The possibility of a historically determined shift in developmental tasks of young adulthood was investigated. Personal goals at age 25 of participants from three cohorts spanning twentieth-century Swiss history were studied in an interview combining ...
Identity development and management of other developmental tasks in children of alcoholics in emerging adulthoodAbstract.Objective: The development of young people – above all, their identity development – is ...
Prevention Through Support for Coping Gender-Specific Developmental Tasks: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a School-Based Program for Gender-Adapted Health PromotionAbstract: An essential function of youthful risk taking is to show oneself ...
In Search for Protective Personality Factors against Adolescent Tobacco use: Results of a Longitudinal StudyJuvenile tobacco abuse has often been discussed in scientific and political journals. On the contrary, abstention doesnt seem to be of any ...
Adolescents’ concepts of romantic relationship qualityAbstract. Two studies examined adolescents’ concepts of romantic relationship quality. In study 1, a sample of 323 students (5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th grades) listed characteristics of a good ...
Zusammenfassung. Empirische Befunde verdeutlichen, dass frühere (positive/negative) Erfahrungen spätere Erfahrungen im Entwicklungsverlauf beeinflussen. Aus diesem Grund setzen Präventionen von aggressiv-dissozialem Verhalten und Substanzmissbrauch oft ...
Zusammenfassung. In den demografischen Wandlungsprozessen unserer Gesellschaft liegen zahlreiche neue Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Psychologie. Die hierbei besonders angesprochene psychologische Alternsforschung sollte im Sinne einer bedeutsamen ...Psychological aging research: Contributions and perspectivesAbstract. The demographic changes that our society faces as part of the overall aging of the population provide the field of psychology with a number of challenges and opportunities. ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Längsschnittstudie untersucht die Realisierung von Entwicklungsaufgaben zu zwei Zeitpunkten im jungen Erwachsenenalter. An einer Stichprobe von N = 102 Probanden wurde der gegenwärtige Entwicklungsstand und die intendierte ...
Threat to idendity through positive feedback about academic performanceAbstract. Two experiments tested the assumption that positive feedback about academic performances might threaten important aspects of adolescents’ identity (being autonomous; ...
Allgemein formulierte nicht-kognitive Erziehungsziele sind ethisch bedenklich, weil sie kaum operationalisiert sind und weil keine Wege aufgewiesen werden, wie sie zu erreichen sind. Um der einseitigen Festlegung auf kognitive Bildungsziele ...
Gender differences in the occurrence of mental and behavioral disorders during adolescenceAbstract. In the present article, the most important gender differences in the occurrence of mental and behavioral disorders from the beginning of puberty to young ...
Timing matters in the development of adolescents’ behavioral autonomy. Drawing from two German national surveys, the present studies showed that premature curfew autonomy (measured retrospectively) was associated with developmental risks in late ...
In a longitudinal study on 93 participants, the relationships between leaving home, developmental task progression, and the amount of parental support were analyzed over a time span of 11 years. Three different leaving-home patterns emerged: on-time ...