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Development of Temporal Macrostructure in Life Narratives across the Lifespan
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Köber, Christin; Habermas, Tilmann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
In Western cultures, life narratives are typically expected to recount the narrator's life from birth to the present. Disparate autobiographical memories need to be integrated into a more or less coherent story, which is facilitated by an overarching temporal macrostructure. The temporal macrostructure consists of elaborated beginnings that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Time
Experiences and Coping Strategies of Host Families in International Youth Exchange
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Weidemann, Arne; Bluml, Frances – Intercultural Education, 2009
Twenty narrative interviews were conducted with German host parents between 2006 and 2007 about their experiences with a one-year stay of a guest student in their family. The study took place within the context of a student research project as part of the research-oriented MA course "Intercultural Communication-Intercultural Competence"…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Research, Intercultural Communication, Coping
Reciprocal Influences between Developmental Transitions and Parent-Child Relationships in Young Adulthood
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Masche, J. Gowert – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Inconsistent findings exist on the effects of young adult-parent relationships on developmental status transitions into adulthood. Such transitions in turn predicted less conflicted and closer young adult-parent relationships. But systematic investigations of reciprocal effects between developmental transitions and young adult-parent relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescent Development, Young Adults, Interpersonal Relationship
Adolescent Apprentices in Germany: Adult Attachment, Job Expectations, and Delinquency Attitudes.
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Silverberg, Susan B.; Vazsonyi, Alexander T.; Schlegel, Alice E.; Schmidt, Sabine – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1998
Examined variation in and relationships among delinquency, attachment to adults, optimism about occupational future, and disposition toward aggressiveness in German adolescent apprentices. Found considerable variation across the four variables. Attachment to adults predicted attitudes toward delinquency and optimism regarding occupational future.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Apprenticeships