Self-Efficacy, Health and Well-Being

SELF Project Line 3

Given that migration is often at least a highly stressful, if not even adverse experience (varying from loneliness to depression in its effects), dissertation projects in Project Line 3 address various aspects of the self, self-regulation and external influences on health behavior change. Previous research has on the one hand shown that self-construal has important consequences for how individuals subjectively construe and deal with stress, and on the other hand that self-efficacy is a central, possibly universal psychological variable in enabling individuals to achieve their self-set health goals. Yet, the relationship between self-construal and self-efficacy, social support and decreased loneliness/higher connectedness is understudied so far. Filling this research gap in the context of migration would hence be the central goal of dissertation projects in this project line.

Download the long description of project line 3, including potential research questions on self-efficacy, health and well-being.