Summary: A study with 128 subjects showed that the need for belongingness activated by a threat to the personal self is satisfied by social groups, as Brewer assumes, but not by categories. Moreover, a positive correlation between need satisfaction and ...
Disturbances of Self-Experience and Social Behaviour in Patients with Internet AddictionAims: Internet addiction is often associated with social withdrawal and developmental delays in various aspects of life. The study stems from the hypothesis that ...
“Emerging Adulthood”: Research on objective markers, developmental tasks and developmental risksThis paper presents characteristics of the newly discovered development phase “emerging adulthood” (18 to 30 years) and then summarizes research findings on ...
The Social Perspective of Body Changing BehaviorsAbstract. In clinical practice, patients who are strongly dissatisfied with the condition or appearance of their body are common. Many of them try to shape their body ...
Relationship experiences during adolescence: How important are they for predicting romantic outcome in young adulthood?Abstract. In a six-year longitudinal study, the early factors influencing later romantic relationships in young adulthood were ...
The relationship between the structure of body image and mental disorders of adolescents - a perspective of developmental psychologyAbstract. Based on reflections from the perspective of developmental psychology this study examines how adolescents can be ...
Identity status and well-being in the process of coping with societal transformation: A study in East and West German twin villagesAbstract. Based on a combination of the transactional stress theory and identity research in the tradition of Erik Erikson, ...
I do like you, you do (not) like me? Twins and nontwins evaluate their sibling relationshipsAbstract. In the nature-nurture debate, twins have always been very interesting and popular subjects. In this longitudinal study, twins are, however, not examined ...
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; ...
Abstract. Ethnic discrimination has a negative impact on the socioemotional, behavioral, relational, and academic adjustment of adolescents, while belonging with classmates, teachers, heritage, and national group may promote positive ...
Abstract. The current labor market has produced manifold crises with high unemployment rates and increasing worklife dynamics. Adaptability and identity are metaskills that enable the learning process necessary to overcome obstacles on ...
The present paper is concerned with the organizing principles of the representation people form about a superordinate category to which they belong. It is argued here that the social relations in the structural societal level play a crucial role in ...
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Dutch and Italian versions of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) in large community samples of adolescents from Italy (N = 1,975) and The Netherlands (N = 1,521). ...
This research developed a new test in Spanish to assess psychological maturity in adolescents, called PSYMAS and consisting of the subscales work orientation, identity, and autonomy. PSYMAS was administered to 669 students between 15 and 18 years. The ...
Abstract. The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS; Crocetti, Rubini, & Meeus, 2008) is a recently developed measure of identity that has been shown to be a reliable tool for assessing identity processes in ...
Abstract. Identity difficulties have been associated with various psychiatric conditions and are considered a central issue in personality pathology. Following the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, measures of self- and ...
A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of ...
This article presents the structure, processes, climate, and culture of the Slovenian Psychological Association (SPA) in the period from 1999 to 2003. The contribution of the former leadership of the SPA to Slovenian psychology as a profession, science, ...
With the help of German versions of the modified Utrecht-Groningen Identity Development Scales, we assessed interpersonal identity development of five different groups of siblings. Monozygotic, dizygotic same-sexed, and opposite-sexed twins, as well as ...
We live in contentious times. Why are people prepared to sacrifice wealth, a pleasant and carefree life, or sometimes even their lives for a common cause? This question brings us to the individual level of analysis, and therefore to political psychology. ...