Jennifer Hofmann's research while affiliated with Swiss Distance University Institute and other places

... These traits were selected because the sense of coherence is a global orientation to view the world and the individual environment as comprehensive, manageable, and meaningful, claiming that the way people view their life influences their health (e.g., Wainwright et al., 2008;Super et al., 2016). Cheerfulness is associated with aspects of positive emotions, such as joy or happiness (Papousek & Schulter, 2010;Ruch & Hofmann, 2017), more stable psychological well-being, a better ability to cope with stressful situations, a greater capacity for creative thinking (Lau et al., 2022), greater emotional management (Yip & Martin, 2006;López-Benítez et al., 2022), more positive emotions and less negative emotions when confronted with emotional events (Ruch & Hofmann, 2012). On the other hand, depressed patients had higher seriousness and bad mood and lower cheerfulness compared to healthy control groups for both state and trait forms of the measure (Falkenberg et al., 2011). ...

... Firstly, it is important to mention that soft skills did not relate with fluid (reasoning) ability (in line with previous studies; Kretzschmar et al. 2022;Lechner et al. 2022), whereas SRL strategies represented the most central and influential node in the network. In short, these findings suggest that, rather than relating to fluid intelligence skills, the influence of soft skills in the school context may thus be directed towards the psychological and psychosocial variables of academic performance. ...

... Individu yang mampu menyesuaikan diri dalam lingkungan kerjanya memiliki hasil yang signifikan (misalnya, kinerja, produktivitas, stres, kepuasan, perputaran, dan komitmen organisasi). Kesesuaian yang lebih baik terkait dengan hasil yang unggul (Gander et al., 2020). Individu tertarik pada organisasi yang dapat membantu untuk mencapai tujuan mereka (Van Vianen, 2018). ...

... The construct encompasses an individual's understanding of their own desires and capacities, their ability to understand, communicate, and interact with others effectively, as well as how well they deal with their environment and everyday occurrences (Gardner, 2000;Kaufman, 2012). In Study 2, participants completed the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory-Trait version (STCI-T60; Lau et al., 2021;Ruch et al., 1996) and a task to describe how they resolved a recent conflict or difficult situation in their life. Five research assistants rated how well the individual coped with stress and conflict. ...

... In this age range, students represent a vulnerable group for both SE issues and mental health problems, as they are exposed to different kinds of physical and psychological stressors and high stress levels [13]. SE was found to be strongly related to academic achievement [14], mental health [15], and to positively predict life satisfaction [16][17][18][19][20] in university students. In addition, SE has been found to be significantly and positively correlated with general self-efficacy among elite university students [21], as well as other students enrolled in different fields of specialization [22]. ...

... All analyses were conducted controlling for age and gender, as we expected differences due to these variables based on previous studies (e.g., Chan 2016;Greengross 2020;Hofmann et al. 2020;Ruch et al. 1990) and as they were related to comprehension and appreciation for several jokes in the present study. Significant levels were set at the typical level of 5% (i.e. ...

... Many studies have pointed out the positive impact of belief in a just world on adolescent development, including lower levels of internalizing and externalizing problems (Liu et al., 2020) and higher levels of life meaning and psychological resilience (Tian et al., 2022). In addition to the belief in a just world, studies with adults as participants have found that different dimensions of good world beliefs also have predictive effects on psychological and behavioral outcomes (Stahlmann et al., 2020;Clifton & Meindl, 2022;Stahlmann & Ruch, 2022). However, there is currently no research on the role of good world beliefs in the psychological development of adolescents. ...

... Psychologists usually attempt to appraise the personality of people by asking them to respond to a self-report inventory or questionnaire (please refer to Ref. 34 for more detailed information). There are several personality models such as Big Five model 35 , Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 36 , three trait personality model PEN 37 , the sixteen personality factor (16PF) 38 . Among them, the Big Five model is the most popular one which is widely used by both psychologists and computational researchers. ...

... In general, better health status is associated with full-time compared to part-time or non-employment (Tomczyk et al., 2021;Gander et al., 2021), but men tend to assign greater importance to work and to report worse effects following unemployment (McKee-Ryan et al., 2005). Yet, female participation in the labour market is rising in most European countries and attitudes towards gender roles are increasingly liberal as well (Stavrova et al., 2012). ...

... For trait bad mood, the exact opposite pattern was found. For trait seriousness, a positive correlation to resilience was reported (Lau et al., 2018). ...