Tobias Heikamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 235352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Heikamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Heikamp |
| SIGNATURE | HEIKAMP T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9297-1570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The gender-specific inter-role conflict and academic well-being in distance education: The mediating role of developmental regulation processes
Distance education offers learners the flexibility to choose when, where, and how they study, enabling them to pursue academic goals alongside work, family, and other responsibilities. Yet, this flexibility often requires greater self-regulation. Bidirectional inter-role conflicts—such as those between university and family or university and work—can undermine academic well-being in this context. Developmental regulation processes, including meta…
To belong or not to belong: Protecting minority engagement in the face of discrimination
School belonging is pivotal in enabling sustained task engagement, yet minorities' belonging is contingent on the intergroup context. From a social identity approach, discrimination experiences elicit identity threat, undermining school belonging. Conversely, a positive diversity climate may shield belonging through protecting minority identities. This study addresses minority school belonging and task engagement from the interplay of identity th…
Cultural Variations in Mothers' Intuitive Theories: A Preliminary Report on Interviewing Mothers from Five Nations about Their Socialization of Children's Emotions
Parental intuitive theories comprise values, goals, expectations, and cultural beliefs about the nature of parenting and its function for children's development of competence. This article introduces a research design to study mothers' intuitive theories about their socialization of children's emotions, as a means of understanding the cultural meaning of children's emotional development. The intention is not to present a traditional empirical rep…
Positive Orientation Across Three Cultures
Positive orientation is a new construct posed at the core of positive evaluations about oneself, life, and the future. Previous findings attested to its associations with health, well-being, and achievement. In the present study, the authors traced standard measures of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and dispositional optimism to a common factor attesting to a similar factorial structure in Japan, Germany, and Italy. Partial invariance at both me…
Linking Maternal Warmth and Responsiveness to Children's Self‐regulation
The present study demonstrated that a more differentiated view of positive parenting practices is necessary in the study of children's acquisition of self‐regulation. Here, the unique contributions of maternal warmth and responsiveness to distress to children's self‐regulation were tested in a sample of 102 German mothers and their kindergarten children (51 girls and 51 boys). Behavior regulation and internalization of rules of conduct were exami…
If-Then Planning Helps School-Aged Children to Ignore Attractive Distractions
Can children improve shielding an ongoing task from distractions by if-then planning (i.e., by forming implementation intentions)? In an experimental study, the situational and personal limits of action control by distraction-inhibiting implementation intentions ("If a distraction comes up, then I will ignore it!") were tested by comparing them to simple goal intentions ("I will ignore distractions!"). Goal intentions were sufficient to successfu…
Linking Maternal Warmth and Responsiveness to Children's Self‐regulation
The present study demonstrated that a more differentiated view of positive parenting practices is necessary in the study of children's acquisition of self‐regulation. Here, the unique contributions of maternal warmth and responsiveness to distress to children's self‐regulation were tested in a sample of 102 German mothers and their kindergarten children (51 girls and 51 boys). Behavior regulation and internalization of rules of conduct were exami…
If-Then Planning Helps School-Aged Children to Ignore Attractive Distractions
Can children improve shielding an ongoing task from distractions by if-then planning (i.e., by forming implementation intentions)? In an experimental study, the situational and personal limits of action control by distraction-inhibiting implementation intentions ("If a distraction comes up, then I will ignore it!") were tested by comparing them to simple goal intentions ("I will ignore distractions!"). Goal intentions were sufficient to successfu…
Cultural Variations in Mothers' Intuitive Theories: A Preliminary Report on Interviewing Mothers from Five Nations about Their Socialization of Children's Emotions
Parental intuitive theories comprise values, goals, expectations, and cultural beliefs about the nature of parenting and its function for children's development of competence. This article introduces a research design to study mothers' intuitive theories about their socialization of children's emotions, as a means of understanding the cultural meaning of children's emotional development. The intention is not to present a traditional empirical rep…
Positive Orientation Across Three Cultures
Positive orientation is a new construct posed at the core of positive evaluations about oneself, life, and the future. Previous findings attested to its associations with health, well-being, and achievement. In the present study, the authors traced standard measures of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and dispositional optimism to a common factor attesting to a similar factorial structure in Japan, Germany, and Italy. Partial invariance at both me…
Linking Maternal Warmth and Responsiveness to Children's Self‐regulation
The present study demonstrated that a more differentiated view of positive parenting practices is necessary in the study of children's acquisition of self‐regulation. Here, the unique contributions of maternal warmth and responsiveness to distress to children's self‐regulation were tested in a sample of 102 German mothers and their kindergarten children (51 girls and 51 boys). Behavior regulation and internalization of rules of conduct were exami…
If-Then Planning Helps School-Aged Children to Ignore Attractive Distractions
Can children improve shielding an ongoing task from distractions by if-then planning (i.e., by forming implementation intentions)? In an experimental study, the situational and personal limits of action control by distraction-inhibiting implementation intentions ("If a distraction comes up, then I will ignore it!") were tested by comparing them to simple goal intentions ("I will ignore distractions!"). Goal intentions were sufficient to successfu…
Cultural Variations in Mothers' Intuitive Theories: A Preliminary Report on Interviewing Mothers from Five Nations about Their Socialization of Children's Emotions
Parental intuitive theories comprise values, goals, expectations, and cultural beliefs about the nature of parenting and its function for children's development of competence. This article introduces a research design to study mothers' intuitive theories about their socialization of children's emotions, as a means of understanding the cultural meaning of children's emotional development. The intention is not to present a traditional empirical rep…
Positive Orientation Across Three Cultures
Positive orientation is a new construct posed at the core of positive evaluations about oneself, life, and the future. Previous findings attested to its associations with health, well-being, and achievement. In the present study, the authors traced standard measures of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and dispositional optimism to a common factor attesting to a similar factorial structure in Japan, Germany, and Italy. Partial invariance at both me…
To belong or not to belong: Protecting minority engagement in the face of discrimination
School belonging is pivotal in enabling sustained task engagement, yet minorities' belonging is contingent on the intergroup context. From a social identity approach, discrimination experiences elicit identity threat, undermining school belonging. Conversely, a positive diversity climate may shield belonging through protecting minority identities. This study addresses minority school belonging and task engagement from the interplay of identity th…
The gender-specific inter-role conflict and academic well-being in distance education: The mediating role of developmental regulation processes
Distance education offers learners the flexibility to choose when, where, and how they study, enabling them to pursue academic goals alongside work, family, and other responsibilities. Yet, this flexibility often requires greater self-regulation. Bidirectional inter-role conflicts—such as those between university and family or university and work—can undermine academic well-being in this context. Developmental regulation processes, including meta…
Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Situational ethics (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Applied Psychology (1 works)