Arnold Lohaus’s research while affiliated with Bielefeld University and other places

... A longitudinal study within Y-IC highlighted that personal resources such as an outgoing and flexible temperament, a positive self-concept, fewer feelings of helplessness, higher self-efficacy, and acceptance of the current living situation contribute to reliance (Lösel & Bender, 1994). Overall, Y-IC report significantly fewer personal resources than youth who live in their biological families (Dunkel et al., 2024). Future research must further investigate the moderating and mediating factors between victimization experiences and internalizing symptoms in Y-IC. ...

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Lifetime victimization experiences, depressiveness, suicidality, and feelings of loneliness in youth in care

... This is crucial for immigrants who share common religious background with host society; it helps fostering a sense of shared values and decreasing feeling of isolation and discrimination (Hashemi et al., 2020). Previous studies showed that religious identity caused cultural distance and strongly influences the coping strategy of refugees in adaptation to host society if they do not share same religious beliefs (Şafak-Ayvazoğlu et al., 2021;Schmees et al., 2024). Hence, the relationship between religious identity and life satisfaction may be influenced by perceived social support. ...

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How Religious Identity Affects Life Satisfaction of Afghan Immigrants in Turkey: The Role of Social Support and Discrimination

... Hence, the observed age and gender differences in this study may be partly explained by recent longitudinal research on adolescent emotion regulation: As emotional reactivity heightens from early to middle adolescence, the use of functional strategies (e.g., cognitive appraisal) declines while dysfunctional ones (e.g., suppression) remain stable (Rueth et al., 2023) -a shift that potentially contributes to the age-related differences in digital media's association with well-being that we monitored. Rueth et al. (2023) noted significant gender differences only at baseline; as development continued, no gender differences were observed, and no significant age-by-gender interactions were found. ...

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Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents

... Sleep. Only two studies examined the association between optimism and sleep, in which overall optimism was found to be positively associated with self-reported sleep quality and duration in high schoolers (Sigley-Taylor et al., 2021) and associated with lower likelihood of self-reported chronic sleep problems in adolescents (Werner et al., 2022). ...

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Optimism, pessimism, and physical health among youth: a scoping review

... Previous research (Karl et al., 2020) suggested that the current individualistic conceptualization of mindfulness may be more suitable for cultures with higher individualism, which may bias its application to collectivistic cultural contexts. For example, individualism in Western countries focuses more on one's emotional expression, whereas collectivism in East Asian cultures emphasizes interdependence that encourages suppression of emotions to achieve interpersonal harmony and bonding (Oyserman et al., 2002;Teuber et al., 2023). A study that explored the cultural difference between Chinese and German youths' emotion regulation found that Chinese youth were more likely to use cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression strategies to regulate their emotions (Teuber et al., 2023). ...

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Validating a Short-Form Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire Among Chinese Early Adolescents

... Other explaining mechanisms for the association between sleep and subsequent psychosis have been identified, such as negative affects (i.e., depression and anxiety) (72-74), endocrine dysfunction due to exposure to psychosocial and biological stress, and cognitive deficits (64). In this regard, some biological markers have been found to interfere with both psychosis proneness and sleep disturbances through a stress-induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal (HPA) axis, including elevated cortisol levels (75,76) and pro-inflammatory cytokines (77,78). Interestingly, an increased reactivity to stress has recently been found to directly affect sleep in the UHR stage. ...

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The nature, consequences, mechanisms, and management of sleep disturbances in individuals at-risk for psychosis

... Building and maintaining relationships with peers can be seen as a developmental task of adolescence (Eschenbeck & Lohaus, 2022). Peers are important companions who provide support in solving problems, offer recognition and emotional support, and promote identity development (Wentzel, 2017). ...

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The mediating role of social relationships between perceived classroom management and adolescents' attitudes toward school: a multilevel analysis

... Similarly, Schäfer et al (2017) found that the strategies Avoidance, Suppression, and Rumination were positively associated, and Problem-Solving and Acceptance were negatively associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescence, while there was no significant association between Cognitive Reappraisal and depression and anxiety. A shortcoming in studies on the association between emotion regulation and psychopathology is that typically few emotion regulation strategies are included in each study, making it difficult to compare the relative importance of each strategy (Rueth & Lohaus, 2022). One exception is Weissmann and colleagues (2019) who investigated the association between a bifactor model of p and five emotion regulation strategies in a sample of 262 adolescents who had experienced abuse or exposure to violence. ...

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What Emotion Regulation Strategies are Associated with a General Psychopathology Factor (p) in Adolescence? Identifying Possible Transdiagnostic Targets for Intervention

... Guided by calls to better understand child characteristics that modulate the role of unsupportive parenting as a predictor of child behavior problems (Waller et al., 2013), the goal of this study was to examine whether the externalizing sequelae of unsupportive parenting varied as a function of children's callous-unemotional (CU) traits, characterized by a lack of empathy and diminished emotional responsiveness to other's emotional expressions (Frick & White, 2008;Frick & Kemp, 2021). Although the limited empirical findings in the literature provide some preliminary support for the role of CU traits as moderators (Crum et al., 2015;Falk et al., 2021;Oxford et al., 2003;Wootton et al., 1997;Schütte et al., 2022;Pasalich et al., 2011), existing studies have predominantly used analytical approaches and cross-sectional designs that are not equipped to authoritatively delineate how CU traits precisely moderate the subsequent vulnerability children exposed to unsupportive parenting. Furthermore, studies have largely focused on maternal parenting behaviors. ...

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Disentangling the relationship between callous-unemotional traits and unsupportive parenting through a developmental lens

... Zusammenfassend weist die Studie darauf hin, dass es im Gegensatz zu früheren Erhebungen, die einen Zeitraum von mehr als 20 Jahren überspannten (Hartmann et al., 2022), während der COVID-19-Pandemie in einem wesentlich kürzeren Zeitraum zu einem deutlich erhöhten Stresserleben gekommen ist. Bei der Stresssymptomatik sind vergleichbare Veränderungen nur teilweise erkennbar, wobei hier gleichzeitig deutlich wird, dass eine dysfunktionale Emotionsregulation dazu beitragen kann, dass eine Stresssymptomatik verstärkt wird. ...

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Stresserleben und Stresssymptomatik von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Zeiten der COVID-19-Pandemie