Forschung SOEP: Subjektives Wohlbefinden, Persönlichkeit, Gesundheit

Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions

Intuition is a central element of entrepreneurial decision-making. We conceptually replicate a published study by using new representative data from 1961 adults and the widely used Cognitive Reflection Test, which assesses the ability to avoid intuitive decisions and to switch to an analytical process. We extend the analysis by exploring occupational sorting versus environmental influence as mechanisms, ...

Perceiver Effects and Socioeconomic Background: Contrasting Parent-reports against Teacher-reports of Elementary School Students' Personality

Die versteckte Last der Ungleichheit

The Effects of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care

The Effects of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care

Artificial Intelligence and Workers’ Well-being

This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ well-being and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample were first employed and explore an event study design and a difference-in-differences approach to compare AI-exposed ...

Ausbau der Sozial-Raumwissenschaftlichen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur SoRa: FAIR, intelligent, integrativ (SoRa+)

Die interdisziplinäre Verknüpfung von Daten unterschiedlicher Quellen aus verschiedenen Wissensdisziplinen durch Linked (Forschungs)dateninfrastruktur-Diensten hat stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Im Rahmen des Vorgängerprojekts “Sozial-Raumwissenschaftliche Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (SoRa)" wurde eine technische und organisatorische Infrastruktur entwickelt, welche die prototypische Verbindung ...

Die Kosten schlechter psychischer Gesundheit werden unterschätzt

Zum heutigen Welttag der psychischen Gesundheit äußert sich Daniel Graeber, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) im DIW Berlin, wie folgt:  

Soziale Ungleichheiten spiegeln sich in der psychischen Gesundheit

Psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland hat sich in den vergangenen 20 Jahren verbessert, büßte während Rezessionen aber erheblich ein – Deutliche Unterschiede bestehen zwischen Männern und Frauen sowie zwischen Menschen in Ost- und Westdeutschland Die psychische Gesundheit der Bevölkerung in Deutschland hat sich von 2002 bis 2020 ähnlich wie die Wirtschaftsleistung entwickelt: Sie verbesserte sich ...

Die psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland hat sich ähnlich wie die Wirtschaft entwickelt: Interview

Psychische Gesundheit: Abstand zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland wird kleiner

Psychische Gesundheit gewinnt in der öffentlichen Diskussion zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Im Vergleich zur körperlichen Gesundheit ist sie aber weiterhin weniger prominent. Wie steht es also um die psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland? Der Wochenbericht zeigt, dass sich die durchschnittliche psychische Gesundheit in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten deutlich verbessert hat – ähnlich zur wirtschaftlichen ...

Socioeconomic Differences in SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination in Germany: A Seroepidemiological Study After One Year of COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

Objective: To evaluate the socioeconomic patterns of SARS-CoV-2 antigen contacts through infection, vaccination or both (“hybrid immunity”) after 1 year of vaccination campaign.Methods: Data were derived from the German seroepidemiological Corona Monitoring Nationwide study (RKI-SOEP-2; n = 10,448; November 2021–February 2022). Combining serological and self-report data, we estimated adjusted prevalence ...

Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Evidence From a Large Representative Survey

This study describes the first wave of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany, a unique panel dataset based on over 11,000 interviews conducted between August and October 2022. The aim of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey is to provide a data-infrastructure for theory-driven and evidence-based research on various aspects of integration among Ukrainian refugees in Germany, ...

Codevelopment of Life Goals and the Big Five Personality Traits across Adulthood and Old Age

Since the new millennium, research in the field of personality development has focused on the stability and change of basic personality traits. Motivational aspects of personality and their longitudinal association with basic traits have received comparably little attention. In this preregistered study, we applied bivariate latent growth curve model to investigated the codevelopment of nine life goals ...

SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany

This article presents the new linked employee-employer study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE2), which offers new research opportunities for various academic fields. In particular, the study contains two waves of an employer survey for persons in dependent work that is also linkable to the SOEP, a large representative German annual household panel (SOEP-LEE2-Core). Moreover, SOEP-LEE2 includes ...

Ukrainian Refugees: Nearly Half Intend to Stay in Germany for the Longer Term

Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced by the Russian war on Ukraine, with over one million alone coming to Germany since the beginning of the war. Data from the second survey wave of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany study show that as of the beginning of 2023, an increasing share of Ukrainian refugees plan on staying in Germany for the longer term. Around three ...

Transactional Effects between Personality and Religiosity

Do changes in religiosity beget changes in personality, or do changes in personality precede changes in religiosity? Existing evidence supports longitudinal associations between personality and religiosity at the between-person level, such that individual differences in personality predict subsequent individual differences in change in religiosity. However, no research to date has examined whether ...

Ukrainische Geflüchtete brauchen schnell Planungssicherheit in Deutschland

Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine: Knapp die Hälfte beabsichtigt längerfristig in Deutschland zu bleiben

Der russische Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine hat eine große Fluchtbewegung ausgelöst. Allein nach Deutschland sind seit Kriegsbeginn über eine Million Menschen gekommen. Auf Grundlage der zweiten Befragungswelle der Studie „Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine in Deutschland (IAB-BiB/ FReDA-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung)“ zeigt sich, dass zu Beginn des Jahres 2023 ein zunehmender Anteil der ukrainischen Geflüchteten beabsichtigt ...

Infection Rates Matter – Especially for People from Lower Social Class: A Large-Scale Investigation of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health

The COVID-19 pandemic was a long-lasting and stressful event that had enormous psychological, economic, and social consequences. This study extends prior research by examining the relationship between infection rates and mental health as well as its dependency on social class. Therefore, we used large-scale data from a nationwide sample (N = 5,742) across two time periods in the COVID-19 pandemic in ...