Personality, Identity and Relationships Development of Adolescent Sojourners

居住流动性(即永久性或临时性的、有意的或被迫的)已成为21世纪个人生活管理的主要挑战之一。例如，国际学生交流在青少年中已经受到高度重视。本项目采用前瞻性对照组设计(综合日记研究)，旨在研究在国外逗留(约1年)对青春期人格、身份和社会关系发展的影响。它将被调查，哪些个性和身份特征使青少年倾向于移居国外(选择效应)，哪些寄宿对随后的个人发展产生影响(社会化效应)，以及哪些社会关系(家庭与同伴，家庭与东道主，线下与在线，强与弱关系)可能起到中介作用(中介效应)。此外，还将考察在旅居背景下人格和身份发展之间的动态相互作用(交易效应)。这个项目增加了对青春期一般人格发展的理解，并揭示了一种在人类生命过程的所有阶段变得越来越相关的社会现象。

Residential mobility (i.e., moves that either are permanent or temporary, deliberate or forced) has become one of the major challenges to individual life management in the 21th century. For example, international student exchanges are highly valued already among adolescents. Using a prospective control group design (with integrated diary study), this projects sets out to study the consequences of staying abroad (for about 1 year) for the development of personality, identity and social relationships in adolescence. It will be investigated, which personality and identity characteristics predispose adolescents for moving abroad (selection effects), which consequences sojourning has on subsequent individual development (socialization effects), and which mediating role social relationships (family vs. peers, home vs. host, offline vs. online, strong vs. weak ties) may play (mediation effects). Furthermore, the dynamic interplay between personality and identity development in the sojourning context will be examined (transaction effects). This project adds to the understanding of general personality development in adolescence and sheds light on a social phenomenon that becomes increasingly relevant at all stages of the human life course.