Examining the influence of culture on personality and its unbiased assessment is the main subject of cross‐cultural personality research. Recent large‐scale studies exploring personality differences across cultures share substantial methodological and psychometric shortcomings that render it difficult to differentiate between method and trait variance. One prominent example is the implicit assumption of cross‐cultural measurement invariance in personality questionnaires. In the rare instances where measurement ...

Die Studie verbindet die MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) mit der Operationalisierten Psychodynamischen Diagnostik im Kindes- und Jugendalter (OPD-KJ-2). Dargestellt wird die Entwicklung und Anwendung von konfliktspezifischen Geschichtenergänzungsaufgaben für eine systematische Einschätzung der Konflikt- und Strukturachse in der Altersgruppe 2 (6–12 Jahre). Für die Achsen Konflikt und Struktur wird die Interrater-Reliabilität bestimmt. Weiterhin werden explorativ Zusammenhänge zwischen der Konflikt- und Strukturachse ...

Careless responding is a bias in survey responses that disregards the actual item content, constituting a threat to the factor structure, reliability, and validity of psychological measurements. Different approaches have been proposed to detect aberrant responses such as probing questions that directly assess test-taking behavior (e.g., bogus items), auxiliary or paradata (e.g., response times), or data-driven statistical techniques (e.g., Mahalanobis distance). In the present study, gradient boosted trees, a ...

Ausgangspunkt der folgenden Beiträge ist die Arbeit „Coaching in der zweiten Romantik: Abstieg oder Aufstieg?“ von Böning und Strikker. Drei Autor/innen nehmen Stellung zu den Fragen: Welchen Einfluss kann Coaching auf den gesellschaftlichen und politischen Diskurs nehmen, um sowohl gesamtgesellschaftliche als auch politische Handlungsnotwendigkeiten aufzugreifen und dazu Stellung zu nehmen? Wie gestaltet Coaching organisationsbezogen kulturelle und politische Verhältnisse mit, wie sie die Autoren unter anderem in ...

We compared the long‐term effects of generating questions by learners with answering questions (i.e., testing) and restudying in the context of a university lecture. In contrast to previous studies, students were not prepared for the learning strategies, learning content was experimentally controlled, and effects on factual and transfer knowledge were examined. Students' overall recall performance after one week profited from generating questions and testing but not from restudying. When analyzing the effects on both ...

Rezension zu Heidi Möller, Jannik Zimmermann (2020): Schwierige Situationen im Business-Coaching. Praxisbeispiele, Perspektiven und Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Wiesbaden: Springer, 206 Seiten, 39,99 €.

We investigated the effect of distributed practice and more specifically the “lag effect” concerning the retention of mathematical procedures. The lag effect implies that longer retention intervals benefit from longer inter-study intervals (ISIs). University students (N = 235) first learned how to solve permutation tasks and then practiced this procedure with an ISI of zero (i.e., massed), one, or 11 days. The final test took place after one or five weeks. All conditions were manipulated between-subjects. Contrary ...

A high level of text comprehension can be achieved by engaging learners in processes of organization and integration while reading a cohesive text. In the present study, we investigated the impact of an innovative generative technique on learning with scientific texts. The cohesion generation was implemented by means of explicit cohesion gaps. High school students (n = 199) were randomly assigned to either receive a fully cohesive scientific text (control condition) or a scientific text that required the selection ...

Personality traits have often been highlighted to relate to how people cope with stressful events. The present paper focuses on character strengths as positive personality traits and examines two basic assumptions that were derived from a core characteristic of character strengths (i.e., to determine how individuals deal with adversities): (1) character strengths correlate with coping and (2) buffer the effects of work-related stress on job satisfaction. Two different samples (i.e., a mixed sample representing various ...

Um die psychischen Belastungen von Müllwerkern zu erheben, wurde eine Bestandsaufnahme mit der Berufsgruppe vorgenommen, die Erkenntnisse für die spätere Beratungstätigkeit lieferte. Die Erhebung der Belastungen in Gruppendiskussionen wurde durch eine teilnehmende Beobachtung ergänzt, was einen psychodynamischen Blick auf die Besonderheiten der Organisation rund um den Müllwagen und die Charakteristika der Müllwerker erlaubte. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Belastungen und dem beruflichen ...