cad a22 4500 317133977 20181103043152.0 cr unu---uuuuu 140625s2013 xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-92732 doi 10.1037/a0033935 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:92732 150 ddc Negotiating demands of social change in young and middle-aged adults from Poland [Elektronische Daten] [Martin J Tomasik, Rainer K Silbereisen, Clemens M Lechner, Jacek Wasilewski] openAccess eu-repo Social and economic changes on the societal macro level, such as globalization, pluralization, and demographic shifts, create new demands that produce stress and require behavioral adaptation. In this large-sample correlational study, which replicates a similar study previously conducted in Germany, we investigated how young and middle-aged adults from Poland (N = 2,541) negotiated these demands. Dependent variables were engagement and disengagement strategies as defined by the motivational theory of life span development. By using planned contrasts between engagement (selective primary, selective secondary, and compensatory primary control) and disengagement (compensatory secondary control) in a repeated-measures ANOVA, we found a strong (η² = .48) preference for engagement over disengagement. Multivariate regression analyses revealed that the engagement and disengagement strategies were only modestly related to sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, employment, and partnership status (.00 < |β| < .13). Primary appraisal of the demands in terms of challenge/threat and gains/losses were correlated with engagement and disengagement (.01 < |β| < .16), but direction and size of the coefficients differed from what was previously found in Germany. Secondary appraisal of the demands in terms of their controllability (.04 < |β| < .21) and the perceived load of demands itself (.12 < |β| < .22) turned out to be the most relevant predictors of the engagement and disengagement strategies. By contrasting these results against earlier findings obtained in Germany, we argue that the differences in how people negotiate social change in the two countries are rooted in their different systems of welfare and social security. Institute of Psychology zora Tomasik Martin J. joint author Silbereisen Rainer K. joint author Lechner Clemens M. joint author Wasilewski Jacek joint author International Journal of Stress Management 20(3):222-253 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/92732/1/Tomasik_IJSM_2013.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Journal Article NonPeerReviewed zora ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/92732/1/Tomasik_IJSM_2013.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 700 1- Tomasik Martin J. joint author ZORA 700 1- Silbereisen Rainer K. joint author ZORA 700 1- Lechner Clemens M. joint author ZORA 700 1- Wasilewski Jacek joint author ZORA 773 0- International Journal of Stress Management 20(3):222-253 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess