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CHANGING THE PATTERN STATE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH A SELF-COACHING APP
answer the coaching guestions in the app and that there were no grades on
the sessions.
The self-coaching app was conceptualized by using results from a previous
literature and app-store research. It consists of a conceptualized self-coaching
process based on the Karlsruhe School with five phases including 15 questions
and two activation invitations. The change of pattern state phase includes four
questions and both of the activation invitations.
To find out about the acceptance of the self-coaching app as a whole there
were some rating questions at the end of a post-questionnaire of the study.
The acceptance of the change of pattern state was analysed by going into the
answers of the students in the self-coaching sessions and rating them if they
used the opportunities offered or not by doing a quantitative content analysis.
PRELIMINARY RESULTS AND SOLUTIONS TO THE CHALLENGE
The analysis of the complete study is still in progress as well as the analysis of
the change of pattern state which means that the results are still preliminary.
A quantitative content analysis and a descriptive analysis of the self-e¬
coaching sessions displays that from all 208 self-e-coaching sessions 50% were
rated successful by the participants as they stated a clear “yes” to the question
of being closer to the solution of the problem. 27% stated that they were a little
bit closer and 19% felt they were not closer to the problem’s solution. 1% did
not answer and in 3% of the self-e-coaching sessions the participants were not
sure yet on coming closer to the solution. This signifies that 77% of the self-e¬
coaching sessions have been a success in terms of supporting the students in
bringing them closer to the solutions to their individual problems. However in
the post-questionnaire from the subordinate study (on self-reflection) it can be
seen that only 8% of the 74 participants were stating that they will use the self¬
coaching app (in the way it was presented) after the seminar, 38% were not sure
(“maybe”), 47% did not want to use the self-coaching app afterwards and 7% did
not answer to this question. Only 22% of the participants would recommend
the app to their peers, though 59% of the control-group (32 participants!)
would do so, if the app were to be revised in certain ways.
Not every problem can be solved by self-e-coaching. This implies problems
with (mental) health (e.g. depression or fear), specific technical issues (e.g. an
IT-problem), but it can be the case that the setting is not fitting the client. He
16 The group was divided in two equal groups for the subordinate study.
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