Search Results - "Heyl, Vera"

Potential and Pitfalls of Digital Voice Assistants in Older Adults With and Without Intellectual Disabilities: Relevance of Participatory Design Elements and Ecologically Valid Field Studies by Schlomann, Anna, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Zentel, Peter, Heyl, Vera, Knapp, Leonore, Opfermann, Christiane, Krämer, Torsten, Rietz, Christian

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Reliability of a shortened single-target implicit association Test (ST-IAT) as an implicit measure of attitudes towards inclusion. Replication and extension of "implicitly measuring attitudes towards inclusive Education: a new attitude Test based on single-target implicit associations" (Lüke and Grosche, 2018, European journal of special needs Education) by Mechler, Christina, Scheer, David, Heyl, Vera

“…Attitudes towards inclusion (ATI) are regarded as an important aspect for the implementation of inclusive education. Yet, explicit measures of ATI have some…”
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Visual Acuity and Cognition in Older Adults With and Without Hearing Loss: Evidence For Late-Life Sensory Compensation? by Wettstein, Markus, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera

“…OBJECTIVES:Relationships between cognitive and sensory functioning become stronger with advancing age, and the debate on underlying mechanisms continues…”
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Psychosocial Adaptation to Age-related Vision Loss: A Six-year Perspective by Heyl, Vera, Wahl, Hans-Werner

“…This comparison of the behavioral and emotional adaptation of elderly visually impaired and sighted people found that age-related visual impairment was…”
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Executive Function and Behavioral Problems in Students with Visual Impairments at Mainstream and Special Schools by Heyl, Vera, Hintermair, Manfred

“…Introduction In this study, executive function of school-aged children with visual impairments (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) is examined in…”
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Assimilative and accommodative coping in older adults with and without sensory impairment: four-year change and prospective relations with affective well-being by Wettstein, Markus, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera

“…Objectives: Sensory impaired older adults may be particularly dependent on coping strategies such as assimilation (or tenacious goal pursuit [TGP]) and…”
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Managing Daily Life With Age-Related Sensory Loss: Cognitive Resources Gain in Importance by Heyl, Vera, Wahl, Hans-Werner

“…This paper investigates the role of cognitive resources in everyday functioning, comparing visually impaired, hearing impaired, and sensory unimpaired older…”
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Perceived Stress Predicts Subsequent Self-Reported Problems With Vision and Hearing: Longitudinal Findings From the German Ageing Survey by Wettstein, Markus, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera

“…Although stress is a risk factor for various diseases in later life, its role for sensory abilities in the second half of life has rarely been empirically…”
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Benefits and challenges of conversational agents in older adults: A scoping review by Even, Christiane, Hammann, Torsten, Heyl, Vera, Rietz, Christian, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Zentel, Peter, Schlomann, Anna

“…Background Commercial conversational agents (CAs) bear the promise of low threshold accessibility for individuals with limited digital competencies. This…”
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Four-year reciprocal relationships between personality and functional ability in older adults with and without sensory impairment: focus on neuroticism and agreeableness by Wettstein, Markus, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera

“…Personality traits have been found to influence health and functional ability (FA) via multiple pathways. However, personality traits may also change in…”
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Self-reported hearing and awareness of age-related change: A domain-specific perspective by Wettstein, Markus, Kornadt, Anna, Heyl, Vera, Wahl, Hans-Werner

“…Background Impaired hearing is associated with disadvantages in developmental outcomes, such as compromised everyday social communication or reduced…”
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Associations of self-reported vision problems with health and psychosocial functioning: A 9-year longitudinal perspective by Wettstein, Markus, Spuling, Svenja M, Hans-Werner-Wahl, Heyl, Vera

“…Impaired vision often results in restrictions across diverse key indicators of successful aging. However, little is known about how impaired vision affects the…”
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationship between neuroticism and cognitive ability in advanced old age: the moderating role of severe sensory impairment by Wettstein, Markus, Kuźma, Elżbieta, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera

“…Objectives: Gaining a comprehensive picture of the network of constructs in which cognitive functioning is embedded is crucial across the full lifespan. With…”
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Functional ability loss in sensory impaired and sensory unimpaired very old adults: analyzing causal relations with positive affect across four years by Wahl, Hans-Werner, Drapaniotis, Philipp M., Heyl, Vera

“…This paper focuses on the relationship between functional ability (FA) and positive affect (PA), a major component of well-being, in sensory impaired very old…”
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Severe vision and hearing impairment and successful aging: a multidimensional view by Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera, Drapaniotis, Philipp M, Hörmann, Karl, Jonas, Jost B, Plinkert, Peter K, Rohrschneider, Klaus

“…Previous research on psychosocial adaptation of sensory-impaired older adults has focused mainly on only one sensory modality and on a limited number of…”
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Anxiety and depression in patients with advanced macular degeneration: current perspectives by Cimarolli, Verena R, Casten, Robin J, Rovner, Barry W, Heyl, Vera, Sörensen, Silvia, Horowitz, Amy

“…Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - despite advances in prevention and medical treatment options - remains prevalent among older adults, often resulting…”
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Robustness of Personality and Affect Relations Under Chronic Conditions: The Case of Age-Related Vision and Hearing Impairment by WAHL, Hans-Werner, HEYL, Vera, SCHILLING, Oliver

“…Relations between personality and affect are generally regarded as robust. Extraversion is closely linked to positive affect (PA), but not to negative affect…”
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Experiencing Age-related Vision and Hearing Impairment: The Psychosocial Dimension by Heyl, Vera, Wahl, Hans-Werner

“…To summarize the current state of research regarding the experience of age-related vision and hearing impairment. Review of the literature. Negative…”
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Cognition-Well-Being Relations in Old Age: Moderated by Sensory Impairment by Wettstein, Markus, Wahl, Hans-Werner, Heyl, Vera

“…We examine whether sensory impairment moderates the association between cognitive performance and well-being and, if so, whether such a moderation effect is…”
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The contribution of adult personality and recalled parent–child relations to friendships in middle and old age by Heyl, Vera, Schmitt, Marina

“…In this study we examined personality traits, in particular openness to experience and agreeableness, and–in an exploratory step – recalled parent–child…”
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