Themen für Masterarbeiten

Beschreibung: Psychodynamic models of psychopathology propose that psychopathology is related to internal conflicts around issues like autonomy, closeness, etc. The goal of this thesis would be to use response surface analysis models to test this hypothesis in an existing dataset. Conflict would be represented by the scales of the operationalized psychodynamic diagnostic model, and psychopathology by hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology scales.
Kontakt: Christopher Hopwood, E-Mail

Beschreibung: Most research on eating motivations and meat consumption estimates associations averaged across people. But these averages may hide that some motivations matter a lot for some people and not at all for others. Understanding this variability is important: if the links between motivations and meat eating differ strongly across individuals, then interventions targeting a single motivation (e.g., health or ethics) may only work for a subset of people. This thesis will use daily diary data from the Swiss Eating Study (SwES) to estimate person-specific associations between eating motivations and meat consumption. Because the study includes multiple measurement bursts, it is also possible to test whether these individual differences are stable over time. Results would inform both theory on individual differences in dietary behavior and the design of more personalized interventions for meat reduction.
Kontakt: Maxim Trenkenschuh, E-Mail