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Student flourishing: a scooping review
No full textThe study will explore and review previous research published on the topic
Developing positive masculinity in Australian boys and young men: Enhancing a strength-based approach for community wellbeing
No full textMasculinity has an influence on psychosocial wellbeing, such that boys and men who adopt positive masculinity experience a myriad of positive psychosocial outcomes. On a macro level, the implementation of positive masculinity also stands to benefit communities (e.g., fewer violent crimes, decreased intimate partner violence). Informed by our previous framework (attached in OSF files for this project), this research aims to canvas what positive masculinity means to boys and young men in Australia. We also aim to understand the barriers and facilitators to implementing positive masculinity interventions for boys and young men. Overall, we will examine the lived experiences of boys and young men (as well as their teachers, parents, sports coaches, and peers of all genders) to better understand how we might help engage the next generation of Australian men in positive masculinity.
Research questions are:
1. How do boys and young men in Australia conceptualise positive masculinity?
2. What are the barriers and facilitators to boys and young men connecting meaningfully with positive masculinity
Associations between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Depression, Insomnia and Anxiety Disorders – Focusing on Subdimensions
No full textAlthough there are many studies that clearly show a relationship between mental health and trait emotional intelligence (TEI), there have been only few studies that have examined clinical samples (Andrei et al., 2014; Hansen et al., 2009). Furthermore, it is particularly noticeable that most studies only looked at global TEI scores. But since TEI has many facets, it may also be important to look at the subdimensions of TEI and especially whether disorders differ in terms of the association with these dimensions.
The aim of this study is, therefore, to investigate whether individuals with different mental disorders, differ significantly from healthy control groups on different TEI facets, measured with the TEIQue. For this purpose, a large patient sample, with different diagnoses (including depression, anxiety-related disorder, or insomnia) was recruited. Matched healthy control groups will be recruited. We expect that participants with a depression, participants with an anxiety-related disorder, and participants with insomnia will score lower on the global TEI score as well as on all subscales of the TEIQue compared to the healthy controls
A window to what we miss
No full textIn this experiment, we investigate the effects of self- versus other-exclusion on social media users' fundamental needs, discrete emotions, and coping behavior
Effect of keep track task in semantic-pragmatic adaptation
No full textPrevious work (Schuster & Degen, CogSci 2019) has shown that listeners adapt to two speakers who differ in their use expressions of uncertainty expressions. However, they only looked at a group of listeners in aggregate and did not analyze individual differences. Here, we test to what extent individual differences in working memory control modulate the extent to which individual participants adapt to different speakers. We hypothesize that participants who have better control of their working memory are better at keeping the two speaker's representations apart in memory, resulting in greater adaptation to each speaker
“Lorazepam Effects on Eye Movements” (LOREYE-Study)
No full textThis preregistration describes a study that will result in several separate analyses and thus publications. We have decided to list these individual analyses together here, as they are part of the same study and therefore share a large part of the preregistration.
Previous studies have shown that benzodiazepines have robust effects on saccadic eye movements. These studies point to a role of the GABAergic system in the control of eye movements, as benzodiazepines act at the ionotropic GABAA receptor as positive allosteric modulators. However, a number of significant gaps remain in the literature, that we aim to address.
Specifically, in this study, we analyse benzodiazepine effects on horizontal and vertical saccades, on fixations and on small-amplitude saccades. In addition, we explore benzodiazepine effects on saccades in the everyday context of viewing pictures.
Moreover, using computational modelling we recently provided evidence for GABAergic involvement in inhibitory control (publication in preparation). That previous study involved a mixed prosaccade and antisaccade task with an asynchronous cue, informing about the next trial type in advance. In this study, we aim to extend our findings by using a mixed prosaccade and antisaccade task with a synchronous cue.
Furthermore, another task for which GABAergic involvement in inhibitory control has been shown is the Eriksen flanker task. In this study we apply this task and manipulate the congruency effect in order to further our understanding of the underlying processes.
Finally, we also aim to capture the subjective effects of the drug using visual analogue scales
Criminal Conviction & Meaning in Life - PSID analysis
No full textPertains to the analysis of data collected through the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Our intention is to investigate the well-being implications of a previous criminal conviction
Beliefs and Coping with COVID-19
No full textThe purpose of this research is to investigate how psychological factors (e.g., perceived risk, knowledge, beliefs) and personal need for structure relate to psychological, behavioral, and health outcomes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic