Pascal Küng

Postdoctoral researcher in Applied Social and Health Psychology at the University of Zurich.

I study how close relationships shape health behaviour and develop methods and R tools for dyadic and intensive longitudinal data.

Portrait of Pascal Küng

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Software and teaching

dyadMLM

An R package for preparing and validating cross-sectional and intensive longitudinal dyadic data, with tools for fitting and interpreting dyadic multilevel models such as the APIM, DIM, and DSM.

  • dyadMLM package and documentationReference documentation, installation instructions, and worked vignettes for cross-sectional and intensive longitudinal analyses.
  • Dyadic Data Analysis WorkshopFree materials from the 2026 Charité Summer School: conceptual slides covering the APIM, DIM, DSM, and other dyadic models, plus an applied glmmTMB tutorial and exercises for cross-sectional and intensive longitudinal APIMs.
  • Bayesian dyadic modelling tutorialAn interactive tutorial and PDF using dyadMLM and brms for cross-sectional and intensive longitudinal APIMs with distinguishable and exchangeable dyads.

wbCorr

An R package for estimating within- and between-cluster correlations in clustered and repeated-measures data.

Package documentation

Selected peer-reviewed publications

First author

  1. Küng, P., Bierbauer, W., Berli, C., Höhener, P. S., Lüscher, J., Bermudez, T., Banik, A., Łuszczyńska, A., & Scholz, U. (2026). Does preference for self-reliance moderate associations of health-related social control with physical activity and smoking cessation? Two intensive longitudinal studies. British Journal of Health Psychology, 31(2), Article e70082. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.70082

  2. Küng, P., Höhener, P. S., Allen, J. M., Tobias, R., & Scholz, U. (2026). Daily associations of three types of social control with physical activity, reactance, and mood in romantic couples: A dyadic intensive longitudinal study. Psychology & Health, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2026.2620453

  3. Küng, P., Berli, C., Höhener, P. S., Tobias, R., & Scholz, U. (2025). Health-related social control in overweight romantic couples: Daily associations with physical activity and affect for targets and agents. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 59(1), Article kaae093. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaae093

Co-authored

  1. Höhener, P. S., Tobias, R., Allen, J. M., Küng, P., & Scholz, U. (2026). Effectiveness of smartphone-based dyadic interventions to increase physical activity in romantic couples: Microrandomized trial. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 14, Article e67136. https://doi.org/10.2196/67136

  2. Höhener, P. S., Lüscher, J., Tobias, R., Küng, P., & Scholz, U. (2025). Investigating the association between companionship and behavior concordance: A dyadic panel study. Personal Relationships, 32(2), Article e70005. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.70005

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