[Assessing Relationship Satisfaction with Four Items? Psychometric Evaluation of the Ultra-short German Version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4)].

The quality of an individual's relationship plays a central role in their personal well-being as well as their mental and physical health. Despite its great importance, there are only a few ultra-short self-report measures for the assessment of relationship quality. An exception is the four-item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4), which is gaining increasing popularity internationally.

[Validation of a German version of the self-rating Adult Disorganized Attachment scale (ADA-D)].

Objective: Disorganized attachment represents the greatest risk factor for psychopathology compared to the "organized" insecure attachment dimensions in various meta-analyses. Recently, the Adult Disorganized Attachment Scale (ADA) was developed as a self-rating scale for measuring disorganized attachment in romantic partnerships. However, a translation and evaluation in German-speaking samples is not yet available.

Measuring Change in Attachment Insecurity Using Short Forms of the ECR-R: Longitudinal Measurement Invariance and Sensitivity to Treatment.

Attachment insecurity is important for psychotherapy both as an aspect influencing the therapeutic process as well as potential outcome variable of a treatment. Two German short forms of the Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised (ECR-R) have been proposed to assess individual differences in attachment anxiety and avoidance. In this research, we examined whether these questionnaires are suitable for measuring change in attachment anxiety and avoidance by testing longitudinal measurement invariance in two independent clinical samples ( = 493, = 273) using a pre-post design.

[Comparison of Self-Reported Childhood Maltreatment Between East and West Germany].

Objective: The socioecological model emphasize the relevance of political, cultural and economic socialization effects for the prevalence of childhood maltreatment, which are analyzed by comparing child maltreatment between East and West German subjects who came of age before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Methods: Using an online survey, a representative general population sample with respect to age, gender distribution and income was assessed regarding child maltreatment and current psychological distress using standardized self-report instruments.

Results: Of 507 study participants, 22,5% reported being born and socialized in East Germany.

[Attachment predicts changes in the level of personality functioning after psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment].

The relationship between patients' attachment strategies and the effectiveness of psychotherapy is empirically well established. However, studies on outcome measures other than symptomatic change are mostly lacking. The present study investigates if attachment anxiety and avoidance predict changes in personality functioning at the end of inpatient psychotherapy.

[Measurement of Change with the Short Form of the OPD Structure Questionnaire (OPD-SQS)].

The transdiagnostic concept of personality structure plays a key role in psychodynamic nosology, since many mental and psychosocial disorders are considered mainfestations of structural vulnerabilities and deficits. Therefore, structural diagnostics is of particular importance, especially with respect to the planning of tailor-made psychotherapeutic interventions. Because changes in personality structure are increasingly being considered as a relevant therapeutic goal, any measures employed towards achieving this goal should be sensitive enough to capture these changes appropriately.

[Psychometric evaluation of the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised German 12-item version (ECR-RD 12) in a sample of psychotherapeutic inpatients].

The ECR-R assesses the self-description of adult attachment strategies in romantic relationships. The present study evaluates the psychometric properties of the German 12-item short version ECR-RD 12 in a large sample of patients in psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment. Inpatients in psychotherapeutic treatment (N = 2231) were assessed using the ECR-RD 12 and other clinical questionnaires.

Altered Neuronal Responses During an Affective Stroop Task in Adolescents With Conduct Disorder.

Conduct disorder (CD) is a psychiatric disorder of childhood and adolescence which has been linked to deficient emotion processing and regulation. The behavioral and neuronal correlates targeting the interaction of emotion processing and response inhibition are still under investigation. Whole-brain event-related fMRI was applied during an affective Stroop task in 39 adolescents with CD and 39 typically developing adolescents (TD).

Maternal parenting behavior and emotion processing in adolescents-An fMRI study.

Parenting is an essential factor within a child's development, yet the impact of normative variations of parenting on neural emotion processing has not been studied to date. The present study investigated 83 healthy adolescents using functional magnetic resonance imaging and an emotional face-matching paradigm. The faces paradigm elicited an increased amygdala response towards negative facial expressions (fearful and angry each compared to neutral faces) and a significant activation of fusiform gyrus to all emotions separately (fearful, happy, angry faces) compared to neutral faces.

Reversal learning strategy in adolescence is associated with prefrontal cortex activation.

Adolescence is a critical maturation period for human cognitive control and executive function. In this study, a large sample of adolescents (n = 85) performed a reversal learning task during functional magnetic resonance imaging. We analyzed behavioral data using a reinforcement learning model to provide individually fitted parameters and imaging data with regard to reward prediction errors (PE).