Dr. Franziska Laaber, BA BSc MSc

Applied Social Psychology and Consumer Research

Department of Psychology
University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7
A-1010 Vienna

Office: C0709 (NIG)

Email: franziska.laaber@univie.ac.at

Appointments only by arrangement.

Since March 2020, I am a doctoral student at the SoKo lab and research assistant in the EU- project „DIGYMATEX“ (https://digymatex.eu/). I received my bachelor’s degrees in Education Science and Psychology and my master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Vienna and completed an Erasmus study-abroad semester in Parma, Italy. From 2016-2020, I have been working in the field of Human Resources as HR project manager, setting up and managing the group-wide employee survey of an international corporation. In my dissertation project, I investigate young people’s use of digital media with the aim to develop a measure for children’s digital maturity. Specifically, I am interested in the processes and mannerisms of a self-determined and beneficial use of digital media by young people.

Moreover, I am in training to become a behavioral psychotherapist (“Fachspezifikum”) at the Austrian Society for Behavioral Therapy (ÖGVT).

Current Position

Research fellow (EU project), University of Vienna, Austria

Education 

2022 – present
Behavioral psychotherapy training (Fachspezifikum), Österreichische Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie (ÖGVT), Vienna, Austria

2020 - 2024
Doctoral Studies, Doctorate School CoBeNe, Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

2014 – 2016
Master of Science, Applied Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

2010 – 2014
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Unviersity of Vienna, Austria

2008 – 2012
Bachelor of Arts, Education Science (Bildungswissenschaft), University of Vienna

Selected publications

  • Koch, T., Laaber, F., Arenas, A., & Florack, A. (2025). Socially (disconnected) in a connceted world: The role of young people's digital maturity. Computers in Human Behavior, 163, 108473, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108473
  • Koch, T., Laaber, F., & Florack, A. (2024). Socioeconomic status and young people's digital maturity: The role of parental mediation. Computers in Human Behavior, 154, 108157. doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108157
  • Laaber, F., Koch, T., Hubert, M., & Florack, A. (2024). Young people's digital maturity relates to different forms of well-being through basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration. Computers in Human Behavior, 152, 108077. doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108077
  • Laaber, F., Florack, A., Koch, T., & Hubert, M. (2023). Digital maturity: Development and validation of the Digital Maturity Inventory (DIMI). Computers in Human Behavior, 143, Article 107709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107709

Selected conferences

  • Laaber, F., Florack, A., Koch, T., & Hubert, M. (2023, July 4). Young people’s digital maturity: Development and initial validation of the Digital Maturity Inventory (DIMI) [poster presentation]. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Kraków, Poland.
  • Laaber, F., Florack, A., Koch, T., & Hubert, M. (2022, September 12). Digital maturity: Developing a comprehensive understanding and multi-dimensional digital maturity scale for adolescents [poster presentation]. 52nd DGPs Congress 2022, Hildesheim, Germany.