title: [Macro-social stress in adolescence--results of a repeat-interview about war anxiety and anxiety of environmental destruction].
abstract: The article reports first results from a follow-up survey (N = 837) on existential anxieties with a sample of 8- to 20-year-olds from the Federal Republic of Germany who had been questioned first in 1985. The report focuses only on data gathered with the 'worry scale' by Goldenring und Doctor. Analyses based on a time-sequential-design show that (cross-sectionally as well as longitudinally) personal worries (concerned with everyday hassles, critical life-events, and micro-social stressors) decline with age. For politically based worries (concerned with so-called macro-social stressors), however, there is a strong gender difference: While in the cross-sectional analyses there is no mean difference between older and younger adolescents of both sexes, the longitudinal analyses show a possibly historical effect: Not only do girls express more personal als well as political worries (in whatever way this may be interpreted psychologically), their worries in the political field even increased at the end of the eighties whereas fears of boys in that domain remained constant. Consequences of the gulf war are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pädagogische Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Boehnke
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: von Fromberg
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Macpherson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009689:Nuclear Warfare; D010553:Personality Development; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: Makro-sozialer Stress im Jugendalter--Ergebnisse einer Wiederbefragung zu Kriegsangst und Angst vor Umweltzerstörung.