HELLENIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
ÉSSN 1790-1391
Edited three times a year by the Psychological Society of Northern Greece
(PSNG)
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2007
Legally responsible:
Anastasia Efklides, President of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece
School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Editors
| Editor-in-Chief: |
Anastasia Efklides |
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Associate Editors: |
Maria Dikaiou
Angeliki Leondari
Georgios D. Sideridis |
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
University
of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
University of Crete, Greece |
| Assistant Editors: |
Irini Dermitzaki
Mary H. Kosmidis
Filippos Vlachos
Plousia Misailidi
Pagona Roussi |
University
of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
University of Ioannina, Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Guest Editor of the Special Section |
Panayiota Vorria |
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
Editorial Board
Anastasia Efklides
George Grouios
Shulamith Kreitler
Diomedes Markoulis
Robert Neimeyer
Markku Niemivirta
Jose M. Prieto
Wolfgang Schnotz
Yannis Theodorakis
Maria Tzouriadou
Marja Vauras
Marcel Veenman
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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University of Turku, Finland
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Volume 4, Issue
1, 2007
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HELLENIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Founded 2004 |
SPECIAL SECTION:
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
Guest Editor: Panayiota
Vorria
ELLINIKA
GRAMMATA
Special Section: Social development and social context
Prologue
Panayiota Vorria........................................................................................................
vii
From symptom to
context: A review of the literature on refugee
children's mental health
Lucia De Haene, Hans Grietens, & Karine Verschueren.....................................................233
Interparental conflict and (pre)adolescents' peer
relationships
Maria Vairami & Panayiota Vorria..................................................................................257
Romantic relationships, attachment styles, and experiences of
childhood
Panayiota Vorria, Maria Vairami, Moisis Gialaouzidis,
Evdoxia Kotroni,
Georgia Koutra, Nefeli
Markou, Eleni Marti, & Ileana Pantoleon............................................281
Articles
Adolescents’ motivational orientations, school-subject values,
and
well-being: A person-centered approach
Katariina Salmela-Aro, Jukka Vuori, & Petri Koivisto.........................................................310
Exploring students’ well-being by taking a variety of looks
into
the classroom
Tina Hascher............................................................................................................331
Hellenic Journal of
Psychology, Vol. 4 (2007), pp. vii-viii
Research associated with social development is undoubtedly
depending on the environmental conditions in which the child
is growing up. The child’s family, interparental
relationships, specific social circumstances –e.g.,
immigration– have a significant effect on children’s social
development. This special section entitled Social
Development and Social Context includes three articles,
all of them related to social development; one article is
literature review and two are presenting research findings.
Lucia De Haene, Hans Grietens, and Karine Verschueren’s
article is a review of the effects of immigration experience
on children’s mental health and development. Maria Vairami
and Panayiota Vorria’s article presents the relationship
between interparental conflict and (pre)adolescents’ peer
relationships. Panayiota Vorria, Maria Vairami, Moisis
Gia-laouzidis, Evdoxia Kotroni, Georgia Koutra, Nefeli
Markou, Eleni Marti, and Iliana Pantoleon’s article presents
the results of a study about romantic relationships,
attachment styles, and memories of childhood experiences
with parents in a large sample of Greek university students.
De Haene et al.’s article is dealing with the effects of
immigration on the psychosocial functioning of refugee
children. The authors present different perspectives of the
psychological effects on the well-being of these children.
They perceive the refugee experience and the forced
migration as a long-lasting process of cumulated losses and
transitions, as a long-term adverse context which has
serious and pervasive effects on children’s development and
mental heath. The authors are referring to the refugee
experience as a multidimensional process and address the
dynamic interplay between psychological, familial, social,
cultural and political factors which might affect the
resilience of refugee children.
Vairami and Vorria’s article presents research findings of
parental relationships, in particular inter-parental
conflict, on (pre)adolescents’ peer relationships. The
participants were school aged children, (pre)adolescents,
living with their own two-parent families and attending
secondary school. The study showed that interparental
conflict was negatively related to peer-acceptance in
school, to their number of friends, as well as to their
close friendships. (Pre)adolescents’ feelings of being to
blame for the interparental conflict was the major predictor
of (pre)adolescents’ friendship qualities, that is,
companionship, help, security, conflict and closeness in (pre)adolescents’
friendships and peer acceptance in school. Preadolescents’
peer relationships, compared to adolescents, were related to
a stronger degree to interparental conflict. In boys, the
appraisal of threat was the major predictor of their
friendship qualities, whereas for girls the appraisal of
self-blame negatively predicted these qualities.
Vorria et al.’s article examines the influence of childhood
attachment history on adult romantic relationships, in a
large sample of university students. The findings indicated
that students who had a romantic relationship had a secure
or an anxious/ambivalent attachment type with their parents,
while those who did not have a romantic relationship mostly
had an avoidant/fearful type of attachment. Women had an
anxious/ambivalent attachment type, while the majority of
men had an avoidant/dismissing or an avoidant/fearful
attachment type. Securely attached students used positive
adjectives in describing their parents.
Coming to the end of this short introduction, I would like
to thank Professor Anastasia Efklides, Editor of the
Hellenic Journal of Psychology, for allowing me to
undertake this special section as well as for her
painstaking efforts to improve the final versions of the
papers. I would also like to thank the authors of the papers
for their valuable contributions. I am indebted to the
reviewers of the papers included in the issue for their
valuable feedback. Special thanks are also due to my
colleague Evrinomi Avdi for her kindness to edit De Haene et
al.’s paper.
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Thessaloniki, October, 2007
Guest Editor of the Special Section
Panayiota Vorria
Associate Professor |
Address: Panayiota
Vorria, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. E-mail:
vorria@psy.auth.gr
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