While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
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European Journal of Personality
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
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SSM - Population Health
34 (2026), 101912, 14 S.
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Recic, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh
Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-01-08]
| Michael D. Krämer, Bernd Schaefer, Yannick Roos, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
This article explains how the triadic brokering system in the European Union affects the conditions of work and pay of mobile care workers. Using original survey data gathered from Polish care workers in Germany, the authors found that workers earn less money the more hours they work. Based on qualitative interviews with care workers and representatives of labor market intermediaries, they argue that ...
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International Labour Review
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-03-26]
| Kamil Matuszczyk, Magdalena Nowicka, Niklas Harder, Mathis Herpell
Introduction Most people want two or more children, but many do not realize their fertility desires. At the same time, recent studies suggest that up to 15% of parents regret having children. To investigate how fertility mismatch relates to well-being (i.e., affect balance, life satisfaction, family life satisfaction, and work satisfaction), this preregistered study used nationally representative cross-sectional ...
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Journal of Personality
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-04-01]
| Laura Buchinger, Michael D. Krämer, Manon A. van Scheppingen, Denis Gerstorf
Die Nutzung sozialer Medien durch Kinder und Jugendliche wird zunehmend kontrovers diskutiert. Im Fokus stehen dabei Risiken, Chancen und mögliche Regulierungen. Mittlerweile zeigen sich Politiker*innen aller relevanten Parteien offen für ein Social-Media-Verbot bis zu einem bestimmten Alter; das Bundesfamilienministerium hat eine Expert*innenkommission eingesetzt. Auf Basis einer Kurzbefragung im ...
2026| Jörg Dollmann, Christian Hunkler, Nicolas Legewie, Julian B. Axenfeld, Andreas Franken, Felix von Heusinger