Department of Psychology
Special Needs Education and Leisure Time Activities: Bielefeld Study (fabi)
Introduction
Do children and adolescents in Germany receive the professional support they need? Does everybody know about support offers? How are factors like the place of residence and type of school related to participation in support offers? Currently, not all children and adolescents who may need professional support actually participate in available offers. To optimize chances and life perspectives of children and adolescents with particular needs but also with particular strength, these questions have to be answered.
In the study "fabi" (short for "Förder- und Freizeitangebote: Bielefelder Studie"; "Special needs education and leisure time activities: Bielefeld study") we build a data base to provide answers to these important questions.
We contact children, adolescents and their parents from Bielefeld, Lippe and Hamm via school and interview them with a questionnaire. Since we are also interested in changes over time, we will interview the same families with one year gap.
Here you find information about us, the development of the study and most important findings.
News
Study Team
We are researchers from the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science and from the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University.
Involved Persons
- Prof. Dr. Fridtjof Nussbeck
Prof. Dr. Fridtjof Nussbeck is full professor for Psychological Methods and Evaluation. Besides his interests in research methods and statistics he is also interested in research on relationship satisfaction and family life as well as in competencies of children and adolescents dealing with stress and / or challenges.
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Böhm-Kasper
Prof. Oliver Böhm-Kasper, PhD, is a full professor at the chair for Media Pedagogy, Research Methods, and Youth Research. He mainly researches the stresses and strains of children and adolescents in the school setting. Together with Fridtjof Nussbeck, he is responsible for methodological and statistical issues.
- Prof. Dr. Elke Wild
Prof. Elke Wild, PhD, is the head of the chair for Pedagogical Psychology and is the leader of the pedagogical-psychological helpdesk at the Bielefeld University. She mainly researches the parental influence on the academic development of children and adolescents.
- Prof. Dr. Arnold Lohaus
Prof. Arnold Lohaus, PhD, is the head of the chair for Developmental Psychology and Development Psychopathology. He mainly researches health promotion for children and adolescents (among other things the development of coping-strategies and stress management of children and adolescents).
- Dr. Miriam Pankatz
Miriam Pankatz, PhD, is a public health researcher. Formerly, she researched at a rehabilitation centre for children and adolescents. Her research interests include the health of children and adolescents with a focus on obesity and social deprivation. In our study she is in charge of organisation and data analysis.
- Ziwen Teuber, M.Sc.
Ziwen Teuber, M.Sc., is a psychologist and doctoral candidate. In our study she is in charge of organization, data collection and data analysis.
- Nicole Fritzler, M.Sc.
Nicole Fritzler, M.Sc., is a psychologist and doctoral candidate who works with children with learning difficulties. She does pedagogical-psychological counselling, diagnostics and coaching. She mainly researches the parental influence on the academic development of children and adolescents. In our study she is in charge of organization and data analysis.
- Eva Hartmann
Data Security
Here you find the data security concept of the study "fabi" for download as a PDF (German only).
Contact
Please write to us at fabi@uni-bielefeld.de. You can also call us at +49 (521) 106-67419, but please note that we have several duties away from the office and might not always be available during regular office hours.
We will come back to you as soon as possible.
If you or your child participated in the study and would like to retract your consent, please contact the data security officer of Bielefeld University: datenschutzbeauftragte@uni-bielefeld.de.