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Abstract The role of the “Big Five” personality traits in driving welfare state attitudes has received scant attention in social policy research. Yet neuroticism in particular—a disposition to stress, worry, and get nervous easily—is theoretically likely to be an important driver of welfare attitudes precisely because welfare states deliver social “security” and “safety” nets. Using cross-sectional ...
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Social Policy & Administration
54 (2020), 5, 699-718
| Markus Tepe, Pieter Vanhuysse
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This article studies the relationship between partner’s wealth share and their life satisfaction in different-sex couples using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017). Resource-based theories and gender ideology are two prominent approaches to explain the effects of within-couple relative resources on various outcomes. Recently, scholars have argued that not relative but ...
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European Sociological Review
37 (2021), 2, 271-286
| Daria Tisch
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Psychological measures are gaining recognition as important determinants of labor performance. This paper demonstrates that people reporting greater subjective well-being (SWB) are causally less likely to be unemployed in the future. The relation exhibits a meaningful magnitude relative to the mean unemployment rate and other determinants. The analysis is based on a longitudinal survey of German households ...
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Kyklos
73 (2020), 4, 568-604
| Kelsey J. O'Connor
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This study examines the relationships between loneliness, gender, and age for people without and with disabilities (moderate versus severe) in Germany. Using data taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2013 and 2017 and using the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Loneliness Scale, in general we found that males report lower loneliness scores as compared to those ...
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
17 (2020), 24, 9176
| Ricardo Pagan
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This article deals with the modeling of life-satisfaction, and estimating the impact of age on it. We investigate how findings and the interpretation of empirical studies hinge on the respectively assumed model. Assuming a specific model comprises various hypothesis made on the data generating process, like indicator selection, measurement, or functional form specifications. In this study we focus ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
21 (2020), 6, 2193-2212
| Setareh Ranjbar, Stefan Sperlich
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Background: The question of whether employees’ sickness absence from the workplace depends on personality has been researched. Existing evidence mostly stems from cross-sectional studies, mainly showing that personality factors were not associated with the number of sick leave days, except for neuroticism, which was positively associated with sick leave days. Based on the above, it remains an under ...
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
17 (2020), 3, 1089
| Yulia I. Raynik, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek
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Practice engagement theory (PET) posits that individuals’ literacy proficiencies develop as a by-product of their engagement in everyday reading and writing practices and, reciprocally, that literacy proficiencies affect levels of engagement in reading and writing practices. This suggests that literacy training which increases engagement in meaningful practices might generate proficiency growth. Research ...
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International Review of Education
66 (2020), 2, 267-288
| Stephen Reder, Britta Gauly, Clemens Lechner
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Using longitudinal data from Germany and Australia for the 2001‒2013 period, this study investigates the link between non-standard employment, such as fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work, part-time and casual work, and first birth within couple relationships. In contrast to previous studies, competing risks event history models are estimated to simultaneously consider couples’ risks of first ...
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European Journal of Population
36 (2020), 5, 843-874
| Inga Laß
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A body of literature reports higher rates of depression and neuroticism in female samples compared to male samples. Numerous studies have investigated the role of prenatal sex hormone exposure in this sex difference, using the ratio between the second and fourth digit of the hand (“2D:4D”) as a putative marker. However, the sample sizes of those studies were mostly small and results remained inconclusive. ...
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Scientific Reports
10 (2020), 11136
| Leopold Maria Lautenbacher, Levent Neyse
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This is a longitudinal study of changes in smoking behaviour as well as becoming overweight/obese (OW/OB) and the strength of their association with personal factors such as self-control, mental health, and socioeconomic status (SES) versus their connection with the behaviour of other household members. Furthermore, we investigate that in terms of roles within a household, who is more vulnerable towards ...
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SSM - Population Health
10 (2020), 100558
| Ida G. Monfared, Kenneth Harttgen, Sebastian Vollmer