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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 ...

Der private Haushalt im Spiegel sozialempirischer Erhebungen

In Gesundheit und Krankheit? Der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Gesundheitszustand und der Ehestabilität

Der Beitrag untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Gesundheitszustand der Ehepartner und dem Trennungsrisiko. Datengrundlage ist das Sozio-oekonomische Panel, eine für Deutschland repräsentative, jährliche Wiederholungsbefragung. Sowohl ein schlechter Gesundheitszustand von nur einem Partner als auch ein schlechter Gesundheitszustand von beiden Partnern gehen, bei gegebener Ehedauer und unter Kontrolle ...

Partnership Formation in Young and Older Age

This article examines the prevalence of partnership formation at different life stages and analyses whether the determinants of partnership formation change over the life course. Data were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1992 to 2014. Event history analyses were used to examine 13,871 periods of being single, of which 8,551 ended with the beginning of an intimate relationship. ...