and the emergence and maintenance of positive outcomes in the field of adolescents with chronic conditions. Therefore, the primary aim of the study is to acquire a deeper understanding of the dynamic process of resilience factors, coping strategies and psychosocial adjustment of adolescents living with chronic conditions.
Methods/design
We plan to consecutively recruit N = 450 adolescents (12–21 years) from three German patient registries for chronic conditions (type 1 diabetes, cystic fibrosis, or juvenile idiopathic arthritis). Based on screening for anxiety and depression, adolescents are assigned to two parallel groups – “inconspicuous” (PHQ-9 and GAD-7 < 7) vs. “conspicuous” (PHQ-9 or GAD-7 ≥ 7) – participating in a prospective online survey at baseline and 12-month follow-up. At two time points (T1, T2), we assess (1) intra- and interpersonal resiliency factors, (2) coping strategies, and (3) health-related quality of life, well-being, satisfaction with life, anxiety and depression. Using a cross-lagged panel design, we will examine the bidirectional longitudinal relations between resiliency factors and coping strategies, psychological adaptation, and psychosocial adjustment. To monitor Covid-19 pandemic effects, participants are also invited to take part in an intermediate online survey.
Discussion
The study will provide a deeper understanding of adaptive, potentially modifiable processes and will therefore help to develop novel, tailored interventions supporting a positive adaptation in youths with a chronic condition. These strategies should not only support those at risk but also promote the maintenance of a successful adaptation.
Trial registration
German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS), no. DRKS00025125. Registered on May 17, 2021.
KW - Chronic conditions
KW - Adolescents
KW - Prospective
KW - Quality of life
KW - Resiliency
KW - Coping
KW - Protective factors
KW - Type 1 diabetes
KW - Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
KW - Cystic fibrosis
Y1 - 2021
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02869-9
SN - 1471-2431
VL - 21
SP - 1
EP - 13
PB - BMC pediatrics
CY - London
ER -
TY - GEN
A1 - Verch, Ronald
A1 - Stoll, Josefine
A1 - Hadzic, Miralem
A1 - Quarmby, Andrew James
A1 - Völler, Heinz
T1 - Whole-Body EMS Superimposed Walking and Nordic Walking on a Treadmill—Determination of Exercise Intensity to Conventional Exercise
T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2 - Electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) is an increasingly popular training method and has become the focus of research in recent years. New EMS devices offer a wide range of mobile applications for whole-body EMS (WB-EMS) training, e.g., the intensification of dynamic low-intensity endurance exercises through WB-EMS. The present study aimed to determine the differences in exercise intensity between WB-EMS-superimposed and conventional walking (EMS-CW), and CON and WB-EMS-superimposed Nordic walking (WB-EMS-NW) during a treadmill test. Eleven participants (52.0 ± years; 85.9 ± 7.4 kg, 182 ± 6 cm, BMI 25.9 ± 2.2 kg/m2) performed a 10 min treadmill test at a given velocity (6.5 km/h) in four different test situations, walking (W) and Nordic walking (NW) in both conventional and WB-EMS superimposed. Oxygen uptake in absolute (VO2) and relative to body weight (rel. VO2), lactate, and the rate of perceived exertion (RPE) were measured before and after the test. WB-EMS intensity was adjusted individually according to the feedback of the participant. The descriptive statistics were given in mean ± SD. For the statistical analyses, one-factorial ANOVA for repeated measures and two-factorial ANOVA [factors include EMS, W/NW, and factor combination (EMS*W/NW)] were performed (α = 0.05). Significant effects were found for EMS and W/NW factors for the outcome variables VO2 (EMS: p = 0.006, r = 0.736; W/NW: p < 0.001, r = 0.870), relative VO2 (EMS: p < 0.001, r = 0.850; W/NW: p < 0.001, r = 0.937), and lactate (EMS: p = 0.003, r = 0.771; w/NW: p = 0.003, r = 0.764) and both the factors produced higher results. However, the difference in VO2 and relative VO2 is within the range of biological variability of ± 12%. The factor combination EMS*W/NW is statistically non-significant for all three variables. WB-EMS resulted in the higher RPE values (p = 0.035, r = 0.613), RPE differences for W/NW and EMS*W/NW were not significant. The current study results indicate that WB-EMS influences the parameters of exercise intensity. The impact on exercise intensity and the clinical relevance of WB-EMS-superimposed walking (WB-EMS-W) exercise is questionable because of the marginal differences in the outcome variables.
T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 760
KW - electrical muscle stimulation
KW - walking
KW - Nordic walking
KW - treadmill
KW - exercise intensity
Y1 - 2022
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-549575
SN - 1866-8364
SP - 1
EP - 9
PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY - Potsdam
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Sege, Christopher T.
A1 - Bradley, Margaret M.
A1 - Weymar, Mathias
A1 - Lang, Peter J.
T1 - A direct comparison of appetitive and aversive anticipation
BT - overlapping and distinct neural activation
JF - Behavioural brain research : an international journal
N2 - fMRI studies of reward find increased neural activity in ventral striatum and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), whereas other regions, including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (d1PFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and anterior insula, are activated when anticipating aversive exposure. Although these data suggest differential activation during anticipation of pleasant or of unpleasant exposure, they also arise in the context of different paradigms (e.g., preparation for reward vs. threat of shock) and participants. To determine overlapping and unique regions active during emotional anticipation, we compared neural activity during anticipation of pleasant or unpleasant exposure in the same participants. Cues signalled the upcoming presentation of erotic/romantic, violent, or everyday pictures while BOLD activity during the 9-s anticipatory period was measured using fMRI. Ventral striatum and a ventral mPFC subregion were activated when anticipating pleasant, but not unpleasant or neutral, pictures, whereas activation in other regions was enhanced when anticipating appetitive or aversive scenes.
KW - Anticipation
KW - Emotion
KW - fMRI
Y1 - 2017
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.005
SN - 0166-4328
SN - 1872-7549
VL - 326
SP - 96
EP - 102
PB - Elsevier
CY - Amsterdam
ER -