Abstract: Status-oriented psychological tests have demonstrated their usefulness in diagnosing dementia in clinical groups of patients. For the early recognition of dementia the determination of cognitive performance status only is not sufficient. These ...
The Influence of Learning Motivation and Learning Strategies on College Achievement: Results of a Longitudinal AnalysisSummary: Existing research on the prediction of college achievement suffers from a lack of both longitudinal analyses and complex ...
Abstract: The concept of kinship orientation (nepotism) refers to the tendency to emotionally prefer kin over non-kin, and closer kin over less close kin. This tendency can be operationalized by the correlation of differential genetic relatedness with ...
Zusammenfassung: Der big-fish-little-pond effect beschreibt das Phänomen, dass vergleichbar leistungsstarke Schülerinnen und Schüler in leistungsstärkeren Lerngruppen infolge sozialer Vergleiche niedrigere Fähigkeitsselbstkonzepte ausbilden als in Gruppen ...
Zielsetzung: Untersuchung des Einflusses der wahrgenommenen Verfügbarkeit von Alkohol auf die Initiierung des Rauschtrinkens im Kindes- und Jugendalter Methodik: Es handelt sich um eine längsschnittliche Beobachtungsstudie mit drei Erhebungszeitpunkten ...
Pubertal stage at first drink as a risk factor for harmful alcohol use in adulthood: is parenting a protective factor?Abstract.Aims: The pubertal stage at first drink has been shown to be a robust risk factor of subsequent alcohol-related problems ...
Alcohol Advertising and frequent, risky, Single-occasion Drinking in AdolescentsAbstract.Objective: To study the effect of the exposure to advertising on the initiation of frequent, risky, single-occasion drinking in adolescents. Methods: This was an ...
Long-term effects of a school-based prevention programAbstract.Aims: With the aim to influence social norms, school classes participating in the non-smoking competition “Be Smart – Don’t Start” commit themselves ...
Spelling Development from Early Elementary School Age to Early AdulthoodAbstract. Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study of the Genesis of Individual Competencies (LOGIC) are presented that describe spelling development from late childhood to early ...
Predicting Teachers' Stress Experience: Findings from a 4-Year Longitudinal StudyAbstract: We advance a theoretical model of self-regulation for the analysis of teachers' stress experiencing, and we test this model in a prospective longitudinal study ...
Development of competence in Educational Science studies: the impact of individual aspects on the acquisition of pedagogical knowledge of student teachersAbstract. Longitudinal studies that record educational science ...
Prediction of Dementia. A Prospective Longitudinal Study with the SKT Short TestAbstract: Most dementias are heralded by subtle cognitive impairment. The present prospective study was aimed at determining the validity of the SKT short test for the ...
Abstract: Cognitive impairment is a prominent symptom of the post-COVID syndrome (PCS). However, the correspondence between subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) and objective results is inconsistent. Here, we ...
This study investigated the direction of effects of temporal and downward social comparisons on self-rated health in very old age. Conversely, self-rated health can either reinforce or hinder comparison processes. In the framework of the Swiss ...
Abstract. The cognitive reserve hypothesis postulates that lifelong cognitive stimulation establishes a buffer that is instrumental in maintaining cognitive health. To examine this conceptual proposition in detail, we applied a novel, more general ...
Psychiatric Problems in Children of Alcoholic FathersSummary:Objectives: In spite of a growing interest in recent years in epidemiological research on behavior problems of children of alcoholics (COAs), few prospective longitudinal child psychiatric ...
Maternal smoking during pregnancy: risk factor for ADHD in the offspring?Summary:Objective: To examine the specifity of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and child behaviour problems. Method: In a prospective longitudinal study ...
Early onset of alcohol and tobacco use - indicator of enhanced risk of addiction?Summary:Objectives: The early onset of substance use is considered to be one of the best predictors of later addiction problems according to a number of U.S.-American ...
Evaluation of a preschool program to promote phonological awareness and letter-sound correspondence – long-term effects in the prevention of dyslexia at the end of the 3rd and 4th gradesObjective: The present study evaluates the long-term effects of a ...
The Importance of Critical Life Events During Childhood for the Mental Health of Adolescents – Results of a 10-Year CatamnesisAbstract.Objective: This longitudinal study examines the influence of critical life ...