Dr. Martin Bettschart

Work at ZHAW

Position

Responsibility for the dossier "scientific work"

Focus

• student thesis writing
• scientific writing

Teaching

• AFE2: Colloquium for Seminar Paper
• AFE3/AFE4: Colloquium for Bachelor Thesis
• F5: Basic Methods II
• UEK2: Writing Workshop
• A11-7: ZRM Basic Course: Theory and Practice

Experience

• Research Associate
  ZHAW
  09 / 2024 - today
• Senior Research Consultant
  YouGov Switzerland
  02 / 2020 - 08 / 2024
• Research Associate (Postdoc)
  University of Zurich
  07 / 2019 - 12 / 2019

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Dr. phil. / Psychology
  University of Zurich
  02 / 2016 - 07 / 2019
• Master of Science (MSc) / Psychology
  University of Zurich
  02 / 2014 - 01 / 2016
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) / Psychology
  University of Zurich
  09 / 2010 - 01 / 2014

Continuing Education

ZRM-Trainer (Zurich Resource Model Training, certificate program)
Institut für Selbstmanagement und Motivation Zürich (ISMZ)
03 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

LinkedIn

Projects

• Reusing Openly Accessible research Data for Student theses / Team member / ongoing

Publications

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Bettschart, M. and Herrmann, M. (2026) 'Künstliche Intelligenz : Werkzeug, Schreibbegleitung und Sparringpartnerin', in Herrmann, M. and Schmugge, B. (eds) Schreiben in Wissenschaft und Praxis: Ein Handbuch für Lehre, Studium und Beruf. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 729–816. doi: 10.5771/9783748960379.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Kreibich, A., Wolf, B. M., Bettschart, M., Ghassemi, M., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2022). How self-awareness is connected to less experience of action crises in personal goal pursuit. Motivation and Emotion, 46(6), 825–836. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09942-5
• Bettschart, M., Herrmann, M., Wolf, B. M., & Brandstätter, V. (2021). Investigating the Unified Motive Scales: The predictive validity of the achievement motive subscale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 37(2), 118–122. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000571
• Bettschart, M., Wolf, B., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2021). Age-related development of self-regulation: Evidence on stability and change in action orientation. Journal of Research in Personality, 91, Article 104063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104063
• Ghassemi, M., Wolf, B. M., Bettschart, M., Kreibich, A., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2021). The dynamics of doubt: Short-term fluctuations and predictors of doubts in personal goal pursuit. Motivation Science, 7(2), 153–164. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000210
• Bettschart, M., Herrmann, M., Wolf, B. M., & Brandstätter, V. (2019). The seed of goal-related doubts: A longitudinal investigation of the roles of failure and expectation of success among police trainee applicants. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 2151. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02151
• Bettschart, M., Wolf, B. M., Herrmann, M., & Brandstätter, V. (2019). Zweifelsfrei in den Polizeidienst: Eine Studie zu Zweifeln am Berufsziel «Polizist*in» im Bewerbungs- und Ausbildungsprozess [Entering the police service without doubts: A study on doubts about the professional goal "policeofficer" in the application and training process]. Format Magazine, 9, 11–17. https://www.institut-police.ch/06-wissen/06-04-format-magazine/2019-09/inhalt-2019-09/2%20Bettschart%20et%20al.pdf
• Brandstätter, V., Koletzko, S. H., & Bettschart, M. (2019). When goals loom darker: Goal ambivalence moderates the effect of goal proximity on goal-related motivation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(4), 778–793. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2541

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