Forschung SOEP: Subjektives Wohlbefinden, Persönlichkeit und Gesundheit

Loneliness in Germany: Low-Income Earners at Highest Risk of Loneliness

Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of loneliness (aloneness, isolation, exclusion) as well as regional differences and high-risk groups. The results ...

Menschen mit geringem Einkommen haben größtes Risiko, einsam zu sein

Studie untersucht Einsamkeit in Deutschland auf Basis von aktuellen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) – 19 Prozent der Menschen fühlen sich manchmal oder häufiger einsam – Im Westen und Süden Deutschlands kommt das Gefühl, Gesellschaft zu vermissen, häufiger vor als im Osten – Besonders einsam sind Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen Die Zahl der Menschen in Deutschland, die sich einsam fühlen, ...

Einsamkeit in Deutschland: die gefährdetste Gruppe sind Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen

Einsamkeit stellt ein ernstzunehmendes Gesundheitsrisiko dar. Sie beeinträchtigt die Lebensqualität und kann sogar die Lebensdauer verkürzen. Diese Studie untersucht Einsamkeit in Deutschland basierend auf den aktuellen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zur Einsamkeit aus dem Jahr 2021. Die Analysen beleuchten die Verbreitung verschiedener Facetten von Einsamkeit (Alleinsein, Isolation, Ausgeschlossenheit) ...

Soziodemografische Merkmale spielen für Einsamkeit eine maßgebliche Rolle: Interview

Fast jeder Fünfte in Deutschland fühlt sich manchmal einsam

Soziodemografische Merkmale spielen für Einsamkeit eine maßgebliche Rolle: Interview mit Theresa Entringer

Does Perceived Social Cohesion Moderate the Effect of Parental Stressors on Depressive Symptoms? A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Analysis Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background Perceived social cohesion (PSC) is a protective factor for mental health. Yet, evidence on social mechanisms influencing mental health is scarce. Aims We examined the moderating role of PSC between parental stressors and depressive symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We performed a multilevel moderated linear regression analysis using German Socio-Economic Panel ...

Working Longer: The Effects of a Higher Retirement Age on Work-Related Health Investments During the Working Life

Health investments are vital for maintaining physical and mental well-being throughout working life, and their importance is amplified with rising retirement ages due to demographic aging. This is the first study to examine if a longer working life causally increases institutionalized health investments. We explore the impact of a German pension reform that raised the retirement age by three years...

Occupations, Disability Insurance, and Career Choices

Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...

Observability, Honesty, and the Social Image Costs of Lying

We study the role of social image in influencing lying behavior through a pre-registered within-subject experiment embedded in the 2020 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). By exogenously manipulating the observability of lying across two tasks, we explore how individuals respond to increased image costs of lying. By exploiting the rich comprehensive socio-demographic ...