Angelika Ecker

Biographic Data

ID7746068
NAMEAngelika Ecker
GIVEN NAMESAngelika
FAMILY NAMEEcker
SIGNATUREECKER A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Regensburg
ORCID0000-0002-4387-0634
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements

    Open AccessAngelika Ecker, Carolina Gassen Fritsch et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    A single mindfulness intervention had no immediate observable effects in our healthy adolescent sample, and possible reasons for this finding are discussed. Nevertheless, the present data show the potential for increased resilience through mindfulness in adolescence

  • Exploring the mental health impact of Covid-19 on parents of young children

    Open AccessElisa Rodríguez-Toscano, Daniel Schleicher et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Symptoms of anxiety and depression significantly increased during lockdowns compared to before pandemic onset and remained elevated after restrictions eased. COVID-19-related stressors played a greater role in parental mental health outcomes than demographic variables. These findings emphasize the need for early identification of at-risk families and the development of targeted interventions to support parental well-being in future public health …

  • Longitudinal predictors for internalizing and externalizing symptomatology at age 4

    Open AccessIrina Jarvers, Stephanie Kandsperger et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    The findings underscore that most identified risk factors are related to children's temperament, mental and physical health of parents, their experienced stress, and families' social support networks. These insights highlight the importance of targeted interventions focusing on improving parental mental health, reducing stress, and enhancing social support to mitigate early-life psychological problems in children

  • Emotional Reactivity in Adolescents With Non-suicidal Self-injury and Its Predictors

    Open AccessStephanie Kandsperger, Daniel Schleicher et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Results demonstrate the importance of NSSI reinforcement functions for heightened emotional reactivity and emphasize their role as a point for therapeutic intervention by providing alternatives to NSSI and thereby possibly reducing emotional reactivity

  • Emotional Reactivity and Family-Related Factors Associated With Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service

    Open AccessStephanie Kandsperger, Irina Jarvers et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: Adolescents presenting in a child and adolescent psychiatric emergency service show various psychiatric disturbances, most commonly suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). It was postulated that especially disturbed emotion regulation contributes to self-injurious behavior of young people. This study aims to investigate the relevance of emotional reactivity (ER), as part of emotion regulation, during …

  • Suicidality Presented to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency Service

    Open AccessStephanie Kandsperger, Irina Jarvers et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: Children and adolescents who present to child and adolescent psychiatric emergency departments show a variety of reasons for their presentations. Suicidality, in particular suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, as well as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) play a large and important role. In this context, inpatient admissions frequently serve as crisis intervention. Methods: In this study, face-to-face emergency presentations to the em…