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Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross-sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
(online first) (2025),
| Alessandro Ferrara, Jan P. Heisig, Jonas Radl, Alena Scheinert
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Background COVID-19 measures in Germany varied during the pandemic, and it seems natural that in addition to factors such as incidence, health system capacity, etc., these interventions and their social and economic consequences had an impact on the evolution of the population’s well-being. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a suspicion that the health burden would fall mainly on population ...
In:
Frontiers in Public Health
13 (2025), 1523691
| Emily Finne, Anna Christina Nowak, Oliver Razum
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Unemployment consistently lowers life satisfaction on average, yet the individual impact of job loss varies significantly. The underlying factors driving this heterogeneity remain a subject of ongoing research. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we demonstrate a compelling link between unemployment and loneliness, suggesting that a substantial portion of unemployment’s detrimental impact ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
26 (2025), 6, 102
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Introduction Primary healthcare (PHC) is key to addressing the health and social needs of refugees. Nurses are often part of multidisciplinary teams in PHC, but little is known about their roles and responsibilities in refugee healthcare. We aimed to synthesise the existing knowledge about models of care (Mo C) for refugees in primary care settings which involve nursing professionals.Methods Systematic ...
In:
BMJ Global Health
10 (2025), 3, e018105
| Andreas W. Gold, Clara Perplies, Louise Biddle, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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This paper analyzes the role of health for refugees' integration into host societies' labor markets. We exploit the quasi-random dispersal policies of refugees across regions in Germany to analyze the causal effect of health on employment. Based on regional and temporal heterogeneity in a policy adoption that provided earlier access to health care services through electronic health cards ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2025,
(IAB-Discussion Paper No. 5/2025)
| Laura Goßner, Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of social justice, although there are different conceptions of it. We distinguish between liberal and radical (in)equality of opportunity. Both conceptions consider unfair inequalities in life outcomes that result from ascribed characteristics such as social origin, migration background, and sex. However, they differ in that liberal inequality of opportunity considers ...
In:
PNAS Nexus
4 (2025), 5,
| Michael Grätz, Sonia Petrini
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We examined the between-person correlations and within-person reciprocal effects of physical activity, long-standing health issues, self-rated health, and life satisfaction across four panels using random intercept cross-lagged panel models. Data were analyzed from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA, N = 32,913, 21 waves, 1-year intervals), the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
17 (2025), 2, e70027
| Daniel Groß, Carl-Walter Kohlmann
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Life events have been theorized to elicit personality trait changes. However, the empirical evidence for event-related personality development remains inconclusive. Even comprehensive reviews and meta-analyses are limited by the availability of effect sizes, the control for relevant confounders, and the way time is treated in the analyses. To overcome these limitations, we conducted a coordinated data ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(online first) (2025),
| Peter Haehner, Michael D. Krämer, Amanda J. Wright, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Aim Previous studies on loneliness among refugees have focused in particular on refugee and host country conditions. The present study expands the state of research by taking into account selected personality traits and additional indicators relating to refugee and host country conditions. The aim is to analyse loneliness among refugees from a more holistic perspective.Methods The study is based on ...
In:
Journal of Public Health
(online first) (2025),
| Rahim Hajji
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article investigates the recent development of meat consumption in Germany and selected socio-demographic determinants of meat-related dietary habits. In line with official data, the SOEP shows a downward trend in the frequency of meat consumption and an upward trend in self-reported vegetarianism for 2016?2022. Women, the better educated, singles, ...
In:
Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
(online first) (2025), 1–14
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer