This 16-year longitudinal study examines individual uncertainties concerning work and career, as perceived by 213 employed and unemployed Italian young adults, and reflecting the precarious situation in the Italian labor market in times of globalization. ...
Against the backdrop of young people's increasingly later role-transitions (discussed as postadolescence or emerging adulthood), the present study examined whether (1) young people of different cohorts decreasingly perceived themselves as adults, and (2) ...
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 ...
We analyzed whether perceived work-related demands associated with social change (e.g., increased risk of becoming unemployed and more difficulties with long-term career planning) and processes of dealing with work-related demands relate to psychological ...
Social change is a ubiquitous phenomenon comprising tendencies such as globalization, demographic change, and pluralization of biographical trajectories. Based on stress theories and related challenge-response models, the present study investigated ...
The purpose of this study was to examine parents’ perceived social change and its relations with adolescents’ reports of childrearing attitudes in urban and rural China. The participants were high school students and their parents in a Northern region of ...
Leaving school early is generally associated with relative poor adult outcomes, as indicated by relative low social status, reduced earnings, and poor mental health. Yet, not all young people leaving school early are failing to make it. Some are able to ...
We investigated how individuals negotiated demands of social change in the domains of work and family life in terms of primary and secondary control strategies of goal engagement and disengagement. A sample of N = 2,153 adults from East and West Germany ...
Social change is a core topic within political and social psychology. In light of recent world-wide protest movements directed at social change it is timely to reflect on where current theory and research on socio-political change stands, what the ...