The link between personality and fertility is relatively underexplored. Moreover, there are only a few studies focusing on the prospective association between personality and childbearing. However, none of these studies considered the Five-Factor Model (FFM), which is the most widely accepted measurement of personality. The present study fills this gap by examining the prospective association between ...
Erwerbsarme gelten als vulnerable Gruppe. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob sich die Gesundheitsunterschiede zwischen Erwerbsarmen und Nicht-Erwerbsarmen während der COVID-19-Pandemie verstärkt haben, und führt dazu einen Zeitvergleich mit früheren Phasen ökonomischer Krisen und arbeitsmarktpolitischer Reformen durch.
Background Controlled population-based studies on long-term health sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 can help to identify clinical signs specific to “Long COVID” and to evaluate this emerging public health challenge.Aim To examine prevalence differences of Long COVID-associated symptoms among adults with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection in Germany.Methods This population-based, retrospective study (11/2021-2/2022) ...
Objective: This study examines whether parental and adolescent life satisfaction is lower when adolescents are on a lower educational trajectory than their parents, and whether this association is mediated by the quality of the parent–adolescent relationship. Background: Existing literature shows that families seek to ensure status maintenance and to avoid downward educational mobility in their children. ...
Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, including ...
How does personality change when people get older? Numerous studies have investigated this question, overall supporting the idea of so-called personality maturation. However, heterogeneous findings have left open questions, such as whether maturation continues in old age and how large the effects are. We suggest that the heterogeneity is partly rooted in methodological issues. First, studies may have ...
To ensure sufficient access to healthcare in remote areas, some countries allow physicians to directly dispense prescribed drugs through on-site pharmacies. Depending on the medication prescribed, this may pose a significant financial incentive for physicians to over-prescribe. This study, therefore, explored the effect of on-site pharmacies on antibiotic dispensing in a social health insurance system. ...
Experiencing the onset of a chronic disease is a serious health event impacting living conditions and wellbeing. Investigating wellbeing development and its predictors is crucial to understand how individuals adapt to chronic illnesses. This study (i) analyzed the impact of a chronic disease on wellbeing development, and (ii) explored spatial healthcare access as potential moderating factor.Data were ...
Abstract Do cynical individuals have a stronger desire for power and are they more likely to acquire power at work? The negative consequences of cynicism—for cynics themselves and the people around them—render the examination of these questions particularly important. We first examined the role of cynicism in power motives. Results showed that more cynical individuals have a greater desire for power ...
Why is the empirical evidence for birth-order effects on human psychology so inconsistent? In contrast to the influential view that competitive dynamics among siblings permanently shape a person's personality, we find evidence that these effects are limited to the family environment. We tested this context-specific learning hypothesis in the domain of risk taking, using two large survey datasets from ...