Abstracts - Earli

question, the generated multimedia-based learning environments developed by the test persons areexamined with regard to their quality in the scope of a quasi-experimental research. The treatmentgroup receives assistance from the didactical tool when editing the learning environments, whereasthe control group has to work without the didactical tool. In the poster-presentation, the theoreticalapproach of this study, the didactical tool, first results of the ongoing study and its practical andeducational relevance will be presented and discussed.D229 August 2007 11:00 - 12:20Room: PP2Poster SessionPoster sessionChair:Krisztián Józsa, University of Szeged, Hungary”The modern danish student” – a questionnaire of students’ attitudes to education, motives ofchoice of study and attitudes to teaching at a university.Berit Lassesen, Department of Psychology, University of Århus, DenmarkA study based on diaries written by 82 students at Roskilde University (Simonsen & Ulriksen,1998) concluded that the attitudes regarding choice of education and educational activities of the"modern Danish student" are characterized by 1) an orientation towards the individualized andpersonal aspects, 2) an internally motivated and existential "personal growth" orientation, 3) aprocess - rather than result-oriented attitude towards educational activities, 4) a short-term "hereandnow" motivation, and 5) an ambivalent attitude towards who is responsible for the result of thelearning activities - the teachers or student him- or her-self. This study attempts to test whether theconclusions concerning the "Modern Danish student" can be generalized to other studentpopulations. Based on theoretical conclusions and statements cited by Simonsen and Ulriksen, aquestionnaire was constructed. Factor analyses revealed a number of internally consistent andtheoretically relevant dimensions. 686 students from four different faculties at the University ofÅrhus then completed the questionnaire. The results confirmed that the attitudes of philosophystudents corresponded to those described by Simonsen and Ulriksen (91% correspondence).Students from other faculties, however, differed in their attitudes from the ones reported bySimonsen and Ulriksen. For example, the attitudes of medical students only showed a 45%correspondence. Their attitudes were found to be more long-term career-oriented than short-termmotivated, more pragmatically oriented than personal-growth motivated, and more motivated byexternal than internal factors. While the conclusions of Simonsen and Ulriksen perhaps can begeneralized to students from humanistic faculties, they do not seem to be representative of studentsfrom other faculties.The effect of emotional states on the formation of performance expectanciesOliver Dickhäuser, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, GermanyMarc-Andre Reinhard, University of Mannheim, GermanyIt was predicted that emotional states affect the way, how individuals build their performanceexpectancies. Emotional states were assumed to affect the mean level of the performance– 197 –