StressLab UniVienna

Check out this episode by Markus Foramitti about music and stress! ⬇️

Curious what our postdoc Nida Ali does in her research? Take a look! 📊🔬

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Apply by March 9. The 2026 HBIC Award competition offers travel grants to facilitate a mentorship collaboration with an international laboratory. See details below ⬇️

Congrats to Hannah Tschenett, Urs Nater, and Georg Funk, on winning a Creating Possible Award for the StressLung project! 🥳🎊

The award supports the evaluation of a digital stress management intervention for people living with lung cancer

We are excited for the upcoming 5th CoBeNe PhD Academy, which is taking place today and tomorrow in Vienna! 🎉

Check out our oral presentations below! 📊

We are excited to welcome Klara Hagspiel, PhD student in our lab! 🍀🎉

Klara is a recipient of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) DOC Scholarship for her project: Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of People with Persistent Somatic Symptoms.

Looking forward to working together! 🔬🌈

Stress management training for managers in small and medium-sized enterprises (KMU-GO): results of a randomized controlled trial - PubMed Before including the first participant, the KMU-GO trial is registered at the German Clinical Trial Register (DRKS): DRKS00023457 (registered on 5 November 2020).

We’re excited to share results from a new study on stress management training for managers in small and medium-sized enterprises.The training significantly reduced stress reactivity, depression, and anxiety six months after baseline. Curious to learn more?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41527061/

We are excited for the new pilot study by our team on a digital stress management intervention: Using the intervention following stressful events in daily life reduced stress and negative affect in a student sample. Want to know more?
doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Music Listening in Everyday Life Thanks to digital technologies, music can be listened to almost anywhere and at any time at low cost and is an important part of everyday life for people of all ages and cultures. Whether listening to...

Read the chapter by @afeneberg.bsky.social, Stefanie Hirsch, Ricarda Mewes & Urs Nater here: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Excited to share our chapter in Music and Medicine! 📖🎵 We present research on how music listening in everyday life benefits health, integrated into an overarching framework, and provide methodological recommendations for ecological momentary assessment and interventions. See link in the comments ⬇️

Nice to see the media echo of our recent paper on how stress, sentiment, and lyrical complexity in popular music have changed from 1973–2023 - and what this says about collective mood regulation through music 🎵
Summary by the University of Vienna:
psychologie.univie.ac.at/news-medienb...

LINA: An Augmented Reality Social Game Enhancing Sense of Belonging Among Classmates: An Uncontrolled Pre-post Evaluation Study - School Mental Health Supportive peer relationships are fundamental in the development of well-being. Since early adolescents spend a lot of time at school, especially in their classroom, a sense of belonging among classma...

We are thrilled to share our first publication of 2026! 📑🎉We collaborated with Ina Krammer and colleagues on LINA: an augmented reality (AR) social game boosting classmates’ sense of belonging —an uncontrolled pre-post evaluation study. 🎮
Read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1007/s123...

Factor Structure and Validity of a German Version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale Among Immigrants From Türkiye: Psychological Test Adaptation and Development: Vol 6

New paper from our lab, led by Amini-Nejad & Hirsch with @andreasgoreis.bsky.social validated a German version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS), showing a robust single-factor structure and high reliability across a diverse student sample and immigrants from Türkiye doi.org/10.1027/2698...

We’re excited to share the protocol paper of Amini-Nejad et al (2025) on postmigration stress and its impact health of forcibly displaced people (FDP).
This 14-day Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study focuses on Arabic- and Farsi-speaking FDP in Austria.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2000...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone in the WASAD community! 💫❄️🎄

We wish you a peaceful season and a restful end to the year - a time to unwind, reflect, and recognize both the big and small achievements of the past year.

We can't wait to see what 2026 will bring! 🎉

Great news as we head into the holidays:
Our project about the effect of multimodal art on pain and stress by Anna Fekete & @rosamaidhof.bsky.social with @evalabs.bsky.social won the Faculty’s Registered Report Award!
👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Anna also won an awesome Christmas sweater prize🎄🪅

PULS 4 Doku: Stress: Freund oder Feind? Stress, Stress und noch mal Stress – niemand mag ihn. Alle wollen ihn loswerden. Jeder 2. Österreicher meint: Stress ist schädlich. Stress nimmt zu, u

@adreisoerner.bsky.social and @markusforamitti.bsky.social appeared on camera for a PULS 4 documentary on the topic of stress — with an expert interview, a guided meditation and insights into a stresstest. 🔬🎊

👉 Check it out:
www.joyn.at/filme/puls-4...

As we wrap up our #WASAD2025 recap, we want to offer a big thank you to the organizing & scientific committees, speakers, moderators, and everyone who joined!

Your insightful questions, presentations, and conversations brought the congress and our discussions around stress and anxiety to life ✨

In addition, we want to thank the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, the @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social, the Gesellschaft für Angstforschung (GAF), the @stressnetworkch.bsky.social, the @gsrnet.bsky.social, and the Flagship UMZH Stress for collaborating with us! 🙏 🎉

Last week our team got together at a local café to get into the holiday spirit 🎄⛄💫

We wish everyone happy holidays, a relaxing end to the year and a great start to the New Year! 🍀

We are glad to see this paper out by @markusforamitti.bsky.social in collaboration with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social,
@clauslamm.bsky.social and @scanunit.bsky.social! 🧠🫀🎵Read more about the shift toward music with more negative, stressful, and simpler lyrics over the past 50 years below.

We are proud to congratulate Dr. Teresa O’Rourke, @teresaorourke.bsky.social, on successfully defending her PhD! 🎉🔬

In her dissertation, she investigated risk and protective factors for mental health in young people experiencing chronic stress. We are excited where her work takes her next! 🍀

Congratulations to Mira Erhart, Ronja Brinkmann, and colleagues for their poster award, received for their work exploring “Posterior Insula Coupling with Individual Heart Rate during Acute Stress as a Resilience Marker”! 🫀🧠🏆

Congratulations to Anita Meinke and colleagues for winning one of our poster awards, with their poster “Change in the association between mental health and problematic internet use in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic”! 📱🏆

A new study by our lab alumni, Dr. @hannamuees.bsky.social et al., reveals negative links between stress and sexual desire, arousal, and activity, with stronger effects in women. It highlights potential effects of stress reduction interventions on positive sexuality: doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

Congratulations to @andreasgoreis.bsky.social and colleagues for winning one of three poster awards for their poster titled “Impact of Social Media on Triggering Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in Adolescents: A Comparative Ambulatory Assessment Study”! 📱💬 🏆

In comparing adolescents with and without a history of NSSI, they showed that for adolescents who engage in NSSI, negative events on social media were more strongly associated with perceived stress, negative affect, and NSSI urges than real-life negative events.

However, NSSI events during the sampling period were mostly triggered by real-life events.

These results underscore the need for targeted interventions addressing online interactions to mitigate NSSI behaviors and improve adolescent mental health.