Abstract.Introduction: Recent studies indicate high prevalences of disordered eating or eating disorders in adult athletes and a worrying increase in adolescent athletes. Although several risk factors for developing eating disorders have been identified ...
Motivational determinants of goal commitmentSummary. We examined motivational determinants of goal-commitment, namely the final examination of university students (n = 156) from different faculties.We considered judgements of probability of success, of ...
Assessment and Prediction of Burnout According to the Effort–Reward Imbalance Model in a Sample of Healthcare AssistantsAbstract. Psychosocial stress at work and burnout have a main impact on the health and performance of the health sector workforce. The ...
Predicting university drop-outAbstract. The study aimed at clarifying the individual conditions of university drop-out with Cox-regression, structural equation models, and multi-level analyses. The data has been collected from students of the University ...
Is Phonological Awareness a Predictor for Reading?Abstract. There is general consensus that phonological awareness is an important specific predictor of reading development. A more specific clarification of the reciprocal relation between phonological ...
Common and specific components of depression and anxiety. Evaluation of a factor model of depressive and anxious symptoms and their relation to affectBackground: Self-report measures of anxiety and depression are often strongly interrelated. According to ...
Sex Differences in Intergenerational Transmission of Psychological Distress – A Longitudinal ExaminationAbstract.Background: Children of mentally ill parents are a high-risk group. A maternal mental illness seems to have a greater ...
Implicit Association Tests (IATs) are well-known measures of implicit cognition, particularly attitudes. Previous studies reported that IATs are affected by method-specific variance: IAT effects of more intelligent people may appear smaller due to their ...
A central topic of empirical social research is the problem of unobserved heterogeneity. To solve this problem at least partially, a statistical model is presented: the finite mixture of conditional mean and covariance structure models. In this approach, ...
Abstract.Background: The current research into interoception distinguishes between interoceptive accuracy (IAcc), the accurate detection of internal sensations (e.g., heartbeats) as measured by performance on objective IAcc tasks, and ...