Andreas Walther
Biographic Data
| ID | 378304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Walther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Walther |
| SIGNATURE | WALTHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6999-3862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Non-loss-framed messaging increases willingness to use condoms among men who have sex with women in Austria and Germany
The rate of barrier use during partnered sexual activities is low in men because masculinity ideologies might emphasize strong sexual desire and prioritize pregnancy prevention over sexually transmitted disease prevention. We investigated how to frame educational interventions to increase cisgender men’s willingness to use barrier contraceptives, including condoms and dental dams. Based on Regulatory Focus Theory, non-loss-framed messages (focusi…
Toward the Idea of a ‘Planetary Here and Now’
This essay develops an idea of a “planetary here and now” through artistic practice between Europe and East Asia. Taking Stéphan Barron’s Art Planétaire as a point of departure, distance is approached not as something to be eliminated, but as a condition that can sharpen the senses and reorder perception. A selection of time-based works (two-channel video installations and a portrait series) is discussed as a way of making distance and co-presenc…
Benevolent intentions towards a new co-worker depend on the co-worker’s sexual orientation and relationship status
In Europe, allonormative beliefs are common. These beliefs assume that all people desire sexual activity with others. Individuals who are single or asexual differ from these norms and may face social disapproval, including discrimination. The present study investigated whether individuals’ benevolent intentions and behaviors toward a new co-worker vary depending on the co-worker’s sexual orientation (specifically being asexual) and relationship s…
Problematic pornography use as an externalizing depression symptom in cisgender men
Thought suppression strategies as mediators between traditional masculinity ideology and externalized depressive symptoms in men
The role of externalizing symptoms in men’s experiences of depression, including the link between externalizing symptoms and traditional masculinity ideologies (TMI), has emerged as a key consideration in men’s mental health. Within this context, men’s strategies to manage uncomfortable thoughts and emotions (e.g. restricted emotionality, alexithymia) have been featured. In order to respond to existing gaps in the literature, the purpose of this …
Perceiving being single as inherently negative
The belief that every person has a strong desire to be in a committed relationship can lead to stereotyping of single people. The present study examined whether people judge another person's life satisfaction differently based solely on information about that person's relationship status. We conducted a cross-sectional study among 1,241 participants (M age = 40.3, SD = 13.0; 57.3% cisgender women, 40.8% cisgender men, and 1.9% gender minority ind…
Gender-biased diagnosis and treatment of depression
The commentary explores the critical issue of gender bias in the diagnosis and treatment of depression, responding to the study by Bacigalupe et al. [3] that highlights disparities in mental health care for older adults. While acknowledging the study's strengths, it argues for deeper exploration into systemic biases and gendered symptomatology. Women's frequent healthcare interactions increase their likelihood of diagnosis and treatment, while me…
Effects of diagnosing major depressive disorders in men on externalizing depression symptoms and conformity to traditional masculinity ideologies
Translation and validation of the German Masculine Sexual Entitlement Norms Scale
Going public – Positionierungsprozesse Jugendlicher in öffentlichen Zwischenräumen
Jugendliche bewegen sich in und durch öffentliche Räume auf der Suche nach Zugehörigkeit, Anerkennung und Identität. Dabei verhandeln sie ihre Positionierung zwischen Selbstinszenierung, gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und strukturellen Begrenzungen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Fremd- und Selbstpositionierung Jugendlicher in öffentlichen Räumen sowie deren Bedeutung für Prozesse der Identifizierung und Subjektivierung. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf …
Young People's Time Work
The editors introduce the topic of young people's time work at the intersection of youth research and time studies. A large part of youth studies tends to analyze young people's development and transitions while reproducing the chrononormativites of the institutionalized life course. The concept of time work developed by Flaherty allows to address the multidimensionality of time experienced and lived by young people. An overview over the contribu…
Doing youth in time? A relational perspective on the temporal constructions of youth
Temporality is a key principle of the constitution of youth as a life phase. Historically, ,invented' and institutionalized as moratorium, youth has been reserved for preparation for adulthood, thus contributing to the sequential order of the modern life course. Institutional age marks in school, youth welfare or citizenship claim to explicitly demarcate beginning and ending of youth in a linear way. Not only but most lately in the context of the…
Australian men's help-seeking pathways for anxiety
Globally, there has been a substantial increase in the number of men being diagnosed with anxiety disorders. Despite this, men's mental health research often focusses on uncovering why men don't, rather than why they do, seek help. Within this context, men's help-seeking pathways for anxiety are poorly understood. This study mapped the help-seeking pathways of 419 Australian-based men for anxiety. Respondents 16 to 77 years-old (M = 40.92 years, …
Young Women’s Informal Leadership
This article aims to enhance understanding of young women’s experiences in political participation by examining their practices of ‘informal leadership’ within Italian and German radical grassroots organizations. It explores the biographical pathways that lead young women to assume leadership roles and highlights the often invisible practices of responsibility that challenge traditional power dynamics. Drawing on gender and feminist studies, the …
Arbeitsweltbezogene Positionierungen Jugendlicher im Kontext sozialer Benachteiligung
Übergänge benachteiligter Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener, denen der Übergang in eine anerkannte und subjektiv zufriedenstellende Ausbildung und/oder Erwerbsarbeit nicht bruchlos gelingt, werden durch institutionelle Übergangshilfen unter Beteiligung von und Rekurs auf sozialpädagogische Praxis reguliert und prozessiert. Im Kontext des aktivierenden Wohlfahrtsstaats erfolgt dies zunehmend durch individualisierte Fallführung und „Hilfen aus ei…
Evaluation of a male-specific psychotherapeutic program for major depressive disorder compared to cognitive behavioral therapy and waitlist
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT05435222
Precarious Manhood Beliefs Are Positively Associated with Erectile Dysfunction in Cisgender Men
The notions that manhood is hard to attain, easy to lose, and needs to be proven via public action constitute precarious manhood beliefs (PMB). PMB is a new concept and it remains unclear whether and how PMB relate to erectile dysfunction (ED) in cisgender men. The ability to achieve an erection remains considered as a cornerstone of masculinity and sexual performance can be conceived as a proof of one’s masculinity. In this context, ED can be re…
Participation On and Beyond the Boundaries
Drawing on the analysis of biographical interviews with Brazilian activists, this article explores youth activism in radical right movements as a challenge to and indicator of 21st-century democratic transformation through the lens of youth participation studies. In recognition of the symbolic boundaries that institutionalized discourses of democratic youth participation produce, participation in radical right movements is analysed as a case of ‘…
Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of a German-language Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory among cisgender sexual minority and heterosexually identified women and men
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people's liminal participation between everyday life and politics
This article introduces a relational transition perspective on young people’s political participation. It starts from the assumption that in growing up, young people move through public space structured by powerful boundaries that demarcate what is (not) recognized as political and democratic. In contemporary Western societies, young people are largely addressed as ‘citizens in the making’ who first need to learn what participation means. This ar…
Thematic Study on Policy Measures concerning Disadvantaged Youth
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Sozialpädagogik des Übergangs und Integrierte Übergangspolitik
Übergänge in Lebenslauf und Biographie
UP2Youth. Youth – Actor of Social Change. Final Report
This working paper presents the results of the European research project „UP2YOUTH – Youth as actor of social change?“. UP2YOUTH was funded within the European Union’s 6th framework programme as a thematic network from 2006 to 2009. The network consisted of 18 research institutes from 15 EU countries. Key elements are reviews of national and international research in the three themes; and workshops with policy makers, practitioners and researcher…
Regimes of youth transitions
In a context of de-standardized transitions to work, young people are required to take more individual decisions, a process in which their subjectivities become increasingly important for social integration. While it can be assumed that this is a general trend, this article seeks to analyse the impact of different ‘transition regimes’ upon young people’s biographical experiences. Based on three comparative studies related to young people’s transi…
Me, my education and I’
How do the educational trajectories of young people develop differently at the transition between lower and upper secondary education and training – even amongst students labelled as disadvantaged with regard to social background, gender or ethnicity? The aim of the article is to understand the role of decision-making in the emergence of educational trajectories. Based on the analysis of qualitative interviews with students from schools in disadv…
Regimes of Youth Participation? Comparative Analysis of Youth Policies and Participation across European Cities
This article problematizes the assumption that national policies have a direct impact on youth participation at the local level and analyses the relationships between local forms of youth participation and local and national policies. Relying on data from a EU project funded under the HORIZON 2020 programme, the article focuses on formally institutionalized settings of youth participation and elaborates local constellations of youth participation…
Activating the disadvantaged. Variations in addressing youth transitions across Europe
The term activation refers to a shift in social policies, through which individuals are given more responsibility for their own social inclusion. This article provides a comparative analysis of the different ways in which EU member states interpret and implement the concept of activation by addressing the transitions of disadvantaged young people from school to work. It draws on the findings of an EU‐funded ‘Thematic Study on Policy Measures for …
Doing transitions’ in education
According to an interactionist perspective, educational trajectories are neither structurally determined nor are they the result of individual (rational) choice. Instead, they emerge from complex negotiation processes between young people and intervening others, particularly teachers and parents, and imply different levels of action and meaning-making. This introduction first presents the overall approach of the European project, Governance of Ed…
Liminal Participation
Existing understandings of youth participation often imply clear distinctions from non-participation and thus boundaries between 'recognized' and 'non-recognized' practices of engagement. This article aims at questioning these boundaries. It analyzes young people's practices in the public sphere that are characterized by both recognition as participation and misrecognition or stigmatization as deviant and it is suggested to conceptualize such pra…
Informal Networks in Youth Transitions in West Germany
This article deals with informal networks and their role in young people's strategies of coping with the uncertainties of transitions to work. The underlying hypothesis is that informal networks have a high potential in this regard that, however, is strongly differentiated according to class and education. Drawing on West German data from the framework of a European research project, the transitions of young people with ‘choice biographies’ are c…
UP2Youth. Youth – Actor of Social Change. Final Report
This working paper presents the results of the European research project „UP2YOUTH – Youth as actor of social change?“. UP2YOUTH was funded within the European Union’s 6th framework programme as a thematic network from 2006 to 2009. The network consisted of 18 research institutes from 15 EU countries. Key elements are reviews of national and international research in the three themes; and workshops with policy makers, practitioners and researcher…
Precarious Manhood Beliefs Are Positively Associated with Erectile Dysfunction in Cisgender Men
The notions that manhood is hard to attain, easy to lose, and needs to be proven via public action constitute precarious manhood beliefs (PMB). PMB is a new concept and it remains unclear whether and how PMB relate to erectile dysfunction (ED) in cisgender men. The ability to achieve an erection remains considered as a cornerstone of masculinity and sexual performance can be conceived as a proof of one’s masculinity. In this context, ED can be re…
Junge Erwachsene in Europa
Doing youth in time? A relational perspective on the temporal constructions of youth
Temporality is a key principle of the constitution of youth as a life phase. Historically, ,invented' and institutionalized as moratorium, youth has been reserved for preparation for adulthood, thus contributing to the sequential order of the modern life course. Institutional age marks in school, youth welfare or citizenship claim to explicitly demarcate beginning and ending of youth in a linear way. Not only but most lately in the context of the…
Being or becoming democratic citizens? Young people's liminal participation between everyday life and politics
This article introduces a relational transition perspective on young people’s political participation. It starts from the assumption that in growing up, young people move through public space structured by powerful boundaries that demarcate what is (not) recognized as political and democratic. In contemporary Western societies, young people are largely addressed as ‘citizens in the making’ who first need to learn what participation means. This ar…
I wanted to take on a lot of responsibility’. Reconstructing biographies of young people engaged in formal participation
Youth councils, youth parliaments or youth organisations are often referred to as the king’s road to young people’s participation, at least from the point of view of policymakers. At the same time, there is evidence that many young people are either uninformed about or sceptical of institutionalised forms of youth participation as they distrust institutions in general. This article is interested in understanding why some young people actually eng…
De-standardised pathways to adulthood
Esdevenir adult en el context de les transicions desestandarditzades de la vida comporta noves demandes per part dels joves, els homes i les dones afectats. Mentre que les persones que disposen d’un capital social i cultural més elevat poden modelar més fàcilment les transicions individualitzades, les que no disposen de tants recursos ni oportunitats es troben sota la pressió d’adaptar-se i davant el perill de l’exclusió. Si bé la desestandarditz…
Measurement invariance and psychometric properties of a German-language Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory among cisgender sexual minority and heterosexually identified women and men
Association between psychotherapy use, sexual orientation, and traditional masculinity among psychologically distressed men
Status loss due to Covid-19, traditional masculinity, and their association with recent suicide attempts and suicidal ideation
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing extensive job loss leading to a loss of social status in many men. Endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology may render some men particularly sensitive to status loss and thereby to an increased risk for suicidality. In this anonymous online survey conducted in German-speaking European countries, 490 men completed questionnaires regarding loss of social status due to the COVID-19 pandemic, past-month and lif…
Who are the Young People Who Engage as Youth Representatives? Routes into Formal Youth Participation
Young people’s participation—or lack thereof—has been an area of broad debate in youth policy in recent decades. A key argument is that young people’s participation is seen as vital for the future of democracy (as young people are seen as the future of societies) and that youth policies need to establish youth representation structures where young people learn democratic citizenship like youth councils or youth parliaments. However, there is some…
All different, all equal
Was passiert eigentlich, wenn Expertlnnen aus verschiedenen Regionen Europas einen Diskurs über Strukturen und Prozesse veränderter Übergänge in einen sozial integrierten Erwachsenenstatus initiieren? Womit läßt es sich begründen, daß eine solche Auseinandersetzung sinnvoller in einem europäischen als in einem nationalen Rahmen zu führen ist? Welches sind die Anforderungen an die Gestaltung eines solchen Diskurses, welche methodologischen Konsequ…
Junge Erwachsene in Europa
Misleading Trajectories
Young people and contradictions of inclusionTowards Integrated Transition Policies in Europe
Using a biographical approach, this book integrates the perspectives of social policy, sociology, youth and transition research, and education and labour-market research. It compares policy and practice in a variety of European national contexts and explores the dilemmas of policies for the inclusion of young people, suggesting that a holistic Integrated Transition Policy, which puts young people's subjective experience at its centre, can provide…
Young People and Contradictions of Inclusion
Young People and Contradictions of Inclusion critically assesses policies addressing young people's transitions from school to employment. It presents and discusses the findings of seven EU-funded projects involving thirteen countries
Informal Networks in Youth Transitions in West Germany
This article deals with informal networks and their role in young people's strategies of coping with the uncertainties of transitions to work. The underlying hypothesis is that informal networks have a high potential in this regard that, however, is strongly differentiated according to class and education. Drawing on West German data from the framework of a European research project, the transitions of young people with ‘choice biographies’ are c…
Transitions from school to work in Europe
This chapter deals with a fundamental change in young people's transitions to work. Flexible labor markets have led to a diversification of transition patterns, but policy measures are unresponsive to the needs and aspirations of young people. New risks and challenges emerge that are addressed differently in the different European societies
Regimes of youth transitions
In a context of de-standardized transitions to work, young people are required to take more individual decisions, a process in which their subjectivities become increasingly important for social integration. While it can be assumed that this is a general trend, this article seeks to analyse the impact of different ‘transition regimes’ upon young people’s biographical experiences. Based on three comparative studies related to young people’s transi…
De-standardised pathways to adulthood
Esdevenir adult en el context de les transicions desestandarditzades de la vida comporta noves demandes per part dels joves, els homes i les dones afectats. Mentre que les persones que disposen d’un capital social i cultural més elevat poden modelar més fàcilment les transicions individualitzades, les que no disposen de tants recursos ni oportunitats es troben sota la pressió d’adaptar-se i davant el perill de l’exclusió. Si bé la desestandarditz…
Europa und seine Fremden - Migration, Integration und die Gestaltung kultureller Vielfalt
Activating the disadvantaged. Variations in addressing youth transitions across Europe
The term activation refers to a shift in social policies, through which individuals are given more responsibility for their own social inclusion. This article provides a comparative analysis of the different ways in which EU member states interpret and implement the concept of activation by addressing the transitions of disadvantaged young people from school to work. It draws on the findings of an EU‐funded ‘Thematic Study on Policy Measures for …
Transitions from School to Work
This volume made an important contribution to the growing literature on the transition from school to work. It provides a different perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s; offers an integrative conceptual framework for analysis; and promotes a comparative, cross-national understanding of school-to-work transitions in a changing social context. The articles assembled in this volume compar…
Regimes der Unterstützung im Lebenslauf
Zugänge, Bewältigung und Relevanzen
Youth Participation in Europe
This timely book offers a fresh look at youth participation: examining official and unofficial constructions of participation by young people in a range of socio-political domains.
Aneignung und Anerkennung
No crisis but a paradigm shift? German youth policy between continuity and change
In Germany, the impact of the economic and financial crisis in general and on youth policy in particular is not as severe as in other European countries. Nevertheless, child and youth welfare currently is subject to restructuring. We argue that the crisis is used to legitimise an already ongoing policy change towards an activation model of welfare, although it is not clear yet to what extent current changes imply a path change. A particular aspec…
Me, my education and I’
How do the educational trajectories of young people develop differently at the transition between lower and upper secondary education and training – even amongst students labelled as disadvantaged with regard to social background, gender or ethnicity? The aim of the article is to understand the role of decision-making in the emergence of educational trajectories. Based on the analysis of qualitative interviews with students from schools in disadv…
Doing transitions’ in education
According to an interactionist perspective, educational trajectories are neither structurally determined nor are they the result of individual (rational) choice. Instead, they emerge from complex negotiation processes between young people and intervening others, particularly teachers and parents, and imply different levels of action and meaning-making. This introduction first presents the overall approach of the European project, Governance of Ed…
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe
Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Contributors explore interactions between structural and institutional contexts of educational trajectories, the individual meaning attached to education and the strategies ado…
Verjugendsozialarbeiterisierung‘ oder Infrastruktur der Anerkennung? Kinder- und Jugendhilfe im aktivierenden Wohlfahrtsstaat
Support across life course regimes. A comparative model of social work as construction of social problems, needs, and rights
This article aims at contributing to a systematisation of comparative social work research with regard to reflection on its purpose, object, and methodology. On one hand, models and approaches from comparative welfare and education are presented and applied to comparative social work research. On the other hand, a theoretical and methodological framework model is suggested which develops comparative social work research from a life course perspec…
Communities of Youth
This title was first published in 2002.Communities of Youth critically evaluates what it means to be a young person at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the problems, opportunities and dilemmas that emerge from the experience. The book is concerned with putting key conceptual debates to do with youth in a comparative cutting-edge empirical context. In particular, it endeavours to transcend what its contributors feel is one of the most…
Bildung und Übergänge
Lipidomics in Major Depressive Disorder
Omic sciences coupled with novel computational approaches such as machine intelligence offer completely new approaches to major depressive disorder (MDD) research. The complexity of MDD's pathophysiology is being integrated into studies examining MDD's biology within the omic fields. Lipidomics, as a late-comer among other omic fields, is increasingly being recognized in psychiatric research because it has allowed the investigation of global lipi…
Political science (36 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (31 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (18 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Masculinity (10 works) · Social science (10 works)