Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Confounding True and Random Changes in Categorical Panel Data: Regression to the mean and Regression to the mode

The main advantage of panel analysis is that changes can be investigated at the individual level. However, the observed individual changes result not only from underlying, true changes but also from random fluctuations. The problem is that these random fluctuations may lead to systematically looking patterns of change that seemingly beg for substantive, theoretical explanations. Notorious in this respect ...

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Persönlichkeit und Wohlbefinden. Das Zusammenspiel von Anlage und Umwelt in einem erweiterten verhaltensgenetischen Design (Dissertation)

Short measurements of personality – Validity and reliability of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S)

In the last decade, an upward trend in the use of short measurements for personality can be observed. The goal of this study was to explore the psychometric characteristics of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S; Gerlitz & Schupp, 2005), a 15-item instrument. We compared the BFI-S with the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992a, 1992b) in a sample of 598 German adults (mean age = 42 years). Despite ...

Current Twin Studies in Germany: Report on CoSMoS, SOEP, and ChronoS

This article summarizes the status of three recent German twin studies: CoSMoS, SOEP, and ChronoS. The German twin study on Cognitive Ability, Self-Reported Motivation, and School Achievement (CoSMoS) is a three-wave longitudinal study of monozygotic and dizygotic twins reared together, and aims to investigate predictors of and influences on school performance. In the first wave of the data collection ...

Predictors of Refugee Adjustment: The Importance of Cognitive Skills and Personality

In light of the recent worldwide migration of refugees, determinants of a more or less successful integration are heavily discussed, but reliable empirical investigations are scarce and have often focused on sociodemographic factors. In the present study, we explore the role of several individual characteristics for refugee adjustment in the areas of (a) institutional, (b) interpersonal and (c) intrapersonal ...

Coping With Unemployment: The Impact of Unemployment Duration and Personality on Trajectories of Life Satisfaction

Unemployment is a major life event that causes an enormous drop in people's life satisfaction. However, there is substantial variability in people's ability (or inability) to cope with the experience of unemployment. In the present study, we examined the causes of individual differences in trajectories of life satisfaction when people were faced with unemployment by taking into account the ...

Beyond the Heritability of Life Satisfaction – The Roles of Personality and Twin-Specific Influences

In a behavior genetic design, we investigated individual differences in life satisfaction and its relation to personality with respect to both internal and external influences. We questioned the absence of shared environment and examined the specific contribution of additive and non-additive genetic influences. We also tested for twin-specific environmental influences in a total sample of 1,308 dyads ...

The Complexity of Personality: Advantages of a Genetically Sensitive Multi-Group Design

Findings from many behavioral genetic studies utilizing the classical twin design suggest that genetic and non-shared environmental effects play a significant role in human personality traits. This study focuses on the methodological advantages of extending the sampling frame to include multiple dyads of relatives. We investigated the sensitivity of heritability estimates to the inclusion of sibling ...

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