Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Unemployment Alters the Set-Point of Life Satisfaction

According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals living in Germany. In accordance with set-point theories, individuals reacted strongly to unemployment and ...

How stable is happiness? Using the STARTS model to estimate the stability of life satisfaction

A common interpretation of existing subjective well-being research is that long-term levels of well-being are almost completely stable. However, few studies have estimated stability and change using appropriate statistical models that can precisely address this question. The STARTS model (Kenny & Zautra, 2001) was used to analyze life satisfaction data from two nationally representative panel studies. ...

Personality Development Across the Life Span: Longitudinal Analyses With a National Sample From Germany

Longitudinal data from a national sample of Germans (N = 20,434) were used to evaluate stability and change in the Big Five personality traits. Participants completed a brief measure of personality twice, 4 years apart. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to establish measurement invariance over time and across age groups. Substantive questions about differential (or rank-order) and mean-level ...

Estimating the Reliability of Single-Item Life Satisfaction Measures: Results from Four National Panel Studies

Life satisfaction is often assessed using single-item measures. However, estimating the reliability of these measures can be difficult because internal consistency coefficients cannot be calculated. Existing approaches use longitudinal data to isolate occasion-specific variance from variance that is either completely stable or variance that changes systematically over time. In these approaches, reliable ...

Selektivität und Panelanalyse

Intergenerationale Transmission subjektiver Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit: Wie sich Arbeitsplatzsorgen von Eltern auf Kinder übertragen

Christiane Lübke untersucht, inwiefern die subjektive Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen mit den Arbeitsplatzsorgen ihrer Eltern zusammenhängen. Die Analysen auf Basis des sozio-oekonomischen Panels zeigen, dass es eine intergenerationale Transmission subjektiver Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit gibt. Personen aus verunsicherten Elternhäusern sind stärker verunsichert als Personen, ...

Verunsichert von Anfang an? Überlegungen und Ergebnisse zur intergenerationalen Transmission subjektiver Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit

Die prägende Wirkung der Eltern auf die Lebenschancen ihrer Kinder – und damit die Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheit über Generationen – erweist sich als äußerst persistent und ist damit nach wie vor ein zentrales Thema der Soziologie. Während sich die bisherige ungleichheitssoziologische Forschung vor allem der intergenerationalen Weitergabe von objektiven Dimensionen wie Einkommen, Bildung und Beruf ...

How self-perceived job insecurity affects health: Evidence from an age-differentiated mediation analysis

While the detrimental health effects of self-perceived job insecurity are well documented, less is known about the mechanisms through which insecurity affects health. In this article, potential explanations for this relationship are examined separately for three age groups (18–35, 36–50, and 51–65). Mediation analyses based on the German Socio-economic Panel show an ‘immediate shock effect’ that occurs ...

Time Does Not Heal All Wounds: A Longitudinal Study of Reaction and Adaptation to Divorce

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