Hintergrund: Ungerechtigkeitswahrnehmung ist als psychosozialer Belastungsfaktor mit einem erhöhten Krankheitsrisiko assoziiert. Die physiologische Stressreaktion gilt dabei als Bindeglied. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, unter Berücksichtigung der Belastungsdauer, den Einfluss subjektiv wahrgenommener Einkommensungerechtigkeit auf stressassoziierte Erkrankungen zu bestimmen. Methodik: Auf Datenbasis des ...
A central issue underlying the concept of transitional labour markets is that moving between different employment statuses can lead to social integration rather than exclusion. In this chapter we assess the extent to which part-time work provides an integrating bridge for those outside the labour market in Britain and Germany. Structural divisions in a given labour market can have a significant effect ...
Affective habituation is well-documented in social sciences: people seem to adapt to many life events, ranging from lottery windfalls to terminal illnesses. A group of studies have tried to measure habituation by seeing how lagged values of life events affect present happiness. We propose an additional adaptation channel: current happiness may depend directly on past happiness, which amounts to assessing ...