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Department of Psychology Personality, Mental Health, and Culture

Publications

  • Thalmayer, A. G., Maher, K. A., Saucier, G., Naudé, L., Shino, E. N., Asatsa, S., Florence, M., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Bächlin, L. M., & Condon, D. (2024) The Cross-Cultural Big Two: A Culturally De-Centered Theoretical and Measurement Model for Personality Traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000528

  • Thalmayer, A. G., Asatsa, S., Shino, E. N., Naudé, L., Laher, S., Hassem, T., Florence, M., Adonis, T.-A., Uugwanga, S. N., Rotzinger, J. S., Hofmann, D., Makunda, J., Botha, C., Murangi, A., & Shirima, C. M. (2024). Lifespan Research in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa: Cohort Profile of the Africa Long Life Study. Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/27000710241264492

  • Furrer, A., Hofmann, D., & Thalmayer, A. G. (2024, April 25). Talking Mental Health with Kenyan Youth: Cognitive Interviews on the International Mental Health Assessment. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kyb3x
  • Florence, M., Adonis, T., Botha, C., Mpisane, N., Thalmayer, A. G., & Naude, L. (2023). An International Longitudinal Research Project Investigating the Psychological Development of Young Adults in South Africa: Managing Attrition.

Weiterführende Informationen

Including the Majority World in Lifespan Research: The Africa Long Life Study

Upcoming talks

  • “The Africa Long Life Study: lifespan research in Kenya, Namibia and South Africa ” Symposium at the Psychological Society of South Africa’s Annual Psychology Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa, October, 2024, chaired by Amber Gayle Thalmayer. Talks:
    • Thalmayer A.G. “The Africa Long Life Study: lifespan research in the majority world”
    • Uugwanga, S.N. “Markers of adulthood in Sub-Saharan Africa: contextualized findings ”
    • Hofmann, D. “The assessment and structure of psychopathology among emerging adults in Southern and Eastern Africa ”
    • Chopdat, S. “Contextual impacts on anxiety and wellbeing amongst emerging adults in South Africa: evidence from the ALLS study ”
    • Kura, M. “Personality traits in the Africa Long Life Study: culturally-de-centered approaches for assessing individual differences in African contexts ”
  • Thalmayer, A.G & Laher, S. Invited roundtable discussion on “African cultural models in psychology” at the Psychological Society of South Africa’s Annual Psychology Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa, October, 2024
  • Amber Gayle Thalmayer, invited presentation in the “Advances in Cultural Psychology Pre-Conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Meeting Denver Colorado, February 19, 2025
  • Thalmayer, A. G. "THE AFRICA LONG LIFE STUDY: EARLY RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PERSONALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN NAMIBIA, KENYA, AND SOUTH AFRICA“ UMTHOMBO LECTURE SERIES, 2024. Invitation (PDF, 787 KB)

Conference talks and poster presentations

  • Hofmann, D., Hopwood, C. J, & Thalmayer, A. G. (2024). The structure of psychopathology in Namibia, Kenya and South Africa is almost the same. Poster presented at the Masterstudierenden- und Doktorierenden-Kongress 2024, University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 2024.
  • Thalmayer, A.G &  Asatsa, S. “Personality Research in the Africa Long Life Study” in symposium “Keynote - Presidential Address: Personality Science Around the World” at the European Conference on Personality, Berlin, August, 2024.
  • “Early Results from the Africa Long Life Study” Symposium at the European Conference on Personality, Berlin, August, 2024, chaired by Amber Gayle Thalmayer & Marie Kura. Talks:
    • Uugwanga, S.N. “Introduction to the Africa Long Life Study”
    • Kura, M. “The HEXACO in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa”
    • Hofmann, D. “The assessment and structure of psychopathology among young adults in Namibia, Kenya, and South Africa”
    • Asatsa, S. “Proneness to Aggress in Kenya and Namibia: The role of Culture of Honor Logic among Young Adults from diverse groups”
  • Thalmayer, A.G. "The Africa Long Life Study: Cohort Description and Preliminary Findings” In symposium “Advances in Cultural Psychology beyond the West” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, February, 2024.
  • Thalmayer A.G. & Hofmann, D. “Emic and Etic Approaches to Assess Trauma Related Symptoms in Namibia, South Africa, and Kenya” invited address at Conference on The Role of Culture in the Exploration of Post-Trauma Suffering, Collegium Helveticum April 23–24, 2024.
  • Thalmayer, A.G. "Including the Majority World in Lifespan Research: The Africa Long Life Study.” Early Career Award Talk given at the Association for Research in Personality annual meeting, July 21, 2023  
  • Thalmayer, A.G. “Psychological assessment in the majority world” Keynote talk given at the  17. Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik (DPPD) in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie
  • Uugwanga, S.N., Thalmayer A.G., "Markers of Adulthood in Sub-Saharan Africa: contextualized findings” Presentation given at The Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood 11TH Conference on Emerging Adulthood Emerging Scholars Work-in-Progress pre-conference workshop, June 15, 2023, San Diego, CA
  • Uugwanga, S.N., Thalmayer A.G., "Becoming an Adult in Namibia: An emerging adult perspective among the Owambo ethnicity” Presentation given at The Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood 11TH Conference on Emerging adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa: An insight into Namibia, Kenya, and South Africa, June 16, 2023, San Diego, CA
  • Rotzinger, J. S., Thalmayer, A. G., “Ubuntu/harambee among emerging adults in Namibia and Kenya” Presentation given at the Regional European Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, IACCP 2023, August 4, 2023, Limerick, Ireland
  • Thalmayer, A. G., “The Africa Long Life Study: An African-centered exploration of the mental health and wellbeing of emerging adults” Presentation given at the 27th Annual South Africa Psychology Congress, Johannesburg, October 4-6, 2023, South Africa
  • Thalmayer, A.G. "Assessing Personality and Mental Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Etc and epic approaches for comparison and contextualisation” Talk given at Evolutionary Psychiatry: From Theory to Therapy' mini-symposium, May 15, 2023, University of Zürich
  • Rotzinger, J. S. & Thalmayer, A. G. (2022). Ubuntu/botho: A qualitative exploration in Namibia, Kenya, and South Africa. Poster presented at the Swiss Psychological Society Conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland, September 2022.
  • Hofmann, D. & Thalmayer, A. G. (2022). Mental health and religious and spiritual protective factors in Namibia, Kenya and South Africa. Talk given at the Swiss Psychological Society Conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland, September 2022.

Master’s Theses

  • Franka Schneider (UZH 2023), “Ubuntu/Harambee: A qualitative exploration in Namibia. Reflection of Ubuntu/Harambee in young adults' lives”
  • David Schröder (UZH 2023), “Socio-economic status and mental health in Sub-Saharan Africa”
  • Lilly Schmidt-Tophoff (UZH 2023), “The Role of Religiosity in the Mental Health Among 18-Year-Olds in Sub-Saharan Africa”
  • Myrjam Suter (UZH 2023), “Markers of Adulthood of Emerging Adults in Namibia: Psychometric Testing, Endorsement, and Attainment of the Markers of Adulthood (MoA) Scale”

Publications from the related PersoNa project (Personality and Mental Health in Namibia), 2018-2021

  • Claudius, Milena; Shino, Elizabeth N; Job, Sylvanus; Hofmann, Daniel; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2022). Still Standing Inside: A Local Idiom Related to Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21):14323.
  • Thalmayer, A. G., Job, S., Shino, E. N., Robinson, S. L., & Saucier, G. (2020). ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000372
  • Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Shino, E. N., & Job, S. (2021). The Khoekhoegowab Personality Inventory: The Comparative Validity of a Locally Derived Measure of Traits. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 694205. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694205
  • Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Ole-Kotikash, L., & Payne, D. (2020). Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(5), 1132–1152. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000264
  • Toscanelli, Cecilia; Shino, Elizabeth; Robinson, Sarah L; Thalmayer, Amber Gayle (2022). Religiousness worldwide: translation of the Duke University Religion Index into 20 languages and validation across 27 nations. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 4:13.

Master’s Theses

  • William Viella Martins (University of Bern 2023), "A cross-culturally convergent personality model of three dimensions"
  • Gayong Son (Universität Basel 2022), “Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Three Languages of Namibia”
  • Aleyna Ekinci (UZH 2022), “The experience of ‘pain in the heart’ and its relations to major depressive disorder”
  • Christoph Flückinger (UZH 2022), “Motivations for alcohol consumption among young adults in Namibia - A comparison across Oshiwambo speakers”
  • Milena Claudius (Universität Bern 2022), “Still Standing Inside: Local Idioms of Trauma among Namibian Speakers of Khoekhoegowab”
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