Lars Bertram (Max Planck Institut für molekulare Genetik), Ko-Sprecher
Ulman Lindenberger (Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung), Ko-Sprecher
Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen (geriatrische Forschungsgruppe der Charité), Ko-Sprecher
Gert G. Wagner (Sozio-oekonomisches Panel und Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung), Sprecher
Lars Bäckman (Karolinska Institut, Schweden)
Hauke Heekeren ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation
31 (2011), 2, S. 212-214
| David Richter, Simone Lehrl, Michael Mudiappa, Monja Schmitt, Wilfried Smidt
We examined measurement invariance and age-related robustness of a short 15-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-S) of personality dimensions, which is well suited for applications in large-scale multidisciplinary surveys. The BFI-S was assessed in three different interviewing conditions: computer-assisted or paper-assisted face-to-face interviewing, computer-assisted telephone interviewing, and a self-administered ...
In:
Behavior Research Methods
43 (2011), 2, S. 548-567
| Frieder R. Lang, Dennis John, Oliver Lüdtke, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument ...
Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a statistical ...
2011| Anika Rasner, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument ...
In:
Kali H. Trzesniewski, M. Brent Donnellan, Richard E. Lucas (Eds.) ,
Secondary Data Analysis
Richmond, Va : American Psychological Association
S. 103-118
| Thomas Siedler, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
Survey response rates are an important measure of the quality of a survey; this is true for both longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys. However, the concept of a response rate in the context of a panel survey is more complex than is the case for a cross-sectional survey. There are typically many different response rates that can be calculated for a panel survey, each of which may be relevant for ...
In:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2 (2011), 2, S. 127-144
| Hayley Cheshire, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Shaun Scholes, Mathis Schröder