Kathrin Heinitz

Freie Universität Berlin | FUB · Department of Education and Psychology

Growing evidence suggests that online positive-psychological interventions effectively increase well-being, and a wealth of evidence describes cognitive-affective responses to such interventions. Few studies, however, have directly compared responses across popular exercises such as the best-possible-self intervention, the gratitude letter, or self...

The Strength Use and Deficit Correction (SUDCO) Questionnaire has been shown to be a reliable instrument for the measurement of its four dimensions perceived organizational support for strengths use, perceived organizational support for deficit correction, strengths use behavior, and deficit correction behavior in the context of organizations. We a...

The Common Good Balance Sheet (CGB) is an instrument to measure a company’s contribution to the common good. In our study, we investigate whether employees from companies with higher CBG scores perceive more corporate social responsibility than employees from companies with lower CBG scores and whether relationships can be found between the achieve...

The Strength Use and Deficit Correction (SUDCO) Questionnaire has been shown to be a reliable instrument for the measurement of its four dimensions perceived organizational support for strengths use, perceived organizational support for deficit correction, strengths use behavior, and deficit correction behavior in the context of organizations. This...

Positive interventions affect both specific and common outcomes.

How do positive interventions work? We hypothesized that an increase in the importance individuals place on intrinsic rather than extrinsic goal pursuits (relative intrinsic goal pursuits; RIGP) explains the effectiveness of the best possible self (BPS) intervention. We randomized 128 mainly female psychology undergraduates to perform either the BP...

One of the flagship exercises in positive psychology is the best-possible-self (BPS) intervention, which has been repeatedly shown to increase positive affect. Yet little is known about the intervention’s underlying psychological mechanisms. We propose that goal ambivalence and positive future expectations should operate as mediators because both v...

One of the flagship exercises in positive psychology is the best-possible-self (BPS) intervention, which has been repeatedly shown to increase positive affect. Yet little is known about the intervention’s underlying psychological mechanisms. We propose that goal ambivalence and positive future expectations should operate as mediators because both v...

As organizational research turned its focus to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), interest also grew in the individual’s perspective on CSR. When looking for cross-cultural comparisons of the effects of CSR, measurement invariance is of utter importance as a questionnaire might not be equivalent in all investigated samples and thus bias results...

Covariance matrices of all items in all samples. (DOCX)

CFA, model 4F: Standardized item loadings and factor correlations (with standard errors). All reported parameters are significant with p < .01. (DOCX)

Descriptive statistics: Item means and standard deviations. (DOCX)

Previous research about hospital safety culture suggests that the attitudes, perceptions, expectations and actions of the hospitals’ top management are related to safety culture and, consequently, to pa-tient safety. Therefore, the aim of our study was to analyse the rela-tionship between transformational leadership and the top manage-ments’ percep...

Increasing individual subjective well-being has various positive outcomes, knowledge about its antecedents and the mediators of this relationship can therefore help to increase subjective well-being and the accompanying positive effects. The more future oriented facets of psychological capital, i.e. optimism, hope and self-efficacy have been shown...

One concept that is discussed in in order to increase well-being in the area of work and organizational psychology is psychological capital. Its facets of hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism are considered to be developable and interventions can hence be implemented to increase psychological capital. All subfacets as well as their composite hav...

80% of individuals on the autism spectrum are unemployed. Some companies already specialize in placement services for individuals with autism (e.g. as IT-consultants or electricians). There is no insightful data as to which problems these individuals encounter on the regular job market or how they handle them. Their sometimes great potential remain...

With this chapter, we want to open up the debate whether neurodiversity might be the next step of diversity. The term neurodiversity was first established in the online autism community in the 1990s and has since spread both off‐ and online. It describes the idea that, throughout the human population, different brain developments and structures exi...

Work-related stress has considerable consequences for organizations. Thus, the prevention of stress has the potential to positively affect employees’ health and performance. While previous research found the first evidence that transformational leadership is negatively related to followers’ levels of perceived stress, this research was limited by i...

Metacomprehension as reflected in judgements of one's learning is crucial for self‐regulated study, yet their accuracy is often low. We investigated text difficulty as a constraint on metacomprehension accuracy in text learning. A total of 235 participants studied a 10‐section expository text and afterwards took a knowledge test. They made judgemen...

To reduce discrimination and achieve a sustainable integration of an increasingly diverse workforce, organizations invest considerable time and money into diversity training. Despite these efforts, corporate diversity training is oftentimes not effective, as it does not sufficiently enable training participants to constructively deal with diversity...

Wohlbefinden und psychische Gesundheit sind ein für alle Individuen erstrebenswertes Ziel. Die Ansätze der Positiven Psychologie zeigen Wege auf, dieses Ziel zu erreichen. Optimismus, Hoffnung und Selbstwirksamkeit, als Teile des sogenannten Psychologischen Kapitals, sind persönliche Ressourcen, die entwickelbar sind und gleichzeitig positiv mit Wo...

With the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) being the standard measure to assess psychological capital (PsyCap) in the context of organizations, this paper targets to broaden this domain-specific approach by introducing a measure with universal claim. Two studies were conducted to create and validate a German self-report scale (CPC-12) measu...

Über 80% der Menschen auf dem Autismusspektrum sind arbeitslos. Da viele Menschen mit Autismus durchaus eine Anstellung anstreben, löst dies nicht nur Frustration aus, auch ihr mitunter großes Potenzial bleibt damit für den Arbeitsmarkt ungenutzt. Eine Handvoll Firmen haben dieses bereits erkannt und spezialisieren sich auf die Vermittlung von Mens...

The term neurodiversity was first established in the online autism community in the 1990s, and has since spread both off- and online. It describes the idea that, throughout the human population, different brain developments and structures exist. Neuronal variances such as autism or ADHD are therefore not to be seen as disorders but as variations di...

Die Arbeitsbedingungen für Hebammen in Deutschland verschlechtern sich zunehmend, dennoch bleiben viele im Beruf und sprechen sogar von hoher Arbeitszufriedenheit. Nach dem Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Modell können hohe Anforderungen im Beruf sowie mangelnde Arbeitsressourcen zu niedrigerem subjektiven Wohlbefinden und Krankheit führen. Mögl...

Working conditions are worsening for midwives in Germany, yet many remain in the profession and even report high job satisfaction. According to the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation model, high job demands and lack of job resources lead to reduced subjective well-being and sickness. However, personal resources could diminish this impact. The prese...

With the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) being the standard measure to assess psychological capital (PsyCap) in the context of organizations, this paper aims to broaden this domain-specific approach by introducing a measure with universal claim. Two studies were conducted to create and validate a German self-report scale (CPC-12) measurin...

Interview questionnaire on barriers to employment and their overcoming. (PDF)

Dataset study 1. (CSV)

Dataset study 2. (CSV)

The aim of this study was to discover how individuals with autism succeed in entering the job market. We therefore sought to identify expected and occurred barriers, keeping them from taking up and staying in employment as well as to identify the solutions used to overcome these barriers. Sixty-six employed individuals with autism–17 of them with a...

Images are widely used in computer-based learning although they might bias learners’ judgments on how well they have mastered the material, which might reduce the effectiveness of metacognitive learning control. As that bias seems to result from primarily theory-based processing, we used two-step judgments of learning to induce more experience-base...

Interview questionnaire on barriers to employment and their overcoming. (DOCX)

Complete dataset of all variables used in quantitative analysis. (XLSX)

Organizations are more and more interested in implementing and communicating programs of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Research points to the effects of their authenticity, stating that if these programs are not perceived as authentic they are merely judged as green-washing with detrimental effects for the organization, and although this e...

The emerging literature on destructive leadership has been mostly leader centric, often reducing followers to passive subordinates. In line with recent follower-focused approaches to leadership, this theoretical contribution aims at shedding light on the interaction process between leaders and followers and on the active part followers can play in...

Rooted in the neurodiversity approach, this study provides an overview of the strengths and interests of individuals with Asperger's Syndrome. We interviewed136 individuals with Asperger's Syndrome and 155 neurotypical individuals via an online survey with regards to (a) demography, (b) occupational strengths, (c) general self-efficacy, (d) occupat...

Rooted in the neurodiversity approach, this study provides an overview of the strengths and interests of individuals with Asperger's Syndrome. We interviewed136 individuals with Asperger's Syndrome and 155 neurotypical individuals via an online survey with regards to (a) demography, (b) occupational strengths, (c) general self-efficacy, (d) occupat...

Menschen nehmen in ihrem Leben unterschiedliche Rollen ein, welche ihr Verhalten steuern. Im beruflichen Alltag kann es innerhalb einer Funktion auch mehrere Rollen geben, zwischen denen man täglich wechselt, die sog. Mikrorollen. In einer aktuellen Forschungskooperation zwischen der FU Berlin und der Polizei Brandenburg wurde das Rollenmodell für...

Despite conceptual overlap between the transformational–transactional model of leadership and the Ohio State two-factor model (i.e., Consideration and Initiating Structure), no systematic research examines correspondence among these behaviors or estimates their relative validities across a common set of outcomes. The current studies a) examine the...

In der vorliegenden Metaanalyse wurde dem Zusammenhang transformationaler, transaktionaler und passiv-vermeidender Fuhrung mit Fuhrungserfolg nachgegangen. Anhand der Methode von Hunter und Schmidt (1990) wurden 56 Primarstudien der Jahre 2001 bis einschlieslich Marz 2006, die Fuhrung mittels des Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) oder Tran...

The well known constructs of transformational and transactional leadership are still facing problems concerning their discriminant validity as substantive correlations have frequently been observed between them. Nine samples, including 178 supervisors and their 834 followers, completed the German version of the Transformational Leadership Inventory...

Numerous theories of leadership have yielded a rich array of leadership constructs, yet there has been little comparative work across theories. The authors of this letter exchange compare views around the definition of leadership and four issues related to operationalizing and comparing leadership constructs: the measurement of leadership construct...

Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrages ist, die Gutekriterien eines Instruments zur Erfassung von ethischer Fuhrung zu uberprufen. Ausgangspunkt war die Ubersetzung der Ethical Leadership Scale von Brown, Trevino und Harrison (2005) ins Deutsche (ELS-D). Anschliesend wurde anhand dreier Stichproben (N1 = 100, N2 = 119, N3 = 507) die faktorielle Binnenstru...

Based on a follower-centred approach to transformational leadership, the meaning of team consensus for relevant organizational outcome measures is examined. It is argued that high consensus among followers with regard to their respective leaders' behaviour is an indicator of consistent transformational leadership. It is also hypothesized that the t...

Zusammenfassung Stress hat in Organisationen weitreichende Konsequenzen. Die Vermeidung von Stress kann sich günstig auf den organisationalen Alltag sowie die Effektivität des Unternehmens auswirken. Das Verhalten der Führungskräfte kann hierbei eine Möglichkeit zum Abbau oder zur Vorbeugung von Stress darstellen. Die Frage, welche einzelnen Führun...

Leadership is usually considered as an independent variable and fol-lowers' reactions as the dependent variable. However, it remains unclear to what degree the evaluation of transformational leadership, is a result of followers' perceptions and attributions. Recent research indicates that similarity between leader and follower plays a crucial role....

This study aimed at empirically clarifying the similarities and differences between transformational, transactional, and charismatic leadership. More specifically, the convergent, divergent, and criterion validity of two instruments, the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5X) and the Conger and Kanungo Scales (CKS), was explored. It was foun...

Zusammenfassung. Geprüft wurde, ob das Transformational Leadership Inventory (TLI; Podsakoff, MacKenzie & Bommer, 1996 ; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman & Fetter, 1990 ) mit sieben Inhaltsskalen zur Erfassung transformationaler und transaktionaler Führung für die Beurteilung deutscher Führungskräfte geeignet ist. In Testanalysen wurden die Gütekriter...

Over the last decade, the research dealing with transformational leadership put the emphasis on a more differentiated model of leadership. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) assesses nine leadership facets. The instrument, though, is often criticized as the five transformational facets cannot be empirically distinguished and Contingent...