K Boehnke
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 46173 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K Boehnke |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | Boehnke |
| ASSINATURA | BOEHNKE K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Constructor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5435-4037 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 88 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 434 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Measurement Invariance
The article examines measurement invariance in quantitative cross-cultural research. Instruments are typically translated, data are collected for the different language versions, and psychometric invariance is assessed. Items deemed equivalent are preserved, while the remaining items are traditionally eliminated. Culturally inclusive methodologies independently develop items across various cultures, translate them into a lingua franca, preserve t…
Values and Trust
Existing research has not systematically examined how basic human values relate to different forms of trust, namely generalised interpersonal and institutional trust, at both the societal and individual levels. This study addresses the question: How do Openness to Change, Self‐Transcendence, Conservation, and Self‐Enhancement values relate to trust (generalised and institutional) at the macro and micro levels? Using data from Round 10 of the Euro…
Perceived microaggressions and migrant health in Germany
Perceived microaggressions were linked to poorer mental and physical health among migrants, partly through reduced psychological capital. Although psychological capital supported overall well-being, it did not consistently buffer the health impacts of microaggressions. In practice, this means that programs aimed at strengthening resilience, optimism, and self-efficacy should be combined with institutional measures to reduce discriminatory practic…
Perceived microaggressions and quality of life
In contemporary discourse, microaggressions are not mere fleeting occurrences but pervasive daily experiences that significantly influence individual and collective well-being. This current study delves into the role of personal resources and social support as mediators in the relationship between microaggressions and quality of life. The study analyses cross-sectional data from 604 African migrants in Germany, employing Structural Equation Model…
Cultural and Economic Factors in Maximizing
The present study aimed to understand rural–urban differences in decision-making in India, a developing country, with a particular focus on the urban context. The decision preference assessed in the study was that of maximizing, that is, searching for superior options, and satisficing, that is, choosing an adequate option. The main prediction was that people in the urban metropolitan context would maximize more than people in the rural context, a…
Social cohesion and the inclination towards conspiracy mentality
As a relatively stable concept, social cohesion remains a prominent focus of current public discourse. One hope is to find possible solutions or coping strategies for current crises and unstable times. Enhancing social cohesion is one suggestion. A shift to the political right in many European governments, growing support for conspiracy narratives, and anti-democratic tendencies are increasing the urgency for action. The research presented in thi…
Resilience across borders
Context-specific mechanisms of (negative) secondary transfer effects? A longitudinal investigation
The secondary transfer effect (STE) suggests that contact with members of an (primary) outgroup generalizes, affecting attitudes towards uninvolved (secondary) outgroups. The literature suggests contextually different processes by outgroup similarity. Our three-wave longitudinal study is the first piece of STE research that applies random intercept cross-legged panel models to explore this contextuality, tackling several research deficiencies: (a…
Us and Ours
In this work, we investigate how parochial concerns for common resources, such as tax-funded goods, relate to prejudice against immigrants. Previous experimental work showed majority groups assume minorities will exploit common resources without contributing toward their maintenance. We relate predictions about, and support for, various types of common resources to prejudice against immigrants in two correlational studies. Prejudice against immig…
Work-family interference and life satisfaction
Life Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic
A cornerstone of well-being research is that the resource-rich are happier with their lives than the resource-poor and better positioned to cope with stressful life events. This paper addresses the role of various resources—human, economic, social, and psychological capital—in life satisfaction during the coronavirus pandemic, using panel data from Germany and the United Kingdom for 2020 and 2021. Cross-sectionally, we find life satisfaction to b…
The compassionate type? Personality, self‐compassion, and postdivorce adjustment among Iranian women
Differentiating Between Belief-Indicative and Status-Indicative Groups Improves Predictions of Intergroup Attitudes
Ingroup bias is often treated as the default outcome of intergroup comparisons. We argue that the mechanisms of impression formation depend on what information people infer from groups. We differentiate between belief-indicative groups that are more informative of beliefs and affect attitudes through ingroup bias and status-indicative groups that are more informative of status and affect attitudes through a preference for higher status. In a cros…
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults
Various psychological predictors of mate preference have been identified in prior research that when accounted for simultaneously could reveal the unique contributions of each. This study aimed to explore the extent to which perceived attractiveness, personality characteristics, and attachment styles are associated with young Iranian adults' mate preferences, attending to group differences based on biological sex. A total of 644 Iranian young adu…
Interpreting Microaggression as a Determinant of Wellbeing
Despite the increasing interest in exploring microaggression in the humanitarian context, there remains uncertainty on its mechanism for affecting life outcomes. There is a lack of studies on ethnic and racial minorities in non-western countries. The current research explores dimensions and manifestations of microaggression and how they affect wellbeing in a multicultural setting. The study uses a qualitative approach with 15 focus group discussi…
Keeping Things Positive
Higher physical activity is generally associated with more favorable psychological functioning. However, the role of positive and negative affect in such associations is unclear. Accordingly, this cross-sectional study explored whether affect mediated the relationship of physical activity with psychological well-being (PWB) and psychological dysfunctioning (PD). Young Iranian adults (N = 200) completed self-rating questionnaires covering physical…
The multicultural conceptualisation of well-being
The findings confirm personal circumstance and culture as significant for interpreting results from well-being research. Furthermore, it supports Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, highlighting the movement from deficiency needs to growth needs after deficiency needs are met. Research must adopt a more sociological approach to improve the accuracy and implementibility of findings when using standardised measures of well-being
Existential insecurity and trust during the Covid-19 pandemic
In many, but not all situations it is easier to be trusting from a position of security. This paper addresses trust’s relationship with perceived insecurities induced by the coronavirus pandemic. Looking at social trust (trust in strangers) and institutional trust (trust in the government and in the public health-care system), we explore whether individuals’ trust is negatively or positively associated with economic fears and health fears. Using …
Social Cohesion in International Comparison
Although social integration has always been a central sociological issue, there has never been a consensus how to approach the topic empirically. In the new millennium, social cohesion has emerged as a lead concept for measuring how integrated societies are—not the least, because many observers see the social fabric of modern-day societies in deep crisis. Consequently, scholars and think tanks have intensified their efforts to chart how strong th…
Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures
Do personality and attachment predict marital beliefs? Investigating young adults in Iran
Marital Paradigm Theory explicitly attributes differences in marital beliefs to relationship-oriented life experiences and socialization through cultural norms. However, some existing research has shown the potential for individual characteristics, such as personality traits and attachment styles, to associate with certain elements of relationships and marriage. The current study explored potential links among personality traits, attachments styl…
Decomposing attitude distributions to characterize attitude polarization in Europe
In recent years, political discourse and election results appear to be more polarized in western countries but is this associated with increasing attitude polarization of their general public? To answer this question, many different polarization measures have been proposed in the literature but no systematic empirical comparison exists. In an exploratory analysis of 4155 attitude distributions on 11-point scales from the European Social Survey, w…
Social capital and the Covid-19 pandemic threat
Social capital is an important resource for the wellbeing of both the individual and society. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have been conducted to explore the role of social capital in coping with the negative consequences of the pandemic. However, how the pandemic itself can affect the social capital of people has yet to be studied. Try to fill this gap, we aimed at testing the association between the individually pe…
Social Cohesion in the Western World What Holds Societies Together
Die Angst vor sozialer Ausgrenzung als leistungshemmender Faktor? Zum Stellenwert guter mathematischer Schulleistungen unter Gleichaltrigen
Im hier vorgestellten Projekt [steht] der Zusammenhang zwischen Leistungsbewertung durch Peers und mathematischer Schulleistung im Vordergrund. Zentrale These ist, dass gute Schulleistungen in Deutschland einem erheblichen Peerdruck unterliegen, sodass gute deutsche SchülerInnen befürchten müssen, bei ihren gleichaltrigen Mitschülern und Freunden schlecht angesehen zu sein und als Streber diffamiert zu werden. Dieses Erleben, so weiter die letzte…
Evaluating the structure of human values with confirmatory factor analysis
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and cons…
Parent-Offspring Value Transmission in a Societal Context
This article attempts to put intrafamilial value transmission into a societal context. It points out that psychological value transmission discourse and sociological/political science discourse about value change are utterly disconnected up to now. Using data from a small value transmission study of 98 university student- parent triads from East Germany as illustration material, the article tries to show why a unified research approach is necessa…
Social Cohesion and Its Correlates
Trust can either be conceived of as a social glue in its own right, or as a constitutive element of a larger societal syndrome, termed social cohesion. This contribution takes the latter perspective, analyzing social trust and trust in institutions as integral parts of social cohesion more generally. Despite ongoing worries about the state of social cohesion in contemporary societies, surprisingly little is known as to which macro-level condition…
Delinquency and Disdain
The authors link the notion of subterranean traditions to the concepts of control theory, anomic aspirations, and social capital to explain right-wing extremism and school delinquency among German Youth. Weakened informal social controls and anomic aspirations lead to delinquent drift and extremist and delinquent involvements. East Berlin youth are uniquely exposed and vulnerable to anomic aspirations and associated right-wing extremism, but thei…
Parent-Child Value Similarity
Reporting a study of German 2-child families, the article focuses on a neglected issue in value transmission studies: contemporaneous societal context. Parent-child value similarity depends not only on family characteristics but also on zeitgeist, the modal value climate of a society. To evaluate the role of zeitgeist in value transmission, differences in parent-child value similarity between families agreeing and disagreeing with the zeitgeist a…
The Structure and Dynamics of Worry
This article presents a comprehensive conceptualization of the structure of worry and the relation of worry to mental health and well-being. It is assumed that worries have two facets, namely, the object of a worry (e.g., self, close others, society, the world) and the domain of a worry (the field of life with which it is concerned). The object of a worry is presumed to be more important than its domain in determining the impact of worries on men…
Subterranean Sources of Subcultural Delinquency Beyond the American Dream
Are subcultural forms of crime and delinquency wholesale rejections or distorted reflections of core values of market‐oriented societies? Current evidence casts doubt on the former position, while contemporary theory suggests the possibility that a culture of competition encourages hierarchic forms of self‐interest, leading to the acceptance of inequality and anomic amorality and, ultimately, to group‐related delinquency. Oddly, the effects of th…
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries
Based on a deductive, culturally decentered approach, new items were generated to improve the reliability of the original Social Axioms Survey, which measures individuals' general beliefs about the world. In Study 1, results from 11 countries support the original five-factor structure and achieve higher reliability for the axiom dimensions as measured by the new scale. Moreover, moderate but meaningful associations between axiom and Big-Five pers…
Cultural values and outgroup negativity
Based on Schwartz' theory of cultural values, the present research tested whether the level of outgroup negativity among adolescents is influenced by the preferred values shared by the individual's cultural group. Furthermore, it was expected that this correspondence increases during adolescence, due to (individual and social) identity development in that age period. Measures of cultural values as well as derogatory attitudes towards outgroups we…
The Interest in Evil
On the Development of Xenophobia in Germany
Xenophobia is a widespread phenomenon around the world. Xenophobic incidents occurring in Germany, however, have always drawn high media attention for obvious historical reasons. The current article elaborates on the development of xenophobia among German adolescents in the 1990s. Using survey data from a large, ongoing longitudinal study of youth from East and West Berlin, trends of change in adolescent xenophobia are analyzed. Two main hypothes…
Social Cohesion in the Western World
How West German Adolescents Experience the Nuclear Threat
Psychosocial and health-related effects of living under the nuclear threat were investigated based on data from two studies of West German adolescents aged 8 to 20 (N = 3499) and 8 to 14 (N = 540), respectively. Structural analyses were conducted to generate hypotheses on the interrelatedness of political anxieties, factual knowledge on nuclear issues, coping strategies, and political action (Study A), as well as on the relationship of political …
Crossing the Frontier
The article reports results of representative survey studies in border regions of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and France. It addresses the proposition that border regions are laboratories of social integration in Europe, and tests to what degree the endowment with transnational social capital (TSC) predicts individual transnational identities with regard to the immediate border region and to Europe as a whole. Results show that only in t…
Die EU-Osterweiterung als Mobilisierungsschub für ethnozentrische Einstellungen? / Does the Eastern Europe Enlargement of the European Union Mobilize Ethnocentric Attitudes
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob die im Mai 2004 vollzogene EU-Osterweiterung in Deutschland ethnozentrische Einstellungen aktivieren könnte. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass der mit diesem Schritt ausgelöste beschleunigte soziale Wandel auf der Individualebene zu Bedrohungsgefühlen führt. Die Existenz wahrgenommener Bedrohungen ist entsprechend neuerer Studien aus dem Bereich der Vorurteilsforschung ein starker Prädiktor fü…
Multiple categorization and intergroup bias
Research on intergroup bias usually focuses on a single dimension of social categorization. In real life, however, people are aware of others' multiple group memberships and use this information to form attitudes about them. The present research tests the predictive power of identification, perceived conflict, and perceived symbolic threat in explaining the strength of intergroup bias on various dimensions of social categorization in multiple cat…
Devoutness to Islam and the Attitudinal Acceptance of Political Violence Among Young Muslims in Germany
This article investigates the links between religious beliefs and capitalist mentalities—namely devoutness to Islam and hierarchic self‐interest (HSI)—and violence‐accepting attitudes among the young Muslim migrant population in Germany. Following a situational perspective, these links are analyzed under different individual conditions structured by (socioeconomic) precariousness and education. Based on framing approaches and concepts from social…
Fear of war
We examine the extent to which fear of conventional and of nuclear war are related to value priorities in samples of German and Israeli university students. Value priorities are postulated to influence the appraisal of threat. As hypothesized, fear of war is greater among those who attribute greater importance to values that express concern for others-universalism and benevolence, and to values that emphasize preservation of the social order-secu…
Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries
This open access book is an empirical narrative of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants who migrated to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It is the only book that reports a cross-cultural study of African migrants to Europe
Social Change as a Source of Macrosocial Stress
The paper reports a representative study of inhabitants (age > 13) of the common border regions of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Based on Stephan and Stephan's integrated threat theory three hypotheses are tested, namely that (1) the experience of threat due to the EU enlargement leads to a higher prevalence of nationalist attitudes, that (2) positive intercultural attitudes lower the impact of enlargement-related threat on nationalism…
Streber als Leistungsverweigerer
Let’s compare apples and oranges! A plea to demystify measurement equivalence
The article discusses measurement equivalence in quantitative cross-cultural studies. Most often instruments are translated, data are gathered for the various language versions, and psychometric equivalence is checked. Items regarded as equivalent are retained, the other items are discarded. More culturally inclusive approaches formulate items independently in different cultures, translate them to a Lingua Franca, retain translatable items, gathe…
Children's Personality as a Function of Family Relations within and between Cultures
Relations of four family characteristics to four personality characteristics were ascertained from 1,686 high school students, their parents, and teachers in 7 communities (Hong Kong, Taipei, Osaka, Berlin, Winnipeg, Phoenix, and Canberra). Analyses based on the composite sample showed generally positive correlations between (each of) member satisfaction, nurturance, and permissiveness and (each of) self-esteem, emotional well-being, and interper…
Developmental Pattern of Prosocial Motivation
Changes in patterns of prosocial motivation between Grades 2 and 12 were examined in five samples from four countrics: West Germany, Poland, Italy,and the United States. The Prosocial Motivation Questionnaire (PSMQ), an instrument based on theoretical elaborations about evaluative standards operative in prosocial action, was used to assess within-subject preference for five prosocial motives: hedonism, self-interest, conformity, task orientation,…
F- and H-Test Assumptions Revisited
The effects of some restraints not included in the classical assumptions of the F- and H-test (e.g., correlation of mean and sample size) were examined in a simulation design of 1000 samples per condition. Also simulated was a situation in which two assumptions were not met simultaneously. The major conclusions were: H was not an appropriate alternative for F with samples of N? 20; in all cases of unequal variances combined with unequal sample si…
The Development of Prosocial Behavior and Cognitions in German Children
The development of German children's moral reasoning about prosocial conflicts, and the interrelations of moral reasoning and prosocial behavior were examined. Hedonistic reasoning decreased in usage from the preschool years to fourth grade; direct reciprocity, needs-oriented, approval/ interpersonal, and reasoning involving references to others' humanness increased with age. The pattern of development was strikingly similar to that of an America…
How West German Adolescents Experience the Nuclear Threat
Psychosocial and health-related effects of living under the nuclear threat were investigated based on data from two studies of West German adolescents aged 8 to 20 (N = 3499) and 8 to 14 (N = 540), respectively. Structural analyses were conducted to generate hypotheses on the interrelatedness of political anxieties, factual knowledge on nuclear issues, coping strategies, and political action (Study A), as well as on the relationship of political …
Developmental Pattern of Prosocial Motivation
Changes in patterns of prosocial motivation between Grades 2 and 12 were examined in five samples from four countrics: West Germany, Poland, Italy,and the United States. The Prosocial Motivation Questionnaire (PSMQ), an instrument based on theoretical elaborations about evaluative standards operative in prosocial action, was used to assess within-subject preference for five prosocial motives: hedonism, self-interest, conformity, task orientation,…
Children's Personality as a Function of Family Relations within and between Cultures
Relations of four family characteristics to four personality characteristics were ascertained from 1,686 high school students, their parents, and teachers in 7 communities (Hong Kong, Taipei, Osaka, Berlin, Winnipeg, Phoenix, and Canberra). Analyses based on the composite sample showed generally positive correlations between (each of) member satisfaction, nurturance, and permissiveness and (each of) self-esteem, emotional well-being, and interper…
The Status of Psychological Peace Research in East and West Germany in a Time of Change
The historic lines of development of psychological peace research (PPR) in West and East Germany from the fifties to the present are briefly outlined. In the '50s peace research was closely tied to ideology in both German states. From the late '60s to the late '70s these ties loosened. In West Germany peace research flourished somewhat, but psychological peace research continued to lead a shadowy existence. In East Germany psychological phenomena…
Authoritarianism
The hypothesis that education in Eastern Europe has produced higher proportions of authoritarian personalities is tested for adolescent samples from East Germany in comparison to samples from West Germany and the United States
North Americans on global challenges
Delinquency and Disdain
The authors link the notion of subterranean traditions to the concepts of control theory, anomic aspirations, and social capital to explain right-wing extremism and school delinquency among German Youth. Weakened informal social controls and anomic aspirations lead to delinquent drift and extremist and delinquent involvements. East Berlin youth are uniquely exposed and vulnerable to anomic aspirations and associated right-wing extremism, but thei…
Fear of war
We examine the extent to which fear of conventional and of nuclear war are related to value priorities in samples of German and Israeli university students. Value priorities are postulated to influence the appraisal of threat. As hypothesized, fear of war is greater among those who attribute greater importance to values that express concern for others-universalism and benevolence, and to values that emphasize preservation of the social order-secu…
On the Development of Xenophobia in Germany
Xenophobia is a widespread phenomenon around the world. Xenophobic incidents occurring in Germany, however, have always drawn high media attention for obvious historical reasons. The current article elaborates on the development of xenophobia among German adolescents in the 1990s. Using survey data from a large, ongoing longitudinal study of youth from East and West Berlin, trends of change in adolescent xenophobia are analyzed. Two main hypothes…
Subterranean Sources of Subcultural Delinquency Beyond the American Dream
Are subcultural forms of crime and delinquency wholesale rejections or distorted reflections of core values of market‐oriented societies? Current evidence casts doubt on the former position, while contemporary theory suggests the possibility that a culture of competition encourages hierarchic forms of self‐interest, leading to the acceptance of inequality and anomic amorality and, ultimately, to group‐related delinquency. Oddly, the effects of th…
The Structure and Dynamics of Worry
This article presents a comprehensive conceptualization of the structure of worry and the relation of worry to mental health and well-being. It is assumed that worries have two facets, namely, the object of a worry (e.g., self, close others, society, the world) and the domain of a worry (the field of life with which it is concerned). The object of a worry is presumed to be more important than its domain in determining the impact of worries on men…
Individualisierung und mediale Sozialisation
Daß die Sozialisationsbedingungen von Jugendlichen in jüngster Zeit durch gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Pluralisierungs- und Diversifizierungsprozesse sehr komplex geworden sind, ist ein Allgemeinplatz. Modernisierungsprozesse in vielfältigen Bereichen ermöglichen Jugendlichen (oder zwingen sie gar), sich ihre Sozialisationskontexte weitgehend selbst zu gestalten, an ihrem Lebenslauf eigenverantwortlich zu ‚basteln‘. Traditionelle Sozialisatio…
Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change
The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. For those interested in the health and well-being of youth, such instances of social upheaval raise the question of how young people are affected socially and psychologically by societal changes, and whether their development is c…
Do liberal teachers produce violent and xenophobic students? An empirical study of German ninth graders and their teachers
The Interest in Evil
Neue Medien im Alltag
Der hier vorgelegte Band ist das zweite größere Arbeitsprodukt der Chemnitzer DFG-Forschergruppe 'Neue Medien im Alltag: Von individueller Nutzung zu soziokulturellem Wandel'; im vergangenen Jahr wurde ein Überblick über das Forschungsprogramm publiziert (Boehnke et al., 1999)
Worries and Values
Relations of individuals' value priorities to their worries are investigated in seven samples from four cultural groups ( N = 1,441). A social‐cognitive analysis suggests that value priorities influence worries by increasing attention to and perception of threats to valued goals. On this basis, we generate hypotheses relating two types of worries, micro (about self and its extensions) and macro (about society and world), to 10 types of values. As…
Parent-Offspring Value Transmission in a Societal Context
This article attempts to put intrafamilial value transmission into a societal context. It points out that psychological value transmission discourse and sociological/political science discourse about value change are utterly disconnected up to now. Using data from a small value transmission study of 98 university student- parent triads from East Germany as illustration material, the article tries to show why a unified research approach is necessa…
Kindheit und Jugend in Lateinamerika
Ein deutschsprachiger Beitrag zum Thema „Kindheit und Jugend in Lateinamerika“ muss sich zunachst mit der Tatsache auseinandersetzen, dass Kindheit und Jugend auserhalb Europas und des anglo-amerikanischen Sprachraums weitgehend eine terra incognita fur die erziehungs- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung in Deutschland ist.
Jörg Neumann
Klaus Boehnke, Daniel Fuß und John Hagan (Hg.)
Hajo Funke
Kurt Möller
Psychology (61 obras) · Political science (49 obras) · Social Psychology (43 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (33 obras) · Sociology (32 obras) · Social Psychology (31 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (25 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Law (15 obras)