Department of Developmental Psychology: Publications
List of publications authored by current members of the Department of Developmental Psychology (since 2005):
submitted for publication
Busch, H. (submitted). Does generative behavior contribute to purpose/meaning in life? The answer depends on belief in the species.
Busch, H. (submitted). Power. In O. C. Schultheiss & J. S. Pang (Eds.), Implicit Motives (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Busch, H., Kudeesuk, T., & Hofer, J. (submitted). Does generativity have an indirect effect on death attitudes through ego-integrity in Thai adults?
Busch, H., Lehmann, M., & Hofer, J. (submitted). Dealing with low goal progress: Action control moderates the relation between goal progress and life satisfaction.
Thomas, N. M., Hofer, J., & Kranz, D. (submitted). Passing on life-stories: Generative behavior of older adults in an intergenerational encounter program.
in press
Hofer, J. (in press). Research on implicit motives across cultures. In O. C. Schultheiss & J. S. Pang (Eds.), Implicit motives (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (in press). Implicit motives and life-span development. In O. C. Schultheiss & J. S. Pang (Eds.), Implicit motives (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Hofer, J., & Hagemeyer, B. (in press). Social bonding: Affiliation motivation and intimacy motivation. In J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Eds.), Motivation and action (4th ed.). Springer.
Hofer, J. & Hagemeyer, B. (in press). Soziale Anschlussmotivation: Affiliation und Intimität. In J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Hrsg.), Motivation und Handeln (6th ed.). Springer.
2025
Lehmann, M., Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Menon, J.A. (2025). Identity formation from a cross-cultural perspective: Identity statuses and profiles among German and Zambian adolescents. Self and Identity, 1-23. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2025.2454717
2024
Busch, H. (2024). Evidence of an indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity considering social desirability. Omega – Journal of Death and Dying, 88(3), 998-1015. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211053159
Busch, H. (2024). Seeing death with more equanimity: The indirect effect of generativity on death acceptance through ego-integrity. Journal of Adult Development, 31(1), 75-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-023-09450-x
Busch, H., & Knudsen, H. (2024). Death anxiety is associated with less health behavior for individuals low in action orientation. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228241229590
Busch, H., & Kranz, D. (2024). Receiving and providing gay generativity: The mediating role of identity affirmation. Sexuality and Culture. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10267-3
Hofer, J., & Busch, H. (2024). Culture and generativity. In F. Villar, H. L. Lawford, & M. W. Pratt (Eds.), The development of generativity across adulthood (pp. 321-335). Oxford University Press.
Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Menon, A. (2024). Realization of affiliation goals, interpersonal identity development, and well-being: Effects of the implicit affiliation motive among German and Zambian adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 15: 1355213. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355213
Hofer, J., Kerpen, E., Busch, H., Lehmann, M., & Menon, A. (2024). Successful goal attainment: Longitudinal effects of goal commitment and implicit motives among German and Zambian adolescents. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(9), 1408-1420. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231181938
Jankowski, G. S., & Kranz, D. (2024). AGA practitioner challenges: A mixed-methods pilot survey. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 23(1), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocd.15940
Jankowski, G. S., Kranz, D., & Razum, J. (2024). Men’s baldness stigma: A mixed-methods international survey. Journal of Health Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241259730
Kerpen, E., Busch, H., Schulte im Busch, B., & Hofer, J. (2024). The role of parenting style for the development of the implicit power motive in children. Motivation and Emotion, 48, 264-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10071-4
Kranz, D. (2024). Coming out as trans: Parental support mediates mental health effects. International Journal of Transgender Health, 25(3), 538-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2023.2294826
Kranz, D. (2024). Leihmutterschaft aus psychologischer Perspektive [Surrogacy from a psychological perspective]. In A. Ansari-Bodewein (Ed.), Leihmutterschaft interdisziplinär [Surrogacy: An interdisciplinary account] (pp. 81-103). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43747-3_5
Kranz, D., Arontschik, N., & Osin, E. N. (2024). Community involvement and mental health in Russian LGBT people: The mediating role of social support. European Journal of Psychology Open. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1024/2673-8627/a000055
Kranz, D., Guell, L., & Rosenbach, S. (2024). Heterosexual, lesbian, and gay adults’ reactions to same-gender versus other-gender flirtation: Findings from a German study. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02935-0
Kranz, D., Razum, J., & Jankowski, G. S. (2024). Perfectionism and baldness distress in men: The mediating effect of aging anxiety. European Journal of Psychology Open, 83(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1024/2673-8627/a000050. https://doi.org/10.1024/2673-8627/a000050
2023
Busch, H. (2023). The indirect effect of generativity on fear of death through ego-integrity holds when controlling for spirituality. Death Studies, 47(8), 957-961. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2022.2142327
Busch, H. (2023). Parental generativity is associated with parent-child attitude-similarity through parent- and child-reported authoritative parenting: A replication. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 19(4), 348-357. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.8375
Hofer, J. (2023). Motivational congruence. In O. C. Schultheiss (Ed.), Personal goals, implicit motives, and self-regulated learning: A Festschrift honoring Joachim C. Brunstein (pp. 101-122). FAU University Press.
Hofer, J., Kranz, D., & Thomas, N. M. (2023). Willingness of nursing home residents and students to participate in an intergenerational program: Effects of traits and pressing developmental tasks. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 21(2), 269-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2022.2041527
Jankowski, G. S., & Kranz, D. (2023). AGA practitioner challenges: A mixed-methods pilot survey. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocd.15940
Kranz, D. (2023). Ambivalent associations between competence, warmth, and body size: A person perception approach. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000436
Kranz, D. (2023). Coming out as trans: Parental support mediates mental health effects. International Journal of Transgender Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2023.2294826
Kranz, D. (2023). On the attribution of parental competence: Parents’ behavior matters, not their sexual orientation. Journal of Family and Child Studies, 32, 1121-1137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02335-9
Kranz, D., Arontschik, N., & Osin, E. N. (2023). Minority stress among Russian LGBT people in young and middle adulthood: Associations with internalizing and externalizing mental health problems. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000673
Kranz, D., Franzen, P., & Niepel, C. (2023). Associations of lesbian and gay identity with relationship status and satisfaction. Identity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2023.2222283
Kranz, D., Niepel, C., Botes, E., & Greiff, S. (2023). Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000395
Kranz, D., Razum, J., & Jankowski, G. S. (2023). Perfectionism and baldness distress in men: The mediating effect of aging anxiety. European Journal of Psychology Open. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1024/2673-8627/a000050
2022
Busch, H., & Hofer, J. (2022). Recalled positive influences within life-story interviews and self-reported generative concern in German older adults: The moderating role of extraversion. Journal of Adult Development, 29(1), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-021-09385-1
Hofer, J., Kerpen, E., Busch, H., Lehmann, M., & Menon, A. (2022). The implicit affiliation motive, evaluations of social life events, and life satisfaction: Findings from a cross-cultural study with German and Zambian adolescents. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23, 4073-4089. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00596-1
Hofer, J., Kranz, D., & Thomas, N.M. (2022). Das Begegnungsprogramm Lebensgeschichten. Trier University.
Hofer, J., Lehmann, M., Busch, H., & Menon, A. (2022). Associations between the implicit needs for affiliation and power and identity development in a sample of Zambian adolescents. Self and Identity, 21(7), 805-826. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1967189
Kranz, D. (2022a). On the attribution of parental competence: Parents’ behavior matters, not their sexual orientation. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02335-9
Kranz, D. (2022b). The attribution of parental competence to lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples: Experimental and correlational results. Journal of Homosexuality, 68(7). 1252–1274. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1909395
Kranz, D., Thomas, N.M. & Hofer, J. (2022). „Lebensgeschichten“: Ein entwicklungspsychologisch fundiertes Begegnungsprogramm für Jung und Alt. In R. Schramek, J. Steinfort-Diedenhofen & C. Kricheldorff (Eds.), Alternsbildung vielfältig und bunt (pp. 64-75). Kohlhammer.
Maldei-Gohring, T., Opdensteinen, K. D., Hellbach, C., Nowakowski, N., Graßmann, T., Hofer, J., Walther, E., & Hechler, T. (2022). Ein halbes Leben lang Corona: Auswirkungen der Covid-19 Pandemie auf die psychische Gesundheit von Vorschulkindern und ihren Bezugspersonen. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 31(2), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000374
Thomas, N. M., Hofer, J., & Kranz, D. (2022). Effects of an intergenerational program on adolescent self-concept clarity: A pilot study. Journal of Personality, 90(3), 476–489. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12678
2021
Chasiotis, A., Hofer, J., & Bender, M. (2021). Culture is more than self-reported motives, beliefs, and values - Methodological advancements of measuring implicit motives across cultural contexts. In M. Bender & B.G. Adams (Eds.), Methods and assessment in culture and psychology (pp. 170-197). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108675475.010
Filip, M., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Kovářová, M., Lukavská, K., Čermák, I., & Hofer, J. (2021). Dialogical integration of life experiences and successful aging. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 92, 492-520. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091415020917685
Hofer, J., & Lehmann, M. (2021). Motive-driven interpersonal identity development: Moderating effects of perceived parenting quality and sense of self-determination. The Journal of Psychology, 155, 186-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2020.1863314
Kranz, D. (2021). Associations between fathers’ masculinity orientation and anticipated reaction to their child’s coming out. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 711988. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.711988
Kranz, D., Thomas, N.M., & Hofer, J. (2021a). Changes in age stereotypes in adolescent and elderly participants of an intergenerational encounter program. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 658797. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658797
Kranz, D., Thomas, N.M., & Hofer, J. (2021b). Wenn Jung und Alt einander begegnen und gemeinsam über grundlegende Fragen des Lebens nachdenken: Ein intergenerationelles Begegnungsprogramm. Report Psychologie, 46, 1–5.
Lehmann, M., Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Menon, J. A. (2021). In the eye of the beholder: Effects of parent-reported parenting and adolescent-reported parenting on identity among German and Zambian adolescents. Identity, 21, 144-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2021.1901048
Schultheiss, O.C., Köllner, M.G., Busch, H., & Hofer, J. (2021). Evidence for a robust, estradiol-associated sex difference in narrative-writing fluency. Neuropsychology, 35, 323-333. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000706
2020
Au, A., Lai, S., Wu, W., Hofer, J., Busch, H., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Tavel, P., & Cheng, S.-T. (2020). Generativity and positive emotion in older adults: Mediation of achievement and altruism goal attainment across three cultures. Journal of Happiness Studies. 21, 677-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00101-1
Busch, H. (2020). Einstellungen zu Sterben und Tod. In H. Wittwer, A. Frewer, & D. Schäfer (Eds.): Sterben und Tod: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (2nd ed., pp. 233-240). Stuttgart: Metzler.
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Au, A., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Tavel, P., & Tsien. T. (2020). Reminiscing to teach others and prepare for death is associated with meaning in life through generative behavior in elderlies from four cultures. Aging and Mental Health, 24, 811-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1548568.
Hofer, J., & Spengler, B. (2020). How negative parenting might hamper identity development: Spontaneous aggressiveness and personal belief in a just world. Self and Identity, 19, 117-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2018.1541026.
Kranz, D. (2020). LSBTIQ* und Alter(n) aus psychologischer Sicht [LGBTIQ* and Ageing: A psychological perspective]. In T.-L. Zeyen, R. Lottmann, R. Brunnett, & M. Kiegelmann (Eds.), LSBTIQ* und Alter(n) (S. 17-22). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Kranz, D. (2020). The impact of sexual and gender role orientation on heterosexuals’ judgments of parental competence and adoption suitability. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 7, 353–365. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000382
Kranz, D., & Goedderz, A. (2020). Coming home from a stay abroad: Associations between young people’s reentry problems and their cultural identity formation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 74, 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.11.003
Kranz, D., Niepel, C., Botes, E., & Greiff, S. (2020). Religiosity predicts unreasonable coping with COVID-19. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000395
Niepel, C., Kranz, D., Borgonovi, F., Emslander, V., & Greiff, S. (2020). The coronavirus (COVID‐19) fatality risk perception of US adult residents in March and April 2020. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 883-888. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12438
Šolcová, I., Děchtěrenko, F., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Au, A. (2020). Cross-cultural examination of university education and ego integrity in late adulthood: Implications for policy and practice. Journal of Aging and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2020.1722897
Spengler, B., Hofer, J., & Busch, H. (2020a). A video game-based investigation of power stress moderators in children. Motivation and Emotion, 44, 345-355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-019-09790-w
Spengler, B., Hofer, J., & Busch, H. (2020b). Somebody hit the button! The implicit power motive and the frequency of verbal persuasion behavior in children. Motivation and Emotion, 44, 695-703. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-020-09848-0
Spengler, B., Hofer, J., Busch, H., Dzionsko, I., & Emslander, V. (2020). Implicit motives and children's salivary cortisol reactivity to an adapted version of the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C). Personality and Individual Differences, 162, Article 110010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110010
2019
Au, A., Lai, S., Wu, W., Hofer, J., Busch, H., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Tavel, P., & Cheng, S.-T. (2019). Generativity and positive emotion in older adults: Mediation of achievement and altruism goal attainment across three cultures. Journal of Happiness Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00101-1
Busch, H., & Hofer, J. (2019). Generativity and adult development. In D. Gu & M. Dupre (Eds.), Encyclopedia of gerontology and population aging (Psychogerontology general 1). Cham: Springer. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_97-1
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2019). Women in power-themed tasks: Need for power predicts task enjoyment and power stress. Motivation and Emotion, 43, 740-757. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-019-09782-w
Kranz, D., Nadarevic, L., Erdfelder, E. (2019). Bald and bad? Experimental evidence for a dual-process account of baldness stereotyping. Experimental Psychology, 66, 331–345. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000457
Niepel, C., Greiff, S., Mohr, J. J., Fischer, J.-A., & Kranz, D. (2018). The English and German versions of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Scale: Establishing measurement invariance across nationality and gender groups. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 6,160-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000315
Raihala, C. & Kranz, D. (2019). Choose it or lose it: The implicit power motive in children and their resource control behavior. Motivation Science, 5, 86-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000093
Runge, J. M., Lang, J.W.B., Chasiotis, A., & Hofer, J. (2019). Improving the assessment of implicit motives using IRT: Cultural differences and differential item functioning. Journal of Personality Assessment,101, 414-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2017.1418748.
2018
Busch, H. (2018). Machtmotivation. In J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Hrsg.), Motivation und Handeln (5. Aufl., S. 245-268). Berlin: Springer.
Busch, H. (2018). Power motivation. In J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Eds.), Motivation and Action (3rd. ed., pp. 335-368). Cham, CHE: Springer.
Busch, H., Hofer, J., Poláčková Šolcová, I., & Tavel, P. (2018). Generativity affects fear of death through ego integrity in German, Czech, and Cameroonian older adults. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 77, 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2018.04.001
Chasiotis, A., & Hofer, J. (2018). Implicit prosocial power motivation: Views from evolutionary and developmental cross-cultural psychology. In N. Baumann, M. Kazén, M. Quirin, & S.L. Koole (Eds.), Why do people do the things they do: Building on Julius Kuhl's contributions to the psychology of motivation and volition (pp. 73-86). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Hofer, J. (2018). Generativity. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (pp. 942-943). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n350
Hofer, J. & Hagemeyer, B. (2018). Soziale Anschlussmotivation: Affiliation und Intimität. In J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Hrsg.), Motivation und Handeln (5. Aufl., S. 223-243). Berlin: Springer.
Hofer, J. & Hagemeyer, B. (2018). Social bonding: Affiliation motivation and intimacy motivation. In J. Heckhausen & H. Heckhausen (Eds.), Motivation and Action (3rd ed., pp. 305-334). Berlin: Springer.
Kranz, D., Busch, H., & Niepel, C. (2018). Desires and intentions for fatherhood: A comparison of childless gay and heterosexual men in Germany. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 995-1004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000439.
Kranz, D. & Pierrard, M. (2018). Beyond coming out: Relations between lesbian and gay identity formation and psychosocial well-being in young and middle adulthood. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 5, 283–293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000270
Raihala, C. & Hansen, G. (2018). Power stress in primary school children. Motivation and Emotion, Advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9724-0.
2017
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2017). Why Citizen Kane was unhappy: Motive-goal incongruence. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11 (8), e12330.https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12330
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Poláčková Šolcová, I., & Tavel, P. (2017). Relationship between subjectively evaluated health and fear of death among elderly in three cultural contexts: Effects of internal and external resources. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 84, 343-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091415016685331
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Poláčková Šolcová, I., & Tavel, P. (2017). When reminiscence is harmful: The relationship between self-negative reminiscence functions, need satisfaction, and depressive symptoms among elderly people from Cameroon, the Czech Republic, and Germany. Journal of Happiness Studies, 18, 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9731-3
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Raihala, C., Poláčková Šolcová, I., & Tavel, P. (2017). The higher your implicit affiliation-intimacy motive, the more can loneliness turn you into a social cynic: A study on the implicit affiliation-intimacy motive in elderlies from Germany, the Czech Republic, and Cameroon. Journal of Personality, 85, 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12232
Kranz, D. & Hofer, J. (2017). Selbst- und Identitätsentwicklung [Development of the self and personal identity]. In F. Petermann & S. Wiedebusch (Eds.), Praxishandbuch Kindergarten- Entwicklung von Kindern verstehen und fördern (pp. 108-130). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Kranz, D., Pröbstle, K., & Evidis, A. (2017). Are all the nice guys gay? The impact of sociability and competence on the social perception of male sexual orientiation. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 18, 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000034
2016
Hofer, J. (2016). Intimacy motive. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_528-1
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Au, A., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Tavel, P., & Tsien Wong, T. (2016). Generativity does not necessarily satisfy all your needs: Associations among cultural demand for generativity, generative concern, generative action, and need satisfaction in the elderly in four cultures. Developmental Psychology, 52, 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000078
Krebs, A., & Kranz, D. (2016). Christentum und Homosexualität [Christendom and homosexuality: Looking backwards and forwards] . Ein Rück- und Ausblick. Alt-Katholische und Ökumenische Theologie, 1, 19–20.
2015
Au, A., Ng, E., Lai, S., Tsien, T., Busch, H., Hofer, J., Lam, C., & Wu, W. (2015). Goals and life satisfaction of Hong Kong Chinese older adults. Clinical Gerontologist, 38, 224-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/07317115.2015.1008117
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2015). Motivational development: Cross-cultural perspectives. In J. D. Wright (Ed-in-Chief.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed., Vol. 15, pp. 951-956). Oxford: Elsevier.
Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Schneider, C. (2015). The effect of motive-trait interaction on satisfaction of the implicit need for affiliation among German and Cameroonian adults. Journal of Personality, 83, 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12092
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Schneider, C., Poláčková Šolcová, I., & Tavel, P. (2015). The higher your implicit affiliation-intimacy motive, the more can loneliness turn you into a social cynic: A study on the implicit affiliation-intimacy motive in elderlies from Germany, the Czech Republic, and Cameroon. Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12232
2014
Chasiotis, A., Bender, M., & Hofer, J. (2014). Childhood context explains cultural variance in implicit parenting motivation: Results from two studies with six samples from Cameroon, Costa Rica, Germany, and China. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 295-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200203
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Au, A., Poláčková Šolcová, I., Tavel, P., & Tsien Wong, T. (2014). For the benefit of others: Generativity and meaning in life in the elderly in four cultures. Psychology and Aging, 29, 764-775. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037762
Kranz, D. & Krebs, A. (2014). Alt-katholische Identität: Eine empirische Annäherung [Old-Catholic Identity: An empirical approach]. Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift, 104, 322 – 338.
Kranz, D. & Krebs, A. (2014). Religiosität in der Alt-Katholischen Kirche Deutschlands: Eine empirische Studie [Religiosity in the German Old Catholic Church: An empirical investigation] (IKZ, 104, 1-2). Bern: Stämpfli.
2013
Busch, H., Hofer, J., Chasiotis, A., & Campos, D. (2013). The achievement flow motive as an element of the autotelic personality: Predicting educational attainment in three cultures. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 28, 239-254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-012-0112-y
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2013). Living in accordance with one's implicit motives: Cross-cultural evidence for beneficial effects of motive-goal congruence and motive satisfaction. In A. Efklides & D. Moraitou (Eds.), A positive psychology perspective on quality of life (pp. 51-66). New York: Springer.
2012
Busch, H. & Hofer, J. (2012). A picture story exercise set in a German and a Cameroonian sample: Ipsative stability, retest reliability, and sample-level stability. EuropeanJournal of Psychological Assessment, 28, 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000100
Busch, H. & Hofer, J. (2012). Self-regulation and milestones of adult development: Intimacy and generativity. Developmental Psychology, 48, 282-293. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025521
Hofer, J., Schröder, L., & Keller, H. (2012). Motivational basis of body contact: A multicultural study of mothers and their three-month-old infants. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 858-876. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022111414418
Leung, K. and 22 co-authors (2012). Developing and evaluating the social axioms survey in eleven countries: Its relationship with the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 833-857. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022111416361
2011
Busch, H. & Hofer, J. (2011). Identity, prosocial behavior, and generative concern in German and Cameroonian Nso adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 629-638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.09.009
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2011). Interpersonal identity achievement accounts for the link between action control and self-informed realization of the implicit affiliation-intimacy motive. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 11, 231-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2011.560813
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2011). Satisfying one’s needs for competence and relatedness: Consequent domain-specific well-being depends on strength of implicit motives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1147-1158. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211408329
Hofer, J. & Busch, H. (2011). When the needs for affiliation and intimacy are frustrated: Envy and indirect aggression among German and Cameroonian adults. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 219-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.02.003
Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Kärtner, J. (2011). Self-regulation and well-being: The influence of identity and motives. European Journal of Personality, 25, 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.789
Hofer, J. & Chasiotis, A. (2011). Implicit motives across cultures. Online readings of psychology and culture.
Kranz, D. (2011). Young men’s coping with androgenetic alopecia: Acceptance counts when hair gets thinner. Body Image, 14, 1021–1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.06.006
2010
Brandtstädter, J., Rothermund, K., Kranz, D. & Kühn, W. (2010). Final decentrations: Personal goals, rationality perspectives, and the awareness of life’s finitude. European Psychologist, 15, 152-163. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000019
Busch, H. (2010). Einstellungen zu Sterben und Tod. In H. Wittwer, A. Frewer & D. Schäfer (Hrsg.), Sterben und Tod: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (S. 186-192). Stuttgart: Metzler.
Chasiotis, A., Bender, M., Kießling, F., & Hofer, J. (2010). The emergence of the independent self: Autobiographical memory as a mediator of false belief understanding and socio-cultural motive orientation in Cameroonian and German preschoolers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 368-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022110361705
Hofer, J. (2010). Research on implicit motives across cultures. In O. C. Schultheiss & J. C. Brunstein (Eds.), Implicit motives (pp. 433-467). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Bender, M., Li, M., & Hagemeyer, B. (2010). Arousal of achievement motivation among student samples in three different cultural contexts: Self and social standards of evaluation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 758-775. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022110375160
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Bond, M. H., Campos, D., Li, M., & Law, R. (2010). The implicit power motive and sociosexuality in men and women: Pancultural effects of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 380-394. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020053
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Bond, M. H., Kärtner, K., Kiessling, F., & Law, R. (2010). Is self-determined functioning a universal prerequisite for motive-goal congruence? Examining the domain of achievement in three cultures. Journal of Personality, 78, 747-779. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00632.x
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Bond, M. H., Li, M., & Law, R. (2010). Effects of motive-goal congruence on well-being in the power domain: Considering goals and values in a German and two Chinese samples. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 610-620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.08.001
Kranz, D., Bollinger A., & Nilges P. (2010). Chronic pain acceptance and affective well-being: A coping perspective. European Journal of Pain, 14, 1021–1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpain.2010.03.010
2009
Chasiotis, A. & Hofer, J. (2009). Motivation in kulturvergleichender Perspektive. In V. Brandstätter & J. H. Otto (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie: Motivation und Emotion (S. 89-93). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Fischer, R., Ferreira, M. C., Assmar, E., Redford, P., Harb, C., Glazer, S., Cheng, B.-S., Jiang, D.-Y., Wong, C. C., Kumar, N., Kärtner, J., Hofer, J., & Achoui, M. (2009). Individualism-collectivism as descriptive norms: Development of a subjective norm approach to culture measurement. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 187-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022109332738
McElvany, N. & Schneider, C. (2009). Förderung der Lesekompetenz. In W. Lenhard, & W. Schneider (Hrsg.), Diagnose und Förderung des Leseverständnisses: Tests und Trends (S. 151–184). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Hofer, J., & Chasiotis, A. (2009). Methodological aspects of cross-cultural developmental studies. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of cross-cultural developmental science (pp. 21-37).Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2008
Hofer, J. & Bond, M. H. (2008). Do implicit motives add to our understanding of psychological and behavioral outcomes within and across cultures? In R. M. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), The handbook of motivation and cognition within and across cultures (pp. 95-118). Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press.
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Chasiotis, A., Kärtner, J., & Campos, D. (2008). Concern for generativity and its relation to implicit pro-social power motivation, generative goals, and satisfaction with life: A cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Personality, 76, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00478.x
Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Kiessling, F. (2008). Individual pathways to life satisfaction: The significance of traits and motives. Journal of Happiness Studies, 9, 503-520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-007-9086-x
2007
Hofer, J., Kärtner, J., Chasiotis, A., Busch, H., & Kießling, F. (2007). Socio-cultural aspects of identity formation: The relationship between commitment and well-being in student samples from Cameroon and Germany. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 7, 265-288.
2006
Chasiotis, A., Hofer, J., & Campos, D. (2006). When does liking children lead to parenthood? Younger siblings, implicit prosocial power motivation, and explicit love for children predict parenthood across cultures. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 95-123.
Chasiotis, A., Kießling, F., Hofer, J., & Campos, D. (2006). Theory of mind and inhibitory control in three cultures: Conflict inhibition predicts false belief understanding in Germany, Costa Rica, and Cameroon. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 249-260
Chasiotis, A., Kießling, F., Winter, V., & Hofer, J. (2006). Sensory motor inhibition as a prerequisite for theory of mind: A comparison of clinical and normal preschoolers differing in sensory motor abilities. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 178-190.
Hofer, J., Busch, H., Chasiotis, A., & Kießling, F. (2006). Motive congruence and interpersonal identity status. Journal of Personality, 74, 511-541.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00383.x
Hofer, J., Chasiotis, A., & Campos, D. (2006). Congruence between social values and implicit motives: Effects on life satisfaction across three cultures. European Journal of Personality, 20, 305-324.
Hofer, J., Chasiotis, A., Kießling, F., & Busch, H. (2006). Quality of familial relations in childhood and ego identity formation: The moderating influence of dispositions of action control. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 6, 117-140.
2005
Hofer, J., Chasiotis, A., Friedlmeier, W., Busch, H., & Campos, D. (2005). The measurement of implicit motives in three cultures: Power and affiliation in Cameroon, Costa Rica, and Germany. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, 689-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022105280510
Hofer, J., Israel, M., Schellong, J., Simmich, T., Joraschky, P., & Pöhlmann, K. (2005). Zusammenhang zwischen Schwere der Symptomatik und der Ausprägung der impliziten und expliziten Motive Affiliation, Leistung und Macht. PPMP – Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 55, 133-134.