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Lipid Biomarkers in Bipolar Disorder: A Scoping Review
No full textWe will perform a scoping review of published literature on lipid biomarkers in bipolar disorder
Does conflictual dialogue increase ratings of story quality Experiment 2
No full textResearch question: does dramatic conflict improve a story? Specifically does conflictual dialogue lead to increased ratings of story quality, story enjoyment, and decreased ratings of how boring a story is?
One almost universally held theory about stories, is that conflict improves stories. We will use specially created stories, in three genres (fantasy, crime, romantic-comedy) manipulated to create different levels of conflictual dialogue, in a repeated measures experiment. After the passage of dialogue, participants will rate story goodness/quality, how enjoyable, and how boring they found the story
Is the Sunny Side Up? Replication of Meier and Robinson (2004)
No full textWe are conducting a second replication of Study 1 from Meier and Robinson’s (2004) paper examining the relationship between affective evaluations and spatial location
The executive function scale in higher education
No full textExecutive functions are higher cognitive processes that allow individuals to carry out purposeful, independent, and self-directed behaviors to achieve a goal. They are a factor with a significant weight in academic achievement. Despite its relevance in the context of higher education, there are no valid assessment instruments for the Mexican population that are useful to evaluate the perception that young people have about their executive functions.
Thus, this research aims to develop and validate a scale to assess the level of self-perception of executive functions used in the school context for higher-education students.
The scale will investigate young people's perceptions of their metacognitive skills, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, working memory, attentional control, emotional control, task initiation, planning, organization, and time management. Items with a Likert-type scale will be used and answered via an online survey. Participants will be students of undergraduate programs of Mexican universities, between 18 and 24 years
Reliably Assessing Relationship Quality in German-Speaking Samples: A Tri-National Online Study Validating the German Versions of the Perceived Relationship Quality Component Questionnaire (German PRQC) and the Couples Satisfaction Index (German CSI)
No full textA large body of research shows the enormous impact of happy relationships on psychological and physical well-being. On an international scale, it is important to have reliable, valid, and comparable measures across different cultural settings and languages. The Perceived Relationship Quality Components Inventory (PRQC; Fletcher et al., 2000) and the Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI; Funk & Rogge, 2007) are widely used measures of relationship satisfaction and quality in the English-speaking world. Although these measures have been in use for years, there are still no psychometrically evaluated German translations for both these instruments. Therefore, this study aims at psychometrically evaluating the German translations of the PRQC and the CSI in the three German-speaking countries Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. For this purpose, 800 participants will be recruited from the three countries using an online survey. In a second wave, with a delay of 8 weeks, participants will be contacted again. At the end of this second wave, they will receive their scores and a brief explanation on each questionnaire online if they wish. Participants will not receive any other incentives for participation. In two separate publications (see studies 1 and 2 below), analyses will focus on the validity and reliability of each of the German translations. Furthermore, we will investigate whether the original factor structure of the questionnaires is confirmed, and the performance of the German translation of the CSI at item level will be tested with an IRT analysis
Barriers and facilitators to the professional integration of internationally qualified nurses in Australia: a mixed methods systematic review protocol.
No full textBarriers and facilitators to the professional integration of internationally qualified nurses in Australia: a mixed methods systematic review protocol
Study 1 - Focus Groups
No full textThis is a preregistration of a qualitative study using focus groups. The study examines a pool of candidate items considered to be part of the trait self-control scale under development. Its primary focus is on questions of the items' substantive validity and the psychometric quality of their wording
Improving Bone Health in Wheelchair Users by a Long-term Intervention Combining Bone-specific Exercise and Nutrition
No full textThe low mechanical loading of bones among wheelchair users leads to an
increased risk of bone fractures and associated complications due to low
bone mineral density (BMD). Adding mechanical loading through physical
activity in combination with optimizing nutrition may counteract these negative
consequences in wheelchair users and thereby provide positive impact for bone
health, as well as for physical and mental health.
In this project, a multidisciplinary team will tailor a bone-specific exercise and
nutrition program to increase BMD in sport active and non-active wheelchair
users with initial low BMD
Virtues and Self-Worth in Collegiate Christian Athletes
No full textCross-sectional study assessing how intercollegiate athletic participation influences virtues in a predominantly Christian sample
Is self-reported entrepreneurial life satisfaction driven by biases?
No full textIncremental validity of Impression management for predicting life satisfactio