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Project LeadNastasia GriffioenCategorySocial MediaProject statusCompleted
Social Media & Mental Health
Social media are immensely popular, and - as it happens - a dense source of social information. In this project, we investigate what sort of information and experiences young people encounter on these social media, and how these things relate to their mental wellbeing, as well as how young people's momentary wellbeing relates to their social media behaviours.
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Nastasia Griffioen
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Isabela Granic
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Hanneke Scholten
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Project LeadJoanneke WeerdmeesterCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusCompleted
Exploring the Potential of Game-based Biofeedback for Anxiety Regulation
This project explored the potential of using game-based biofeedback interventions for anxiety regulation. Specifically, the project had the following aims: 1) Creating a new integrative theoretical model featuring traditional as well as newly proposed mechanisms of change in biofeedback interventions for anxiety regulation. 2) Further developing and validating the efficacy of the biofeedback video game DEEP as an anxiety regulation tool. 3) Formulating guidelines for future research and development of biofeedback interventions for anxiety regulation.
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Joanneke Weerdmeester
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Isabela Granic
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Rutger Engels
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Marieke van Rooij
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Project LeadElke SchoneveldCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusCompleted
MindLight - Childhood Anxiety Prevention
Many children have difficulties with fearful situations and are anxious. Interventions can help to teach children to cope effectively with anxiety-inducing situations. In our project, we rigorously tested whether an intervention in the form of a video game (MindLight) is effective in significantly reducing anxiety symptoms in children 8-12 years old. We did this by comparing MindLight to 1) a commercial game and 2) the gold-standard, cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxiety (Coping Cat). Furthermore, we evaluated the motivational characteristics of MindLight and for whom (e.g., age and gender differences) it is effective.
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Elke Schoneveld
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Isabela Granic
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Rutger Engels
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Geert Verheijen
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Tom Hollenstein
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Project LeadMarieke van RooijCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusCompleted
Gaming Against Anxiety: New Methodology for Personalized Game Interventions
Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychopathologies in children. This project investigates the effects of a biofeedback virtual reality game (DEEP) on breathing and anxiety-related symptoms in anxious children and develops new algorithms to detect changes in the player’s behavior during the game. The aim is to enable game interventions that are personalized to each individual child.
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Marieke van Rooij
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Isabela Granic
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Adam Lobel
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Owen Harris
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Niki Smit
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Joanneke Weerdmeester
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Project LeadHanneke ScholtenCategoryBehavior RegulationProject statusCompleted
Designing and Testing a Game Intervention to Help Youth Quit Smoking
Smoking is one of the leading public health problems in the world. In the Netherlands today, still 1 in 4 youth between the ages of 16 and 25 smoke. Even more worrisome is that there are almost no evidence-based interventions available to help them quit smoking. That’s why we, in collaboration with scientists, game designers and smoking youth, developed and tested a game to help youth quit smoking. HitnRun is a mobile game in which you can train your impulse control, and in which you collaborate in teams, support each other’s quit attempts, and compete against other teams.
Project Team-
Hanneke Scholten
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Maartje Luijten
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Isabela Granic
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Ken Koontz
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Anouk Poppelaars
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