General self-efficacy in East and West Germany: A comparison of two German representative cohorts in 2014 and 2022What this study adds:Implications for Policy and Practice: [PDF]
Objectives: Empirical evidence increasingly highlights the importance of general self-efficacy (GEF) in preventing disease and promoting quality of life.
Anna C. Reinwarth +5 more
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Single Motherhood in East and West Germany: What Can Explain the Differences? [PDF]
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine two transmission channels leading to single motherhood, namely out-of-partnership births and separations of couples ...
Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing
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Kosmische Musik and Its Techno-Social Context [PDF]
The electrification of music making in West Germany during the 1970s led to what is now often recognized as one of the most important developments in popular electronic music. In this article, the emergence of kosmische musik (“cosmic music”), a style of
Alexander C. Harden
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Characteristics of the Western European ecological group barley varieties in the North-Western region of the Russian Federation [PDF]
In the North-West region, spring barley is the main grain fodder crop. The variety is an effective and most affordable means of increasing the harvest and quality of the grain.
Kovaleva Olga, Lukina Kseniia
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Trends in gender differences in health at working ages among West and East Germans
Before 1990, Germany was divided for more than 40 years. While divided, significant mortality disparities between the populations of East and West Germany emerged.
Mine Kühn +3 more
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In postwar Germany, inner-German borders were much disputed. While Germans widely deplored the division of their country and capital city, strong political forces in the East and the West struggled for their spheres of influence.
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer +1 more
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Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles. West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam, 1968–1982
Communist China and Vietnam looked like the future to many West German feminists in the years after 1968. This article reconstructs a lost history of influence, identification and emulation, tracing some of the ways that Chinese and Vietnamese communism ...
Quinn Slobodian
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It Is Not All Because of Socialism — On East-West Differences and Their Origins
Even on the 30th anniversary of German unity, there is still a lot of talk about East-West differences. Typically, these differences are attributed to different political systems, which have created different impressions.
Sascha O. Becker +2 more
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Die geistig-kulturelle Lage im wieder-vereinigten Deutschland
The mental-cultural situation of the re-united Germany In 1993 an exhibition presenting phenomena about the past, present and future of both East and West Germany took place in Berlin.
A. M. Rauch
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Economic and Political Reconstruction and Development of FRG in the Period after World War II
In the first post-war years, the policy of the Western occupying powers towards Germany was aimed at preventing the economic revival of their former formidable competitor.
Mariusz Janik
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