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The Development of Leisure Boredom in Early Adolescence: Predictors and Longitudinal Associations with Delinquency and Depression
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Spaeth, Michael; Weichold, Karina; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The literature proposes that leisure boredom may systematically increase during adolescence. Moreover, some authors assume that this hypothesized developmental trend is associated with increases in youthful delinquency and depression. Individual dispositions (e.g., temperamental disinhibition) are believed to exacerbate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Leisure Time, Psychological Patterns
Demands of Social Change as a Function of the Political Context, Institutional Filters, and Psychosocial Resources
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Tomasik, Martin J.; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Social Indicators Research, 2009
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 of life, a cumulated index was computed representing the load with highly endorsed demands and this was compared across political regions,…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Global Approach, Labor Market, Social Change
Supportive Parenting and Adolescent Adjustment across Time in Former East and West Germany.
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Juang, Linda P; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Adolescence, 1999
Adolescents from the former East (n=97) and West (n=186) Germany were used to examine the effects of consistently versus inconsistently supportive parents on several aspects of adolescent adjustment. Results show that adolescents who reported having consistently supportive parents had lower levels of depression and delinquency, higher levels of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
Human Development in Times of Social Change: Theoretical Considerations and Research Needs
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Pinquart, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Although social change is diverse and ubiquitous, there is to date little research on the impact of social change on individual development, nor on the variables that may mediate and moderate this impact. This lack is, in part, based on insufficient consideration of psychological theories that may be applied to social change, but particularly on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Social Change, Individual Development
Presidential Address: Social Change and Human Development--Experiences from German Unification
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Silbereisen, Rainer K. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
It is well known that human development is influenced by social change. In particular, as evidenced by research on German unification, the rapid change of social institutions can impact on various aspects of behaviour and development. Based on my own research experience in this field, I want to show the necessity for a better interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Self Efficacy, Group Unity, Social Change
Career Maturity Determinants: Individual Development, Social Context, and Historical Time.
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Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Career Development Quarterly, 1998
Compares adolescents from East Germany who experienced an educational system offering little choice with adolescents from West Germany who experienced more leeway to investigate career maturity. East German adolescents reported more career maturity. Person-related variables predicted career maturity in both groups; family and peer context were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Context Effect, Cultural Context