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2025

Jankowsky, K., Zimmermann, J., Jaeger, U., Mestel, R., & Schroeders, U. (2025). First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout. Psychotherapy Research, 35(8), 1326–1338. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2024.2411985

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Schroeders, U., & Gnambs, T. (2025). Sample size planning in item response theory: A tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251314798

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2024

Schroeders, U., Morgenstern, M., Jankowsky, K., & Gnambs, T. (2024). Short-scale construction using meta-analytic Ant Colony Optimization: A demonstration with the Need for Cognition Scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 40(5), 376–395. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000818

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Gnambs, T., & Schroeders, U. (2024). Reliability and factorial validity of the Core Self-Evaluations Scale: A meta-analytic investigation of wording effects. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 40(5), 343–359. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000783

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Zimny, L., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2024). Ant Colony Optimization for parallel test assembly. Behavioral Research Methods, 56, 5834–5848. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02319-7

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Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Steger, D., Wilhelm, O., & Schroeders, U. (2024). Public events knowledge in an age-heterogeneous sample: Reminiscence bump or bummer? Psychology and Aging, 39(1), 72–87. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000786

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Jankowsky, K., Steger, D., & Schroeders, U. (2024). Predicting lifetime suicide attempts in a community sample of adolescents using machine learning algorithms. Assessment, 31(3), 557–573. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911231167490

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Schroeders, U., Scharf, F., & Olaru, U. (2024). Model specification searches in structural equation modeling using Bee Swarm Optimization. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 84(1), 40–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644231160552

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Gnambs, T., & Schroeders, U. (2024). Accuracy and precision of fixed and random effects in meta‐analyses of randomized control trials for continuous outcomes. Research Synthesis Methods, 15(1), 86–106. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1673

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2023

Jankowsky, K., Krakau, L., Schroeders, U., Zwerenz, R., & Beutel, M. E. (2023). Predicting treatment response using Machine Learning: A registered report. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(2), 137-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12452

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Watrin, L., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2023). Gc at its boundaries: A cross-national investigation of declarative knowledge. Learning and Individual Differenes, 102. 102267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102267

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Steger, D., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2023). The road to hell is paved with good intentions: How common practices in scale construction hurt validity. Assessment, 30(6), 1811–1824. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221124846

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Wendt, L. P., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., Zimmermann, J., & Olaru, G. (2023). Mapping established psychopathology scales onto the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Personality and Mental Health, 17(2), 117–134. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1566

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Goecke, B., Schroeders, U., Zettler, I., Schipolowski, S., Golle, J., & Wilhelm, O. (2023). The nomological net of knowledge, self-reported knowledge, and overclaiming in children. Journal of Personality Assessment, 105(5), 702–713. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2022.2144332

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2022

Hartung, J., Goecke, B., Schroeders, U., Schmitz, F., & Wilhelm, O. (2022). Latin Square Tasks: A multi-study evaluation. Intelligence, 94, Article 101683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2022.101683

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Olaru, G., Robitzsch, A., Hildebrandt, A., & Schroeders, U. (2022). Examining moderators of vocabulary acquisition from kindergarten throughout elementary school using Local Structural Equation Modeling. Learning and Individual Differences, 95, Article 102136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2022.102136

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Schroeders, U., Zimmermann, J., Wicke, T., Schaumburg, M., Lang, E., Trenkwalder, C., & Mollenhauer, B. (2022). Dynamic interplay of cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 36(4), 266–278. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000795

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Schroeders, U., & Jansen, M. (2022). Science self-concept – More than the sum of its parts? The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(2), 435–451. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1740967

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Schroeders, U., Schmidt, C. & Gnambs, T. (2022). Detecting careless responding in survey data using stochastic gradient boosting. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 82(1), 29–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644211004708

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Schroeders, U., Kubera, F., & Gnambs, T. (2022). The structure of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20): A meta-analytic confirmatory factor analysis. Assessment, 29(8), 1806–1823. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211033894

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Jankowsky, K. & Schroeders, U. (2022). Validation and generalizability of machine learning prediction models on attrition in longitudinal studies. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(2), 169–176. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221075034

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Watrin, L., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2022). Structural invariance of declarative knowledge across the adult lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 37(3), 283–297. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000660

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2021

Schroeders, U., Watrin, L. & Wilhelm, O. (2021). Age-related nuances in knowledge assessment. Intelligence, 85. Article 101526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101526

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Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Olaru, G., & Schroeders, U. (2021). Coffee or tea? Examining cross-cultural differences in personality nuances across former colonies of the British Empire. European Journal of Personality, 35(3), 383–397. https://doi.org/10.1177/0890207020962327

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Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2021). Caught in the act: Predicting cheating in unproctored knowledge assessment. Assessment, 28(3), 1004–1017. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120914970

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2020

Goecke, B., Weiss, S., Steger, D., Schroeders, U. & Wilhelm, O. (2020). Testing competing claims about overclaiming. Intelligence, 81. Article 101470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2020.101470

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Weiss, S., Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2020). A reappraisal of the threshold hypothesis of creativity and intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 8(4), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8040038

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Weiss, S., Steger, D., Kaur, Y., Hildebrandt, A., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2020). On the trail of creativity: Dimensionality of divergent thinking and its relation with cognitive abilities, personality and insight. European Journal of Personality, 35(3), 291–314. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2288

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Jankowsky, K., Olaru, G., & Schroeders, U. (2020). Compiling measurement invariant short scales in cross-cultural personality assessment using Ant Colony Optimization. European Journal of Personality, 34(3), 470–485. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2260

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Schroeders, U., & Gnambs, T. (2020). Degrees of freedom in multigroup confirmatory factor analyses: Are models of measurement invariance testing correctly specified? European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 36(1), 105–113. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000500

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Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Gnambs, T. (2020). A meta-analysis of test scores in proctored and unproctored ability assessment. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 36(1), 174–184. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000494

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2019

Sewasew, D. & Schroeders, U. (2019). The developmental interplay of academic self-concept and achievement within and across domains among primary school students. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 58, 204–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.03.009

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Olaru, G., Schroeders, U., Hartung, J., & Wilhelm, O. (2019). Ant Colony Optimization and local weighted structural equation modeling. A tutorial on novel item and person sampling procedures for personality research. European Journal of Personality, 33(3), 400–419. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2195

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Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2019). On the dimensionality of crystallized intelligence: A smartphone-based assessment. Intelligence, 72, 76–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.12.002

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Jansen, M., Schroeders, U., Lüdtke, O., & Marsh, H. W. (2019). The dimensional structure of students’ self-concept and interest in science depends on course composition. Learning and Instruction, 60, 20–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.11.001

Olaru, G., Schroeders, U., Ostendorf, F., & Wilhelm, O. (2019). “Grandpa, do you like roller coasters?”: Identifying age-appropriate personality indicators. European Journal of Personality, 33(3), 264–278. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2185

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2018

Olaru, G., Schroeders, U., Wilhelm, O., & Ostendorf, F. (2018). A confirmatory examination of age-associated personality differences: Deriving age-related measurement invariant solutions using Ant Colony Optimization. Journal of Personality, 86(6), 1037–1049. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12373

Sewasew, D., Schroeders, U., Schiefer, I. M., Weirich, S. & Artelt, C. (2018). Development of sex differences in math achievement, self-concept, and interest from grade 5 to 7. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 54, 55–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2018.05.003

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Hartung, J., Doebler, P., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2018). Dedifferentiation and differentiation of intelligence in adults across age and years of education. Intelligence, 69, 37–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.04.003

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Moehring, A., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2018). Knowledge is power for medical assistants: Crystallized and fluid intelligence as predictors of vocational knowledge. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00028

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Gnambs, T., Scharl, A., & Schroeders, U. (2018). The structure of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: A cross-cultural meta-analysis. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 226(1), 14–29. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000317

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Edossa, A., Schroeders, U., Weinert, S., & Artelt, C. (2018). The development of emotional and behavioral self-regulation and their effects on academic achievement in childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42(2), 192–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025416687412

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2017

Gnambs, T. & Schroeders, U. (2017). Cognitive abilities explain wording effects in the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Assessment, 27(2), 404–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191117746503

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Lenhard, W., Schroeders, U., & Lenhard, A. (2017). Equivalence of screen versus print reading comprehension depends on task complexity and proficiency. Discourse Processes, 54(5-6), 427–445. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2017.1319653

2016

Schroeders, U., Wilhelm, O., & Olaru, G. (2016). Meta-heuristics in short scale construction: Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithm. PLOS ONE, 11. Article e0167110. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167110

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Moehring, A., Schroeders, U., Leichtmann, B., & Wilhelm, O. (2016). Ecological momentary assessment of digital literacy: Influence of fluid and crystallized intelligence, domain-specific knowledge, and computer usage. Intelligence, 59, 170–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.10.003

Schroeders, U., Schipolowski, S., Zettler, I., Golle, J., & Wilhelm, O. (2016). Do the smart get smarter? Development of fluid and crystallized intelligence in 3rd Grade. Intelligence, 59, 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.08.003

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Schroeders, U., Wilhelm, O., & Olaru, G. (2016). The influence of item sampling on sex differences in knowledge tests. Intelligence, 58, 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.06.003

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Jansen, M., Lüdtke, O., & Schroeders, U. (2016). Evidence for a positive relation between interest and achievement: Examining between-person and within-person variation in five domains. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 46, 116–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.05.004
Wolf, K., Schroeders, U., & Kriegbaum, K. (2016). Metaanalyse zur Wirksamkeit einer Förderung der phonologischen Bewusstheit in der deutschen Sprache. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 30, 9–33. https://doi.org/10.1024/1010-0652/a000165
Akukwe, B. & Schroeders, U. (2016). Socio-economic, cultural, social, and cognitive aspects of family background and the biology competency of ninth-graders in Germany. Learning and Individual Differences, 45, 185–192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.12.009

2015

Schroeders, U., Schipolowski, S., & Böhme, K. (2015). Typical intellectual engagement and achievement in math and the sciences in secondary education. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 31–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.08.030
Jansen, M., Schroeders, U., Lüdtke, O., & Marsh, H. (2015). Contrast and assimilation effects of dimensional comparisons in five subjects: An extension of the I/E model. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107(4), 1086–1101. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000021
Schroeders, U., Schipolowski, S., & Wilhelm, O. (2015). Age-related changes in the mean and covariance structure of fluid and crystallized intelligence in childhood and adolescence. Intelligence, 48, 15–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.10.006
Jansen, M., Scherer, R. & Schroeders, U. (2015). Students’ self-concept and self-efficacy in the sciences: Differential relations to antecedents and educational outcomes. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 41, 13–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.11.002

2014

Schroeders, U., Robitzsch, A., & Schipolowski, S. (2014). A comparison of different psychometric approaches to modeling testlet structures: An example with c-tests. Journal of Educational Measurement, 51(4), 400–418. https://doi.org/10.1111/jedm.12054

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Schipolowski, S., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2014). Pitfalls and challenges in constructing short forms of cognitive ability measures. Journal of Individual Differences, 35(4), 190–200. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000134
Schipolowski, S., Wilhelm, O., & Schroeders, U. (2014). On the nature of crystallized intelligence: The relationship between verbal ability and factual knowledge. Intelligence, 46, 156–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.05.014
Jansen, M., Schroeders, U., Lüdtke, O., & Pant, H. A. (2014). Interdisziplinäre Beschulung und die Struktur des akademischen Selbstkonzepts in den naturwissenschaftlichen Fächern. Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie, 28, 43–49. https://doi.org/10.1024/1010-0652/a000120
Jansen, M., Schroeders, U., & Lüdtke, O. (2014). Academic self-concept in science: Multidimensionality, relations to achievement measures, and gender differences. Learning and Individual Differences, 30, 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2013.12.003

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Schroeders, U., Bucholtz, N., Formazin, M., & Wilhelm, O. (2013). Modality specificity of comprehension abilities in the sciences. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 29(1), 3–11. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000114
Schipolowski, S., Wilhelm, O., Schroeders, U., Kovaleva, A., Kemper, C. J. & Rammstedt, B. (2013). BEFKI GC-K. Eine Kurzskala zur Messung kristalliner Intelligenz [BEFKI GC-K. A Short Scale for the Measurement of Crystallized Intelligence]. Methoden, Daten, Analysen, 7, 153–181. https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2013.010
Ehlert, A., Schroeders, U., & Fritz-Stratmann, A. (2012). Kritik am Diskrepanzkriterium in der Diagnostik von Legasthenie und Dyskalkulie. Lernen und Lernstörungen, 1, 169–184. https://doi.org/10.1024/2235-0977/a000018
Formazin, M., Schroeders, U., Köller, O., Wilhelm, O., & Westmeyer, H. (2011). Studierendenauswahl im Fach Psychologie. Testentwicklung und Validitätsbefunde. Psychologische Rundschau, 62, 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000093
Schroeders, U. & Wilhelm, O. (2011). Equivalence of reading and listening comprehension across test media. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 71(5), 849–869. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164410391468
Schroeders, U. & Wilhelm, O. (2011). Computer usage questionnaire: Structure, correlates, and gender differences. Computers in Human Behavior, 27(2), 899–904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.11.015
Schroeders, U. & Wilhelm, O. (2010). Testing reasoning ability with handheld computers, notebooks, and paper and pencil. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 26(4), 284–292. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000038
Schroeders, U., Wilhelm, O., & Bucholtz, N. (2010). Reading, listening, and viewing comprehension in English as a foreign language: One or more constructs? Intelligence, 38(6), 562–573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2010.09.003
Kunina, O., Wilhelm, O., Formazin, M., Jonkmann, K., & Schroeders, U. (2007). Extended criteria and predictors in college admission: Exploring the structure of study success and investigating the validity of domain knowledge. Psychology Science, 49, 88–114.

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