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This study explores how volunteering buffers the association between negative life events and life satisfaction using data from two longitudinal surveys: HILDA (30,693 participants, one-year intervals) and SOEP (60,701 participants, two-year intervals). We applied multiple-group random intercept cross-lagged panel models to examine how volunteering moderates the effects between dependent negative life ...
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Personality and Individual Differences
250 (2026),
| Daniel Groß, Jasmin Haffa
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Leadership and risk-taking are often assumed to be interrelated, but this assumption has rarely been investigated empirically in humans or other species. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and observer reports from two African chimpanzee sanctuaries, this study finds that risk preferences are positively associated with leadership status in humans and with hierarchical rank in ...
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The Leadership Quarterly
37 (2026), 6, 101992
| Lou M. Haux, Kamil Fulawka, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig, Esther Herrmann
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Researchers have long argued that unemployment affects the mental health of both, individuals and their partners, but findings remain inconsistent. Evidence on job insecurity is even scarcer, despite its widespread occurrence. This study tracks shifts in mental health related to unemployment and job insecurity in couples, testing for gender and educational differences. We analyzed data from the German ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
69 (2026), 100753
| Malgorzata Mikucka, Oliver Arránz Becker, Christof Wolf
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Although cultural identity—a bidimensional construct comprised of identification with one’s culture of origin (ethnic identity) and country of residence (national identity)—is an important aspect of identity, little is known about its development during adulthood, the longitudinal relationship between the two dimensions, and the factors that influence their development. As maintaining a sense of sameness ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
131 (2026), 2, 337–354
| Ronja A. Runge, Débora B. Maehler
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We study intragenerational wealth rank mobility, investigating three dimensions: (i) wealth mobility over the life cycle, (ii) heterogeneity in mobility among subgroups and wealth components, and (iii) commonalities and differences across divergent country contexts. We use data from Germany (SOEP, N= 12,380 individuals), Norway (administrative register data, N=3,460,602), and Britain (BHPS, N=7,910; ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(2026), 101206
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Philipp M. Lersch, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Research on the subjective well-being of irregular migrants remains scarce. This paper examines the consequences of asylum application rejections for life satisfaction. It develops a theoretical framework based on the Theory of Social Production Functions, from which specific hypotheses are derived to explain why and how the life satisfaction of rejected asylum seekers is lower than that of individuals ...
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Social Indicators Research
184 (2026), 2, 33
| Randy Stache
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One reason gender earning gaps persist is that well-paid jobs presume long work hours, and these are incompatible with family care. Long hours also harm health, and the risks may increase for workers with care and domestic workloads, adding a gendered health penalty. Using representative, longitudinal data from Australia and Germany (144,430–153,659 observations for HILDA and SOEP surveys, respectively, ...
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Social Indicators Research
182 (2026), 1, 7
| Lyndall Strazdins, Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Jianghong Li, Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Till Kaiser
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This study is the first to examine the 2016 reform of Germany’s Residence Act that intended to foster refugee integration by extending the waiting period for permanent residency from 3 to 5 years and introducing requirements, such as proficiency in German and partial financial independence. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ a difference-in-differences design to analyse ...
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Journal of International Migration and Integration
(2026),
| Elena Matheny
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Social inequalities in mortality persist in Germany despite high universal health coverage. Yet no study has simultaneously examined sex-specific differences in accumulation, age modification, and life-stage variation in the association between social disadvantage and all-cause mortality across the adult life-course.
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BMC Public Health
26 (2026), 1, 2255
| Daniel Tarekegn Worede, Alfons Hollederer
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6.5 million Ukrainian refugees have been displaced globally since 2022, with one million who registered for temporary protection in Germany under the EU Temporary Protection Directive. Unlike other refugee groups, they were granted immediate access to social security and health care. However, little is known about the differences in health determinants for individuals arriving under the EU Temporary ...
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PLOS Global Public Health
5 (2025), 11, e0004565
| Louise Biddle, Andrea Marchitto, Sabine Zinn