Sigrid Hackl-Wimmer

• Doctor of Psychology
• PostDoc Position at University of Graz

Zusammenfassung. Medienbildung ist ein Teil des Bildungsauftrags österreichischer Kindertageseinrichtungen ( Charlotte-Bühler-Institut, 2009 ). In der hier vorliegenden Studie wurden 57 frühpädagogische Fachkräfte aus österreichischen Kinderkrippen mittels pilotiertem Fragebogen zu deren digitaler Ausstattung, Häufigkeit und Zweck der (digitalen) M...

Theoretischer Hintergrund Digitale Medien und deren Verwendung sind Teil der täglichen Lebensrealität junger Kinder (Livingstone & Byrne, 2017; Marsh et al., 2015; Ofcom, 2014). Frühpädagogische Fachpersonen haben die Aufgabe, Kindern die Möglichkeit zu bieten, kompetente Mediennutzer:innen zu werden (Charlotte-Bühler-Institut, 2009). Bisher spiele...

Citation: Hackl-Wimmer, S.; Eglmaier, M.T.W.; Eichen, L.; Rettenbacher, K.; Macher, D.; Walter-Laager, C.; Lackner, H.K.; Papousek, I.; Paechter, M. Effects of Touchscreen Media Use on Toddlers' Sleep: Insights from Longtime ECG Monitoring. Sensors 2021, 21, 7515. Abstract: Wearable biomedical sensor technology enables reliable monitoring of physio...

Since digital media such as smartphones, tablets or laptops are available in almost every household in industrialised countries, parents are challenged to integrate them into their everyday family life. To gain more information on parents' mediation of digital media, the relationships between their educational intentions, objectives and their child...

Recent developments in noninvasive electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring with small, wearable sensors open the opportunity to record high-quality ECG over many hours in an easy and non-burdening way. However, while their recording has been tremendously simplified, the interpretation of heart rate variability (HRV) data is a more delicate matter. The a...

While children get in contact with digital technology from an early age on, it is still unclear how this exposure effects the children´s physiological development. The study „Young Children in the digital world (KiddiW)” gathered questionnaire data of the family’s extent of media and technology use, parents’ pedagogical objectives and parenting b...

Affective dispositions may shape students' typical ways of coping when faced with demanding performance situations in their educational lives. We recorded frontal EEG alpha asymmetry responses in psychology students during the course of a scenario designed to simulate a real examination, which required oral explanation of statistical concepts. Whil...

Purpose Giving a presentation in a seminar is a strenuous academic situation. To meet such a challenge adequately, individuals not only have to activate their mental and physical resources, but they also have to disengage from the task and recover once the challenge has been met. How students experience these situations depends in part on how they...

Exams often trigger avoidance motivation and a tendency to withdraw; instead, an approach‐oriented motivational state would be more desirable, since this encourages an invigorated and persistent approach to tasks. This study investigated the role of academic self‐concept on the activation of relative approach versus avoidance motivation during the...

While some students try to give their best in an achievement situation, others show disengagement and just want to get the situation over and done with. The present study investigates the role of students’ tendencies for approach or avoidance motivation while anticipating tasks and the corresponding activation of the approach/avoidance motivational...

Anxiety disorders are some of the most widespread mental health issues worldwide. In educational settings, individuals may suffer from specific forms of test and performance anxiety that are connected to a knowledge domain. Unquestionably, the most prominent of these is math anxiety. Math anxiety is a widespread problem for all ages across the glob...

In many social science majors, e.g., psychology, students report high levels of statistics anxiety. However, these majors are often chosen by students who are less prone to mathematics and who might have experienced difficulties and unpleasant feelings in their mathematics courses at school. The present study investigates whether statistics anxiety...

Begabung wird als Voraussetzung dafür gesehen, dass in Schule und Beruf nicht nur gute, sondern außergewöhnliche Leistungen erbracht werden. Aber reicht Begabung allein aus, um Außergewöhnliches zu leisten und Erfolg zu haben? Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit Merkmalen, die die Erbringung von Leistungen auf überdurchschnittlichem – aber auc...

The present study investigated whether students' academic goal orientation (learning goals, performance goals, work avoidance) and their individual competence beliefs (their academic self-concept) can predict motivation-related cardiovascular activation patterns in a demanding performance situation. A sample of seventy-two undergraduate students ra...

Altogether, 2,196 students from 29 Austrian universities took part in an empirical investigation on learning and communication in e-learning courses. The students completed a questionnaire on their experiences in an actual e-learning course, on their perceived learning achievements, and their enjoyment of the course. Furthermore, they expressed the...