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Dipl. Psych. Felicitas Opelt is a Research Associate in the Educational Psychology group (Schwinger Group) at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg. Her work focuses on the intersection of personality psychology and educational contexts, particularly examining how narrow personality traits influence students' learning processes and outcomes.
Her educational background includes psychology studies at Philipps University Marburg with a focus on child and adolescent psychology, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy. Her thesis examined "Oversensitive, extraverted, and intelligent? On the construct validity of overexcitability."
Ms. Opelt's primary research interests center on self-regulated learning and the investigation of relationships between personal factors (particularly mindfulness, self-control, and self-esteem contingency) and various aspects of students' self-regulated learning. Her work explores how these narrow personality traits influence learning strategies, emotion regulation during learning, affective well-being in academic contexts, and ultimately academic performance. This research bridges educational psychology with personality science to develop a deeper understanding of the psychological mechanisms underlying effective learning.
Her publication record shows a consistent focus on how specific personality dimensions, particularly self-esteem contingency, impact students' learning approaches and outcomes. The research demonstrates growing interest in the nuanced relationships between specific personality traits and academic functioning, moving beyond broad personality frameworks to examine more narrowly defined constructs.
Ms. Opelt has also been involved in teaching, notably leading the "B-KJ3-Exercise B: Application of exemplary educational-psychological interventions in childhood and adolescence" during the Summer Semester 2019.
Additionally, since 2015, she has been pursuing her doctorate at Philipps University Marburg in the Child and Adolescent Psychology group with a focus on Educational Psychology. She has also been training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist since 2014 at the Institute for Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Medicine (IVV) at the Philipps University of Marburg, with practical work experience at the Leppermühle children's and youth home and the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the UKGM.