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While neuroticism is known to change throughout people’s lives, the specific causes of these changes remain poorly understood. One underexplored question is whether specific professions and associated job characteristics can foster neuroticism. Drawing on Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T), we propose business-to-business (B2B) sales jobs entail frequent experiences of uncertainty, which over time increase ...
In:
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
184 (2024), 104353
| Johannes Habel, Selma Kadić-Maglajlić, Nathaniel N. Hartmann, Ad de Jong, Nicolas A. Zacharias, Fabian Kosse
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Increasing residential mobility is said to challenge existing social support systems as mobility raises geographic distances between family members. Since family social support is essential for health and well-being, this study investigates whether residential mobility affects familial social support following changes in proximity to family and kin. By applying a stepwise linear regression on data ...
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Social Indicators Research
172 (2024), 1, 99-120
| Kyra Hagge, Diana Schacht
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Objective To determine the association between personality characteristics and use of different cancer screenings. Methods We used data from the German National Cohort (NAKO; mean age was 53.0 years (SD: 9.2 years)) – a population-based cohort study. A total of 132,298 individuals were included in the analyses. As outcome measures, we used (self-reported): stool examination for blood (haemoccult test, ...
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Preventive Medicine Reports
41 (2024), May 2024, 102677
| André Hajek, Heiko Becher, Hermann Brenner, Bernd Holleczek, Verena Katzke, et al.
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Summary Fast online surveys without sampling frames are becoming increasingly important in survey research. Their recruitment methods result in non-probability samples. As the mechanism of data generation is always unknown in such samples, the problem of non-ignorability arises making vgeneralisation of calculated statistics to the population of interest highly questionable. Sensitivity analyses provide ...
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International Statistical Review
93 (2025), 3, 499–516
| Angelina Hammon, Sabine Zinn
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984–2019, this article investigates how changes in environmental concern are associated with changes in general and personal economic conditions. It examines the hypothesis of a trade-off between ecology and economy, i.e., that public concern about the environment increases under favorable economic circumstances, but erodes during unfavorable ...
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Environmental Politics
33 (2023), 1, 25–44
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this article examines (1) the prevalence of vegetarians in Germany, (2) their social profile, and (3) dynamic features of a vegetarian diet and short-term effects on subjective health. As in many other Western countries, the prevalence of vegetarians and vegans in Germany is on an upward trend. In the period 2016–2020, about 7 percent of the Germans ...
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Soziale Welt
75 (2024), 1, 143-161
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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This study examines the familial ties in the social support network of refugees in Germany. It investigates whether distance to family plays a role in the provision of emotional and informational support and how this relationship is moderated by social network services (SNS). Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (N = 5237), the paper provides evidence for a family-centred network. Increasing ...
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Journal of Refugee Studies
37 (2024), 3, 645-666
| Ellen Heidinger
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This paper examines the effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective wellbeing. Merging geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we use a panel event study design for the analysis. Our results show that those affected by the flood report a significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1224)
| Sachintha Fernando, Katharina Kolb, Christoph Wunder
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Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal ...
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Social Science & Medicine
351 (2024), June 2024, 116976
| Alessandro Ferrara, Carla Grindel, Claudia Brunori
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Personal transfers as part of remittances are becoming increasingly relevant due to growing migration movements influenced by rising income inequalities, political conflicts and increasing environmental challenges. Their impact on countries´economies call for reliable estimations to be used in policy decision making and economic analysis. After a revision of recent demographic changes in Germany, evidence ...
In:
Bank for International Settlements ,
External statistics in a fragmented and uncertain world
Bank for International Settlements
| Joerg Feuerhake, Maria Cobián