Beate Schrank
Biographic Data
| ID | 327634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beate Schrank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beate |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrank |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRANK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitätsklinikum Tulln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9397-3076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Portrayal of autism in mainstream media – a scoping review about representation, stigmatisation and effects on consumers in non-fiction and fiction media
Mainstream media is a common source of information on mental health, and its portrayal of mental disorders can influence public perceptions and stigmatisation. Recently, autism has received increased attention in mainstream media. This scoping review aims to contribute to the existing literature on the portrayal of autism and its stigmatising effect by mapping the characteristics and range of records that describe the representation of autism in …
A scoping review about the portrayal of mental illness in commercial video games
Current research is sparse on the relatively new but highly relevant topic of mental disorders in video games. This scoping review aimed to map the existing research on portrayal of mental illness in video games. PubMed, PsychInfo, PsycArticles, Medline, Scopus and the ACM Digital Library were searched, resulting in the final inclusion of seven records. Prevalences for the representation of mental illness ranged from 12 to 24%. Findings indicate …
Translation, adaptation and validation of the German version of the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale (Guess-GA-18) for adolescents
The short version of the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale (GUESS-18) uses nine factors to assess video game satisfaction. As video games play an important role for children and adolescents, the aim of this study was to translate and adapt the adult English version to an adolescent German version (GUESS-GA-18) and validate the new scale. Translation and adaptation were done in a participatory process with Austrian adolescents in two consecu…
A scoping review about the portrayal of depression and anxiety in mainstream and social media
Media portrayal of mental disorders has a significant impact on awareness and stigma. Given the high prevalence of depression and anxiety as mental disorders, it is crucial to understand how they are represented. This scoping review aimed to map the existing literature on the portrayal of depression and anxiety in mainstream and social media. A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed and PsychInfo, resulting in the inclusion of 20 records th…
Promoting Peer Connectedness Through Social-Emotional Learning
There is little evidence regarding the effect mechanisms of social-emotional learning programs on children’s peer relationships. The current study evaluated a novel school-based social-emotional learning program for the first year of secondary school assessing effects on social-emotional skills, peer connectedness, happiness, student and teacher classroom climate. The sample included 19 intervention classrooms ( n = 399) and 16 waitlist-control c…
Early adolescents' perspectives on factors that facilitate and hinder friendship development with peers at the time of school transition
Supportive peer relationships are fundamental for mental health and well-being. Hence, peers and friends are a valuable resource, especially at the time of transition from primary to secondary school. Yet, current literature lacks both novel approaches to studying friendship development and how to involve early adolescents in research that is being conducted about them. Within the present study we used novel participatory research methods involvi…
Female researchers in high-impact psychiatric journals
The regular analysis of publication trends, including gender aspects, is an important contribution to the identification of gender-specific differences in academic psychiatry. The present study aimed to characterise publication topics in three high-impact psychiatric journals across three time points within 15 years (2004, 2014 and 2019). Publication patterns of female authors compared to their male colleagues were examined. All articles publishe…
Children’s perspective on fears connected to school transition and intended coping strategies
The transition from primary to secondary school comes with major changes in the lives of children. There is a shortage of in-depth analyses of young people’s perspectives concerning their fears and strategies to address these. This qualitative study aims to gain first-hand understanding of children’s fears and the intended coping strategies used during school transition. Data from 52 workshops were analysed, with a total of 896 students ( M age =…
Engaging Children in Intervention Development - A Comparison of Four Qualitative Methods and Their Suitability to Elicit Information Relevant for Early Intervention Development
Stakeholder involvement in intervention development has become increasingly popular and is understood as crucial for successful implementation. However, methodological difficulties persist regarding the implementation of appropriate participatory methods to engage children and collect relevant information for intervention development. This paper discusses four creative, qualitative methods - a brainstorming task, an individual letter, a story-bas…
Arbeit in der psychosozialen Versorgung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Familien während der Covid-19-Pandemie – Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Interviewstudie in Wien und Niederösterreich
Die Vorgaben des „Social Distancing“ während der Corona-Pandemie stellten Angebote der psychosozialen Versorgung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Familien, die traditionell auf persönlichem Kontakt beruhen, in der Durchführung vor neue Herausforderungen. In dieser qualitativen Studie wurde zu drei Erhebungszeitpunkten zwischen März und Oktober 2020 untersucht, wie sich die Pandemie speziell auf diese Angebote ausgewirkt hat und wie Mitarbeiter*innen…
Determinants of social connectedness in children and early adolescents with mental disorder
TikTok Is My Life and Snapchat Is My Ventricle”
Early adolescents are frequent users of online communication tools (OCTs). Yet, we have limited knowledge about how OCTs influence this population and their friendships. We sought opinions of 938 Austrian early adolescents on the role of OCTs for their friendships via a questionnaire and 207 focus groups. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the focus groups. We found that despite the emergence of some online-specific aggression, OCTs are percei…
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis
Conceptualising and measuring the well-being of people with psychosis
Determinants, self-management strategies and interventions for hope in people with mental disorders
Development and validation of an integrative scale to assess hope
BACKGROUND: Hope includes the dimensions of time, goals, control, relations and personal characteristics. Existing tools that measure it vary in length and psychometric properties and cover different parts of its overall concept. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop an instrument that integrates all relevant aspects of hope is concise, easy to use and shows good psychometric properties. DESIGN: Three pre-existing instruments (Miller Hope Scale…
TikTok Is My Life and Snapchat Is My Ventricle”
Early adolescents are frequent users of online communication tools (OCTs). Yet, we have limited knowledge about how OCTs influence this population and their friendships. We sought opinions of 938 Austrian early adolescents on the role of OCTs for their friendships via a questionnaire and 207 focus groups. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the focus groups. We found that despite the emergence of some online-specific aggression, OCTs are percei…
Promoting Peer Connectedness Through Social-Emotional Learning
There is little evidence regarding the effect mechanisms of social-emotional learning programs on children’s peer relationships. The current study evaluated a novel school-based social-emotional learning program for the first year of secondary school assessing effects on social-emotional skills, peer connectedness, happiness, student and teacher classroom climate. The sample included 19 intervention classrooms ( n = 399) and 16 waitlist-control c…
Children’s perspective on fears connected to school transition and intended coping strategies
The transition from primary to secondary school comes with major changes in the lives of children. There is a shortage of in-depth analyses of young people’s perspectives concerning their fears and strategies to address these. This qualitative study aims to gain first-hand understanding of children’s fears and the intended coping strategies used during school transition. Data from 52 workshops were analysed, with a total of 896 students ( M age =…
Development and validation of an integrative scale to assess hope
BACKGROUND: Hope includes the dimensions of time, goals, control, relations and personal characteristics. Existing tools that measure it vary in length and psychometric properties and cover different parts of its overall concept. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop an instrument that integrates all relevant aspects of hope is concise, easy to use and shows good psychometric properties. DESIGN: Three pre-existing instruments (Miller Hope Scale…
Determinants, self-management strategies and interventions for hope in people with mental disorders
Conceptualising and measuring the well-being of people with psychosis
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis
Arbeit in der psychosozialen Versorgung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Familien während der Covid-19-Pandemie – Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Interviewstudie in Wien und Niederösterreich
Die Vorgaben des „Social Distancing“ während der Corona-Pandemie stellten Angebote der psychosozialen Versorgung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Familien, die traditionell auf persönlichem Kontakt beruhen, in der Durchführung vor neue Herausforderungen. In dieser qualitativen Studie wurde zu drei Erhebungszeitpunkten zwischen März und Oktober 2020 untersucht, wie sich die Pandemie speziell auf diese Angebote ausgewirkt hat und wie Mitarbeiter*innen…
Determinants of social connectedness in children and early adolescents with mental disorder
TikTok Is My Life and Snapchat Is My Ventricle”
Early adolescents are frequent users of online communication tools (OCTs). Yet, we have limited knowledge about how OCTs influence this population and their friendships. We sought opinions of 938 Austrian early adolescents on the role of OCTs for their friendships via a questionnaire and 207 focus groups. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the focus groups. We found that despite the emergence of some online-specific aggression, OCTs are percei…
Early adolescents' perspectives on factors that facilitate and hinder friendship development with peers at the time of school transition
Supportive peer relationships are fundamental for mental health and well-being. Hence, peers and friends are a valuable resource, especially at the time of transition from primary to secondary school. Yet, current literature lacks both novel approaches to studying friendship development and how to involve early adolescents in research that is being conducted about them. Within the present study we used novel participatory research methods involvi…
Female researchers in high-impact psychiatric journals
The regular analysis of publication trends, including gender aspects, is an important contribution to the identification of gender-specific differences in academic psychiatry. The present study aimed to characterise publication topics in three high-impact psychiatric journals across three time points within 15 years (2004, 2014 and 2019). Publication patterns of female authors compared to their male colleagues were examined. All articles publishe…
Children’s perspective on fears connected to school transition and intended coping strategies
The transition from primary to secondary school comes with major changes in the lives of children. There is a shortage of in-depth analyses of young people’s perspectives concerning their fears and strategies to address these. This qualitative study aims to gain first-hand understanding of children’s fears and the intended coping strategies used during school transition. Data from 52 workshops were analysed, with a total of 896 students ( M age =…
Engaging Children in Intervention Development - A Comparison of Four Qualitative Methods and Their Suitability to Elicit Information Relevant for Early Intervention Development
Stakeholder involvement in intervention development has become increasingly popular and is understood as crucial for successful implementation. However, methodological difficulties persist regarding the implementation of appropriate participatory methods to engage children and collect relevant information for intervention development. This paper discusses four creative, qualitative methods - a brainstorming task, an individual letter, a story-bas…
Portrayal of autism in mainstream media – a scoping review about representation, stigmatisation and effects on consumers in non-fiction and fiction media
Mainstream media is a common source of information on mental health, and its portrayal of mental disorders can influence public perceptions and stigmatisation. Recently, autism has received increased attention in mainstream media. This scoping review aims to contribute to the existing literature on the portrayal of autism and its stigmatising effect by mapping the characteristics and range of records that describe the representation of autism in …
A scoping review about the portrayal of mental illness in commercial video games
Current research is sparse on the relatively new but highly relevant topic of mental disorders in video games. This scoping review aimed to map the existing research on portrayal of mental illness in video games. PubMed, PsychInfo, PsycArticles, Medline, Scopus and the ACM Digital Library were searched, resulting in the final inclusion of seven records. Prevalences for the representation of mental illness ranged from 12 to 24%. Findings indicate …
Translation, adaptation and validation of the German version of the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale (Guess-GA-18) for adolescents
The short version of the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale (GUESS-18) uses nine factors to assess video game satisfaction. As video games play an important role for children and adolescents, the aim of this study was to translate and adapt the adult English version to an adolescent German version (GUESS-GA-18) and validate the new scale. Translation and adaptation were done in a participatory process with Austrian adolescents in two consecu…
A scoping review about the portrayal of depression and anxiety in mainstream and social media
Media portrayal of mental disorders has a significant impact on awareness and stigma. Given the high prevalence of depression and anxiety as mental disorders, it is crucial to understand how they are represented. This scoping review aimed to map the existing literature on the portrayal of depression and anxiety in mainstream and social media. A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed and PsychInfo, resulting in the inclusion of 20 records th…
Promoting Peer Connectedness Through Social-Emotional Learning
There is little evidence regarding the effect mechanisms of social-emotional learning programs on children’s peer relationships. The current study evaluated a novel school-based social-emotional learning program for the first year of secondary school assessing effects on social-emotional skills, peer connectedness, happiness, student and teacher classroom climate. The sample included 19 intervention classrooms ( n = 399) and 16 waitlist-control c…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (4 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (4 works)