dr. Atha Chasiotis

Bio

My research covers developmental, cross-cultural, motivational, personality, and evolutionary life-span psychology. I employ qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches, including naturalistic observations, discourse analysis, experimental protocols, and quantitative statistical analyses as I strongly believe that we should be flexible in the choice of methods and that such a choice should be derived from research questions. My collaborators and I explained cultural variance by verifying a number of culture-independent relations between childhood context variables and implicit and explicit psychological measures in the preschool period as well as in adulthood. We identified specific relations between explicit and implicit developmental measures of self-regulatory and mentalistic abilities across cultures and universal developmental pathways in which childhood context variables are related to somatic and psychological development (see Chasiotis, 2011, 2018, in press).

Courses

• Developmental Disorders
• Developmental Disorders
• Introduction and theories about Positive Psychology

Recent publications

1. Culture is more than self-reported motives, beliefs, and values - Met…

   Chasiotis, A., Hofer, J., & Bender, M. (2021). Culture is more than self-reported motives, beliefs, and values: Methodological advancements of measuring implicit motives across cultural contexts. In M. Bender, & B. G. Adams (Eds.), Methods and assessment in culture and psychology (pp. 170-197). Cambridge University Press.

2. Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, j…

   Ghazzawi, R., Bender, M., Daouk‐öyry, L., Vijver, F. J. R., & Chasiotis, A. (2021). Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well‐being in Lebanese nurses. Journal of Nursing Management, 29(7), 2163-2174.

3. The importance of language vocabulary and language usage for sociocul…

   Sari, B. T., Chasiotis, A., van de Vijver, F. J. R., & Bender, M. (2020). The importance of language vocabulary and language usage for sociocultural adjustment among Indonesian adolescents from three bilingual ethnic groups. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41(6), 531-546.

4. Autobiographical recall of mastery experiences is a mechanism of self…

   Tavitian-Elmadjian, L., Bender, M., Van de Vijver, F. J. R., Chasiotis, A., & Harb, C. (2020). Autobiographical recall of mastery experiences is a mechanism of self-affirming under social identity threat. Journal of Social Psychology, 160(1), 39-60 .

5. Improving the assessment of implicit motives using IRT - Cultural dif…

   Runge, M., Lang, J., Chasiotis, A., & Hofer, J. (2019). Improving the assessment of implicit motives using IRT: Cultural differences and differential item functioning. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101(4), 414-424.