News – DynaMORE

News

This section keeps you updated on any major developments throughout the course of the DynaMORE project.

ReApp – the positive reappraisal App!

Try out ReApp, our new mobile intervention based on positive reappraisal! It’s a fast one-week resilience training program for our DynaMINT study. Watch the video clip below for more information. Interested? Contact us: reappstudy@gmail.com

Mental resilience in the Corona lockdown: First empirical insights from Europe

The first results of how people are coping with the Corona crisis are in! Potential resilience factors, exposure to Corona-specific and general stressors, as well as internalizing symptoms were assessed online in 5000 adult Europeans: In comparison with other resilience factors, positive appraisal specifically of the consequences of the Corona crisis was the single strongest resilience factor. Positive appraisal style (PAS) was not only positively associated with resilience (p<0.001) but also mediated the positive association between perceived social support (PSS) and resilience (p<0.001). Resilience, as an outcome, was conceptualized as good mental health despite stressor exposure. Therefore, PAS and PSS can be seen as important modifiable protective factors that can be targeted by public mental health efforts in similar crisis situations in the future.

Associations of hypothesized resilience factors with outcome-based resilience (RES) and mediation effects.

How are YOU coping with the Corona crisis?

The corona crisis as a chance to strengthen your own resilience & to participate in resilience research: If you are 18 or older you can participate in our COVID-19 mental health study! If you like it, please also tell your friends, colleagues, and social network about it. Please select your language in the table below for more information. We highly appreciate your help. Let’s aim to spread this survey study faster than the virus & thank you for advancing our knowledge about human resilience in times of crisis!
– The DynaMORE team

10 mental health recommendations in times of COVID-19

The Leibnitz Institute for Resilience Research in Mainz, Germany, is providing 10 tips on how to stay mentally healthy during the corona pandemic. Several languages are available!

DynaMORE Newsletter 3 – December 2019

Read about the project’s progress, achievements, open positions, upcoming events, our most recent publications, the new project video that is now available on YouTube, and a tasty Christmas cookie recipe!

PhD position open at Charité – position has been filled

Click below for details regarding an exciting new PhD position on the DynaMORE project at the Charité in Berlin from 1 April 2020 on! Note: The position requires German language skills at level C1.

DynaMORE project video, 19 September 2019

The first introductory DynaMORE video just went public! Watch, like, and share it. Over the next months, more video clips will be published, covering DynaMORE’s key goals, its technical and conceptual challenges, information for study participants, and the project’s real-life impact and value. Stay tuned!

DynaMORE Newsletter 2 – May 2019

Click here to access the online version of our most recent newsletter, and feel free to subscribe to our mailing list. The project newsletter appears twice per year and is a worthwhile read for anyone who is interested in stress resilience and resilience research. This time, we are summarizing major advancements within DynaMORE, introducing a lot of new team members, postdocs, PhD students, and collaborators, and present our latest publication and info brochure.

2nd GA Meeting in Berlin, 1-3 April 2019

The 2nd DynaMORE General Assembly (GA) Meeting took place in Germany’s capital, Berlin. It was great to welcome new PhD students and Postdocs who recently joined the project, to receive demonstrations of the mHealth device and planned interventions, and to see brand-new data from all work packages!

Both web and print version of DynaMORE info brochure available!

Click on the image below to access the web version of the project’s info folder and to download it! The print version is ready as well and has been sent in packs of 50-250 to all team leaders.

“Jacobs Center” now on Facebook!

Prof. Dr. Lilly Shanahan & colleagues recently launched a new page of the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development on Facebook. Check out their recent posts, share and like!

Vacancy for PhD student – position has been filled

A PhD position in the DynaMORE Horizon 2020 project is open at the Kalisch-Lab! Take this opportunity to work with leading empirical and modelling experts, following a unique multidimensional and longitudinal approach to prevent stress-related mental disorders and to boost natural resilience. Contact the Kalisch-Lab now!

Vacancy for a PhD project within DynaMORE – position has been filled

Radboud University Medical Center invites applications for a PhD project in the field of cognitive / affective neuroscience. The project is embedded in the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (PI: Erno Hermans) at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

DynaMORE Newsletter 1 – September 2018

Welcome to the first edition of our half-yearly project newsletter! Check out what has happened since the project started, find out who we are and who are the leading brains behind the project, and read about past and upcoming events and the latest news in resilience research in genera. We’d be very happy to win you as a subscriber in our newsletter mailing list.

Postdoc & PhD student retreat in Austria

The 2nd PhD and Postdoc Retreat in the rural, sunny landscape of Hirschegg, Austria, from 17-20 September 2018 was a great success. A total of 36 attendees discussed stress resilience and facilitated networking within the CRC 1193.

First resilience research Spring school!

The 1st International Spring School of Resilience Research was conducted at Kloster Seeon (an abbey near Munich) from 21-25 May 2018, allowing young scientists from all over the world to network.

1st DynaMORE press release – 3 May 2018

The project’s 1st press release is now online: Prof. Dr. Raffael Kalisch describes how personalized computer models may help measure and enhance psychological resilience in the near future.

Introducing our advisory board!

Experts from Emory University (Atlanta, USA), Tilburg University (Netherlands), University of Bern (Switzerland) and University of Bonn (Germany) serve on the Scientific and Ethical Advisory Board (SEAB) for continuous ethical advice and quality control.

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