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. (In press). Lifespan Research in Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa: Cohort Profile of the Africa Long Life Study. Personality Science.
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
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. "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 SSEA 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 SSEA 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. Poster presented 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”
