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Coping Trajectories from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Links to Attachment State of Mind
2005
The objective of this study was to examine the links between coping and attachment. In a longitudinal study of 112 participants, coping behavior was assessed at five points in time during adolescence (starting at the age of 14 years) and early adulthood. In addition, at the age of 21 years, state of mind regarding current and earlier attachment experiences was assessed by employing the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). In both adolescence and early adulthood, differences in coping styles were found to be related to differences in attachment. Individuals classified as secure dealt with their problems more actively by using their social network during adolescence and at the age of 21 years. B…
Stress With Parents and Peers: How Adolescents From Six Nations Cope With Relationship Stress
2013
This study investigated how 2000 adolescents from middle-class families in six countries perceived and coped with parent-related and peer-related stress. Adolescents from Costa Rica, Korea, and Turkey perceived parent-related stress to be greater than peer-related stress, whereas stress levels in both relationship types were similar in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Pakistan. Female adolescents predominantly reported higher levels of peer-related stress than male adolescents. Adolescents in all countries used negotiating and support-seeking to cope with relationship stress more often than emotional outlet or withdrawal. Withdrawal occurred more often to deal with parent-related than with …
Care facilities for Germans in Thailand and Poland: making old age care abroad legitimate
2019
This article looks at old age care facilities abroad that target people who live in Germany. Such facilities have been established in Southeast Asia (mainly Thailand) and in Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). Given that they challenge central guiding orientations for old age care in Germany, considerable criticisms are levelled at them, and their use is viewed with distinct scepticism. Nevertheless, some of these facilities succeed in sustaining considerable demand from Germany over quite a few years. In this article, we therefore ask what strategies and arguments they use to make them a legitimate option for people in Germany and to be established on the German market. Based on two case studi…
Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach
2016
Gender issues are of growing importance in the European and Spanish rural areas. The literature reflects that women have traditionally been linked to marginal positions in economic life, social activities and even political representation at the local level. Local development programs that have been implemented in Europe’s rural areas have had among its objectives the improvement of the articulation of local communities. To reach them, it has been fostered, among others, a gender perspective, promoting both productive activities led by women and their participation as stakeholders in the management and decision-making structures of such programmes. In this paper, we addressed this latter is…
The self-narrative and acute psychosis
1995
The aim of this study was to apply the narrative approach in analyzing family therapy meetings in cases of acute psychosis. The self-narrative is essential in acute psychosis since it is either collapsed or not coherent enough. The results indicate that it is important to create concrete practices that produce stories concerning the patient in relation to others. The self-narrative must be re-authored by the patient even though it is socially constructed. This is achieved by creating multiple perspectives of self-narratives in so-called therapy meetings with the patient, family members, and staff members representing different professionals.
Conversations on contexts and meanings: On understanding therapeutic change from a contextual viewpoint
1990
Recent developments within family therapy theory, often referred to as the Post-Milan Movement, have once again stressed the therapeutic encounter'squality of conversation. When therapy is looked upon as conversation, attention is not only paid to the fact that most of what happens in a session is talking. Rather, a more fundamental stance towardshuman life as basically meaning- making is taken. This is one of the essential premises of the contextualist approach to the social sciences. When applied to human problems this approach claims that “symptoms” evolve when (1) a person gives meaning to and performs a social act within a context inappropriate to the socially shared meaning of that ac…
The Romanian Migrants in Spain. An Exceptional Migratory Flow
2011
Abstract The Romanian population is the most important foreign population in Spain. Romanian migrants are characterized by their large number (about 800.000 residents and 268.000 contract workers) and their rapid growth. The economic and labour motivation for migration determines their geographical distribution, with high numbers of Romanian migrants in cities and in areas of agricultural, industrial and tourist industries. However, a high proportion of Romanian migrants also live in small towns and rural areas. Most of them were already illegal migrants when Romania entered the EU and they became EU citizens. From January 1st 2009, these once illegal migrants now have full freedom of emplo…
Vern L. Bengtson, with Norella M. Putney and Susan Harris (2015). Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations. Oxford: Oxford …
2016
Vern L. Bengtson, with Norella M. Putney and Susan Harris (2015). Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down across Generations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 267 pp. ISBN 978 0199 9486 59 (hardcover)
La semilla migrante. El círculo vital en la poesía de Cecilia Balcázar
2000
En espera de nuevos poemas, ya es posible esbozar un recorrido de la obra de Cecilia Balcazar: en su actividad poetica, pues, la autora ha logrado constituir un corpus lirico coherente y lleno de sugerencias. El intento se revela enseguida muy interesante: el camino que va de La maquina mitica (1987) a Peregrinaciones (1997) pasando por Sendero de palabras (1992) no me parece moverse segun una linea recta - supuestamente cronologica- sino disenar un circulo donde coinciden inicio y fin. El al...
Análisis de la relación entre nuevas tecnologías y chino como segunda lengua: aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes y juegos
2017
Se ofrece un estudio sistemático y el análisis de la documentación más destacada y actual sobre la relación entre aprendizaje y enseñanza de una segunda lengua (L2), aplicada a la lengua china (CSL, chino como segunda lengua). Luego de repasar la trayectoria de los avances tecnológicos, en particular de las aplicaciones (apps) de telefonía celular y el diseño u oferta de juegos y simuladores para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de CSL, se hace referencia a artículos e investigaciones especializados publicados en revistas internacionales, tanto sobre la lengua china como de lingüística y filología comparadas.