M. Sc. Karsten Valerius

Health Psychology
Research Associate (Third party fund) AMBER "Active mobility for maintained benefits of health and environment"
Room JK 25/116
14195 Berlin
Since 2023 |
Research Associate and PhD-Candidate in the joint project AMBER ‘Active mobility for maintained benefits of health and environment’ (Project website: www.amber-forschung.de, information on the project's citizen science study ‘Mobil auf Deine Weise’: https://www.mobil-auf-deine-weise.de), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
2021 – 2022 |
Research Associate in the project ‘Risk of forest fires north of the Alps: Awareness and communication’, Center for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland |
2020 – 2021
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Research Associate in DFG-funded project ‘Living environment, everyday reality and expectations of medical care in Western Pomerania’ (LAPomm), Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Germany |
2015 – 2022 |
Freelance work at e-fect dialog evaluation consulting eG, Berlin |
Journal articles (peer-reviewed):
Moser, S., Kearney, N., Michel, F., Valerius, K., & Liechti, K. (2024). Understanding threat appraisal and protective action concerning forest fires in low-exposure regions: an application of the protective action decision model. Journal of Risk Research, 27(10), 1248–1272. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2447256
Valerius, K., von Eitzen, L., Göbel, M. et al. Value-related attitudes towards mental health problems and help-seeking barriers: a sequential mixed-methods design investigating participants with reported depressive episodes in rural Northern Germany with and without treatment experience. BMC Psychiatry 24, 153 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05521-9
von Eitzen, L., Valerius, K., van den Berg, N., Völzke, H., Grabe, H. J., Schomerus, G., & Speerforck, S. (2021). Soziodemografische und störungsbezogene Determinanten zur Inanspruchnahme von ärztlicher oder psychologischer Hilfe – die besondere Rolle des Lebensalters. Psychiatrische Praxis, 48(8), 404–411. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1468-3860