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Sws-rundschau, 2003

Anwendungen der Gentechnik in Landwirtschaft und Nahrungsmittelproduktion treffen in Österreich a... more Anwendungen der Gentechnik in Landwirtschaft und Nahrungsmittelproduktion treffen in Österreich auf eine breite Front des öffentlichen Widerstands. In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, inwiefern dieser Widerstand gegen die so genannte "grüne" Gentechnik über Nutzen und Risikoabwägungen hinaus auch als Ausdruck regionaler und kultureller Identität verstanden werden kann. Basierend auf der Analyse von Diskussionen mit verschiedenen Gruppen der österreichischen Bevölkerung sowie von Dokumenten zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Initiativen zeigt unser Beitrag, wie sich Bevölkerung und Initiativen auf eine gemeinsam geteilte Identitätskonstruktion beziehen: Österreich als qualitätsbewusstes Land, für dessen Selbstverständnis Tradition, Kleinteiligkeit und biologische Landwirtschaft von großer Bedeutung sind. Indem "grüne" Gentechnik häufig mit Industrialisierung, Globalisierung und Amerikanisierung assoziiert wird, wird sie zur Bedrohung dieser lokalen Identität.

Verhandlungskompetenzen trainieren, 2016

Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 25, 2015

Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

People care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currentl... more People care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size ( N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries ( N = 49). We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20, range −.02 to.48), but present in 98% of the studied countries, with statistical significance in 73% to 75%, and variance across countries <2%. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian ...

Journal of Happiness Studies

How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is be... more How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being? We address this issue by proposing a new culturally sensitive method to comparing societal levels of well-being. We support our reasoning with data on life satisfaction and interdependent happiness focusing on individual and family, collected mostly from students, across forty-nine countries. We demonstrate that the relative idealization of the two types of well-being varies across cultural contexts and are associated with culturally different models of selfhood. Furthermore, we show that rankings of societal well-being based on life satisfaction tend to underestimate the contribution from interdependent happiness. We introduce a new culturally sensitive method for calculating societal well-being, and examine its construct validity by testing for associations with the experience of emotions and with individuali...

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020

Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the natur... more Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across fifty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two different measures of individualism. We replicated previous findings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be significantly correlated with indivi...

The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2021

Gender in Science and Technology

The 1996 Eurobarometer survey on biotechnology indicated that public perceptions of modern biotec... more The 1996 Eurobarometer survey on biotechnology indicated that public perceptions of modern biotechnology vary with respect to areas of application.&amp;gt; In general, medical and pharmaceutical applications were strongly supported, agrifood applications received at best a mixed response, and transgenic animal applications were widely opposed. When we statistically investigated these data as well as those from the 1999 Eurobarometer survey2 some interesting and puzzling findings emerged. While people&amp;#x27;s opinions were, in part, ...

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

OBJECTIVES Research has shown that cultural identity and psychological well-being are associated.... more OBJECTIVES Research has shown that cultural identity and psychological well-being are associated. We suggest that negative stereotypes challenge the psychological well-being of people with a migrant background. This research focused on the dynamics of adolescents' ethnic/racial identity (ERI), national identity, stereotype vulnerability, and psychological well-being on the individual level. The study was conducted in Austria over the course of one school year, providing insights on developmental implications of cultural identity for adolescents with a migrant background in Europe. METHODS The sample consisted of 317 (T1) adolescents with a migrant background, recruited at Austrian high schools (age: M = 15.19, SD = 1.11; 233 female; ethnic background: mainly Turkey and Ex-Yugoslavian countries). Longitudinal data from a three-wave study were analyzed by means of a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. RESULTS Within-person effects provided a better explanation than the between-person approach. Within-person processes suggest that higher levels of ERI commitment and higher national identity predict higher levels of psychological well-being at a later time point, whereas higher levels of ERI exploration and higher stereotype vulnerability predict lower levels of psychological well-being. At the between-person level, findings indicate a positive correlation between ERI exploration and stereotype vulnerability. CONCLUSION The cultural identity and psychological well-being of adolescents with a migrant background fluctuate over time, influenced by the social context. Stereotype vulnerability contributes to lower levels of psychological well-being among adolescents with a migrant background in Austria. Our findings highlight the necessity to partition the variance of constructs to avoid confounding of between-person and within-person effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).