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Overview

Nina Knoll is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and medicine. Their primary research interests lie in behavioral health and interventions, with significant work focusing on physical activity, health, and the interplay of psychological factors within these domains.

The scientist's publication record includes 62 papers in psychology and 30 in medicine. Within psychology, their contributions cover applied psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, and physiology, indicating a multidisciplinary approach. Their subfields of study specifically include:

  • Applied Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Social Psychology
  • General Health Professions

Research topics addressed by Nina Knoll revolve around behavioral health and interventions, physical activity and health, obesity, physical activity and diet, COVID-19 and mental health, attachment and relationship dynamics, motivation and self-concept in sports, and eating disorders and behaviors. These topics highlight a focus on health-related psychological processes and social dynamics influencing behavior.

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Nina Knoll has published several papers recently, including:

  • Habits and self-efficacy moderate the effects of intentions and planning on physical activity, 2020, British Journal of Health Psychology
  • The trajectory of COVID-19 pandemic and handwashing adherence: findings from 14 countries, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • Long-term effects of a dyadic planning intervention with couples motivated to increase physical activity, 2020, Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • How Do People Experience and Respond to Social Control From Their Partner? Three Daily Diary Studies, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Collaborative, dyadic, and individual planning and physical activity: A dyadic randomized controlled trial., 2021, Health Psychology

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, illustrating a targeted engagement with specific journals in their areas of expertise. These venues include:

  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being
  • Health Psychology
  • Social Science & Medicine

Collaborative efforts are notable in their work, with frequent co-authors including Aleksandra Łuszczyńska, Jan Keller, Zofia Szczuka, Urte Scholz, and Maria Siwa. These collaborations point to a networked approach, integrating expertise from multiple researchers to address complex aspects of behavioral health and physical activity.

Best Publications

  • Functional roles of social support within the stress and coping process: A theoretical and empirical overview

    Ralf Schwarzer;Nina Knoll

  • Positive coping: Mastering demands and searching for meaning.

    Ralf Schwarzer;Nina Knoll

  • Coping as a mediator between personality and stress outcomes: a longitudinal study with cataract surgery patients

    Nina Knoll;Nina Rieckmann;Ralf Schwarzer

  • Received social support, self-efficacy, and finding benefits in disease as predictors of physical functioning and adherence to antiretroviral therapy.

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Yagnaseni Sarkar;Nina Knoll

  • Social support and quality of life among lung cancer patients: a systematic review.

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Izabela Pawlowska;Roman Cieslak;Nina Knoll

  • Gender and age differences in domain-specific life satisfaction and the impact of depressive and anxiety symptoms: a general population survey from Germany.

    Isolde Daig;Peter Herschbach;Anja Lehmann;Nina Knoll

  • Dispositional self-efficacy as a personal resource factor in coping after surgery

    Ralf Schwarzer;Sonja Boehmer;Aleksandra Luszczynska;Nihal E. Mohamed

  • Changes in finding benefit after cancer surgery and the prediction of well-being one year later.

    Ralf Schwarzer;Aleksandra Luszczynska;Sonja Boehmer;Steffen Taubert

  • Dyadic planning of health-behavior change after prostatectomy: a randomized-controlled planning intervention.

    Silke Burkert;Urte Scholz;Oliver Gralla;Jan Roigas

  • Soziale Ressourcen und Gesundheit: soziale Unterstützung und dyadisches Bewältigen

    Rolf Kienle;Nina Knoll;Babette Renneberg

  • Social-cognitive antecedents of hand washing: Action control bridges the planning-behaviour gap.

    Benjamín Reyes Fernández;Nina Knoll;Kyra Hamilton;Ralf Schwarzer

  • Fast-track surgery in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: basic principles.

    O. Gralla;F. Haas;N. Knoll;D. Hadzidiakos

  • Age and Body Make a Difference in Optimistic Health Beliefs and Nutrition Behaviors

    Britta Renner;Nina Knoll;Ralf Schwarzer

  • Physical activity and depressive symptoms in cardiac rehabilitation: Long-term effects of a self-management intervention

    Urte Scholz;Nina Knoll;Falko F. Sniehotta;Ralf Schwarzer

  • The cognitive regulation of emotions: The role of success versus failure experience and coping dispositions

    Heinz Walter Krohne;Manuela Pieper;Nina Knoll;Nadine Breimer

  • Positive experience, self-efficacy, and action control predict physical activity changes: a moderated mediation analysis.

    Linda Parschau;Lena Fleig;Milena Koring;Daniela Lange

  • Physical activity among adults with obesity: testing the Health Action Process Approach

    Linda Parschau;Milena Barz;Jana Richert;Nina Knoll

  • Sedentary behaviours and health-related quality of life. A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Monika Boberska;Zofia Szczuka;Magdalena Kruk;Nina Knoll

  • Effects of dyadic planning on physical activity in couples: A randomized controlled trial.

    Nina Knoll;Diana Hilda Hohl;Jan Keller;Natalie Schuez

  • Self-efficacy, planning and action control in an oral self-care intervention

    Guangyu Zhou;Caiyun Sun;Nina Knoll;Kyra Hamilton;Kyra Hamilton

  • Planning and self-efficacy interventions encouraging replacing energy-dense foods intake with fruit and vegetable: A longitudinal experimental study

    Aleksandra Luszczynska;Karolina Horodyska;Karolina Zarychta;Natalia Liszewska

  • A brief intervention increases fruit and vegetable intake. A comparison of two intervention sequences.

    Pempa Lhakhang;Cristina Godinho;Nina Knoll;Ralf Schwarzer;Ralf Schwarzer;Ralf Schwarzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Schwarzer
Ralf Schwarzer Freie Universität Berlin
Urte Scholz
Urte Scholz University of Zurich
Aleksandra Luszczynska
Aleksandra Luszczynska University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Sonia Lippke
Sonia Lippke Jacobs University
Kyra Hamilton
Kyra Hamilton Griffith University
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
Benjamin Gardner
Benjamin Gardner University of Surrey
Chris Lonsdale
Chris Lonsdale Australian Catholic University
Jochen P. Ziegelmann
Jochen P. Ziegelmann Freie Universität Berlin
Michael A. Rapp
Michael A. Rapp University of Potsdam

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