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Rainer K. Silbereisen
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Political Context and Social Change
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Political Context and Social Change
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“Confucian” traits, entrepreneurial personality, and entrepreneurship in China: a regional analysis
Regional personality differences have been linked to regional entrepreneurship in Western countries. Here, we offer a first analysis of the relationship between regional personality and manifest and latent ent...
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Cultural Identification Among Immigrants from the Former USSR: Insights from Comparative Research with Five Groups in Germany and Israel
The chapter presents a comparative study on immigrants’ cultural identification with the majority in their country of settlement and with their minority background. We focused on diaspora immigrants who after ...
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Schumpeter’s entrepreneur – A rare case
In this paper we investigate Schumpeter’s description of an entrepreneur as an actor challenging conventional wisdom to overcome social resistance and skepticism along psychological, sociological and economic ...
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Warm and Supportive Parenting Can Discourage Offspring’s Civic Engagement in the Transition to Adulthood
It is widely believed that warm and supportive parenting fosters all kinds of prosocial behaviors in the offspring, including civic engagement. However, accumulating international evidence suggests that the ef...
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Entrepreneurial Self-Identity: Predictors and Effects Within the Theory of Planned Behavior Framework
To combine the identity and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) approaches to entrepreneurship, we investigated unique main effects as well as moderating effects of an entrepreneurial self-identity in the TPB...
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Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters
Public awareness, rigorous risk research and aligned targets will help policy-makers to increase resilience against natural hazards, say Susan L. Cutter and colleagues.
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Friendships Fighting Prejudice: A Longitudinal Perspective on Adolescents’ Cross-Group Friendships with Immigrants
Increasingly, adolescents are growing up in multiethnic multicultural societies. While intergroup prejudice can threaten the multicultural societal cohesion, intergroup friendships are strong predictors of re...
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Factual Versus Potential Civic Participation in a Post-Communist Region: A Typological Approach
A typological approach to civic participation and nonparticipation may be useful to develop targeted recruitment or intervention strategies. We applied the behavior change framework, which distinguishes betwee...
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Childhood Predictors and Mid-Adolescent Correlates of Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol Use among Male and Female Youth
The identification of salient risk factors for alcohol consumption among male and female adolescents is an important topic not only for etiology research but also for designing effective gender-specific alcoho...
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Social Participation in Poland: Links to Emotional Well-Being and Risky Alcohol Consumption
Social participation has been hypothesised to have both positive and negative impact on health outcomes via a variety of pathways, but previous studies have found few significant effects of social participatio...
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Political Context and Social Change
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Work-Related Demands Emanating from Social Change and Their Relation to Trait-Like and Occasion-Specific Aspects of Subjective Well-Being
Following current macro-level social change people are increasingly confronted with new demands encompassing perceived uncertainties concerning their job and career prospects. Studies utilizing concurrent asse...
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Open AccessIs it adaptive to disengage from demands of social change? Adjustment to developmental barriers in opportunity-deprived regions
This paper investigates how individuals deal with demands of social and economic change in the domains of work and family when opportunities for their mastery are unfavorable. Theoretical considerations and em...
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Patterns of Fulfilment in the Domains of Work, Intimate Relationship, and Leisure
Work, family/partnership, and leisure form the most important domains in most peoples’ lives. The present study investigated patterns of fulfilment in these domains among 1,974 German respondents. Eight groups...
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Demands of Social Change as a Function of the Political Context, Institutional Filters, and Psychosocial Resources
Individually experienced demands of current social change in the domains of work and family were assessed in a large sample of adults from two Western and two Eastern federal states of Germany. For each domain...
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Life goals and purpose in life in cancer patients
The purpose of the study was to analyze associations between life goals and purpose in life in cancer patients.
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Berlin declaration on the quality of life for older adults: closing the gap between scientific knowledge and intervention
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Effects of Pubertal Timing on Communication Behaviors and Stress Reactivity in Young Women During Conflict Discussions with their Mothers
Individuation, a process whereby adolescents gain autonomy from their parents while maintaining emotional relatedness, is displayed by characteristic styles of verbal exchanges. Negotiating this developmental ...
