All projects from the School of Applied Psychology
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Social Psychiatry and Epidemiology
Evaluation and publication of research projects in social psychiatry and epidemiology
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Doing good with Virtual Reality?
Information dissemination, access, and comprehension are key components for citizen involvement in democratic processes. The broad dissemination and respective ease of comprehension of voting relevant information in election/voting booklet provided by, for example, the Federal Chancellery is a key prerequisite for ...
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The influence of parental use of smartphones on maternal and paternal sensitivity to the infant
Smartphones have become an integral part of our everyday lives. During pregnancy, they often serve as an important tool for accessing information and entertainment and for keeping in touch with others. However, with the birth of a child many things change in the lives of parents. There is still little research into ...
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Self Explaining and Forgiving Roads
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Translation of a novel questionnaire for borderline personality disorder
A novel situational judgement test to assess borderline personality disorder is translated from english to German and evaluated.
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Cinema culture in schools
In 2009 the project “Kinokultur in der Schule” was launched with the aim to sensitize secondary school students for the film medium and to stimulate their interest in present-day Swiss film culture. To achieve this objective, teachers are provided with classroom materials on current Swiss film productions, which can ...
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Professional development options for banking professionals
The study analyses how the framework conditions for the careers of professionals (+/- 45 years) will change. On the basis of the findings on the changed framework conditions, action models for employees (+/- 45 years) as well as line and HR managers in the finance industry and a guideline with concrete instructions ...
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Psychosomatic comorbidities: Use of Screening instruments in General and Pediatric Practice
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Diversity in intergenerational relationships
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Stress, mental health and work among young adults
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Evaluation Child and Adult Protection Right
Based on clinical registry data from the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich (PSYREC) we address various research questions concerning involuntary admissions and coercion in psychiatry.
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BEGIN Vocational and social integration of immigrants with the aid of a multigenerational mentoring programme
BEGIN aims to support and evaluate the vocational training and career start of immigrants in the field of basic nursing by means of a mentoring programme that was specifically developed based on professional didactics. In close collaboration with the basic training as a healthcare aide offered by the Swiss Red ...
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Evaluation of the Safety Campaign "Made Visible"
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Psychoneuroendocrinology
This project examines temporal associations between hormone levels, affectivity and cognitive functions.h
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Generation Smartphone
The ZHAW Media Psychology section designed the qualitative research project ‘Generation Smartphone’ in collaboration with the FHNW School of Social Work. The aim is to study smartphone use and its significance in the everyday life of 30 adolescents in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The qualitative data ...
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Personality and Psychopathology in Psychotherapy
This project examines changes in personality traits and their association with psychopathological syndromes during the course of a psychotherapeutic intervention.
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The potential of aging workforce
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Rail Transport Service Environment (RTSE II)
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Intercultural Research on Resilience
The project served the sustainable development of a research cooperation with universities in Asia. In concrete terms, a research concept was developed which was implemented with one of the universities in Saigon, Vietnam. The resulting collaboration is an important pillar of the international research network, ...
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Picture books for children of parents with mental illness
When parents develop mental illness, children have a lot of questions and worries. The children are at a higher risk to develop mental illness themselves in later life. That is one of the reasons why it is important to monitor their uncertainty early on and to help them find answers to their questions. Among other ...
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MIKE-Study
The MIKE study focuses on the media use of six to thirteen years old children. It is the first representative study of media use of children in Switzerland and is conducted every two years since 2015. MIKE stands for Medien, Interaktion, Kinder, Eltern (media, interaction, children, parents). Each time, the study ...
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The impact of family stress on children in transition into puberty: The interplay of social and emotional processes
Based on a transactional model of children's development under family stress this study investigates: a) family stress caused by dysfunctional family processes such as interparental conflict, inadequate parenting, and low quality of the parent-child-relationship, b) the mediating function of emotion processing ...
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Advice Booklet on MEDIA LITERACY
Children and adolescents are growing up in a world of media diversity. Parents and teachers often feel uncertain or out of their depth and wonder: how much media time and what media content is good for children? What is to be done in the event of cybermobbing or online addiction? The MEDIENKOMPETENZ (media literacy) ...
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Innovation in train service operation based on Railtransport-Service Environment (RTSE)
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The societal costs of schizophrenia in Switzerland
The results of the study were summarized in the following publication: Pletscher, M; Mattli, R; von Wyl, A; Reich, O; Wieser, S (2015). The societal costs of schizophrenia in switzerland. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 18, 2. 93-103 ABSTRACT: Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental ...