Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Do Adult Men and Women in Same-Sex Relationships Have Weaker Ties to Their Parents?

Using a national sample of people in same-sex relationships (N = 843) and different-sex relationships (N = 510) in the Netherlands, we examine the frequently discussed but infrequently tested hypothesis of weaker intergenerational ties between parents and their adult daughters and sons in same-sex relationships. We also test hypotheses linking the strength of these ties to gender differences and the ...

Es gibt immer noch viel Raum, um die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz für LGBTQI*-Menschen zu verbessern: Interview

Die Deutschen sind zufrieden mit dem Krisenmanagement der Politik

Die Zustimmungswerte für die Bundesregierung und die Landesregierungen sind in der Corona-Krise gestiegen. Die Corona-Pandemie ist eine Chance für die Demokratie.

Integration of Refugee Children and Adolescents In and Out of School: Evidence of Success but Still Room for Improvement

Germany has seen the arrival of a large number of displaced children and adolescents in recent years. Integration is vital for their lives today and in the future. Key indicators of successful integration are a sense of belonging to school, participation in extracurricular activities, both within school and outside it, and social contacts. The present report examines these indicators based on data ...

The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits

People enjoy well-being benefits if their personal characteristics match those of their culture. This person-culture match effect is integral to many psychological theories and—as a driver of migration—carries much societal relevance. But do people differ in the degree to which person-culture match confers well-being benefits? In the first-ever empirical test of that question, we examined whether the ...

Surveying Persons in Same-Sex Relationships in a Probabilistic Way : An Example from the Netherlands

In the last decade, the call for improved estimates of lesbians, gay men and bisexual (LGB) populations has grown steadily. This is related to the increasing visibility of same-sex unions and the rapidly evolving changes in the legal and normative institutional frameworks regarding same-sex relationships in Western countries. The aim of this article is to present the sampling strategy and discuss the ...

It Deepens Like a Coastal Shelf: Educational Mobility and Social Capital in Germany

The prospects for the next generation—whether young people, regardless of their backgrounds, have equal chances of social success—pose a momentous problem for modern societies. Inequality of opportunity, often reflected by social immobility, is a threat to the egalitarian promise and the stability of your society. This work argues that social capital transmission plays an important role for the chances ...

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Vermögensverteilung: Bemerkenswerte Stabilität

In öffentlichen Debatten wird oft behauptet, dass die Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland permanent zunehme. Eine Analyse der Entwicklung der Nettovermögensverteilung auf Basis unterschiedlicher Mikrodatensätze zeigt jedoch, dass das Niveau der Vermögensungleichheit seit Beginn der 2000er Jahre nahezu konstant ist und in den letzten Jahren eher sinkt als steigt.

A cross-cultural comparison of the ultrabrief mental health screeners PHQ-4 and SF-12 in Germany

The testing of measurement invariance (MI) across different cultural backgrounds for short screeners of mental health has been mostly neglected. Therefore, we examined MI in the most common mental health screeners worldwide used to assess the psychological indicators of health among migrants and refugees: the Short-Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) for health-related quality of life and the Patient Health ...