Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Individual differences in short-term social dynamics: Theoretical perspective and empirical development of the social dynamics scale

People have a need to form and maintain fulfilling social contact, yet they differ with respect to with whom they satisfy the need and how quickly this need is deprived or overly satiated. These social dynamics across relationships and across time are theoretically delineated in the current article. Furthermore, we developed a questionnaire to measure individual differences in three aspects of such ...

On the semantic representation of risk

What are the defining features of lay people’s semantic representation of risk? We contribute to mapping the semantics of risk based on word associations to provide insight into both universal and individual differences in the representation of risk. Specifically, we introduce a mini-snowball word association paradigm and use the tools of network and sentiment analysis to characterize the semantics ...

The early costs of plant closures: Evidence on lead effects on workers’ subjective and objective outcomes

This study investigates the lead effects of future plant closures for prospective displaced workers’ subjective and objective outcomes. We analyze the effects on their forward-looking subjective outcomes (job insecurity, probabilistic expectations of job loss and of job search), a current subjective outcome (job satisfaction), and current objective outcomes (weekly hours of work, earnings). We estimate ...

“What’s yours is mine”: Partners’ everyday emotional experiences and cortisol in older adult couples

The existing literature consistently finds that emotional experiences and cortisol secretion are linked at the within-person level. Further, relationship partners tend to covary in emotional experience, and in cortisol secretion. However, we are only beginning to understand whether and how an individuals’ emotions are linked to their relationship partners’ cortisol secretion. In this project, we harmonized ...

LGBielefeld 2021. Data report: Online survey on LGBTQI* people in Germany

The study LGBielefeld 2021 was the second cross-sectional survey in the LGBielefeld series and aimed to gain insights into the living conditions and day-to-day experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, and inter* people in Germany. The study collected data from 7,332 people aged 18 years and older across Germany who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, or inter*(LGBTQI*) ...

Arbeiten ukrainische Geflüchtete mehr als andere Geflüchtete?

Linking transition to motherhood to parenting, children’s emotion regulation, and life satisfaction: A longitudinal study

Previous research mostly focused on early parenting stress or postpartum symptoms of mental illness whereas the topic of a successful transition to motherhood and its long-term effects on parenting and child well-being remained more or less neglected. The present longitudinal study investigated whether a successful transition to motherhood influences emotionally warm parenting behavior, children’s ...

Unschärfen der Vermögensmessung und deren Implikationen für die soziale und politische Ungleichheitsforschung

Belastbare Vermögensdaten über die ökonomische Ausstattung der Menschen sind nicht nur wichtig für die Erforschung sozialer Ungleichheit, sondern auch der Schlüssel für ein besseres Verständnis über die Zusammenhänge von ökonomischer und politischer Ungleichheit. Trotz beträchtlicher Fortschritte steht die Vermögensmessung weiterhin vor Herausforderungen und Defiziten, die Erkenntnisse über die Vermögensverteilung ...

Unravelling cohort effects in consumption of living space by German households

In recent decades, both mean dwelling sizes and per-capita living space have significantly increased worldwide. With dwelling size being the main determinant of private households? residential energy demand, these increases are major drivers of residential energy consumption. This article quantitatively analyses housing consumption in order to gain a better understanding of the factors behind risen ...

Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants

Do border closures affect political attitudes? While a large body of research has discussed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nationalism and outgroup hostility, much less is known about how one of the main policy responses to stop the virus, closing the national borders, has impacted political attitudes. We argue that the sudden and unprecedented closures of national borders in the COVID-19 ...