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In this study we examine partnership dynamics among people with different sexual orientations in Germany. More specifically, we explore the process of first partnership formation and first cohabitation among men and women who self-identify as heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. Given the various discriminations against same-sex lifestyles, and the limited opportunities to meet potential partners, ...
In:
European Journal of Population
40 (2024), 1, 11
| Jeanette Bohr, Andrea Lengerer
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DIW focus / 2023
As of 2021, Germany is a host country for 22,3 million people with a migra-tion background, that amounts to 26,9% of the total population of the country. Most of migrants come to Germany to improve their level of welfare, and seek for getting the same income as the locals do. The article outlines econometric modeling of the well-being of ethnic Germans and migrants living in Germany based on the statistics ...
2023| K. A. Bondarenko, N. A. Kharitonova
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Little is known about historical shifts in subjective age (i.e., how old individuals feel). Moving beyond the very few time-lagged cross-sectional cohort comparisons, we examined historical shifts in within-person trajectories of subjective age from midlife to advanced old age. We used cohort-comparative longitudinal data from middle-age and older adults in the German Ageing Survey (N = 14,928; ~50% ...
In:
Psychological Science
34 (2023), 6, 647-656
| Markus Wettstein, Hans-Werner Wahl, Johanna Drewelies, Susanne Wurm, Oliver Huxhold, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Grundsicherungsleistungen nach SGB II und SGB XII werden häufig nicht beantragt. Auf Basis des SOEP-IS wird für Niedrigeinkommenshaushalte gezeigt, dass viele Menschen im Anspruchsfall bewusst auf eine Beantragung verzichten würden, auch wenn nur ein geringer Teil einen Bezug grundsätzlich ausschließt. Identifiziert werden verschiedene Mechanismen, die zur Nichtinanspruchnahme führen: Kosten-Nutzen-Erwägungen, ...
In:
Sozialer Fortschritt
73 (2024), 5, 347-369
| Felix Wilke
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This study investigates the relationship between homeownership and subjective well-being. Using long panel data from Germany, we find supporting evidence for greater life satisfaction among owners compared to renters only when omitting housing characteristics. This effect reduces by more than half when comparing only owners with a mortgage to renters. Examining a variety of domain satisfactions, we ...
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Applied Research in Quality of Life
18 (2023), 5, 2227-2257
| Sebastian Will, Timon Renz
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Personality traits are relatively consistent across time, as indicated by test–retest correlations. However, ipsative consistency approaches suggest there are individual differences in this consistency. Despite this, it is unknown whether these differences are due to person-level characteristics (i.e., some people are just more consistent) or exogenous forces (i.e., lack of consistency is due to environmental ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
124 (2023), 6, 1314-1337
| Amanda J. Wright, Joshua J. Jackson
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Panel studies have become an indispensable part of today's research world especially when addressing causal questions and tracking changes over time. Three conditions are essential for effective panel data analysis: 1) having a sufficiently long time series with a substantial number of observations, 2) ensuring measurement consistency over time, and 3) using a meaningful model for selecting elements ...
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Survey Research Methods
17 (2023), 3, 219-222
| Sabine Zinn, Tobias Wolbring
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Objective: We examine how the re-traditionalization effect of childbirth on couples' division of housework has evolved over time as a result of major family policy change. Background: Supportive family policies are associated with a more egalitarian division of labor. However, it remains unclear how a country's transition from a modernized male breadwinner regime that supports maternal care ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
85 (2023), 5, 1067-1086
| Gundula Zoch, Stefanie Heyne
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While previous research has focused on terrorist attacks and natives’ attitudes towards immigration, we examine the effect of anti-refugee attacks on refugees’ attitude towards the host country. We use survey data from the 33rd wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel as the fieldwork period overlapped with the infamous anti-refugee riots in Bautzen and as the survey includes a refugee sample. Making ...
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Sociology
58 (2024), 1, 253-262
| Nicole Schwitter, Ulf Liebe
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How does personality change when people get older? Numerous studies have investigated this question, overall supporting the idea of so-called personality maturation. However, heterogeneous findings have left open questions, such as whether maturation continues in old age and how large the effects are. We suggest that the heterogeneity is partly rooted in methodological issues. First, studies may have ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
126 (2024), 1, 150–174
| Ingo S. Seifert, Julia M. Rohrer, Stefan C. Schmukle