Klaus Boehnke

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• Habilitation in Psychology
• Professor (Full) at Constructor University

Background Previous research has linked material living conditions to subjective health and wellbeing. However, moderators are mainly unknown. Thus, the current study examined whether gender, age, and education moderate Nigerians’ subjective health and wellbeing, considering their material living conditions. Methods The 2023 Afrobarometer survey i...

Affect is a psychological construct related to mental states involving evaluative feelings presented in positive or negative valences. Levels of joy, enthusiasm, and concentration define positive affect. Levels of anger, anguish, and nervousness characterise negative affect. Undoubtedly, there are differences between cultures in the manifestation o...

Microaggression has gained attention in the last decade. However, the available research is limited due to a lack of comprehensive measurement. The current article presents the development and validation of a metacontextual measure of microaggression. In Study 1 (Scale Development), a literature review, Focus Group Discussions (FGD) with 66 adults...

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 ana...

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 t...

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...

The interface between work and family domains has received considerable scholarly attention in recent decades due to its substantial impact on outcomes related to work, family, health, and well-being. However, individuals experience this impact differently, with some demonstrating resilience while others are more vulnerable to negative effects. In...

Values function as internal criteria that motivate action and can influence the behavior of actors. Based on the theory of action, this comprehensive study aims to identify which managerial values are prioritized by Brazilian managers, considering the perceived expectations from hierarchical superiors, peers, and subordinates toward their action. T...

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 co...

This article introduces the data from the Values in Crisis project conducted in Germany and the United Kingdom. The project seized the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment to investigate whether, how and to what extent people’s moral values change as a result of a disruptive event of massive order and global scale. An online panel survey measu...

People sometimes protest government corruption, yet our current understanding of why they do so is culturally constrained. Can we separate pancultural factors influencing people’s willingness to protest government corruption from factors culturally specific to each socioecological context? Surprisingly little cross-cultural data exist on this impor...

Empirical investigations into the predictive power of microaggressions have shed light on their profound and extensive detrimental effects on the life outcomes of minority groups. In contemporary discourse, microaggressions are not mere fleeting occurrences but rather pervasive, daily experiences that wield significant influence over individual and...

We report psychometric analyses of an adapted version of the measure of individualism–collectivism (IC) and its horizontal–vertical (HV) manifestations (Singelis et al., 1995) for Brazilian samples. We used a large sample (N = 1,669) split into an exploratory and two cross-validation samples. Using confirmatory factor analysis and a new metaheurist...

Cross-cultural comparisons are often based on a single itemset that is used in several cultures and languages being translated semantically correct. In contrast, a new, emic, approach measures the same construct with individually created items for each culture and language. To test this emic approach, the current paper used the stereotype content m...

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...

Previous studies have used cross-sectional or short-term longitudinal data, resulting in a truncated view of a phenomenon unfolding across the lifespan. We find that, contrary to the consensus in the literature, people’s values continue developing in adulthood, albeit at a slower pace than in previous developmental stages. We use longitudinal data...

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 dysfun...

Background: Exploring and understanding indicators of better life outcomes have remained popular among social and health researchers. However, the subjective approach to measuring well-being has raised questions on the appropriateness of standard measures of well-being in multicultural settings. The current study examines generalised well-being and...

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 p...

This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central European countries and four independent samples (West Germany, East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia). A total of 2,752 participants completed a newly develop...

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...

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...

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 a...

The present study aims to understand rural-urban differences in India as determined by market regimes, as well as by cultural and prosperity factors. The study focuses on people's maximizing as opposed to satisficing decision preferences. Maximizing stands for people's preference to continuously strive for better options, whereas satisficing means...

The broad conceptualisation of wellbeing has allowed researchers to establish subjective wellbeing as a valid indicator of social development. However, changing social patterns, norms, and values suggest changes in how social determinants may predict subjective wellbeing. The current analysis tests a serial mediation hypothesis in which social part...

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Objective This study examined whether the association between the Big Five personality dimensions and postdivorce adjustment (PDA) was mediated by Neff's concept of self‐compassion. Background Research on marital psychology suggests that multiple psychological factors are associated with PDA. However, the mechanisms by which these factors affect P...

Introduction The current article reports findings from three large representative survey studies in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The studies are part of the Social Cohesion Radar research initiative of Bertelsmann Stiftung. Methods The article explores the role of social cohesion in the relationship between COVID-based objective...

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...

Als Kitt in unserer Gesellschaft gilt der Zusammenhalt. Er ist Ausdruck eines intakten und solidarischen Gemeinwesens. Eine Gesellschaft funktioniert nur gut, wenn in ihr alle respektvoll und friedlich zusammenleben. Bröckelt der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt in Krisenzeiten? Was können wir tun, um ihn zu fördern? Dazu forscht Prof. Dr. Klaus Boeh...

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 inde...

Das Kapitel stellt die Strukturen der sich wandelnden Hochschullandschaft Deutschlands in seinen Grundzügen dar, fokussiert dabei auf die gestiegene Diversität der Studierenden und nimmt abschließend auf Hochschulen als Gegenstand der Bildungsforschung Bezug. Es wird gezeigt, dass Hochschulen, die wie andere Bildungsinstitutionen eigentlich eher ko...

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 well...

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 explo...

Emerging adults establish, question, and reestablish their values within the most diverse social contexts. Every social context privileges expressing certain values and/or punishes expressing conflicting ones. This makes a similarity between one’s own values and those preferred in one’s life contexts psychologically desirable (person–environment fi...

Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study investigates littering attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioural control as predictors of the intention to prevent littering and actual littering prevention behaviour among residents of a developing country (Nigeria). The study employed a survey questionnaire to collect cross-sectional...

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lebensbedingungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Mittel- und Südamerika und beleuchtet insbesondere die Bereiche Gesundheit, Fertilität und Sexualität sowie Bildung und Erziehung aus der Perspektive der aktuellen Kindheits- und Jugendforschung in Lateinamerika. Wird die Lebens...

It is the task of political psychology to examine political behaviour from a psychological or socio-psychological perspective. Its topics include the analysis of political elites, especially their personalities, motives and actions, political leadership, foreign policy decision-making processes, international and ethnic conflicts and their pacifica...

When looking at important indicators of well-being, there is extensive evidence that levels of life satisfaction differ between ethnic groups, such that minority groups by and large tend to report lower levels of life satisfaction than majority ethnic groups. A growing body of literature has begun investigating the relationship between an individua...

Purpose Enterprise social media can be the organizational transactive memory in which the knowledge dialogue provides users with the metaknowledge to support knowledge transfer. The purpose of this study is to examine a mediation model to show how perceived critical mass, openness and affiliation climate affect organizational knowledge transfer thr...

Trust is widely considered a critical resource for modern societies, and in times of crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, its importance is even greater: More than ever we depend on fellow citizens to behave responsibly, and on institutional actors to make the right decisions. Looking at trust from an existential security point of view, this paper...

A core debate in authoritarianism research relates to the stability of authoritarianism, i.e., whether it is a dispositional phenomenon socialized in early childhood or even genetically predisposed, or whether it is impacted by time-sensitive, exterior conditions. Whereas certain individual authoritarian tendencies emerge as a rather stable persona...

This paper examines intergenerational differences and similarities in value preferences among three generations of the Russian ethnic minorities in two North Caucasus republics of the Russian Federation. It also compares them with value preferences of three generations of Russians in the Central Federal District around Moscow and those of indigenou...

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In recent years, political discourse and election results appear to be morepolarized than in the years before. Empirical evidence for opinion polarization hasbeen found regarding specific topics but is there a general trend in society? Wecompare various polarization measures and find that in empirical data most ofthem correlate strongly with the av...

High levels of social cohesion have been shown to be beneficial both for social entities and for their residents. It is therefore not surprising that scholars from several disciplines investigate which factors contribute to or hamper social cohesion at various societal levels. In recent years, the question of how individuals deal with the increasin...

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 their members’ beliefs and affect attitudes through ingroup bias and status-indicativ...

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lebensbedingungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Mittel- und Südamerika und beleuchtet insbesondere die Bereiche Gesundheit, Fertilität und Sexualität sowie Bildung und Erziehung aus der Perspektive der aktuellen Kindheits- und Jugendforschung in Lateinamerika. Wird die Lebens...

Among N = 165 14–22-year-old bearers of celiac disease (CD), the German-based study examined if participation in camps for children with CD is related to higher CD-related quality of life (CD-QoL); N = 48 of the study participants attended at least one camp. Camp participation was found to be related to higher CD-QoL, an effect mediated by having m...

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 expla...

Outcomes of the qualitative study showed that pre-migration challenges in origin countries include bad economic conditions, poverty and threat to life, unemployment, corruption and poor infrastructures. In addition to the pre-migration challenges, migrants reported difficulties arising from experience in the destination countries. Among these are d...

We approached this chapter by providing frameworks for understanding the migration process, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and mental health and wellbeing of migrants with special focus on migrants of African origin. The Migration Theory of Boswell (Addressing the causes of migratory and refugee movements: The role of the European Union (Wor...

The political, religious and economic crises rocking different regions of Africa served as push factors to migrating into Europe. Together with South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa hosts 85% of people in the world suffering from multidimensional poverty. The incessant religious conflicts and insurgences by the Al-Qaida Islamic Maghreb, Al-Shabaab, Boko H...

This chapter sets the scene and provides the general background of emigration, especially of youth, from countries of Africa to Europe with evidence of global statistics of African migration, with emphasis on African migrants in general and the consequences of migration for African countries. A general debate of the politics of African emigration c...

In this chapter, we provide a review of empirical studies conducted on PTSD, mental health and wellbeing of migrants. Most studies suggest that both pre- and post-migration stressors affect the mental health and PTSD of migrants and refugees. In origin countries, trauma exposure and torture posed significant risks to migrants’ mental health. Mental...

This chapters points out the main findings of the study once more and puts them into context. We hope that readers will also want to discuss our findings with us: Has the study really made it obvious—as we suggest—that “the African migrant” to Europe is a chimera? Reasons for migration, the fate of individual migrants, and also the mental health st...

In this chapter attempts to offer some few insights we garnered from our study from a perspective of impact: Consequences and Recommendations. To us, what is needed is a joint effort of African countries and European powers—first and foremost those with colonialist past—to reduce the strength of push factors, i.e., factors that increase desires to...

Results of quantitative study obtained across the six European countries suggest that being an unauthorized migrant predict mental health difficulties and PTSD. Pre-migration stress was also found to influence both PTSD and mental health difficulties but this influence was more profound on PTSD. While increase in post-migration stress predicted inc...

The history of African migration is tied to the period of the transatlantic slave trade often referred to as the “great migration.” Today, out of the estimated 250 million migrants in the world today, only 14% (36 million) are Africans with 26% specifically on the European continent. Although North Africans are Africa’s migration giant to Europe, t...

About five routes have been identified as channels of illegal crossings: The Central Mediterranean route (CMR), the Western Mediterranean route (WMR), the Eastern Mediterranean route (EMR), the West African route and the Western Balkan route. The CMR is the most dangerous and at the same time commonly used route to transit into Europe with Italy an...

This chapter offers detailed information on how data for the reported study were obtained and what characteristics the sample has. To ease understanding for the general readership, the chapter also includes brief portrays of the six European countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, and UK) included in the study. Furthermore, the chapt...

Empirical tests of Schwartz’s theory of culture-level value priorities have predominantly been performed using an averaging approach–as values of the average individual in a culture. However, from a theory of measurement standpoint such an approach seems inadequate. We argue that the averaging approach is an insufficiently accurate methodology in c...

The current paper presents three studies, which suggest that perceiving one’s nation as transgenerational (TG) is related to a differentiation in the evaluation of ethnically German diaspora migrants and ethnically non-German (‘foreign’) migrants. First, we find that unlike ‘classical’ concepts such as right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social domi...

This article aims to explicate the role of social cohesion in the relationship between adherence to common values and life satisfaction. Shared values are often assumed to be a constitutive element of social cohesion and are used in measurement of the concept. However, sociopsychological theory of values sees social cohesion rather as a moderator o...

As the discourse around societal cohesion grows and policy makers increasingly turn their attention towards improving cohesion, understanding its role for the lives of individuals becomes ever more important. Our study examines whether the social cohesion of the immediate living context is related to the strength of Big Five personality traits amon...

In Zeiten schneller, umfassender und fundamentaler Veränderungen, wird die Frage nach der Stärke des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts immer wichtiger. Diese Studie untersucht, wie stark der Zusammenhalt in Baden-Württemberg ist und wie er sich entwickelt hat. Für diese Untersuchung wurden in einer repräsentativen Umfrage 1.398 Personen im Bundeslan...

This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the psychosocial motivations for migration from Africa, who migrates where, and stressful pre- and post-migration factors affecting...

Informationen zur Studie: https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/kurzmeldungen/DE/2021/04/studie-heimatverbundenheit.html

Engagement in politics during one’s formative years is conductive to democracy. Youth activism is associated with increased political efficacy and has the potential to empower disadvantaged groups and promote political equality. Moreover, possible positive outcomes of early-life political engagement in various psychological and biographical domains...

Prejudiced attitudes and political nationalism vary widely around the world, but there has been little research on what predicts this variation. Here we examine the ecological and cultural factors underlying the worldwide distribution of prejudice. We suggest that cultures grow more prejudiced when they tighten cultural norms in response to destabi...

Social cohesion, the modern version of the fraternité motto of the French revolution, has become a hot social science topic. The paper addresses it from a social-psychological perspective, asking whether individually and societally prevailing value preferences are interconnected with the level of cohesion in society. Mexico serves as the case to ex...

Personal values are reliable cross-situational predictors of attitudes and behavior. Since the resurgence in research on values following the introduction of Schwartz’s theory of basic values, efforts were focused on identifying universal patterns in value–attitude relations. While some evidence for such universal patterns exists more recent studie...

Wie entwickeln Kinder Werte? Welche Rolle spielen das familiäre und das kulturelle Umfeld? Welchen Einfluss haben Ereignisse und Erfahrungen im Leben? Wie kann Wertebildung in der Schule gelingen? Diese Fragen sind gesellschaftlich hoch relevant und viel diskutiert, aber wenig erforscht. In diesem ersten deutsch-sprachigen Buch zu Werteentwicklung...

Einstellungen gegenüber Migrant*innen werden von Werthaltungen beeinflusst. Universalistische und humanistische Werte wie etwa Toleranz oder Hilfsbereitschaf (so genannte Selbstüberwindungswerte) stehen typischerweise mit positiven Einstellungen zu Zuwanderer*innen in Verbindung. Bewahrungswerte wie Tradition und Ordnung stehen hingegen mit negative...

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 b...

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 socia...