Maintaining perceived control with unemployment facilitates future adjustment

Unemployment is a major challenge to individuals' development. An important personal resource to ameliorate the negative impact of unemployment may be perceived control, a general-purpose belief system. Little is known, however, about how perceived control itself changes with the experience of unemployment and what the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of such change in perceived control are in different ages. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 413 who experienced unemployment and N = 413 case-matched controls; time period of data collection: 1994–1996) to examine whether perceived control changes with unemployment, explore the role of socio-demographic, psychosocial and health factors in moderating such change, and investigate whether levels of perceived control prior to unemployment and unemployment-related change in perceived control predict unemployment-related outcomes up to five years following. Results indicated that, on average, perceived control remained relatively stable with unemployment, and that younger and older workers did not differ in this regard. However, there were sizeable individual differences in change in perceived control, with women and those with fewer years of education experiencing greater unemployment-related declines in perceived control. Lower levels of perceived control prior to unemployment and steeper unemployment-related decrements in perceived control were each associated with a higher risk of remaining unemployed in the 12 months immediately following unemployment. Steeper unemployment-related declines in perceived control also predicted lower life satisfaction up to five years following. We discuss possible pathways by which perceived control may facilitate adjustment to unemployment, consider the role of perceived control for better understanding the dynamics of unemployment, and suggest routes for further more process-oriented inquiry.     

广松版《德意志意识形态》在《资本论》形成史上的意义

《德意志意识形态》是马克思恩格斯阐发唯物史观的重要文本。这种历史观主要体现在共同体论、对比论、原始积累理论,这三者在逻辑上是相互联系的。然而涩谷版和陶伯特版都完全无视了的这种关联,割断了这三者之间的内在联系,因而,在编辑原则上都是不合理的。而广松版则把这三者有机统一在一起,真正呈现了马克思历史唯物主义的真实内涵,这恰恰证明了广松版的编辑原则的合理性。另一方面,在广松看来,马克思哲学的发展在本质上就是从异化理论到物象化理论的范式转化,而《德意志意识形态》恰恰就为这种物象化理论奠定了基础。从这种意义上来讲,《德意志意识形态》在马克思的《资本论》形成史上具有的决定性意义。     

Do Lemmas Speak German? A Verb Position Effect in German Structural Priming

Lexicalized theories of syntax often assume that verb‐structure regularities are mediated by lemmas, which abstract over variation in verb tense and aspect. German syntax seems to challenge this assumption, because verb position depends on tense and aspect. To examine how German speakers link these elements, a structural priming study was performed which varied syntactic structure, verb position (encoded by tense and aspect), and verb overlap. Abstract structural priming was found, both within and across verb position, but priming was larger when the verb position was the same between prime and target. Priming was boosted by verb overlap, but there was no interaction with verb position. The results can be explained by a lemma model where tense and aspect are linked to structural choices in German. Since the architecture of this lemma model is not consistent with results from English, a connectionist model was developed which could explain the cross‐linguistic variation in the production system. Together, these findings support the view that language learning plays an important role in determining the nature of structural priming in different languages.     

Jung's Red Book and its relation to aspects of German idealism

The late nineteenth century saw a renaissance of interest in the thought of the German Romantic philosopher, F.W.J. Schelling. This paper takes Jung's engagement with Schelling and his awareness of Schellingian ideas and interests (notably, the mysterious Kabeiroi worshipped at Samothrace) as its starting-point. It goes on to argue that a key set of problematics in German Idealism - the relation between freedom and necessity, between science and art, and ultimately between realism and idealism - offers a useful conceptual framework within which to approach Jung's Red Book. For the problem of the ideal is central to this work, which can be read as a journey from eternal ideals to the ideal of eternity. (Although the term 'idealism' has at least four distinct meanings, their distinct senses can be related in different ways to Jung's thinking.) The eloquent embrace of idealism by F.T. Vischer in a novel, Auch Einer, for which Jung had the highest praise, reminds us of the persistence of this tradition, which is still contested and debated in the present day.     

教育现实情境取向的教育心理学研究——德国近十年教育心理学发展的基本走向

摘 要：迄今国内对德国教育心理学的发展状况了解、评介甚少。在全球化的今天,将目光聚焦于曾对心理学,其中包括教育心理学做出过巨大贡献,至今仍在国际心理学界占一席之地的德国十分必要。文章以三种德文教育心理学权威学术期刊近十年发表的论文为资料源进行分析,概括出德国教育心理学的新近发展特点是：以教育现实情境为基本研究取向,以学习者心理研究为中心,以量化研究为主并注重多方法结合,凸现了教育心理学对教育实践的指导价值。德国教育心理学发展的基本走向为：重视校外环境对学习者的影响,重视教与学双主体的相关能力及面临的问题的解决,重视以多媒体网络技术为基础的新媒体的作用、重视整合研究及国际交流等。     

Evidence for morphological composition at the form level in speech production

We investigated in two picture–word-interference experiments whether there is evidence for composition during compound production (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, we tried to determine the level at which composition takes place. In Experiment 1, shared morphemes between distractor and target (HANDTASCHE, handbag) sped up naming regardless of category membership: semantically opaque (Plaudertasche, chatterbox) and semantically transparent distractors (Reisetasche, travelling bag) facilitated picture naming to a comparable degree. In Experiment 2, targets (BROTMESSER, bread knife) were combined with a simple word distractor (Kuchen, cake) categorically related to a target compound constituent but not related to the compound as a whole. This target was further paired with a categorically related compound distractor (Kochlöffel, wooden spoon). The simple word distractor was also paired with a categorically related compound constituent (BROT, bread). Whenever distractor (e.g., Kochlöffel, Kuchen) and target (BROTMESSER, BROT, respectively) were categorically related, semantic inhibition was observed. Distractors (e.g., Kuchen) related to only one compound constituent did not affect compound production. Taken together, our results indicate that during compound production a single lemma node is activated and that morphological composition takes place at the form level of representation. Current lexical selection mechanisms in language production models are not supported by these data.     

Towards a theory-based assessment of coping: The german adaptation of the strategic approach to coping scale

Although coping has become one of the central constructs in the area of research on life events, emotions, and health, it is yet not clear how to conceptualize coping in the most powerful way. Coping instruments often lack a clear underlying theory or are confounded with the stress process itself. Therefore, a theoretical as well as empirical framework is needed. The study at hand presents cross-sectional data from a German version of a coping scale that is constructed in line with the Strategic Approach to Coping Scale (SACS) developed by Hobfoll et al. The German scale findings support those of the original, US version, but also indicate potential cultural distinction. The findings suggest that the GSACS is theory syntonic and has potential for elaborating coping research.     

What children know about the source of their knowledge without reporting it as the source

We tested the development of attentional functions within Syrian and German children of pre-school and school age (n = 562, 5–12 years), using the Test of Attentional Performance for Children (KITAP). After controlling the intelligence (IQ) and socioeconomic status (SES), age-related improvements were found in all the attentional functions, with rapid improvements between 8 and 10 years. Gender differences were also found in some attention performances. More importantly, cultural differences were also evident. The performance in the activation functions “Alertness” and “Vigilance” were independent from cultural background, whereas performances in Sustained Attention, in functions of visuospatial orienting (Visual Scanning) and executive systems (Divided Attention, Flexibility and Distractibility) revealed cultural differences. In general, the Syrian children showed slower performances, higher variability of responses and more errors compared with German children. The overall results of the study supports the universal development of attention functions during school age, and show that attention performances could be influenced by characteristics of the cultural background (Arabic-Syrian: collectivistic–dependent; and Western German: individualistic–independent).     

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts in France between 1939 and 1945

France was affected by a deep psychoanalytic silence, both in theoretical and clinical fields, throughout the four years of German occupation. The psychoanalytic Institute closed its doors and the Revue française de Psychanalyse interrupted its publication as soon as the armistice was declared in 1940. Some people, e.g. Rudolf Loewenstein or Princess Marie Bonaparte emigrated, others fought, for instance, Sacha Nacht or Paul Schiff. Daniel Lagache went on with his researches under the auspices of the University of Strasbourg which had sought shelter in Clermont-Ferrand. René Laforgue cooperated with the German occupier; after the Liberation of France in 1944 he was discarded from a group in which, a few years before, he may have entertained the hope of playing an outstanding role. Quite a few of those he analysed remained faithful to him - which was to have an important bearing on the evolution of the psychoanalytic movement in France after 1945. In 1945, indeed, the new generation emerging from the last convulsions of the war, were to gather around the most influential potential leaders: Sacha Nacht and Jacques Lacan. Only after the latency of those silent years, only after those years of violent struggles and cowardice, would the psychoanalytic elaboration appear, along with the institutional feuds to which they gave rise - in a conflictual climate amounting to the scission of 1953.