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The Acceptance of Serious Games by Mental Health Service Users and Mental Health Professionals: An International Comparison Study
(2021)
Research aim. This study investigates which determinants predict the intention to use SG in psychotherapeutic settings among both relevant application groups: mental health service users (individuals with psychotherapy experience either currently or in the past) and mental health professionals. Since ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture highly interplay with (e-mental health) technology uptake (Clough et al., 2019), SG acceptability was assessed in several countries (N = 13) by particularly considering the ...
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Access to the learning material enhances learning by means of generating questions: Comparing open- and closed-book conditions
(2020)
Generating questions referring to the learning material is a powerful learning strategy. The present study investigated potential mechanisms behind this effect. Students (N=231) read a text and then generated questions referring to the text in three conditions: (1) open-book (i.e., text accessible), (2) closed-book (i.e., text inaccessible), and (3) cued closed-book (i.e., text inaccessible but keywords provided). After one week, students’ knowledge gain was larger in the open-book and cued closed-book conditions ...
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How to promote relational processing while learning with expository texts
(2020-11)
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht darin, Empfehlungen zu geben, wie man die Inferenzbildung beim Lesen von expositorischen Texten fördern kann. Wir haben zwei Lernmethoden konzipiert, um die tiefe Verarbeitung (insbesondere) bei schwachen Lesern zu fördern – Verschachteln von Informations-einheiten und Generieren kausaler Kohäsion. Beide Lernmethoden sollten die Sichtbarkeit von Kohäsionslücken erhöhen und die Abhängigkeit vom domänenspezifischen Vorwissen beim Schließen dieser Lücken reduzieren.
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Dissertation
Exploring and Validating Construct Interpretations of Psychological Measurements
(2024)
In psychological research, as in other scientific disciplines, developing accurate measures of the phenomena under study is fundamental to maintaining the integrity of scientific conclusions. Psychological researchers are often criticized for a lack of rigor when it comes to measurement. On closer inspection, however, these problems may be due not only to the lack of implementation of common standards, but also to fundamental methodological flaws in those standards. Measurement methodology within psychological research ...