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Social and Health Sciences: New Publication in IJBNPA

Martina Kanning and Christina Niermann published with Marco Giurgiu and Ulrich Ebner-Priemer from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (https://www.sport.kit.edu/Forschung_Psychologie.php) an article describing how contextual factors of prolonged sitting bouts are associated with momentary affective states.

Social and Health Sciences: New Publication

Christina Niermann and colleagues from the Karlsruhe Insititute of Technology published qualitative research on daily family life and its inherent health-related cues that affect family members’ physical activity and eating behavior.

The manuscript titled “Family health climate: a qualitative exploration of everyday family life and health” was published in BMC Public Health. (Link to the article)

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11297-4

Social and Health Sciences: New Publication in Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Age-varying Bi-directional Associations Between Momentary Affect and Movement Behaviors in Children: Evidence From a Multi-wave Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

In this paper, Martina Kanning - Chair of Social and Health Sciences, collaborated with researchers of the University of Southern California. The authors conducted a multi-wave ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study and investigated the acute time-varying associations between affect and movement behaviors among youth.

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New Publication in JMIR Research Protocols

This article is a collaborative work of Christina Niermann and researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of

Technology and University of Konstanz. The article describes the development of a theory-based and

evidence-based mHealth intervention – the SMARTFAMILY App.

The abstract of the article can be found below:

Social and Health Sciences: New Publication in JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Together with researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Christina Niermann and Martina Kanning, chair of Social and Health Sciences, examined whether social and environmental contextual information on sedentary behavior could be accurately assessed in everyday life using a sedentary triggerd ecological momentary assessment.