Intro; Contents; 1 Preface: How to Plan the Future in Times of Exponential Acceleration. Three Scenarios; Scenario I: The Topic of Change; Scenario II: New Perspective; Scenario III: Task and Content; 2 Change, Change Competence and Personal Growth: Conceptual Framework for an Explorative Study; 1 Change; 1.1 Change as Normal Condition and the Experience of Crisis; 1.2 Change as Relational Concept; 1.3 Change and Adaptation; 1.4 Anticipation, Planning, Goals; 2 Change Competence; 2.1 Change Competence as the Guiding Concept of the Change Study; 2.2 Change Competence as Action Competence
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2.3 Change Competence and Change Management2.4 Competencies, Competence Fields and Metacompetencies; 2.5 Change Competence: The IZZ Model; 3 Personal Growth; 3.1 Embedding Competence Research in Broader Psychological Issues; 3.2 Change, Integration and Capacity for Action; 3.3 Identity and Personal Growth; 3 Experiences of Change -- Challenges, Processes and Patterns of Action; 1 Changes Create Satisfaction; 2 What Does Change Mean for the Individual?; 3 The Change Process; 3.1 Orientation; 3.2 Stabilization; 3.3 Problem-Solving; 3.4 Practice
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3.6 Evaluation as Interpretive Accomplishment in the Framework of Personal History and as Part of the Coping Process4 Life Satisfaction as Criterion of Success of Individual Coping Processes; 4.1 Life Events and Life Satisfaction; 4.2 Life Satisfaction and Personal Growth; 5 Change Competence: Pragmatically Dealing with Change Processes; 5.1 Competence Field: Orientation; 5.3 Competence Field: Problem-Solving; 5.4 Competence Field: Practice; 6 Discussion of the Results, Context and Outlook; 6.1 Results and Findings; 6.2 Context and Outlook
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4 The End of One Change Is the Beginning of the Next One5 Action plans; 6 Specific Applications; 6.1 Partnership; 6.2 Work-Related Change; 6.3 Illness and Accident; 4 Coping with Crucial Change. Results of the Representative Survey "Life Events and Change Competencies"; 1 The Study: Purpose and Implementation; 2 Life Events: The Individual Focus on the Change Process; 3 The Evaluation of the Key Change Events; 3.1 Types of Life Events; 3.2 Benefit of the Change; 3.3 Degree of Burden; 3.4 Internal versus External Change Impetus; 3.5 Evaluation as Intuitive Judgment
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5 Phases and Strategies for Coping with Biographical Experiences of Transformation. Results of the Qualitative Study "Patterns of Coping with Change"1 Recognizing Changes; 1.1 Retrospective and Coping with Crises; 1.2 Relationship between Dynamism and Stability; 1.3 Forms of Pressure to Change: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic; 2 Experiencing Changes; 2.1 The significance of the Pressure to Change; 2.2 The Process of Change as a Perceived Burden; 2.3 The Time Factor, and the Ideal-Typical Steps in the Process; 2.4 Adaptation without Psychological Stress; 3 Evaluating Changes
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume deals with a key concept concerning the future: change. It is omnipresent and yet is often only perceived in retrospect. The book's editor and founder of Psychological Future Management argues that we are currently experiencing the beginning of the most radical and profound change in human history. This is the right moment to analyze people's ability to change more precisely. In this first, representative study, Germany was chosen as an example. The results serve as a basis for further psychological, sociological and prospective considerations. The Germans obviously have great resilience and problem-solving competence. At the same time, however, they are one-sidedly fixated on maintaining the economic status quo and fear negative changes in the future. Their social milieus are permeated by contradictions. The wealthy, in particular, are tied to security concerns and are therefore unwilling to experiment and take risks, two qualities without which a future in times of exponential change can hardly be managed. What could other countries and societies learn from these descriptions of the current state of one of the world's leading countries? The entire subject revolves around this question.