Projects
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Project LeadAniek WolsCategoryGamingProject statusWriting Dissertation
Nonspecific Factors in Video Games for Mental Health
More and more games are designed to promote mental health. If these games are found to be effective, it is important to investigate which factors are responsible for the improvements in mental health. Most often, this type of research focuses on the specific clinical techniques that were designed into the game. However, from the clinical literature it is known that, for instance, expectations, motivation, and one’s mindset about the malleability of symptoms play a major role in positive intervention outcomes. In my project I aim to investigate these nonspecific factors and examine how we can manipulate these factors in order to optimize video games for mental health.
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Aniek Wols
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Isabela Granic
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Tom Hollenstein
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Marlou Poppelaars
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Project LeadBloombox GroupCategoryGamingProject statusData Collection
Play-Based Grieving in Minecraft
Children who experience the death of a parent or sibling can feel isolated and alone in their grief and often lack access to safe, supportive, and developmentally appropriate online settings where they can connect with other peers and caring adults who “get” their grief. ExperienceCraft is a youth-led, online community for grieving children, where they can play, connect, and learn with others who have experienced the death of a caregiver, sibling, or close member of their community.
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Bloombox Group
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Project LeadAdam LobelCategoryGamingProject statusCompleted
Gaming and Children's Psycho-Social Development
Despite widespread claims that video gaming is harmful for children's social and emotional development, hardly any research has tracked children over time to verify these claims. Moreover, such claims run contrary to the importance which psychologists have given to play. This project aimed to address these matters.
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Adam Lobel
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Isabela Granic
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Rutger Engels
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William Burk
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Lisanne Stone
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Project LeadGeert VerheijenCategoryGamingProject statusCompleted
The Influence of Playing Video Games on Social Development of Adolescents
This project investigates the influences of different aspects of video game play behavior on the adjustment and social relationships of adolescents. In an annual survey, adolescents indicate their well-being and various elements of their video game play behavior (such as their motivation for gaming, type of games played, and the social context in which games are played). The aim of the project is to investigate how average, day-today gaming affects the social development of teens.
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Geert Verheijen
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Sabine Stoltz
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Yvonne van den Berg
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Toon Cillessen
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Project LeadAdam LobelCategoryGamingProject statusCompleted
Fostering Emotional Competencies with Games in Classrooms
This project strives to create a suite of analog games to be implemented in classrooms. The goal of these games is to improve children's emotional competencies in three domains which past research highlights as being crucial for healthy development: emotion vocabulary, cognitive reappraisal skills, and children's theory of emotion.
Project Team-
Adam Lobel
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Andrea Samson
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David Sander
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Owen Harris
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Jeremy Falger
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Isabela Granic
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Sabine Stoltz