Let It Go – A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study Exploring the Utility of Sadness in an Emotion-Based Approach-Avoidance Modification Training in the Context of Stress - Rupp, Lydia; Keinert, Marie; Böhme, Stephanie; Gmelch, Lena Marie; Streit, Hannah; Schuller, Björn W.; Eskofier, Björn; Berking, Matthias (Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, 2022)

Let’s become friends! How amicable job ads affect potential applicants - Hommelhoff, Sabine; Götz, Davina (17th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2015)

Life adversities of clients seeking advice for suicidal ideation from an online peer counseling service: Characteristics and associations with outcomes - Hildebrand, Anja; Weiss, Maren; Stemmler, Mark (Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2023)
Objective: [U25] Germany is a low-threshold, anonymous and free-of-charge online suicide prevention service for people up to 25 years of age. Its special feature is that counseling is provided by trained and continuously supervised voluntary peers. This study addresses the following research questions: (1) Which life adversities are reported by the clients of [U25]? (2) Are the life adversities intercorrelated? (3) According to patients, do life adversities change during the counseling process? (4) What are the associations between life adversities and outcome measures (e.g., reduction in suicidality or improvement in general situation)? Method: Data was collected through an online survey (n = 318). To measure psychological burden, the presence of 16 life adversities (e.g., problems in relationships) was assessed retrospectively. As the dependent variable, the change in suicidality was measured by means of three newly created items. In addition, a short form of the Bochum Change Questionnaire 2000 (BCQ 2000) was used to assess the patients’ subjectively perceived change due to counseling. Results: Regarding life adversities, the clients were heavily burdened. Throughout the course of counseling, many clients’ situations improved, at least concerning several adversities. Some life adversities significantly correlate with each other, but the correlation is mostly small to moderate. Suicidality is positively correlated with self-harming behaviors and loss of someone close to the advice seekers. Conclusions: Possible starting points for improving online counseling for suicidal adolescents and young adults are discussed.
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Keywords: Adolescence; Life adversities; Online counseling; Peer counseling; Suicide prevention

Life-long learning of unemployed individuals: Age effects on continuous learning. - Niessen, Cornelia (20st Annual SIOP Conference, 2005)

LIFE SATISFACTION BUFFERS THE EFFECTS OF INFLAMMATION ON COGNITIVE AGING - Becker, Linda; Kauzner, Saskia; Pretscher, Anna; Rohleder, Nicolas (PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, 2020)
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Life satisfaction buffers the effects of inflammation on cognitive aging - Becker, Linda; Kauzner, Saskia; Pretscher, Anna; Rohleder, Nicolas (78th Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society: Conference canceled due to COVID-19, 2020)

Lifetime and 12-month treatment for mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first year college students - Bruffaerts, Ronny; Mortier, Philippe; Auerbach, Randy P.; Alonso, Jordi; Hermosillo De la Torre, Alicia E.; Cuijpers, Pim; Demyttenaere, Koen; Ebert, David; Green, Jennifer Greif; Hasking, Penelope; Stein, Dan J.; Ennis, Edel; et al. (International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2019)
Objectives: Mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) are common and burdensome among college students. Although available evidence suggests that only a small proportion of the students with these conditions receive treatment, broad-based data on patterns of treatment are lacking. The aim of this study is to examine the receipt of mental health treatment among college students cross-nationally. Methods: Web-based self-report surveys were obtained from 13,984 first year students from 19 colleges in eight countries across the world as part of the World Health Organization's World Mental Health–International College Student Initiative. The survey assessed lifetime and 12-month common mental disorders/STB and treatment of these conditions. Results: Lifetime and 12-month treatment rates were very low, with estimates of 25.3–36.3% for mental disorders and 29.5–36.1% for STB. Treatment was positively associated with STB severity. However, even among severe cases, lifetime and 12-month treatment rates were never higher than 60.0% and 45.1%, respectively. Conclusions: High unmet need for treatment of mental disorders and STB exists among college students. In order to resolve the problem of high unmet need, a reallocation of resources may focus on innovative, low-threshold, inexpensive, and scalable interventions.
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Keywords: affective disorders; anxiety; college students; health service; suicide

Lisrel: Dorsch - Lexikon der Psycholgoie - Reutlinger, Marold (Dorsch - Lexikon der Psychologie, 2013)

Literarästhetische Urteilskompetenz erfassen. - Frederking, Volker; Meier, Christel; Roick, Thorsten; Steinhauer, Lydia; Stanat, Petra; Dickhäuser, Oliver (Literalität: Bildungsaufgabe und Forschungsfeld., 2009)

Little Einstein in my classroom: results of a cross-cultural study with teachers - Jurisevic, M; Blumen, S; Eberle, Thomas; Sánchez-Escobedo, P; Park, K; Roy, P; Sak, U; Li, X; Shi, S; Leana-Tasçilar, MarilenaZ.; Vialle, W; Ziegler, Albert (Educational change: Challenges and expectations, 2016)

Log in and breathe out: internet-based recovery training for sleepless employees with work-related strain - results of a randomized controlled trial - Thiart, Hanne; Lehr, Dirk; Ebert, David; Berking, Matthias; Heleen, Riper (Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health, 2015)
Objectives The primary purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to evaluate the efficacy of a guided internet-based recovery training for employees who suffer from both work-related strain and sleep problems (GET.ON Recovery). The recovery training consisted of six lessons, employing well-established methods from cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) such as sleep restriction, stimulus control, and hygiene interventions as well as techniques targeted at reducing rumination and promoting recreational activities. Methods In a two-arm RCT (N=128), the effects of GET.ON Recovery were compared to a waitlist-control condition (WLC) on the basis of intention-to-treat analyses. German teachers with clinical insomnia complaints (Insomnia Severity Index =15) and work-related rumination (Irritation Scale, cognitive irritation subscale =15) were included. The primary outcome measure was insomnia severity. Results Analyses of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed that, compared to the WLC, insomnia severity of the intervention group decreased significantly stronger (F=74.11, P<0.001) with a d=1.45 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.06–1.84] The number needed to treat (NNT) was <2 for reliable change and NNT <4 for reduction in expert-rated diagnosis of primary insomnia. Conclusion The training significantly reduces sleep problems and fosters mental detachment from work and recreational behavior among adult stressed employees at post-test and 6-months follow up. Given the low threshold access this training could reach out to a large group of stressed employees when results are replicated in other studies.
Keywords: CBT-I; cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia; guided self-help; insomnia; internet; internet-based training; occupational health; online; randomized controlled trial; recovery; recovery training; recreation; sleepless; sleepless employee; stress; teacher

Log-linear modeling and two-sample CFA in the search of discrimination types - Stemmler, Mark Kurt; Bingham, C. Raymond; Stemmler, Mark (Psychology Science, 2003)
Keywords: two-sample comparison; Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA); two-sample CFA; log-linear modeling (LLM); nonparametric testing; contingency table analysis

Longings and goals: Two representations of positive development - Scheibe, Susanne; Riediger, Michaela; Hommelhoff, Sabine (113th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 2005)

Longitudinal Effects of Career Adaptability on Job and Career Insecurity via two Types of Perceived Marketability - Spurk, Daniel; Meinecke, Annika; Kauffeld, Simone; Ebner, Katharina (17th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2015)

Longitudinal Influences of DRD4 Polymorphism and Early Maternal Caregiving on Personality Development and Problem Behavior in Middle Childhood and Adolescence - Zimmermann, Peter; Spangler, Gottfried (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022)
Most studies examining gene-environment effects on self-regulation focus on outcomes early childhood or adulthood. However, only a few studies investigate longitudinal effects during middle childhood and adolescence and compare two domains of early caregiving. In a longitudinal follow-up with a sample of N = 87, we studied the effects of differences in the DRD4 tandem repeat polymorphisms and two domains of early maternal caregiving quality on children's personality development using Block's California Child Q-Set (CCQ) at age six and age 12 and on problem behavior at ages six and seven. Early maternal regulation quality predicted later ego-resiliency and aggressiveness. In addition, significant gene-environment interactions revealed that children with the 7+ DRD4 tandem repeat polymorphism and poor maternal regulation quality in infancy showed lower scores in ego-resiliency and higher scores in ego-undercontrol and CCQ aggressiveness. In contrast, children who had experienced effective maternal regulation in infancy showed a comparable level in personality traits and problem behavior as the DRD4 7- group independent of the levels of maternal regulatory behavior. Similarly, longitudinal caregiving x DRD4 interactions were found for behavior problems in middle childhood, especially for oppositional-aggression, inattentive-hyperactivity, and social competence. Early caregiving effects were only found for maternal regulation quality, but not for maternal responsiveness. Effective early maternal regulation in infancy can moderate the negative effect of DRD4 7+ on children's self-regulation in middle childhood and adolescence. However, maternal responsiveness has no comparable effects. It seems relevant to consider several dimensions of early caregiving and to also measure the environment in more detail in gene-environment studies.
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Long live the King! Beginnings loom larger than endings of past and recurrent events - Teigen, K.-H.; Boehm, G; Bruckmüller, Susanne; Hegarty, Peter; Luminet, O (Cognition, 2017)
Keywords: Beginnings; Event cognition; Framing; History; Seasons

Long-term Associations of an Early Corrected Ventricular Septal Defect and Stress Systems of Child and Mother at Primary School Age - Stonawski, Valeska; Vollmer, Laura; Köhler-Jonas, Janna Nicola; Rohleder, Nicolas; Golub, Yulia; Purbojo, Ariawan; Moll, Gunther; Heinrich, Hartmut; Cesnjevar, Robert; Kratz, Oliver; Eichler, Anna (Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2017)
Introduction: Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common congenital heart defect, with larger VSDs typically being corrected with an open-heart surgery during infancy. Long-term consequences of a VSD-corrective surgery on stress systems of child and mother are still unknown. The aim of the present study is to investigate the associations of an early corrected VSD and diurnal cortisol release of child and mother. Methods: 26 children (12 boys) between 6 and 9 years old, who underwent surgery for an isolated VSD within the first 3 years of life, and their mothers participated in the study. Their diurnal cortisol profiles were compared to a sex-, age-, and socioeconomic status-matched healthy control group. Within the VSD group, associations between cortisol and characteristics of surgery and hospitalization were investigated. Child and mother psychopathological symptoms were considered as a possible interfering mechanism of altered cortisol profiles. Results: Diurnal cortisol profiles of children with an early corrected VSD did not differ from those of controls. However, mothers of affected children exhibited higher cortisol levels in the morning (p < 0.001, [Formula: see text]) and a steeper diurnal cortisol slope (p = 0.016, [Formula: see text]) than mothers of healthy children. Conclusion: Results indicate a favorable development of children with an early corrected VSD, in terms of comparable diurnal cortisol profiles with healthy controls, according to a comparable mother-rated psychopathology. Mothers of affected children reveal altered diurnal cortisol levels, without differences in self-rated psychopathology. This divergence should be clarified in future research.
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Long-Term Associations of an Early Corrected Ventricular Septal Defect and Stress Systems of Child and Mother at Primary School-Age - Stonawski, Valeska; Vollmer, Laura; Köhler-Jonas, Janna Nicola; Rohleder, Nicolas; Golub, Yulia; Purbojo, Ariawan; Moll, Gunther; Heinrich, Hartmut; Cesnjevar, Robert; Kratz, Oliver; Eichler, Anna (Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018)

Long-term evaluation of a bimodal universal prevention program: Effects on antisocial development from kindergarten to adolescence - Lösel, Friedrich; Stemmler, Mark; Bender, Doris (Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2013)
Objectives Only a handful of studies on developmental crime prevention contain very long-term evaluations and all these addressed high-risk groups in English-speaking countries. In contrast, this article investigates long-term outcomes of a bimodal universal prevention program within the Erlangen-Nuremberg Development and Prevention Study (ENDPS) in Germany. Methods The ENDPS is a combined prospective longitudinal and experimental project that originally consisted of 675 kindergarten children from 609 families who were nearly representative for the local area. In the prevention part of the project, a group-wise randomization and matched pairs design was used to evaluate a training of children’s social problem solving skills, a parent training on positive parenting behavior, and a combination of both programs. Originally, 239 children were each in the program group and control group. Outcomes were measured after ca. 3 months, and 2, 5, and 10 years. The outcome measures varied over time and contained, inter alia, reports on child behavior in the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) from kindergarten teachers, school teachers, mothers, and the youngsters themselves. The overall retention rates in the ENDPS were satisfactory (e.g., 90 % after 10 years), but missing data from various informants further reduced the groups over time. The outcome evaluation was mainly carried out by causal regression models. Results There were various desirable effects of the program not only in the short and medium term but also after 5 and 10 years, i.e. on externalizing behavior, property offences, and total behavioral problems. The significant effects were mostly small (d = .23–.59) and significances became rare over time. As a trend, the combined parent and child training and the child training alone were more effective; however, this was not consistent across all follow-ups. The outcomes did not only vary with regard to time but also between different measures and informants. The youth self-reports and teacher reports were more suitable to detect effects than the mothers’ reports. Children at higher risk seemed to benefit most from the intervention; however, this was also not fully consistent across measures and times. Conclusions The various desirable effects of a relatively short and inexpensive universal program are in accordance with a public health approach in developmental crime prevention. However, it should not be seen as an alternative to selective and indicated approaches, but as a ‘foot in the door’ for high-risk children and families that need more intensive and costly programs. The variations in results across time, outcome measures, informants, and program components confirm the heterogeneity of meta-analytic findings in the field. Therefore, one must be aware of ‘fishing for significances’ and research on ‘what works’ should go beyond the content of programs. More studies should investigate how characteristics of program delivery, contexts, participants, and evaluation methods contribute to effectiveness.

Long-term follow-up of a multimodal day clinic, group-based treatment program for patients with very high risk for complex posttraumatic stress disorder, and for patients with non-complex trauma-related disorders - Bever-Philipps, Anke; Silbermann, Andrea; Morawa, Eva; Schäflein, Eva; Stemmler, Mark; Erim, Yesim (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023)
Objective: The present study examined the follow-up of a multimodal day clinic group-based therapy program for patients with trauma-related disorders and investigated potential differences for patients with classic PTSD versus cPTSD. Method: Sixty-six patients were contacted 6 and 12 months after discharge of our 8-week program and completed various questionnaires (Essen Trauma Inventory (ETI), Beck Depression Inventory-Revised (BDI-II), Screening scale of complex PTSD (SkPTBS), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-Somatization, as well as single items to therapy utilization and life events in the interim period). Due to organizational reasons a control group could not be included. Statistical analyses included repeated-measures ANOVA with cPTSD as between-subject factor. Results: The reduction of depressive symptoms at discharge was persistent at 6 and 12 months follow-up. Somatization symptoms were increased at discharge, but were leveled out at 6 months follow-up. The same effect was found for cPTSD symptoms in those patients with non-complex trauma-related disorders: Their increase of cPTSD symptoms was flattened at 6 months follow-up. Patients with a very high risk for cPTSD showed a strong linear reduction of cPTSD symptoms from admission to discharge and 6 months follow-up. cPTSD patients had a higher symptom load compared to patients without cPTSD on all time points and scales. Conclusion: Multimodal, day clinic trauma-focused treatment is associated with positive changes even after 6 and 12 months. Positive therapy outcomes (reduced depression, reduced cPTSD symptoms for patients with a very high risk for cPTSD) could be maintained. However, PTSD symptomatology was not significantly reduced. Increases in somatoform symptoms were leveled out and can therefore be regarded as side effects of treatment, which may be connected with actualization of trauma in the intensive psychotherapeutic treatment. Further analyses should be applied in larger samples and a control group.
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Keywords: CPTSD; day clinic; follow-up; group therapy; psychotherapy; PTSD; trauma

LOP - Logbuch Prüfung - Interventionsbausteine zur Bewältigung von Prüfungsangst - Kramer, Klaudia; Spangler, Gottfried; Bronnenmeyer, Veit; Stangl, Barbara; Meier, Christian; et al. (2004)

Love won't tear us apart but work might: How job stressors relate to constructive and destructive reactions to one's romantic partner's negative behavior - Unger, Dana; Sonnentag, Sabine; Niessen, Cornelia; Kuonath (née Neff), Angela (International Journal of Stress Management, 2016)
This study investigates the associations between job stressors and accommodation (i.e., constructive and nondestructive reactions to negative behavior) in romantic relationships. We propose that situational constraints and workload negatively relate to self-regulatory resources that, in turn, are associated positively with constructive reactions and negatively with destructive reactions. To test our hypotheses, we surveyed 238 employees with online questionnaires twice on one workday. In general, results showed that job stressors were negatively associated with self-regulatory resources that, in turn, were associated with accommodation. In particular, situational constraints, but not workload, negatively related to self-regulatory resources. Self-regulatory resources were negatively associated with destructive reactions, but unrelated to constructive reactions. Self-regulatory resources mediated the indirect effect of job stressors on destructive reactions assessed with a scenario method. We discuss the importance of replenishing self-regulatory resources and suggest ways how to do so. (PsycINFO Database Record
Keywords: Accommodation; Constructive and destructive reactions; Job stressors; Negative partner behavior; Self-regulatory resources

Lower Emotion Regulation Competencies Mediate the Association between Impulsivity and Craving during Alcohol Withdrawal Treatment - Reichl, Daniela; Enewoldsen, Niklas; Weisel, Kiona; Saur, Sebastian; Fuhrmann, Lukas; Lang, Catharina; Berking, Matthias; Zink, Mathias; Ahnert, Andreas; Falkai, Peter; Kraus, Thomas; Hillemacher, Thomas; et al. (Substance Use & Misuse, 2022)
There is evidence that craving mediates the relationship between Impulsive Personality Traits (IPTs) and relapse during the treatment of an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). To provide tailored interventions, a deeper understanding of the relation between IPTs and craving, namely mediating processes, is important. Based on previous literature, we proposed that lower emotion regulation competencies mediate the relation between attentional as well as non-planning IPTs and craving. To investigate these interrelations, we used data from the baseline assessment (n = 320) of the SmartAssistEntz project (pre-registered in the German Clinical Trials Register [DRKS00017700]). Inpatients with a primary AUD diagnosis were interviewed using standardized self-report measures (IPTs: BIS-15, emotion regulation competencies: ERSQ, craving: OCDS-G short version) during their withdrawal treatment. Indirect effects were calculated using the SPSS macro PROCESS v3.5. Attentional as well as non-planning, but not motor, IPTs were associated with craving. Emotion regulation competencies mediated the relationship between attentional as well as non-planning IPTs and craving. Given their mediating role in the present study, it is interesting to investigate if addressing emotion regulation competencies can mitigate the negative influences of attentional and non-planning IPTs. The direct effect of attentional IPTs implicates alternate mediating processes, which should also be investigated in future research.
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Keywords: alcohol use disorder; attentional; AUD; impulse control; indirect; Motor; non-planning; withdrawal treatment

Lower stress system activity and higher peripheral inflammation in competitive ballroom dancers - Berndt, Christiane; Strahler, Jana; Kirschbaum, Clemens; Rohleder, Nicolas (Biological Psychology, 2012)

Machen Kleider wirklich Schule? Eine längsschnittliche Analyse der Effekte des Tragens von einheitlicher Schulkleidung - Dickhäuser, Oliver; Helgert, Johannes; Köppe, Anna (Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht, 2009)

Machine learning-based detection of acute psychosocial stress from body posture and movements - Richer, Robert; Koch, Veronika; Abel, Luca; Hauck, Felicitas; Kurz, Miriam; Ringgold, Veronika; Müller, Victoria; Küderle, Arne; Schindler-Gmelch, Lena; Eskofier, Björn; Rohleder, Nicolas (Scientific Reports, 2024)
Investigating acute stress responses is crucial to understanding the underlying mechanisms of stress. Current stress assessment methods include self‑reports that can be biased and biomarkers that are often based on complex laboratory procedures. A promising additional modality for stress assessment might be the observation of body movements, which are affected by negative emotions and threatening situations. In this paper, we investigated the relationship between acute psychosocial stress induction and body posture and movements. We collected motion data from N = 59 individuals over two studies (Pilot Study: N = 20, Main Study: N = 39) using inertial measurement unit (IMU)‑based motion capture suits. In both studies, individuals underwent the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and a stress‑free control condition (friendly‑TSST; f‑TSST) in randomized order. Our results show that acute stress induction leads to a reproducible freezing behavior, characterized by less overall motion as well as more and longer periods of no movement. Based on these data, we trained machine learning pipelines to detect acute stress solely from movement information, achieving an accuracy of 75.0 ± 17.7% (Pilot Study) and 73.4 ± 7.7% (Main Study). This, for the first time, suggests that body posture and movements can be used to detect whether individuals are exposed to acute psychosocial stress. While more studies are needed to further validate our approach, we are convinced that motion information can be a valuable extension to the existing biomarkers and can help to obtain a more holistic picture of the human stress response. Our work is the first to systematically explore the use of full‑body body posture and movement to gain novel insights into the human stress response and its effects on the body and min
Keywords: Health psychology; Stress; Cortisol; TSST; Motion capturing; Freezing; IMU; Machine learning

Mädchen und Frauen in MINT : Bedingungen von Geschlechtsunterschieden und Interventionsmöglichkeiten - Stöger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert; Heilemann, M (Lit, 2012)

Malicious Gossip: How much are we concerned if others think we are immoral, cold, incompetent, or unassertive? - Hauke, Nicole; Abele-Brehm, Andrea (50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 2016)

Management und Bereitstellung von Forschungsdaten in der Psychologie: Überarbeitung der DGPs-Empfehlungen. - Gollwitzer, Mario; Abele-Brehm, Andrea; Fiebach, Christian J.; Ramthun, Roland; Scheel, A; Schönbrodt, Felix D.; Steinberg, Ulf (Psychologische Rundschau, 2021)

Managers as role models for health: Moderators of the relationship of transformational leadership with employee exhaustion and cynicism. - Niessen, Cornelia; Kranabetter, Caroline (Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2016)
Drawing on social learning literature, this study examined managers' health awareness and health behavior (health-related self-regulation) as a moderator of the relationships between transformational leadership and employee exhaustion and cynicism. In 2 organizations, employees (n = 247; n = 206) rated their own exhaustion and cynicism, and their managers' transformational leadership. Managers (n = 57; n = 30) assessed their own health-related self-regulation. Multilevel modeling showed that, as expected, managers' health awareness moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and employee exhaustion and cynicism. Employees experienced less exhaustion and cynicism when transformational leaders were aware of their own health. Managers' health behavior moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and employee exhaustion in 1 organization, but not in the other. With respect to health behavior, we found no significant results for employee cynicism. In sum, the results indicate that when managers are role models for health, employees will benefit more from the transformational leadership style. (PsycINFO Database Record

Managing boundaries in telework: Age-related differences in work-life balance - Scheibe, Susanne; Retzlaff, Lena; Hommelhoff, Sabine (DGPs, 2022)

Manualized cognitive therapy versus cognitive-behavioral treatment-as-usual for social anxiety disorder in routine practice: A cluster-randomized controlled trial - Hoyer, Juergen; Colic, Jasmin; Pittig, Andre; Crawcour, Stephen; Moeser, Manuela; Ginzburg, Denise; Lin, Jihong; Wiltink, Joerg; Leibing, Eric; Stangier, Ulrich (Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2017)
Objective This study examined the effectiveness of manualized cognitive therapy (mCT) following the Clark-Wells approach versus non-manualized cognitive-behavioral treatment-as-usual (CBTAU) for social anxiety disorder (SAD) in routine practice. Methods Forty-eight private practitioners were recruited within a multi-center trial and either received training in manualized CT for SAD or no such training. Practitioners treated 162 patients with SAD in routine practice (N = 107 completers, n = 57 for mCT, n = 50 for CBTAU). Social anxiety symptoms (Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale; LSAS) and secondary measures were assessed before treatment, at treatment-hour 8, 15, and 25, at end of treatment, as well as 6 and 12 months after treatment. Results Patients in both groups showed significant reductions of SAD severity after treatment (d = 1.91 [mCT] and d = 1.80 [CBTAU], within-group effect sizes, intent-to-treat analyses, LSAS observer ratings), which remained stable at follow-up. There were no differences between groups in terms of symptom reduction and treatment duration. Conclusions The present trial confirms the high effectiveness of CBTAU and mCT for SAD when practitioners conduct the treatments in routine practice. Additional training in the CT manual did not result in significant between-group effects on therapy outcome. Explanations for this unexpected result are discussed.
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Keywords: Cognitive therapy; Cognitive-behavioral therapy; Naturalistic psychotherapy; Randomized controlled trial; Social anxiety disorder

Mapping Research Domain Criteria using a transdiagnostic mini-RDoC assessment in mental disorders: a confirmatory factor analysis - Foerstner, Bernd R.; Tschorn, Mira; Reinoso-Schiller, Nicolas; Maricic, Lea Mascarell; Roecher, Erik; Kalman, Janos L.; Stroth, Sanna; Mayer, Annalina V.; Schwarz, Kristina; Kaiser, Anna; Pfennig, Andrea; Manook, Andre; et al. (European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2022)
This study aimed to build on the relationship of well-established self-report and behavioral assessments to the latent constructs positive (PVS) and negative valence systems (NVS), cognitive systems (CS), and social processes (SP) of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework in a large transnosological population which cuts across DSM/ICD-10 disorder criteria categories. One thousand four hundred and thirty one participants (42.1% suffering from anxiety/fear-related, 18.2% from depressive, 7.9% from schizophrenia spectrum, 7.5% from bipolar, 3.4% from autism spectrum, 2.2% from other disorders, 18.4% healthy controls, and 0.2% with no diagnosis specified) recruited in studies within the German research network for mental disorders for the Phenotypic, Diagnostic and Clinical Domain Assessment Network Germany (PD-CAN) were examined with a Mini-RDoC-Assessment including behavioral and self-report measures. The respective data was analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to delineate the underlying latent RDoC-structure. A revised four-factor model reflecting the core domains positive and negative valence systems as well as cognitive systems and social processes showed a good fit across this sample and showed significantly better fit compared to a one factor solution. The connections between the domains PVS, NVS and SP could be substantiated, indicating a universal latent structure spanning across known nosological entities. This study is the first to give an impression on the latent structure and intercorrelations between four core Research Domain Criteria in a transnosological sample. We emphasize the possibility of using already existing and well validated self-report and behavioral measurements to capture aspects of the latent structure informed by the RDoC matrix.
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Keywords: Confirmatory factor analysis CFA; Diagnosis and classification; PD-CAN; RDoC; Research Domain Criteria; Transdiagnostic

Maternal attachment representation and neurophysiological processing during the perception of infants' emotional expressions - Leyh, Rainer; Heinisch, Christine; Behringer, Johanna; Spangler, Gottfried (PLoS ONE, 2016)

Maternal perception of infants' expressions of emotion - Krippl, Martin; Ast-Scheitenberger, Stephanie; Bovenschen, Ina; Spangler, Gottfried (Journal of psychophysiology, 2010)
In light of Lang's differentiation of the aversive and the approach system - and assumptions stemming from attachment theory - this study investigates the role of the approach or caregiving system for processing infant emotional stimuli by comparing IAPS pictures, infant pictures, and videos. IAPS pictures, infant pictures, and infant videos of positive, neutral, or negative content were presented to 69 mothers, accompanied by randomized startle probes. The assessment of emotional responses included subjective ratings of valence and arousal, corrugator activity, the startle amplitude, and electrodermal activity. In line with Lang's original conception, the typical startle response pattern was found for IAPS pictures,whereas no startle modulation was observed for infant pictures.Moreover, the startle amplitudes during negative video scenes depicting crying infants were reduced. The results are discussed with respect to several theoretical and methodological considerations, including Lang's theory, emotion regulation, opponent process theory, and the parental caregiving system.© Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies.

Maternal perinatal or current depressive symptoms and parenting behavior in middle childhood - Zalan, Vera; Ziegler, Clara; Eichler, Anna; Heinrich, Hartmut; Moll, Gunther; Fasching, Peter; Beckmann, Matthias; Kornhuber, Johannes; Lenz, Bernd; Spangler, Gottfried (International Attachment Conference, 2017)

Maternal representations of past and current attachment relationships, and emotional experience across the transition to motherhood: A longitudinal study - Behringer, Johanna; Spangler, Gottfried (Journal of family psychology, 2011)
Sad and anxious feelings are known to increase in the immediate postpartum period, whereas studies on new mothers' other emotional qualities such as anger are scarce. In laboratory studies, attachment security was found to be associated with effective emotion regulation in challenging situations. This study investigated attachment representations of experiences with parents and of current experiences with the partner as predictors of sad, anxious, and angry feelings across the transition to motherhood. Seventy-seven pregnant women in their third trimester were administered the Adult Attachment Interview and the Current Relationship Interview. The Differential Emotions Scale was given in pregnancy and at the infant's ages of 2 weeks, 2, 4, and 6 months, asking both mothers and fathers about maternal emotional experience. Sadness and anxiety increased 2 weeks postpartum and returned to below baseline over the following months, while anger did not change. Contrary to mothers with an insecure representation of their couple relationship, those with a secure representation reported and displayed increased sadness and anxiety 2 weeks after giving birth, from which they quickly recovered. For mothers secure in their representation of past attachment relationships with parents, an increase of low-level anger emerged 4 months postpartum, which did not occur in insecure participants and receded quickly. It can be concluded that secure representations of current and past attachment relationships help new mothers express and recover from negative emotions. These findings further elucidate the associations between attachment status and emotion regulation while adding a couple perspective. © 2011 American Psychological Association.

Mathematical foundations of and empirical investigations into the dynamic of top positions: Stabilization effect, reserved Matthew Effect, and Heraclitus Effect - Ziegler, A Jr; Heckel, A; Ziegler, Albert (Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 2013)

Matlab: Dorsch – Lexikon der Psychologie - Reutlinger, Marold (Dorsch - Lexikon der Psychologie, 2013)

MEAN ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE, SLEEP QUALITY AND DEPRESSION IN INTENSIVE CARE WORKERS DEPENDING ON SHIFT TYPE - Hauck, Felicitas; Kiessling, Judith; Friese, Erika; Hesel, Julia; Rehm, Juliane; Rohleder, Nicolas (PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, 2021)
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Measures of adiposity predict interleukin-6 responses to repeated psychosocial stress - McInnis, Christine; Thoma, Myriam; Gianferante, Danielle; Hanlin, Luke; Chen, Xuejie; Breines, Juliana; Hong, Suzi; Rohleder, Nicolas (Brain Behavior and Immunity, 2014)

Measuring implicit motives. - Schultheiss, Oliver; Pang, Joyce (Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology, 2007)

Measuring Implicit Motives with the Picture Story Exercise (PSE): Databases of Expert-Coded German Stories, Pictures, and Updated Picture Norms - Schönbrodt, Felix D.; Hagemeyer, Birk; Brandstätter, Veronika; Czikmantori, Thomas; Gröpel, Peter; Hennecke, Marie; Israel, Laura S.F.; Janson, Kevin; Kemper, Nina; Köllner, Martin; Kopp, Philipp M.; Mojzisch, Andreas; et al. (Journal of personality assessment, 2020)
We present two openly accessible databases related to the assessment of implicit motives using Picture Story Exercises (PSEs): (a) A database of 183,415 German sentences, nested in 26,389 stories provided by 4,570 participants, which have been coded by experts using Winter’s coding system for the implicit affiliation/intimacy, achievement, and power motives, and (b) a database of 54 classic and new pictures which have been used as PSE stimuli. Updated picture norms are provided which can be used to select appropriate pictures for PSE applications. Based on an analysis of the relations between raw motive scores, word count, and sentence count, we give recommendations on how to control motive scores for story length, and validate the recommendation with a meta-analysis on gender differences in the implicit affiliation motive that replicates existing findings. We discuss to what extent the guiding principles of the story length correction can be generalized to other content coding systems for narrative material. Several potential applications of the databases are discussed, including (un)supervised machine learning of text content, psychometrics, and better reproducibility of PSE research.
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Mechanismen bei der Vergabe (meta-)metakognitiver Urteile von Studierenden - Fritzsche, Eva; Händel, Marion (Zentralinstitut für Lehr-Lernforschung (ZiLL), Jahrestagung, 2013)

Mechanisms of Change in Trauma-Focused Treatment for PTSD: The Role of Rumination - Schumm, Hannah; Krüger-Gottschalk, Antje; Dyer, Anne; Pittig, Andre; Cludius, Barbara; Takano, Keisuke; Alpers, Georg W.; Ehring, Thomas (Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2022)
Objective Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been well established in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In recent years, researchers have begun to investigate its underlying mechanisms of change. Dysfunctional cognitive content, i.e. excessively negative appraisals of the trauma or its consequences, has been shown to predict changes in PTSD symptoms over the course of treatment. However, the role of change in cognitive processes, such as trauma-related rumination, needs to be addressed. The present study investigates whether changes in rumination intensity precede and predict changes in symptom severity. We also explored the extent to which symptom severity predicts rumination. Method As part of a naturalistic effectiveness study evaluating CBT for PTSD in routine clinical care, eighty-eight patients with PTSD completed weekly measures of rumination and symptom severity. Lagged associations between rumination and symptoms in the following week were examined using linear mixed models. Results Over the course of therapy, both ruminative thinking and PTSD symptoms decreased. Rumination was a significant predictor of PTSD symptoms in the following week, although this effect was at least partly explained by the time factor (e.g., natural recovery or inseparable treatment effects). Symptom severity predicted ruminative thinking in the following week even with time as an additional predictor. Conclusions The present study provides preliminary evidence that rumination in PTSD is reduced by CBT for PTSD but does not give conclusive evidence that rumination is a mechanism of change in trauma-focused treatment for PTSD.
Keywords: rumination; PTSD; Mechanisms of change; Trauma-focused treatment

Media Multitasking in Younger and Older Adults: Associations with Cognitive Abilities and Biological Stress Responses - Wannagat, Wienke; Martin, Tamara; Nieding, Gerhild; Rohleder, Nicolas; Becker, Linda (Media Psychology, 2024)
Media multitasking is increasingly common in everyday life and can be a stressful experience, especially for older adults. The current study investigated the effects of media multi- vs. single-tasking on both task performance and biological as well as subjective stress responses in an experimental laboratory setting based on a scenario that closely replicated the demands of a multitasking situation, in which a strenuous and repetitive primary task was interrupted by relevant messages that require attention. We examined differences in media multitasking performance and associated stress between younger (18–35 years) and older (65–85 years) adults, and differences in cognitive abilities as a potential explanation for expected age-related differences in media multitasking. The findings suggested lower task performance in the multitasking condition in both age groups. The older adults showed even higher multitasking costs, but we found no evidence of lower cognitive abilities as an explanation of this effect. Media multitasking was not found to elicit greater stress responses (biological or subjective) than single-tasking. However, the results indicate that older adults have a greater biological stress response (salivary α-amylase) than younger adults when working on a computer under time pressure, regardless the task requirements (single- or multitasking).
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Mediation analysis of the relationship between educational capital, learning capital and underachievement among gifted secondary school students - Veas, A; Castejón, J-L; O´Reilly, C; Ziegler, Albert (Journal for the education of the gifted, 2016)

Mediators and mechanisms of change in internet- and mobile-based interventions for depression: A systematic review - Domhardt, Matthias; Steubl, Lena; Boettcher, Johanna; Buntrock, Claudia; Karyotaki, Eirini; Ebert, David D.; Cuijpers, Pim; Baumeister, Harald (Clinical Psychology Review, 2021)
The efficacy of Internet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) for depression in adults is well established. Yet, comprehensive knowledge on the mediators responsible for therapeutic change in these interventions is pending. Therefore, we conducted the first systematic review on mediators in IMIs for depression, investigating mechanisms of change in interventions with different theoretical backgrounds and delivery modes (PROSPERO CRD42019130301). Two independent reviewers screened references from five databases (i.e., Cochrane Library, Embase, MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO and ICTRP), selected studies for inclusion and extracted data from eligible studies. We included 26 RCTs on mediators in IMIs for depression (6820 participants), rated their risk of bias and adherence to methodological quality criteria for psychotherapy process research. Primary studies examined 64 mediators, with cognitive variables (e.g., perceived control, rumination or interpretation bias) being the largest group of both examined (m = 28) and significant mediators (m = 22); followed by a range of other mediators, including mindfulness, acceptance and behavioral activation. Our findings might contribute to the empirically-informed advancement of interventions and mental health care practices, enabling optimized treatment outcomes for patients with depression. Furthermore, we discuss implications for future research and provide methodological recommendations for forthcoming mediation studies with more pertinent designs, allowing for inferences with higher causal specificity.
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Keywords: Depression; Digital intervention; e- and m-Health; Mechanism of change; Process research; Psychotherapy

Medico de la Familia – vorbildliche Grundversorgung als Beispiel für die ganze Welt! - Kulke, Louisa (Auf Tour – Kuba, 2011)

Meistens schön, manchmal schmerzlich: Freundschaften am Arbeitsplatz - Hommelhoff, Sabine (Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell, 2016)

Mental disorder comorbidity and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys International College Student initiative - Auerbach, Randy P.; Mortier, Philippe; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Alonso, Jordi; Benjet, Corina; Cuijpers, Pim; Demyttenaere, Koen; Ebert, David; Green, Jennifer Greif; Hasking, Penelope; Lee, Sue; Lochner, Christine; et al. (International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2019)
Objectives: Comorbidity is a common feature of mental disorders. However, needs assessment surveys focus largely on individual disorders rather than on comorbidity even though the latter is more important for predicting suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In the current report, we take a step beyond this conventional approach by presenting data on the prevalence and correlates (sociodemographic factors, college-related factors, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors) of the main multivariate profiles of common comorbid Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV disorders among students participating in the first phase of the World Health Organization World Mental Health International College Student initiative. Method: A web-based mental health survey was administered to first year students in 19 colleges across eight countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, United States; 45.5% pooled response rate) to screen for seven common DSM-IV mental disorders: major depression, mania/hypomania, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, alcohol use disorder, and drug use disorder. We focus on the 14,348 respondents who provided complete data; 38.4% screened positive for at least one 12-month disorder. Results: Multivariate disorder profiles were detected using latent class analysis (LCA). The least common class (C1; 1.9% of students) was made up of students with high comorbidity (four or more disorders, the majority including mania/hypomania). The remaining 12-month cases had profiles of internalizing–externalizing comorbidity (C2; 5.8%), internalizing comorbidity (C3; 14.6%), and pure disorders (C4; 16.1%). The 1.9% of students in C1 had much higher prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors than other students. Specifically, 15.4% of students in C1 made a suicide attempt in the 12 months before the survey compared with 1.3–2.6% of students with disorders in C2–4, 0.2% of students with lifetime disorders but no 12-month disorders (C5), and 0.1% of students with no lifetime disorders (C6). Conclusions: In line with prior research, comorbid mental disorders were common; however, sociodemographic correlates of LCA profiles were modest. The high level of comorbidity underscores the need to develop and test transdiagnostic approaches for treatment in college students.
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Keywords: college student mental health; comorbidity; mental disorders; suicide thoughts and behaviors

Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys - Auerbach, R. P.; Alonso, J.; Axinn, W. G.; Cuijpers, P.; Ebert, David; Green, J. G.; Hwang, I.; Kessler, R. C.; Liu, H.; Mortier, P.; Nock, M. K.; Pinder-Amaker, S.; et al. (Psychological Medicine, 2016)
Conclusions Mental disorders are common among college students, have onsets that mostly occur prior to college entry, in the case of pre-matriculation disorders are associated with college attrition, and are typically untreated. Detection and effective treatment of these disorders early in the college career might reduce attrition and improve educational and psychosocial functioning.
Keywords: College attrition; college dropout; education; epidemiology; mental illness

Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys - CORRIGENDUM. - Auerbach, R. P.; Alonso, J.; Axinn, W. G.; Cuijpers, P.; Ebert, David; Green, J. G.; Hwang, I.; Kessler, R. C.; Liu, H.; Mortier, P.; Nock, M. K.; Pinder-Amaker, S.; et al. (Psychological medicine, 2017)

Mentoring: A review - Grassinger, Robert; Porath, Marion; Ziegler, Albert (High ability studies, 2010)
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Mentoring: Königsweg der Pädagogik oder überschätzte Fördermaßnahme? - Ziegler, Albert; Stöger, Heidrun (Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, 2012)
UnivIS-Import:2015-03-09:Pub.2012.phil.dps.ipsy1.lpsych_2.mentor

Mentoring: Konzeptuelle Grundlagen und Wirksamkeitsanalyse - Ziegler, Albert (Mentoring : Theoretische Hintergründe, empirische Befunde und praktische Anwendungen, 2009)

Mentorings bedürfen einer professionellen Durchführung - Eine empirische Untersuchung der Risikofaktoren von Mentorings - Buschhaus, F; Schirner, Sigrun; Stöger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert (Journal für Begabtenförderung, 2013)

Mentoring the gifted: a conceptual analysis - Ziegler, Albert; Grassinger, Robert; Porath, Marion (High ability studies, 2010)

Mentoring: Theoretische Hintergründe, empirische Befunde und praktische Anwendungen - Stöger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert; Schimke, Diana (Pabst, 2009)
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Mentoring : Theoretische Hintergründe, empirische Befunde und praktische Anwendungen - Stöger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert; Schimke, Diana (Pabst, 2009)

Mentoring: Theoretischer Hintergrund - Ziegler, Albert (Mentoring: Theoretische Hintergründe, empirische Befunde und praktische Anwendungen, 2009)
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Meritocratic principles are not enough - Ways towards a fair fostering of talent development - Harder, Bettina (Talent development & excellence, 2011)

Messung von Karriereerfolg. - Abele-Brehm, Andrea; Spurk, Daniel (Management-Diagnostik, 2013)
Keywords: Führungskräfte; Beruflicher Erfolg; Berufliche Entwicklung; Evaluationskriterien; Berufliche Leistung

Meta-Analysen zur Sexualstraftäterbehandlung - Schmucker, Martin (Sexualstraftäter behandeln mit Psychotherapie und Medikamenten, 2007)

Meta-Analyse zur Wirkung familienbezogener Präventionsmaßnahmen in Deutschland - Weiss, Maren; Schmucker, Martin; Lösel, Friedrich (Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 2015)
Theoretischer Hintergrund. In Deutschland wird eine Vielzahl von Programmen angeboten, die Eltern bei der Wahrnehmung ihrer Erziehungsaufgaben unterstützen und kindlichen Erlebens- und Verhaltensproblemen vorbeugen sollen. Internationale Befunde bescheinigen derartigen Maßnahmen positive Effekte, insbesondere bei kurzem Follow-up. Inwieweit die primär anglo-amerikanischen Ergebnisse auf andere Länder übertragen werden können, ist aber weitgehend unklar. Fragestellung. Der Beitrag berichtet über eine Meta-Analyse, die ausschließlich in Deutschland durchgeführte Kontrollgruppenstudien zu familienbezogenen Präventionsmaßnahmen integriert. Methode. Aus zirka 4.000 gefundenen Publikationen erfüllten 45 kontrollierte Evaluationen die Einschlusskriterien. Diese betrafen insgesamt 4.213 Personen. Meistens wurden Elternkurse evaluiert; zu anderen Maßnahmen wie Eltern-Kind-Gruppen oder Geburtsvorbereitungskursen fanden wir kaum kontrollierte Studien. Ergebnisse. Es ergab sich ein signifikant positiver mittlerer Effekt (d = .35), der auch in den Follow up-Analysen weitgehend bestehen blieb. Die Effekte auf das elterliche Erziehungsverhalten waren größer als die Veränderungen beim Kind. Außerdem zeigten sich größere Effekte bei gezielter vs. universeller Prävention, kleineren vs. größeren Stichproben und methodisch schwächer vs. stärker kontrollierten Studien. Schlussfolgerungen. Insgesamt ähneln die Ergebnisse jenen internationaler Meta-Analysen, doch sind in Deutschland noch mehr gut kontrollierte und langfristige Evaluationen erforderlich.   Background. In Germany, family counseling or education centers and other institutions offer a broad range of family-based prevention programs. Although international research shows positive effects of family-based prevention programs on parenting skills and child behavior, it is unclear whether these results can be generalized for countries other than Germany. Objective. This article presents a meta-analysis of German studies on family-based prevention that had a control group. Method. We found 45 controlled evaluations that met our eligibility criteria, comprising 4,213 persons. Most evaluations addressed parent trainings; other measures such as mother–child groups or prenatal classes were represented very little. Results. Overall, there was a significant positive mean effect of the programs (d = .35), which was confirmed in the follow-up analyses. Effects on parenting skills were larger than on child outcome measures. Further moderator analyses revealed larger effects of targeted vs. universal prevention, of studies with smaller vs. larger samples, and of methodologically weaker vs. stronger designs. Conclusions. Most results were similar to what was found in international meta-analyses. However, more high-quality and long-term evaluations are needed in Germany.
Keywords: Familienbezogene Prävention; Elterntraining; Wirkungsevaluation; Meta-Analyse

Meta-Analysis as a Method of Systematic Reviews - Lösel, Friedrich; Schmucker, Martin (The Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods, 2012)
Keywords: Metaanalyse; Kriminologie

Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Family- Oriented Prevention in German-Speaking Countries: A Contribution to Cross-Cultural Generalization - Weiss, Maren; Schmucker, Martin; Lösel, Friedrich (International Journal of Developmental Science, 2022)
Most research on developmental prevention programs stems from Anglo-American countries. However, in German-speaking European countries, there is also a broad range of family-oriented programs to promote child development and prevent behavioral problems. This article presents a meta-analysis of n = 79 studies on family-based prevention that had a comparison group and were performed in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. Overall, the data contained 10,667 parents and showed a significant positive mean effect of the programs (d = 0.31). The mean effect for parent related outcomes (d = 0.40) was larger than for measures of child behavior (d = 0.20). There was much heterogeneity across studies and very few had follow-ups of more than one year. Moderator analyses revealed particular influences of methodological study characteristics, e.g. larger effects in smaller samples and less well-controlled studies. Most results of our meta-analysis are similar to what has been found in the English-speaking world. However, as in international practice, the evaluated programs seem to be not representative for everyday prevention reality where many programs are not evaluated at all. Our study confirms the need for more high-quality and long-term evaluation as well as cross-national comparisons and replicated moderator analyses.<br
Keywords: Family-based prevention; parent training; outcome evaluation; meta-analysis; cross-cultural generalization

Meta-analytical assessment of the effects of protocol variations on cortisol responses to the Trier Social Stress Test - Goodman, William; Janson, Johanna; Wolf, Jutta M. (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2017)
Background. The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is one of the most widely used laboratory stress tests. Exposure to this psychosocial stressor has been shown to stimulate an acute cortisol stress response in the majority of healthy individuals, while deviations from the typical pattern, i.e., cortisol reactivity dysfunctions have been linked to an everincreasing number of negative health outcomes. However, significant variability between labs exists in strength of observed cortisol responses in healthy individuals. This variability raises the question of how to distinguish across labs between cortisol stress response patterns that reflect health risk from those that are due to methodological differences. Thus, we propose a systematic review and meta-analysis that aims at quantifying the effects of methodological variation in study and TSST protocol elements on cortisol stress responses in healthy individuals. Methods. Literature searches were conducted using standard databases for English language with key words including Trier Social Stress Test, TSST, Cortisol, and Laboratory Stressor among others. 186 studies met our inclusion criteria of healthy human participants without systemic immunological or endocrine dysfunction and provided sufficient information to compute a total of 237 sub-sample effect sizes. Results and Discussion. With regard to study protocol variations that may risk confounding baseline cortisol values and thus influence subsequent reactivity measures, meta-analytical examination revealed that acclimation periods pre-TSST below 30 or perhaps even 15 minutes may suffice, at least as long as no interfering activities, i.e., questionnaires, are taking place during that timeframe. Assessing the effects of TSST protocol variations on cortisol response strength, several observations are noteworthy. First, shortening speech preparation time did not change cortisol responses in any way, nor did including questionnaires during that period show an effect. As such, our findings suggest that speech preparation time is one TSST element that can be used to reduce the burden for participants as well as laboratory logistics. Secondly, having an all female panel and instructing panel members to show negative instead of neutral behavior towards the participants both were associated with considerably reduced cortisol stress response strengths. Thirdly, several variables of interest, such as content of the speech task or gender match between active panel member and participant, were problematic to evaluate due to the large number of studies not reporting those details. This calls for future studies to report more details regarding potentially relevant protocol specifications.
Keywords: cortisol; stress; TSST; confounds; protocol variations; research methodology

Meta-analytic evidence for higher implicit affiliation and intimacy motivation scores in women, compared to men - Schultheiss, Oliver; Drescher, Amely (Journal of research in personality, 2016)

Meta-analytic evidence of low convergence between implicit and explicit measures of the needs for achievement, affiliation, and power - Köllner, Martin; Schultheiss, Oliver (Frontiers in Psychology, 2014)
The correlation between implicit and explicit motive measures and potential moderators of this relationship were examined meta-analytically, using Hunter and Schmidt's (2004) approach. Studies from a comprehensive search in PsycINFO, data sets of our research group, a literature list compiled by an expert, and the results of a request for gray literature were examined for relevance and coded. Analyses were based on 49 papers, 56 independent samples, 6151 subjects, and 167 correlations. The correlations (?) between implicit and explicit measures were 0.130 (CI: 0.077-0.183) for the overall relationship, 0.116 (CI: 0.050-0.182) for affiliation, 0.139 (CI: 0.080-0.198) for achievement, and 0.038 (CI: -0.055-0.131) for power. Participant age did not moderate the size of these relationships. However, a greater proportion of males in the samples and an earlier publication year were associated with larger effect sizes. © 2014 Köllner and Schultheiss.
Keywords: Implicit motives; Implicit-explicit correlation; Independence postulate; Meta-analysis; Motive congruence; Picture-story exercise; Questionnaire; Self-attributed motivation

Meta-analytic evidence shows no relationship between task-based and self-report measures of thought control - Göbel, Kyra; Hensel, Lisa; Schultheiss, Oliver; Niessen, Cornelia (Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022)
We meta-analytically examined correlations between task-based and self-report thought control measures as well as potential moderators. Results of a frequentist meta-analysis indicate that the two measures do not overlap, r =.07, 95% CI [−0.01;0.15] (k = 20; N = 1194); subgroup analyses for different self-report measures r =.12; 95% CI [−0.06;0.30] and r =.03, 95% CI [−0.05;0.11], respectively. Additionally, we found no evidence for the presence of moderators. To further test whether the identified effect size is more consistent with a null effect or the assumption of a positive association, robust Bayesian meta-analyses were conducted. We did not obtain sufficiently strong evidence to decide for or against a null effect. In sum, our findings suggest that task-based and self-report thought control measures might capture different psychological processes and thus call for more research on the different underlying processes and constructs they measure.
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Keywords: Bayesian meta-analysis; meta-analysis; think/no-think; thought control; thought suppression

Metacognitive knowledge in young children: development of a new test procedure for first graders - Lockl, Kathrin; Händel, Marion; Haberkorn, Kerstin; Weinert, Sabine (Methodological issues of longitudinal surveys: The example of the National Educational Panel Study, 2016)

Methodische Zugänge der Intervention und Evaluation - Stemmler, Mark (Handbuch Sozialisationsforschung, 2015)

Methodological and dispositional predictors of congruence between implicit and explicit need for achievement - Thrash, Todd M.; Elliot, Andrew J.; Schultheiss, Oliver (Personality and social psychology bulletin, 2007)

Method Paper of a Project for Coordinating Research at the University Outpatient Clinics for Psychotherapy in Germany - Velten, Julia; Margraf, Juergen; Benecke, Cord; Berking, Matthias; In-Albon, Tina; Lincoln, Tania; Lutz, Wolfgang; Schlarb, Angelika; Schoettke, Henning; Willutzki, Ulrike; Hoyer, Juergen (Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 2017)
University outpatient clinics are important facilitators of psychological treatments for children, adolescents, and adults with diverse mental disorders and are important contributors to psychotherapy research in Germany. Since 2013, a steering committee has initiated and realized a project aiming to coordinate research efforts in these clinics. In 2016, unith. ev, a network of university training centers for psychotherapy, took over the sponsorship of this project. The main goal of the project is to aggregate and analyze longitudinal treatment data - including patient, therapist, and treatment characteristics - across all participating outpatient clinics. The start of data assessment is planned for 2018. This paper describes legal, methodological, and technical challenges, the current state of the project, as well as a pilot study planned for 2017.
Keywords: psychotherapy research; health-care research; outpatient clinics for psychological therapy; assessment of mental disorders

Migrationshintergrund und Jugendkriminalität - Uysal, Burcu; Link, Eva; Weiss, Maren (Devianz und Delinquenz im Kindes- und Jugendalter. Ungleichheitsdimensionen und Risikofaktoren, 2016)

MINT-Talentförderung im nationalen und internationalen Kontext - Ziegler, Albert; Heller, K A; Mönks, F J (Journal für Begabtenförderung, 2011)

Misshandlung von Kindern: Risikofaktoren und Schutzfaktoren - Bender, Doris; Lösel, Friedrich (Kindesmisshandlung und Vernachlässigung, 2005)

Mit Bildungs- und Lernkapital zur Leistungsexzellenz - Trottler, Susanne (Labyrinth, 2012)

Mit den Medien reden. - Abele-Brehm, Andrea; Gollwitzer, Mario; Greve, Werner; Klostermann, Anne (Psychologische Rundschau, 2015)
In zwölf Punkten werden Tipps zum Umgang mit Medienanfragen und Medienschaffenden gegeben. Sie beziehen sich auf die Entscheidung, ob man eine Medienanfrage beantworten kann bzw. soll, auf den Prozess der Beantwortung und auf die inhaltliche Gestaltung sowie auf den Schutz von Medienbeiträgen (Gegenlesen, ggf. Hinweis, dass man zitiert werden möchte, Verwertungsrechte beachten).

Mitochondrial modulation of LPS-induced inflammation and glucocorticoid sensitivity in human blood - Karan, Kalpita R.; Trumpff, Caroline; Sturm, Gabriel; Thomas, Jacob E.; Mcgill, Marlon A.; Rohleder, Nicolas; Sloan, Richard P.; Picard, Martin (PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, 2019)
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Mitochondrial respiratory capacity modulates LPS-induced inflammatory signatures in human blood - Karan, Kalpita Rashmi; Trumpff, Caroline; McGill, Marlon A.; Thomas, Jacob E.; Sturm, Gabriel; Lauriola, Vincenzo; Sloan, Richard P.; Rohleder, Nicolas; Kaufman, Brett A.; Marsland, Anna L.; Picard, Martin (Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 2020)

Mitochondrial respiratory capacity regulates acute LPS-stimulated inflammatory signatures in human blood - Karan, Kalpita Rashmi; Trumpff, Caroline; Mcgill, Marlon A.; Thomas, Jacob E.; Sturm, Gabriel; Lauriola, Vincenzo; Rohleder, Nicolas; Sloan, Richard P.; Picard, Martin (PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, 2019)
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Mittelfristige Effekte des Präventionsprogramms EFFEKT-E für emotional-belastete Mütter und ihre Kinder unter besonderer Berücksichtigung mütterlicher Belastungen - Kötter, Charlotte; Stemmler, Mark; Lösel, Friedrich; Bühler, Anneke; Jaursch, Stefanie (Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie, 2011)
Zusammenfassung. Kinder (subklinisch) depressiver Mütter haben ein erhöhtes Risiko, Verhaltensauffälligkeiten auszubilden. Einige der Faktoren der Transmission liegen direkt in der Interaktion, wie das Erziehungsverhalten. Weitere Risikofaktoren wie Alleinerziehendenstatus oder geringe soziale Unterstützung können die Auswirkungen auf die Kinder noch verstärken. Da Erlebens- und Verhaltensprobleme häufig bereits im Vorschulalter auftreten, sollten Präventionsprogramme möglichst früh ansetzen. Dem folgt die vorliegende Studie, die in 13 Mutter-Kind-Kliniken durchgeführt wurde. Geprüft wurde, ob Kinder von emotional und sozial belasteten Müttern von einem Präventionsprogramm (EFFEKT-E) profitieren, das einen Erziehungskurs für Mütter und ein soziales Kompetenztraining für Kinder umfasst. Dazu wurden 194 Mütter mit 4- bis 7-jährigen Kindern in der Kontrollgruppe und 169 Mütter in der Interventionsgruppe in einem Vortest-Nachtest-Design untersucht. Abhängige Variablen waren kindliche Erlebens- und Verhaltensprobleme sowie das mütterliche Erziehungsverhalten und Kompetenzerleben. Neben allgemeinen Effekten wurden eventuelle Moderatoreffekte von mütterlichen Risikofaktoren geprüft. Es zeigten sich positive kurzfristige Effekte auf das kindliche Problemverhalten. Mittelfristige positive Effekte gab es bei der elterlichen Kompetenzeinschätzung (Sechs-Monats-Follow-up). Dies galt insbesondere für Mütter, die eine hohe soziale Unterstützung erlebten. Die Ergebnisse werden unter methodischen und praktischen Gesichtspunkten diskutiert.

“Mixed” Sexual Offending Against Both Children and Adults: An Empirical Comparison With Individuals Who Exclusively Offended Against Child or Adult Victims - Link, Eva; Lösel, Friedrich (Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2021)
Individuals who sexually offended against both children and adults might be particularly dangerous. However, studies on this group are rare due to methodological difficulties. We investigated adverse childhood experiences, criminological variables, and other characteristics as well as recidivism in individuals who sexually offended against mixed-aged victims (ISOMAVs) compared to individuals who exclusively offended against adults (ISOAs) or children (ISOCs). Compared to previous studies, we applied more stringent classification criteria by including only individuals with at least two past sexual offenses. Analyses revealed that ISOMAVs more often had an extensive history of sexual offending. In addition, they were more likely than ISOAs to assault males, and more likely than ISOCs to assault strangers. Violent reoffending was more common in ISOMAVs compared to ISOCs, but ISOMAVs showed no more sexual recidivism. Other findings, limitations, and implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Keywords: adult victims; child victims; mixed-aged victims; sexual offending; victim age

MMC: MovieMotiveCoder – A software for coding implicit motives and various behavioral data from audiovisual material [Software and manual] - Walther, Carola; Walther, Fabian T.; Köllner, Martin (2016)

Modeling social, dimensional, and temporal comparisons in self-concept development with the random intercept cross-lagged panel model: A methodological-substantive integration - Debatin, Tobias; Stoeger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert (Developmental Psychology, 2023)
In recent years, discussion of the limitations of the standard cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) has increased, and the random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) has been proposed as an improved approach to modeling. By now, there are some first applications of the model to investigate reciprocal relations in self-concept development. However, a methodological-substantive integration of the model in the context of the three major comparison processes in self-concept development is still missing, and it has not been used to evaluate dimensional and temporal comparison effects. We provide such an integration in self-concept theory and applied the RI-CLPM to investigate social, dimensional, and temporal comparison effects simultaneously. Investigating a sample of 701 German students from the middle of Grade 9 to the middle of Grade 10, we confirmed previous results by finding trait-like stability in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) self-concept as well as in STEM and language achievement. We also found evidence for all three comparison effects, but evidence for dimensional comparison effects was only found at the between-person level of the RI-CLPM. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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Modelle zur Erklärung von Leistungsexzellenz im theoretischen und empirischen Vergleich - Harder, Bettina (Lit, 2012)

Modelling, assessing, and promoting competences for self-regulated learning in higher education - Eckerlein, N.; Dresel, M.; Steuer, G.; Foerst, N.; Ziegler, Albert; Schmitz, B.; Spiel, C.; Schober, B. (Student Learning in German Higher Education: Innovative Measurement Approaches and Research Results, 2020)
Summarized are the results of a research project that focused on assessing and fostering competences for self-regulated learning in higher education. Innovative instruments (situational judgement test, competence-performance-assessment, learning journal) to assess different aspects of self-regulated learning (e.g., use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, strategies of motivational regulation) were developed and validated. Moreover, training approaches to foster different aspects of self-regulated learning strategy use were conceptualized, also to test the change sensitivity of the assessments. In detail, the importance of competences for self-regulated learning for central componentsof successful learning processes and study success (e.g., invested effort, exam grades, subjective well-being, procrastination) are outlined.
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Keywords: Assessment; Competence modelling; Generic competences; Self-regulated learning; Strategy use; Training

Modelling cognitive processes of experienced air traffic controller - Niessen, Cornelia; Eyferth, K.; Bierwagen, T. (Sixth European Conference on Cognitive Science Approaches to Process Control, 1997)

Modelling cognitive processes of experienced air traffic controllers - Niessen, Cornelia; Eyferth, K.; Bierwagen, T. (Ergonomics, 1999)
A model of the cognitive activities of experienced air traffic controllers is presented as an example of the challenging theoretical task to model mental processes in a dynamic task environment. Owing to the continuous changes in the task environment and the demand for the temporal coordination of activities in air traffic control, the model pays special attention to the mental representation of the situation. This unit of the model plays a salient role in maintaining situational awareness, in anticipating future states, and in coordinating simultaneously ongoing events. The assumptions about the mental representation of the changing task environment are discussed within the mental model approach.
Keywords: Diagnosis; Dynamic environment; Expertise; Mental models; Modelling; Monitoring

Models of giftedness put to the empirical test - Harder, Bettina; Vialle, Wilma; Ziegler, Albert (High ability studies, 2014)

Moderating Effects of Educational and Learning Capital on the Consequences of Performance Feedback - Mendl, Anamaria; Harder, Bettina; Vialle, Wilma (Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 2021)
Feedback is highly recommended in educational settings and can deliver valuable information to guide one’s learning efforts. However, it can—but does not need to—lead to detrimental effects on learners’ motivation and emotions. The response should be moderated by the individual’s attitudes, experiences, abilities and many other aspects which can be subsumed in the concept of educational and learning capital. This study investigated the effects of random feedback on a reasoning test, measuring the participants’ subsequent cognitive, metacognitive, motivational and emotional responses. Initially, we assessed their educational and learning capital to analyze direct and moderating effects on the responses. Results showed that feedback effects were not as strong as expected while educational and learning capital exerted strong direct effects. Moderating effects were verified for only some responses. <
Keywords: Educational and learning capital; feedback; performance; motivation; emotion

Moderators of psychological and psychoeducational interventions for the prevention of depression: A systematic review - Conejo-Cerón, Sonia; Bellón, Juan Ángel; Motrico, Emma; Campos-Paíno, Henar; Martín-Gómez, Carmen; Ebert, David; Buntrock, Claudia; Gili, Margalida; Moreno-Peral, Patricia (Clinical Psychology Review, 2020)
Psychological and psychoeducational interventions have proven to be effective in preventing depression. However, the identification of the patients that benefit the most from each type of intervention has not yet been established. A systematic review was performed of the literature on moderators of preventive psychological and psychoeducational interventions for depression in all types of population. A search was performed on PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and OpenGrey up to July 2019. Fulfillment of eligibility criteria, data collection, and study quality assessment were assessed by two independent researchers. Outcomes were moderators of the reduction of depressive symptoms or the incidence of depression. Twenty-seven moderator effect studies performed in 19 randomized controlled trials were included. Thirty-four potential sociodemographic, clinical, interpersonal, personality and life-event moderators were evaluated. Baseline depressive symptoms, gender, age, baseline parental depression and social support were the most frequently studied potential moderators. In interventions for children and adolescents, the moderator for which evidence was strongest was having parents free of depression at baseline. Psychological and psychoeducational interventions seem to be more effective in children and adolescents who exhibit a lower use of substances and whose parents do not have symptoms of depression at baseline. In adults, a lower age was associated with greater effects of preventive interventions. Ethics: As this systematic review is based on published data, approval from the local ethics committee was not required.
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Keywords: Depression; Moderator; Prevention; Systematic review

Monitoring of the dopamine D2 receptor agonists hordenine and N-methyltyramine during the brewing process and in commercial beer samples - Sommer, Thomas; Dlugash, Gelena; Hübner, Harald; Gmeiner, Peter; Pischetsrieder, Monika (Food Chemistry, 2019)
The phenethylamine alkaloid hordenine, present in germinated barley, was identified recently as a functionally selective dopamine D2 receptor agonist contributing potentially to the rewarding effects of drinking beer. Here, it was shown that the hordenine precursor N-methyltyramine binds with a similar affinity to the dopamine D2 receptor as hordenine (K-i 31.3 mu M) showing also selectivity towards the G protein-mediated pathway over the beta-arrestin pathway. Using a newly developed UHPLC-ESI-MS/MS method to monitor beer production, we demonstrated that hordenine and N-methyltyramine were released continuously from barley malt during mashing and were stable during fermentation and conditioning. The amounts released from different base malt types were in a similar range but tended to be higher from caramel malts. Hordenine and N-methyltyramine concentrations in 24 types of beer varied between 1.05-6.32 and 0.59-4.61 mg/L, respectively. Thus, the human uptake of the alkaloids during beer consumption is in the low milligram range.
Keywords: Beer; Brewing; Dopamine D2 receptor agonist; Fermentation; Hordenine; Mashing; N-Methyltyramine

Monocyte proinflammatory cytokine release is higher and glucocorticoid sensitivity is lower in middle aged men than in women independent of cardiovascular risk factors - Wirtz, Petra; von Känel, Roland; Rohleder, Nicolas; Fischer, Joachim (Heart, 2004)

MOOD AND SLEEP RECIPROCALLY REINFORCE EACH OTHER OVER THE COURSE OF TREATMENT FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER - Hannig, Wiebke; Radkovsky, Anna; Wirtz, Carolin Maria; Ebert, David; Bockting, Claudia; Berking, Matthias (Psychosomatic Medicine, 2014)

Motivational concepts and personality aspects across the life course - Wohlkinger, Florian; Ditton, Hartmut; von Maurice, Jutta; Händel, Marion; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2011)

Motivationale Bedingungen für Berufsschullehrer und ihr Zusammenhang mit Ergebnissen einer Interventionsstudie - Kramer, Klaudia; Kliewe, Anke; et al. (Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, 2001)

Motivationale und emotionale Entwicklung - Kramer, Klaudia; Spangler, Gottfried (2017)

Motivational Orientations in Apprentices with Learning Disabilities - Kramer, Klaudia; Spangler, Gottfried; et al. (2005)

Motivational Orientations of High-Achieving Students as Mediators of a Positive Perception of a High-Achieving Classmate: Results from a Cross-national Study - Oh, Hyerim; del Mar Badia, M; Blumen, S; Maakrun, J; Nguyen, Quoc Anh-Thu; Stack, N; Sutherland, Margaret; Wormald, C; Ziegler, Albert (Anales de Psicología, 2016)

Motivational standoff – Kodierung von impliziten Motiven in Videomaterial anhand von genereller Motivdichte, Motivprofilen und Clips zur Motivanregung in ausgewählten Filmen [Motivational standoff – Coding implicit motives in video material by determining overall motive density, motive profiles, and clips for arousing motives in selected movies] - Lorenz, Dorothea; Walther, Carola; Köllner, Martin (33rd Colloquium on Motivational Psychology, 2013)

Motivation as a natural linchpin between person and situation - Schultheiss, Oliver; Kordik, Annette; Kullmann, Jennifer S.; Rawolle, Maika; Rösch, Andreas (Journal of research in personality, 2009)
Keywords: Motivation; Alliesthesia; Incentive; Implicit motive

Motivation - Schultheiss, Oliver; Strasser, Alexandra; Rösch, Andreas; Kordik, Annette; Graham, Stacie C. (Encyclopedia of human behavior, 2012)

Motivations of German Hospice Volunteers: How Do They Compare to Nonhospice Volunteers and US Hospice Volunteers? - Stelzer, Eva-Maria; Lang, Frieder (American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2016)
We examined reasons of volunteering for hospice and nonhospice organizations in a study with 125 volunteers (22-93 years) from the United States and Germany. Motives of US and German hospice volunteers revealed similarities and few differences. Hospice volunteers are involved because they seek to help others, seek new learning experiences, seek social contacts, or seek personal growth. The US hospice volunteers reported motives related to altruistic concerns, enhancement, and social influence as more influential, while German hospice volunteers rated career expectations as being more important. Comparison of German hospice with nonhospice volunteers revealed stronger differences: German hospice volunteers scored higher on altruistic motives, while German nonhospice volunteers yielded higher scores on self-serving motives. Findings contribute to improved understanding of volunteering motivation and of activating or retaining hospice volunteers.
Keywords: hospice; palliative care; volunteering; motivation; recruitment; retention

Motive-Modulated Attentional Orienting: Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attentional Avoidance of Signals of Interpersonal Dominance - Janson, Kevin; Köllner, Martin; Khalaidovski, Ksenia; Pülschen, Lea Sarah; Rudnaya, Alexandra; Stamm, Laura; Schultheiss, Oliver (Motivation Science, 2021)
Implicit motives are commonly believed to orient behavior. Despite only sparse empirical evidence for this claim, an interplay of implicit motives and the attentional system seems plausible. In 2 preregistered eye-tracking studies (total N = 263 after exclusions), we tested whether the implicit power motive (nPower), the capacity to derive pleasure from having impact on others, measured via the Picture Story Exercise, predicted participants’ attentional orienting. Participants were simultaneously presented neutral faces and facial expressions of emotion (FEEs), with the latter signaling either dominance or submission. In both studies, nPower predicted initial avoidance of anger FEEs, which were deemed to be an aversive dominance signal. Initial orienting toward submissive FEEs was not predicted significantly by nPower. Results are discussed in the light of recent findings in neuroscience and with reference to limitations of our design. Our findings suggest that implicit motives do have an orienting function regarding initial responses to the encounter of interpersonal dominance signals.
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Keywords: attentional orienting; eye-tracking; facial expressions of emotion; implicit motives; need for power

Motives and Laterality: Exploring the Links - Schultheiss, Oliver; Schwemmer, Olivia S.; Khalaidovski, Ksenia (Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 2021)
Objectives: We explored associations between the needs for power, achievement, and affiliation and functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs), guided by three established hypotheses about the nature of these associations. Methods: One-hundred-and-seven participants completed picture-story measures of dispositional motives and activity inhibition (AI), a frequent moderator of motive-behavior associations, tasks measuring FCAs (line bisection, chimeric emotional face judgments, turning bias, perceptual and response asymmetries on the Poffenberger task), self-reported laterality preferences (handedness, footedness, ear and eye preference), and interhemispheric interaction (crossed-uncrossed difference). They also completed an experiment manipulating hand contractions (left, right, both, neither) while they worked on a second picture-story motive measure. Results: Dispositional power motivation was associated with stronger rightward asymmetry and less interhemispheric transfer in high-AI and stronger leftward asymmetry and more interhemispheric transfer in low-AI individuals. For the affiliation motive, findings were fewer and in the opposite direction of those for the power motive. These findings emerged for men, but not for women. Left- or right-hand contractions led to increases in power and achievement motivation, but not affiliation motivation. Only left-hand contractions led to decreased AI. Conclusions: We discuss these findings in the context of sex-dimorphic organizing and activating effects of steroids on motives and laterality.
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Keywords: Achievement; Activity inhibition; Affiliation; Functional hemispheric asymmetry; Motivation; Motive dispositions; Picture-story exercise; Power; Sex difference

Mplus: Dorsch – Lexikon der Psychologie - Reutlinger, Marold (Dorsch - Lexikon der Psychologie, 2013)

MRI as a Stressor: The Psychological and Physiological Response of Patients to MRI, Influencing Factors, and Consequences - Madl, Janika; Janka, Rolf Matthias; Bay, Susanne; Rohleder, Nicolas (JACR Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2022)
Objective: Despite being noninvasive and painless, MRI is recurrently associated with stress and anxiety in patients. This adversely affects patient experience and may be associated with negative outcomes for the health care provider. This study examined the psychological and physiological response of patients to MRI and how these response levels relate, the role of different potentially influencing factors, and the relation to procedural outcomes. Methods: Data of 96 patients (mean 48.77 ± 15.11 years; 61.5% female) were included. The patients’ psychological or physiological response was assessed before and after MRI via questionnaires on anxiety, strain, agitation, and mood and salivary α-amylase, and cortisol. Data on potentially influencing factors and outcomes of the clinical workflow were collected via questionnaires. Results: We observed significant improvements of all psychological measures from pre- to post-MRI (all P < .001) but not of the physiological stress markers (all P > .258). The psychological response correlated with levels of cortisol but not α-amylase. The valence of previous MRI experiences was particularly predictive of the patients’ reaction. Stress and anxiety in patients significantly predicted the probability of scan repetitions (Nagelkerke's R2 = .31, P = .011) and scan duration (adjusted R2 = .22, P < .001). Conclusion: These findings imply that various factors contribute to the patients’ response to MRI. Stress and anxiety in patients, in turn, may impact the clinical workflow. Therefore, these factors should be considered in the medical treatment to provide both a positive patient experience and smooth clinical workflows.
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Keywords: Anxiety; MRI; patient experience; physiological stress response; unexpected patient-related events

Multidimensionale Berufungsskala (MCM-G). - Hagmaier-Göttle, Tamara; Abele-Brehm, Andrea (Psychologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Kurzskalen: Standardisierte Erhebungsinstrumente für Wissenschaft und Praxis., 2013)

Mütterliche Berufstätigkeit und kindliches Sozialverhalten: A longitudinal study - Jaursch, Stefanie; Lösel, Friedrich (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2011)
Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich den Auswirkungen der frühen und der aktuellen mütterlichen Berufstätigkeit auf die Entwicklung des kindlichen Sozialverhaltens. Im Rahmen der Erlangen-Nürnberger Entwicklungs- und Präventionsstudie wurden in einem prospektiv längsschnittlichen Design 660 Kinder im Vorschulalter in fünf Erhebungen über einen Zeitraum von sechs Jahren untersucht. Das kindliche Verhalten wurde mittels Einschätzungen der Erzieherinnen, Lehrerinnen und Mütter im Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ; Tremblay et al., 1992) erfasst. Weder die frühe noch die spätere Berufstätigkeit sowie deren Wechselwirkungen zeigten kurz- und längerfristige signifikante Zusammenhänge mit dem Ausmaß der kindlichen Erlebens- und Verhaltensprobleme. Es machte auch keinen Unterschied, ob die Mütter vollzeit- oder teilzeitbeschäftigt waren. Die Ergebnisse werden unter methodischen Gesichtspunkten und im Hinblick auf die ideologischen Auseinandersetzungen um Auswirkungen der (frühen) mütterlichen Berufstätigkeit diskutiert.
Keywords: Mütterliche Berufstätigkeit; Fremdbetreuung; kindliche Verhaltensauffälligkeiten; Längsschnittforschung

Mütterliche Bindungsrepräsentation, Paarbindung und Elternverhalten - Behringer, Johanna; Reiner, Iris; Spangler, Gottfried (Bindung im Erwachsenenalter, 2012)

Mütterliche Bindungsrepräsentation und Neurophysiologische Verarbeitung kindlicher Emotionsausdrücke - Heinisch, Christine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 2014)
Leitung der Arbeitsgruppe "Entwicklung sozialer Fertigkeiten"

Mütterliche Depressivität, Erziehung und kindliche Erlebens- und Verhaltensprobleme - Kötter, Charlotte; Stemmler, Mark; Bühler, Anneke; Lösel, Friedrich (Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2010)
The following research questions were investigated: What kind of impairments exist in the parenting behavior of emotionally burdened mothers as well as in the behavior of their children aged 4-7 years? What are the existing correlations between maternal depression, different aspects of parenting, and the child's emotional and behavioral problems? Which aspects of parenting mediate the relationship? Subclinically depressed mothers (N = 380) filled in standardized questionnaires about parenting behavior, perceived competence and stress, and their child's behavior. The data were compared to a normative sample (Losel et al., 2005). Children of depressed mothers showed significantly more emotional and behavioral problems. The stressed and depressed-feeling mothers showed more inappropriate parenting behavior in comparison to the normative mothers. In addition, these mothers rated themselves less competent in parenting, and they reported more parental stress. It is shown that perceived parenting competence and stress mediate the relationship of maternal depression and children's emotional and behavioral problems. The impact of the results on prevention is discussed.
Keywords: parenting; emotional and behavioral problems; maternal depression; parenting stress

Mütterliche Feinfühligkeit bei postpartalen Depressionen und Angststörungen - Heinisch, Christine (Tagung der Marcé-Gesellschaft, 2017)

Mütterliche Feinfühligkeit und kindliche Entwicklung; Zusammenhänge mit Belastungsfaktoren in einer Hochrisikostichprobe - Gerlach, Jennifer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2013)

@myTabu—A Placebo Controlled Randomized Trial of a Guided Web-Based Intervention for Individuals Who Sexually Abused Children and Individuals Who Consumed Child Sexual Exploitation Material: A Clinical Study Protocol - Fromberger, Peter; Schroeder, Sonja; Bauer, Louisa; Siegel, Bruno; Tozdan, Safiye; Briken, Peer; Buntrock, Claudia; Etzler, Sonja; Rettenberger, Martin; Leha, Andreas; Mueller, Juergen L. (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021)
Background: There is a high demand for evidence-based and cost-effective treatment concepts for convicted individuals who sexually abused children (ISAC) and individuals who consumed child sexual exploitation material (ICCSEM) under community supervision (CS). The @myTabu-consortium developed a guided web-based intervention for convicted ISAC and ICCSEM under CS consisting of six online modules targeting psychological meaningful risk factors. The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of this guided web-based intervention in reducing dynamic risk factors and the risk to re-offend compared to a placebo condition. Furthermore, these dynamic risk factors are measured before and after every module to evaluate their individual effectiveness to reduce the respective risk factor as well as risk to re-offend. This clinical trial protocol describes the planned methods as well as the intervention concept. Methods: The methodological design is a placebo controlled randomized add-on trial (N = 582) with follow-ups at 8 points in time. The placebo condition controls for attention and expectation effects and comprises the same amount of modules with a comparable temporal effort as the experimental intervention. The trial is conducted as an add-on to community supervision as usually done. Primary outcomes are dynamic risk factors assessed by self-report risk assessment tools and officially recorded re-offenses. Discussion: To the best of our knowledge, the study is the first to compare the (cost-) effectiveness of a guided web-based intervention for convicted ISAC and ICCSEM under community supervision against a placebo condition. Methodological limitations (e.g., potential ceiling- or volunteers-effects) are discussed. Clinical Trial Registration: German Clinical Trial Register (DRKS 00021256). Prospectively registered: 24.04.2020.
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Keywords: child exploitation material offenders; child sexual abuse (CSA); eHealth; randomized placebo controlled trial; web-based intervention

Nachbericht zur Evaluation des Bundesprogramms „Elternchance ist Kinderchance – Elternbegleitung der Bildungsverläufe der Kinder“. Bericht zur Kontrollgruppe im Modul 3 – die Wirkung auf Ebene der Eltern und Kinder - Beck, Mira; Schwaß, Mariann; Stemmler, Mark (2016)

Nachhilfe: Dorsch – Lexikon der Psychologie - Reutlinger, Marold (Dorsch - Lexikon der Psychologie, 2013)

Navigating the Social World: Toward an Integrated Framework for Evaluating Self, Individuals, and Groups - Abele-Brehm, Andrea; Ellemers, Naomi; Fiske, Susan T.; Koch, Alex; Yzerbyt, Vincent (Psychological Review, 2020)
Social evaluation occurs at personal, interpersonal, group, and intergroup levels, with competing theories and evidence. Five models engage in adversarial collaboration, to identify common conceptual ground, ongoing controversies, and continuing agendas: Dual Perspective Model (Abele & Wojciszke, 2007); Behavioral Regulation Model (Leach, Ellemers, & Barreto, 2007); Dimensional Compensation Model (Yzerbyt et al., 2005); Stereotype Content Model (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002); and Agency- Beliefs-Communion Model (Koch, Imhoff, Dotsch, Unkelbach, & Alves, 2016). Each has distinctive focus, theoretical roots, premises, and evidence. Controversies dispute dimensions: number, organization, definition, and labeling; their relative priority; and their relationship. Our first integration suggests 2 fundamental dimensions: Vertical (agency, competence, "getting ahead") and Horizontal (communion, warmth, "getting along"), with respective facets of ability and assertiveness (Vertical) and friendliness and morality (Horizontal). Depending on context, a third dimension is conservative versus progressive Beliefs. Second, different criteria for priority favor different dimensions: processing speed and subjective weight (Horizontal); pragmatic diagnosticity (Vertical); moderators include number and type of target, target-perceiver relationship, context. Finally, the relation between dimensions has similar operational moderators. As an integrative framework, the dimensions' dynamics also depend on perceiver goals (comprehension, efficiency, harmony, compatibility), each balancing top-down and bottom-up processes, for epistemic or hedonic functions. One emerging insight is that the nature and number of targets each of these models typically examines alters perceivers' evaluative goal and how bottom-up information or top-down inferences interact. This framework benefits theoretical parsimony and new research.
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Keywords: Agency; Communion; Competence; Morality; Warmth

Need for achievement moderates the effect of motive-relevant challenge on salivary cortisol changes - Yang, Fang; Ramsay, Jonathan E.; Schultheiss, Oliver; Pang, Joyce S. (Motivation and Emotion, 2015)
The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis plays a key role in the physiological response to stress, preparing the organism for appropriate action. While some research has examined universally relevant threats, other research has suggested that individual differences may moderate the relationship between stress and cortisol release, such that some individuals exhibit modified reactivity to personally relevant stressors or challenges. In the present study we investigated whether one individual difference—the implicit need for achievement—moderates the effect of motive-relevant challenge on salivary cortisol. Participants’ salivary cortisol and felt affect were measured before and after engagement in an achievement task. In the positive- and no-feedback conditions, individuals high in implicit achievement motivation demonstrated increased cortisol response to the task, whereas in the negative feedback condition, individuals high in implicit achievement motivation demonstrated a dampened cortisol response. Furthermore, changes in cortisol were accompanied by changes in felt affect in the same direction, specifically hedonic tone. These results suggest that the HPA axis also responds to non-social-evaluative challenge in a personality-contingent manner.
Keywords: Cortisol; HPA axis; Implicit motives; Need for achievement; Picture story exercise; Stress

Negative affect as mediator between emotion regulation and medically unexplained symptoms - Schwarz, Jeanine; Rief, Winfried; Radkovsky, Anna; Berking, Matthias; Kleinstaeuber, Maria (Journal of psychosomatic research, 2017)
Keywords: Emotion regulation; Medically unexplained symptoms; Anxiety; Depression

Negative Effects in digital Interventions: Results from an Implementation Project (ImplementIT) for the Prevention of Depression in Farmers - Freund, Johanna; Titzler, Ingrid; Thielecke, Janika; Braun, L.; Baumeister, H.; Berking, Matthias; Ebert, David (GESUNDHEITSWESEN, 2022)
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Negative Effekte bei digitalen Interventionen: Ergebnisse aus einem Implementierungsprojekt (ImplementIT) zur Prävention von Depression bei Landwirt*innen - Freund, Johanna; Titzler, Ingrid; Thielecke, Janika; Braun, Lina; Baumeister, Harald; Berking, Matthias; Ebert, David Daniel (Gesundheitswesen, 2022)
Depressive Störungen haben erhebliche Auswirkungen auf den Einzelnen und die Gesellschaft, weshalb präventive Maßnahmen sehr bedeutsam sind. Landwirt*innen und verwandte Berufsgruppen sind vielen Risikofaktoren für psychische Erkrankungen ausgesetzt. Deshalb wird das Potenzial von Gesundheitsangeboten wie maßgeschneiderte internet-basierte Interventionen (IBIs) sowie eines Telefoncoachings (TC) im nationalen Modellvorhaben „Mit uns im Gleichgewicht“ der Sozialversicherung für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Gartenbau (SVLFG) evaluiert. Nur wenig ist derzeit über das Risiko digitaler Präventionsangebote bekannt. Ziel der Implementierungsstudie ist daher die Untersuchung der von Teilnehmenden berichteten negativen Effekte der internet- und tele-basierten Interventionen.<br

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: Which diagnostic procedures can be used? - Löhberg, Christian; Lux, Michael P.; Ackermann, Sven; Pöhls, Uwe G.; Bani, Mayada; Schulz-Wendtland, Rüdiger; Papadopoulos, Thomas; Schmucker, Martin; Beckmann, Matthias; Fasching, Peter (Anticancer Research, 2005)
BACKGROUND To improve breast cancer treatment, the evaluation of predictive factors is in the focus of clinical research. Significant discrepancies between the clinical assessment of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and the pathological assessment of response from post-therapy surgical specimens have been demonstrated. We focused on comparing the value of various diagnostic methods used in medical routine. PATIENTS AND METHODS A clinical evaluation of the primary tumour and regional lymph nodes before and after NACT was performed in 139 patients by physical examination, sonography and mammography. RESULTS Mammography and physical examination correlated best with pathological findings in the measurement of the tumour, whereas sonography was the most accurate predictor of the status for axillary lymph nodes. CONCLUSION Mammography and physical examination are the best non-invasive predictors of the real size of the primary breast cancer, whereas sonography correlates better with the proven status of axillary lymph nodes.
Keywords: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; breast cancer; mammography; sonography

Neue empirische Befunde zum Underachievement Hochbegabter - Martzog, Philipp; Stöger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert (Heilpädagogik online, 2009)

Neural correlates of spatial working memory load in a delayed match-to-sample saccade task - Raabe, Markus; Fischer, Volker; Bernhardt, Daniela; Greenlee, Mark W. (NeuroImage, 2013)

Neural oscillatory responses to performance monitoring differ between high- and low-impulsive individuals, but are unaffected by TMS - Barth, Beatrix; Rohe, Tim; Deppermann, Saskia; Fallgatter, Andreas Jochen; Ehlis, Ann-Christine (Human Brain Mapping, 2021)
Higher impulsivity may arise from neurophysiological deficits of cognitive control in the prefrontal cortex. Cognitive control can be assessed by time-frequency decompositions of electrophysiological data. We aimed to clarify neuroelectric mechanisms of performance monitoring in connection with impulsiveness during a modified Eriksen flanker task in high- (n = 24) and low-impulsive subjects (n = 21) and whether these are modulated by double-blind, sham-controlled intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS). We found a larger error-specific peri-response beta power decrease over fronto-central sites in high-impulsive compared to low-impulsive participants, presumably indexing less effective motor execution processes. Lower parieto-occipital theta intertrial phase coherence (ITPC) preceding correct responses predicted higher reaction time (RT) and higher RT variability, potentially reflecting efficacy of cognitive control or general attention. Single-trial preresponse theta phase clustering was coupled to RT in correct trials (weighted ITPC), reflecting oscillatory dynamics that predict trial-specific behavior. iTBS did not modulate behavior or EEG time-frequency power. Performance monitoring was associated with time-frequency patterns reflecting cognitive control (parieto-occipital theta ITPC, theta weighted ITPC) as well as differential action planning/execution processes linked to trait impulsivity (frontal low beta power). Beyond that, results suggest no stimulation effect related to response-locked time-frequency dynamics with the current stimulation protocol. Neural oscillatory responses to performance monitoring differ between high- and low-impulsive individuals, but are unaffected by iTBS.
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Keywords: impulsivity; intertrial phase coherence; performance monitoring; single-trial phase behavior coupling; time-frequency analysis; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Neuroendocrine and psychometric evaluation of a placebo version of the 'Trier Social Stress Test' - Het, Serkan; Rohleder, Nicolas; Schoofs, Daniela; Kirschbaum, Clemens; Wolf, Oliver T. (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2009)

Neuroendocrine coordination and youth behavior problems: A review of studies assessing sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis activity using salivary alpha amylase and salivary cortisol - Jones, Emily J.; Rohleder, Nicolas; Schreier, Hannah M.C. (Hormones and Behavior, 2020)
Externalizing and internalizing behavior problems can have deleterious psychosocial consequences for youth. Both sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis activity and reactivity may contribute to behavior problems but have largely been studied separately, with inconsistent findings. Because the SNS and HPA axis interact to carry out physiological processes (e.g., responding to stressors), considering SNS and HPA axis activity jointly may elucidate disparate findings. This review discusses studies that simultaneously assessed SNS and HPA axis (re)activity and youth behavior problems using measures of salivary alpha amylase (sAA) and salivary cortisol. Multiple patterns of SNS and HPA axis coordination were associated with problem behaviors, especially when considering individual differences and youth's psychosocial context. Importantly, many study findings may be artifacts of widespread methodological differences. The reviewed studies lay the foundation for future research on neuroendocrine coordination as a contributing factor to youth problem behaviors and some recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Keywords: Cortisol; Externalizing behavior; Hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis; Internalizing behavior; Salivary alpha amylase; Sympathetic nervous system

NEUROENDOCRINE COORDINATION AND YOUTH BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS: A REVIEW OF STUDIES ASSESSING SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY ADRENAL AXIS ACTIVITY USING SALIVARY ALPHA AMYLASE AND SALIVARY CORTISOL - Jones, Emily J.; Rohleder, Nicolas; Schreier, Hannah M. C. (PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, 2020)
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Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions in Health and Disease - Rohleder, Nicolas (Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology, 2019)
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Neurolinguistics - Compensis, Paul; et al. (2024)
Neurolinguistics is the study of the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological bases of language processing. The origins of this sub-discipline of language research lie in the clinical study of language impairment following brain lesions but later neurolinguistics evolved into an interdisciplinary research area at the intersections of linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology. With the advent of modern brain imaging, the focus has shifted more towards the study of language processing in healthy populations. Increasingly, the investigation of language alongside other sociocognitive domains and the application of complex computational models have become relevant. <br
https://cris.fau.de/converis/publicweb/Publication/319343348
Keywords: Neurolinguistics; neurobiology of language; aphasiology; lesion studies; brain imaging; neurocognition

Never run a changing system: Action-effect contingency shapes prospective agency - Schwarz, Katharina A.; Klaffehn, Annika L.; Hauke-Forman, Nicole; Muth, Felicitas; Pfister, Roland (Cognition, 2022)
Human action control is highly sensitive to action-effect contingencies in the agent's environment. Here we show that the subjective sense of agency (SoA) contributes to this sensitivity as a subjective counterpart to instru-mental action decisions. Participants (N = 556) experienced varying reward probabilities and were prompted to give summary evaluations of their SoA after a series of action-effect episodes. Results first revealed a quadratic relation of contingency and SoA, driven by a disproportionally strong impact of perfect action-effect contin-gencies. In addition to this strong situational determinant of SoA, we observed small but reliable interindividual differences as a function of gender, assertiveness, and neuroticism that applied especially at imperfect action -effect contingencies. Crucially, SoA not only reflected the reward structure of the environment but was also associated with the agent's future action decisions across situational and personal factors. These findings call for a paradigm shift in research on perceived agency, away from the retrospective assessment of single behavioral episodes and towards a prospective view that draws on statistical regularities of an agent's environment.
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New approaches to the study of self-regulated learning - Porath, Marion; Stöger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert (Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 2010)
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New ways to cope with depression—study protocol for a randomized controlled mixed methods trial of bouldering psychotherapy (BPT) and mental model therapy (MMT) - Kind, Leona; Luttenberger, Katharina; Leßmann, Vivien; Dorscht, Lisa; Mühle, Christiane; Müller, Christian P.; Siegmann, Eva-Maria; Schneider, Sophia; Kornhuber, Johannes (Trials, 2023)
Background: Due to the growing gap between the demand and supply of therapeutic services for people suffering from depression, with this study, we are investigating the effectiveness and factors of influence of new approaches in group treatments for depression. Two previous studies have already identified bouldering psychotherapy (BPT) as an effective option. It combines psychotherapeutic interventions with action- and body-oriented bouldering exercises. Mental model therapy (MMT) is a new cognitive-behavioral approach for treating depression. It focuses on identifying cognitive distortions, biases in decision making, and false assumptions and aims to correct and replace them with useful mental models. We aim to investigate the effectiveness of the interventions compared with a control group (CG) and to assess the factors of influence in a mixed methods approach. Methods: The study is being conducted as a randomized controlled intervention trial. Adult participants with unipolar depression are being randomized into three groups (BPT, MMT, or CG), and the first two groups are undergoing a 10-week treatment phase. CG follows their individual standard treatment as usual. A priori power analysis revealed that about 120 people should be included to capture a moderate effect. The primary outcome of the study is depression rated with the Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) before (t0), directly after (t1), and 12 months after the intervention phase (t2). Data are being collected via questionnaires, computer-assisted video interviews, and physical examinations. The primary hypotheses will be statistically analyzed by mixed model ANOVAs to compare the three groups over time. For secondary outcomes, further multivariate methods (e.g., mixed model ANOVAs and regression analyses) will be conducted. Qualitative data will be evaluated on the basis of the qualitative thematic analysis. Discussion: This study is investigating psychological and physical effects of BPT and MMT and its factors of influence on outpatients suffering from depression compared with a CG in a highly naturalistic design. The study could therefore provide insight into the modes of action of group therapy for depression and help to establish new short-term group treatments. Methodological limitations of the study might be the clinical heterogeneity of the sample and confounding effects due to simultaneous individual psychotherapy. Trial registration: ISRCTN, ISRCTN12347878. Registered 28 March 2022, https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN12347878 .
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Keywords: Biomarkers; Bouldering; Depression; Exercise; Factors of influence; Mental models; Osteocalcin; Psychotherapy; Rock climbing; Sports

Nice and easy does it: How perceptual fluency moderates the effectiveness of imagined contact - West, Keron; Bruckmüller, Susanne (Journal of experimental social psychology, 2013)

Niedrigschwellige Intervention zur Reduktion sozialer Ängste: Entwicklung einer Smartphone-basierten Intervention unter Einbezug von Betroffenen - Fuhrmann, Lukas; Berking, Matthias (Gesundheitswesen, 2019)
Viele Betroffene einer sozialen Angststörung (SAS) leiden Jahrzehnte unter starken privaten und beruflichen Einschränkungen bis sie überhaupt in Erwägung ziehen, professionelle Hilfe aufzusuchen. Ein vielversprechender Ansatz könnten niedrigschwellige, schnell verfügbare, anonym nutzbare und in den Alltag integrierbare Smartphone-basierte Interventionen (SBI) sein. Bisher erforschte SBIs zur SAS wurden a) aus Internet-basierten Interventionen übernommen und b) haben keine Betroffenen in die Interventionsentwicklung involviert. Im Rahmen dieses Vortrages soll daher unter Berücksichtigung von Rückmeldungen Betroffener eine genuin fürs Smartphone erstellte SBI vorgestellt werden.<br

Nine years of online mentoring for secondary school girls in STEM: an empirical comparison of three mentoring formats - Stoeger, Heidrun; Heilemann, Michael; Debatin, Tobias; Hopp, Manuel; Schirner, Sigrun; Ziegler, Albert (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020)
Online mentoring can be useful for supporting girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Yet, little is known about the differential effects of various online mentoring formats. We examine the general and relative effectiveness of three online mentoring formats, one-on-one mentoring, many-to-many group mentoring, and a hybrid form of the two. All three formats were implemented in different years in the Germany-wide online-only mentoring program, CyberMentor, whose platform enables communication and networking between up to 800 girls (in grades 5-13) and 800 women (STEM professionals) each year. We combined longitudinal mentee data for all first-year participants (N = 4017 girls,M-age = 14.15 years) from 9 consecutive mentoring years to evaluate and compare the three mentoring formats. Overall, all formats effected comparable increases in mentees' STEM activities and certainty about career plans. However, mentees' communication behavior and networking behavior on the mentoring platform differed between the three formats. Mentees in the hybrid mentoring format showed the most extensive STEM-related communication and networking on the platform. We also analyzed the explanatory contributions of STEM-related communication and networking on interindividual differences in the developmental trajectories of mentees' STEM activities, elective intentions in STEM, and certainty about career plans, for each format separately.
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Nonlinear associations between job insecurity and adaptive performance: The mediating role of negative affect and negative work reflection. - Mäder, Inge; Niessen, Cornelia (Human performance, 2017)

Nonparametrical analysis of change patterns in dependent samples - Stemmler, Mark (Methods of Psychological Research, 1998)
If the assumptions for repeated measures analysis of variance are violated, nonparametrical statistical tools need to be applied. Two methods for the evaluation of interindividual differences in intraindividual change are suggested: One method follows the configural frequency analysis approach of analyzing change patterns, the other is from Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and its special version for repeated measures, latent Markov modeling. Differential and complementary aspects of the two methods are discussed.

Nonparametric testing of improvement scores in a two sample prepost design - Stemmler, Mark; Bingham, C. Raymond (Psychology Science, 2004)

No response of plasma substance P, but delayed increase of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist to acute psychosocial stress - Rohleder, Nicolas; Wolf, Jutta; Herpfer, Inga; Fiebich, Bernd; Kirschbaum, Clemens; Lieb, Klaus (Life Sciences, 2006)

Normative versus ipsative configural frequency analysis in personality research - Köhler, Thomas; Stemmler, Mark (European Journal of Personality, 1997)
Configural frequency analysis (CFA) tests whether certain individual patterns in different variables are observed more frequently in a sample than expected by chance. In normative CFA, these patterns are derived from the S's specific position in relation to sample characteristics such as the median or the mean. In ipsative CFA, patterns are defined within an individual reference system, e.g., relative to the S's median of different variable scores. Normative CFA examines dimensionality of scales and is comparable to factor analysis in this respect. Ipsative CFA rather yields information about location of scores in different variables, in a similar way to ANOVA or Friedman testing. However, both normative and ipsative CFA may supply information not obtainable by means of the aforementioned methods. This is illustrated in a reanalysis of data in 4 scales of an anxiety inventory.
Keywords: Anxiety; Frequency Distribution; Personality Measures; Statistical Analysis

Not only a question of Etiquette: Pitfalls in addressing the gifted. Considerations and analyses based on a modified Dweck framework - Ziegler, Albert; Stöger, Heidrun (Learning and individual differences, 2010)

Nur vertiefen oder auch wiederholen? Differenzielle Verläufe kognitiver Lernstrategien im Semester - Naujoks, Nick; Händel, Marion (Unterrichtswissenschaft : Zeitschrift für Lernforschung, 2020)
Zum Verständnis komplexer Lerninhalte in hochschulischen Lernsituationen können kognitive Lernstrategien, d. h. Organisations‑, Elaborations- und Wiederholungsstrategien, beitragen. Diese erwiesen sich in früheren Studien als förderlich für Leistungen. Zur Aufklärung des zeitpunktspezifischen Einsatzes von kognitiven Lernstrategien im Verlauf eines Semesters, differenziellen Nutzungsmustern über die Zeit und ihrem Zusammenhang mit Klausurleistungen wurde die folgende Feldstudie durchgeführt. Über neun Semesterwochen hinweg verfassten N = 213 Studierende einen wöchentlichen Eintrag in einem Lernblog, in dem sie ihr Lernverhalten bezüglich einer Vorlesung reflektierten. Die qualitative Auswertung und anschließende längsschnittliche Untersuchung der offenen Lernblogs zeigten, dass die Lernstrategien je nach Zeitpunkt im Semester unterschiedlich häufig eingesetzt wurden. Insgesamt ergaben sich anhand einer Längsschnitt-Clusteranalyse drei voneinander abgrenzbare Nutzungsmuster im Semesterverlauf: Studierende, die ihren Strategieeinsatz im Verlauf variierten („Vario-Lerner“), Studierende mit einem kontinuierlichen Einsatz aller drei kognitiven Lernstrategien und einem deutlich erhöhten Einsatz von Wiederholungsstrategien direkt vor der Klausursituation („Kontinuo-Lerner“) sowie eine große Gruppe von Studierenden, die insgesamt wenig kognitive Lernstrategien anwandten („Minimum-Lerner“). Die „Kontinuo-Lerner“ erwiesen sich hinsichtlich der Leistung am erfolgreichsten. Die Ergebnisse liefern Hinweise darauf, die zeitliche Dynamik bei der Untersuchung und Förderung von Lernprozessen zu beachten und beispielsweise in die Erforschung von Lernprofilen zu integrieren.<br
Keywords: Lernstrategien; Längsschnittuntersuchungen; Clusteranalyse; Lernblogs; Leistung

Nutzung von Anschlussmaßnahmen nach stationärem Alkoholentzug: Annahmen zum Stand der Vernetzung im deutschen Suchthilfesystem - Reichl, Daniela; Enewoldsen, Niklas; Tegethoff, Paulina; Gendlina, Taisia; Saur, Sebastian; Lang, Catharina; Fuhrmann, Lukas; Weisel, Kiona; Berking, Matthias; Zink, Mathias; Ahnert, Andreas; Falkai, Peter; et al. (Sucht, 2023)
Aims: The present study addresses potential problems with treatment transition by investigating the use of aftercare treatments by inpatients after alcohol withdrawal treatment without immediate transition to rehabilitation. Methods: We analyzed the control group of the SmartAssistEntz project. Therefor, 181 individuals were interviewed three and six weeks, as well as three and six months after their withdrawal treatment, assessing information regarding the use and evaluation of different aftercare treatments. Results: Over the course of the study, more than half of the participants reported using at least one aftercare treatment. Mostly and most continuously used were drug counseling offers (20-35 % of the participants). Rehabilitation treatments were reported by 8-14 % of the participants six weeks after withdrawal treatment, and by 27-33 % six months thereafter. The treatments were mostly considered to be "helpful", whereby self-help groups performed worst. The reason for the lack of aftercare was mostly waiting time (12-22 % of the cases). The use of rehabilitation treatment during the first three months after withdrawal treatment was associated with a reduced risk of relapse. Conclusions: Particularly drug counseling offers seem to be a low-threshold and subjectively helpful measure following inpatient withdrawal treatment. At the same time, regarding abstinence, the visit of rehabilitation treatments seems to be decisive. Thus, their use should be promoted more intensely.
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Keywords: aftercare treatment; alcohol; health care; withdrawal treatment

Occupational eMental Health and teachers’ health: A meta-analytic review on the efficacy of internet-based intervention for promoting mental health in teachers - Lehr, Dirk; Heber, Elena; Sieland, Bernhard; Hillert, Andreas; Funk, Burkhardt; Ebert, David (Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung, 2016)
Background: Occupational eMental Health covers a wide variety of interventions using the potential of information and communication technology for the purpose of prevention and health promotion in employees. Based on extensive research in psychotherapy, internet-based interventions are increasingly being developed for chronically stressed employees. Objectives: To review the evidence on the efficacy of internet-based interventions for the promotion of mental health in teachers. Methods: A systematic literature search and meta-analysis on randomized controlled trials were conducted. Results: A total of 4155 abstracts were screened and four were included in the meta-analysis. Internet-based interventions led to a reduction in depressive symptoms (d = 0.68), improved quality of sleep (d = 1.03), reduced perseverative thinking in terms of improved mental detachment (d = 0.76), and reduced worrying (d = 0.60) compared with nonactive control groups. After 6 months, the effects for depression (d = 0.75), insomnia (d = 0.96), mental detachment (d = 0.83), and worrying (d = 0.63) remained stable. The effects for absenteeism were d = 0.18 (4.9 days) and for presenteeism d = 0.15 (4.3 days). Conclusion: Internet-based interventions are an effective and sustainable method for mental health preservation in teachers. They have the potential to reach target groups that have not been reached before by established interventions. The effects are similar to those observed for established interventions. More evidence from replication studies is needed, especially in the area of universal prevention and routine care.
Keywords: eHealth; Mental health in teachers; Meta-analysis; Occupational Health; Primary Prevention

One Group’s Advantage or Another Group’s Disadvantage? How Comparative Framing Shapes Explanations of, and Reactions to, Workplace Gender Inequality - Bruckmüller, Susanne; Braun, Maike (Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2020)
Gender inequality is usually described as women’s disadvantage, only rarely as men’s advantage. Moreover, it is often illustrated by metaphors such as the glass ceiling—an invisible barrier to women’s career advancement—metaphors that often also focus on women’s disadvantage. Two studies (N = 228; N = 495) examined effects of these different ways of framing gender inequality. Participants read about gender inequality in leadership with a focus on either women or men, and either without a metaphor (women underrepresented vs. men overrepresented) or with a women-focused or men-focused metaphor (glass ceiling/labyrinth vs. old boys’ club). Metaphors caused participants to perceive gender inequality as (somewhat) more important. Regardless of metaphor use, women-focused descriptions led to more explanations of inequality focusing on women relative to explanations focusing on men, as well as to more suggestions of interventions targeting women at the expense of interventions aimed at systemic changes.
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Keywords: comparison; framing; glass ceiling; leadership; metaphor

Online consultations in mental healthcare during the COVID-19 outbreak: An international survey study on professionals' motivations and perceived barriers - De Witte, Nele A.J.; Carlbring, Per; Etzelmueller, Anne; Nordgreen, Tine; Karekla, Maria; Haddouk, Lise; Belmont, Angélique; Øverland, Svein; Abi-Habib, Rudy; Bernaerts, Sylvie; Brugnera, Agostino; Compare, Angelo; et al. (Internet Interventions, 2021)
Introduction: While the general uptake of e-mental health interventions remained low over the past years, physical distancing and lockdown measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic created a need and demand for online consultations in only a matter of weeks. Objective: This study investigates the uptake of online consultations provided by mental health professionals during lockdown measures in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the participating countries, with a specific focus on professionals' motivations and perceived barriers regarding online consultations. Methods: An online survey on the use of online consultations was set up in March 2020. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) guided the deductive qualitative analysis of the results. Results: In total, 2082 mental health professionals from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden were included. The results showed a high uptake of online consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic but limited previous training on this topic undergone by mental health professionals. Most professionals reported positive experiences with online consultations, but concerns about the performance of online consultations in a mental health context (e.g., in terms of relational aspects) and practical considerations (e.g., relating to privacy and security of software) appear to be major barriers that hinder implementation. Conclusions: This study provides an overview of the mental health professionals' actual needs and concerns regarding the use of online consultations in order to highlight areas of possible intervention and allow the implementation of necessary governmental, educational, and instrumental support so that online consultations can become a feasible and stable option in mental healthcare.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Digital interventions; e-Mental health; Implementation; Online consultations; Telepsychology

Online intervention for prevention of major depression: In Reply - Ebert, David; Buntrock, Claudia; Cuijpers, Pim; Berking, Matthias (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2016)

Online mentoring as an extracurricular measure to encourage talented girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics): An empirical study of one-on-one versus group mentoring - Stöger, Heidrun; Hopp, Manuel; Ziegler, Albert (Gifted child quarterly, 2017)

Online mentoring for girls in secondary education to increase participation rates of women in STEM: A long-term follow-up study on later university major and career choices - Stoeger, Heidrun; Debatin, Tobias; Heilemann, Michael; Schirner, Sigrun; Ziegler, Albert (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2023)
An important first step in talent development in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is getting individuals excited about STEM. Females, in particular, are underrepresented in many STEM fields. Since girls' interest in STEM declines in adolescence, interventions should begin in secondary education at the latest. One appropriate intervention is (online) mentoring. Although its short-term effectiveness has been demonstrated for proximal outcomes during secondary education (e.g., positive changes in elective intentions in STEM), studies of the long-term effectiveness of STEM mentoring provided during secondary education-especially for real-life choices of university STEM majors and professions-are lacking. In our study, we examine females' real-life decisions about university majors and entering professions made years after they had participated in an online mentoring program (CyberMentor) during secondary education. The program's proximal positive influence on girls' elective intentions in STEM and certainty about career plans during secondary education had previously been demonstrated in several studies with pre-post-test waitlist control group designs. Specifically, we compared the choices that former mentees (n = 410) made about university majors and entering professions several years after program participation with (1) females of their age cohort and (2) females of a group of girls comparably interested in STEM who had signed up for the program but then not participated (n = 71). Further, we examined the explanatory contribution to these later career-path-relevant, real-life choices based on (1) mentees' baseline conditions prior to entering the program (e.g., elective intentions in STEM), (2) successful 1-year program participation, and (3) multiyear program participation. Findings indicate positive long-term effects of the program in all areas investigated.
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Online Mentoring for Talented Girls in STEM: The Role of Relationship Quality and Changes in Learning Environments in Explaining Mentoring Success - Stoeger, Heidrun; Debatin, Tobias; Heilemann, Michael; Ziegler, Albert (New directions for child and adolescent development, 2019)
Although participation rates of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are continually improving, low rates are still an issue in many countries. While previous studies found positive effects of online mentoring for increasing girls' interests in STEM, research concerning explanatory mechanisms is lacking. We found evidence that in a 1-year online mentoring program for girls (age: M = 13.82 years, N = 998) in STEM, suitably implemented mentoring (operationalized via relationship quality in a program that systematically incorporates structural and organizational aspects of successful mentoring) was associated with positive changes in the learning environments of the mentees (as indicated by their increasing educational capital). These positive changes were associated with increases in the program-related mentoring outcomes STEM activities and elective intentions in STEM. Finally, we found that suitably implemented online mentoring was indirectly related to an increase in these two mentoring outcomes via an increase in educational capital. These results indicate the importance of paying close attention to learning environments when planning interventions. (c) 2019 The Authors. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Online Peer Counseling for Suicidal Ideation: Participant Characteristics and Reasons for Using or Refusing This Service - Weiss, Maren; Hildebrand, Anja; Braun-Scharm, Hellmuth; Stemmler, Mark (Psych, 2021)
[U25] is a German online-peer-counseling service for adolescents with suicidal ideation, who typically do not seek or receive adequate counseling. We conducted an online survey in order to compare persons who receive online counseling by [U25] compared to those who are visitors of [U25] websites but do not (yet) receive counseling. Via online survey, all visitors to the [U25] websites were invited to fill in a questionnaire on sociodemographic data, utilization reasons, and barriers. Our final sample consisted of n = 318 counseling clients, n = 1127 persons who have not yet sought help but intend to do so (“prospective clients”), and n = 444 persons who do not consider [U25] counseling for themselves (“refusers”). Clients were more often female and showed positive attitudes toward online counseling. Low perceived need for counseling was the most frequent barrier reported by the refusers, whereas fear of stigma and practical barriers were rarely reported; younger and male refusers reported needing to write down one’s problems as a barrier more often. Self-selection might reduce generalizability of our results. Online counseling can facilitate receiving psychosocial support for young persons with suicidal ideation, particularly if barriers are addressed.<br
Keywords: suicide prevention; adolescents; online counseling; peer counseling; utilization barriers

Online-Peer-Suizid-Präventionsprogramme bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen: Eine systematische Übersichtsarbeit - Hildebrand, Anja; Weiss, Maren; Stemmler, Mark (Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 2019)

Online prevention programmes for university students: stakeholder perspectives from six European countries - Irish, Madeleine; Kuso, Stefanie; Simek, Monika; Zeiler, Michael; Potterton, Rachel; Musiat, Peter; Nitsch, Martina; Wagner, Gudrun; Karwautz, Andreas; Bolinski, Felix; Karyotaki, Eirini; Rovira, Carla Soler; et al. (European Journal of Public Health, 2021)
BACKGROUND: Students beginning university are at a heightened risk for developing mental health disorders. Online prevention and early intervention programmes targeting mental health have the potential to reduce this risk, however, previous research has shown uptake to be rather poor. Understanding university stakeholders' (e.g. governing level and delivery staff [DS] and students) views and attitudes towards such online prevention programmes could help with their development, implementation and dissemination within university settings. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews, focus groups and online surveys were completed with staff at a governing level, university students and DS (i.e. student health or teaching staff) from six European countries. They were asked about their experiences with, and needs and attitudes towards, online prevention programmes, as well as the factors that influence the translation of these programmes into real-world settings. Results were analyzed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: Participating stakeholders knew little about online prevention programmes for university settings; however, they viewed them as acceptable. The main themes to emerge were the basic conditions and content of the programmes, the awareness and engagement, the resources needed, the usability and the responsibility and ongoing efforts to increase reach. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, although these stakeholders had little knowledge about online prevention programmes, they were open to the idea of introducing them. They could see the potential benefits that these programmes might bring to a university setting as a whole and the individual students and staff members.
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On the effectiveness of sexual offender treatment in prisons: A comparison of two different evaluation designs in routine practice - Lösel, Friedrich; Link, Eva; Schmucker, Martin; Bender, Doris; Breuer, Maike Miriam; Carl, Lena; Endres, Johann; Lauchs, Lora (Sexual Abuse-A Journal of Research and Treatment, 2020)
Although there is less continuity of sexual offending in the life course than stereotypes suggest, treatment should lead to a further reduction of reoffending. Contrary to this aim, a recent large British study using propensity score matching (PSM) showed some negative effects of the core sex offender treatment program (SOTP) in prisons. International meta-analyses on the effects of sex offender treatment revealed that there is considerable variety in the results, and methodological aspects and the context play a significant role. Therefore, this study compared different designs in the evaluation of sex offender treatment in German prisons. PSM was compared with an exact matching (EM) by the Static-99 in a sample of 693 sex offenders from Bavarian prisons. Most results were similar for both methods and not significant due to low base rates. There was a treatment effect at p < .05 on general recidivism in the EM and at p = .06 on serious reoffending in the PSM. For sexual recidivism, EM showed a negative trend, whereas PSM suggested the opposite. Overall, the study underlines the need for more replications of evaluations of routine practice, methodological comparisons, sensitive outcome criteria, and differentiated policy informatio
Keywords: sex offender treatment; prison; evaluation design; propensity score matching

openTSST – An open web platform for large-scale, video-based motion analysis during acute psychosocial stress - Richer, Robert; Geßler, Tobias; Herzer, Liv; Abel, Luca; Küderle, Arne; Rohleder, Nicolas; Eskofier, Björn (IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks: Sensor and Systems for Digital Health, 2023)
We present openTSST, an open web platform to assess stress-related motion changes from video data with the goal to enable a more holistic stress assessment. Our proof-of-concept study shows that stress-induced changes in body posture and movements can reliably be measured using openTSST. With this work, we lay the groundwork for an ecological and large-scale analysis of human behavior during stress which can contribute to new findings in stress research.<br
Keywords: Stress; Motion Capture; Trier Social Stress Test; Machine Learning; OpenPose

Operante Verfahren - Junge-Hoffmeister, Juliane; Pittig, Andre; et al. (Klinische Psychologie & Psychotherapie. 3. Aufl., 2021)

Optimal location of family homes for dual career couples - Gugat, Martin; Abele-Brehm, Andrea; Klamroth, Kathrin (2010)
The number of dual-career couples with children is growing fast. These couples face various challenging problems of organizing their lifes, in par- ticular connected with childcare and time-management. As a typical ex- ample we study one of the difficult decision problems of a dual career couple from the point of view of operations research with a particular focus on gender equality, namely the location problem to find a family home. This leads to techniques that allow to include the value of gender equality in rational decision processes.
Keywords: Dual Careec couples; Optimal Location Problem; Childcare Management

Optimierung expositionsbasierter Therapie: Ein Ansatz des inhibitorischen Lernens - Pittig, Andre; Stevens, Stephan; Vervliet, Bram; Treanor, Michael; Conway, Christopher C.; Zbozinek, Tomislav; Craske, Michelle G. (Psychotherapeut, 2015)
Keywords: Exposure therapy; Extinction; Case studies; Clinical application; Anxiety disorders

Optimizing exposure-based CBT for anxiety disorders via enhanced extinction: Design and methods of a multicentre randomized clinical trial - Heinig, Ingmar; Pittig, Andre; Richter, Jan; Hummel, Katrin; Alt, Isabel; Dickhoever, Kristina; Gamer, Jennifer; Hollandt, Maike; Koelkebeck, Katja; Maenz, Anne; Tennie, Sophia; Totzeck, Christina; et al. (International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2017)
Exposure-based psychological interventions currently represent the empirically best established first line form of cognitive-behavioural therapy for all types of anxiety disorders. Although shown to be highly effective in both randomized clinical and other studies, there are important deficits: (1) the core mechanisms of action are still under debate, (2) it is not known whether such treatments work equally well in all forms of anxiety disorders, including comorbid diagnoses like depression, (3) it is not known whether an intensified treatment with more frequent sessions in a shorter period of time provides better outcome than distributed sessions over longer time intervals. This paper reports the methods and design of a large-scale multicentre randomized clinical trial (RCT) involving up to 700 patients designed to answer these questions. Based on substantial advances in basic research we regard extinction as the putative core candidate model to explain the mechanism of action of exposure-based treatments. The RCT is flanked by four add-on projects that apply experimental neurophysiological and psychophysiological, (epi)genetic and ecological momentary assessment methods to examine extinction and its potential moderators. Beyond the focus on extinction we also involve stakeholders and routine psychotherapists in preparation for more effective dissemination into clinical practice.
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Keywords: anxiety disorders; exposure therapy; extinction; randomized clinical trial

Organisierende Hormoneffekte auf das motivationale Gehirn [Organizing hormone effects on the motivational brain] - Köllner, Martin (39th Colloquium on Motivational Psychology, 2019)

Organizational effects of gonadal steroids on the implicit power motive - Janson, Kevin; Köllner, Martin; Schultheiss, Oliver (50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology, 2016)

Organizational hormone effects and reactions to a dominance contest: An experimental approach - Köllner, Martin; Braun, Sinja; Gegenfurtner, Paula; Schöttner, Hanna; Schuster, Lea; Steib, Simon (63. TeaP - Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, 2021)

Overcome procrastination: Enhancing emotion regulation skills reduce procrastination - Eckert, Marcus; Ebert, David; Lehr, Dirk; Sieland, Bernhard; Berking, Matthias (Learning and individual differences, 2016)
In a first study, cross-sectional analyses indicated that ER skills and procrastination were associated and that these connections were mediated by the ability to tolerate aversive emotions. In a second study, cross lagged panel analyses showed that (1) the ability to modify aversive emotions reduced subsequent procrastination and that (2) procrastination affected the subsequent ability to tolerate aversive emotions. Finally, in a third study, a two-arm randomized control trial (RCT) was conducted. Results indicated that systematic training of the ER skills tolerate and modify aversive emotions reduced procrastination. Thus, in order to overcome procrastination, emotion-focused strategies should be considered. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
Keywords: Procrastination; Emotion regulation; Emotion-focused intervention; Training; Procrastination; Emotion regulation; Emotion-focused intervention; Training

Overt and covert attention shifts to emotional faces: Combining EEG, eye tracking, and a go/no-go paradigm - Kulke, Louisa; Brümmer, Lena; Pooresmaeili, Arezoo; Schacht, Annekathrin (Psychophysiology, 2021)
In everyday life, faces with emotional expressions quickly attract attention and eye movements. To study the neural mechanisms of such emotion-driven attention by means of event-related brain potentials (ERPs), tasks that employ covert shifts of attention are commonly used, in which participants need to inhibit natural eye movements towards stimuli. It remains, however, unclear how shifts of attention to emotional faces with and without eye movements differ from each other. The current preregistered study aimed to investigate neural differences between covert and overt emotion-driven attention. We combined eye tracking with measurements of ERPs to compare shifts of attention to faces with happy, angry, or neutral expressions when eye movements were either executed (go conditions) or withheld (no-go conditions). Happy and angry faces led to larger EPN amplitudes, shorter latencies of the P1 component, and faster saccades, suggesting that emotional expressions significantly affected shifts of attention. Several ERPs (N170, EPN, LPC) were augmented in amplitude when attention was shifted with an eye movement, indicating an enhanced neural processing of faces if eye movements had to be executed together with a reallocation of attention. However, the modulation of ERPs by facial expressions did not differ between the go and no-go conditions, suggesting that emotional content enhances both covert and overt shifts of attention. In summary, our results indicate that overt and covert attention shifts differ but are comparably affected by emotional content.
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Keywords: early posterior negativity; emotion-driven attention; ERPs; eye movements; overt attention

Pädagogik und Bildungsökonomie - Ziegler, Albert (LVH aktuell, 2010)

Pädagogik und Bildungsökonomie - Ziegler, Albert (SwissGifted, 2010)

Paradigmatic Approach to Support Personalized Counseling With Digital Health (iKNOW) - Speiser, Dorothee; Heibges, Maren; Besch, Laura; Hilger, Caren; Keinert, Marie; Klein, Katharina; Rauwolf, Gudrun; Schmid, Christine; Schulz-Niethammer, Sven; Stegen, Steffi; Westfal, Viola; Witzel, Isabell; et al. (JMIR Formative Research, 2023)
iKNOW is the first evidence-based digital tool to support personalized counseling for women in Germany with a hereditary cancer risk. The counseling tool is designed for carriers of pathogenic gBRCA (germline breast cancer gene) variants that increase the lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Carriers of pathogenic variants are confronted with complex, individualized risk information, and physicians must be able to convey this information in a comprehensible way to enable preference-sensitive health decisions. In this paper, we elaborate on the clinical, regulatory, and practical premises of personalized counseling in Germany. By operationalizing these premises, we formulate 5 design principles that, we suggest, are specific enough to develop a digital tool (eg, iKNOW), yet wide-ranging enough to inform the development of counseling tools for personalized medicine more generally: (1) digital counseling tools should implement the current standard of care (eg, based on guidelines); (2) digital counseling tools should help to both standardize and personalize the counseling process (eg, by enabling the preference-sensitive selection of counseling contents from a common information base); (3) digital counseling tools should make complex information easy to access both cognitively (eg, by using evidenced-based risk communication formats) and technically (eg, by means of responsive design for various devices); (4) digital counseling tools should respect the counselee’s data privacy rights (eg, through strict pseudonymization and opt-in consent); and (5) digital counseling tools should be systematically and iteratively evaluated with the users in mind (eg, using formative prototype testing to ensure a user-centric design and a summative multicenter, randomized controlled trial). On the basis of these paradigmatic design principles, we hope that iKNOW can serve as a blueprint for the development of more digital innovations to support personalized counseling approaches in cancer medicine.
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Keywords: BRCA; breast cancer; cancer risk; digital health; genetic counseling; hereditary breast and ovarian cancer; hereditary cancer; online counseling tool; ovarian cancer; risk communication; user-centered design principles

Parental goal orientations for their kindergarten children: Introductiong the Nuremberg Parental Goal Oriantiation Scales (NuPaGOS) - Reutlinger, Marold; Ballmann, Anke; Vialle, W; Zhang, Zhitian; Ziegler, Albert (Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 2015)

Parental personality disorder and child maltreatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Senberg, Asne; Schmucker, Martin; Oster, Anna; Zumbach, Jelena (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2023)
Background: Parental pathology may affect parenting capacity and is deemed a risk factor for child maltreatment. Especially parental personality disorder (PD) can significantly burden the relationship and interaction between parents and their children. Objective: This meta-analytic review aims to summarize and quantify the influence of parental PD on the occurrence / the risk of child maltreatment. Participants and setting: Studies had to meet the following inclusion criteria: They had to analyze a sample of parents with a diagnosed PD and the occurrence / risk of maltreating their children. To be included in the narrative synthesis and/or meta-analysis, they had to be case-control, cross-sectional, or longitudinal studies. Literature research was conducted in the databases Web of Science, Psychinfo, and Google Scholar up to January 2023. Methods: First, studies were analyzed on a narrative level, and eligible studies for the meta-analysis were identified. Studies were grouped according to the diagnosed PDs. Five different groups were included: borderline PD, antisocial PD, narcissistic PD, nondifferentiated PDs, and Cluster B PDs. Three different random-effects meta-analyses were computed (borderline PD, antisocial PD, Cluster B PDs). Meta-analyses were controlled for publication bias and different covariates (e.g., study quality, sample size). Results: After screening 41 full texts, 17 studies were included in the narrative synthesis, out of which 14 samples from 11 studies were included in the meta-analysis. Analysis of borderline PD showed an association with the occurrence / risk of child maltreatment (OR = 8.08; 95 % CI [2.51, 25.93]). However, after taking into account possible publication bias, this association was no longer significant. We found a significant and stable association between antisocial PD and the occurrence of / risk of child maltreatment (OR = 4.92; 95 % CI [3.26, 7.43]). Analysis of Cluster B PDs (antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic) revealed a significant overall association (OR = 4.23; 95 % CI [2.75, 6.5]), indicating that the presence of Cluster B PDs in parents significantly increases the occurrence of / the risk of child maltreatment. Conclusions: Analyses indicated a significant association between of Cluster B PDs, and specifically between antisocial and borderline PD, with the occurrence of / the risk of child maltreatment. However, methodological limitations have to be taken into account, because results for borderline PD were no longer significant after controlling for possible publication bias. Moreover, the number of studies included was rather small, and results showed a substantial amount of heterogeneity. Other: This work was not supported by any funding.
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Keywords: Abuse; Child maltreatment; Neglect; Personality disorders; Psychological assessment; Risk

Parental Stress Provoked by Short-Term School Closures During the Second COVID-19 Lockdown - May, Isabelle; Awad, Sarah; May, Matthias; Ziegler, Albert (Journal of Family Issues, 2021)
Governments of numerous countries implemented school closures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Several investigations have shown the negative impact of social-distancing policies and school closures on children worldwide. Recently, research also demonstrated adverse effects on adults’ well-being. The development of children is strongly affected by their parent’s emotional state. The present study aimed to examine parental stress levels caused by a short period of homeschooling in December 2020 in Germany. A structured survey was set up and distributed randomly via social media and parent associations. We observed a significant increase in stress and concerns. Family conflicts significantly increased, social isolation was feared, and powerlessness and helplessness ascended. Risk factors were parental education levels, parental working time, and teaching features like the frequency of feedback, correction, and accessibility.
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Keywords: childhood; COVID-19; exposed children; family relations; parental stress

Parenting and family-oriented programs for the prevention of child behavior problems: What the evidence tells us - Lösel, Friedrich; Bender, Doris (Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 2017)
Keywords: prevention; parenting programs

Parenting stress and the reliability of parental information in the diagnostics of children and adolescents with symptoms of psychiatric and behavioral disorders - Irlbauer-Müller, Viktoria; Eichler, Anna; Stemmler, Mark; Moll, Gunther; Kratz, Oliver (Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 2017)
Information from parents is regularly used in the diagnostic process of children and adolescents with psychiatric symptoms. But the reliability of this information is debatable, because the parents' own stress can distort their perceptions of the child's symptoms.For each of N = 68 children and adolescents (11-18 years) who were using mental health services for the first time, we evaluated the ratings of a parent and a professional clinician (internalizing, externalizing symptoms, total-problem score). In addition, parenting stress was scored on the Eltern-Belastungs-Inventars (EBI, Tröster, 2011), which measures both child-related stress and parent-related stress as well as total stress.Highly stressed parent ratings differed more from the clinicians' ratings than the ratings of less stressed parents. Additionally, correlations showed that higher parenting stress resulted in larger differences between the parent's and the clinician's assessments. Multiple regressions proved the predictive value of child-caused parenting stress for these differences. These results apply for internalizing symptoms, externalizing symptoms, and total-problem score.Parenting stress should be evaluated systematically in order to carefully assess the value of the information from parents and to determine how it should be included in diagnostic and therapeutical decisions.
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Partners of Incarcerated Men: Questioning Caring Stereotypes - Souza, Karen; Lanskey, Caroline; Markson, Lucy; Lösel, Friedrich (The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family, 2019)
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Patient and therapist-sided Experience with the Implementation and Execution of internet- and video-based cognitive Behavior Therapy in the Routine Care - Etzelmueller, Anne; Schneegans, Nils; Kremer, Julia; Radkovsky, Anna; Ebert, David (2017)

Patient-Centered Design of an e-Mental Health App - Glomann, Leonhard; Hager, Viktoria; Lukas, Christian; Berking, Matthias (Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering, 2019)
Clinically diagnosed patients who suffer psychological illnesses are usually well supported during ambulatory treatments. Once back in their personal environment, the likelihood increases for them to relapse into past conscious or subconscious habitual patterns. The key to a successful and long-lasting medical attendance is regarded as an individually tailored and constantly available support. In this respect, an e-Mental Health app, acting as a constant companion, is envisaged to support an ongoing personal treatment of a patient during or after an ambulatory treatment. As part of the "mindtastic" project, the app "mindtastic Phoenix" is being created in a cooperation between the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg's Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, the related information technology department and the service design company LINC Interactionarchitects. This paper describes the design process of this e-Mental Health app and highlights the deviations from the design process of conventional apps.
Keywords: eHealth; mHealth; Mental health; Interdisciplinary; Human-Centered Design; Patient-Centered Design

Patient's experience with blended video- and internet based cognitive behavioural therapy service in routine care - Etzelmueller, Anne; Radkovsky, Anna; Hannig, Wiebke; Berking, Matthias; Ebert, David (Internet Interventions, 2018)
Keywords: Patient's experience; Routine care; Depression; Internet-based self-help; Video-based psychotherapy; Blended therapy

Perceived fairness of customer prioritization and customer divestment in B2C markets - Hommelhoff, Sabine (Doctoral Colloquium of the 39th Annual Conference of the European Marketing Academy, 2010)

Perceived fairness of differential customer treatment - Hommelhoff, Sabine (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2011)

Perceived fairness of differential customer treatment: Consumers' understanding of distributive justice really matters - Hommelhoff, Sabine; von Wangenheim, Florian (Journal of service research, 2013)

Perceived fairness of differential customer treatment: How US and German consumers differ - Hommelhoff, Sabine; von Wangenheim, Florian (AMA Winter Educators' Conference, 2011)

Performing a task jointly enhances the sound-induced flash illusion. - Wahn, Basil; Rohe, Tim; Gearhart, Anika; Kingstone, Alan; Sinnett, Scott (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2020)
Our senses are stimulated continuously. Through multisensory integration, different sensory inputs may or may not be combined into a unitary percept. Simultaneous with this stimulation, people are frequently engaged in social interactions, but how multisensory integration and social processing interact is largely unknown. The present study investigated if, and how, the multisensory sound-induced flash illusion is affected by a social manipulation. In the sound-induced flash illusion, a participant typically receives one visual flash and two auditory beeps and she or he is required to indicate the number of flashes that were perceived. Often, the auditory beeps alter the perception of the flashes such that a participant tends to perceive two flashes instead of one flash. We tested whether performing a flash counting task with a partner (confederate), who was required to indicate the number of presented beeps, would modulate this illusion. We found that the sound-induced flash illusion was perceived significantly more often when the flash counting task was performed with the confederate compared with performing it alone. Yet, we no longer find this effect if visual access between the two individuals is prevented. These findings, combined with previous results, suggest that performing a multisensory task jointly-in this case an audiovisual task-lowers the extent to which an individual attends to visual information, which in turn affects the multisensory integration process.
Keywords: Multisensory processing; social cognition; joint action; sound-induced flash illusion; double flash illusion

Peripheral inflammation over the course of a cognitive behavioral intervention in PTSD - von Majewski, Kristin; Rohleder, Nicolas; Ehring, Thomas (Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 2023)
Inflammation has an important predictive role for long-term health. This is also true when looking at the specific population of trauma survivors with PTSD. There are emerging findings showing that PTSD is related to reduced somatic health as well as evidence linking inflammation with disease outcomes in this group, such as heart diseases and early mortality, regardless of age, gender or conventional risk factors. The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD symptom severity has been demonstrated by several previous studies. In contrast, literature is scarce, yet, whether inflammation improves over the course of treatment for PTSD. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether not only PTSD symptoms, but also inflammation changes over the course of psychological treatment. Twenty-nine PTSD patients were followed while attending an outpatient clinic receiving cognitive behavioral therapy. Inflammation, determined by the C-reactive protein (CRP) assessed via the dried blood spot (DBS) technique, and symptom severity, surveyed by the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL) were measured at 5 points before trauma-focused therapy, as well as after four, eight and twelve weeks of intervention; furthermore, a 10-month follow-up assessment was conducted. Results revealed significant improvements of PTSD symptom severity during investigation, but no significant changes in the inflammatory biomarker (CRP). Results in terms of improvement in PTSD symptom severity are in line with prior findings. The results obtained for inflammation may suggest that risk factors for somatic health consequences in PTSD patients remain despite successful psychological treatment. Further longitudinal studies are needed to fully understand the relationship between inflammation and therapeutic outcome and to develop interventions normalizing inflammation in PTSD patients.
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Keywords: CBT; CRP; Inflammation; Inflammatory biomarker; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Psychological treatment; Trauma

Personalised Deep Learning for Monitoring Depressed Mood from Speech - Gerczuk, Maurice; Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas; Amiriparian, Shahin; Kathan, Alexander; Bauer, Jonathan Felix; Berking, Matthias; Schuller, Björn (2022 10th E-Health and Bioengineering Conference, EHB 2022, 2022)
We utilise a longitudinal dataset of 17 526 speech samples collected from 30 patients with major depressive disorder and 11 sub-clinically depressed individuals to perform a personalised prediction of depressed mood. The data has been recorded via a smartphone app over a two-week ecological momentary assessment with three recording sessions per day. Each session's speech samples are accompanied by a self-assessed rating on the discrete visual analogue mood scale (VAMS) from 0-10. As these ratings are highly subjective, a personalised machine learning method is leveraged. For this purpose, the beginning of the recording period is utilised to train both a shared model backbone, and adapt personalised layers added at the end to each speaker's speech. Our approach yields a Spearman's correlation coefficient (ρ) of 0.79 on the test set, compared to the non-personalised baseline of ρ=0.61. Furthermore, we analyse our results with regard to the type of speech sample – reading three depression-related questions, answering them, and freely formulating an uplifting spontaneous thought. Here, we find that personalisation boosts performance across all types, especially for the fixed content question readings. Overall, our work highlights the efficacy of personalised machine learning for depressed mood monitoring.
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Keywords: computational paralinguistics; depression; digital health; personalisation

Personalised depression forecasting using mobile sensor data and ecological momentary assessment - Kathan, Alexander; Harrer, Mathias; Küster, Ludwig; Triantafyllopoulos, Andreas; He, Xiangheng; Milling, Manuel; Gerczuk, Maurice; Yan, Tianhao; Rajamani, Srividya Tirunellai; Heber, Elena; Grossmann, Inga; Ebert, David D.; et al. (Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022)
Introduction: Digital health interventions are an effective way to treat depression, but it is still largely unclear how patients’ individual symptoms evolve dynamically during such treatments. Data-driven forecasts of depressive symptoms would allow to greatly improve the personalisation of treatments. In current forecasting approaches, models are often trained on an entire population, resulting in a general model that works overall, but does not translate well to each individual in clinically heterogeneous, real-world populations. Model fairness across patient subgroups is also frequently overlooked. Personalised models tailored to the individual patient may therefore be promising. Methods: We investigate different personalisation strategies using transfer learning, subgroup models, as well as subject-dependent standardisation on a newly-collected, longitudinal dataset of depression patients undergoing treatment with a digital intervention ((Formula presented.) patients recruited). Both passive mobile sensor data as well as ecological momentary assessments were available for modelling. We evaluated the models’ ability to predict symptoms of depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-2; PHQ-2) at the end of each day, and to forecast symptoms of the next day. Results: In our experiments, we achieve a best mean-absolute-error (MAE) of (Formula presented.) (25% improvement) for predicting PHQ-2 values at the end of the day with subject-dependent standardisation compared to a non-personalised baseline ((Formula presented.)). For one day ahead-forecasting, we can improve the baseline of (Formula presented.) by (Formula presented.) to a MAE of (Formula presented.) using a transfer learning approach with shared common layers. In addition, personalisation leads to fairer models at group-level. Discussion: Our results suggest that personalisation using subject-dependent standardisation and transfer learning can improve predictions and forecasts, respectively, of depressive symptoms in participants of a digital depression intervention. We discuss technical and clinical limitations of this approach, avenues for future investigations, and how personalised machine learning architectures may be implemented to improve existing digital interventions for depression.
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Keywords: depression; forecasting; machine learning; mental illness; mHealth; personalised models

Personality rather than clinical variables determines quality of life after major colorectal surgery - Siassi, Ramin Michael; Weiss, Maren; Hohenberger, Werner; Lösel, Friedrich; Matzel, Klaus (Diseases of the colon & rectum, 2009)
PURPOSE: Clinical factors, especially the presence of a stoma, have been presumed to be the major determinants of quality of life after colorectal surgery. We investigated the relative influence of other variables, e.g., patient's personality, sense of coherence, and coping strategies, to determine the validity of this long-held assumption. METHODS: We investigated 79 patients undergoing major colorectal surgery. Quality of Life was assessed with the Short Form-36 and Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index questionnaires at three and 12 months postsurgery. Additionally, baseline psychologic data on personality and sense of coherence were assessed. The results were analyzed in both a bivariate manner and by multivariate hierarchical regression analysis. RESULTS: In the bivariate analysis, clinical parameters had a small and temporary effect on quality of life, if any. In the multivariate model the character of the underlying disease and the presence of a stoma did not affect quality of life significantly. In contrast, emotional lability, extraversion, and sense of coherence had a strong and lasting influence, accounting for 49 percent of variance (Delta R2) for emotional quality of life, 22 percent for physical and 32 percent for disease-specific Quality of Life. CONCLUSION: Personality exerts a strong and lasting effect on quality of life after colorectal surgery. This effect by far exceeds the influence of common clinical variables.

Personalized Psychotherapy for Adult Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review - Cuijpers, Pim; Ebert, David; Acarturk, Ceren; Andersson, Gerhard; Cristea, Ioana A. (Behavior Therapy, 2016)
Personalized medicine is aimed at identifying which characteristics of an individual predict the outcome of a specific treatment, in order to get a better match between the individual and the treatment received. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing two psychotherapies directly in a group of depressed patients with a specific characteristic. We focused on the six most examined types of psychotherapy for adult depression. Our searches resulted in 41 studies with 2,741 patients who met inclusion criteria. These 41 studies examined 27 specific characteristics of patients. Power calculations indicated that we would need 4 studies for each characteristic to find a clinically relevant effect size set at g = 0.50 and 16 studies for an effect size of 0.24. Only 3 patient characteristics were found to have sufficient power and to significantly moderate treatment outcomes. Cognitive-behavioral therapy was found to be more effective than other therapies in older adults (g = 0.29), in patients with comorbid addictive disorders (g = 0.31), and in university students (g = 0.46). Risk of bias was considerable in most of the included studies. It was estimated that it will take another 326 years to have sufficient statistical power for showing an effect size of g = 0.50 of the 27 characteristics, and 1,372 years to show an effect size of 0.24. Although several dozens of studies have compared the effects of psychotherapies in specific target groups, we will need to develop more powerful alternatives to comparative outcome studies in order to identify personalized treatments for depression.
Keywords: cognitive-behavioral therapy; depression; meta-analysis; personalized medicine; psychotherapy

Person-Centered Data Analysis With Covariates and the R-Package confreq - Stemmler, Mark; Heine, Joerg-Henrik; Wallner, Susanne (Methodology, 2021)
Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA) is a useful statistical method for the analysis of multiway contingency tables and an appropriate tool for person-oriented or person-centered methods. In complex contingency tables, patterns or configurations are analyzed by comparing observed cell frequencies with expected frequencies. Significant differences between observed and expected frequencies lead to the emergence of Types and Antitypes. Types are patterns or configurations which are significantly more often observed than the expected frequencies; Antitypes represent configurations which are observed less frequently than expected. The R-package confreq is an easy-to-use software for conducting CFAs; another useful shareware to run CFAs was developed by Alexander von Eye. Here, CFA is presented based on the log-linear modeling approach. CFA may be used together with interval level variables which can be added as covariates into the design matrix. In this article, a real data example and the use of confreq are presented. In sum, the use of a covariate may bring the estimated cell frequencies closer to the observed cell frequencies. In those cases, the number of Types or Antitypes may decrease. However, in rare cases, the Type-Antitype pattern can change with new emerging Types or Antitypes.
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Person-centered methods: Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA) and Other Methods for the Analysis of Contingency Tables - Stemmler, Mark (Springer, 2014)
This book takes an easy-to-understand look at the statistical approach called the person-centered method. Instead of analyzing means, variances and covariances of scale scores as in the common variable-centered approach, the person-centered approach analyzes persons or objects grouped according to their characteristic patterns or configurations in contingency tables. The main focus of the book will be on Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA; Lienert and Krauth, 1975) which is a statistical method that looks for over and under-frequented cells or patterns. Over frequented means that the observations in this cell or configuration are observed more often than expected, under-frequented means that this cell or configuration is observed less often than expected. In CFA a pattern or configuration that contains more observed cases than expected is called a type; similarly, a pattern or configuration that is less observed than expected are called an antitype. CFA is similar to log-linear modeling. In log-linear modeling the goal is to come up with a fitting model including all important variables. Instead of fitting a model, CFA looks at the significant residuals of a log-linear model. The book describes the use of an R-package called confreq (derived from Configural Frequency Analysis). The use of the software package is described and demonstrated with data examples.

Person-Centered Methods: Configural Frequency Anaylsis (CFA) and Other Methods for the Analyis of Contingency Tables - Stemmler, Mark (Springer, 2020)

Persönlichkeit und Kriminalität - Lösel, Friedrich; Schmucker, Martin (Theorien und Anwendungsfelder der Differentiellen Psychologie, 2004)

Persuit and adjustment of goals during unemployment - Niessen, Cornelia; Heinrichs, N. (21st Annual SIOP Conference, 2005)

Pflegekinder: Situation, Bindungen, Bedürfnisse und Entwicklungsverläufe. - Kindler, Heinz; Scheuerer-Englisch, Hermann; Gabler, Sandra; Köckeritz, Christine (Handbuch Pflegekinderhilfe, 2011)

Phasen der Lebensspanne - Schulkindalter - Kramer, Klaudia; Bovenschen, Ina; Spangler, Gottfried; et al. (Handbuch der Entwicklungspsychologie, 2007)

Physical Activity as a Treatment for Social Anxiety in Clinical and Non-clinical Populations: A Systematic Review and Three Meta-Analyses for Different Study Designs - Zika, Maya; Becker, Linda (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021)
The fear of being in the focus of attention in social situations can develop into a social anxiety disorder (SAD). The classical treatment for SAD is cognitive behavioral therapy, which is in many cases accompanied by drug treatments. A promising alternative treatment is physical activity (PA) interventions, because regular PA has been shown to be suitable for reducing anxiety in general. We conducted a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO registration no. CRD42020191181) as well as two additional searches. Our aim was to investigate whether PA interventions are a suitable treatment for SAD and whether PA is suitable for reducing social anxiety (SA) in general. For studies with randomized controlled trial designs, a not statistically significant effect of medium size toward lower general SA symptomatology was found in the PA group in comparison with the control group (d = −0.24, p = 0.377). For studies with longitudinal designs, significantly lower SA symptoms were found after PA treatments (d = −0.22, p = 0.001). The effect of PA on SA was stronger for adults than for children and adolescents (p = 0.003). For cross-sectional studies, a small negative association between SA symptoms and the amount of PA was found, i.e., lower SA was found for people who were more physically active (r = −0.12, p = 0.003). We conclude that PA is a promising means for the (additional) treatment of SAD or to reduce SA in general in non-clinical samples, but more research in which high-quality studies with randomized controlled trial designs are used is needed. Furthermore, open questions with respect to moderating variables (e.g., age, sex, BMI, type of intervention, stress, amount of regular PA before the intervention, and comorbidities) remain still open.<br
Keywords: social anxiety; social-anxiety disorder; social phobia; fear of negative evaluation; physical activity; physical exercise; meta-analysis

Physiological and behavioral indices of emotion dysregulation as predictors of outcome from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy for anxiety - Davies, Carolyn D.; Niles, Andrea N.; Pittig, Andre; Arch, Joanna J.; Craske, Michelle G. (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2015)
Background and objectives Identifying for whom and under what conditions a treatment is most effective is an essential step toward personalized medicine. The current study examined pre-treatment physiological and behavioral variables as predictors and moderators of outcome in a randomized clinical trial comparing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxiety disorders.
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Keywords: Acceptance and commitment therapy; Behavioral avoidance; Cognitive behavioral therapy; Heart rate variability; Treatment outcome