Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Impact of Life Events on the Dynamics of Well-Being: Natural Experiments embedded in multiple time-scale Designs

Session Abstracts: Lifespan theories of aging highlight the importance normative and non-normative life events have on how individuals function, develop, and age. In later adulthood, events such as the onset of severe illness or loss of a spouse may change both how individuals negotiate their daily lives and how they age. In this paper, we use a collection of natural experiments embedded in longitudinal ...

Who worries and who is happy? Explaining individual differences in worries and satisfaction by personality

Subjective Indicators

Subjective indicators have been proven to possess predictive power for a large array of social and economic outcomes. However, most of these measures face serious psychometric shortcomings, namely that the items used are not psychometrically investigated. Furthermore, various different item phrasing and response formats are used in different surveys for the assessment of one and the same construct. ...

Can't We Make It Any Shorter?: The Limits of Personality Assessment and Ways to Overcome Them

Psychological constructs are becoming increasingly important in social surveys. Scales for the assessment of these constructs are usually developed primarily for individual assessment and decision-making. Hence, in order to guarantee high levels of reliability, measurement precision, and validity, these scales are in most cases much too long to be applied in surveys. Such settings call for extremely ...

Personality, competencies, and life outcomes: results from the German PIAAC longitudinal study

The present paper investigates the power of personality to predict important life outcomes in the context of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). On the most global level, personality can be described by the Big Five dimensions, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. These five dimensions were assessed ...

Standardisierte Kurzskalen zur Erfassung psychologischer Merkmale in Umfragen: Einleitung

Psychologische Merkmale gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Umfrageforschung. Da psychologische Instrumente vielfach einen individualdiagnostischen Entstehungshintergrund haben, sind sie meist viel zu umfangreich für einen Einsatz in Umfragen. Für solche Erhebungssituationen sind extrem kurze aber auch für die gesamte Bevölkerungsbreite validierte Verfahren angemessener. ...

The PIAAC longitudinal study in Germany: rationale and design

In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims at investigating the longitudinal effects of skill outcomes over the life course and the development of the key skills assessed in PIAAC. Moreover, additional and alternative background information ...

Only the congruent survive – Personality similarities in couples

Numerous studies proved that people tend to select partners that are similar to them with regard to many social and psychological variables. Even though this effect was also found for personality, results are inconsistent and reveal convergence coefficients ranging from negative over zero- to positive correlations. The present study thus aims to investigate personality congruence between spouses and ...

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Partnership Longevity and Personality Congruence in Couples

Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp, 2008). Based on population representative data of almost 7000 couples, high levels of congruence between spouses were found, which increased with marriage duration. Almost 5000 of these couples were tracked over a five-year period with personality assessed at the beginning and ...