Frühauf Anika

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Name: Ass. Prof. Anika Frühauf, PhD

Email: Anika.Fruehauf@uibk.ac.at

Phone number: +43 512 507 45859

Office location: Fürstenweg 176

Tutorial hours: By appointment

Address: Fürstenweg 176, 6020 Innsbruck

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1929-390X

Research area: Sports pedagogy and didactics, Sport and exercise psychology

Anika Frühauf, born 1989 in Germany, studied sport science at the University of Innsbruck. During her Master program she started to focus on sports and exercise psychology with a special interest in physical activity programs for people with mental health disorders. She has a certification as training therapist, ski and tennis instructor and worked in those areas till the beginning of her doctoral studies in 2016. In 2018 she finished her doctoral thesis under the mentorship of Martin Kopp at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focused on psychometric approaches to assess motives and risk-taking behavior in adventure and high-risk sports. She has now a post-doctoral position at the University of Innsbruck and broadened her research towards psychological and pedagogical benefits of adventure and high-risk sports including gender and well-being related questions.

  • Sports and exercise psychology
  • Sports pedagogy; motives, benefits and pedagogical implications of adventure and high-risk sports; Outdoor education
  • Gender and sports
  • Affective responses in exercise in different environments and populations
  • Physical activity research in people with mental health disorders

Current teaching:

  • SL Sportwissenschaft
  • PS Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten
  • Psychoregulative Techniken in der Trainingstherapie: Biofeedback
  • Specific Aspects in Sports Science: Sex and Gender
  • Bewegungsspiele
  • Rückschlagspiele

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Adventure sports

Frühauf, Anika; Sagmeister, Dominik; Kopp, Martin (2023): Barriers to and opportunities for integrating climbing in physical education. Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2023.2236255

Frühauf, Anika; Houge Mackenzie, Susan; Boudreau, Patrick; Hodge, Ken; Kopp, Martin (2022): Multiple motives for adventure sport revisited: A multi-activity investigation. Leisure Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2022.2126910

Frühauf, Anika; Pahlke, Christiane; Kopp, Martin (2022): Overcoming gender barriers in sports - an opportunity of adventure/high-risk sports? Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2021-0065

Frühauf, Anika; Zenzmaier, Julian; Kopp, Martin (2020): Does Age Matter? A Qualitative Comparison of Motives and Aspects of Risk in Adolescent and Adult Freeriders. In: Journal of sports science & medicine 19 (1), S. 112–120.

Frühauf, Anika; Anewanter, Pia; Hagenauer, Julia; Marterer, Natalie; Kopp, Martin (2019): Freeriding—Only a need for thrill?: Comparing different motives and behavioural aspects between slope skiers and freeride skiers. In: Journal of science and medicine in sport 22, S44-S49. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2018.11.002.

Physical activity research in people with mental health disorders and healthy populations

Frühauf, Anika; Hundhausen, Franziska; Kopp, Martin (2022): Better Together? Analyzing Experiences from Male and Female Students and Teachers from Single-Sex and Coeducational Physical Education Classes. Behavioral Sciences 12(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12090306

Thaller, L.; Frühauf, A.; Heimbeck, A.; Voderholzer, U.; Kopp, M. A Comparison of Acute Effects of Climbing Therapy with Nordic Walking for Inpatient Adults with Mental Health Disorder: A Clinical Pilot Trial. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 6767. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116767

Frühauf, A; Heußner, J; Niedermeier, M; Kopp, M (2021): Expert Views on Therapeutic Climbing—A Multi-Perspective, Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research And Public Health 18(7).https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073535

Frühauf, Anika; Niedermeier, Martin; Sevecke, Kathrin; Haid-Stecher, Nina; Albertini, Christoph; Richter, Katharina et al. (2020): Affective responses to climbing exercises in children and adolescents during in-patient treatment for mental health disorders a pilot study on acute effects of different exercise interventions. In: Psychiatry research 291, S. 113245. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113245

Frühauf, Anika; Schnitzer, Martin; Schobersberger, Wolfgang; Weiss, Günter; Kopp, Martin (2020): Jogging, nordic walking and going for a walk - inter-disciplinary recommendations to keep people physically active in times of the covid-19 lockdown in Tyrol, Austria. In: CISS 0 (0). DOI: 10.15203/CISS_2020.100.

Frühauf, Anika; Niedermeier, Martin; Elliott, Lewis R.; Ledochowski, Larissa; Marksteiner, Josef; Kopp, Martin (2016): Acute effects of outdoor physical activity on affect and psychological well-being in depressed patients – A preliminary study. In: Mental Health and Physical Activity 10, S. 4–9. DOI: 10.1016/j.mhpa.2016.02.002.

Frühauf, Anika; Sevecke, Kathrin; Kopp, Martin (2019): Ist-Stand der Fachliteratur zu Effekten des therapeutischen Kletterns auf die psychische Gesundheit – Fazit: viel zu tun. In: Neuropsychiatr 33 (1), S. 1–7. DOI: 10.1007/s40211-018-0283-0.

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